Char raised his hand, and a projection of a map appeared in front of them.

As before, the borders of all countries are marked.

However, Beichen was heavily amplified.

"No matter how many times you look at it, this map is really exaggerated." Char sighed.

Except for the land of Muscovy, most of the territory of this Beichen is very similar to the Great Mongol Empire, and the land of Shenzhou is added.

With an area of more than 30 million square kilometers, spanning the Eurasian continent, Britannia, which occupies the entire North America, is one less land than this country.

Alicia bowed solemnly, "It's the first time I've seen Beichen so intuitively, if it weren't for the merger of Beizhou and Britannia, their territory would be even bigger." ”

"If this country can finally go a few hundred years from now, this country will not have any land and sea lines of communication, this kind of land, no one can block its shipping lanes.

With such a large land power, waiting for the future of train technology to advance, it is even better than sea power, not to mention that it also has several excellent ports.

It is a super-large complex country with both land and sea power. ”

Char raised his hand and drew a few places on Beichen.

"You see, the Great Plain of Eastern Europe, the Great Plain of North China, the Northeast, and the Fertile Crescent are all fertile land, and it is not a problem at all to carry billions of people.

Not to mention the huge oil and mineral resources in Central Asia, if it really comes to the future, this country will be enough for one country to fight the whole world.

Britannia is no match for this behemoth, not even if the whole of Europe unites. ”

"But that's not the same world as you said." Alicia said, "So, are you going to interfere?" ”

Char shook his head, "I don't need to interfere, this kind of Beichen is just the most ideal result."

But this is reality, and reality requires practicality.

A huge territory also means a huge military deployment, millions of troops need to fight against foreign enemies, internal counterinsurgency, and the pressure on the national treasury is enormous.

Moreover, there are many ethnic groups in the interior, especially in this area. ”

Char pointed to Central Asia.

"The rulers were very ambitious, they exported as much culture as they could, and they went into actions such as changing the land and returning it to the river, and they encouraged the Han people to multiply on the land.

But the time is too short, even if the Han people are fertile, it is impossible to create a large population out of thin air.

Moreover, in order to alleviate the national contradictions, the rulers acquiesced in the belief of Is* here, where there are many muslims, which would be the source of contradictions.

In order to better rule the land, the ruler would marry the local princes and nobles, just like the northern continent and Britannia.

But as generations multiplied, the royal family lacked some bloodline identification with the central dynasty.

Of course, the most important thing is that people's hearts are complex, and the ruling family will not always be an iron plate, and they will not always obey the central dynasty.

Therefore, disintegration is almost a visible inevitability.

It only takes an opportunity, and the changes within the Central Dynasty are obviously this opportunity. ”

"What do you mean by the constitutional monarchy that Sebas said earlier?"

"The ruling families are clearly not going to agree." Char said.

He shifted his position and leaned comfortably on the pillow.

"A large country has the advantages of a large country, but if the national strength is not enough to have such a large country, it will become a burden.

Such were the limitations of this era, as trains and steamships had not yet appeared, and there was a lack of communication between the places.

Throughout history, it has not been uncommon for countries to collapse because of their size.

Smart countries will choose to cut off their tails in order to survive, and the regrown tails will also be more beautiful. ”

Char raised his hand, and the map in front of him began to change, it was the territory of the Central Dynasty, very similar to the Qing Dynasty, but slightly larger.

Looking at the geological map around Shenzhou, the territory of the Qing Dynasty is really the most perfect in the history of Shenzhou, completely overlapping with the surrounding series of tall mountain ranges, and it is only fitting to use these natural geographical barriers as boundaries.

Of course, this picture in front of you is not bad.

From Sakhalin Island in the northeast, across the strait, along the Trans-Khingan Mountains, part of the Lena River and Lake Baikal, to the East and West Sayan Mountains, the western section of the Altai Mountains, the Tien Shan Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains, and then the Huguo Sacred Mountain, the long Himalayas, the western section of the Hengduan Mountains, and the Gaoligong Mountains, it will come to the seaside of the South China Sea in a circle.

Unlike the Qing Dynasty, there is Lake Baikal, and the water storage capacity of this freshwater lake is very terrifying, eight times that of the rivers and lakes of the entire land of China combined!

With this lake, the water shortage in the Great Northwest is directly solved.

