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"Your Majesty, the Russian delegation has returned."

When the steam locomotive that Chester and others were riding on left.

Su Yuntang arrived at Wuji Palace and reported back to Zhao Xu.

"What do they think?" Zhao Xu asked lightly.

He still hoped to obtain the entire Siberian snowfield through bloodless means.

Subduing the enemy's troops without fighting is the highest method of war.

If there was even a slight chance, he would still not want soldiers to risk their lives in war.

This is why, after consolidating his basic base in the east, he supported Persia in the west and carried out the Indian Restoration Movement in the east.

Both the Persians and the Indians have their own interests and demands, and Dasong can achieve its own strategic goals simply by satisfying their interests.

"Back to the emperor, from what I can see, Chester and others have realized the gap between the Ross Kingdom and Dasong. When they left, they no longer had the arrogance they had when they first came." Su Yuntang said slowly.

Zhao Xu nodded, understanding, and then asked Su Yuntang to go back.

Then, he gave an order to the frowning Yang Zhen, asking him to mobilize his army and approach the Heilong River. .

This was deliberately shown to Chester, in order to tell him that Da Song was prepared.

Once the two countries fail to reach a contract, Dasong will directly send his troops north to seize the snowfield.

When the telegram arrived in Jincheng, Yang Zhen immediately dispatched troops and generals.

Three days later, heavy troops had arrived at the Heilong River.

Under deliberate arrangements, Chester and his party arrived at Heilonghean at exactly this time.

Seeing Da Song's large number of soldiers gathered, everyone's faces became even more worried.

At this moment, they just want to return to Petersburg as soon as possible and let Emperor Nicholas know everything about Dashong.

After another three months of trekking, Chester and his party returned to Petersburg.

With no time to rest, they immediately headed to the Winter Palace to see Nicholas.

"Chester, you are finally back. During the time you left, there was news that encouraged all the countries in the West. We don't need to be afraid of singing in the future." Seeing Nicholas, Chester had not yet spoken. , Nicholas said first, with excitement on his face.

Chester was about to tell Nicholas everything he had seen and heard about Da Song, but he couldn't help but be startled.

Nicholas continued, "While you were heading to Dasong, Britain successfully copied Dasong's breech-loading line gun. Although the range is slightly worse than Dasong's breech-loading gun, it is still sufficient."

"This...this is indeed good news." Chester smiled, he was really happy.

But he knew very well that Dasong was more than just a breech-loading musket.

He had to make this clear to Nicholas, otherwise the emperor might make a wrong judgment and drive the Great Song envoy away from Petersburg.

So, he said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, what I have brought is very bad news..."

He told Nicholas everything he saw in Dasong.

Other nobles also echoed and added some details.

"Electric power industry?" As everyone told the story, Nikolai's joy at the successful imitation of the musket gradually turned into deep worry.

If the people standing in front of him were not the nobles of Chester and Ross, he would definitely think this was a lie.

But now he has so many people in front of him, from different interest groups.

What they said was almost the same, so it couldn't be false.

According to him, the current Dasong has entered a higher level of industrial level than their western land.

At this industrial level, Dasong has given birth to many emerging technologies.

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In order to prove himself, Chester presented the thick photo to Nicholas.

"This thing is called a photo. It is taken by something called a camera. It can record the image of a moment. These photos show the scene when we were singing." Chester explained.

At this moment, Nicholas was dumbfounded.

He had never seen this thing before, and when he saw the lifelike Chester on the paper, he thought it was a painting.

Even if Chester explained it, he was confused and didn't understand it.

Upon seeing this, Chester explained in detail, and Nicholas was confused and understood.

Immediately, the scene in the photo began to make his body tremble slightly.

"When we return to Petersburg, Dasong has invested heavily in the south bank of the Black Dragon River. If we fail to reach a contract this time, a war between Dasong and the Russian state will break out." Chester said seriously.

When Nicholas heard this, his expression became solemn.

The joy that the breech-loading rifled gun was copied disappeared instantly.

As Chester said, with Dasong's current industrial technology, Dasong may soon have more terrifying guns and artillery.

And these things can only be manufactured at the power industry level.

At that time, even if Dasong people give them technical drawings, they will not be able to copy them.

What's more, it's already very difficult for them in Western countries to imitate breech-loading rifles this time.

The counterfeited finished product is also worse than the rifle installed by Dasong.

After pondering for a while, he finally made a decision and said to Chester, "If we agree to Dasong's conditions, Dasong must sign a non-aggression treaty with our country of Russia, and at the same time export some of its technology to us, which will allow us to Our technology is ahead of other countries in the West, otherwise we will be charged with ceding the Far East.”

"When I came back, I was told that their Foreign Minister Dong An has the right to formulate some terms. Maybe it's time to talk to him now." Chester thought of something and said suddenly.

Nicholas nodded.

The foreign minister had been in Petersburg for half a year.

For the past six months, he has been left hanging.

"Before that, we still need to convene important officials and nobles to discuss it. After all, this means an important shift in our country's diplomacy." Nicholas said in a deep voice.

It was a tough decision to make.

Once other Western countries learn that the Rus Kingdom has a deal with Dasong.

They, the Russians, will probably be labeled as traitors to the Western Territories.

But he also deeply understood that this was an opportunity for the country of Russia.

Before the rise of Dasong, the country of Rus was the key target of British suppression.

With Britain's support, many of their strategies failed.

Now, an opportunity arises to surpass Britain technologically.

As long as the technology of the Rus' country surpasses that of Britain, they will be able to gain an advantage in the western direction and get back everything the Rus' country has lost.

This was enough to recover losses in the Far East.

More importantly, he had a premonition that the world's pride had changed since it defeated the Eastern and Turkish Allied Forces in Tianzhu.

Britain is no longer the hegemon, and Great Song may take Britain's place.

At a time when the situation is changing, the cooperation between Rus and Dasong may certainly cause dissatisfaction from the Western countries.

But there is also a possibility that in order to prevent the Russian country from becoming an enemy, the Western Turks will win over them even more.

In this way, the Russian Empire can have both sides of the conflict between the East and the West.

There is no doubt that this is the most perfect situation for the country of Russia.