Russia is a crazy expansion country in recent history, so why sell Alaska?
One reason: poor!
At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia expanded rapidly, rushed all the way into the Balkan Peninsula, to grab the cake of the two fierce characters of Britain and France, and did it in the Crimean Peninsula!
Fighting costs a lot of money! Russia was instantly impoverished.
Russia was still mixed up in a serf society, while Britain and France, as industrial powers, were full of colonies, gold, and all kinds of strategic resources were pulled home one by one, and the family foundation was quite thick and strong.
Russia is too tiger.
Britain is an empire where the sun never sets, the world's oceans wander freely, and one day the British fired a few shots off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The Russians were upset: would the British invade Alaska from Canada?
Or sell Alaska to the United States!
USA: Emma, I really don't want it!
The broken place where the birds don't is a huge ice cube of 1.71 million square kilometers!
How big is this piece of ice? It is larger than Xinjiang and is roughly the size of the three northeastern provinces plus the entire territory of Inner Mongolia
The heads of countries that can afford to buy this giant ice cube are like rattles
So that Crimea can sell Alaska! Crimea is also a peninsula, 26,000 square kilometers, 66 times smaller than Alaska
Let's see what Crimea was like at the time.
It turned out to be a descendant of Genghis Khan. And it was a khanate founded by the brothers of the ruthless Batu. Later became a Muslim, in 1475 was ruled by the husky-Turks in the middle of the country, and the Turkish Empire sought the help of the Tatars (Crimeans) as soon as the war was fought, and the Turks collapsed within a few years.
It later became a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire (1478-1777).
It was a very ferocious period for the Crimeans – they went mainly to Eastern Europe to capture slaves, mainly Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians.
They were quite upset at this stage – they had besieged Moscow in 1572, capturing 150,000 people and stuffing the Moscow River with corpses.
And later regular sweeps of southern Russia. In 1774, Russia forced the Ottomans to recognize crimea's independence, and the Russian general Portkin led 70,000 Russian troops to The Crimea to quell the rebellion, and 10 years later, Russia incorporated the Crimean Peninsula into its territory.
From 1853 to 1856, the ottoman Empire, France, and Britain, the three strong men, looked at Russia unfavorably, looked for stubble and fought fiercely with Russia, three beat one, and directly beat Russia into a poor ghost!
This is the famous Seventh Russo-Turkish War, the Crimean War.
Just when he was so poor and destitute, he asked the United States to buy the stupid white sweet alaska and exchange some money to continue the fight, and the Americans finally agreed, not for anything else, just because Russia helped him see the scene.
At that time, the United States was also unable to extricate itself from the Civil War, and the superpower, Britain, secretly supported the South.
Uncle Lincoln asked the Russian brother for help, and Russia was at this time fighting with Britain and France in Crimea, and also wanted to find a helper, so he sent an army to New York Harbor to sit for the United States (North).
Although the Russians did not fire a single shot, the laborers moved the crowd! It was really scary to look at, so the Americans took Alaska anyway.
The United States exploded at that time
In March 1867, Russia went to the United States to discuss the price of Alaska.
U.S. Secretary of State William Seward offered $5 million, and after more than a month of talking, he finally talked about the $7.2 million deal.
This is the largest land transaction in the history of the world, with an average unit price of only 2 cents per acre.
However, Russia is very happy, because this is almost the price of carrots sold for ginseng!
After Seward signed the contract, he was scolded by all the big vs in the country: Seward, you come over and I promise not to kill you!
Since then, Alaska's nickname has been "Seward's Refrigerator", and the media has analyzed it throughout "This is a big joke, a stupid mistake." ""A bad deal"...
Seward was so scolded that he didn't dare to go to the street to buy vegetables.
Seward's answer is only one sentence, and the children and grandchildren will benefit! Until now no one knew if Brother Seward was a modern man who traveled through the past.
In April and July 1867, the Senate and house passed the agreement by majority votes, respectively.
From the current point of view, the territory cannot be measured in money, and how much money can no longer buy Alaska back.
Alaska is an important strategic location between the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, because the United States has become a Arctic Ocean country and has the right to develop the Arctic!
And because of this transaction, the United States and Russia have become neighbors, and the nearest side is only 3.9 kilometers
If Alaska had been Soviet during the Cold War, it would not have bothered to rectify the Cuban "mischief-making" crisis.
At that time, the Russians felt that such an untenable enclave had been sold! Taking advantage of the sky seems incredible now.
Alaska was originally silly and sweet, and it was not until 100 years later, in 1959, that it became the 49th state in the United States and the largest state in the United States.
At this time, Alaska became a veritable white rich beauty
Alaska isn't just salmon, it's surrounded by the sea on three sides, sits on 34,000 miles of coastline, surrounded by icy waters that are the world's largest and richest fishing ground, and we're her biggest customers who account for more than 62 percent of the state's aquatic trade.
The most eye-catching are mineral resources, especially oil and natural gas, and more than 50% of Alaska's entire state revenue comes from the crude oil and natural gas industry.
In addition, there is zinc, lead, gold, silver, coal..., very abundant.
Using travel data from a decade ago, the ice cube brought with it, and in 2011 tourists to Alaska spent a total of $1.5 billion, not including round-trip fares. And 83 percent of visitors come from the continental United States.
Therefore, the land thing is not a price that can be measured, and Russia is completely limited by poverty.
Just as wild lilies are sung in the spring,
It was like a dream
We met so briefly
You are like a spring breeze
Gently and softly into my heart
Do you know that I love you and you want to resent you
Affection never changes