March 1898 China, Port Arthur. The armored cruiser "Rurik" anchors in the western basin. Together with him, a dozen more ships of the Russian naval fleet. The Russians do not shoot, do not block the harbor and do not even go ashore. The lease of the southern part of the Kwantung Peninsula with China has not yet been signed. But the arguments of the empire with a total displacement of one hundred thousand tons are really iron.
On the Chinese side, negotiations were essentially conducted by a second man at the court, Chancellor Lee Hong-jan. A proven man - Russia has already pierced the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway through it. Now it was necessary to develop success, to get in China also a naval base. For our part, this difficult mission was entrusted to a diplomat not by office, but by vocation — to Count Sergei Yurevich Witte, the Minister of Finance.
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