It stands to reason that Ranjit Singh was not wrong to seek support, and the Sikh Kingdom was also a member of the Chinese Grand Alliance. According to the rules of the alliance, it is necessary for one side to support from all sides.

Although the Marathas launched a counterattack against Sikh, news of the Chinese Grand Alliance had not yet reached Hyderabad.

So this raises a question, is the Huaxia Grand Alliance vigorously supporting the Sikhs and suppressing the Marathas? Or use political force to deter the Marathas?

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs can easily make a package ticket, and as long as the opposition of the alliance countries led by China is handed to Hyderabad, the Marathas will obediently give in and be friendly with the Sikhs. But this is not refreshing enough, and it is not enough for China to be strong and majestic.

The Grand League has just been established, and it's time to establish authority.

Therefore, sending troops to fight is a decision supported by many people, but in this way, it is very likely to touch the sensitive nerves of the British.

The Marathas were one of their most reliable allies in India, and London would be seriously dissatisfied if their rule in North India was overwhelmed by Chen Han. This greatly affected their interests in the Indian region. To be clear, the current situation in Europe has changed, and Napoleon is not what it used to be.

While this will only allow the British to spend more energy on continental Europe, their attitude towards the outside world will certainly be very different.

Chen Han did not yet know that Austria had declared war on the Ottoman Empire, but Chen Han's center knew that Austria, Russia, and Britain had been in non-stop secret contact since last year, and knew that Austria was likely to declare war on the Ottomans.

Ranjit Singh is very politically savvy, he understands this very well, so he does not ask for reinforcements/volunteers, but for military and financial support, as long as he has money and arms, he can immediately expand the army of the Sikh kingdom and counter the Maratha attack. Moreover, he also asked that Nanjing deter Hyderabad and create a convenient situation for the Sikh Kingdom to take the opportunity to open up access to the sea.

In other words, let the Sikh kingdom complete the complete expansion from the north-central part of the later Pakistan to the south, so that the Marathas themselves are 'powerless'.

Ranjit Singh thinks the big leagues can make the Marathas 'fake play'.

There are some things that Wang Qi doesn't need to tell Chen Jiqing too clearly, Chen Jiqing's location, he already knows the things he should know, and there is no need for him to understand the reasons why he shouldn't understand, Wang Qi doesn't want to get the true scriptures from him, but just to make a consultation.

With Chen Jiqing's status and his vision, the views he gave themselves represent a considerable part of Chen Han's internal strength.

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Just when Chen Jiqing was seriously thinking about how to reply to Wang Qi, Wu Bingjian had already come to Shanghai from Guangzhou. He was looking for a young man surnamed Zhu, who stayed in a Ruyi hotel in the south of Shanghai, Wu Bingjian found this young man surnamed Zhu according to the address, this young man who was not old but already had a lot of style was eating wine in the room with a few companions, and he was already half drunk. But fortunately, he still knows Wu Bingjian, and he still remembers the task assigned by his uncle. So, without saying a word, he left his companion who was drinking and eating meat, pulled Wu Bingjian to the inner room, took out a letter from a suitcase, and handed it to Wu Bingjian.

Wu Bingjian took the letter, glanced at the envelope first, and saw that the handwriting was the handwriting of Ge Er, whom he was familiar with. This character is not highly educated, so the characters are written very casually, and they are all simplified. Wu Bingjian didn't mind, Ge Er's identity was not mentionable, and his Wu family's background was average. After opening the envelope, taking out the stationery, and reading it carefully, Wu Bingjian had a smile on his face.

Ge Er knew Wu Bingjian's character, so he didn't have much politeness in the letter, first a few words of greeting, and then 'straight to the point', telling him clearly that the purpose of sending his nephew Xu Yulin to meet Wu Bingjian was not for other things, but for the 'alliance' between the Northern Sugar Group and the Southern Sugar Group.

Although the production of the northern sugar group is not more than half of that of the southern sugar group, they are now facing a huge external threat - the Americas.

Looking at the sugar production of the Spanish island [Haiti Island] and Cuba, if a large number of cheap and high-quality granulated sugar and crystal sugar pour into the mainland, it will be a huge impact on both the south and the north.

Although Ge Er did not explicitly say it in the letter, Wu Bingjian could also judge from the content of the letter that the large and small companies of the northern sugar industry agreed to reach an agreement with the south to protect their own interests.

A small 'sugar industry' seems to be no longer in the sequence of people's daily necessities, but the huge profits contained in it make every 'person' who occupies a place in the sugar market reluctant to give up, such as the Li family. The huge profits of Hainan Sugar Group have always been a huge support force for Chen Ding and the Li family who were in a difficult situation in the past few years.

It's just that with the promotion of sugar beet in the north, especially in the northeast, the booming sugar industry in the north has made the sugar industry interests in the south have been greatly challenged, so no one has time to swallow up rivals and monopolize the sugar market. And now, with the partition unfolding, they have to face a huge challenge from the Caribbean.

Today's Chen Han local sugar industry is like a group of warlords in a melee, and will the outsiders who may soon attack them on a large scale be the strong 'Anglo-French forces' or the more ferocious 'Japanese', or the Dongying dwarfs at the mouth of the Baijiang River? No one knows about the North and the South, but neither of them dares to turn a blind eye to it.

