The Chinese prince has been very active in London lately, attending high-level events with Connie, openly introducing his fiancée to his friends, inviting Greek diaspora groups to his balls, and even holding a special exhibition of Greek art at the Palais de l'École de l'Écoquettish.

"Glory to Greece!"

It has become the mantra of Zhou's success.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhou Chenggong's actions not to be noticed by the relevant British departments, they are very strange about what this Chinese prince wants to do, it is difficult for them to connect the political situation in Greece with this prince, and what crazy imagination they have to imagine that a Chinese wants to go to Greece to be king.

If he really wanted to, according to the European routine, he should have married the political elite of Greece, not the daughter of a commoner.

Zhou Chenggong is open about his relationship with Connie, but he is not sure when he will get married, or even when he will be engaged, because if Connie can't bring him a crown, this commoner's daughter is a plaything that can be discarded at any time.

Through Connie, he just wanted to make himself a little bit related to Greece.

Then he needs strength, whether he can land in Greece or not, in the end, it still depends on strength.

An agreement was quickly reached between Britain, France and Russia, and at the same time the Greek representatives were consulted, who decided to make Leopold of the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha the king of Greece.

It was just a small family that ruled a principality in Saxony. During the Napoleonic Wars, their family's possessions were annexed by France. He went to Paris in 1806 after Napoleon occupied the ducal lands of their family, and Napoleon offered him the status of his assistant, but Leopold refused. He accepted the dukeship in place of his elder brother and became an opponent of Napoleon.

This kind of identity background is very common among the small Central European countries that were affected during Napoleon, but Leopold is a special one, because he married an English princess, Princess Charlotte, who was average (ugly) in appearance, and this princess had the opportunity to inherit the British throne, but unfortunately died due to childbirth, otherwise her succession would have been before Queen Victoria.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this relationship that Britain would support Leopold to become king in Greece.

Zhou Chenggong closely watched these situations, and Leopold was surprised that he actually refused the invitation of Britain, France and Russia. In recent years, the changes in the throne of Europe have been complicated, even republics such as the Netherlands have kings, and a large number of small nobles with a long history have tried their best to obtain a throne, and there are even those who refuse.

Zhou Chenggong was seeking a throne, in fact, Leopold was also seeking it, but the Greek throne was not so attractive to him, because the Belgians were also inviting him.

Compared to Belgium, which is culturally similar, Greece is too less attractive. And according to any data comparison, Greece at this time is a much smaller country than Belgium. Greece at this time only had the territories of Athens, Peloponnese, Achaia, Southern Epirus and Thesalia, and was far from the later Greece. During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, and later during the revolution, the population dropped dramatically, and the population of the country was only 800,000. The largest city of Corinth, with only 7,000 people, and the ancient city of Athens with only 4,000 people, is just a small town, not as large as the population of Athens 4,000 years ago.

Belgium is a country with rapid industrial development, and its industrial development level has begun to be famous in Europe, second only to the United Kingdom in the field of coal and iron industry. The population is as high as two million.

These two countries are put together, and Leopold will not go to Greece, where the president has just been assassinated, unless he is stupid.

When Leopold refused, the powers chose another replacement, Otto, prince of the Kingdom of Bavaria, to become king of Greece.

The prince was only 17 years old, and the Kingdom of Bavaria provided him with an auxiliary army and 3,000 Bavarian troops, escorted by the fleets of Britain, France, and Russia, to Greece to take up his post. The auxiliary team will return power to Otto when he reaches adulthood.

Unfortunately, the young Otto did not wait for the day of his own government, just a month after he entered Greece, when he was attending a public event, he was sent to God with a team of auxiliary ministers with gunpowder strapped to his body. It was later revealed that the murderer was a latent Muslim who assassinated Otto I, perhaps because of his dissatisfaction with Greek independence.

The death of Otto I caused strong resentment in the Kingdom of Bavaria against the Ottoman Empire, but unfortunately Bavaria was a landlocked country, and dissatisfaction did not help. Bavaria wanted to unite Britain and France and other countries to impose sanctions on the Ottoman Empire, but the British considered this a criminal case and inappropriate to elevate it to a political level; The French themselves are still in a mess.

The July Revolution broke out in France, overthrowing the ruling Bourbon royal family, and the Legislative Assembly elected the Duke of Orleans as the new king of France.

That was all a few months ago. This incident made Zhou Lang very entangled for a while, because Princess Mary, who he could hook with a wave of his hand, is now worth a lot and has become a French princess. But at that time, Zhou Chenggong had already made his relationship with Connie public, which seemed to make him lose the opportunity to gain a foothold in Europe with the Orleans family to reach the top of France.

This matter is of course impossible if it is placed on the commoners, but it is not a problem when it is placed on the royal family and nobles. At the coronation of the Duke of Orleans, Zhou Chenggong met with the new king and had a secret conversation with the other party. Many agreements have been reached, and the support of France will be an important weight for Zhou's successful landing in Greece.

But Zhou Chenggong didn't act, he was waiting for news. A message from within the country that he at this time needed the commitment and support of his father, the emperor of China.

Because he needs strength.

Zhou Lang was still very strange during this time, his son suddenly became interested in Greece, and in the letters he wrote to him in recent months, he praised Greece.

The praise of Greece's geographical location, the praise of Greek culture, proves that Greece is a valuable region in every way.

Zhou Lang actually doesn't think so, Greece doesn't give him a good impression, and it is more related to laziness and undiscipline.

The Black Sea route is, of course, an important commercial route for European companies, but it is not very important, at least not on a par with the Suez Canal route. In recent years, it has become a little more important, because the opening of the Black Sea Railway has made it a transportation channel for Chinese goods after the Suez Canal route.

However, there are not many merchant ships of European companies on this route, and they mainly call at the ports of the Ottoman Empire, and when they pass through the Turkish Straits, they can stop in Istanbul, and then they can sail into Crete, and Greece has no commercial value for the time being.

After Zhou Lang received the news that his son was dating a Greek girl from the company's channels, he briefly doubted whether he was influenced by the woman, but Zhou Lang never read anything about the Greek girl from his son's letter.

Probably thinking that the general was enough, Zhou Chenggong showed Zhou Lang his heart at the end of the thirty-first year of the Great Zhou, and he hoped to participate in the struggle for Greek kingship, hoping to get his father's support.

Only then did Zhou Lang understand what his heavy-minded son wanted, he thought about it for a long time, and then replied with a letter, telling him to boldly fight for it, as long as he had a reasonable reason, as a father, he was willing to fight a succession war for him.

After receiving his father's letter, Zhou Chenggong knew that he could act on his big things.