Dominate the Country

Winter has come again. Heavy snow covered the whole world, and the coin-sized snowflakes gradually blurred people's vision. Soon, most of the northern hemisphere turned white.

From the Arctic Ocean to the Baltic Sea, from the Scandinavian Peninsula to the distant Ural, from Siberia across the short East Mountain Strait [Bering Strait] to the east coast of North America, the straight or curved passages were all confused with the land next to them. No one could tell where the road was and where the field was in the white snow.

On the bare branches and the high and low roofs, a thick layer of white cotton velvet blankets were all covered.

Ice and snow swept across the North American continent, the St. Lawrence River was completely blocked, and the Great Lakes, except for the center of the lake, were completely turned into a big block of ice. The first to freeze was the northeastern shore of Superior, followed by the northern shore of Lake Huron, most of Georgian Bay, and the northern shore of Lake Ontario. After Christmas, except for the central part of the Great Lakes, only the shores of Lake Erie and the southern part of Lake Michigan were not frozen, and the other shores were basically frozen.

However, the cold weather could not extinguish the passion of the American people. Under the threat of the extremely glaring term "national destruction", the scenes of thirty years ago seemed to reappear in front of six million Americans, and the entire United States gave birth to an extremely powerful force to resist China and save the country.

Just like China during World War II in the original time and space, Americans set off a hot patriotic wave under the danger of national destruction.

Hundreds of thousands of women took up jobs, and they had their places in factories, farms, and ranches. There were already a large number of women in medical care, teaching, and government. In addition, the British also tried every means to get a volunteer army for the Americans from Europe. Of course, this was not the British, but a part of the Hessians, Italians, and the Dutch. But the total number was only about 10,000 people, and their quality was uneven.

Some of them were veterans, some were defeated soldiers and stragglers on the battlefield, and some came here purely for food.

However, the power that the United States burst out in the midst of difficulties still played a significant role in the war. Regardless of gender, age, and age, millions of people went to construction sites and overtime jobs for free, using all their efforts to reinforce and build solid defense lines, solid fortresses, and produce rifles and cannons...

This is the national power generated under the crisis of national extinction.

These situations were quickly transmitted to Nanjing through the intelligence system. No one in the court cared. Chen Han would not slow down his pace just because the Americans suddenly showed patriotism. In this battle, Chen Han wanted to make the Lighthouse Country paralyzed! The war will continue for another half a year.

Chen Ming was even more happy after reading the intelligence. "Resist China and save the nation, save the nation and survive..."

Once upon a time, only China shouted the slogan of "Save the nation and survive". A war of resistance cost China 35 million lives, and the loss of wealth and national strength was incalculable. Now, all this belongs to the beacon country.

These surging patriotic passions naturally increased the national strength of the United States, but national wars and direct confrontations rely on real hard power. Although Chen Han's troops were small in number, he still took a lot of initiative on the battlefield.

At this time, the Portuguese representatives had arrived in Nanjing, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized a welcome dinner, and the latter had already shown up publicly. Chen Ming convened a meeting in front of the emperor. In addition to a group of important people in the cabinet, the ministers of some departments involved also arrived.

Portugal is going to give in. Although the southward troops of the garrison army have not completely taken over the Amazon River estuary, the Brazilian war report received by Nanjing shows that the Portuguese have already shown a trend of failure. The reason is very simple, it is a population labor force.

Brazil is a colony that the Portuguese focus on operating. Although it is not like the Spanish, who want to send back every gun and cannon to their homeland after repair, and are so strict in local defense, the industrial base here is obviously not as good as that of Portugal. The industry of Portugal is originally second- and third-rate in Europe.

The Portuguese can't stand it anymore. They see that the Spaniards can achieve "peace" with Chen Han, and feel that their hatred with Chen Han can't be compared with that of Daban Ya. Daban Ya can achieve peace with China, so there is no reason why Portugal can't.

Although the Portuguese are not unaware that the reason why the Chinese are willing to negotiate peace with Spain is to make Spain turn around and "fight to the death" with Argentina. Brazil does not have such a traitor, and there is no such foundation in the first place.

Portugal is not stupid, they know this very well, but they still rushed to Nanjing.

Because they have no hope for the war in America, and the battle has reached the current point, they are more willing to fight with the Chinese at the negotiation table. As long as the Chinese do not intend to swallow Brazil in one bite, the Portuguese think there is a basis for negotiation.

Since Austria surrendered, the situation in Europe has changed again.

Napoleon's position in Europe seems to be really solid. Even if Russia is still outside the sphere of influence of Napoleon's empire, the economic development momentum after the signing of the Franco-Austrian Treaty tells everyone that people are thirsty for peace.

At the beginning of the year, Napoleon began to draw up a marriage contract. As soon as the marriage contract was drawn up, the emperor of Austria was asked for approval. The Austrian Emperor happily accepted Napoleon's proposal. Austria's economy has ushered in a remarkable recovery. In the eyes of many Austrians, this marriage is simply a salvation for the country. People from all walks of life in Paris were also cheering enthusiastically. They regarded this marriage as a permanent guarantee of peace between France and Austria. Everyone hoped that the war that had lasted for twenty years on the European road could come to an end, and that there would be peace and stability. They all hope that the hard-won 'peace' will never be destroyed by war again. Businessmen bought Austrian stocks one after another, and Austrian stocks suddenly soared.

