Tesla and his son left the tavern with the middle-aged man and walked out of the Swiss door.
The middle-aged man will take them to meet the senior leaders of their party and hold a meeting.
They would finally choose a true direction for Slavic destiny.
Although the current Tsarist Russia has a huge territory, it is externally strong and internally incompetent.
Nicholas II was a man of great ambition and talent. He inherited his ancestor's desire for land, but he did not have the ability of his ancestor.
His domestic governance can be described as horrific. The conflicts have not been resolved, but are increasing.
However, this country was crucial to the Allies.
The German Empire had very strong industrial capabilities, and they had successfully integrated most of their industrial resources for government regulation.
However, the size of their territory determines their upper limit. In addition to two-front operations, resource issues and strategic depth are also important reasons for their defeat in another world.
However, things are different now. The huge resources possessed by the huge Tsarist Russia and the industrial strength of Germany are a powerful combination that even Beichen and Britannia cannot ignore.
The final outcome of this war will also be confusing.
Tesla understood this early on, and Tsarist Russia's position determined the final direction of this war.
This is also the direction in which he has been working hard during his missions to various countries.
For Tesla, he did not expect Tsarist Russia to support them, but as long as they did not support the Allies, it was already decisive.
The popular foundation created by Nicholas II and the Bolshevik Party in Tsarist Russia over the years was enough to initiate a change.
However, if you want to initiate a change, just the popular base is useless, armed struggle is necessary.
What they lack is something that can fight against mechas, and these Teslas can give them that.
The last piece of the puzzle for change has been put together.
In fact, Xia Ya doesn't need to do anything more. This is the direction that the torrent of human history will inevitably flow.
However, he can change some details in this inevitable direction.
A thousand-mile embankment breaks in an ant nest, and even a rushing river may change its direction due to some small tributaries.
After they left, Xia also silently packed up the things on the bar in the tavern.
In fact, if it were in the past, Char would use magic whenever possible for these household matters.
But things are different now. As he gets older, he prefers to start enjoying the happiness brought by labor itself.
Seeing the cups arranged neatly under your own care and the tabletop being cleaned spotlessly by yourself will give you a sense of accomplishment.
When Alicia was unhappy in the past, she liked to vent her frustration through labor.
In fact, labor should be enjoyable, something with a sense of accomplishment, and a means of creating value and self-satisfaction.
However, with the start of the Industrial Revolution, human society has become more and more developed, and the value that humans can create has become increasingly limited.
The population is growing, the number of various types of work is growing rapidly, and under the blessing of a vicious competition environment called "involution", the value of individuals is becoming cheaper.
When the vast majority of the value created by your labor is captured by the "boss", the remaining sense of self-satisfaction will also disappear.
From then on, labor became a means of maintaining survival. People did the same work day after day, lost the joy of labor, and became numb machines that lived for survival.
Labor naturally loses its original meaning.
At this time, a person walked out of the corridor on one side. She was wearing a fresh winter plain dress, a white mink winter cloak on her shoulders, and a mink of the same color as the cloak on her head. Fur hat.
With her long white hair and tall white nose, she really looks like a snow country beauty.
In fact, Tsarist Russia has had many yellow genes in its blood since the Mongol Empire.
Since the Great Beichen Empire, they have also intermarried with a large number of Han people, so their appearance does not have the sharp facial contours of the Germanic people, but is relatively soft, which is more in line with the aesthetics of Eastern people. Alicia looks very much like someone from here.
"Have you packed it up?" Alicia asked.
"Okay." Xia Ya said.
Xia Ya took off the apron and hung it on the hook on the side.
Alicia slowly stepped forward and took Char's arm, and the two walked out of the tavern together.
Every evening, Chara and Alicia would walk on the streets of a foreign country, it could be any country.
Facing the wind, watching the flowers fall, and enjoying the passage of time.
A hint of coolness quietly slipped over his face, and then quickly disappeared without a trace. That was snow. Alicia slowly raised her head. The snow had not fallen heavily yet, and she could only vaguely see a few crystal snow foam falling.
