Discuss the two countries of the Spanish colonies, not China and France, but China and Great Britain.

It was the British who came to the door on their own initiative, four months later than the French asked for mediation, and these four months were consumed on the road.

It was also through other channels that the Chinese army had conquered the Mexican port, and the British immediately confirmed to the Chinese minister in Britain that they knew the official news that China had declared war on Spain, and the news that they had set off from Nanjing was still on the road at this time.

After confirming this news, the British cabinet, after a heated discussion, said that they were very uncomfortable with China's sudden entry into the world colonial order, and that there had always been only European countries on the colonial stage, and that an Eastern country suddenly appeared, what should they do?

Moreover, the colonies of the Chinese were built in Australia, and now they are suddenly attacking Spain, is this a country like Russia, which has no end to territory?

But at this time, the situation in Spain was very contradictory to the British, Spain was now controlled by the French, and Napoleon sent his brother to be king of Spain, which ignored the power traditions of the European aristocracy and disposed of European territories unscrupulously. Now that the Chinese have begun to attack the country of Napoleon's brother, does it mean that China is going to break with France? Or can we use this opportunity to create contradictions between China and France? Due to the distance between the two countries, the British maritime blockade, France and China have very little contact, and the connection has become less, and of course the contradiction is gone. Therefore, the conflict between China and Spain is an excellent opportunity to provoke the conflict between China and France.

Therefore, there was a school of thought that the Chinese occupation of the Spanish colonies should be acquiesced in in order to provoke contradictions between France and China, because Napoleon must have wanted the Spanish colonies as well. But some people object, they believe that the current strength of the Chinese is very strong, they have 300 million people, almost endless soldiers, and there is huge industrial production, technological progress is very fast, militarily, they have already clashed with Russia, and also annihilated 20,000 Russian troops, proving that military strength is not weak.

For such a country to occupy the Spanish colonies was a great threat to Britain. They had the potential to use these Spanish colonies to threaten British control of the seas. In the future, British merchant ships may have to sail under the nose of Chinese military bases throughout the Spanish colonies, which would be a threat to the security of British commerce and trade as a whole. And if these colonies were in the hands of the Spaniards, they would basically not pose a threat to the British.

This group of British politicians still holds the traditional chivalrous righteousness of hoeing the strong and helping the weak!

China's strength has made the British feel jealous.

Therefore, when discussing the issue of China's colonies in Australia, they basically agreed that every effort should be made to force China to give up its colonization in Australia, and if necessary, it could send a navy to blockade China's Australian colonies.

Britain also had its own fast news channels, not by Russian routes, but by speedboats through the Mediterranean, to the Ottoman Empire, and by land to India, half a year faster than by sea to bypass Africa.

When the Viceroy of India received the news, he sent it to the British consul in China by sea, and asked him to negotiate with the Chinese government to resolve the Spanish colonial question.

When the British came, Zhou Lang had already received the latest news from the Americas, but this news had no substance, only staying at Zhu Li's capture of Acapulco, as for the situation of Zhang Shun's fleet fighting in La Plata, and the situation of Zhao Wen's army fighting in Mexico, Zhou Lang knew nothing, and he didn't even know whether these two armies arrived in the Americas safely.

It is now the end of the tenth year of the Great Zhou Dynasty (1809), according to the time, Zhang Shun and Zhao Wen have been fighting in the Americas for half a year, but the ships from the Americas will not depart until March next year, and will arrive in Manila in June next year, and I am afraid that it will be July in Zhou Lang's hands.

Therefore, the negotiations between Britain and Zhou Lang are actually based on some speculation.

It is not difficult to judge that Spain is like that, and it is probably impossible to expect Spain to resist Chinese attacks on their colonies, unless Napoleon sends troops on his brother's behalf, and if that is the case, Britain will immediately turn to China.

Therefore, both sides judged that the Chinese army had seized a large number of Spanish colonies at this time, and on this basis, the British consul negotiated with the Great Zhou Imperial Court.

The British hoped that China would not take the opportunity to annex Spanish territory, and the British said that they did not recognize Napoleon's occupation of Spain, nor did they recognize Joseph's Spanish throne, and they still insisted that the Bourbon royal family was the legitimate royal family of Spain.

It was hoped that after the restoration of the Bourbon royal family, China would exchange the occupied Spanish colonies for Spain, and Britain was willing to persuade Spain to compensate for the seizure of Chinese merchant ships.

The Court replied to Britain that this was a relationship between China and Spain and that it hoped that the two governments would negotiate directly.

