Chapter 111: Too Painful to Look Back

Vienna Palace was indeed very interested in the smuggling proposal from the Tsarist Government.

Money that came knocking on the door was not to be turned away. Although most of that money had originally been loaned out by them, now earning back each Divine Shield meant one less Divine Shield lost in the future.

If one wanted the Russians to "fulfill their debt", the Tsarist Government would need to have money. And not to mention the gold-consuming beast that was the Russo-Japanese War, what was crucial was the brewing wave of revolution within the country.

Due to the decrease in population, the social contradictions in the Russian Empire were slightly more alleviated than in the original timeline.

However, this alleviation was limited to the traditional ruling areas. For example: the newly occupied Poland, Bulgaria, Afghanistan, several Khanates in Central Asia, and other regions, where there was never a day of peace.