This alliance seems to be only beneficial to Germany, because the situation of Germany helping China can only happen when Russia takes the initiative to attack China, and judging from the current situation, there is no chance for Russia to take the initiative to attack China in the next 50 years.

This is tantamount to helping Germany put a chain around the neck of the Russians, so that Russia does not dare to take the initiative to attack Germany. Allowing Germany to face only one opponent in France, would be of little use to China, but would make Russia even more alienated from China.

What is the purpose of Zhou Lang? He knew that allowing Russia to expand into Europe no longer meant anything to China. No matter how much Russia expands, it will only threaten Germany and let Germany and Britain come in. But if Russia is pulled, France will not be able to confront Germany alone for a long time, so that Germany will not be a threat in Europe. A country with strong national strength, in the era of his rapid rise, when there is no threat from the periphery, is it possible for him not to expand?

Perhaps there is still the possibility of a peaceful rise in the 21st century, but in this era, it is impossible for Germany not to expand!

Once Germany expands, where will it expand?

Russia in the east can't be provoked, France in the west can't be provoked, and Austria-Hungary in the south is the younger brother who has begun to depend on Germany, and expansion can only be overseas.

Once it has colonies overseas, then once there have been a few humiliations by the sea powers, and nationalist sentiments begin to develop to the point that Germany, which considers itself the best nation, may not develop a navy? Once the navy is developed, will it not be possible to clash with Britain, which is only separated by a strait?

Zhou Lang found that in a series of intricate contradictions, as long as they helped the Germans to hold Russia in and let Germany see that it was safe on the European continent, they would inevitably expand externally, and their external expansion would inevitably contradict Britain, which was not something that a diplomatic master like Bismarck and Metternich could control.

The sooner Germany had colonies overseas, the faster it would build its navy, but where would Germany's first colony be?

Zhou Lang's eyes immediately looked at the Americas, because where is the only possibility!

At present, the world is divided, and the colonies have been carved up. This is at least half a century ahead of history, and until 1885, the entire continent was not touched by the great powers, who were confined to a few coastal ports and knew nothing about the vast hinterland of Africa.

But now, as early as 20 years ago, Africa has basically demarcated its sphere of influence. The South African Empire controlled the south, Egypt occupied the east, Chinese and African companies operated between the Congo and Niger rivers in central Europe, France expanded in North Africa, Britain controlled West Africa, and Spain and Portugal also had several coastal bases.

The Pacific Ocean is China's inland sea, and no one can touch it. The Americas, North America has also been carved up, whether it is the United States that occupies the east coast of North America, or the Napoleonic family that occupies Quebec, which is equivalent to the French confinement, and the United Kingdom, which occupies Canada, it is not a place that can become a colony.

Although South America has also been partitioned, Brazil belongs to the independent empire, and the area around La Plata is the sphere of influence of the Chinese American Company. But the east coast of South America is a Spanish colony, Spain is already in decline, relying entirely on the support of Britain and the United States to maintain the colonies, British support is more sincere, the Americans hate to take over these colonies, a few years ago they seized Florida. Cuba and the Caribbean are also eyeing each other.

The west coast of South America, including Mexico, is dominated by the Carlos family, which is supported by China and has never been recognized by Europe, and has an embarrassing position.

And China, mainly Zhou Lang, also lacks interest in directly ruling here, and the land that cannot be colonized is not a good land, which has always been his principle. Whether these lands are in the hands of the weak Carlos family or directly in the hands of China, Zhou Lang does not care very much.

Then there is an article to do here.

The center of the Carlos family's rule is in Mexico, which is the richest and most populous place. The main population here is Indians, Indians who converted to Catholicism. Despite the low literacy rate, the organizational structure is much higher than that of Indians in other regions. Compared to the North American Indians of the primitive tribal period, the Indians of Mexico were more powerful than the loose South American Indians. They have their own villages, neither like the Indian tribes of North America, which were either organized by the Chinese or kept in captivity by the Americans, nor like the Indian tribes of South America, who lived in the mountains far from the white people to fend for themselves.

The Indians of Mexico, centered on villages, although there are no strong ethnic groups, but none of the villages are ruled by their own elders, and they live around the Spanish cities, believe in the Catholicism brought by the Spaniards, and have unlimited access to the cities, they are an important part of the Mexican economy, not the marginalized people who are separated from the mainstream society, they are the lower class, but not the marginal.

Due to the influence of Dolores and other uprisings, the white group of the Mexican peninsula disappeared, and the native white people had a long-term struggle with the Mexican Indian forces, and suffered great losses. As a result, 70 percent of Mexico's population is now Indian, more than 20 percent are mixed-race, and less than 1 in 10 are native-born.

