The world was always full of coincidences. Nicholas II had still been hesitating over whether to launch the Siberian Railway, but upon learning of the upheaval at the front, he made a decisive decision—build it.
Clearly, after the front-line troops encountered logistical problems, instead of reporting the issue to him, the Tsar, they had sought help from the Allied Command controlled by the Holy Roman Empire. This deeply provoked Nicholas II.
In order to shake off the Holy Roman Empire's influence, Nicholas II could no longer spare the effort to investigate the Americans' true intentions.
The railway was not going anywhere. As long as the Siberian Railway was completed, no matter what schemes the Americans had, the initiative would remain in the Tsarist Government's hands.
Any "sinister plot" was worthless before absolute strength. Aside from Britain and Austria, there was no third country in the world capable of making the Tsarist Government wary.
The Siberian Railway had been launched, and before the Vienna Government could react, the exiled Carlos was the first to lose his composure.
There was no helping it—the Russians had gone too far. To conserve the nation's manpower and win over public sentiment, Nicholas II decided that all the labor needed for the Siberian Railway would be conscripted from France.
Anyone with even a little sense knew what kind of hellhole Siberia was.
Given the Russian Bear's usual ways, there was no need to think about it: the laborers' logistics would certainly be unprotected. If French laborers truly went to Siberia to build railways, it would be a journey where nine died and one survived.
Since the outbreak of the Continental War, France's young and middle-aged labor force had declined drastically. The number of soldiers killed in the Continental War alone had exceeded that of World War