These 50 battleships are basically the best battleships in China at present, of which there are as many as three first-class battleships alone, while China only has five first-class battleships, ten second-class battleships, and the rest are third-class battleships.

And the British fleet in Australia had only thirty battleships, and most of them were fifth- and sixth-class battleships, and they couldn't even afford the name battleship, and the flagship was just a third-class battleship, and there was a huge difference in strength between the two sides.

But the British Navy deserves to be the best navy of this era, just as Napoleon's army dared to use new recruits to attack a strong enemy, there was a heart of victory, they dared to engage in naval battles with the Chinese fleet, but idealism is particularly meaningless in naval battles, with huge guns and huge ships, and who has more guns. After a short naval battle, the British retreated.

Daring to fight was already unexpected, and no one would think that they could win, even they knew it. The strength of the Chinese navy was stronger than that of the Franco-Spanish forces in the Battle of Trafalgar or Nelson's fleet, which consisted of only 27 capital ships and 2,148 broadside guns, and 33 battleships and 2,626 broadside guns of the Franco-Spanish forces; The Chinese fleet has 50 battleships, and the side firepower is as high as 4,000 doors, even if Nelson comes, it may all be pressed and beaten. And the British fleet was nothing more than a colonial fleet, with a total firepower of 30 ships and 1,000 guns, and it was completely useless in a war.

After the naval battle, both sides suffered casualties on both sides, and the British suffered more losses. But neither side sank the ship, the naval battles of this era were so boring, and the kind of annihilation wars of land wars were so rare that they could not be seen in a hundred years.

In general, the Chinese fleet won, and the side with stronger hard power won. Although the British fleet was defeated, they retreated with all their might, and when the Chinese fleet tried to outflank, they performed a textbook operation for their Chinese colleagues, and showed off fiercely.

After the Chinese fleet lifted the British navy's blockade of the Tears Colony, after a short rest, it sailed out of the harbor and approached the British colonies of New South Wales and Tasmania, and now it was the turn of the Chinese fleet to blockade the British colonies.

Unless it is a last resort, Zhou Lang does not want to clash with the British Navy so early, the reason is very simple, time is on China's side, China's industrial revolution has started, although Britain is a leader, but after the industrial revolution began, China's growth rate is not comparable to Britain, given time, China not only surpasses Britain in terms of total amount, but even quality, it is not impossible. So the more time passes, the greater China's advantage will be.

In addition, in terms of military strength, there is still a gap between the Chinese Navy and the British Navy, Zhou Lang has been making every effort to build a naval fleet over the years, and the power on paper has not lost to the British, after all, the huge national strength is pressed on the scales, and nothing else dares to say, once the construction technology is learned, the expansion is very crazy.

During the Napoleonic Wars, the British Navy reached its historical peak, with heavy capital ships, increasing the number of first-class battleships to 7, 9 second-class battleships, and as many as 87 third-class battleships, totaling up to 103 capital ships. The number of Chinese battleships has reached 100, including 5 first-class battleships, 10 second-class battleships, and 85 third-class battleships. The two sides are on the board, and there is no longer a gap between them.

But the British just think they are stronger, and this is not bragging. From 1780 to 1790, Britain built a total tonnage of 80,000 tons of new warships, while France and Spain fought each other, building 50,000 and 40,000 tons respectively, and a single warship was larger than that of Britain and equipped with more artillery. During this period, the British first-class battleships were equipped with 110 naval guns, the French battleships of the same class were equipped with 118 naval guns, and the famous Spanish battleship "Trinidad" had four layers of artillery decks and was equipped with a total of 130 naval guns. By the eve of the war, the total tonnage of the British Royal Navy was 330,000 tons, while France and Spain combined had 420,000 tons.

However, throughout the Napoleonic Wars, although the combined Franco-Spanish fleet had a numerical advantage, it was still defeated repeatedly, and sometimes the strength on paper did not reflect the real combat effectiveness, and the quality and tactical level of the British Royal Navy far exceeded the navies of other countries in the same period.

So Zhou Lang is very wise, he doesn't think that the level of the Chinese navy built in a short period of time is higher than that of Spain with Western maritime culture, and it will not be higher than France, so why is the French and Spanish navies stronger than the British navy but loses badly, and the Chinese navy will definitely win?

The hundred-year-old navy is not boasted, where is the cultural heritage and accumulation, not thirty or fifty years, in a one-on-one head-to-head confrontation, Zhou Lang feels that the Chinese navy may not be the opponent of the descendants of this group of pirates.

However, one to one is not enough, so two to one, three to one, so Zhou Lang plans to build two or more battleships of the British Royal Navy before he will challenge the British Navy.

So this time, of course, it is not to have a showdown with the British, but to show off the other party's arms, show off its muscles, and let the other party know that the Chinese Navy is not easy to mess with.

