It's dark now, but the conference room in the hot spring palace is still brightly lit. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the place where the Great Tomorrow held the Imperial Meeting. In the past few months, Zhu Jishi has frequently held meetings here with senior officials of the wartime cabinet to discuss the situation. Nanmoto Takako walked in with a few maids with steaming coffee and green tea, and as soon as he opened the door, he was choked by the smoke gushing out of it, and there was a cloud of mist inside, although Emperor Zhu did not smoke, but he did not prohibit his ministers from smoking a cigarette to lift their spirits during the meeting. I don't know how long the meeting has been going on, but everyone is in good spirits, how can there be any sleep? Zhu Jishi was sitting on his throne, frowning and listening to what Pan Zuyin, the left minister of the cabinet, said quickly and urgently. The look on his face was even more solemn, as if there was bad news coming from the front line.

The bad news is indeed there, the former Dali king Zhu Guowei was defeated and captured - this also means that the Ming Dynasty has completely failed its strategy against India! And Will, who defeated the Ming army. Hemming, now free up his hands to brutally suppress the frustrated prince who launched an uprising a while ago. Many of the cities that had been occupied by this frustrated prince were returned to the British.

At the same time, King Kim Jae-fu of the Western Qing Dynasty was in trouble in Afghanistan. Hill. Ali Khan was supported by the British, and gathered 100,000 Afghan tribal forces to fight the Western Qing army of Kim Jae-fu. And the latter is the "Western Qing and Han Army" to deter, and the True God Cult "Green Battalion" is fighting to the death in front, so naturally the 'one' reading of the 'novel' is not the opponent of the Afghans holding high the banner of jihad, and they are almost exhausted in battles.

However, this level of failure is not a big deal for the behemoth of the Ming Empire. Moreover, the crucial naval battle in the South China Sea has ended with a complete victory for the Ming Navy. The defeated British Eastern Fleet did not dare to return to Singapore, but fled to Australia. There is almost no trace of the British Royal Navy in the whole of the South Seas. Even in the Indian Ocean, there is no British maritime power. And the Singapore Fortress. Even more so before May 30. fell into the siege of the Daming Sea Route Army. Sumatra and the large and small islands at the southeastern entrance to the Strait of Malacca have fallen. The 180,000 British and Indian troops all retreated to the fort of Singapore (including the six fortified fortifications of Johor, Skudai, Uludinam, Pasir Gudang, Senai and Singapore), relying on strong fortifications. As early as May 25, 18 steam sailing ships of the Ming Navy arrived in Chittagong under the escort of 10 armored cruisers, sending tens of thousands of tons of supplies. Another attack on India could be launched at any time, and the Ming Wartime Cabinet also meant this - as long as India was captured, the British Empire would basically collapse. By then, the war should have ended victoriously.

But Zhu Jishi knows that things are far from that simple. What the Ming Empire wants now is not just a few colonies belonging to Britain, but the leadership of the entire world!

Coming from later generations, he knows deeply what the concept of world overlord is! China, a big country with the world's best population, land, and resources, will always sit on the bench for world hegemon. As long as China does not ascend to the hegemon, it will be suppressed and contained by the hegemon who leads the world. No matter how much China tries to keep its head in the dark, no other country will ignore such a behemoth, unless China falls apart.

The situation of two heroes standing side by side or even three-legged is also very unfavorable to China, which represents the yellow civilization of East Asia. The truth goes without saying. No matter how close the relationship between the Zhu Ming dynasty and the British and French royal families was, China was never a member of the European civilization circle. The situation of "two-legged" and "three-legged". Sooner or later, it will develop into a "yellow-white Cold War," just like the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in later generations. This is not a cold war between 750 million Chinese and tens of millions of white Europeans, but a cold war between 750 million Chinese and hundreds of millions of whites!

In terms of population, land, resources, science and technology, and many other aspects, China is either in a comparative advantage or at a disadvantage. The result of a long confrontation with the entire white civilization is likely to make the future Greater China follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union in history......

Therefore, for China, which has already gained the upper hand on the battlefield of the world war, the best outcome is definitely not to lead the world together with France, but to lead the world alone! An unchallengeable authority must be established throughout the world, just like the United States of America, nay, it should surpass it! Only in this way can the Great Chinese Empire become an existence that the European powers look up to and submit, and any European or American power that might challenge the authority of the empire will be suppressed by the Great China Empire.

And to do this, the first thing is to break up the two great world empires of the Europeans - now the British Empire is about to fall apart, but the French and Roman empires have not yet fallen! Most of Africa, almost all of Latin America, as well as the five states of southeastern North America, and most of the Mediterranean coast, are now under French control...... Although the control of France is somewhat loose, it will inevitably become a united Roman Empire in time!

Therefore, after basically defeating Britain, the problem of how to dismantle the world empire of France has been placed in front of Zhu Jishi.

And after breaking up the two world empires of the Europeans, China must have a few "European-stirring sticks" in its hands, lest white Europeans unite against China at any time in the future -- this is also very knowledgeable. If you want to make a few European powers a-stirring stick, you must take advantage of other people's weaknesses, so that these countries can be used by China.

In Zhu Jishi's view, this weakness can only be interests -- China naturally wants to deprive the European powers of some of their interests, but it cannot completely deprive them of their interests. The idea of liberating the colonies and driving all the European powers back to their hometowns was completely absent from Emperor Zhu. What is the Ming really going to do, it will definitely unite the European powers to fight to the end! Moreover, the Ming Empire did not have such a great appetite to swallow the whole world except Europe.

Therefore, Zhu Jishi's current idea is to retain certain interests for the Europeans after seizing the world hegemony in the hands of the Europeans, and then use these interests as one end of the-stirring stick in his hands -- for example, India is the one end of the-stirring stick, and the British Isles is the other end of the-stirring stick...... Of course, the premise is that the British Empire loses North America and is willing to be used by the Ming Dynasty!

"India will not fight for the time being." As soon as Pan Zuyin put forward the proposal to attack India again on behalf of the cabinet, Zhu Jishi immediately shook his head and vetoed it, and after repeatedly weighing the gains and losses, he decided to wait and see on the Indian issue for the time being. "The next targets are regions like Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand. The Australian continent will become the Kingdom of South China, my eldest son will become the king of South China, and my eldest daughter-in-law, Helena, will become the queen of South China. ”

is different from Zhu Jishi, who has a heart of flowers, Zhu Guojie and his wife have a good relationship, and they do not accept side concubines. The two have given birth to 7 children in more than ten years of married life, so after the Sino-British war, Zhu Jishi did not consider divorcing Zhu Guojie and Helena, and the Queen of Nanhua also promised her early. Of course, the queen just shouted nicely to appease the white people who were willing to stay in South China.

"Really not fighting India anymore?" Pan Zuyin was stunned for a moment, not quite sure, "The War Department and the Army General Staff believe that attacking India is a sure victory......

Zhu Jishi nodded and said lightly: "I know, but I have to see the final result of the battle in North America before deciding whether to attack India." In addition, secret negotiations with Britain can also be initiated, I mean, the British Empire can still be retained after the war, and India will be our weight to control the British Empire. ”

Pan Zuyin nodded with a deep groan, his mind was spinning rapidly, and he already understood a little bit that Emperor Zhu was planning for the post-war world.

"Your Majesty, are we going to use Britain to contain France?" Pan Zuyin thought about it and asked again.

"Not exactly, because France will be the next opponent!" (To be continued......)