The current situation has become clearer and clearer, there is no possibility of any change in the Americas, the United States and China are tired of playing, and now the whole world knows that in a state of war, American cotton has begun to be transported to China, reoccupy the Chinese market, and it is no longer realistic to expect a war between these two countries to continue.

Although the Chinese military still occupied a large part of the western United States, it had begun to shrink, retreating its troops to the Mississippi River and halting large-scale sabotage operations in the western hinterland of the United States. At the same time, Chinese troops entered Canada in large numbers, essentially suppressing the pro-British Indian tribes in Canada, and then marched east along southern Canada, which seemed to show signs of attacking the St. Lawrence River region.

In South Asia, the military campaign in Burma has basically come to an end, and the Burmese regime has been subdued by the Chinese army that has gone south, and now it has reverted to the side of China, but in Burma there have been a number of non-ethnic states, and the Kachin and Shan states have been established near the Chinese border, which are separate from the core area of the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty. Between Myanmar and Siam, several small states were established, such as Kayah and Karen. In the Mon region, where the port of Mawlamyine is located, help the Mon people establish the Mon state. In the area of the Chin Mountains in northwestern Myanmar between Assam and Manipur, a Chin state was established consisting of the Chin people. The region west of the Rakhine Mountains established the state of Rakhine.

The Burmese Gongbang dynasty retained the core of the Irrawaddy River valley, and the king retained the throne. After Burma capitulated, the Chinese forces that supported the southward movement drove out the British troops in Lower Burma. Finally began to have a substantial offensive capability against India in the east of India. In coordination with the attack of the African Company and the Sikh Army in the west, British India was caught between two sides and completely fell into a disadvantageous situation.

After stabilizing and balancing the domestic situation in Burma, China could use Burma as a rear to launch military operations, and the Ministry of War decided to transport the local army by sea and land to the Kingdom of Rakhine by sea and land, landing at Sittwe Port, and attacking Bengal.

In the winter of the 40th year of the Great Zhou Dynasty (1839), China's all-out counteroffensive began in India, and China would ensure the transportation of the army by sea, and the grain that accounted for a large amount of transportation capacity would be purchased from the nearby rice-rich Burma, Siam, Vietnam, and the South Seas of China, and African companies could also provide a large part from the Indus Territory. The main capacity will be used to maintain weapons and ammunition for 300,000 combatants, and the sailor's own transportation capacity cannot be guaranteed, so a large number of shipping groups are chartered to provide support.

Zhou Chenggong knew that under China's all-out attack, it would be difficult for British India to support it for too long, and they would probably collapse in a year, after all, British India was just a colony that was too dependent on cash crops, after the last war, British rule here was adjusted, but the general direction would not change, it was still dominated by cash crop cultivation, but through the administrative demarcation of some grain planting areas, to ensure that British India could be self-sufficient in grain, In addition, in recent years, the British have built a transportation network here that is combined by rail and river transportation, so that the reasonable allocation of food and materials has been guaranteed during the war, and there has been no major riot caused by the famine last time.

But such a fragile economic structure is extremely fragile, the British configured a middle and upper ruling group in India, the upper princes of the princely states relied on the military protection of the British, and the lower bonded merchants relied on the political protection of the British, but the people at the bottom were not grateful to the British rule, at best, they didn't care who ruled them, because they were all one virtue, no better than the British, and no worse than the British, at worst, there were a large number of people who were dissatisfied with the British rule, He blamed his suffering on the alien rule of the British.

Under this social situation, once the Chinese army destroys the British military, the princes of the princely states will quickly turn away from the British, and once the British politics are destroyed, the tax collectors will also quickly turn away from the British. British India, which had created a complete upper-middle-class ruling institution, would not collapse the edifice, but would gradually lose control of India.

The defeat of the Anglo-Russian coalition was assured, and as long as China could be convinced, the war could easily end. And if China has the main goal of destroying Russia, then as long as Russia loses, the war will be over.

Let Russia be defeated, Zhou Chenggong had a trump card in his hand, and the Daoguang Emperor of the Manchu Empire resisted all kinds of temptations and always maintained restraint, but he waited and watched, under the pretext of exterminating such a small country as the Khiva Khanate, he actually recruited an army of one million.

Now that the defeat of Russia has been decided, they are happy to let the Manchus participate in the war, and others have sown and ploughed the land, and now that it is harvest season, it makes no sense not to invite them to harvest. But this is taking food from China's hands, and Daoguang is measured, and he knows that he must communicate with China in advance and divide their respective interests to avoid conflicts later.

This communication is not easy for him to do, but Zhou Chenggong, as the prince of China, is very good to do, which is why Daoguang has always maintained close relations with Greece, not only because of a stiff common enemy, the Ottoman Empire, in fact, he still hopes to maintain a closer connection with China through Zhou Chenggong.

The Manchus wanted to attack Russia, and there was only one direction, that is, to the north, the land route could directly cross the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and the water route could also attack Astrakhan and other powerful coastal cities from the Caspian Sea. It's just that the Manchus have always been not good at water warfare, so they chose to cross the Caucasus Mountains to attack Russia. The Manchus hoped that after the war they would be able to assign Russian territory north of the Caucasus Mountains to the Manchus, and there was no limit to how much north of them, because no one knew how far the war would go.

This request is quite reasonable, the significance of the Manchu Qing army is to copy the back road of the Russians, directly threaten the Volga River basin, here is the strategic support of the Anglo-Russian coalition forces in Kazakhstan, the water transportation of the Volga River is very important, and the Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) on the Volga River is a railway hub, and now it is almost the central hub for the Anglo-Russian coalition to move supplies from Russia, once this place is occupied, the Anglo-Russian coalition forces in Central Asia have only one way to collapse.

