Zhou Lang attached great importance to colonial India, and had already sent more than 1,000 officials to the area, increasing the number of soldiers to 5,000, all through the Chinese East India Company.

But this does not affect Zhou Lang's control over where, the British want their own shares, and indicate that they must not intervene in the disposal of the company's assets. Obviously, what is wanted is the sovereignty of the land, or territory.

At present, the territory under the full control of the Chinese company is Sindh Province, which has a population of more than 3 million people, and has developed more than 40 million mu of cultivated land, more than 10 million mu per capita, more than half of which has been developed by local farmers organized by Chinese officials in the last seven or eight years. In addition, the land that could not be irrigated has now become irrigated land, and although the area has not increased, the yield has greatly increased.

Obviously, the agricultural technology in the southern and Guangdong areas of China has been well adapted in India, and the province of Sindh, which has 80 million acres of arable land in later generations, has only been half developed, but it has become the richest region, and its value cannot be measured in money.

In addition, the China East India Company had a preferential trade agreement with Punjab, which allowed its fleet to sail directly from Karachi to Lahore, and the abundant water volume of the Indus River and its numerous tributaries greatly reduced transportation costs, although it did not yet have control over Punjab, a province with more agricultural output, but could already benefit from it.

It can be said that the entire Indus Valley is already the sphere of influence of the Chinese East India Company, and it is not cost-effective to hand it over to Britain in exchange for a desolate Australia, as for the development of potential, to turn the potential into reality, it takes a little bit of blood and sweat, India is a mature region, and you can directly obtain benefits.

Therefore, Zhou Lang felt that Lin Di's talk this time was too bad, it should be to exchange the Indus Valley for Australia, and then the British have to make up the difference, 50 million may be more, and 40 million pounds is the price of conscience; Now not only will India be ceded to the other side, but it will also take the lease of Zhoushan.

Of course, this is only from the current point of view, Zhou Lang's interests are mainly the issue of space for immigration, and on this issue, China is different from the United Kingdom, and China is facing the problem that the land cannot carry too many people, rather than the problem of economic interests.

At this point, Australia's desolation is an advantage, and India's dense population is no longer a resource, but a burden.

In Lindi's concept, only China's land is land, and he doesn't take India seriously at all, so he naturally thinks that India is adding to Zhoushan, as if the value of a desert island in Zhoushan is higher than that of the whole of India.

For the first time, Zhou Lang regretted sending Lin Di, a scholar, to be the European consul general, and let him talk about business issues, but he always suffered a loss, so he didn't give him the right to conduct business negotiations, but let him be responsible for dealing with some political issues, but a major event like land replacement is actually just an amplified business behavior, and the result is still for Lin Di to talk about losses.

So do you want to accept it?

Zhou Lang was very hesitant, he really wanted Australia, but he still had to think about whether he could get Australia, at least the right to immigrate in Australia, without using India.

The officer corps and the legation in Moscow were separated from the French scholars in the mission, the Chinese to the east and the French to the west, each returning to their own country.

The Russian tsar thought that China and France were really at odds, which was good news for Russia, and he feared that China and France would unite against Russia. Russia's understanding of China is far better than that of France, although it is known that the Chinese used double the force to annihilate the Russian army last time, but the Chinese population is nearly ten times that of Russia, Russia has a population of only 36 million, but the Chinese exceed 300 million. Moreover, China is very rich, production is well developed (relative to Russia), and the formation of an army is not a problem at all.

So in the event of a decisive battle between Russia and Napoleon, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops came from behind, it would be very troublesome.

Therefore, the Tsar blocked the Chinese mission to France, fearing that China would unite with France, although the mission openly stated that he was going to negotiate the Spanish colony, but he did not dare to let the mission go until it was ascertained whether the mission had a corresponding mission, such as an alliance.

As a result, the Chinese said that they had fallen out with Napoleon, recalled the Chinese who had served in the French army, and expelled French scholars from the diplomatic corps, and there was no better news for the Tsar.

So he not only allowed the Chinese, but also the French scholars, and separated them as soon as possible.

Little did he know that these French scholars were the most important figures in the mission, and that they were on a mission to persuade Napoleon to build the country.

Now that these men have returned to Paris, they have been cordially received by Napoleon, who has always been friendly to scholars, and may have had a bit of a psychological factor in the ancient Chinese emperor Corporal Lixian.

These scholars brought back a wealth of material and introduced Napoleon to the scientific principles of ancient Chinese canals, and they examined Dujiangyan, Lingqu, and the Grand Canal, which could not be ignored.

They told Napoleon that the Grand Canal was a very complex system, not a simple ditch, with a length of 1,794 kilometers and 81 locks, on which there were locks to manage them, and through the operation of the locks, these locks were used to divert water from the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River and other large rivers in China, and the operation of the Grand Canal was always maintained.

This system has been in operation for more than a thousand years, and the Chinese have accumulated a wealth of capacity to manage the canal. Many of these skills and abilities are beyond the imagination of Europeans, after all, the British only built the first canal in 1761, and the French are proud of the South Canal, which is only a hundred years earlier than the British, began to be built in 1667 and completed in 1681, with a length of 240 kilometers, no matter how long it was built, the length of which cannot be compared with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in China.

Water experts wanted to persuade Napoleon to work with the Chinese to build a canal of unparalleled importance: the Suez Canal.

