On the way to England, Lindy had a strange attitude towards Napoleon, and he thought that Napoleon understood what he meant, and must have realized that it was no secret that China was going to do it to Russia, and France was going to do it to Russia, but it was only a matter of time.

According to Lindy's guess, it won't be too long. Because for almost a year Napoleon had been reading everything about Russia, Russian customs, what Russians had written, everything about Russia, he was reading.

Knowing that he was invincible, it was obvious that Napoleon was trying to get himself to know Russia as soon as possible, Lindy did not think it was an interest, and Western Europeans looked down on Russia a little, believing that everything in Russia represented barbarism, from Russian serfdom to Russian customs.

So, if Napoleon was going to do something against Russia, and he learned that China was going to do the same, then why not try to form an alliance with China?

Looking down on China? This idea did not appear in Lindy's mind, because this was the beginning of the 18th century, not the end of the 19th century, most people still accepted Voltaire's set of ideas, although there were also Rousseau and others criticized China, but everyone only wanted to believe what they saw, when China's silk products, porcelain and Nanjing cloth chairs were popular, who would think that the country that provided so many exquisite goods to the world was a barbaric and backward country?

Even in France, everyone's impression of China is generally very good, in addition to intuitively seeing China's exquisite goods, but also because of the team of scholars in China, constantly sending back some articles praising China, this is not an exaggeration, nor is it Zhou Lang gave them sponsorship money, just a fact. Their evaluation is not flattering, they evaluate China as the pinnacle of classical society, and it is moving into modern times.

And even if the French become arrogant and become the white supremacy of Lao Tzu the world, Napoleon should be able to recognize China's national strength, but their scholars have openly praised China's productive forces in French magazines, believing that China has more skilled craftsmen than all of Europe combined, that China's arsenal is not at all smaller than France in size, and that it can be expanded to more than ten times that of France at any time if the Chinese are willing.

As for the issue of the military quality of the soldiers, it is no longer necessary to prove it by defeating the Russian army, three thousand Chinese officers served in the French army, and the French did not let them lead the French soldiers, but formed the Chinese into separate armies, in the name of convenient command. Lin Di negotiated with Napoleon about this, and according to Zhou Lang's intention, he wanted to disperse all these officers into the entire French army, so that they could be more deeply integrated into the French army and feel the most powerful army of this era in the most subtle way.

At Lindy's insistence, the French did not break them up, but adopted such a method, and 3,000 officers formed thirty battalions in units of 100 men to fight in the French army. These Chinese officers had proved their ability, whether in discipline or bravery, they were no worse than the French, and even superior to the vast majority of the French in terms of tenacious will. He has been honored by Napoleon several times and has been on the front page of French newspapers.

With such soldiers, plus enough weapons production and a population larger than the whole of Europe, how could Napoleon think that China was not worth an alliance, but Napoleon just didn't mention that unless he didn't want to go to war with Russia, it was time to make diplomatic preparations, after all, China was far away on the other side of the world, and if it was to make temporary contacts, there would simply not be enough time.

With these doubts in mind, Lindy set foot on British soil, where Napoleon blockaded England, and could not find a single ship destined for England in French ports, and the smugglers were caught and executed. But Napoleon's younger brother, Louis's Netherlands, was the center of smuggling in Europe.

On the island of Helgoland, which the British occupied, which was close to the European continent, in addition to stationing the British fleet, set up nearly 50 trading posts with a permanent population of 3,000 people; The total value of goods shipped to the mainland through the island amounted to 180 million francs a year, and even French merchants secretly came here to buy the raw materials needed by the factories and the products of the colonies needed by the consumers. The destination of the merchant ships that set sail from the island of Helgoland was the Netherlands.

As a Chinese, Lin Di quite admired Napoleon's blockade policy, and at this point, Napoleon and the Chinese emperor seemed to be on a high or low level, both felt that trade could crush their opponents, but in fact, this closure often only broke themselves.

Lindy went to England to discuss the Spanish colonial issue, which was his last effort, and once it could not be achieved, China would have to stand on the opposite side of Britain on the Spanish colonial issue. At this point, Lindy hated Britain very much, he felt that the British seemed to be in charge too much, what did Spain have to do with Britain? Britain wants to make a statement.

