This meal is very harmonious, and both parties are a little bit trying to please each other, so it will naturally be harmonious.The emperor didn't want to talk about diplomacy, at least, if King George I of Greece didn't take the initiative to ask himself, he would never say it first, these are the affairs of the people below, and the people above are actually creating an atmosphere, which the emperor understands very well.The Greek king wanted to talk, but he didn't know what to start with, mainly because he had no power, which was an awkward place, and the power was mainly in the hands of the prime minister, Trikupis."
How's it going, does it taste okay?"
asked George I with a smile."
Very good, very good."
Huahuang was indifferent on the surface, but he was actually a little anxious, waiting for this guy to say some substantive problems.In fact, there is something in common between the Emperor and George I, the Emperor wants to find allies in Europe to help speak, that's all, although the influence of the Kingdom of Greece is a little smaller, but if there is really no more ideal object, the Emperor can accept it.And George I wants to get on the fast track of trade between Asia and Europe by having a good relationship with China, China is a superpower in Asia, and it is rising rapidly, this, George I is still clear, can take the big car of China, it will definitely help the economy of the Kingdom of Greece, not only economically, now China and the Ottoman Turkish Empire have bordered, in the face of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Austria-Hungary The two major threats, China also has the right to speak, plus the Chinese Emperor's iron-fisted style on the military, This kind of discourse will be more important in Europe.George I also needed a mouthpiece for the Emperor, and once he had an ally in international diplomacy, he would be able to greatly increase the weight of the Greek royal family in national politics, rather than just being an iconic figure."
His Majesty Emperor Hua likes it."
The Greek queen was beautiful, dignified and generous.Emperor Hua has a good impression of the Greek queen, and the emperor admires the steady and charming temperament of thirty or forty women, thinking that his Zhao Qingluo should be better than the Greek queen at this age.Europeans are very particular about desserts, like the end of a symphony.Even if the average family doesn't have time, doesn't eat appetizers, and only eats the main course, they will still eat desserts, even if it's a small piece of chocolate, an ice cream.This time, the dessert is chocolate mousse with hazelnut cream sauce.Hazelnuts with chocolate are a great match for the palate.Huahuang likes Greek desserts very much, and after eating one, he took the initiative to ask for one."
This is our George Yevna's favorite food, it turns out that His Majesty also likes it, it's so good."
The Greek queen laughed.Hua Huang smiled: "It turns out that the princess loves to eat" George Yevna, who is the same year as Hua Huang, is a standard little Lori, hearing Hua Huang mention herself, she secretly glanced at Hua Huang, and found that Hua Huang was looking at herself, and she actually blushed.Meng President sweated, and said that foreign girls are really precocious enough, nine-year-old little Lori, seems to know a little bit about things between men and women, if she is not reborn, when she is nine years old, she is still a little fart child who is not enlightened, and she knows that the primary school students who watch cartoons will eat, King George I of Greece invited the Emperor of China and his party to the garden to drink Chinese tea, in Europe, there is Chinese tea everywhere, in order to welcome the Emperor, people are still very sincere."
We don't know what grade it is, but it's said to be the best tea you can buy in Athens."
George I laughed.Hua Huang didn't understand much either, and looked at Jie Gege, who was an expert in this area.Jiegege knew that this was just ordinary tea, which was sold as a good product in Greece, and couldn't bear to refute people's face, and reminded with a smile, "In Europe, it may be okay, but just because things leave the place of origin, it will be more expensive, and in China, this kind of tea is not particularly good." ”The queen of Greece laughed and said: "Her Majesty the queen does not need to say so tactfully, things are like this, leaving the place of origin, it is not easy to buy authentic, this is also the charm of trade, in the place of origin, very ordinary goods, can only be sold at a very ordinary price, but if there is no place to sell, you can sell at a good price." ”After the Greek queen finished speaking, Princess Katrina Kaaf helped translate the words of the Greek queen."
Yes, we walked around Athens and found a lot of new things."
