What if the Otsu Incident goes badly and the heir to the Russian throne is murdered in Japan. No Tsar Nicholas II and a very angry Alexander III. Any ideas for what happens next?
Any ideas for what happens next?
The convention of Vladivostok seemingly had little effect on the balance of power in Eurasia. The Japanese were forced to cede the Kuriles and fishing rights in the sea of Okhotsk, as well as consent to the temporary demilitarization of Hokaido, but fended off Russian demands for occupation of Tsunshima and Okinawa.
The indemmity was set at 2.5 million pounds sterling, to be paid within a year, and 6 million additional pounds sterling to be paid over the following five years. Given that Japan’s yearly defense budget amounted to no more than 5 million pounds this was to prove a heavy burden indeed (1).
Though the Japanese navy kept its flagship Hashidate it was able to pay the salaries of its naval officers only by selling the Matsushima and the Itsukushima to Brazil the following year.
Just read through the whole thing, shame it died.
You probably just stopped World War I.
Europe had avoided full blown conflagration for 99 years somehow. I think Tsar Michael II would be smart enough not to go to war with Germany before Russia's military modernization was completed.I doubt that. Alliance system, nationalism and other issues ensured that any incident would start the war sooner or latter. Russia would be surely in better place during war anyway.
Europe had avoided full blown conflagration for 99 years somehow. I think Tsar Michael II would be smart enough not to go to war with Germany before Russia's military modernization was completed.
Fate and history however, will probably have other ideas.