Peace has been restored in Central, Western and Southern Europe, but the pressure on the Iberian Peninsula has increased. This is an easy decision to make.

This is a crisis for Portugal, but there are opportunities within this danger.

Although Napoleon restored peace with Austria, he also married an Austrian princess, and the latter soon gave birth to a boy for Napoleon. This was a baby who was named the 'King of Rome' just after birth. For a time, the relationship between Fa and Ao became much closer.

But what about France and Russia?

Since the signing of the Treaty of Tilsit, the emperors of France and Russia have shown extreme friendship and affection. However, both of them felt

Understand that the long-standing contradiction between France and Russia has not been eliminated, and the conflict between France and Russia is ultimately inevitable. The contradiction between France and Russia first manifested itself in the fight for the Ottoman Empire. There is no need to say more about the deep hatred between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, but Napoleon kept wooing the Ottoman Empire for his own big plan. This issue determines that the contradiction between France and Russia has not been eliminated at all.

In addition, France and Russia also have many conflicts on the Polish issue. Although France agreed not to rebuild Poland in the Treaty of Tilsit, it formed the Grand Duchy of Warsaw from the Polish areas it captured from Prussia and Austria, and was also preparing to restore the old boundaries of the Kingdom of Poland, adding Lithuania and Galicia. and part of Ukraine were also incorporated, clearly not keeping their word. Russia was alarmed by this, fearing that Napoleon would take away the territory it had gained in the three partitions of Poland. Alexander once asked Napoleon in a threatening tone not to continue to strengthen the strength of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and rebuild Poland, but Napoleon flatly refused.

Furthermore, Napoleon's delay in withdrawing his troops from Prussia also caused great dissatisfaction with Tsar Alexander I. At this time, Tsarist Russia's military power in Europe has already extended into the Baltic Sea and Poland, and has established a foothold in the lower reaches of the Danube River. After its eastern strategy suffered a heavy setback, St. Petersburg is preparing to stretch out another foot across Central Europe. , the German region is their next target. Alexander strongly demanded that Napoleon withdraw his troops from Prussia in accordance with the peace treaty, but Napoleon turned a deaf ear. He even annexed Oldenburg and exiled the Archduke of Oldenburg, Alexander's brother-in-law, despite Alexander's strong protests. His wife was Princess Catherine, whom Napoleon had been unable to marry.

In addition, Tsarist Russia's mainland blockade policy against Napoleon also aroused Napoleon's anger. The Tsar had tacitly allowed 600 British merchant ships to smuggle British goods into Russia, and these British goods flowed from Russia to Germany, Austria, Poland and Europe.

All over the continent, rendering Napoleon's continental blockade ineffective.

Portugal also learned from secret intelligence that Russia was implementing new tax rates. In January 1811, the new tax rate would significantly increase the import tax on French goods exported to Russia. This was a complete provocation to Napoleon.

The top Portuguese officials believed that Napoleon would be furious at Russia's actions and that a war would break out between France and Russia soon. This would be Portugal's opportunity.

The intensifying conflicts soon pushed the two countries to the brink of war, and both France and Russia were actively preparing for war. France under Napoleon was very powerful, but Russia was not easy either. The latter's strong population base and cheap soldier consumption allowed them to 'produce' endless gray livestock. Coupled with Russia's vast area, Tsarist Russia's wars The potential is extremely strong.

Portugal believes that the Franco-Austrian Alliance has completely replaced the Franco-Russian Alliance, and the shadow of a bloody war has risen on the European horizon.

Although Russia will most likely not be Napoleon's opponent, Russia also has a very strong war potential. Even if the resistance fails in the end, it can exhaust Napoleon's army and empire. This is the best time for Portugal to get rid of the threat of France!

Therefore, they sent peace negotiation representatives to Nanjing.

"Your Majesty, the Portuguese are willing to cede the area north of the Amazon River..." This is the Portuguese's preliminary plan. There is not a cent of war compensation. Portugal is now extremely poor. It would like to spend even a cent on military construction. If China If they don't take the initiative to bring up war reparations, they will never speak first.

But the Portuguese were only willing to cede the area north of the Amazon River, so how could they satisfy Chen Ming?

Chen Ming's plan is to devour the Amazon River Basin. The drawing line must at least start from San Marcos Bay, and when asking for a price, it always starts from 15° south latitude.

Chen Ming now also has the ability to use latitude lines to divide the land on the map.

This reminded him of an old song from his previous life, "In 1979, it was a spring, and an old man drew a circle on the South China Sea..."

And now, he can sing: "In the 37th year of Chengtian, it was a spring, an old man drew a line in the center of South America..." Chen Ming, who is 60 years old, can also be called an old man in this era.