Geger covered his mouth and smiled, obviously impressed by the temperament of the Greek queen.President Meng nodded secretly when he listened, this Greek queen is not simple, the two of them are really husband and wife, obviously a lot of words, George I is inconvenient to take the initiative to talk to himself, the Greek queen turned around like this, but left no trace, and turned to the trade between the two countries, to develop diplomatic relations, it must start from foreign trade, in order to upgrade to the level of strategic partners step by step.It is impossible to come up and talk to people about military alliances.Princess Katrina Kaaf naturally understood the meaning, and began to lead the way with the Greek queen, and now China's trade with Europe has gradually recovered from a trade surplus.In terms of foreign relations, the middle of the Qing Dynasty, as in the early period, still adopted a policy of restriction.Although overseas trade has since expanded, there are still certain restrictions.This restriction includes several aspects: the import and export of ships must be approved and licensed by the government.In trade, large ships of more than 500 stone that are too large are not allowed to be exported, but they can be imported.Embargo on armaments.Large timber camphor wood, camphor boards, sulfur for gunpowder, iron goods, including iron pots, were exported in large quantities in the past, but later they were banned.Grain is not allowed to be trafficked for export, and only food for consumption on board is allowed.There is also a limit to the number of people who can go to sea.Traders are not allowed to export without permission, and trafficking in human beings has always been prohibited and the export of human beings as slaves has been prohibited.Therefore, foreigners coming to China to abduct people and become slaves were hindered, so they changed to recruit Chinese laborers, the so-called "piglets", in disguise.That's for later.When foreign merchant ships arrived in China, the gun emplacements on the ships had to be unloaded and handed over to the officials for preservation.The goods brought were to be traded only on a specified period of time, and were limited to three ships of 100 people each and no more than 20 to Peking.Treaty ports were only allowed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, and later only in Guangdong, and the restrictions were very strict.In the past, China exported a lot of goods, and they had to use foreign currency to buy Chinese goods, so foreign money was used along the coast of China for a long time.The foreign trade of the Qing Dynasty can be divided into three stages.The first stage is China's super outcome.The second stage is the balance of imports and exports, barter, and the export of goods is gradually reduced compared to the first stage.In barter, there are restrictions on the goods, and there are restrictions on the number of items that cannot be exchanged for sulfur and bronze, and there are also restrictions on the quantity of silk.Therefore, the Qing Dynasty has always restricted trade with foreign countries.China's entry into the Super League was after the Opium War.At that time, the restrictions on foreign trade were also manifested in the fact that foreign merchant ships coming to China could not directly contact Chinese merchants, and trade relations had to occur directly, and they had to go through the intermediary organizations organized by Chinese merchants, that is, the so-called public banks, also known as foreign banks and foreign merchants.Before the Opium War, there was a difference between the terms foreign merchants and Yi merchants, Yi merchants referred to foreign merchants, and foreign merchants were Chinese merchants who undertook foreign trade.Yi merchants had to go through the public and foreign merchants, and could not directly enter the market to deal with Chinese merchants.This is true for both buying and selling.The public bank appeared in 1720 in the 59th year of Kangxi, and there was no restriction when it was first established, and there were 19 in 1760, and in 1771, the public bank was closed down due to arrears of merchants.In 1782, it was restored again, and there were only twelve, and later one more was added, so it was limited to thirteen, the so-called thirteen lines.Because these thirteen companies specialize in foreign trade, they are also known as the Thirteen Foreign Companies.Their business is to handle the customs declaration and tax payment of the goods of the merchants, manage the daily life of the merchants, and negotiate the sale of goods on behalf of the merchants.The goods could not be exchanged without going through the official bank, and the merchants just waited for the loading and unloading to finish and sail away.This was a way to put an end to the snooping activities of the merchants at that time.There are also restrictions on the area of residence of foreign merchants in the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou.A merchant house was set up in the country as a temporary residence for foreign businessmen in China.Merchants of the same country live in the same place, such as British merchants living in British merchants' houses.The merchant house is managed by the public bank, owned by the public bank, and subleased by the public bank to foreign merchants, and