The Chinese government asked Britain if it was willing to make a deal and underwrite a Russian bond, about 800 million taels, to pay reparations to China.

Of these, China is willing to underwrite 400 million taels of them for sale in the Chinese market, and Britain can bear the remaining 400 million taels for sale in the London market.

The bonds are repaid by Russian customs duties, which are under the joint control of China and Great Britain until the end of the repayment, with China controlling Kyakhta and Britain controlling St. Petersburg.

If the British government is willing to step in, it is really a good deal, with customs duties as a guarantee, and two countries controlling each other's customs, the reliability of this bond can be trusted.

This kind of bond, not to mention that British investors are willing to buy it, the Russians themselves are willing to buy it. In fact, because of the good credit of the British government, about eight percent of the bonds that Britain used to attack Napoleon were even bought by the French, and when they bought France's own bonds, they had no money.

The British government was very interested, and Zhou Lang made the news to the British through Huang Qiuwei, who was negotiating with the Tsar in Moscow, and the British soon sent representatives to Moscow to negotiate, and they wanted to issue bonds for the Tsar, and the Tsar had to agree to it.

Russia collapsed internally, and of course the rebels began to appear, but these patriots spontaneously resisted, and the tsar himself was also afraid, because this was not an army under his control, and why did the Prussian king disband the anti-French patriotic army, the reason is also here, not simply afraid of Napoleon.

The Chinese army continued to enter France, the main force had reached the outskirts of Moscow, and in the great central plain of Russia, the frenzied destruction of serfdom was also supported by more and more reformist nobles, and the young aristocratic officers who had followed the tsar to Europe were also calling for support for reform in the army, who believed that the backward Russian culture was more intolerable than the occupied. The tsar felt that it might be that these noble children did not want to fight at all, and they had lost the sense of honor of a nobleman and a soldier.

A large group of well-educated middle-class children began to enthusiastically support Speransky's bourgeois revolutionary reforms, and traders and producers especially supported the abolition of slavery. A large number of private factories formed in the situation of commercial capital, but the serfs they recruited belonged to the village communities and landlords in the villages, and before the busy agricultural season, these people would be recalled, which greatly affected the productivity, and the factories could only buy their own serfs, but the cost was too high, so that production could not be expanded, so that the price of Russian goods could not compete with British and Chinese goods at all, and they longed for free cheap labor, and these laborers could not be controlled by the landlords.

As the Chinese army approached Moscow, the Russian opposition forces came to a carnival, which made the tsar feel panicked, because the Russian opposition forces were so large that he thought that Russia was not France, and there was no seed of the Great Revolution.

Therefore, agreeing to the Chinese's conditions as soon as possible and allowing the Chinese army to retreat was the only way to retain his power and regain the old mountains and rivers, so the Tsar immediately agreed to the request of the British diplomatic representative to allow Britain to temporarily take over the Russian customs until the reparations were paid, but made a request, he asked the British to help him raise an additional amount of money to maintain his rule.

The British happily accepted this demand, and this good deal must have pleased the British financial capitalists, who had swelled wildly during the Napoleonic Wars, for the bond was no smaller than the Napoleonic Wars.

They feel that the Chinese are looking for them to do this business, probably for two meanings, one is to ensure security, with the existence of Britain and China, Russia will not dare not pay back, and the other is that the Chinese may not be able to eat this huge amount of money, and their backward bond market is just beginning, far less than the prosperous and developed London market.

In addition, British politicians also supported this approach, because control of Russian customs was their dream for many years. Russia is also a very promising market, in order to open up the Russian market, they followed the example of the East India Company, set up the Moscow Company, but unfortunately the Moscow Company was suppressed by the tsarist regime, unlike the East India Company, which could control India as it pleased, so the Moscow Company never developed.

Now that the Russian customs are in control, the British goods are not pouring into Russia?

The politicians also took control of the Russian customs from a political point of view, and together with China, they controlled the Russian customs in the east and the west, and the two countries combined to control Russia, and Russia could not make waves in Europe for decades. British politicians felt that they understood the intentions of the Chinese, and felt that the Chinese were also a good hand in politics, and that they were obviously fighting the idea of uniting Britain to balance Russia, but this was also in line with Britain's interests, and it was a coincidence.

From both the political and economic aspects, Britain had no reason to refuse, so they promised to help the tsar raise the equivalent of 600 million taels of silver, of which 400 million was used to repay the reparations to China, and the remaining 200 million was used to support the operation of the tsarist government. The financial capitalists were even willing to lobby the government to provide aid to Russia.

The logic of uniting Britain to balance Russia makes sense, but the British still think of Zhou Lang simply.