There is also a place in the northwest that has entered Central Asia, and if the future development is good, it is not without the possibility of regaining economic control of Central Asia.

In addition, there is also Myanmar and Cochin, which have an outlet to the Indian Ocean, so you don't have to worry about the Strait of Malacca.

In this way, the area of this central imperial dynasty is almost about 14 million square kilometers.

"But in this case, there is no way to fight against Britannia." Alicia said.

The current land of Britannia is equivalent to the whole of North America, and if the GDP of the three countries of Chou, Canada and Mexico is added up according to the international situation in the 21 st century, then its GDP can reach at least 29 trillion US dollars, which is converted into about 200 billion yuan.

It's an unusually scary economy.

Of course, the reason for the prosperity of the ugly country is not because of its vast territory, and no one knows what stage Britannia will reach in the future.

It may be weak, or it may become stronger than the ugly country after integrating the resources of North America.

But in any case, huge land resources and strategic depth are the most important criteria for a large country.

"There are still a lot of problems within Britannia that need to be resolved." Char said, "And the German emperor of Europe was very ambitious, and he should set out to unify Europe."

The Ottoman Empire will be held back by the newly rising Egyptian civilization, and this will be the time for Beichen to breathe.

A bourgeois revolution is underway within them, and if it succeeds, their industrial revolution will be quickened and perfected.

They already have steamship technology. ”

Char's eyes shone brightly, and under the perspective of clairvoyance, the pattern of the entire world appeared in his eyes, and countless data flowed in his mind, and he could deduce a certain future scene based on this information.

"The geography of Shenzhou is high in the west and low in the east, cold in the north and hot in the south, and the most suitable areas for survival and development have all been occupied.

Whether it is to develop to the north and develop to the south, it is actually chicken ribs, and the most suitable for Beichen is actually to develop and develop to the west.

First, the Silk Road in the Western Regions, which can be called a line of economic activity, naturally needs to be protected, and since the Han Dynasty, almost all major wars and territorial expansion have revolved around the relevant areas of the Silk Road.

The second is that the nomads in the northwest caused too much pressure on the survival of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Therefore, the purpose of the successive emperors of Shenzhou was to expand the territory and establish a buffer zone.

But now that the west is about to be broken through by Beichen, even if it disintegrates, the cultural influence still exists.

So in the end, they were left with only a north-south direction.

Leaders have a vision for the future and know the importance of future sea power.

They would have expanded into Southeast Asia, and with steamships, the exploration of the seas was not a problem, and in the Age of Discovery, they were already colonizing the south.

When these islands were still tribal, it was they who brought civilization, and these are islands within the Shenzhou cultural circle, which have the basis for ethnic integration.

The Nanchen Kingdom on Australia should be separated from the Beichen, and in the cooperation of the two, it is not a problem to take the land of Southeast Asia.

In the future, the country's internal market will be even larger, occupying rich resources such as golden waterways, minerals, and oil, rubber, etc.

The land in Indochina is very fertile, and rice can be harvested three times a year.

From a military point of view, Shenzhou completely controls the Strait of Malacca, controlling all key waterways between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

In the future, the fleet of ships will have easier access to and from the Indian Ocean, and the security of the Indian Ocean's trade and energy routes will be strongly guaranteed. Relying on the geographical advantages of the Indonesian archipelago, it can also better communicate with Nanchen. ”

In fact, Nanchen is the purpose of Beichen's development to the south.

Nanchen is Australia.

In another time and space, the bilateral trade volume between China and Australia in 2021 was about 231.2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 35.1%, of which China imported 164.8 billion US dollars from Australia, a year-on-year increase of 40.6%, and the explosive growth came from iron ore, aluminum and natural gas.

There were few Shenzhou deficits in the world at that time.

BJ's population occupies a continent, and it's a terrible thing.

But in this plane, there are some possibilities.

Even without unification, the formation of a united economy is not impossible.

With Australia, Zealand Asia next to Australia can also be included.

Zealand Asia is a land unique to this plane, and it actually exists in another plane, but it has been submerged by the sea, leaving only the part of New Zealand that is out of the water.

At that time, with these two continents as a springboard, some of the islands in the South Pacific will also become the bag of China.

