Zhou Lang felt that this time he could attract some firepower for Napoleon, but he was a little worried that the British alliance with Russia would become aimed at both Napoleon and China. China does not need to worry about the Russian army, but if the British navy stands up, it will not be easy to keep the colonies that have just been seized.

But this is also temporary, South America cannot be saved, Australia's colonies can only be withdrawn, and even African colonies can only be discarded, but the Philippines can definitely be kept, and California is also hopeful of keeping, because China is the closest power to the Pacific Ocean.

In addition, India may also be lost, and the export of civilization where it may only be interrupted.

As for what you get?

Zhou Lang thought about it and really planned to borrow the slope to get off the donkey, because he felt that there was not much oil and water that could be squeezed out of Russia.

Cession of all of Siberia, it is almost impossible. Russia's colonies in the Americas, this should be fine, and the Russians in the Kazakh steppes should be able to give it up.

But that's all, compared with the lost South America, and the possible future development here, compared with the lost Australia, the lost South Africa and India, both in terms of land area and development potential, are far more valuable than Siberia. The only advantage of Siberia is its strategic location, which can be used to block the Russian threat to China. As for the abundant mineral resources, is Australia less resourceful? Is South Africa short on resources?

After careful consideration, Zhou Lang still decided to face the difficulties, and if he lost this opportunity, Napoleon would be finished, Napoleon would be finished, and the British would be like a wild horse that had escaped the brings, with the help of the majestic wind of the industrial revolution, and completely dominated the world. Of course, at this time, China is not without a chance to compete with Britain, and it is enough to vigorously develop its navy. However, as soon as China and Britain stood on opposite sides of the struggle for hegemony, the British would certainly vigorously support Russia to consume China on land, while Britain would concentrate its forces on competing with China on the sea.

Instead of competing for a long time with the two most powerful countries in Europe at the same time, it is better to support Napoleon, as long as Napoleon survives this crisis, and then change his policy, with the foundation of France, it will not be difficult to gain a foothold in Europe. In fact, even if Russia had defeated France, other countries would have waited and said, demanding that Napoleon give up the European territories he had occupied after the Revolution, or even that Napoleon abdicate. But Nana felt it was an insult and refused to make peace.

If China drags down the Russian army, it is really hard to say whether Prussia and Austria, which were beaten worse by France than France, will still have the courage to form an anti-French alliance again. Perhaps Napoleon would have survived this catastrophe, giving him a few years to regain its combat effectiveness and continue to wear down with Britain in Europe, so that China could have a more favorable international environment to open up in the rest of the world.

Competition is to bleed, and if you don't shed blood at the most valuable time and at the most favorable time, after this point, no matter how much blood is shed, you will not be able to exchange it for opportunities.

However, in order not to provoke Britain as much as possible, Zhou Lang told the British consul that he could accept the proposal to restore peace with Russia, but Russia would compensate China for its losses.

What loss? Losses of troops!

What a reasonable request, because Russia rashly invaded China's territory, China declared war on Russia, and now that Russia wants peace, of course it must compensate for the losses.

China will not open its mouth widely, and it can lose as much as it wants, but the Russians really can't afford to lose.

For the war against Russia, millions of troops were conscripted, and the people who served these troops were also paid. The convoy organized by the Jin merchants also had to retain some profits, and in this case, how much money would Russia have to lose.

China's military spending, which has been as high as 500 million taels in the past two years, is really not a very high figure, because this is a modern war.

Britain was not much surprised by this military spending, as European armies spent much more at the same time. In order to deal with Napoleon, Britain has spent 535.5 million pounds from 1805 to this year, equivalent to more than 1.5 billion taels of silver, of which the military expenditure to the allies is actually only 97.9 million pounds. On average, the military expenditure of the British army is more than 200 million taels every year, how big is the scale of the British army? The reason why China only spends so much money is because of the super high purchasing power of silver in China, if it is only in Europe, then the cost will probably reach more than one billion taels.

Moreover, the government really spent so much money, of which 200 million taels were supported by taxes, and the other 300 million taels were borrowed from debt, which is well documented.

The money is reasonable, it's not much, but it's an astronomical amount for China, for Britain, for the Russians.

Russia's annual financial revenue, equivalent to 50 million taels of silver, cannot be used for the war, and the Russian finances that have been engaged in Napoleon's blockade policy in recent years have a deficit of one ruble, equivalent to nearly 50 million taels of silver, if it were an enterprise, Russia would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, and now let them pay 500 million taels, and they will not be able to take it out if they sell it.