Zhou Chenggong acted as an intermediary to convey the request to China, but he was met with a refusal. Zhou Chenggong immediately understood the idea of the Great Zhou court, and there was only one reason, that is, China also wanted to get the Caucasus region of Russia. That's why we can't promise to hand over this place to the Manchus, and there is no other reason. Because the economic value of the Caucasus region is not high, China is no longer interested in expanding its territory. But the strategic position here is relatively important, and the occupation of it expands China's western borders to the Black Sea.

This has an important impact, which means that there is no barrier between China and Europe, and China's territory traverses the Eurasian continent and is connected to Europe.

Zhou Chenggong was 100 percent supportive of China's westward expansion, which meant that Greece, where he was located, would be even more important to China and a necessary place for China to enter and leave Europe.

Economists know that where the shipping route is located, is where the prosperity is, and the former Venice could be as rich as the whole of Europe because it controlled the Eurasian trade routes, and the gold coins of Venice circulated throughout Europe. But when the Portuguese discovered a new route, Venice quickly declined, and is now reduced to an ordinary European city.

For small countries, it is important to be located on the shipping routes. But for a big country like China, they themselves are a world, and the so-called shipping routes are just roads leading to them. And now that China has arrived in Europe, a new route is bound to be opened.

Zhou Chenggong realized that China's westward expansion was a crucial opportunity for Greece, even more so than instigating the Manchus to enter the war and end the war ahead of schedule, thus demonstrating Greece's political influence. Of course, if it is possible, he will still urge the Manchus to enter the war, although the Manchus do not participate in the war, China will also win, but it will be delayed a lot, China has absolute power, but geographically it cannot be exerted, the Manchus are located on the other side of Russia, Russia will concentrate its main forces in the contest with China, the Manchus' participation in the war, means a knife from the rear of Russia, which is equivalent to China opening up another flank front.

However, the only area that the Manchus bordered on Russia was in the north, in the Caucasus, and if the Manchus were not allowed to expand here, they would not be able to benefit from the war.

The Manchus had to be given certain benefits, otherwise they could not be mobilized. Zhou Chenggong did not need to emphasize the importance of the Manchu invasion of the war to China, and he sent his henchmen to China secretly to lobby. He needed to determine three things: first, was China willing to lure the Manchus into the war by ceding benefits? Second, if you are willing to cede your interests, will you cede economic interests or territorial interests? Third, whether China could consider ceding part of its territory to the Manchus?

Among the Manchu neighbors, the longest border was undoubtedly China, bordering China in the east and north, partly by sea in the south, partly with African companies, and only in the northwest, bordering Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and the Egyptian Empire. If China was unwilling to cede its land to the Manchus, it would have made it impossible for the Manchus to expand their land in the war against Russia. It was difficult for the Manchus to accept the mere surrender of economic interests, and the country's political philosophy valued land over economic interests.

As a result, it is regrettable that China did not refuse to use part of its territory to win over the Manchus, and expressed its willingness to put the land west of the Aral Sea, east of the Emba River and the Caspian Sea under the jurisdiction of the Manchus, which is about the same size as the Russian Caucasus north of the Caucasus and south of the Volga and Don rivers. China was also willing to transfer the Balochistan region under the African Company to the Manchus, so that the Baloch forces in Persia and Afghanistan under the Manchus could be united.

In this reply, Zhou Chenggong could smell a strong smell of small farmers from thousands of miles away, too small-minded! The Caspian Sea coast is a lowland with flat terrain, but deep inland, rainfall is scarce, the climate is dry, and most of it is desert and semi-desert, which can only be used to raise sheep.

What the Manchus wanted was not pasture for raising sheep, they had too much of it, they wanted fertile arable land.

Due to the isolation of the Caucasus Mountains, the climate of the North and South Caucasus is completely different, the cold air from the north to the south can not reach the South Caucasus, the south of the Caucasus Mountains belongs to the subtropical climate, the rainfall is more than 2000 mm, the climate is warm, the Manchu Qing Dynasty even planted the tea necessary for nomads in the South Caucasus.

In the North Caucasus, because the warm and humid air from the south is blocked by the mountains, it has a temperate continental climate, and the winter climate is generally below freezing. However, the North Caucasus, although not as suitable for agriculture as the South Caucasus now occupied by the Manchus, is still very superior to the Caspian coast. At least there is no problem with growing crops in the temperate zone, which is dry in the east along the Caspian Sea and in the west along the Black Sea, which has an oceanic climate and can be cultivated.

But China wants the North Caucasus, but only wants to exchange the desert of the Caspian Sea coast in Kazakhstan, a strong contrast, which will make the Manchus feel humiliated, and they are even more reluctant to send troops.

As for the Balochistan region, it is basically mountainous, and only the Baloch nomadic tribes live, which has always been the most unstable place under the jurisdiction of African companies, and giving this place to the Manchus is more of a burden.

Zhou Chenggong felt that it was impossible to win over the Manchu Qing under such conditions, and he didn't know how the civil officials of the Great Zhou court who were vegetarian gave advice to the country. Zhou Chenggong felt that other benefits must be given to the Manchus. Therefore, he did not inform the Manchus of China's attitude for the time being, but continued to mediate, hoping that China would give the Manchus a promise to fully support the Manchus in seizing the lands of Asia Minor in the future war between the Manchus and the Ottoman Empire.

If there is such a guarantee, Zhou Chenggong thinks that his lobbying is half the success, because the contradictions between the Manchus and the Ottoman Empire have gradually begun to come to the brink of war, and sooner or later the two countries will have a war, and the Manchus do not have an absolute advantage.