Britain's two major foreign policies, one is the homeland first, and the other is the core of India, whether it threatens the British mainland or India's security, Britain will fight back at any cost. But now the Franco-Russian alliance, the German-Austrian alliance, and the two major European alliances are all opposing Britain and expanding in the direction of the Indian Ocean, which makes Britain feel powerless to resist.

Historically, it was in this situation that Britain chose to form an alliance with Japan, and now they have an alliance with China and a naval agreement with Japan.

However, Britain still did not want to confront the European military alliance, they chose to compromise, Germany was too aggressive, especially the construction of the railway from Berlin to the Persian Gulf, which was unacceptable to Britain, and easier to deal with than France, which was subject to German pressure.

The biggest contradiction between Britain and France before was not actually the Fashoda crisis, it was just a village in a black area, and the bigger crisis was actually Egypt, Britain turned Egypt into its own colony by suppressing the Egyptian uprising, but France has always refused to admit it.

France has always believed that Egypt is more important to France than Britain, because Egypt's Suez Canal is a connection between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, and France is a Mediterranean country, and the Suez Canal was also built by France, and Britain has always opposed the construction of this canal.

But now Egypt is under British control, the canals are under British control, and the French access to and from the East is controlled by the British.

Therefore, the contradictions between the two countries were very strong before, which caused a war to almost break out in the village of Fashoda.

Now Britain and France compromised, Britain recognized the privileges of France in Egypt, the French stake in the Suez Canal, supported French expansion in North Africa, and supported France's annexation of Morocco. France, on the other hand, recognized Egypt as belonging to Britain and gave up its struggle with Britain for control of Egypt.

Historically, the agreement between Britain and France that was reached in 1904 was now reached two years ahead of schedule. No one knows what will become of this historical direction.

The unfavorable situation of Britain is doomed, as the world hegemon, their interests are in the corners of the world, so the challenges also come from the corners.

But China's diplomatic situation is also unfavorable, as Japan in Asia is getting stronger and stronger, and the military agreement with Britain has given Japan the financial support to build the Double 12th Fleet, which is now an army. In order to balance China, the United States has even vigorously supported Japan economically. Japan's raw silk and tea had already stolen most of China's market share in the United States, and China's raw silk and tea began to shrink long before the economic crisis.

According to an investigation by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Japanese have frantically planted one-third of their arable land with mulberry trees, amounting to more than 10 million mu. Although Japan's land yield silk is not as good as that of the two Guangxi regions, only half of the two Guangxi regions, but Japan's labor cost is less than half of the two Guangxi regions, so in the case that the high-end can not compete with Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk, in the low-end and the two Guangxi raw silk competition is fierce. With the deliberate help of the United States, Japan has already captured 80% of the market share in the United States.

The reason why Japan is so crazy is that China has only developed 8 million mu of silkworms in the Liangguang region when it has more arable land, but Japan dares to develop more than 1,000 mu of silkworms, mainly because they have no choice. Except in the field of silkworms, in any other field, they do not have the ability to meet the raw materials. Of all the resource areas, only coal is slightly rich, and other important minerals, such as iron ore and saltpeter, are very lacking.

For the sake of industrialization, even women were sent to the South Seas and to China by boat, and Japanese female prostitutes were seen at various ports in China, and they generally accounted for more than eighty percent of the local Japanese expatriates. Even women dare to sell it, and what can't be sold?

After Britain signed the Pacific Agreement with China, it revised or explained the Anglo-Japanese Agreement as agreed, emphasizing that the Anglo-Japanese naval agreement was not aimed at China, and if it might affect China, it would be null and void.

Through the Pacific Agreement, the Chinese government has minimized the danger of the Anglo-Japanese alliance against China, but the United States has always stepped up its efforts to support Japan.

This is a threat, if the United States and Japan are aligned, no one knows what Japan, a crazy country, will do, after all, Japan, like the United States, has been at war with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the government's concern about Japan is secondary, and at this time, most government officials have a big country mentality, and they look down on a small country like Japan, and the huge gap between the sizes makes them unconsciously relax their vigilance. They were mainly guarding against the United States, fearing that after the Daily Alliance, the United States could use Japan as a springboard to attack China.

After the end of the war with the United States in 1894, the United States quickly passed the Navy Act and began to expand its navy. In recent years, they have always regarded China as a potential threat, and the size of the navy has always been similar to that of China.

China has built 20 battleships targeting Japan and Russia, and the United States has built 20 battleships. This makes the number of warships of the United States and Japan half more than that of China, and once the war starts, in terms of the navy, it will not be an opponent of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

After the construction of the new countryside began, the government believed that it was no longer realistic to expand the navy again, and that China could expand it, and the United States and Japan, especially the United States, could also expand it, and it would be unwise to engage in an arms race with the rich country of the United States. While maintaining the current size of the navy, security will require external forces, and strengthening the alliance with Britain is essential.

