"Your Majesty, is the crown prince's trip safe? Why don't you let Wechen accompany you? ”

Before the crown prince set off, Prime Minister Huang Qiuwu once suggested to Zhou Lang.

Zhou Lang shook his head: "The prince has outstanding martial arts, and he still lacks Wenzhi experience." Just let him go. ”

Huang Qiu sighed worriedly: "Is the matter of the Americas a little more impatient? Can we follow the example of Australia and have Zhu Lizi take over the governorship? ”

Zhou Lang shook his head: "I can't slow down." It's not the right time for Chen Zhouquan to die. ”

Zhou Lang lamented that it was not the right time for Chen Zhouquan to die, but in fact, it was also time to die, because Chen Zhouquan died at the age of 63, which can be regarded as a long life in this era.

But the problem is that Zhu Li, who is older than him, is not dead, he died first.

Zhou Lang never took Chen Zhouquan seriously, on the contrary, he valued Zhu Li's ability more. Chen Zhouquan's actions in the Americas also confirmed Zhou Lang's view, and he opened up a large number of colonies, divided them into three, and handed them over to his three heirs. There were nearly four million people, but as soon as he died, his sons began to seize power and fought against each other.

In the name of mediation, Zhu Li immediately sent troops into the Laodi River Valley and the Sacramento River Valley controlled by Chen Zhouquan.

According to the Chinese, Zhu Lian's disobedience has long been known, and in fact Zhou Lang never expected this kind of pirate to remain loyal, giving him so much power to expand unbridled in the terra nullius of the Americas, if he had no ambitions, it would prove that he had little to offer.

Zhou Lang used the ambition of these heroes.

Zhu Li imitated Zhou Lang everywhere, and built a complete military industrial system in California and the Columbia River, where he could build his own warships, produce guns and artillery, develop gold mines, establish banks, issue paper money and bonds, and most importantly, build an army of 100,000 people.

This army is well-trained, highly paid, and very combat-ready. Relying on this army, it only took Zhu Lian more than ten days to control Chen Zhouquan's three brothers, and then wrote to Zhou Lang, requesting that Chen Zhouquan's territory be merged into the jurisdiction of the American Company.

This is already a blatant request for land, and it is tantamount to a showdown with the emperor.

If Zhou Lang had Liu Bang's city government, he could play intrigue and make Zhu Li a king of the Americas, but he didn't want to turn his face again in the end, plus the situation in the Americas was complicated, there were too many forces involved, and the political strategy was too complicated, and there would be more changes.

Huang Qiuwei also sighed that the emperor let Zhu Lian go through the Americas, but sent Chen Zhouquan, which is a simple imperial power trick and a way of checks and balances. Although Zhu Li's management ability is stronger, and the people under his control are as high as eight million, far superior to Chen Zhouquan's forces, but where Chen Zhouquan is, he can contain Zhu Li, but now Chen Zhouquan is dead.

Huang Qiuwei felt that he had just stopped fighting with Yingyi, and he was going to go on an expedition again, whether it was too frequent to use troops, Chinese literati were generally not warlike, and the idea of fighting fiercely and dangerously was deep-rooted, and they thought that war was an ominous thing.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is taking 100,000 people to go, is it too thin. Zhu Lian has 100,000 soldiers, and tens of thousands of sailors, if the prince has a mistake? ”

Zhou Lang said: "The soldiers led by the prince have just gone to West Asia, and Zhu Li's soldiers seem to be majestic, but they have been absent for a long time. And without righteousness, the war will be lost. My concern is for the aftermath. ”

Huang Qiu worried: "Weichen also has this concern, so please go with him." ”

Zhou Lang said: "Don't worry, if the prince doesn't even have this ability to govern, he has been cultivated in vain for so many years." If the prince goes and can't suppress Zhu Li, you will go in vain. If Zhu Lian can twist the Americas into a rope under the momentum of the prince's personal presence, I will promise him a king of the Americas! ”

Huang Qiu worried: "If Zhu Mian retreats? ”

Zhou Lang said: "I don't have to kill him, he is willing to come back and crown him the prince." If he is captured in front of the battle, I will not kill him, but give him a duke, and if he dies in battle, choose a son to inherit the marquis. ”

Huang Qiu worried: "Your Majesty is benevolent! ”

People like Huang Qiuwu are afraid of the tyranny of the founding king, from Wang Fuqian to him, they all hinted at Zhou Lang in every way. To be honest, in recent years of opening up, the ministers' thinking has changed a lot, and they no longer regard overseas as a wild place as before, especially the gold mines in South Africa and the mining of the Americas as soon as possible, so that everyone feels that overseas is full of gold and silver.

The companies that developed these places were also recognized, and Zhu Li, who founded the company, was also regarded as a hero, especially Zhu Li, who was extremely powerful in the development of the Americas. In addition to the gold mines, California's fertile land has also developed an industry of growing mulberry silkworms, and the quality of California's silkworms is comparable to that of Jiangnan, although the silk weaving industry is not as good as Jiangnan, but a large number of high-quality raw silk is exported to Jiangnan every year. Cotton cultivation has been second only to the United States and India, and has vaguely surpassed Brazil to become the third largest supplier of cotton to China.

The land of the Americas has become so important that it is impossible to give up.

But if you kill the heroes who pioneered the Americas, it will be extremely detrimental to the image of the dynasty.