He was uniting with Britain, but not to counterbalance Russia, but to provoke a conflict between Britain and Russia.

Compared with the customs in Kyakhta, the customs in Petersburg may stimulate the psychological mood of the Russian nation even more, and the Russian nationalists will surely clash with the British again and again.

And it is Kyakhta customs, Zhou Lang is not interested in long-term control, he will give Russia a chance to pay off its debts in advance, and then return Kyakhta to Russia early, and then let Russia, which has been unable to repay its debts to Britain, go to court with Britain, in case the Russians make a mistake in defaulting on their debts, it will be fun.

The British thought that Britain and China would unite so that the Russians could pay the bills obediently, but China no longer needed Russia to pay the bills at that time, so what should Britain do?

As for how to get the Russians to pay, it was simpler, Zhou Lang's method had already been thought out for the tsar.

Before the end of the negotiations, it had been agreed with the Tsar that China would use a large sum of money to buy Russian America, and that Russia would pay 800 million taels in compensation to China, of which 400 million taels would be borrowed from the Chinese people, and the Chinese government would use real money to buy Russian territory in the Americas.

This money is 300 million taels, with 300 million taels to buy Russian America, the silver is directly sent to the treasury of the Bank of Goods, 400 million taels of debt, 75 percent of which was recovered in an instant, and millions of commissions were made when they changed hands, and this money has also become their fixed reserve, which can be used to trigger more paper money and activate the capital market.

In short, there are many benefits, and after this operation, Russia's debt to Chinese investors will only be 100 million taels, and it will not be too easy to repay.

The Kyakhta trade under Chinese control would be unreasonable if it could not be multiplied several times. In addition, China forced the tsar to sign a series of trade agreements, in which Chinese merchants could freely trade in Russia, and Chinese caravans could trade directly in Moscow.

Of course, the same power was given to Russian merchants, but in the case of higher national productivity, if the Jin merchants with stronger capital could not compete with the Russian businessmen of the second-rate business group in Europe on this trade road, then it can only be said that the Chinese really have no talent for business, and the most powerful merchant gangs occupy the most powerful conditions and cannot compete with the second-rate merchant groups in Europe, and China does not need to move towards a commercial society.

With the huge resources of Siberia, the Jin merchants and peasants generally had the habit of doing business and were generally hard-working, and they would soon be able to develop better than the Russian merchants, and if the scale of Siberian resources could be developed at least a little, the scale of Kyakhta's trade would increase geometrically, and it would only be a matter of a few years to repay the debt of 100 million taels of silver.

Zhou Lang played a combination of punches.

Use the indemnity to let the Europeans know that China is not easy to provoke, and if it is provoked, it must be punished, and it will never be tolerated after the steppe tribes came to the Central Plains to loot like in the past. Second, use the sale of territory to tell the people that a large piece of land is not robbed, but bought, and if future generations want to discard it, consider the cost, and at the same time decorate the façade to tell others that we are not robbers, we are fair trade. Third, the territorial transaction makes it easier for Russia to pay off China's debts, and then return the customs to the Russians, Russia owes Britain a huge debt of 600 million taels, but it is not so easy to repay, and as a result, it will fall into a long-term conflict with Britain, Russia does not repay, Britain does not dare to give up customs, Britain does not give up customs, Russia and Britain have deeper contradictions, this is a dead circle.

Speaking of which, this is the history of blood and tears of the Chinese in later generations, isn't Britain so tormented by the Manchu Qing.

Therefore, Zhou Lang's operation, where is to unite Britain to contain Russia, is simply to lead the water to the west, let Russia point the finger at Britain, and then China can rest assured and boldly fight for colonies.

Speaking of colonies, China has developed quite a large scale in recent years.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain did not take measures, but the navy from India began to cruise frequently in Australian waters, and Chinese ships were often intercepted, and the two countries had many diplomatic conflicts for this, but the business that should be done was still done, and the traditional trade sanctions were not used.

The British did not do anything about it, and the convoys transporting the migrants were all repatriated, but they would still be allowed to go after the inspection of the transport supplies, so the British were only limiting the size of the Chinese colonies, not blockading.

The British insisted that Australia was British territory, that they had made a declaration, that they were the discoverers, and so on; China said it had never received a declaration from Britain that Chinese immigrants had never seen any inhabitants of civilized countries except indigenous peoples. Unless those natives have British nationality, China cannot accept that its colonies are British territory.

This kind of lawsuit will never come to a conclusion, unless it is finally resolved by means of war, but the conditions for the outbreak of war between the two countries are not yet available, China cannot help the British navy, and Britain has no ability to land in China, so it can only be so deadlocked.

But in other directions, China's colonial expansion was very fast.