Water experts want to build the river because they want to build the most ambitious project in human history, and there is no engineer who doesn't want to do it.

Zhou Lang wanted to build this canal, mainly to fool Napoleon to focus on building a large number of buildings, this canal to be built, it is impossible to build it without ten or eight years, as long as Napoleon can stay honest for ten years and contain Britain in Europe for ten years, Zhou Lang will not have to worry about the British Navy.

To put it bluntly, this is Zhou Lang's Zheng Guoqu plan, during the Warring States period, Korea sent a hydraulic engineer Zheng Guo into Qin to persuade the Qin King to build the Zheng Guo Canal, so that Qin did not have the manpower to send troops to attack Korea.

Napoleon was indeed very tempted, not because the water conservancy experts told him that after the construction of this river, it would definitely become the most convenient passage between Europe and Asia, and that the trade between Britain and India would have to be approved by Napoleon and Napoleon would have to pay taxes to Napoleon. It's just the emperor who has big plans, and the plot that doesn't build such a big project.

In fact, Napoleon did get the idea of building the Grand Canal, and when he went on an expedition to Egypt, the engineers who accompanied him measured the water levels of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but they gave the wrong answer, they believed that there was a difference in sea level between the two seas, and that the Red Sea was higher than the Mediterranean. As a result, Napoleon dismissed the idea of building a canal.

Water experts still believe in their measurements, but they believe that the Chinese design of the sluice gate can easily solve this problem. Not to mention that there is a gap, the sluice built by the Chinese on the Ling Canal can directly allow the boat to climb the mountain.

Therefore, Napoleon seriously discussed with the experts the project plan for the construction of the canal, and he immediately sent experts to make detailed measurements, but when it was built, he did not give an answer. Napoleon had already decided to build the canal, but Zhou Lang's plan failed, because Napoleon had also decided to send troops to attack Russia.

The reason is simple, the Russian Tsar's disobedience to his continental blockade ban has become intolerable to him. The Tsar allowed ships from neutral countries to enter Russian ports without hindrance, but the criteria for determining "neutral countries" were very lax, so that the British could easily obtain neutral country "qualifications", and smuggling between the two countries had reached an unprecedented scale.

Last year (1810), Napoleon received information that a large smuggling fleet (600 ships) carrying colonial cargo and carrying forged neutral country certificates sailed from England to the shores of Russia. Napoleon wrote directly to Emperor Alexander I of Russia, demanding that Russia confiscate the ships and cargo, and threatened: "It is entirely up to Your Majesty to achieve peace or to continue the war [with Great Britain]." Peace has always been your wish, and Your Majesty is well aware that Russia will confiscate these 600 ships and cargo, and we will have peace". Alexander I, on the other hand, refused Napoleon's demands and only symbolically confiscated eight cargoes and two ships, and the rest of the cargoes were accepted as neutral.

The Russians, who had tasted the sweetness, went even further, and instead of strictly checking the certificates of neutral countries, they introduced a new policy that greatly simplified the documents. On December 19, 1810, Tsar Alexander I announced that from January 1, 1811, Russia would introduce the Regulations on Trade with Neutral Countries of 1811 and its annexes. The "Provisions" reduce the number of documents required to prove the neutrality of ships and cargo; Simplified procedures for confirming ship and cargo neutrality; The establishment of a "Commission on Neutral Maritime Affairs" in every Russian port greatly facilitated maritime trade with neutral countries.

In fact, it was Russia that completely opened its doors to the goods of its colonies, mainly the British colonies, in the name of liberalizing neutral trade. British colonial goods poured into Russia and from Russia were transshipped to Western Europe. Napoleon obtained information that Russia imported 9255404 pounds of American cotton, while Prussia imported only 231679 pounds in the same year, Spain imported 218,880 pounds, and the Hanseatic Cities League was allowed to import 1836288 pounds by Napoleon.

What was most unacceptable to Napoleon was that Russia not only imported its own imports, but also re-exported a large number of them to other countries on the mainland, and Russia, in such a remote position on the shipping route, turned out to be a major entrepot trading country, and Russia even became the main supplier of cotton in the European textile industry. The total value of re-exports of colonial products from Russia to the countries of Western Europe alone amounted to 30 million rubles.

Napoleon was dissatisfied with this and demanded an explanation from Russia, and the Russians took it seriously and sent representatives to meet Napoleon. Although all the evidence of the ships showed that they were American ships, that the United States was indeed a neutral country, and that they were also carrying American cotton, the problem was that the relationship between Britain and the United States was on the verge of collapse, and a blockade of the United States began. So Napoleon did not agree with the interpretation of the Russian representative at all.

Angrily pointed out to the Russian delegates: "The British government, which is ready to break off diplomatic relations with the United States, will certainly not allow such a large number of American ships to sail to Russia, and these ships have brought untold benefits to Britain in the last summer." The flood of colonial goods throughout Europe made the continental blockade almost completely ineffective. ”

Russia destroyed Napoleon's continental blockade system, so Napoleon will definitely do something against Russia, but why is he so urgent, when the Spanish uprising was not suppressed, and the British army was still fighting him on the peninsula, he sent troops to run to play with the Russians, this is really too unbearable, Napoleon is not going to die tomorrow, can he do it at this time?

The real reason is sad, Napoleon was fooled by his men!