In Zhou Gu's recital, he briefly put forward some suggestions.

The first was the division of territory, which would unite the southern Tamil region with Ceylon and control both sides of the Pauk Strait.

Then the other British Indian territories were included in the African Company Territories and merged with the West Indies and Bengal. This vast subcontinent will be connected. However, there were still a large number of princely states in India, and Zhou's suggestion was to continue to maintain these princely states. Inherit the policy of the British first, and after the completion of the reforms in other regions, discuss the question of the princely states.

The most important content of reform is unification. First of all, the script should be unified, but the cost of implementing the Chinese language among nearly 200 million people is too high. However, if it is limited to the administration, it is feasible and necessary.

Therefore, Chinese will be positioned as the official language and official script, taking into account the fact that there are too many ethnic groups and languages in India, and in addition to Chinese and Chinese characters as the official languages of all regions, in different ethnic regions, other ethnic groups can be taken into account, and bilingual will be used for official documentation.

Strengthen the level of Chinese characters of the elite class through the imperial examination, if you want to be an official, regardless of your background and background, as long as you have knowledge, you can pass the imperial examination, and the text of the imperial examination is Chinese characters, and you can take into account other languages and scripts in the early stage, but you will retain some independent, pure Chinese character examination questions, and promote complete Chinese characters by gradually expanding the proportion of Chinese character examination questions.

These twists and turns are just an outline, and there is no need for detailed terms, because there will be no particular difficulty, because African companies have accumulated enough experience during their expansion in India to expand from the Indus River to the Ganges River basin, basically most of the Indian ethnicities and religions, African companies have encountered. They are the best people to do this unification, and only they can do it, and the Indian subcontinent is basically integrated into the African company, and they have a responsibility to do it.

As for the cost of reform, African companies will calculate this account, and their rule in the Indus and Ganges rivers basins has also been painstakingly reformed, with a large one-time investment, but the long-term operating costs after the reform will be reduced. Even if the costs are high, African companies have the capacity to support such reforms.

After the crown prince read the concerto, he didn't care too much, he didn't like Zhou Gu's son, and he also didn't like India, in his eyes, America was much more important.

The problems of the Americas have always caused him headaches, the more fierce the law and order war, the more guns are confiscated, and the more resistance is suppressed.

The naval battle was not worry-free, the naval transfer in the Mediterranean direction had been completed, and more than 200 Chinese capital ships had fought against more than 100 British and French fleets, and fierce battles broke out many times, but the results were very dissatisfied. In three successive large-scale naval battles in which both sides combined with more than 100 capital ships, they did not sink a single British ironclad ship, and certainly did not lose a single of their own ironclad ships.

The protection of the ironclad ship was too hard, so hard that it exceeded the capabilities of the artillery of this era, both sides had composite armor, steel rifled heavy guns, and the British, in pursuit of large calibers, even the main guns were breech-loading guns, with a caliber of up to 402 mm. The reason is very simple, after the development of gunpowder technology, the gunpowder on both sides is basically black powder, and the explosives invented by Nobel can only be used for civilian use. Gunpowder cotton is powerful, but it is very unsafe.

However, it is precisely because of the use of black powder and the current metallurgical technology that can ensure that at a caliber of 400 mm, steel can still support the chamber pressure, otherwise such a large-caliber gun may explode.

Historically, until the First World War, there were very few cases of ironclad ships being directly sunk by cannons in naval battles, and the largest naval battle of cannon giants, the Battle of Jutland that broke out during the First World War between Britain and Germany, there was no record of battleships being sunk on either side. Only such a strange thing as the Russian Navy was basically wiped out by the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Tsushima. But at that time, the gunpowder used by the Japanese Navy was picric acid.

In addition, there is also the problem of shell material that restricts the armor-piercing ability, in the case of using carburized steel or steel, to touch the same material, with cork as a buffer, multi-layer composite armor, which is tantamount to a hammer smashing iron felt, not once or twice can be smashed. Therefore, in naval battles, there are many injuries, and there are few cases of penetration. Even if the Chinese Navy is equipped with expensive tungsten alloy warheads, it will not be able to penetrate British armor in one go, and the price of alloy warheads is too expensive to be widely used. So the biggest result was only the sinking of a dozen large British cruisers.

However, the popularity of explosive bombs has a huge lethal effect on personnel. China suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and the Anglo-French lost even more casualties, because China was able to fight the Anglo-French forces with more ships and more guns each time.

Seeing the stalemate in the naval war, with the division of victory and defeat in the North American and Indian battlefields, the demand for escort has decreased, and at the same time, most of the British capital ships have been concentrated in Europe, and there is no need to worry about the British capital ships appearing in Chinese waters to break diplomatic relations, so the escort only needs cruisers is enough, and a large number of capital ships continue to be sent to Europe.