But under the Carlos family, the native-born whites were the upper class, they monopolized most of the official positions, the mestizos became the middle class, they were the lower class of bureaucrats and merchants, and the Indians became the lowest class of farmers.

The Indians, who were mostly peasants, had little political power, but in predominantly agrarian Mexico, they were responsible for most of the taxes, and the Carlos family had always had heavy taxes in order to compete with the Spanish crown for colonies. The Indians also undertook most of the military service, as peasants were more easily recruited than free-flowing industrial and commercial groups.

The burden is heavy, the power is small, ordinary Indians may appoint, but the elite is bound to rebel. The Indian uprisings have not stopped in recent years, and many armies have supported them, and they have not been careful to suppress the uprisings, and in many places they have even colluded with each other, so that the rebel forces have always existed in certain areas.

The Carlos family was obsessed with fighting for the Spanish throne, and did not pay much attention to these matters, and after seeing that the Indian rebel forces were basically suppressed, they were not determined to eradicate the evil, and as a result, there were always small groups of Indian rebel army activities in some mountainous areas of southern Mexico.

One such rebel leader was Benito Pablo Juárez García, born in 1806 to a Zapotc Indian peasant family in Oaxaca. If you are just an ordinary Indian, you may have to choose between farming and soldiering. But he was fortunate enough to attend a local church school, and he was gifted enough to go to college and become a lawyer after graduation.

This is an Indian intellectual elite, he can be a lawyer, he can be a businessman, but he is difficult to be an official, and he is ostracized everywhere, white people will not let him help with lawsuits, Indians cannot afford lawyers, and he is often despised by racially biased judges in court.

Whether it is fighting for national dignity or political power, Juarez has enough motivation to resist.

As an intellectual elite, his rebellion was soft at first, and he formed an organization of Indian intellectuals called the Mexican National Party, and he hoped that the government would guarantee the power of the Indians, and in the financial appropriations, more schools would be built for the Indians, and not the wealth squeezed from the Indians would be invested in public facilities for the whites.

But his petition campaign was suppressed, his party was disbanded, and he was imprisoned for several years. After his release, he became completely disillusioned with the Carlos family. Embarking on the path of an armed uprising, he launched an uprising in his hometown, southern Mexico, in the Oaxaca region on the Pacific side, overthrowing the local government and establishing the Indians' own government and courts, but his uprising was quickly suppressed, and he fled with a small force to fight guerrillas in the Sierra Madre do Sul in the south of Oaxaca.

He spent most of his time in the mountains carving out bases, sometimes going out to make a show of his presence, and at the same time sneaking up on some native-born white manor estates to seize some supplies and funds. He also established links along the southern coastline of the mountain range, through which he smuggled some arms.

It is impossible to bypass Chinese forces in the smuggling of arms in the Pacific direction, and in fact most of the smugglers are illegal Chinese businessmen.

But illegality is only aimed at whether it is beneficial to the country, and when it is unfavorable to the country, it is illegal, and when it is beneficial to the country, it is legal.

Wang Sheng is such a person.

He is a Chinese outlaw who has wandered overseas, and there are more people like him, but he was unlucky, he was caught by the Mexican government when he was smuggling arms, and then extradited to China to serve his sentence in Jinshan Province.

But today, out of the blue, someone brought him out of a mine deep in the Sierra Nevada and told him that a good deal had been made for him.

"I heard you know a big thief in Mexico named Juarez?"

In the broken wooden house of the mine supervision field, Wang Sheng, who was covered in dirt with his trouser legs, looked coldly at a young man sitting on a chair with leather boots on the broken wooden table.

This young man is wearing a blue cloth robe, which seems simple, but the fabric is very valuable, this point of vision Wang Sheng still has, he even judged that this person is from China, because the Nanjing cloth in the Americas is different, and the other party is definitely the high-grade Nanjing cloth produced in the Jiangnan region.

"The success, the prince, the loser, the thief, the thief today, maybe tomorrow will be the emperor!"

Wang Sheng snorted coldly, without pretense, the other party is looking for himself, either he wants to use himself, or he wants to kill himself, if he has use value, then no matter what, the other party will use it, if he wants to kill himself, he can't grovel.

The young man was not angry either: "Well said! If you want to be an emperor, you have to do it first. I have a batch of goods in my hand, and I believe I can help him succeed. Please also ask Brother Wang to help pull a line! ”

Wang Sheng became a little interested: "What goods do you have?" ”

The young man pointed at the depths: "100,000 needle guns, 1 million bullets!" ”

Wang Sheng frowned, this is indeed a batch of goods that are enough to succeed!