Chapter 394: The Great Balance of Eurasia

England, London suburbs, Windsor Castle.

A sigh sounded.

"What a despairing contrast!"

King George III said with a sigh.

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

News has come that the Russians were defeated and completely lost part of their territory in the east.

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

But everyone knows it.

Russia has been completely defeated by Ming Dynasty.

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

It took the Russians more than a hundred years to build these fortresses one after another in the northern part of the Central Asian steppes.

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

It is precisely because of the support of these fortresses that the Russian Empire can gradually project its power to the east.

And now.

These fortresses that the Russian Empire has painstakingly managed for more than a hundred years all belong to the Chinese.

This way.

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

Central Siberia, Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka Peninsula, etc.

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

Of course.

These are all bitterly cold places and have no practical effect. The Ming Empire has only established a Hanbei Development Company in such a huge area. It has not even divided administrative regions. The value of these frozen soils is very important to Russia. It is very important, but for Ming Dynasty, the largest industrial country in the world, it is not of particularly important value.

only.

Such a huge piece of land on the map all belongs to the Ming Dynasty.

This makes the Ming Empire appear very conspicuous or scary on the entire world map!

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

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

They are all red belonging to the Ming Empire.

Just seeing this area on the map.

George III's eyes were twitching all the time.

"Chris may be the human emperor who ruled the largest population and land in history, right?"

said King George III.

"I never expected that the exiled prince of China a few years ago would actually become the most powerful emperor in human history in just a few years!"

The Prime Minister of the British Empire, William Burt Jr., sighed and said.

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

When Zhu Daohua was in Europe, he attended his banquet. At that time, William William Jr. commented on Zhu Daohua that he was "not a qualified politician, more like a scholar."

However.

Everything is happening now.

It made little William Burt doubt his own vision of people.

"The Russians have been defeated, and their envoys have arrived in London." George III frowned, "They are already seeking an alliance with the French. If Russia and France form an alliance"

For the British Empire.

Their mainland strategy is a stir-up strategy - to put it nicely, it means balancing.

Their goal was to prevent the European continent from being unified as much as possible.

but now

They can't seem to find a place to stick their shit sticks.

Because now in continental Europe.

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

Invasion from the East is a fear engraved in the genes of many European countries and nations.

Huns, Turks, Mongols.

Generally speaking, these rolling kings from the farming peoples on the side of the Great Wall and to the south will set their goals in the west and invade along the Eurasian steppe belt.

It is difficult for Western countries to resist their invasion.

To some extent.

The two sides inside and outside the Great Oriental Wall contribute to each other.

A large part of the external reason for the formation of the farming empire in the south was to resist invasion and plunder from the northern grasslands.

The formation of the farming empire in the south, especially after the construction of the Great Wall.

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

And now.

Something even more frightening to Westerners has happened: the two kings of scrolls to the north and south of the Great Eastern Wall are now subject to the same emperor!

and.

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

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

All over Europe.

There is no country that can compete with this great empire alone.

The military strength of the Russian Empire is 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.

The results are shocking.

"What is even more shocking is that 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 theory of defensive invincibility! At least! .The Chinese know how to break through such a defense1"

said little William Burt.

"That North America"

"North America doesn't need to worry yet, the key lies in India!"

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

on the map.

The Indian princes of the Ming Empire had destroyed the Mughal Empire, and at the same time also dismantled the Maratha Alliance, forming a current situation in which large and small states in central and southern India surrendered to the Indian princes of the Ming Dynasty.

And in northwest India.

The remnants of the original Qing Empire occupied a large amount of land from the Durrani Dynasty, and at the same time occupied the southern part of the Sikh Empire to the east.

While they continued to fight the Sikh Empire in the north, they also fought against the Kalat Khanate and Talpur Dynasty in the south.

These defeated remnants of the army who escaped from China have shown strong combat effectiveness in India. At least it is difficult for these Indian states to resist their invasion.

Thus.

British India once occupied almost the entire southern India and the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges River Basin.

Now only a small circle of Bengal is left, and with the Ming Dynasty, the Indian princes adopted the strategy of "maintaining contact and gradually encroaching".

The territory of British India, which was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength 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." William Burt Jr. shook his head and said.

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

King George III frowned when he heard this.

Little William knew what George III was thinking. If the European continent was unified like the Eastern continent, England might lose its sovereignty like Japan in the East.

after all.

Compared to a continent.

The power of several small islands is very limited!

A smile appeared on the corner of William Bert'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 big balance!" ( End of this chapter)