While the old and new cabinets were being renewed, Chen Ming was also working on the formation of the 'Dawn Fleet' in order to carry out his Black Kingdom plan in the future. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chen Ming was not interested in the war in the Americas.

What is there to be interested in? Chen Han's advantage is obvious, even if there is an extra United States on the Spanish side, even if the British support them behind their backs, and the Portuguese to mix, it is still an adult beating a child. Chen Han had the advantage.

Now Chen Ming feels that war is an even more brutal game. Although at the cost of lives and blood, the game is still a game.

And now the war in the Americas, it's like a game of ping-pong. Chen Han is the Chinese team of later generations. Where are the opponents?

can even use one sentence to describe Chen Ming's current mood: I think all of you are rubbish!

But no one else will have that confidence, although the reason for the concern comes from within. Then Shi Wenxuan and other representatives of the vassal state don't need to say more, let's just say that the Marathas who have just been beaten by the pain are very bitter now.

Just as Emperor Chen began to assemble a convoy of transports with paddle steamers as the main force, and as the Suez Canal project was about to be completed, an agreement between the British and the Marathas was being signed in the Buckingham Palace in Europe.

Chen Ming didn't know this at all.

In order to punish the British, it was in the middle of the year that the Sikhs of Punjab staged a great uprising and established the Sikh kingdom. Sikh chief Ranjit Singh ascended to the throne.

The Marathas did not want to see the northwest fall out of their hands, but after the counterinsurgency army set out from the city of Derry, which was under their control, the northern kingdom of Gurkha declared war on them. As a large empire that effectively controlled North India, the Marathas had an army of 300,000, of which 50,000 were Western-style troops trained first by the French and later by the British. It's a huge army, but Peshwabaji Rao, who is in charge of it, is a veritable 'weakling'.

Beneath the strong body of the Maratha has a severely shrunken brain.

Because the Peshwa system practiced by the Marathas is so ridiculous. Peshwa was a political system established during Shahu's reign. Peshwa's power is equivalent to that of the British prime minister, or the prime minister of China, and is designed to ensure that the country can continue to function normally at the most critical moment. However, after Shahu's death, the governance of the country gradually fell into the hands of Peshwa, and the monarch became a nominal head of state. The Maratha Kingdom also changed from a centralized state to a state governed by a number of local heads.

The current Maratha Kingdom should be said to be a Maratha chieftain alliance.

The huge army of 300,000 men belonged to the entire Union, not Peshwabaji Rao alone.

When the army of the Gurkha made no declaration of war against it, and when the army of Mysore also made an undeclared war against it, the Marathas themselves were in disarray. Should the army be concentrated in the northwest, north, or south?

Although the war lasted less than half a year, the ruling authority of the Marathas in North India was greatly weakened.

The Sikh kingdom gained independence, and most of Uttar Pradesh was taken by the Gurkhas, as was part of Orissa in the south.

The war had crumbling the rule of the Marathas in North India, and the three powerful men of the Maratha kingdom, Baji Rao, Holkar, Sindia, and Bangsley [princely states], knew that they would have to unite closely with the British if they were to preserve their existing interests.

This secret entente was born between the Marathas and the British before the war was over. At that time, the biggest controversy between them was who was in charge. Now the result is that the Marathas have capitulated.

George III looked at the agreement silently, don't look at the signing of this agreement silently, but he knew in his heart that this was a time bomb. In the interests of India, the British tied the Marathas tightly to their ships, and at the same time the British also stood on the side of the Marathas. This is a hidden danger that caused the Sino-British war!

I don't know since when, in the situation in India, Great Britain has needed to be more and more concerned about the feelings of the Chinese.

"Dear Viscount Castlereay, I don't want this treaty to be publicly displayed in front of everyone's eyes one day." Although George III signed the agreement, he was not willing to go to war with Chen Han in hundred, thousand, or ten thousand.

"Yes, Your Majesty. No one wants a war with China, and that would be a disaster for any country. ”

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh of the British Foreign Minister at the time, spoke softly to George III.

Since the death of little Pitt, there has been a change of prime ministers in British politics. Henry Addington, William Wyndham Grenville, and William Henry Bentinck, Duke of Portland, have been on the prime minister's throne in less than three years.

The Duke of Portland, the current prime minister of the United Kingdom, is a political ornament, he was prime minister for most of the year 25 years ago, but as is the case now, he does not hold any real power, only in name only. The real power belonged to Spencer Percival, who had even moved to 10 Downing Street and wrote a speech for George III at the opening of Parliament in 1807.

This secret treaty between the Maratha Kingdom and the British was approved by Spencer Percival and strongly promoted by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.

The Suez Canal is about to be opened, and the connection between the British Empire and India is bound to be even closer. Also at a time when the war in Europe was endless and there was no end in sight, the interests of India, the interests of the East, were of paramount importance to the British Empire.