At the same time, a number of new ships were launched during the war, and China's naval strength continued to strengthen, and it was able to send more warships in the direction of the Mediterranean. The navies of the allies have also completed their formations and sent them all to the Mediterranean.

Half a year has passed, and the size of the fleet in the Mediterranean direction has reached 380 first-class ironclad ships, which are specially used to compete for sea supremacy. As for the cruisers and other auxiliary warships, on the contrary, there were few, and they were scattered to other seas, strangling British shipping all over the world.

Britain is a country that has lost the supply of overseas resources, and they cannot even guarantee basic food. The Navy anticipated that it was more likely that blockade tactics would eventually force Britain to surrender than to destroy the British fleet directly from the front.

At this time, the crown prince could not accept it, so he was troubled and tried various ways to find a breakthrough.

In this case, he doesn't care about India even more, but fortunately, he threw this son he didn't like to India, and he did whatever he wanted.

China strangled British transport ships on the ocean, of course the British were doing the same thing, this kind of thing, in fact, the British did it during the Napoleonic Wars, when the decisive battle between the British and French capital ships never happened, the Battle of Trafalgar, in fact, was not a decisive battle, it was just an encounter, the British won, did not have the right to control the sea, the French Navy still strangled British transport ships on the world's oceans, and Britain also attacked French transport ships all over the world.

The Navy plans to change the operational plan, believing that a breakthrough from the Mediterranean direction is already difficult to accomplish in the short term. Because the British navy controlled Malta and Sicily, and at the same time backed by Italian and French ports, it was extremely capable of replenishment, and wounded warships could be repaired quickly. Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, which had been allied with Britain for 200 years, had a favorable position on land and sea, and it was very difficult to force a breakthrough from the front.

The Navy considers West Africa to be a weak underbelly, and the Navy Auxiliary Fleet and the Royal South African Navy have achieved some success in West Africa. The Congolese and Nigerien armies, organized by the African Company, have made equally rapid progress on the ground, and have worked together on land and sea to completely expel British forces from the Gulf of Guinea.

At present, there is basically only one British stronghold in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau. If thirty capital ships could be drawn from the Mediterranean Sea and sailed to West Africa, it would be enough to pull out the last stronghold of the British army. The land forces of the African company have also launched a fierce attack on the French colonies in the upper reaches of the Niger River, and once Senegal is taken by sea and land, the oil-burning Chinese naval fleet will have the ability to sail directly from Cape Verde to the British mainland.

After the occupation of West Africa, it can also cut off the supply of materials from South America to Britain, and after the loss of India, Brazil's cotton is very important, and the loss of Brazil's cotton supply is not a problem of bankruptcy of the textile industry, and even military cotton yarn will become a scarce resource.

The Navy also has another big plan, which is to cut off North America's direct ties with Britain.

While the British Navy is competing with China for hegemony in the Mediterranean, it also maintains the North American route, and there is always a strong detachment to provide escort, so that the Chinese fleet of the North American route has been unable to cut off.

One of the biggest advantages of the British in maintaining the North American route is that the British mainland is so close to Newfoundland that it can almost be said that the North American continent is the closest distance to Europe. In this way, it ensured that the United States supplies went north along the coast, and finally accepted the escort of the British Navy in Halifax, Newfoundland and other places, and then safely crossed the Atlantic, and transported the valuable grain, weapons and equipment produced by the United States, and even crude steel and other raw materials to Britain in a steady stream.

Therefore, the plan of the sailors was to directly capture these British ports, otherwise it would be impossible to cut off British shipping at all. Although the Chinese Navy fleet is more numerous, it is simply not visible in such a vast sea area as the Atlantic. In later generations, the number of ocean-going giant ships sailing on the world's oceans was as high as 100,000 at any time, but the sea was still boundless. China has only a few hundred cruisers, and it can block a port and a river, but it is impossible to block an ocean.

Since it was difficult for British merchant ships and fleets to catch them as soon as they entered the vast sea, the problem was solved by attacking them directly at the ports they were docking, capturing their ports and leaving them with nowhere to dock.

But this plan, the crown prince is still not very satisfied, he is staring at the British navy, and what he wants to destroy is the British hegemony in Shanghai based on a strong navy. Without the navy, the crown prince did not care about the isolated islands of Britain at all.

So the sailors could only continue to revise the plan, but it was too difficult to break through from the Mediterranean Sea and directly destroy the British fleet.

British-occupied Malta was a stinger, with Sicily, which had been taken away by Britain and Italy, on one side, Tunisia in the Horn of Africa, and Tunisia in between. The British Navy was concentrated here, and as long as the Chinese Navy could not directly destroy the British Navy in a naval battle, it had to retreat.