Maybe Nanchen will not be unified, but if it is combined with Silanti Asia to become a country, it is also a good choice to become a backup of the Shenzhou civilization.

Shenzhou will become a super-giant country with a territory from East Asia, across Australia, occupying part of the South Pacific, and reaching the Antarctic.

Most of the sea power in the Pacific Ocean and half of the Indian Ocean, that is, about half of the world's sea power, will also belong to Shenzhou.

Even most of the Antarctic continent will belong to Shenzhou.

The world is divided into two, and the countries of East Asia can only follow Shenzhou, because it is impossible to cross Shenzhou to trade abroad, and a community with a shared future for mankind dominated by yellow people will be established.

In fact, in another time and space, Shenzhou is not without this possibility, but unfortunately, the pressure in the north is relatively high, attracting most of the troops.

The second is that it interfered with the Western powers at that time, and the third is that it is not very competitive internally.

If you look at the data of the 21st century, excluding Australia, Southeast Asia has a population of 660 million and an area of 4.57 million square kilometers

The total GDP is 21 trillion yuan, and the cultivated land area is 1.12 billion mu.

If you add Char's Shenzhou in that time and space, in general, it is a superpower with a population of 2.1 billion, a cultivated land area of 3 billion mu, a GDP of 142 trillion yuan, a per capita GDP of 10,000 US dollars, and an economic circle of more than 4 billion people.

If such a country existed in Char's original world, four of the five hooligans would have to unite except for Shenzhou.

However, there is already such a behemoth as Britannia in this world, and if you don't want to dismember Britannia, then the existence of such a behemoth is necessary.

This would not have been possible in the 21st century, because the religious structure in Southeast Asia was complex.

If incorporated into Southeast Asia. There will be an additional 200 million people and 100 million more Christians in Shenzhou, which is a very huge destabilizing factor.

However, this era is different, as early as the fifteenth century, Shenzhou was colonizing Southeast Asia, and successfully occupied Australia, and the Han nationality occupied the main body, and there was a possibility of this culturally.

However, these needs are built on a large fleet, and the existence of steamships is undoubtedly the most suitable opportunity.

The right time, the right people, and the right people are occupied, so this future is very likely.

"Why not go north?" Alicia asked curiously, "Aren't Beichen's cavalry very powerful?" ”

"The only advantage of that land is oil and other mining resources." "The land of Siberia is too barren and cold for immigration, and as long as you control the trade routes and manufacturing, the resources of this land will be theirs after all."

And if you expand northward, you may be able to use the Lena River as a border to be safe, and in the Bering Strait it will be extremely close to Britannia, and the two superpowers will directly border, which is not a good thing. ”

"In that case, only European unity will be possible to confront these two countries." "Egypt also has to unify the Arab world there, but it's very difficult to change the beliefs of a region for more than a thousand years, and even Beichen can't do it," Alicia said. ”

"So I gave him magic." "However, the existence of a multipolar world does not have to be equally powerful, as long as it can make each side jealous and have the ability to make the other pay the price."

And it doesn't have to be unified, it is also feasible to form a unified economy, such as Europe. ”

Alicia nodded, "So, which one are you going to choose?" ”

She pointed to a corner of the map, "How about this?" ”

She pointed to India's location, "It's very close to Southeast Asia, and it should affect Beichen's strategy in the future, I've heard people say that this land is fertile and can feed a lot of people, but there is no unified regime."

The geographical location is also very good, with the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west, and the Himalayas in the north, so you can trade with Beichen and the future Egyptian Empire while maintaining your independence, and there are many oil resources in Central Asia. ”

"It's a good place, but." Char's words paused, "There are some problems, Beichen will not allow such a country to appear in this position and affect their Southeast Asian strategy, they will take action to disintegrate this country."

Unlike the Arab world that Egypt faced, the magic I gave to Ramses II was powerful, but not so much that it changed the world.

And the civilizations that he has represented by the Egyptians in the afterlife are useful.

And if you want the people of this land to be able to meet Beichen, then you need to cheat on them very much.

This is not what I intended, and it could lead to the situation spiraling out of control and creating another superpower.

However, there is no hurry, after the industrial revolution, there will inevitably be several world wars to determine the pattern and order of the world.

At that point, there will be no problem with conducting an expedition.

Now, it's just a matter of planting some seeds."

(End of chapter)