Section 274 The Era of the Rivalry (1)

The reserved half of the Indus Territory was very much wanted by Zhou Guan, because it had the population resources he longed for, which would make it more convenient for him to develop Australia. Zhou Guan had already received his coveted title of governor to govern Nanyang and Australia, both of which were short on manpower. Therefore, if we get an Indian base across the Indian Ocean from Australia, we will get twice the result with half the effort to develop Australia.

But after careful consideration, Zhou Lang decided to hand it over to the African company as a transit base for the African company in the Indian Ocean. Because Karachi was just west of the Indus River, the largest commercial city in the Indus Valley was preserved, and for this reason it had the longest tug-of-war with the British. It also stressed that Australia can only immigrate to China's surplus population, and cannot attract immigrants from other places, such as India.

The population of the preserved half of the Indian territory was less than a third of what it used to be, and the majority of the population was east of the Indus River, which the British had access to and had integrated with the territory of the East India Company. It greatly alleviated the unfavorable situation in the competition with Chinese companies, and completely expelled the Chinese official power from India and its neighbors, laying the foundation for their future domination in India.

Of course, the negotiations between the two sides are not limited to this, but also the current conflict in Burma, and even the British insist that the conflict in Australia was caused by the Anglo-Burmese war. Because the British East India Company launched a war against Burma, and China also had ambitions for Burma, it also took advantage of the Australian dispute to take a strong counterattack.

Regarding the negotiations in Burma, because the British have not been able to achieve any results, they fought a confused battle with the Burmese in Yangon, killing tens of thousands of people, but they could not defeat the Gongbang Dynasty at its peak.

As a result, under the mediation of China, Britain and Burma reached a cease-fire agreement, and the two sides returned to the status quo ante before the war, which lasted two and a half years, lost 30 million pounds, and suffered more than 30,000 casualties. After the war, the British deposed Hastings, the Governor of the East India Company, and appointed Amster, an adviser to the British Privy Council, as Viceroy of India.

The arrival of Amsterdam brought about a change in the situation of British rule in India, Britain had completed negotiations with the East India Company, the British government would take over all the assets and debts of the East India Company in India, the British East India Company would become a thing of history, the government would take back all the privileges granted to it, the company was liquidated, and the East India Company was dissolved.

Subsequently, the British government abolished the Mughal Emperor, and the King of England assumed the position of Emperor of India, and the deranged King George III was crowned Emperor of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and India.

The British Empire appeared!

China successfully established a new suzerain-vassal relationship with Burma, and the Burmese king accepted the canonization of the Chinese emperor as the only inheritance principle, and Burma had full trade with China, and the border checkpoints were abolished, and the Chinese army could use Burmese territory for war against the enemy.

It is slightly different from the content of North Korea and other countries, and does not obtain the right to enter Burma unconditionally, but this article is meaningless, because if Burma rebels against China and China intends to suppress it, it does not need the permission of the Burmese to enter Burma.

Another difference from conservative countries such as North Korea is that Meng Yun decided to send students to China, intending to learn from China's advanced experience. This is the difference between a king who has made a difference, and the monarch of a conservative country, who has sent students to India to study medicine, architecture, etc., and now India has become someone else's colony, obviously China is more worth learning. This laid the foundation for Myanmar's rapid rise to become the most powerful country in Indochina in the decades that followed.

After the territorial exchange, the British Empire was established, and indisputably became the most powerful empire in Europe, France fell, Russia fell, Austria was dying, Italy was divided, the German princes competed for hegemony, Britain could not find an opponent with a lantern, they no longer regarded themselves as a competitor for European hegemony, but regarded themselves as a world empire, in the world, they thought that only China could compete with Britain.

The world entered the stage of Sino-British hegemony, which was 1818, the nineteenth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

But those small supporting characters are not content to be lonely, and some declining empires are trying to restore their position.

Spain did not intend to give up its colonies, especially the wealthy colonies of Mexico and Peru. But they have one of the biggest obstacles, and that is China. If possible, the Philippines they don't want to give up either. But not to mention the Philippines, Mexico's capital is still home to Chinese troops, and Spain will not be able to regain its rule over the colonies unless China is withdrawn from its colonies.

