In the later dynasties, the Ling Canal was also mostly used for military purposes, during the Han Dynasty, the Jiaozhi (Vietnamese) women rebelled against the imperial court, which was the famous Second Expedition Uprising in the history of Vietnam, and the Han Quang Wu Emperor sent the general Fubo Ma to aid the southern expedition, during which the Ling Canal was dredged again.

Qin Shihuang built the Lingqu, destroyed the Lingnan tribal forces, Ma Yuan dredged the Lingqu, suppressed the local rebel forces, and now the Chinese want to build the Panama Canal, what do you make the Americans think?

Even if you don't know the history of China, the British have learned from the past, and the British failed to stop the construction of the Suez Canal. Britain completely lost the sea control in the Eastern Mediterranean!

This makes Americans dare not imagine that once the Chinese build the Panama Canal, won't the Gulf of Mexico become a bathtub for the Chinese Navy?

Therefore, even if the construction of the Panama Canal is of great economic value to the United States, if the United States can control Panama, it will also build this canal, but others will not be able to repair it, especially the Chinese. So they stood firmly with Britain and were hostile to the canal.

But a war has already been fought, and through the tough means of war, the Chinese cannot be won at all, so they can only follow behind the British big brother, who said that he supports Spain, although the Spanish colonies are full of coveting, and the Americans can only express their support for Spain.

On various diplomatic occasions, both countries have openly stated that Panama is a Spanish territory and that they want China to withdraw from Panama.

But that's it, it's useless, the Chinese don't care, the state of war between China and Spain has not been lifted, what's the problem with occupying the enemy's territory? As for supporting Spain to retake Panama, Britain and the United States also spared no effort, asking for money for money, guns for guns, but the Spaniards and Mexicans are inseparable, let them attack Panama defended by the Chinese, the Spaniards are powerless!

We can only watch China start to build the canal step by step, and the Chinese engineers spent three years surveying, and after the end of the war, the construction began quickly. Huang Qiuyu authorized the canal to the American Company to build and operate, and after the American Company established itself as a province in North America, it was not dissolved, but its sphere of influence was reduced, and the hundreds of immigrant settlements established in Uruguay and the Uruguay River and the Paraguay River in South America were still under the jurisdiction of the American Company, and the trade with Brazil and other parts of South America was also managed by the American Company. Now that the canal has been handed over to the American Company, it is clear that the prospects of the American Company are as good as those of the European Company.

Not only did the company's stock rise rapidly, but the Canal bonds issued were also sold out. Funnily enough, the U.S. government vigorously opposes Chinese control of Panama and argues that it is illegal for Chinese companies to build canals in Panama. But many of the canal bonds are held by Americans. Some American banks have reached out to American companies to finance their money in the Americas, offering them extremely low interest rates, apparently not optimistic that their home country will be able to stop the canal, and at the same time full of confidence in the canal's prospects.

With sufficient funds, the canal project was successfully started, starting with the construction of a railway along the Isthmus of Panama.

The railway is to provide services for the canal, through the transportation of materials by rail, will greatly ensure the smooth progress of the canal project, the construction of the railway equipment is also purchased from the United States nearby, including locomotives and rails, are authentic American goods.

Chinese technicians designed six locks to lift water, and the project was divided into seven sections at the same time. The construction period is expected to be ten years, and the technical principles and design ideas are not substantially improved compared with Lingqu, but the technical level is higher. Because it was not the barges that passed on the Ling Canal that had to be passed, but the large merchant ships that traded across the ocean. Today's long-distance merchant ships have developed to the level of five or six thousand tons, and the Chinese have always been conservative and prepared, and decided to design the canal's navigation capacity at the 10,000-ton level. In fact, it turned out to be insufficient.

The announced deadline for the project is 10 years, and no one can predict how far the game between China, the United States, and Britain will develop in these ten years. However, the Anglo-American alliance in the Americas has been further strengthened.

Britain was fortunate to be able to find a strong reinforcement in the Americas, which is a relatively weak region where China has a weak power, and can maintain the balance of power for the time being. But in Europe, where the British are more nervous and worried, they cannot stop the westward expansion of Chinese power, and although there are more powerful countries in Europe, they just can't find a country that can confront China.

Compared with the United States, European countries, even if they have a slightly smaller territory, are also big countries in the eyes of the world, such as Russia, Austria, France and Prussia. But they lack the motivation to unite, compared with China, which has just entered Europe, these countries have been entangled for hundreds of years, accumulating countless national, territorial, religious and other contradictions, and the hatred is so strong that they cannot be dissolved.