Britain is also interested in strengthening its alliance with China, and they are increasingly unable to resist the infiltration of Western countries into India, so at the request of Britain, the two countries decided to extend the scope of the Pacific Agreement to the Indian Ocean, in fact, the situation unilaterally favors the British, after all, China has no interests in the Indian Ocean.

China has pledged to side with Britain in the event of an attack on India in the Indian Ocean, using all its military forces if necessary. The United Kingdom, for its part, reaffirmed its alignment with the Chinese Navy in the Pacific.

Shortly after the agreement was revised, it encountered a huge trip.

A serious political crisis broke out in California, and the Worship of God led by Hong Xiuquan suddenly revolted, proclaimed the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, captured San Francisco and other cities, and established the capital in San Francisco.

The United States immediately declared Hong Xiuquan's founding a rebellion, and vehemently announced that it would put down the rebellion, and sent a note to the Chinese government, asking the Chinese government to promise not to interfere.

The Chinese government did not take a position on the U.S. note because there are now deep contradictions within the government.

But soon the Chinese government issued a statement opposing the transfer of the main U.S. naval force to San Francisco, which was stipulated in the armistice negotiations between the United States and the Ming Dynasty.

The Chinese government then sent a request to the British government that the British fleet in the Pacific would cooperate with the Chinese navy and that the western ports of British colonial Canada would be opened to the Chinese navy.

Britain quickly replied that in the absence of war between China and the United States, the British Navy would cooperate with the actions of the Chinese Navy in the Pacific region, and that Canadian ports could also be opened to the Chinese Navy, and that Britain would remain neutral in the event of a war breaking out.

The Chinese government is not satisfied with the British attitude, and they want the British to express an unreserved attitude, but it is clear that the British do not want to choose between the United States and China, the two first and third trading partners of the United Kingdom, and neutrality is in the best interests of the United Kingdom.

But the Chinese government is also extremely conflicted about the war and the issue.

The Ministry of War is inclined to war, believing that the United States has recovered its military strength too quickly in recent years, and that various localities have begun to be unfriendly to the Chinese again, and that the Ministry of War hopes to launch another war to strike at the United States.

However, the Ministry of Household Affairs strongly objected, and the financial situation was about to go bankrupt, and after the outbreak of the California crisis, the stock markets in Kowloon and Shanghai plummeted, which made the Ministry of Household even more worried about the economy.

As for the Foreign Affairs Department, it was disgraced, because this incident was completely an emergency, and the Americans reacted very much, and asked the Chinese government to express its position at the first time, obviously they suspected that China was manipulating behind the scenes, but the problem was that the Foreign Affairs Department really did not know anything about it.

For this reason, Jaishankar, the new generation director of the Foreign Affairs Department, made Zhu Jinglun scold him fiercely.

Zhu Jinglun was really annoyed, Hong Xiuquan made such a big move in the Americas, and he didn't have any information beforehand, which was a serious dereliction of duty by diplomats.

As for the war, Zhu Jinglun really didn't think about it, he was prepared for war with the United States, but by no means now.

Sending Hong Xiuquan to the United States is undoubtedly a move by Zhu Jinglun, he didn't expect this chess piece to get out of control.

During the war against the United States, Zhu Jinglun understood before the war that it was impossible for the European powers to let China annex US territory, but he was absolutely unwilling to fight a war that had no control over the United States, so the purpose of burying the secret stake of Hong Xiuquan was to continue to contain the United States.

After the war, a large amount of weapons and equipment were left behind for the rest of the Taiping Army, just to give them the power to protect themselves, so that white Californians and even the US government did not dare to touch them easily. After the war, the Taiping Army did not disappoint Zhu Jinglun, and under the bond of Hong Xiuquan, the rest of the Taiping Army was twisted into a rope, not to mention being bullied by the local whites, and the whites were bullied by them. The U.S. government really didn't dare to touch them, and even let the Taiping Army govern the Rocky Mountain area for a long time, and couldn't even send the police station in, and sent a sheriff to die.

The Chinese government has stationed three consuls in California, one in San Francisco, one in Sacramento, and one in the Taipings, in order to hold the Taipings so that they do not break out, at least not until the Chinese government is ready.

The United States also turned a blind eye to this, and they also needed peace, while stationing 300,000 troops in California, using the army to firmly monitor the movements of the Taiping Army, and at the same time cooperating with the Chinese consulate to prevent the local Chinese problem from erupting.

Unexpectedly, the problem broke out, and not only the United States, but also the Chinese government was caught off guard.

Zhu Jinglun believes that this is completely a dereliction of duty by the diplomats of the consulate.

But the consulate has its own set of arguments, and they believe that all this is the fault of the United States, and the United States government should be fully responsible.