Why was Tsarist Russia far away in Europe able to control the Far Northeast, but the successive Cent

After Tsarist Russia expanded their territory from Kiev all the way to the Far East and even North America, they actually realized that they were powerless, so they chose to sell 1.71 million square kilometers of Alaska to the United States. So, the question arises, why didn't the ancient Chinese dynasties compete with them for Siberia and other regions?

First of all, it has to be said that in the dynasties of ancient China, there was a huge nomadic people in the north, and their existence itself posed a huge threat to the Central Plains Dynasty, whether it was the Han Xiongnu, the Tang Turks, the Song Jinmeng, the Ming Warat or the Qing Dynasty's Galdan that hit Khalkha. The Central Plains Dynasty did not have the ability to continue northward through the confines of these ethnic minorities. The Yuan Dynasty could, but they obviously didn't look down on a barren land like Siberia, Outer Mongolia was already barren enough, and Siberia was even more barren than it.

This explains why the Chinese ethnic minorities did not go to Siberia because it was too bitter to be considered by them, and there were only two routes for them, one to the south and the other to the west to the Hungarian steppe.

Even if the Central Plains Dynasty had the ability, it would not be able to expand its sphere of influence to such a north, there were all kinds of resources, but the ancients didn't know how to use it, and China, as a traditional agricultural country, was in no mood to reclaim that barren land. The land in the Central Plains is not saturated to that point, and we actually have more options, such as breaking through the eastern part of the country, which is much stronger than there.

What, then, drove the Russian nation eastward after turning over the Ural Mountains? The big difficulty is very simple, it is dreams and fur. Fur is Russia's hard currency, a symbol of wealth, and as for dreams, Russians have long called the Heilongjiang River valley "the land of **", which is the place they dream of.

However, in ancient times, when the means of transportation were very limited, they could not do it to send a large number of troops to the Far East and conquer Heilongjiang. They finally moved this thought, but they met the Qing Dynasty in its heyday and were beaten back.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Russia once again had influence in the Northeast, but they lost the Russo-Japanese War, and their interests in the Far East (including railways, ports, coal mines, etc.) were transferred to the Japanese. The September 18 Incident announced that the Soviet Union had officially lost almost all of its rights and interests in Northeast China, and that they had lost the battle for supremacy to Japan.

In ancient times, the leaders of the regimes of various countries put the rule of the people in the first place, and the issue of national borders was relatively vague, and the climate in the Far Northeast was cold, not suitable for human survival, the population was sparse, and the level of education was low.

Because the Far Northeast was covered with ice and snow all the year round, there was basically no human population, and if the Central Plains Dynasty wanted to control it, then it had to send troops to station, but this benefit was too small, so it was ceded to Tsarist Russia.

In addition to the fact that the cost is not cost-effective, because China has to guard against nomads in the north, it does not have the energy to operate further north. And by the time of Russia's rise, Siberia was already a place abandoned by Mongolia and did not encounter decent armaments. During this period, China was at a low point, with Mongolia and Jurchen to the north, and they were still "hot" with these two.

The times were different, and Tsarist Russia was able to control the Far East because after the Industrial Revolution, there was no geographical environment to stop the emergence of trains. The ability to project military power has been greatly enhanced, and at the same time, Tsarist Russia and the Far East have similar temperature conditions in the same dimension, and both belong to the alpine region. The Central Plains Dynasty is a warm climate in the southern region, not only the logistics can not keep up with the ancient times, the environment can not adapt, the ancient cold resistance is mainly animal fur, these are basically in the hands of nomads, and the Central Plains Dynasty is cold-resistant, there is not much fur mainly through exchange or catkins to resist the cold, these can not withstand the cold of the Mongolian Plateau, the Central Plains lacks horses in terms of military power projection, and the transportation of grain from the grain producing areas to the Far East is not far away and the cost is very high, On the more than 1,000-kilometer road from Shandong to Shanxi, 99 percent of the grain is consumed, not to mention the Far East.

Another more important thing is that in ancient times, those alpine regions, unlike the mineral resources provided in modern times, the level of productivity in ancient times was low, and they were only interested in grain-producing areas, and they were not interested in those barren lands that only produced a small amount of animal skins, and the value of high-input real estate was not occupied and controlled. So at most, it is to control the area by supporting ** people, and will not directly control it.

Because the management method is different. There were deficiencies in the management of ancient monarchs, so they could not control that far away.

Tsarist Russia entered the era of modern civilization and large industry, and the Central Plains Dynasty closed itself off from the country, backward in thought and backward in industry.

You can find out once you go to Harbin. That place is estimated to be a hundred times colder than Harbin. It's not for people to live in.

