Zhou Chenggong closely followed the movements of all parties, and the European countries that have the right to speak on Greece are mainly Britain, France and Russia.

Needless to say, the British have him everywhere, and now the British are still the first in the Mediterranean, and he also controls many islands near Greece, such as the Ionian Islands in western Greece are under British occupation.

As early as the time of Louis XIII, the French began to change their religious policy and develop diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, and French merchants have always been the largest foreign trade partners of the Ottomans. It was just a great revolution that gave French hegemony in the Mediterranean, to the British.

Russia was the latecomer, through many Russo-Turkish wars, until 1774, Russia did not obtain the Black Sea access, but Russia, which had just obtained this area, did not have any decent maritime power in the Black Sea, so it authorized the Greek, Armenian and other Christian communities under Ottoman rule to hang Russian merchant ships freely in and out of the Black Sea.

As a result, in just half a century, Greek merchant ships controlled the trade from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, which greatly promoted the development of Greek commerce, and also made Russia's influence on Greece more than all Western countries.

It is precisely because of the fear that Russia will control Greece that during the Greek War of Independence, Western countries have always disapproved of Greek independence, and only asked the Ottoman Empire to allow Greek autonomy, and they are worried that once Greece becomes an independent country, it will be too close to Russia.

As the trend came, Greece became independent.

But the position of the Greek president is very awkward, he is Ionis Antonios Kapodistias, the leader of the Greek revolution from Russia. In recent years, Cabotis Dias, who had been shaping Greece with his ideas of the French Revolution, hoped to form a centralized government like the Napoleonic government in France.

But Greece was a very powerful country during the Ottoman rule, and even since ancient times, and this can even be extended to the time of the ancient Greek city-states, where there was no concept of centralization in the culture of this country.

During the period of Ottoman rule, the local power faction was not only not destroyed, but further strengthened. The Ottomans lacked the talent to rule the country, and most of the officials who ruled the rest of his country were recruited from Greece, let alone Greece. In Greece itself, it is mainly the local wealthy families who run the place.

During the Independent Revolution, these localists formed their own local armies, and civil war broke out between the two armies for power.

As a Russian expatriate, Kapodistias did not have the support of the Western European powers, and the nativists were hindered behind him, so it was difficult to carry out the reform of the government in recent years. After independence, Greece's financial situation deteriorated and its economy was sluggish. Originally, as Ottoman nationals, they were the most literate ethnic group in the Ottoman Empire, providing the Ottoman Empire with the largest number of administrative officials, and merchants monopolized trade within the Ottoman Empire. Now that they were independent, a large number of Greek officials were purged by the Ottoman Empire, and merchants could not do business within the Ottoman Empire. Unable to monopolize Ottoman trade with the Mediterranean countries and Russia, the contraction of entrepot trade, which was the backbone of the economy, intensified all kinds of contradictions in Greece.

Although these liberals actually admired Western culture and admired the French and even British institutions, Britain and France did not support them. The nativists also did not have the support of the foreign powers because of the problem of ideas.

Through his friends in London, Zhou Chenggong obtained some accurate information about the Anglo-French-Russian conference, and it was said that the three kingdoms were inclined to turn Greece into a kingdom. After all, Napoleon's empire had fallen, and the kingdom form was the mainstream in Europe. It would be very dangerous for Greece to form a republic on the ideas of the French Revolution.

However, the three countries were at loggerheads over the issue of sending kings, and under the checks and balances, the three parties unanimously agreed that the Greek royal family could not come from any of the three royal families of England, France and Russia, and preferred to find a king for Greece in Europe.

The localists assassinated the liberal president, but the localists were already weak and couldn't even suppress the liberals, otherwise they wouldn't have to resist through assassination. Greece is still in liberal control, with Augustine Antonios Capodistias, the younger brother of Ionis Antonios Capodis, in power.

Zhou Chenggong carefully analyzed the various forces in Greece, the natives were large in number and deeply rooted in the local area, but unfortunately their horizons were too limited, and they could only run rampant in their own acres and thirds of land, and they were suppressed by the more open liberals in their own country, and the liberals could not suppress the natives at the local grassroots, but in the whole country, they were still the largest force.

But the liberals simply could not compete with the great powers, so the Greeks had decided to accept Europe to send their kings to them.

If the current trend continues, Zhou Chenggong knows that he doesn't have the slightest chance, and he needs to create opportunities for himself.

First of all, he had to make himself involved with Greece, but not too closely, because there would be a strong enemy to stop him if he was involved with either the liberal or the nativist. It's as if Britain, France and Russia are now tending to find a small family with a long history in Central Europe to be king in Greece, because such a family is more neutral. But these families have too little connection with Greece for them to gain the approval of the Greeks, who can assassinate a president and a king. Zhou Chenggong is sure of this, because it doesn't cost much to hire the Greek underworld when necessary.

In order to get in touch with Greece as soon as possible, Zhou Chenggong recently "accidentally" met a girl from a Greek family at a ball, they are not authentic Greeks, but the daughter of the Elites family, a Greek expatriate family from Italy, they came to London to participate in social activities, in order to climb a good relative.

Zhou Chenggong used his proficiency in Greek, erudite knowledge, love for Greek culture, and perennial experience in the social circle, which soon made this girl tempted, and the Elethes family was also very optimistic about them, providing great convenience for the contact between the two, because the weight of climbing relatives with European nobles is different from that of climbing relatives with Chinese royal families. In the case of their commoner wealthy merchant family, they can find at most one descendant of a down-and-out aristocrat in Europe, but now the prince from China is actually interested in their daughter, which is simply a jackpot.

Due to the tight schedule, Zhou Chenggong's relationship with the Ellites family Connie "progressed" quickly, and the tabloid market in London could see the two walking hand in hand on the boulevard of Hyde Park, or appearing in the Greek section of the London Museum.

In less than a month, the newspaper clearly published the news that the Chinese prince, who is the gold medal king of the London social circle, proposed to a Greek civilian family.