In terms of distance, it is much closer to Spain from Mexico than to China, and after Zhu Dian occupied the port of Acapulco last year, the governor of Mexico sent a message to Spain asking for help, but at that time, the French annexed Spain, and for a time the various forces did not know who should save Mexico.

Joseph dealt with the matter, but he was powerless to interfere and could only throw the mess to his brother with excess energy, and Napoleon was very surprised when he received the news, why did the Chinese jump out and run to capture the ports of the Spanish colony?

The world is too chaotic!

Napoleon has always known China more and more deeply than he did in history. Because the scholars he sent had been in correspondence with him, telling him the truth. China is neither as conservative nor as open as he imagined, neither so backward nor so advanced, in short, there are merits and shortcomings.

But one thing is clear, this ancient civilization is embracing modernity. According to his scholars, the Chinese emperor was admirable for his versatility, especially on economics. Contrary to the perception of most Western economists, their emperor had always been unhappy that Westerners were always buying goods in China and not selling, and he wanted a more balanced trade between the two sides, because too much silver inflow caused prices to rise in China.

Another point is that China is indeed very rich, although there are many poor people, but there are also many rich people, and their rich people together have more population than any other country in the West, which is an unimaginably huge market, but it is a pity that the Westerners have not yet opened the key to open this market. It seems that only a few products, such as chiming clocks and glass, can be sold here, but the Chinese can produce these two products themselves, and they are catching up quickly in technology.

Napoleon also wanted to open up this market, but his scholars advised him that France had to develop the colonial economy, and if France could grow cotton in the colonies, which China lacked, then trade would be promising.

Mexico was a colony, a colony with close trade with China, and Napoleon felt as if he had the key. Therefore, after receiving the news that the Chinese army had captured the Mexican port, he was so stunned that he immediately summoned the Chinese consul general Lin Di and asked the other party for an explanation.

Lindy expressed regret, he thought it was a matter between China and Spain, and Napoleon explained that Spain was an ally of France, and that China had declared war on Spain and was very unfriendly to France.

Lin Di said that maintaining friendship with the French Empire had always been the wish of His Majesty the Emperor of China and himself, and that he could only continue to regret the emergence of such a thing, and put all the blame on the former Spanish king and government for not acting as such.

Napoleon also blamed the chaos in Spain on the unprovoked king of Spain, and at the same time proposed to Lindy that he wanted to personally mediate relations between China and Spain, France's ally, and did not want the two countries to continue to be at war.

Lindy expressed his willingness to accept Napoleon's good offices, but the two sides should send official diplomatic representatives to negotiate.

Napoleon invited the Chinese representatives to come to Paris for negotiations, but Lindi disagreed, believing that now that France was blocked by England, the sea route to Europe was too dangerous, and he hoped that the two sides could choose a safer road to negotiate in a safer place, and Lindi suggested that the two sides might as well negotiate in neutral Russia.

Napoleon, on the other hand, wanted to be in Poland so that he could participate in it, and he wanted to have a personal meeting with the Chinese emperor, as he had with the Russian tsar, and if the two emperors met, many problems would be solved.

But Lin Di said that the Chinese emperor was very reluctant to leave the palace, and leaving the capital would be problematic, and leaving the country would be regarded as abandonment, and there was a huge political risk.

Napoleon could only give up his personal preferences, but he was very reluctant to place the negotiations in Russia.

After the Treaty of Tilsit with Napoleon, Russia was forced to impose a continental blockade, but Russia was reluctant to trade too closely with Britain than with the rest of Europe. Russia exports 80% of iron, 58% of hemp and more than 60% of flax to Britain. The iron, timber, hemp, and canvas needed by the British shipbuilding industry depended mainly on Russian exports. Russia maintained a trade surplus with Great Britain.

The current implementation of the blockade policy against Britain has not only greatly affected Russia's tax revenues, but has also caused serious damage to the Russian economy. As a result, the prices of coffee, cocoa, sugar, pepper and other consumer goods have skyrocketed, as the raw materials for these consumer goods are sourced from overseas.

After Poland was partitioned, Russia resolutely opposed the restoration of Poland, but Napoleon established a Grand Duchy of Poland as a forward position to guard against Russia; Russia attempted to take control of part of Germany, only to be occupied by France; Russia's desire to occupy Constantinople in Turkey was rejected by Napoleon. Thus, only a year after joining the continental blockade, Russia began to violate this regime and quietly support smuggling.

All this made Napoleon dissatisfied, and he hated to send troops to conquer Russia, and then send a younger brother to be tsar.