The purpose is deterrence, and deterrence is followed by negotiations.

Of course, if the British are annoyed, they have to go to war, it is not that they can't afford to fight, it's a big deal to lose a few colonies, and now China has formed a situation of entrapment in the north, east and west facing India, once the war starts, the Australian colonies will not be wanted, the South American colonies will not be wanted, and even the African colonies will not be wanted, but India will definitely be able to take it.

Taking India is of little significance to China, but Britain has lost one of its largest human resource bases, and the empire on which the sun never sets has no blood and sweat of the Indians, so see how the British can build it? By a few million Anglo-Saxon species? Tired of his turtle son!

China has lost those colonies, and sooner or later it will have a chance to get it back, and even if it can't get it back, there are also huge living spaces in the South Seas and North America.

Of course, it is very unlikely that the British will fight this war, which is different from the Napoleonic Wars, which posed a threat to the British mainland, and the British have never been at war with any country for the sake of fighting for colonies, except for the colonies themselves, such as the cession of Hong Kong and the violent beating of the Manchus. But because of the colonial issue, there were almost no wars with the Great Powers, except for the American Revolutionary War.

It's easy to talk about it, Zhou Lang decided to give up India, India is rich in manpower, this is not what China needs, the Indian market is vast, this is not necessary for China, no matter how big the Indian market is, it is not as big as China. What China wants is land, what it wants is to alleviate the contradiction between man and land for its 300 million people, to break the 2,000-year-old cycle of rise and fall of chaos, and to successfully escort its industrialization efforts.

Sure enough, after learning that China had blockaded Australia, the British protested outwardly, and then negotiated these issues. The British once again proposed a plan to exchange India for Australia, and this time China did not refuse.

Zhou Lang had no intention of treating India as a colony, and the set of policies he pursued in India did not mean to be a colony at all. China's colonization of India is a bit of a fantasy. Moreover, India itself is somewhat unintentional, and it is Henry Pitt's ambition that prompts the Chinese company to occupy a colony here, mainly because Britain is entangled in the Napoleonic Wars, otherwise Henry Pitt's business would not have been so smooth.

In Sindh Province, China's more than 2,000 years of experience in the unified farming civilization, that is, to do a civilization export experiment, found that for the Indians, who have the same culture and farming civilization and the people are also more obedient, this system is relatively applicable, and this is enough. As long as it is suitable, it will definitely be retained, this Zhou Lang is convinced, unless the British overthrow it violently, then Zhou Lang would like to fall into a long-term confrontation with the Indians, and China will have one less opponent on the road of colonial expansion.

However, with the urine nature of the British, they will certainly adopt local customary law to rule, so that the county system, the imperial examination system, and the culture of gentry autonomy that the imperial power does not go to the countryside that have been established in Sindh Province will continue to be preserved, and will become stronger and stronger with the time of retreat. The British want to increase their exploitation, these organized local forces will not sit idly by, and if Chinese-style peasant uprisings break out again and again, it will be a cola.

Even so, Zhou Lang did not intend to give all of India to Britain, and after the negotiations began, China agreed in principle to exchange Indian territory for Australia. However, he tried to devalue Australia, and instead produced various figures to show that the Chinese colonies in India were of extremely high commercial value, and asked Britain to make up the difference, which was 50 million pounds.

The British, of course, were reluctant to pay this money, the old debts of the Napoleonic wars had not yet been paid off, and they were spending so much money for India that they could not account to the taxpayers.

Moreover, China insisted on not exchanging all of the territory of the China (East India Company) Company, and in principle China must retain the right of navigation in the Indus Valley, so Tibet has access to the sea from India much closer than China's eastern coast.

This reason is not very tenable, Tibet itself does not have many goods worth trading at sea, but China has to ask for a reason not to have the power of the Indus Valley.

After intense negotiations, the two sides finally reached an agreement in which China relinquished all power east and south of the Indus River. Retain ownership of the territory west of the Indus River, but not directly annex this territory to China.

Specifically, the British East India Company acquired all the shares of the Chinese East India Company in the hands of the Chinese Emperor, and the Chinese Emperor announced that he would renounce the supreme right to the territory of the Chinese Company. The British East India Company merged with the Chinese East India Company, and the Chinese East India Company was directly dissolved. The territory west of the Indus River of the Chinese East India Company was controlled by a new commercial company and could never be incorporated into Chinese territory.

Britain agreed to transfer all Australian territory and ancillary assets to China, and since the Australian immigrants were mainly British prisoners, the British decided to take them away. After all, these people were left to China, and it is estimated that they will become an anti-British army, especially a large number of Irish, who are already dissatisfied with British rule.

So the British decided that the troops should be withdrawn, the prisoners would be taken away, and the property would be left behind.

Both parties signed and pledged.