In 1533, Ivan IV, Grand Duke of the Duchy of Moscow, succeeded to the throne. After pro-government, he declared that he wanted to dominate the world like Caesar in Rome, and called himself "Tsar". Since then, there have been three emperors in the world, the human emperor of China, the emperor of Japan, and the tsar of Russia.
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
In 1689 (the twenty-eighth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty), because the Eight Banner Army of the Emperor of Ren defeated the powerful cavalry of Tsarist Russia, the Qing dynasty and Tsarist Russia signed the Treaty of Nebuchu after consultation on an equal footing, thus delineating the border between the two countries. For more than 100 years, the Tsar did not continue to expand to the north Pacific to the east, and the border between The Qing and Russia was basically peaceful for more than 100 years.
Battle of Yaksa
After the First Opium War in 1840, the Tsar found that he no longer had to fear the Emperor's Eight Banners Army. The court of the Qing Dynasty had rapidly decayed and degenerated, not only could not defeat the Tsar's Cossack cavalry, but was also being bullied by the maritime powers such as Britain and France everywhere on the southeast coast. The Tsar quickly formulated a countermeasure: as long as there was a problem on the southeast coast of the Qing Dynasty, the Tsar could take advantage of the fact that the Emperor could not fight a two-front war, and no longer needed to send a single soldier to occupy a large area of land in the Qing Dynasty!
From 1858 onwards, taking advantage of the Second Opium War and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Tsar forced the Emperor to sign two unequal treaties, the Treaty of Yaohun and the Treaty of Beijing. Through these two one-piece articles, Tsarist Russia annexed more than 1 million square kilometers of land in the Qing Dynasty and pushed the border with North Korea. The Qing Dynasty lost the "Hong Kong Island" in the north, Vladivostok, lost the largest island, Sakhalin Island (twice the area of Taiwan Island), in addition to these lands and islands corresponding to a large area of territorial waters in the North Pacific, since then the Qing Dynasty has the South China Sea, the East China Sea, but there is no "North Sea", and the land area has gradually retreated to less than 10 million square kilometers.
In 1900, during the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance, the Tsar took the opportunity to dispatch 170,000 Russian troops, occupied all of Manchuria, annihilated all the Qing Dynasty garrisons in the northeast, and brutally slaughtered the people in the northeast.
The Tsar invaded northeast China
However, the Tsar's ambition to continue "eastward expansion" will not stop. In the Tsar's view, the Great Wall should be the natural dividing line between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia. Starting from the westernmost part of the Qing Dynasty, along the Great Wall, from Xinjiang, Mongolia, Manchuria, and continuing eastward, Korea and Japan, all of which were incorporated into the territory of the Russian Empire. In addition to Tsar, his title was "Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty" and "Emperor of Japan". In short, the three emperors were unified and unified northeast Asia. This is the legendary "Yellow Russian Dream."
In order to realize the "Yellow Russia Dream" as soon as possible, Tsarist Russia needs to build a railway through Northeast Asia as a fast transport channel for troops in the future. In 1891, construction began on the Trans-Siberian Railway, stretching from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east, with a total length of nearly 10,000 kilometers (the longest in the world and still being). Around this trunk line, there are many branch lines in the plan, extending like capillaries to the foot of the Great Wall, so that once the border between The Qing and Russia can be pushed to the Great Wall, these railway lines can be used to control the area beyond the Great Wall.
The planned Trans-Siberian Railway
The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway from 1891 to 1903 connected Russia with China, Korea and even indirectly with Japan. However, at this time, the Emperor of Japan was furious, and my Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle was not snuffed out in its cradle.
Japan's Plan for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was: to conquer China, it must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia, and if it wants to conquer the world, it must first conquer China. If China can be conquered, then all the rest of the Asian countries and the countries of The South Seas will fear and submit to me. In this way, the ambitions of the Tsar and the Emperor collided, creating a spark.
In 1893, After learning of the report that the Trans-Siberian Railway would be opened in 1903, Emperor Muhito angrily decided that Japan must fight a war against Tsarist Russia.
So the Emperor carefully selected a date for the start of the war, February 8, 1904. On this day, Japan defeated the unsuspecting Russian Pacific Fleet outside the port of Dalian, thus completing the rehearsal of the "Pearl Harbor Incident". The ensuing war was a disgrace to the Russians, who were defeated by the Japanese gnomes. Despite the consistent bravery and tenacity of Russian soldiers and navies, Japan defeated the Russian navy in the Far East, encircling and eventually capturing the port of Dalian. Despite fierce fighting in Shenyang and some other places, the Japanese eventually reduced the main force of the Russian army to northern Manchuria. Finally, at the Battle of the Tsushima Strait on 27–29 May 1905, the Japanese completely eliminated the Baltic Fleet led by Admiral Zynovy Rozhjestevinsky.
Shortly after the Battle of Tsushima, under the mediation of the United States, a ceasefire between Japan and Russia was achieved. But the Tsar remained ambitious after suffering many major defeats, stepping up the scramble for the Balkans, which eventually ignited World War I. Backward Russia was repeatedly defeated in World War I against well-equipped German troops, with millions of casualties, and eventually Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown by the revolted people and his family was imprisoned in Siberia.
In the early morning of July 17, 1918, the Tsar was secretly executed by the Soviet government. The yellow sorghum dream is over!