When the British government received the news, it was not long after the Vienna Conference had ended.

The so-called Vienna Conference could not really be called a conference. From October 1, 1814, to its dissolution on June 9, 1815, there was never a plenary session, not even a formal opening and closing ceremony. Everything was decided by the great powers behind the scenes, and the other delegates spent their time in endless social events, including banquets, balls, theater attendance, and private conversations, anxiously waiting for the great powers to arrange their fate. When a major power makes a general resolution, it is also called to the representatives of each country separately to sign it, and there is no procedure for unanimous adoption and no process for multilateral negotiations.

Although Russia also attended the conference and was nominally equal to the British-Prussian-Austrian three, the interests of the Russians were greatly suppressed.

Prussia emerged as the biggest winner. Austria's interests were strengthened. Russia, on the other hand, has largely not shared in the legacy of Napoleon's empire.

Prussia's territory expanded greatly, not only restoring the Polish territory that was given by Napoleon to the Tsar in the Napoleonic Wars to win over the Tsar's Prussia, but also gaining two-fifths of Saxony's territory, Silesia and the Rhine region, and Swedish Pomerania. It expanded westward from Poland to the Rhine and, above all, to the Ruhr region, which was rich in coal and iron. Of course, this significance is not yet visible to the Prussians themselves, and the industrial center of Prussia is now in Silesia (in the Czech Republic of Central Europe).

Prussia's expansion was even greater than it had been in history, for the simple reason that it was supported by the British, or rather, that he had defected to the British. Prussia has always been Britain's traditional ally on the European continent, because this country is very small, with a population less than half of Britain's, but its military strength is very strong. Because he has strong military ability, he is very capable of fighting, but if his overall national strength is weak, he cannot support a long-term war, so he is naturally dependent on British military aid.

Since the time of Frederick the Great, Prussia has been a thug for the British, and almost every war between Britain and France has a Prussian presence. That is why Prussia, a small country, received more aid than Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. It is also the reason why Prussia was beaten so badly by Napoleon, but it was able to raise an army of more than 100,000 people at a time.

Austria was the second largest beneficiary, having acquired Galicia, where the Poles lived, Lombardy and Venice in Italy, and Dalmatia (the coastal region of Yugoslavia). But it also ceded the Austrian Netherlands (i.e., Belgium) to the Netherlands, forming the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Austria failed to restore the Holy Roman Empire, but only established a German Confederation with Austria as chairman and Prussia as vice-chairman.

Austria received the same things as it did historically, but at the conference there was tension with Great Britain when the Anglo-Austrian alliance against Russia broke down.

The Poles thought they were the biggest winners, because they became independent, although they only restored a smaller territory than they had historically.

The independence of Poland also meant that Russia became the biggest loser, because the goal of partitioning Poland insisted on by Russia was not realized, and at the conference it was forced to agree to the independence of Russian Poland and establish the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, with the Grand Duke of Saxony, who had lost a large amount of territory, concurrently serving as the Grand Duke of Poland.

Just a few months ago, Prussia, which was still trembling under Russian military pressure and forming an alliance with Russia against the Anglo-Austrian alliance, dared to bara its teeth against Russia and even jointly issued a military threat to Austria, mainly because of the civil strife in Russia, the Chinese army invaded Russia, creating too many contradictions for Russia, and the Chinese who were in a bad mood dropped a large number of weapons before retreating. Speransky handed over power to the Russians, but it was not recognized by the bourgeois politicians, who abandoned the government he had established in the occupied territories and lost control of them, so that many cities formed a free alliance centered on the Urals, and there was a civil war with the noble landlord army of the Tsar's return.

The tsar, in order to restore his rule, had to make a large number of concessions on the issue of Western territories.

The British had lost interest in the disputed territory of the European continent, and as the country that had contributed most to the war against Napoleon, the British had barely expanded a single European territory, and most of the British had gained overseas trade and supply posts. It has acquired the islands of Malta and the Ionian Islands in the Mediterranean, the island of Trinidad in the Western Hemisphere, Mauritius and Ceylon in the Indian Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and the Shetland Islands in the North Sea.

As for Portugal and Spain, which participated in the conference, they basically restored their original territories, but the Spanish colonies declared independence, and the Spanish government succeeded in getting European countries not to recognize them; Sweden lost Pomerania in exchange for the recognition of their occupation of Norway; The Dutch ceded South Africa and the colonies of Ceylon to Britain in exchange for British support and they got Belgium.

This concludes the meeting. There was nothing to do with China, but the European consul general of China, Lin Di, had been trying to attend the conference, where China wanted to confirm their sovereignty over the Spanish colonies. But China, squeezed out by the European powers led by Britain, was unable to join the meeting.

The reason why Zhou Lang joined this conference was not because of his admiration for the diplomatic methods of Europeans, but because he hoped that European countries would recognize China's occupation of the Spanish colonies, which would be tantamount to the protection of the European legal and diplomatic system, and if Britain tried to compete with China, it would face the risk of challenging the entire system. That is, China does not want to use direct occupation as a method that would provoke a boycott from the entire European country.

Britain succeeded in squeezing China out of European affairs, and immediately received news that the Chinese had snatched Napoleon away, which made them think that this was China's political revenge.

The British consul immediately threatened and persuaded China to return Napoleon to his penal colony, saying that Napoleon was a big bomb, and if China sheltered Napoleon, it would be an enemy of the whole of Europe, and it was not a smart choice to hold such a bomb in its own hands.

Zhou Lang admits that Napoleon is a big bomb, but he thinks that when he holds the bomb in his hands, what he should be most afraid of is not himself, but his enemy!