Therefore, regardless of how much the weight of the Chinese on the Indian issue has increased, and whether there will be a war between China and Britain in the future, Britain cannot give up India's interests. If China continues to attack the Marathas, Britain will have to show that it wants to fight out, regardless of whether it has the strength to resist China.

In 1808 the British spent more than £80 million, of which £50 million was spent on the military alone. The UK's fiscal revenue is only £60 million. High personal income tax, inheritance tax, real estate tax and other indirect taxes have made the British finances reach an unprecedented high figure, and the current annual revenue of 60 million pounds is not the final amount, and the British fiscal income is increasing every year. But the limit of that number is also approaching.

More importantly, such a high level of indirect tax could not have been accepted by the British aristocracy and capitalists in non-war times. When peace is restored in Europe, indirect taxes such as personal income tax, inheritance tax, and real estate tax will definitely change, if not all of them are abolished. There is no doubt that the British will have to reduce their taxes considerably.

But consider the huge suffocating debt of the British? With hundreds of millions of pounds in government bonds, the annual interest is as high as 20 million pounds. The future Great Britain will not be able to leave India.

Robert Stewart, as the leading figure in the foreign affairs of the British Empire, how could he not know the strength of China? He knew very well that if Britain went to war with China, it would probably be a greater disaster for the British Empire than the Napoleonic Wars. But reality forced him to push the distance between London and Hyderabad.

You must know that after the signing of this treaty, Britain can permanently station a regular army of 10,000 people in the territory of Baji Rao; In order to sustain this army, the Marathas ceded a piece of territory with a tax of 5 million rupees to supply the British army. On behalf of the Marathas, Bagji Rao also promised not to employ any Europeans hostile to the British, and that the international relations of the Maratha Kingdom would be under the control of the British.

In addition, the Marathas ceded part of the territory between the Ganges and Jumuna rivers to the British, and the British almost connected the territory in Madras to Bengal.

Such huge gains are also the biggest reason why George III signed his name on the entente, even though he was unwilling to continue to exacerbate the conflict with China.

……

The weather in London is really not generally cold, just like the current situation in Europe, with clouds and a big war on the verge of breaking out.

However, this weather did not affect the arrival of Carol Audley Smith, an Irish gentleman who had just arrived in London, a well-known landowner in County Galway in the west of Ireland, but who was secretly the leader of an anti-British force in Ireland.

After putting on the French vests, it took months for the ETO to convince Smith of their identity. Now Smith had arrived in London with two retinues, and he was staying in a nondescript inn, hunched over a desk and carefully reading a letter.

These were the letters he had just received, with no name on the envelope, only a bottle stamp. This seal is the one that Smith taught to the OEU liaison [French] before he left Ireland.

The contents of the envelope were simple, a meeting in two days. Where, time, joint code and some points to watch out for and watch out for in London.

While Smith was reading the letter sent by the European Office over and over again, Xie Qinggao was also reading a stack of letters. Here are some letters from Poland.

With the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, Napoleon's friendship with Russia was rapidly dying. The founding of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw was a great deal of excitement for many Poles. But when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds, and there are always a few strange things about the millions of people in Poland -- they are anti-French.

Yes, Poland's current trend is to support France and resist Russia. The latter's bizarre political ideas also included a boycott of Russia, but they also resisted Napoleon, and they wanted to fight for the complete independence of the Polish nation, not to become Napoleon's vassals as they are now.

Some of these people were from the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, some were rebels from Russian Poland, and some were rebels from Austrian Poland. It's ridiculous.

I haven't learned to climb yet, I want to run.

If Xie Qinggao was them, he would completely hide his anti-French attributes at this time and hug Napoleon's thigh as much as possible. Because the dawn of Poland, the dawn of Poland, that is Napoleon and his imperial army.

The contents of this stack of letters are all much the same, first with polite sentences of greetings and thanks, without any nourishment, without any sincere feelings, and then asking for money! That's right, it's asking for money!

How can you do a 'revolution' without money. They need money, and they know that EEU has it, and they are willing to use it to help the oppressed Polish people move towards freedom.

The only sound in the study was the flipping of paper, which was not broken until there was a knock on the door. Xie Qinggao's secretary walked in.

"Your Excellency, Sir Smith has come to visit." The surname is also Sir Smith's, and it is one of the extensions of the OEU in London. As one of the members of the British Parliament, Smith was always able to come up with information that would be of interest to Xie Qinggao. Of course, this is not gratuitous.

In return, one of the Smith family's businesses, the White Company, was a well-known middleman in the Sino-British trade.

"Invite him in." Xie Qinggao threw away the stack of letters in his hand, this thing didn't mean anything at all. However, Smith's visit could stimulate Xie Qinggao's enthusiasm even more.