In ancient times, if you could not produce food and did not have enough warm clothing, you would wait for death in the Far East.

Because there are railways, there is an ocean-going fleet! Times have just changed.

This is mainly due to the fact that compared with the power gap in Europe, Tsarist Russia is relatively strong in the Far East.

In fact, the Central Plains Dynasty was not unable to handle North Asia. The Central Plains Dynasty's scientific and technological and military forces were extremely developed. It's actually quite easy to conquer North Asia.

However, the environment in North Asia is very harsh, and it is not suitable for habitation and the mining of some minerals. So it is not necessary to conquer a useless territory.

At that time, the desolate environment of North Asia had no resources to plunder, so the Central Plains Dynasty felt that it was not necessary to conquer it, so it finally chose not to conquer, otherwise it could have done it with the strength of the Central Plains army at that time.

It was not difficult to conquer and occupy North Asia with the strength of the Central Plains Dynasty, but out of consideration for the environment of North Asia, the rulers of the Central Plains did not have the idea of aggression against North Asia.

The Central Plains Dynasty has not been able to do it for thousands of years, not because it does not have this condition and strength, but because it is not necessary, because the environment in North Asia is very harsh, and this territory is basically useless. The Central Plains Dynasty has never thought about it.

In fact, it is not that the Central Plains Dynasty cannot be conquered. North Asia is very far away from the capital, and it takes a lot of manpower and financial resources to fight, but it does not bring high benefits to the country, so the first country has given up the campaign against him.

I believe that many people know Tsarist Russia.

was a very aggressive country, as Tsarist Russia was under Peter I.

At that time, it had already begun to invade foreign countries, and the main purpose of making Tsarist Russia want to invade abroad was because Tsarist Russia did not have a good port at that time. Because Tsarist Russia is a northern country, the temperature in Tsarist Russia is very low, so the sea surface freezes all year round, which has a great impact on maritime transportation. Therefore, Tsarist Russia thought of foreign invasion, and for Tsarist Russia at this time, there were a total of four invasion pathsOne is west into the Atlantic, one south into the Mediterranean, one into the Middle East, and finally into the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.

If Tsarist Russia chooses the fourth way,Then there would be a war with China at that time, but Tsarist Russia at that time was not an opponent of the Qing Dynasty at all, and the three roads in front were blocked by Britain, so for Tsarist Russia at that time, there was only a choice of the fourth way. After Tsarist Russia chose to go south, it posed a certain threat to the Qing Dynasty at that time. Because Tsarist Russia at that time was based on Lake Belga, the threat to Heilongjiang at that time was the greatest, and Tsarist Russia also exerted pressure on Heilongjiang.

If the Qing Dynasty at that time did not stop it, then it would have had a great impact on the capital. <>

So after the growing threat of Tsarist Russia to the capital at that time, the Kangxi Emperor.

Choosing not to tolerate it anymore, the Kangxi Emperor ordered a counterattack against Tsarist Russia, and the subsequent war with Tsarist Russia was the famous Battle of Yaksa.

In this war, because the firepower of the Qing Dynasty was too fierce at that time,Therefore, Tsarist Russia had no strength to fight back, so Tsarist Russia gave up and continued to invade south. <>

After the Battle of Yaxa, Tsarist Russia was clear about the strength of the Qing Dynasty, so Tsarist Russia chose to recuperate. It was many years later that Tsarist Russia waited for another opportunity to attack, mainly because the Qing Dynasty had been closed off from the country.

Because at that time there was a civil war going on in the European region, and Tsarist Russia did not have a strong army at all. Therefore, there was no expansion in the direction of Europe.

Because the military strength of Tsarist Russia at that time was weak, and secondly, Tsarist Russia had no open sea, and it was very difficult to go to sea through many countries, so it did not expand in the direction of Europe.

Because at that time, Outer Mongolia was still under the Qing Dynasty and had not yet separated from China, so they were unable to annex it.

The expansion of the Tsar's territory was temporal, from Peter the Great to Catherine II, the main focus was on the occupation of access to the sea, and secondarily with the Qin Dynasty's control of the Mongols, the strategic buffer zone.

There are few people, logistics, not to mention Guannei, even if the population south of Heilongjiang is much larger than that of Outer Xing'anling, and most of them are directly under the Qing Dynasty, many of Outer Xing'anling are ruled by fetters, and a small number of Han strongholds have also been slaughtered. In the south of Heilongjiang, it may be very difficult for Tsarist Russia to take some Cossacks and want to be unscrupulous.

Because the other powers did not want to see him, if he really dared to do it, he would find a group to fight.