Windsor Castle, a suburb of London, England.

A sigh rang out.

"What a desperate comparison!"

King George III said with a sigh.

Hanging in front of him was the latest map that had just been delivered.

The news of the defeat of the Russians and the complete loss of the eastern part of the territory has arrived.

Although this time, the Russians put on a posture of fighting to the death, and did not sign any treaties with the Ming Empire.

But everyone knows it.

Russia has been completely defeated by the Ming Dynasty.

They lost all their fortresses in the steppes of northern Central Asia.

These forts were built by the Russians over a hundred years in the northern part of the Central Asian steppes.

It is the most critical support point for Russia's eastward expansion.

It was precisely because of the support of these fortresses that the Russian Empire was able to gradually project its power to the East.

And now.

These fortress complexes, which the Russian Empire had painstakingly operated for more than a hundred years, all belonged to the Chinese.

And so it goes.

The entire vast territory of the Russian Empire in the East.

Central Siberia, Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka, etc.

All of them have become the pockets of the Ming Empire.

Of course.

These are bitter cold lands, and they have no practical effect, and the Ming Empire has only established a Hanbei Development Company in such a huge area, and there is no administrative division - the value of these frozen soils is crucial for Russia, but for the Ming Dynasty, the world's largest industrial country, there is actually no particularly important value.

It's just that.

On the map, such a huge piece of land all belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

This makes the Ming Empire on the entire world map very conspicuous, or rather, terrifying!

The Yenisei River, Central Asia, and the Tibetan Plateau go east to the Pacific coast.

From the Northern Glacier south to the north of the Australian continent.

It's all a piece of red that belongs to the Ming Empire.

Just by seeing this area on the map.

George III's eyelids have been jumping.

"Chris may be the human emperor who rules the most people and land in history, right?"

George III said.

"I didn't expect that. A few years ago, the Chinese exiled prince would become the most powerful emperor in the history of mankind in just a few years! ”

Williambert Jr., Prime Minister of the British Empire, said with a sigh.

He really didn't expect Zhu Daohua to do such a thing.

At the beginning, Zhu Daohua also attended his banquet when he was in Europe, and Williambert Jr.'s evaluation of Zhu Daohua at that time was "not a qualified politician, more like a scholar".

However.

Everything that is happening now.

made Williambert Jr. a little suspicious of his own eyes on people.

"The Russians have been defeated, their emissaries have arrived in London," George III frowned, "and they are already seeking an alliance with the French. If the Franco-Russian alliance "

For the British Empire.

Their continental strategy is a-stirring stick strategy – to put it mildly, balance.

Their goal was to try as much as possible without the continent being united.

But now

They don't seem to be able to find a support point to insert into their-stirring sticks.

Because now on the European continent.

Almost all the newspapers are reporting one thing: the new Mongols are coming! The Yellow Peril is coming!

The invasion from the East is a fear engraved in the genes of many European countries and peoples.

Huns, Turks, Mongols.

These agrarian peoples on the side of the Great Wall and in the south are usually the ones who invade along the Eurasian steppe belt if they set their sights on the west.

It is very difficult for the countries of the West to resist their invasion.

To some extent.

The inside and outside of the Great Wall of the East are mutually reinforcing.

A large part of the formation of the agrarian empire in the south was due to the invasion and raiding of the northern steppes.

And the formation of the agrarian empire in the south, especially after the construction of the Great Wall.

This, in turn, forced the loose nomadic tribes of the north to unite and evolve into a large nomadic empire.

And now.

Something that frightened Westerners even more happened: the two great kings of the north and south of the Great Wall of the East were now subservient to the same emperor!

Moreover.

The new empire has also shown its ambition to rule the world.

Their tentacles have extended to the Australian continent and the American continent.

All over Europe.

Nor can there be any country that can compete with this great empire alone.

The military power of the Russian Empire was definitely not weak in Europe.

However, the three wars between the Russian Empire and the Ming Empire all ended in the complete defeat of the Russian Empire.

Such results are staggering.

"What's even more shocking. In the third Sino-Russian war, the Russian army was almost annihilated by the Ming army after breaking through the defense with complete fortifications! This shows that there is a huge problem with the military doctrine of defensive invincibility! At least. The Chinese know how to break through such a defense1"

Williambert Jr. said.

"That North America"

"North America doesn't need to worry about it for the time being, the key is India!"

"India." Speaking of India, George III sighed again.

on the map.

The Indian princes of the Ming Empire had already destroyed the Mughal Empire, and at the same time, the Maratha League was also dismantled, forming the status quo of large and small princely states in central and southern India submitting to the Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty.

And in the northwest of India.

The remnants of the original Qing Empire occupied a large amount of land under the Durrani dynasty, while occupying the southern part of the Sikh Empire eastward.

While they continued to fight against the Sikh Empire in the north, they also fought against the Khanate of Karath and the Talpur dynasty in the south.

These remnants of the defeated army who fled from China have shown great fighting power in India, at least these Indian princely states will have a hard time resisting their invasion.

So.

British India, which once occupied almost all of southern India and the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges Valley.

Now only the small circle of Bengal remains, and with the Ming Dynasty, the Indian princes adopted the strategy of "keeping in touch and gradually encroaching".

The territory of British India, which was inferior in terms of troops and supplies, was also shrinking.

"India. Can we still stay in India? ”

"I think the British Empire needs to make a trade-off, we can't fight the Chinese in India, it's too far away." Williambert Jr. shook his head and said.

"In addition. We can also support, and even join, the alliance between Russia and France. ”

George III frowned when he heard this.

Williambert Jr. knew what George III was thinking, and if the European continent was united like the Eastern continent, England might lose its sovereignty like Japan in the East.

After all.

Compared to a continent.

The power of a few small islands is very limited!

A smile appeared at the corner of William Jr's mouth: "If the balance of the European continent is a small balance, then the balance of the Eurasian continent is a big balance!" The British Empire can still reap its own benefits from this great balance! (End of chapter)