The British said they were only expressing their attitude towards the Spanish colonies and would not recognize any agreement between China and Napoleon's usurped Spanish king.

Zhou Lang attaches great importance to the opinion of Britain, and this rogue country really dares to take action. If they oppose and send in the British navy, China will be very passive.

The British also expressed Australia's attitude, emphasizing that Australia belongs to Britain and will never allow any country to establish a colony in the interests of Australia without Britain's permission, which will be regarded as an encroachment on Britain. There is still no reply to Zhou Lang's suggestion to buy Australia.

After the British consul conveyed the British attitude, he hoped that China would reply to them as soon as possible.

After Zhou Lang understood the attitude of the British, he fell into deep thought.

Britain did not accept China's occupation of the Spanish colony, which Zhou Lang had already guessed, the Spanish colony was too large, and whoever got it here would not make Britain feel at ease. Not to mention that China is such a powerful country. I didn't expect Britain to attach so much importance to Australia, and it seems that the colonial development in Australia will definitely be resisted by Britain.

With China's current naval strength, it does not yet have the degree to compete head-on with the British navy, and four battleships have been launched every year in the past two years, and the number of battleships in China's foreign naval division is now only 38, which is too far behind the number of more than 200 battleships in Britain.

But Zhou Lang saw a situation, that is, the British would never do it now, their military deployment in the east was weak, the navy combined, there were no more than ten battleships above the third class, and a large number of fourth, and even fifth and sixth class battleships were in service in the colonies. Their battleships were mainly deployed on the mainland, weaving Napoleon to surprise the British, and the rest were mainly sprinkled on the Atlantic and Indian Ocean routes, and hunted each other against the faster French fleets.

As long as France exists for a day, Britain will not mobilize fleets to the east, and then the British threat to China will only remain in the theoretical stage.

As for the Australian colony, China still has to decide, the struggle for the colony is the struggle for living space, this kind of competition is the most bloody, like a lion fighting for territory, the winner gets the opportunity to reproduce, and the loser either becomes a lost dog or is killed.

If possible, Zhou Lang would like to support Napoleon's continued dominance in Europe, and suppress Russia and Britain, the most dangerous countries for China.

But in recent years, Napoleon's IQ has begun to become insufficient, and stupid tricks have emerged one after another, in fact, it is not that Napoleon's IQ has become low, but that he has become arrogant and has become unable to listen to other people's advice.

No matter how smart a person is, it is impossible to become an expert in all aspects, so the advice of professionals is needed, and some large enterprises will hire professional consulting companies to plan their operations, let alone the emperor of a country.

In 1805, when the emperors of Austria and Russia fled in a hurry in front of him, Napoleon stood at the pinnacle of his life.

After defeating Austria and Russia, Napoleon signed the Treaty of Pressburg with Austria, stipulating that Austria should completely withdraw from Bavaria and Italy, and Austria pay 40 million francs in reparations to France. Later, Napoleon began to force the Austrian royal family to dissolve the Holy Roman Empire, and the 16 states of the Holy Roman Empire were formed into a Rhine League.

In 1806, Napoleon began to rewrite the map of Europe at will according to his own preferences, putting his brother Joseph on the throne of Naples and sending his younger brother Louis as king of the Netherlands.

This led to the formation of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance, which was formed by Britain, Russia, Prussia, and Sweden.

However, this time the anti-French alliance failed again, and Napoleon defeated the main Prussian army at the Battle of Jena, and took Berlin, the capital of Prussia, through Leipzig. After the defeat of the Russian army at Friedland, France signed the Peace of Tilsit with Russia and Prussia respectively, and the three countries formed an alliance against Britain.

However, the alliance was nominally an alliance, but in fact Russia and Prussia had to submit to France under the deterrence of French military power, and this alliance was obviously not sincere.

Moreover, Napoleon's treatment of Prussia was too cruel, seizing more than half of Prussia's territory and turning Prussia into a power that existed in name only.

Napoleon's diplomat, Talleyrand, advised Napoleon to be kinder to Prussia, but Napoleon rejected the suggestion.

Later, Napoleon went his own way, taking his brother from the throne of Naples and sending him to Spain as king, which led to the Spanish and Portuguese uprisings, and Britain vigorously supported the rebel army at the same time, sending Wellington to land on the peninsula and start the Peninsula War.

Later, Napoleon marched eastward into Russia without ending the Korean War, starting the Russian War.

How can Zhou Lang support such a Napoleon, who can't listen to people's words, is completely obsessed with his military strength, and thinks that he can decide everything by relying on strength?