Chapter 1039: Chen Han's Influence in the Flood

If Chen Ming hits the Russians with his idea, he will definitely not ignore Central Asia. The latter www.biquge.info located next to the Volga and the Caucasus, had a great influence on Russia. The Three Khanates of Kazakhstan and the Four Khanates of Mongolia are not very strong, but they will all have important responsibilities in the years to come.

Like keeping Russia away from the Caspian Sea!

Chen Ming did not waste much strength to destroy the three khanates of Khiva, Bukhara, and Kokand, and had already cut off Russia's big hand stretched out across the Caspian Sea to the east. With the establishment of the Sikh Kingdom, only one Afghanistan in the entire Central Asian region was left outside the system of Chen Han.

But Afghanistan is not close to Russia, even though Afghanistan faces the invisible threat of Chen Han and the hostility of Persia. They themselves were engaged in a civil war and did not react much to the development of things in the outside world. is like a hedgehog in a cage, and when he is frightened, he will only shake the long thorns on his body to make himself closer.

But Chen Ming will not let Afghanistan go. A country with a miracle of geological and mineral deposits in the world buried under the surface of this land has long been marked by Chen Ming. This is also to make Russia honest. In Chen Ming's 'planning map,' Russia does not need to be so close to the south, the Caucasus.

From the northeastern end of the Sea of Azov to the east towards the Caspian Sea, the area south of the line is the Caucasus, except for the Volga River basin. Let the Russians move away from the Caucasus and to the north bank of the Volga, and they will not be able to reach Central Asia, nor will they be able to make trouble for Chen Han in Central Asia. This area could be controlled by the Seven Khanates, or it could be independent, or even bought for the Persians, and anyway, the territory of Russia could not extend to the Caucasus.

And Afghanistan, since the Persians can gain new benefits in the Caucasus, they will let go of this Afghanistan.

The repercussions of the war in Central Asia were extremely far-reaching. The change in Afghanistan's attitude toward Chen-Han -- from closeness to wariness and resistance -- was largely due to the war. Chen Han's brutal methods against the three khanates of Khiva, Kokand and Bukhara, which was the invasion of Hongguoguo, did not even look for a decent excuse, went to war directly, and a war made the three countries disappear, it would be strange if Afghanistan did not be vigilant against Chen Han.

Fortunately, it is the Kazakhs who occupy the old land of the Three Khanates, and they are more or less the 'brothers' of the Heavenly Sect. If the Mongols occupied the old land of the Three Khanates, it would definitely make Afghanistan ten times more wary of Chen Han.

And Chen Ming has been staring at Afghanistan for a long time. And since Timur Shah Durrani, Afghanistan has been plunged into civil strife. His son took turns to come to power, and you sang and I appeared on the stage, which caused Afghanistan's national strength to drop greatly.

The three major tasks of the Sikh Kingdom, in addition to opening up the southern outlet to the sea and deterring Delhi, are to use troops against Afghanistan in the northwest. Afghanistan's territory is a little too big now, so it's better to slim down. Moreover, Chen Han was also instigating the Persian war against Afghanistan. Before Ahmad Shah Durrani, there was no kingdom in this part of Afghanistan, and it was Persian territory for a long time. Persia has not yet had the ambition to regain Afghanistan. Before, it was just that their forces were too weak and they had to face the huge threat of Russia, but now everything has changed.

Anyway, Chen Ming will use his means to weaken Afghanistan as much as possible, but he will not use troops to invade Afghanistan directly. In his previous life, the prestige of Afghanistan's 'Graveyard of Empires' made Chen Ming feel uneasy.

Even though Afghanistan is now in civil strife and strife.

Timur had thirty-six children, twenty-three of whom were sons, and after his death the whole country was plunged into a bloody struggle. Because many of his wives were the daughters and sisters of tribal chiefs, and it was a political marriage. These political marriages cemented the throne that had been slightly shaken at the beginning of his succession, but the consequence of each political marriage was that many of his sons had 'backstage'.