Therefore, after the Napoleonic Wars, the Spaniards signed a peace agreement with China as soon as possible, giving up a large number of colonies. The Philippines, the Upper and Lower California and Montevideo colonies were all sold to China, and even the Mexican port of Acapulco was sold to China.

It was a sale, not a cession, not a lend-lease, and China paid the price of 30 million pesos. This price is much cheaper than the purchase of bitter cold Russian territory. However, territorial buying and selling has never been an open market, and there is no price to speak of.

After receiving this cash, Spain received military funds to suppress the colonies, and with a large number of forces in the colonies that favored Spain, they began to make a comeback.

Soon a breakthrough was made in Venezuela, driving Bolívar out of Venezuela and restoring the Viceroyalty of New Granada. Immediately afterwards, the Viceroyalty of New Spain also regained its rule, and Mexico was defeated mainly due to internal problems.

Hidalgo was an idealist, and he was too old to cope with the complexities of politics. He was too biased towards the Indians, and although there were many Indian tribes that supported him, the problem was that the backbone of Mexico was the native white and mestizo races, and these people had a great conflict with the Indians during Mexico's independence, because many native white plantations were affected, and many native white people were slaughtered by Mexicans as white people on the peninsula. White uprisings had been going on in Mexico long before the Spanish government made a comeback.

The Spanish army, which had experienced the baptism of Napoleonic wars on the one hand, and the internal political instability on the other, led to the success of the Spanish in suppressing the Mexican Revolution and regaining their rule, and King Ferdinand VII of Spain gave the native-born whites more equal power and allowed them to hold government power, and Mexico quickly restored stability.

However, the governor of New Granada, under the leadership of Bolívar, continued to quell the rebellion, which caused headaches for the Spanish government. In Mexico, the Indians were forced to side with the Spanish government because of Hidalgo's favoritism, while the native whites in Venezuela and other places had always been the leaders of the revolution, and they had no possibility of cooperating with the Spanish government. Hence the constant chaos here.

Spain's suppression of the revolution in La Plata was basically a failure, and under the leadership of San Martín and others, although the population was small, the main white people of La Plata were very strong in combat, and the distance from Spain was greater, so the Spanish military operation here quickly failed.

In the Viceroyalty of Peru, rule was quickly restored, because the local religious forces were strong, the native whites were weak, and the mestizos were not very enthusiastic about the revolution, and the Spanish suppressed the native white government here with only a small force, and restored the old order with the power of religion.

At this time, the situation in La Plata was the most delicate, because the colony of Montevideo (Uruguay) was sold to the Chinese government, as a result, the United States of La Plata not only opposed Spain, but also began to oppose China, they did not recognize the legitimacy of the sale of Montevideo to China, and after defeating the Spanish colonial army, they began to march to Montevideo, and there was a fierce battle with the Chinese garrison, although they lost on the battlefield, they broke through several Chinese settlement points and slaughtered many Chinese immigrants.

The Chinese government was outraged and announced a military operation against La Plata, led by the American Company. An agreement was reached with the Spanish government to help suppress the La Plata rebellion by providing the Spanish government with a loan of 100 million pesos (ocean). and sent 30,000 troops to the war, after which Spain would authorize China to have special commercial interests in the region.

According to Chinese government intelligence, the British supported the rebels when the Le Plata regime attacked the Chinese emigrant areas, and the rebels were mainly supplied with weapons, and a large number of British soldiers fought heavily against the Spanish rebels.

In addition to Spain, there were other old empires that tried to restore their position.

After three years of counter-offensive, the tsar once again established serfdom in the country, and because of a general outbreak of bourgeois forces, and then a great purge, this time after the release of bourgeois forces that had accumulated for an unknown number of years, Russia began to enter a period of silence, and the social order based on serfdom became rock-solid.

The Tsar began to actively restore Russia's position in Europe, the biggest purpose was to regain Poland, independent Poland was the biggest obstacle on the road of Russia's westward advance, and at the same time, Prussia, which was most worried about Russia's westward expansion, was the biggest supporter of independent Poland, and Austria did not see Russia's westward advance, providing a certain degree of support behind the scenes, and the Polish question began to become a point of contradiction between the two major peoples of Slavic and German Europe.

The Russians found that despite the war, relations with China were quickly restored, and the tsarist government inherited some of Speransky's reforms, such as the complete opening of the silver ban with China, and trade expanded rapidly.