The snow slowly spread a layer of gauze on the ground. The pedestrians were silent and walked lightly, as if they were afraid of trampling this winter gauze to pieces. The noise of the city has disappeared, maybe they are afraid of breaking the tranquility and beauty of the snow.
Alicia looked around and said, "This Moscow is really different compared to the past."
As the former capital of Tsarist Russia, it also has a rich cultural atmosphere and beautiful urban architecture.
However, compared to the past, there are more thick pipes here, and some chimneys can also be seen emitting steam and white smoke.
Today's Tsarist Russia is long from east to west and narrow from north to south. Geographically from west to east, it can be roughly divided into the Eastern European Plain, the Ural Mountains, the Siberian Plain, the Central Siberian Plateau, the Eastern Mountains, and then to the Pacific Ocean.
Moscow is located at the center of the Eastern European Plain. It is relatively westward in terms of the overall location of Tsarist Russia. The Moskva River runs through it, and the city's name is also derived from this river.
Although it is located in the heart of the Eastern European plain, Moscow has many shortcomings in its terrain.
First of all, there is no water transportation advantage of a seaside port, and plain terrain is not easy to defend. From the perspective of the geographical location of the entire Tsarist Russia, it was too far to the west, making management difficult.
However, although the territory of Tsarist Russia spans the Eurasian continent, the Tsarist Russians themselves have always considered themselves a European country, and the development of large cities has also focused on the Eastern European plains to the left of the Ural Mountains that divide Eurasia.
In addition, ancient Russia was a feudal system, so the rise of cities did not necessarily have environmental advantages, but was inevitably related to the rise and fall of the leaders of the principalities.
Moscow, an area where humans lived in the Neolithic Age, was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky, Prince of Rostov-Suzdal and Grand Duke of Kiev.
In 1147, when he was still a prince, he won a power struggle and invited his relatives and friends to Moscow to celebrate.
This also became the earliest local documentary record and the nominal founding year of Moscow. After he became the ruler of Kievan Rus, he also built fortifications in Moscow and became a military stronghold, gradually forming a basic pattern.
But the core of the political power of that era was mainly Kiev. Of course, Moscow, a small and run-down place, did not have the conditions to become the capital.
Kievan Rus was a feudal system composed of vassal states.
At that time, the rulers of vassal states were called princes. The head of the vassal state is called the Grand Duke. However, the huge Kievan Rus also encountered the invasion of the Mongol Empire in the mid-13th century, and Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, established the Kipchak Khanate (Golden Horde) here.
Although Kievan Rus has been conceptually destroyed, the various vassal states under it still enjoy a certain degree of autonomy and freedom in addition to their obligations to pay taxes and perform military service.
At this time, Moscow avoided the impact of the war because of its inconspicuousness and gradually developed.
The first prince of Moscow was Daniel. Alexandrovich. Daniel's father was the Grand Duke at the time. He died when Daniel was 2 years old. He left Moscow, which had little economic value at the time, as a legacy and gave Daniel a fiefdom as a prince.
In the future, Daniel would use the Kremlin as the center to build churches, government departments and other public facilities with symbolic power.
In the melee between his brothers to seize power, he could always read the wind and stand on the side with the advantage, which also greatly expanded Moscow's influence.
But what really makes Daniel admired by the Russians is that he used his outstanding skills to break through the dilemma of the Mongol Empire's occupation and the struggle for royal power, and maintained peace in Moscow in a bloodless way.
His two sons who later succeeded him were no less successful, establishing friendly relations through intermarriage and alliances with the rulers of the Mongol Empire.
After the taxing power, he quickly accumulated territory and wealth, and later poured these resources into the construction of the Kremlin, allowing the Orthodox metropolitan originally located in Kiev to move to Moscow in the mid-14th century. As a result, the Principality of Muscovy improved its political, economic and religious status.
However, expansion will inevitably arouse high vigilance in neighboring countries. For example, neighboring Lithuania, which has different beliefs, has had many conflicts with Moscow.