Previously, the old Zhou official in Australia resigned in old age and hoped to transfer his son to an Australian company, and the emperor generously approved it. Xiao Zhouguan has been working in the African company, and the governor of the African company is nominally Xie Qinggao, but in fact, this little Zhouguan is taking care of all the big and small affairs.

The emperor directly transferred Xiao Zhouguan to Europe to replace his father as governor, making everyone think that overseas lands would always adopt this management model, but who knew that in the Americas, the emperor would set up counties to manage.

These lands are too far away from China, and it is a year to come and go, and now the merchants have begun to use the unsafe five-masted sailing boats, which are extremely fast, and it only takes more than two months to go to the Americas, and a month and a half to go back, and they can run to the Americas twice a year, but they are very unsafe, and they often sink, and the official ships come and go, or once a year. In this case, the difficulty of management is greatly increased, and it is very inconvenient to set up counties, but it is not as effective as the management of this kind of governorship.

Zhou Lang waved his hand: "America is different from Australia." I don't want that place in Africa. Australia is dispensable, and it is not impossible for the Zhou official family to guard Australia for generations. But the Americas are different, the surrounding Yi countries are intricately intertwined, and the Americas are rich, far from being comparable to Australia. This land must be directly under the government. If the Zhu family can be loyal, I can also stay in office. But Zhu Lian is ambitious, and he is not a person who has lived under others for a long time. ”

Zhou Lang is telling the truth, South Africa's Su Chong can directly crown a king, not only because of the gold mine, but mainly because he is not interested in the black uncles, to his level, racial discrimination is impossible, he only cares about reality, tens of millions of black uncles merged into China, how much chaos it will cause, he dare not take this risk. Maintaining a black empire attached to China may be a good option.

As for Australia, it is geographically an independent continent, surrounded by Chinese forces, and even if it stands on its own, it will never be able to break away from China's influence, and even if it is not directly incorporated into the rule, there is nothing to lose. Just as Britain and Australia in later generations were nominally two countries, which British war did the Australians not contribute more than Britain itself?

The crown prince's army was still on the way, and the Nanjing Peace Conference was gradually coming to an end.

China has restored part of the territory of the Indus Valley, but not as much as in the past, under the jurisdiction of African companies, as far north as Multan, and more than a dozen Sikh military territories are protected by companies. Now as the reward for the Sikh Empire's troops, it has been assigned to the Sikh Empire, and Ranjit Singh can be regarded as truly unifying the five river basins. But the west of the Indus River is still in the hands of the company, and Peshawar, Kashmir and other places are back in the hands of the company.

China also obtained British colonies in Nanyang, such as Sumatra, Malacca, and Ceylon, which can be regarded as completely controlling Nanyang, and now Nanyang is directly incorporated into Chinese territory and divided into prefectures and counties.

The Cape Colony was given to the Kingdom of South Africa, but Cape Town was leased to African companies. The customs of the Kingdom of South Africa has also always been managed by African companies. The titular subject still seems to be very submissive.

The Manchu Empire, on the other hand, was the big winner of the war according to the principle of gain-for-grab, and the two river basins were worth fighting for, not only for the localities, but also for the military expenses paid for by European companies, and in the end only African companies were allowed to operate two commercial bases in the two river basins. As for the European companies that support them, the two companies can share a business base because of strategic cooperation agreements with African companies. This is due to the overlap of trade routes between the two companies, which the two companies signed many years ago.

At this time, the Manchu Empire, whose territory stretched from the Green Mountains and Pamirs in the east, to the Tigris River in the west, to the Caucasus Mountains in the north, and to the Indian Ocean in the south, was already a great empire that could not be ignored. The territory includes several Central Asian stans in later generations, plus the whole of Iran and Afghanistan, with a population of more than 10 million, and the national power is rising. And it wasn't just an Asian country, as the Caucasus Mountains were acquired from the Russians, which gave the Manchu Empire a coastline to the Black Sea, which meant they were directly connected to Europe by land and sea.

It is difficult to predict what impact the emergence of such a country, which is connected to the Indian Ocean on one side and the Black Sea on the other, on the complex situation in the Middle East.

In this sense, the benefits of the Manchu Empire were comparable to those of Austria, the big winner in Europe.

Both of these big winners carried out diplomatic activities in Nanjing, and the Manchus, hoping to maintain close relations with China, took the initiative to drastically reduce the tax rate on Chinese goods, and decided to send permanent envoys to China in accordance with the Western diplomatic tradition; Austria, on the other hand, hopes to sign a commercial agreement with China in the Black Sea region and bring the Russians together to expand trade with China. Austria has already been taken from the Russians by the right to trade with China through Russian territory, and China's railways have been built to the Crimea, and Austrian goods can be transported directly to China through the Black Sea, and the distance between the two countries has never been so close.

Russia's overland entrepot trade has long made Central and Eastern European countries red, and now if Austria can pass through the Black Sea and then along the Danube, it can directly enter the central part of Europe, and even Northern Europe and even France, which is much closer than going to the Mediterranean.

Others who didn't matter, those who were frustrated, left China early.

At the end of the song, what is left behind are international treaties, which constitute a new world system. However, it did not completely replace the Vienna system, but rather complemented it. The Viana system resolved the relations between the countries in Central and Northern Europe, while the Nanjing system resolved the relations between the countries in southern Europe and Central Asia, and the two systems were called the Viana Nanjing system, which determined the international relations for more than ten years.

A new era has begun.