Xiao Letian looked at Wu Langeli's deflated look and smiled calmly, "Forget it, let's get straight to the point! I know very well what you mean by coming here, but it's just for the final negotiation conditions!"
"That's right! Please, the head of state, think about it carefully. Too many people have died on both sides of us. This tragedy should not continue!" Ulan Geli quickly expressed his stance.
Xiao Letian looked at Ulan Geli calmly: "Your Excellency, Minister, before you see me, how do you think I will talk to you?"
"Isn't that... a very tough attitude... argue with reason, and then put all the blame for the outbreak of the war on you!"
"From your brutal rule in the Far East, and then talking about the strength gap between us today?"
"Hahaha... do you think I will threaten you with a big stick and threaten to kill all the Cossacks in the Ili Valley?"
"No need to dodge. In fact, that's what you think. In the eyes of Europeans, especially in the eyes of you Tsarist Russians, I, Xiao Letian, have long become a murderous devil!"
Ulan Geli's face turned red, "Well... it's not really... it's just... it's just a small group of people who think that..."
"Forget it, you don't have to fool me. A butcher led troops into Paris and robbed Tsarist Russians of the Far East... Many Europeans think of me like this. I am a barbarian from Asia!"
"Ulan Geli, I can tell you now that your previous guesses were all wrong, very wrong... I don't have that much excitement and anger for you. I came to see you today just to have a good time with you. Let’s chat!”
At this moment, Xiao Letian's eyes were clear and his aura was very gentle. In Ulan Geli's eyes, Xiao Letian was no longer a head of state, but just a scholar, a middle-aged intellectual who taught knowledge at the university!
All the murderous aura has dissipated, and it is as calm as a pot of warm tea!
"Let's open the sky and speak frankly! It's really not easy for Tsarist Russia from the founding of the country to the present. You are a very suffering nation!"
"During the Northern Song Dynasty in China, you converted to Orthodox Christianity and began to integrate with European civilization. However, the good times did not last long. Soon Batu's Golden Horde ruled you..."
"It was another long period of oppression. It was not until the early years of the Ming Dynasty that Tsarist Russia became independent. With the painstaking efforts of several generations of Tsarists, Peter the Great moved the capital to St. Petersburg. Only then did Tsarist Russia become a country with access to the sea!"
"Am I right? You should know this painful history of Tsarist Russia better than me, right?"
Ulan Geli was stunned. He didn't expect Xiao Letian to talk to him about the history of his nation. Now he became a little excited. What about these elites in Tsarist Russia who don't have the dream of a powerful country?
"When Peter the Great reformed Tsarist Russia, the Netherlands was already in the last stage of the sea coachman! Britain officially began to rise, and slowly became an empire on which the sun never sets... You Tsarist Russia saw those maritime powers in Western Europe making huge fortunes, and the social changes Wealth is beyond your imagination!”
"The living standard of a commoner in London is higher than that of the landowners in the countryside of Tsarist Russia! In addition to the top nobles in your country, the other middle-class nobles in countries such as Britain and France are just poor country bumpkins!"
Wulan Geli's face suddenly turned red, but he did not refute, because he could not feel the slightest ridicule from Xiao Letian's tone. The head of state was just explaining a fact like a lecture!
"That's right! Once you know the gap, you have to catch up. There is nothing shameful in this! After the Age of Discovery begins, all human wealth will be in the ocean. Without the ocean, there will be no wealth!"
"So Tsarist Russia wants to build a powerful navy and have a fleet of merchant ships sailing on the world's oceans! For such a great ideal, is the St. Petersburg seaport enough?"
"It's far from enough. The Baltic Sea is a sea of imprisonment, not a sea of Longxing at all!"
"So, your war will be much simpler in the later period. Keep looking for the outlet to the sea! If you really can't find it in Europe, then go to Crimea and compete with the Ottoman Turkish Empire for the outlet to the Mediterranean!"
"It's a pity that your strategy was ruined by Britain and France. Finally, you saw Vladivostok, hoping to find a foothold in the Pacific?"
"What a pity! I was still defeated by my Chinese family... Don't be excited. Minister, please sit down. I don't mean to humiliate you. Please listen to me and continue speaking slowly, okay?"
The angry Ulan Geli sat back on his chair, and Xiao Letian took a sip of wine and thought for a moment, "Why did I just say that there would be no powerful empires in the tropics? What I said was actually just a foreshadowing!"
"Next, I'm going to talk about the geographical environment of Tsarist Russia! A large amount of your land is in the cold zone. It is actually difficult for a powerful country to emerge in this cold zone!"
"Do you know the reason? I'm not being alarmist, but it's a very cruel reality, that is, it's the opposite of the equatorial region!"
"The winter is too long, but there is no summer... The cold environment will also limit the development of agricultural civilization, so the Far East can only develop limited agriculture, and the rest is animal husbandry!"
"The lack of agriculture is not the most important thing. What is even more frightening is that...the cold environment has made the birth rate here very low!"
"Population! Everything is population... This is the biggest shortcoming of your Tsarist Russia's rule in the Far East, and you have absolutely no way to make up for it!"
"I can tell you clearly that even if I didn't recapture Vladivostok, your Far Eastern Railway in Tsarist Russia has been built, and you have effectively ruled this place..."
"You can't make the country rich either. Even if you develop industry, it will still be a miserable and money-losing business!"
"You...you're talking nonsense!" Wulan Geli jumped up like a fried chicken.
"Be calm and don't be impatient! Be calm and don't be impatient... Please listen to my careful analysis. I am not deliberately trying to make you angry, but I am stating a fact!"
"Your Excellency, Minister, you have traveled in Europe for many years, and you have also inspected our mature Chinese industrial zones... May I ask, why are European and Chinese industrial zones so successful?"
"what is the reason?"
Ulan Geli said for a moment, "Ah... ah... That's your government's strong support... You invest a lot in technology... The most important thing is that you have a natural and excellent seaport. Yes, you have a good seaport." The harbor!”
"Hahaha... I still don't understand! You have now entered a dark situation... Let me tell you the answer. It's not that. In fact, the fundamental problem is one, population!"
"All mature industrial areas and all powerful industrial countries must have a huge population. This population can not only provide workers and farmers to create wealth!"
"They have a more important role!"
"That is to provide a huge market! This is the fundamental core of everything!"
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