Chapter 73: Flow of the Era (1)

Representative achievements include promoting industrialization, introducing the gold standard, railway construction, and agricultural reform.

Evaluations include: Father of Russian industrialization, wartime Prime Minister, pacifist, moderate, anti-war, isolationist.

Sergei Witte.

From the outside it couldn't have been a more excellent choice for negotiations, but Witte completely erased views about himself.

At least in this position, something else was needed.

"Reparations too burdensome, military restrictions difficult, don't want to abolish the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Just why did I come all this way?"

"Reparations aren't unrealistic! And military restrictions and alliance abolition are clear interference in internal affairs!"

"Ha! Have you already forgotten what you did to neutral Korea?"

Traditional Russian diplomacy.

War if things go wrong.