His fifth son, Zamantha Durrani, succeeded to the throne with the support of the clan's forces and became the new king. Timurshah's eldest son, Humayun, was the first to raise an army against it, but was soon defeated. Mamoud then rebelled, but was defeated by Zamanshah. But Zamanshah's power had been deeply shaken, and he had to consult with the chiefs [nobles] under his rule on matters of state, and reuse them as his prime ministers and officials, so his rule was not secure. He couldn't even kill Mamoud as a 'thief'. The Mamud then rebelled again, this time Zamansha underestimated the strength of the Mamudshah, and the defeat in the war made him fall into the hands of the Mamud himself.

Mamoud became the new king of Afghanistan in 1800, while Zamansha fled to India with the help of the British. But Mamud's reign was short-lived, and violent clashes between church and state in the country eventually led to his ouster. Shujasha was put on the throne in 1803, but his reign was similarly shaky, and in 1809 he was defeated by Mamud's army, who regained his position as king.

From the fact that Mamoud first lost the battle, and then was removed from the throne, but can still make a comeback again and again, we can know how chaotic Afghanistan is now, and how bleak the royal power is.

In such an environment, it is reasonable to say that it is suitable for the use of soldiers, but Chen Ming still does not dare to act rashly.

He believes that the Afghan army will not be hard to fight Chen Han head-on. If the armies of the two sides carried out a head-on battle, Chen Ming would easily pocket Afghanistan, but how could the Afghans find their own death?

They are more likely to use their own mountains and hills to fight guerrillas. With the complex and changeable terrain of Afghanistan, the British fought three Anglo-Afghan wars in the original time and space without winning, how dare Chen Ming easily walk into that cemetery?

Can the combat effectiveness of Chen Han's army be compared to the British in 1839, but can it be compared to the British in 1880? Besides, the Third Anglo-Afghan War took place after World War I. Weapons have been updated, and the combat effectiveness of the army has risen geometrically.

For Afghanistan, Chen Ming prefers to use gentle means, that is, to support a certain prince to defeat the current regime and cultivate pro-China forces within it. At the same time, it is also necessary to constantly stumble on the Dunilan Dynasty, so that this backward inland mountainous country will continue to be backward and poor. In this way, one day it will come to fruition, and the melon will be ripe.

Moreover, the terrain of Afghanistan is complex and rugged, and even if this land falls into the hands of Chen Han, it is difficult to develop it in all aspects. Why rush for a while?

Historically, Afghanistan was the front line of the confrontation between Britain and Russia, and the British wanted to get Afghanistan in order to prevent the Russians from peeping into India. And Russia also wants to find an excellent outlet to the warm Indian Ocean, and that must pass through Afghanistan. But in this era, Afghanistan has lost this function. If the Sikh kingdom can perfectly fulfill the mission given to them by Chen Han, India will be directly isolated from Afghanistan.

Chen Ming will perfectly 'breed' a pig in a poor mountainous country in the mountains of Afghanistan.

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Santo Domingo [Dominica], the eastern part of the Spanish island [Haiti Island].

It was a semi-independent area that had changed color since the Spaniards began to openly withdraw their troops from places like Havana. The flag symbolizing Spain was dropped from the port and replaced by the flag of the fledgling Republic of Haiti.

In 1795, France and Spain signed the Treaty of Basel in Switzerland, agreeing to cede the area of Santo Domingo in the eastern part of the island to France, making the island a complete French colony. However, just a few years later, the black Haitian Toussaint Louverture led a group of black slaves to revolt against French rule, and in 1801 succeeded in seizing the newly ruled Santo Domingo, and then unified the entire Spanish island.

Napoleon was not willing to lose this treasure, and he sent an army to reconquer the entire island, which lasted for several years. In the end, however, the French failed, and after Toussaint Louverture was booby-trapped by the French, the island's mulattoes and black slaves continued to fight to overthrow French colonial rule and wipe out the French expeditionary army. The rebel army declared Haiti's independence and established the Republic of Haiti. However, the defeated French still occupied the area of Santo Domingo to the east. It was not until 1808 when Napoleon invaded the Spanish mainland that the rebels in the eastern part of the island, with the help of the British, who were allied with Spain at the time, and Haiti in the western part of the island, finally defeated the remnants of the French forces that had been entrenched there. However, the Santo Domingo region did not achieve independence and became a Spanish colony again.