Prussia and Austria were vying for the hegemony of the German Confederation, with Prussia robbing Russia of Poland and Austria robbing Russia of Livonia. At the same time, the two countries were at odds with France, the Habsburg royal family of Austria had long regarded France as the greatest threat to their European hegemony, Prussia had suffered from France in the war, and the German nation had become a feud with the French nation.

The two powers of Central Europe, Austria and Prussia, are sandwiched between France and Russia, and when faced with the two great enemies, they sometimes join forces to confront each other, and once the crisis is resolved, the internal struggle between the two countries will become fierce again.

The Russians were devastated in this war, and Speransky maneuvered between the tsar, the magnates, and the bourgeoisie in an effort to save the country from the post-serfdom era, implementing serfdom reforms and suppressing various rebellions at the same time, and striving to promote and ensure the fruits of serfdom reforms. It is impossible for Russia to join the great power war for the time being.

If Austria can unite, the population size is not much worse than that of Russia, and the German region has always had a tradition of being mercenaries, where the militaristic culture is strong, the military mobilization ability is extremely strong, Prussia can achieve the whole army, Austria can also mobilize no less than Prussian troops, if the two countries can cooperate with Britain, the military potential will not be lost to Russia. If France can also join in, France, which has recovered from the Napoleonic Wars, will have a stronger military potential than Austria, and if Britain can unite France, Prussia and Austria to form a four-nation alliance in Europe, then the hope of confronting China will be greatly increased.

Prussia and Austria are relatively easy to win over, but France has never forgotten Britain's suppression of France, and if it weren't for Britain, France would have been the hegemon of Europe long ago. Moreover, France is the farthest from China's power, and has lost its hegemony in the Mediterranean, and has been suppressed by Britain in the Mediterranean region so far. French expansion in North Africa has always been constrained by the British. Let France cooperate with you, unless Britain can offer a good benefit.

The powerful countries cannot be co-opted, so what about the big countries?

The Ottoman Empire could not be called a great power in terms of strength, but it was a great power in terms of population size and territorial area. The status is similar to that of Spain, the ancestors were all wide, but now they are not wide, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the foundation is still there.

The defeat of the Ottoman Empire again and again made Britain not very interested in the Ottoman Empire, but the geographical location of the Ottoman Empire could not be ignored, they controlled the Turkish Straits, if it was any other place, it was impossible for the British to accept the Ottoman Empire's collection of taxes in the strait area, but because they had always hoped that the Ottoman Empire could block Russia's access to the Mediterranean, the British supported the claim that the Turkish Strait was not a high sea, and supported the Ottoman Empire to collect taxes here, as if the strait was dug by the Ottomans. The purpose was to gain the right to refuse the passage of the Russian Navy, because it was not the high seas, and it was up to the Ottoman Empire to pass through it.

The geographical location of the Ottoman Empire made Britain dare not give up here. In the past, we had to guard against Russia, but now we have to guard against an even more ferocious China.

The Ottomans went crazy? Otherwise, how could he be fooled by the British into going to the front line against China, the hairy bear who had beaten the Ottoman Empire so many times, this time he was not beaten and lay on the ground and still couldn't turn over, becoming a seriously wounded man whose limbs were basically cut off, leaving his torso.

Let the Ottomans fight against China, and don't look at how many pairs of greedy eyes there are around the Ottomans, the Manchus do not want to destroy the Ottoman Empire all the time, Austria does not want to expand into the Balkans all the time, and even small Greece is full of ambitions for the Greek-populated areas of the Ottoman Empire. The Egyptian Ali, who took away the title of caliph from his head, is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, and once the Ottomans declare war with China, I am afraid that without China's action, these hungry wolves will pounce on them and share the food.

The Ottomans did not accept the British's demands for an alliance, but were willing to accept British aid and British protection.

The two countries reached a secret agreement that Britain would support the Ottoman Empire in the event of a war between the Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea powers. As for the quid pro quo, there are no conditions. Britain unconditionally supported the Ottoman Empire, the reason was very embarrassing, the Ottoman Empire could give all the benefits that could be exchanged for it, preferential tariff rates, extraterritoriality, just one concession away, but the Ottomans were not the Manchu government, the appearance of the concession was because the Qing Dynasty did not want to care about foreigners, the Ottoman Empire has always been a place where Europeans and Asians live together, they don't care that the British live in their land at will, and there is no need to give them a separate piece of land for them to fend for themselves.

Even with this kind of unconditional support, the Ottoman Empire does not take it to heart, the reason is very simple, your British Empire has even lost the sea power in the Mediterranean, and can you still protect my Great Ottoman Empire? Bragging rights!