However, the suggestion put forward by the Chinese consul general is very reasonable, and the two sides should send representatives to Russia for negotiations, which is about the same distance, so that the negotiations can be carried out as quickly as possible and the dispute can be concluded as soon as possible. In addition, Napoleon did not want Spain to go to war with Russia before it was stable, and hoped to continue negotiations with Russia to restore the blockade of Britain. So he agreed to negotiate on the rivers on the border between Russia and Poland.

Lindy sent the news quickly, and this time he sent someone to go to Russia to China through Siberia, which was the fastest way, and it would take only three months to reach China, and it would take nearly a year to travel by sea.

The road from China to Russia was smooth, and would not be blocked by the British fleet, and the road conditions had long been nourished by the merchants to be more comfortable and smooth, although the trade route was very long, 5,300 kilometers in China and 8,000 kilometers in Russia.

Every year after the spring tea, Jin merchants trafficked tea from northern Fujian, traveled 5,000 miles to Zhangjiakou, and then transported from Zhangjiakou to Kyakhta, a journey of 4,300 miles, which lasted 130 days; Russian merchants used July and August to transport them from Kyakhta to Moscow, and they had to leave the West Expo Park in two months, otherwise they would freeze in September.

If you ride a horse, you can't do it with an 800-mile expedited trip, but you can travel 500 miles a day in China. The Russians' post stations were also built on the Sino-Russian border, and if both sides used fast horses to transmit, it would even take only a month to communicate messages. But if the Russians are not allowed to use their official post stations and pass by trade routes, it will be much slower. It takes 20 days in China, but more than two months in Russia. Lin Di believes that four months should be able to pass to Nanjing. Once and again, plus the preparatory work, the mission will come to Europe as soon as next year.

In June of the tenth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Lang received the news that Napoleon wanted to mediate, and he couldn't help but feel that the French were really fast. According to the time calculation, he had just declared war on Spain, and the French almost knew that it was too late. What Zhou Lang didn't know was that Napoleon didn't know the situation very well, and the backward traffic not only made the transmission of information too slow, but also disrupted the order of many things.

Napoleon received a request from the governor of Mexico for help from Spain, and then his brother asked Napoleon for help, only to know that China had attacked Spain, and after summoning Lindy, it was confirmed that the Chinese had declared war on Spain, because Spain had seized Chinese merchant ships a few years earlier.

But in fact, when the Governor of Mexico sent the letter asking for help, China had not officially declared war, and it was Zhu Lian who captured the port of Acapulco in the name of the American Company.

Regarding the situation in the Americas, Zhou Lang only knew that Zhu Lian had captured the port of Acapulco, and as for the extent of the war operations carried out by Zhao Wen and others he sent, he was completely unclear.

So Zhou Lang was not in a hurry to reply, he had to wait for Zhao Wen and Zhang Shun's reports before he could decide how to talk. The ship returning from the Americas will depart in March and arrive in June at the earliest, but Zhang Shun will only depart in the first month of this year, and it will take summer to arrive in La Plata at the earliest.

But it does not prevent Zhou Lang from preparing for the delegation first, the most professional person is in Europe, he only needs to send a letter to Lin Di, authorizing him to negotiate on behalf of the country, and tell Lin Di the bottom line and the desired results. But Zhou Lang was still ready to send a huge diplomatic mission from Russia to Europe by land, not for negotiations, but to investigate the Siberian road.

Russia allowed the Chinese delegation to go this way, because they had already obtained permission to trade south from Kyakhta to Zhangjiakou. In exchange, Chinese merchants could travel to Tyumen for trade. Siberia has already opened up to Chinese businessmen, and there is no reason to refuse a Chinese mission. Besides, this is still a mission sent to negotiate with Napoleon, and it is possible to withstand Napoleon's pressure to block this mission.

As a result, the mission was able to swagger through the Russian hinterland, scouting the terrain along the way, quietly drawing maps, and sometimes bribing the maps of local merchants. In the event of a war with Russia in the future, then this path could become the road of war.

As for the war, there is no sign of war in sight for the time being, because the conflict between Russia and China in North America will be resolved peacefully, and China promises that its colonies will not expand northward and will not cross the Columbia River, and Russia promises not to expand southward, and will also not cross the Columbia River, which is equivalent to the two sides using the Columbia River as the boundary to delimit their respective spheres of influence in North America. Basically, the western coast of the United States was the sphere of influence of China and Russia, and the western part of Canada and Alaska was the sphere of influence of Russia.

It was also during this negotiation that the two sides agreed to extend the trade routes for thousands of miles.