Chapter 1294 Russia changes
The Age of Discovery began because the Arab religious countries monopolized trade between the East and the West. In addition, the Middle East regimes such as ancient Persia, the Arab Empire, and the Ottoman Empire had a history of conquests against Europe. This forced Europeans to find new trade channels, even though After this channel is opened, we will spare no effort to continue to compress the expansion space of Arab religious forces, and East Africa will also inherit this.
Compared with Europe, East Africa is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean, and will naturally form a competitive relationship with the Arab religious forces. Nowadays, East Africa is able to run rampant in the Indian Ocean. A very important reason is that the decline of the Arab religious forces has freed up space for East Africa to expand in the Indian Ocean.
Therefore, the "Arab religion threat theory" mentioned by Freer is also determined by the interests of East African countries. There is a consensus within East Africa on this point.
Ernst affirmed: "There can only be one voice in the Indian Ocean in the future, and that is our East African presence. Any existence that may pose a threat to the empire will be the target of our suppression."
"In this case, we will temporarily take over the local governance of Garigar and Yanan, and use these three places as bases to export ideology and public opinion hegemony to the South Asian subcontinent, instigate regional conflicts, and strictly guard against the influence of Arab religious forces in the South Asian subcontinent. The resurgence of the empire prevented the emergence of a powerful and unified Arab-style Indian empire.”
“In addition to supporting other local religions in India to achieve the fastest results, we must also strengthen the spread of external sects such as Catholicism in South Asia.”
"At the same time, in order to reduce the sensitivity of the British government, we must try our best to avoid conflicts with the British in South Asia. We only do ideological and propaganda work and do not aim at targeting the British ruling order in India."
As for East Africa, the British approach in India is not enough to make India a threat to East Africa in the future, so there is no need to subvert the current British rule in India.
Moreover, if British rule in India suddenly collapses at this time, India's development will not be influenced by East Africa.
The British relied on Arabism and Hinduism to rule India. If the British were driven away at this time, these two religions might become bigger in India. Although East Africa is not very hostile to Hinduism, Hinduism is very powerful on the Indian peninsula. The popular base makes it easy to integrate into a unified country similar to India in the previous life, which is not in the interests of East Africa.
The current social order in India should not be shaken until East Africa cultivates separatist forces such as Sikhism, Buddhism, and Dravidian nationalism, as well as forces that can compete with Arabism and Hinduism.
Moreover, Ernst also considered one thing, that is, the chaotic India is extremely likely to allow the Russian Labor Party to take advantage of the situation.
After all, India's corrupt social order and the poor people at the bottom are naturally suitable for the penetration of the violent ideas of the Russian Labor Party. If a Labor Party regime is established in India on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the top leaders in East Africa will not be able to laugh.
In Ernst's view, the Labor Party regime is one of the threats second only to the Arab religious forces. After all, the Soviet Union relied on this method in the previous life to establish a huge red camp in Eurasia.
If the situation in the previous life really happened, the East African government would have a headache. Therefore, East Africa must maintain some backward and decadent regimes around East Africa to prevent them from being replaced by the forces supported by the Russian Labor Party.
As a world-famous leader of a "reactionary" regime, Ernst still had this kind of "awareness", otherwise it would have been impossible to bring Alexey and other core members of the Russian royal family to East Africa.
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At the end of 1917, while the European war was still stalemate, internal turmoil broke out in Russia again. The Russian Labor Party organized armed forces in St. Petersburg and formally overthrew Russia's capitalist provisional government.
In a lakeside manor in Rhine City.
Alexei and three core members of the Russian royal family received bad news again.
The captain of the guard, Seliyayul, who was escorting Alexei and the others, reported the sad news to Alexei and the others in tears.
Alexey, who was overwhelmed by the news, nervously held the lapel of his third sister, Princess Maria, and asked in a trembling voice: "Sister, my father and the others will be okay!" As the eldest of the three, The third sister, Princess Maria, had no time to grieve. She grabbed the hands of her two younger siblings and said: "God will keep my father and the others safe. The news in the country is still unclear and the situation is undecided, so we must stay strong, especially you Alexey. You are the only legal heir to the empire. Now there is only a rebellion in St. Petersburg. I think the rebels will be suppressed soon.”
"Instead of making random assumptions, it is better to do more facts. Although we are far away in East Africa, we are not completely unable to get in touch with the country."
"Uncle Baranov should be aware of the changes in the country. Let's get in touch with him first. He is a close confidant of the emperor and should be someone we can trust."
Baranov is the current ambassador of the Russian Empire to East Africa, so he is now in the Rhine City and is also the highest-ranking Russian official in East Africa. He can be regarded as a remnant of the former Russian dynasty.
East Africa is one of the most powerful countries in the world. Russia naturally attaches great importance to its diplomatic relations with East Africa. Especially after the outbreak of World War I, East Africa became Russia's largest maritime trading country.
In order to win over the support of the East African government to Russia, Nicholas II naturally strictly screened the diplomats sent to East Africa.
Baranov was born in a large Russian aristocratic family, and his abilities were recognized by Nicholas II, so he was sent to East Africa by Nicholas II to handle the diplomatic work between the two countries.
During the Russian Revolution at the beginning of the year, although Nicholas II announced his abdication and the capitalist provisional government came to power, the provisional government did not make major adjustments to Russia's diplomatic work because it had initially taken power. Russian diplomats in East Africa naturally It wasn't much affected either.
Therefore, Ambassador Baranov has been working in East Africa, and Alexei and his team received a lot of care from him when they went to East Africa. From the end of last year to now, Baranov has informed Alexei and others about a lot of domestic information. human.
Of course, in addition to this "official" channel, there is also a hidden line between Alexei and his party and the country, which is the responsibility of the captain of the bodyguard, Seliyayul.
This information channel used to be mainly connected with the Russian court. After Nicholas II abdicated, it was continued through the Russian nobles.
However, now that the Labor Party has come to power, the Russian aristocracy has naturally been liquidated, and all systems in St. Petersburg have been basically disrupted, which has interrupted Seliyayul's information channels.
Alexey and others can only hope to get the latest news from the Russian Embassy in East Africa or the East African government.
Under the guidance of Princess Maria, Alexei, the former crown prince, and Princess Anastasia also had to calm down.
Alexey's immature face pretended to be calm and said: "Sister Maria is right, we can't be chaotic now. Even if East Africa is very far away from the country, we can still play a big role."
"East Africa is a big country in the world. As long as we go through Ambassador Baranov and the Rhine royal family, we should be able to get some useful information and then make plans."
Seeing Alexey who quickly regained his composure, Princess Maria's complex mood could hardly feel any relief. She said: "Uncle Seliyayul, please prepare the vehicle now. We will go to the embassy now and go to Bala." Ambassador Nove asked for help, I believe they should have some domestic intelligence that we don’t know about.”
Seliyayul nodded and said: "Don't worry! The Grand Duke and His Excellency the Crown Prince, I am also very worried about the changes in the domestic situation. I believe that Your Majesty and the others will be safe and sound."
The reason why Seliyayul calls Maria Grand Duke is mainly because of the tradition in Russia. They do not have the title of princess. It is mainly to show that Russian princesses are superior and more noble than princesses from other European countries.
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