In 1780, only the island of Saint-Domingue [Haiti] provided 40% of the sugar and 60% of the coffee in the entire European market. And how big will this number be when it comes to the unit of weight?

In 1767, 72 million pounds of raw sugar and 52 million pounds of white sugar were exported to Europe, totaling 55,800 metric tons.

As for Cuba, when the Spaniards completely withdrew from the island, Cuba's sugar production was expected to reach 30,000 metric tons. This is a small number, and that is because the Spaniards, who had previously had Cuba, did not dare to touch the cheese of the French in the international sugar trade. Before the riots in Haiti, Cuba produced only 6,000 metric tons of sugar, and its wealth came more from tobacco and animal husbandry. But the turmoil in Haiti gave the Spaniards an opportunity to see a golden moment to develop a sugar industry, and then in two decades, Cuban sugar production exploded from 6,000 to 30,000 tons.

Some data show that the climatic factors in Cuba are very suitable for the growth of sugarcane, which grows and develops in the rainy season, and enters the ripening stage to coincide with the dry season, and the cane plants stop growing, which is conducive to the accumulation of sugar. The sugar content of local sugarcane is as high as 13~15%, and almost all of them can enter the first-class sequence in the raw material classification of Chen Han Sugar. It's incredible. And the soil conditions here are also very suitable for the general rule of sugarcane, the vast low-level area is limestone weathered soil, the soil layer is up to 8 meters thick, rich in organic matter, unlike the land in southern China, thousands of years of reclamation and planting have exhausted the fertility of the field, such as careful maintenance of the field, every time you have to spend a lot of money to buy guano and bean cake, for the sugarcane planting cost to add a significant amount.

In addition, Cuba's mountainous area is small, and agricultural and animal husbandry land accounts for more than 2/3 of the land area, and the reclamation index is very high. The gently sloping area at an altitude of less than 104 metres is well drained, making it particularly suitable for growing sugarcane, as well as for farming and transport. In addition, Cuba is a long and narrow island country, with a coastline of 5,700 kilometers, many bays and good ports, and convenient sea transportation. This is also a favorable condition for the transportation and export of sucrose.

If the Song Kingdom had made up its mind to develop the sugar industry, the sugar production on the island of Cuba would soon have exploded.

And unlike the turmoil and war that lasted for more than a decade on the Spanish island, the Cuban island was very small in terms of the damage and impact of the war, and it originally had a population of 600,000. The war on the American continent caused many Spaniards and their descendants to flee here, and the population once exceeded 800,000. By the time the Spaniards withdrew from Cuba, the population was estimated to be around 600,000, half of the population was Spanish and native-born, and the rest were black slaves and mestizos, and the local Indians had long since ceased to exist.

Spaniards and native-born whites were to leave Cuba, but the existing plantations and infrastructure on the island of Cuba would not be destroyed by the Spaniards. Although the population has decreased a lot, and Chen Jiqing can send the population to the island, the future Song Kingdom will be at most 500,000 at the beginning. But if you think about it, you can know that the labor productivity that these 500,000 people can burst out will far exceed the previous 600,000, or even 800,000.

Because every black and Chinese immigrant knew that although some of their labor was exploited by the Song state, they themselves could get much more. The more they do, the more they get.

This motivation is completely different from the previous one. Is it the greater the incentive to produce more, or is it the greater the motivation under the coercion of the whip and shackles? It's self-explanatory.

Therefore, none of the two major sugar conglomerates in China, the north and south, dare to take the threat of the Caribbean lightly. No one can guarantee that the sugar they produce will appear on the local market on what day and when. The latter is a huge market that continues to expand. No one wants their cheese to be shared.

Moreover, the monarchs of the Song Kingdom [Chen Jiqing] on the island of Cuba and the Peng Houguo [Chen Jigong] on the Spanish island are brothers who have broken bones and tendons. Whether there will be competition between the sugar companies of the two countries is still a long, long time later, the important thing is that it is almost impossible for them to have competition between them now, the vast market is in front of them, and Song Wang and Peng Hou are not fools with water in their heads, of course, they will not break their heads first, and they will lose both.

Wu Bingjian is the head of the Hainan Sugar Group under the Li Foundation, and Ge Er, who contacted him, was one of the bigwigs of the Immigration Bureau that year. Ge Er's brother-in-law Zhu Ping'an got his support, and opened a food processing factory in Lushun in the early years, full of development and growth, when sugar beet planting was promoted to the Northeast, Zhu Ping'an was the first batch of people to plant sugar beet on a large scale and establish a sugar beet sugar factory, and he was also a leader in the Northern Sugar Group.

The young man who met Wu Bingjian now is Zhu Ping'an's youngest son, who has been pampered by Ge Er's eldest sister since he was a child, and Zhu Ping'an was busy with his career and neglected to discipline his son, and he was crooked unconsciously. ruthless, Zhu Ping'an was sent to the army to be a soldier when he was eighteen years old, but who would have thought that being a soldier for three years would be even more ruffian. It can only be said that he was unlucky and ran into a veteran ruffian squad leader. After retiring from the army, he was messing around in Shenyang, Lushun and other places, if it weren't for his father being a first-class rich man in the Northeast, this guy would be a second-rate man.

In the affairs of the world, how can everything go smoothly and everything goes well.