The British have long been no strangers to Lin Di, and they evaluate him as an oriental diplomat with a strange personality, Lin Di's personality is not strange, but compared to Westerners at this time, it is a little special. For example, he insisted that women should not be allowed to walk in front of him, and the British thought he had no manners, and ridiculed him for fighting for the same staircase with women. Lin Di felt that this was not a trivial matter, there was a difference between men and women, respect and humility were orderly, this was a great gift, the etiquette system did not exist, and virtue would be attached?

But on the whole, Lin Di is still a relatively recognized diplomat, he is more familiar with foreigners, although a little domineering, but also more reasonable, on some Westerners more important issues, will make concessions to the satisfaction of the other party. For example, in terms of economic interests, the other party is not particularly serious.

So the British welcomed Lindy's arrival, to be honest, they didn't want to be the enemy of a big country like China, although they thought that their navy was invincible, but offended China, and it had a huge impact on British trade, and now China's trade with the entire United Kingdom, including Indian territory, has surpassed Britain and his colonies, second only to the United States and continental Europe, up to 10 million pounds a year, imports are as high as 13 million pounds, and one entry and one exit are millions of pounds in tariffs, Britain can't afford to lose any of this.

So they hoped that Lindy would make concessions on the non-use of the colony.

The two sides soon entered into the negotiation process, and unlike the French, the British did not care about the Chinese occupation of Manila (representing the entire Spanish Philippine colony), and Manila was in the hands of Spain, and in the hands of China, it had little influence on the British, and it was a concession that could be made. After a fierce confrontation, the British also agreed that China could occupy California, but they were adamantly opposed to China's attempt to occupy a stronghold in La Plata.

In fact, the British were quite satisfied with the concessions made by China, they did not expect that the Chinese would give up most of the Spanish colonies, and that California was just a desolate place, with little economic value, and too far from the British. Britain is actually worried that China will have some intentions against Mexico, although Britain has no ambitions for Mexico, but Mexico is very rich, and they are still very worried about China's occupation here. In short, it is a kind of-stirring mentality, and you can't see that others are good, at least you can't see others better than yourself. But the Chinese did not even ask for Mexico, which surprised the British.

As for the Philippines, this land is on the border of China, and sooner or later they will have to annex it, and if Britain forcibly stops it, it will not be able to do so at all, and besides, if Spain occupies this place, Britain will not get any benefit from it, and China will occupy this place and open up trade.

But Montevideo was a different story, located between Argentina and Brazil, the two American colonies that were now Britain's most important trading partners. After Napoleon began the continental blockade, Britain's trade with the European continent declined rapidly, but Britain was experiencing a high-speed industrial revolution, and its productivity was growing rapidly, and their products needed a large market. On the one hand, in addition to smuggling in Europe, we can only continue to increase trade with other places, the British colonies are not yet in the climate, Canada and Australia have no trade to speak of, only India is not bad, but it is impossible to replace the losses of Europe.

Outside of Europe, the fastest growing, in addition to the United States, is actually La Plata (basically the same as ah fundamental) and Brazil, Britain's total export value in 1810 was 61 million pounds, but the trade volume with La Plata and Brazil increased from 8 million pounds in 1805 to 20 million pounds in 1809, of which the export value of British goods exceeded 10 million pounds, accounting for almost one-fifth of Britain's total exports.

At this time, China wants to occupy a stronghold in La Plata, which is unacceptable to the British, firstly, this will make the British trade in this region fall into the situation of being controlled by China, and secondly, Chinese products have begun to compete with the British in a wide range of overseas markets, the production of the British Industrial Revolution is growing rapidly, China is not slow, Fujian took the lead in starting the textile industry after the Industrial Revolution, the speed of competition is comparable to that of the United Kingdom, after all, both human resources and water reserves here are larger than the whole of Britain.

Therefore, not only to prevent the Chinese from invading their important interests, the British themselves tried to occupy La Plata with common sense, and historically, during the Napoleonic Wars, Britain attacked La Plata many times in the name of preventing Napoleon from controlling it, and was repelled by the locals.

The emperor confessed that he was trying to gain a foothold at the mouth of the Río de la Plata, and did not give room for concession.

Therefore, the two sides did not reach an agreement on this issue.

Another issue that the two sides discussed was the issue of Australia. Lin Di said that he was willing to pay 20 million pounds to buy Australia, and the French sold Louisiana for 15 million US dollars, equivalent to 2 million pounds, and China paid 10 times the price to buy a piece of Australia, which now seems to be far less valuable than Louisiana, which is full of sincerity.