Chapter 52: The War

After the Empire took control of Alaska and the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1835, Pang Lang, as the governor of the Chinese North American colonies, extended his "claws" to other regions.

After establishing a small town of 3,000 people in the Yukon and claiming ownership of the Yukon, Lin Hong was able to take advantage of the proximity to the population. On the opposite side of Ai Island, Pang Lang established another broken gorge city with a population of 8,000. To the south of Broken Gap is the British Simpson Castle, but with a population of less than a thousand, it has no power to resist the comet-like rise of Broken Gap City.

It's just that Pang Lang's colonization game is not over yet, he continues to send colonial groups of 3,000 people, these teams choose the most suitable places to farm and live to settle down, and build simple wooden houses at an astonishing speed. The most surprising thing for Europeans was that these colonists from the Far East all brought with them ample supplies and surplus food. Even though they had missed the season of growing food, they were still able to live well in cold Canada, although the colonization of North America slowed down after the system stopped selling system personnel.

But by September, more than a dozen towns and forts had been built across the entire Columbia region, and the total Chinese population exceeded 100,000. Not only that, but the Chinese seem to be willing to help the local aboriginal people, who are visiting the UK for the Indian Chapter 057 and Zuo Zongtang as the auxiliary. After a four-month voyage, they finally arrived in England, and despite the tension between Britain and China, the arrival of the division was warmly welcomed by all walks of life in Britain.

The British Prime Minister at this time was the Viscount of Melbourne. In his early years, the Viscount of Melbourne was the teacher of Queen Victoria, and in 1839, the Whigs lost the parliamentary elections and the Viscount of Melbourne stepped down. Peel of the Tory Party proposed that the Whig maids from the Queen's side be cleared of the Queen's sidekicks, which the Queen firmly opposed. This is known as the "dormitory crisis". As a result, Peel refused to form a cabinet, and the Queen invited the Viscount of Melbourne to remain Prime Minister.

This was Tsang's second visit to England, the first being when Queen Victoria ascended the throne in June 1837, when Tsang led a delegation to Europe as the plenipotentiary representative of the Chinese Empire.

This time, Zeng Guofan came in the name of the emperor's envoy, and before leaving, Lin Hong found Zeng Guofan for a secret talk.

"Your Majesty, I wonder if there are any instructions for the ministers?"

"Bohan, I have only one word to ask for negotiations in the UK this time."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"Drag!"

"Your Majesty, is it inevitable that the two countries will go to war?"

"Are the British blind when they are preparing for war? They are just to see if they can negotiate to achieve greater benefits than war, in fact the development of the empire over the years is obvious to all, but we go against Britain all over the world, North America, we occupy and actually control their colonies; In South Asia, our contradictions with the British in North India have not been alleviated by the signing of the treaty, and the Maldives and the Andaman Islands that we occupy have seriously endangered their interests in India, East Africa, and the Empire has included Abyssinia as a protectorate, and has come close to their lifeline in Egypt. Only war could save their interests, and war was the result to the satisfaction of the British capitalists. So war is bound to come, and what I want you to do is buy time for the military deployment of the Empire. ”

"Your Majesty, your will is my life's pursuit!"

Lin Hong didn't know if it was right to do this, in 1840, he originally thought that with his arrival, history should have changed, and the Opium War should not be happening, but history is like this, but the reason for this war is not opium but to fight for hegemony.

Since you want to fight, you must win, this is Lin Hong's dream, change history, this is his original intention to come here. In his planning reference to the General Staff Headquarters, this was a total war to blossom across the globe, North America and especially the most important India and Southeast Asia.

The plan of the General Staff Headquarters focused the attack on India, and put an army of nine divisions in Tibet and two to three armies to attack India in the south, striving to occupy the north bank of the Ganges River and Kashmir within three to four months, and secretly arrange for an expeditionary force in the Maldives to attack Ceylon or go north to capture the Sindh region and then flank the army that captured Kashmir to obtain an outlet from the Indian Ocean for the empire. In North America, Indian troops and colonial divisions will be arranged to march east from the western colonies in dot lines. In East Africa, because Egypt was a British sphere of influence but still a territory of the Ottoman Empire, Lin Hong's demand for the East African colonies was to imminently and control the Central African region and to control the Nile River to threaten Egypt. In Southeast Asia, Lan Fang sent troops to secretly infiltrate the empire's protectorate Aceh (historically, the Netherlands sent an expeditionary force to invade Aceh in March 1873, but now Lin Hong easily obtained the protection treaty between Aceh and China with money and sticks and the help of Jinyiwei. The army captured Malacca and controlled the Straits of Malacca. After the occupation and control of the Strait of Malacca, the combat mission of the Reich's South Sea Fleet was to find and annihilate the British Far Eastern Fleet and the Indian Fleet.

In addition, if Russia harasses the north during the war, the Mongolian Military Region will cooperate with the Northeast Military Region to go north to seize the Great Lakes region, completely drive Russian forces east of the Ob River, and seize Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia.

For this war, Lin Hong even decided to issue war treasury bonds, you must know that the Chinese Empire never issued treasury bonds under the leadership of Lin Hong, and only issued colonial treasury bonds in order to balance the financial market in the past.

What Lin Hong wants is to win this war, this war for world hegemony at all costs.