Now the Spaniards, who had just returned to Santo Domingo, fled. Both Santo Domingo and Haiti received a notice from Chen Han that they were about to be co-opted. The blacks among them will be sent to Africa, and if they work hard, everyone will get a lot of land. The mixed-race children and a small number of whites will be sent to the eastern Peru region, and their property and rights and interests will not be protected at all, but the mixed-race children can also take refuge in Chen Han.

Most of the black people of Haiti are unwilling, they have land like the island of Spain, and this is already their homeland. Hundreds of years after leaving Africa, Africa has long been an unfamiliar geographical term. But the blacks of Santo Domingo were willing, but the local mulattoes were not willing to go to Eastern Peru. Two forces hold each other back!

Yes, two forces.

The blacks of Santo Domingo are one share, while the mestizos, a small number of whites, and the Republic of Haiti are the other.

Yes, one of the two great powers in the western part of the Spanish island, the Republic of Haiti, a mulatto-dominated power, has an innate congruence with the anti-Chinese faction in Santo Domingo. However, the Kingdom of Haiti, in the north of the divided Haiti, still maintains a neutral posture on this matter. There are also many blacks in the anti-China forces, and not all blacks are willing to go to Africa. And it is very surprising that the relationship between the latter two was sharply hostile in Santo Domingo before, but now they came together very naturally in the face of another great force.

Chen Han did not use force against the Spanish island, nor did he even send official personnel to Port-au-Prince [the capital of Haiti, now the capital of the southern submarine republic] and Cap-Haïtien [the original Cap-de-France, the administrative center and largest port under French rule, and now the capital of the Kingdom of Haiti in the north], but set up an official liaison office in Santo Domingo.

But no one wants to give up their rights. Otherwise, how could Haiti, which had only been established for a few years, already split into two forces?

Haiti, which has been formally independent for several years, has now developed a 'strong' ruling class.

Jean-Jacques de Salin, a subordinate of Toussaint Louvertur, declared the State of Haiti after completely expelling the French expeditionary force, and in September of that year named himself Emperor of Haiti "Jacques I".

He created a highly centralized constitution for Haiti, established private ownership of land in northern Haiti, and distributed the property of expelled French people to blacks and mulattoes. He relied on military means to administer and restore agriculture and distribute the harvest equally among the peasants and workers. But when he tried to apply the system that had worked in the North to the South, he was met with resistance. De Salin took a hard-handed approach to the reforms, which in turn led to a coup d'état. Dessaline was assassinated. Then the ruling class in Port-au-Prince created a new constitution that made Haiti a republic and limited the power of the president. Henry Christopher, a pure-blooded black man who had just become president, resented this, because Christopher had become almost a puppet under the Constitution.

In retaliation, Kristof led his political rival Alexandre Pétion, a half-breed who was also the chairman of the Constitutional Council, in an attempt to conquer Port-au-Prince by force, but he was defeated by Alexandre Pétion. Haiti was then divided into two parts: Henri Christophe ruled the north with Cap-Haïtien as his capital, and Pétión ruled the south with Port-au-Prince as his capital.

Obviously, neither of these two groups will give up their rights. Henry Christopher, in particular, already called himself Henry I. And Alexandre Pétion was sent to France to study by his white father when he was a teenager, and he was quite influenced by French liberal thought, which was to abolish the imperial system. More importantly, he is a proponent of the half-breed race. He had fought a war with Toussaint-Louwitour for the benefit of a mulatto, and was forced to go into exile in France.

Relations between blacks and mulattoes on the Spanish island have long been strained, and in Saint-Domingue [Haiti] there are ten times as many blacks as whites and mulattoes. Although they formed a political alliance with each other against Spain, England, and France, the tension between them increased again when external pressure was removed. Petion is a representative of the mestizo.

And now in Chen Han's rules and regulations, it is directly 'vetoed' the rights and interests of mixed-race children, blacks still have the black kingdom, but mixed-race children are at most nobles of the black kingdom, or they are directly swept to the white side, which will inevitably be resolutely opposed by Pétion. And Henry I could not become the king of the Black Kingdom, and he would not compromise with Chen Han easily.