In the mid-15th century, the Islamicized Kipchak Khanate felt a sense of crisis due to its gradual decline, so it united several principalities including Lithuania to send troops to attack Moscow.
In order to protect the political power and the Orthodox Christian faith, the Grand Duke of Moscow at that time defeated the invading enemy forces and won the war. After defeating the Mongol Empire and establishing its prestige, it also completely changed its original attitude of being close to the Mongol Empire. Starting from refusing to pay taxes, it adopted confrontational methods and gradually lost control.
In 1476, under the leadership of Ivan III, the Principality of Muscovy officially became independent and even expanded its original territory six times. His grandson Ivan IV established the Russian Tsarist State after unifying all regions and became the first Tsar "Ivan the Terrible", nicknamed "The Thunder Emperor".
The terrifying title not only explains his extreme character, but also expresses his iron-blooded method of completely transforming the loose feudal system into centralized power.
Tsarist Russia developed based on Moscow, and its capital should be Moscow.
But there is no such thing as history.
More than 100 years later, in 1712, Peter I, the last monarch of the Russian Tsarist State, suddenly moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the north.
It is said that Peter I was the last emperor, not because he was overthrown or died, but because the monarch later known as "Peter the Great" changed the country's name in 1721 after defeating Sweden and gaining control of the Baltic Sea. "Russian Empire", the title was also changed from the original "Tsar" to "Emperor". The two originally had different translations but the same meaning. They were both titles inherited from the Roman Empire.
However, after Peter the Great became emperor, he lowered the status of the czar to the same level as the king. In contrast, he used the name of emperor to enhance the momentum of the Russian Empire.
Moving the capital to St. Petersburg, which was closer to developed European countries, was Peter the Great's practical move in his attempt to achieve Westernization.
Although it spans the Eurasian continent, Tsarist Russia has always positioned itself as a European country.
However, from the 15th to the 17th century, during the Age of Discovery when European powers fought for hegemony in the world, Tsarist Russia failed to participate. Even after the rise of the empire, it seemed to be much less developed than other European countries.
Therefore, developing maritime power and modernization became Peter the Great's urgent goal. What does sailing require? Need a boat. What does the boat need? Port required.
Tsarist Russia was originally a landlocked country, so it had to acquire land near the sea to build a port.
As a result, Peter the Great took control of the Baltic lands by attacking Sweden, and quickly began to build a new city here, named St. Petersburg after Saint Peter.
The capital relocation did not go smoothly at first, mainly because the princes and nobles who were pampered in Moscow, as vested interests, did not want to bear the risks and losses of moving the capital.
On the contrary, this made Peter the Great realize that in order to implement the reform plan in a drastic way, he must stay away from the traditional forces in Moscow, so he accelerated the process of moving the capital. In just two years, the transfer of the capital was completed.
At that time, Moscow was already one of the few super cities in Europe, but after the capital was moved, Moscow declined rapidly.
After the capital was moved, the flow of national resources became closer to that of European powers, and Moscow's population also declined.
Although the population surged again in 1750 due to the influx of a large number of serfs and deserters, it also caused the problem of over-consumption of resources.
Coupled with unplanned factories, polluted water sources, and outdated wooden buildings, fires often occur. Weak economic development has also led to the deterioration of public security. Frequent local civil unrest and riots have made Moscow lose its former glory.
At that time, Catherine II carried out a series of drastic policies to save Moscow's situation. But serious infectious diseases soon came to our doorstep.
It is estimated that at least 100,000 people died in Moscow during this plague. Although this is a natural disaster, it is also a man-made disaster. Because the historical choice of moving the capital brought about the butterfly effect, the spread of infectious diseases is of course also related to the decline of Moscow's status and the deterioration of the living environment.
It was not until the overthrow of the dynasty in 1918 and the period after the First World War that it regained the title of capital.
Moscow shines because of its rulers, but it also dims because of its rulers.
(End of chapter)