The Russians were also counting on a hard sum of money to survive the famine years.

So after the British consul conveyed China's conditions, the Russians flew into a rage and bluntly said that this was blackmail, and Russia had no one, and there were a bunch of bayonets!

Due to the war with China, Russia could only temporarily give up participating in the anti-French alliance and concentrate on taking back Siberia, and they fought Napoleon's army, which was only 300,000 people, and it was enough to fight Siberia with China's million-strong army, and there were no troops scattered to participate in the anti-French alliance.

If the Russians did not participate for the time being, Prussia and other countries would not have the courage, and no matter how much Britain instigated them, they would not dare to enter the war.

The British fought alone and achieved certain successes, Wellington drove the French army out of Spain and restored the Spanish kingdom, but unfortunately the Spanish royal family was detained by France and could not return to the country to restore the throne.

All European nations met in Prague to discuss the formation of an anti-French alliance, and the British announced that they could already threaten France from the south of France. But everyone is more concerned about the movements of Russia, and the Russians do not come out, so that these little brothers are really bottomless, and they are all afraid of France. was also fooled and scared by the British, and that time the British did not swear that they would increase the number of land forces, but which time the British did it.

The British were also not active in the matter of giving money, and Russia, such an important power, had historically given only a few million pounds in aid, which was not as much as it had been given to Prussia. Over the years, Britain has spent a total of more than 500 million pounds, and has not given even 100 million to the allies, but it has asked the allies to bear the vast majority of the troops.

All kinds of contradictions gathered at the Prague Conference, and Napoleon, a shameless fellow, even laughed at people at this time.

Napoleon, on the other hand, was dismissive of this, and he satirized the actions of the European countries: how stingy Britain was in aiding Prussia; how Tsar Alexander and Emperor Francis were talking about the cowardice of their allies, the King of Prussia; The Prussian king, fearing revolution, disbanded the zealous patriotic Nationalist Army, refused to entrust Scharnhorst, the bravest of his subjects, and Stein, the most able, to lead official duties, and dismissed him from his post and exiled him because Schleiermacher had the courage to speak the people's voice in a speech.

But in fact, Napoleon was already weak-hearted, and he sent Fouché to the Prague Conference to make him a spy.

Because Napoleon's fragile and sensitive heart was already difficult to withstand defeat at this time, he was very angry at the defeat of his brother Joseph in Spain, and he left his best military generals to his brother, but he still could not resist Wellington's attack.

Napoleon was furious about this: "He is fully responsible!" "The British report shows how stupid and naïve Joseph's command was! It's simply unheard of! Of course, he is not a military man, but he is responsible. Meddling in something you're not familiar with is the biggest mistake...... Tell the king that he is not allowed to see anyone until I return home...... Otherwise, his apartment in Paris will be the center of the conspiracy, and I will have him arrested, for I have no patience left. I will never again compromise my career in order to accommodate fools who are neither soldiers nor politicians! ”

Knowing that his brother was neither a soldier nor politically talented, but that he wanted to use his brother to do important things, he could only say that Napoleon was a very insecure man, and he could hardly trust anyone but his own family. This is again a typical characteristic of a powerful person, suspicious!

Thus angry, he had in his army the men whom he described as "neither a soldier nor a statesman", and who were also likely to be involved in intrigues against him, such as Louis being used by the British against him, but Napoleon was even more distrustful of his men besides them.

Even Napoleon's youngest brother, Jérôme, returned to military power, and Napoleon's distrust of outsiders had reached the extreme.

The reason is that there are constantly subordinates who betray him, such as Bernadotte, who was from a civilian background but was invited by the Swedes to be the king of Sweden because of his military achievements, but this person served under Napoleon and married Napoleon's ex-girlfriend Desiré. Napoleon canonized him as a marshal and later gave him the title of prince.

However, after he became the king of Sweden, he actually began to oppose Napoleon, broke the continental blockade system, and dared to join the anti-French alliance after Napoleon sent troops to occupy Swedish territory.

Another marshal Murat, who had been with him since the beginning of his expedition to Italy, was also in cahoots with Vienna, causing Napoleon to panic at the appeal of these orthodox monarchs.

Even such an important henchman would betray him, and who wouldn't betray him?

At this time, Napoleon probably had in mind Corsica, where their clans were always united against other families. So he brought this culture to France, and when he became French emperor, he wanted his older brothers and brothers to rule the rest of Europe.

But France is the cultural center of Europe, not the backwoods of Corsica.

Here, he challenged Europe's millennia of power inheritance and culture. In the end, all the countries came together.