the restrictions are also very strict.In 1759, the so-called "Regulations on the Prevention of Merchants" were promulgated, stipulating that foreign merchants must return to China after selling their goods, and they were forbidden to stay in winter; Traders are not allowed to trade; Public banks and merchants are not allowed to default on debts to merchants, so that merchants have an excuse; Yi merchants were not allowed to hire Chinese servants, and their places of residence were guarded by additional Chinese soldiers.These regulations have since been revised to make them more restrictive.There are restrictions on trade and daily life, such as prohibiting foreign businessmen from inquiring about China's market, barring businessmen from sitting in sedan chairs, prohibiting businessmen from going ashore, and there are certain regulations on paying taxes, and so on.In 1755, because of the increasing number of foreign ships trading in Zhejiang over the years, Qianlong decided to raise the tax amount in Dinghai, Zhejiang, to prevent it, and said that Guangdong has been a trading place since the Ming Dynasty, and as a result, Macao appeared, and now the number of merchants in Dinghai is increasing day by day, and if there is no restriction, there will be a Macao in Zhejiang again in the future.This tax increase is to make foreign businessmen unprofitable, and the purpose is not to increase income, but to restrict foreign businessmen and prevent the reappearance of Macao.Foreign businessmen have come up with ways to break the restrictions imposed on them by local Chinese officials.In 1793 and 1816, Britain sent envoys to Beijing twice.This is the first time that a foreign country has officially sent an envoy to China in order to break China's restrictions on foreign trade.The first time was to lend Qianlong the name of birthday celebrations, and the British sent Macartney to China, when Qianlong received them in Rehe.They demanded the expansion of trade to the ports of Ningbo, Zhoushan, and Tianjin, the reduction and exemption of taxes and exemptions, the permission of the British to send envoys to Peking, and the leasing of small islands near Canton and Zhoushan to store goods.Qianlong rejected all these requests at that time, saying: I am very satisfied with the sincerity of your coming to pay tribute; But I can't agree to your demands that run counter to the Chinese system.In 1816, in the twenty-first year of Jiaqing, the British sent Amsterdam to China, still wanting to increase the port and expand trade, but due to etiquette problems, the envoys refused to kneel down when they saw the emperor, and the Qing government was very unkind to him and ordered the expulsion.The purpose of the British envoy's two visits to China was to expand trade and gain more benefits than other countries.At that time, China did not agree.On the issue of foreign trade, the Qing court imposed stricter restrictions, so that foreign trade did not get the development it should have, which is one thing; However, some restrictions were also necessary at that time, because the system of Sino-foreign exchanges had not yet been established, and if it was not restricted, it would be detrimental to China.China is mainly a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, with little demand for foreign trade goods.However, Britain and other countries are in a period of capitalist development, and they are very keen on the expansion of capital, and they are very unprofitable to buy and sell at a loss.As a result, opium was imported into China and illegally traded, resulting in a trade deficit and a large amount of silver flowing into foreign countries.As long as the opium is broken, Huaguo, a big country that is still dominated by agriculture, the most important thing is the word "big country", Huaguo is too big, what can be self-sufficient, foreigners and Huaguo exchanges, want to take advantage, it is difficult.However, for small European countries such as the Kingdom of Greece, especially small countries that have just emerged, and large countries such as China, foreign trade will definitely be able to prosper the economy, which will be beneficial to them.The most important thing is that China's industry already has a certain foundation, in the industrial area, China is no worse than the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Romania, the Balkan Peninsula, just got rid of the hands of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, of course, compared with Austria-Hungary, China's industry is still very weak."
In the future, we should strengthen more cooperation in education, and several universities in our country can first establish friendship school relations with your country's capital university."
After caring about the education problem in Greece, Hua Huang said.The Greek king smiled and agreed.The two sides talked a lot, and it was not until after eight o'clock in the evening that Hua Huang and Jiegege, Princess Katrina Kaf, Catherine, and Zhao Qingluo said goodbye and left."
I heard that Your Majesty is going to another country tomorrow, please let Your Majesty play in our Greece for a few more days, three days is too short, and because we are not fully prepared, we only invited Your Majesty to come over today, which is really rude."
The queen of Greece politely said to the Chinese emperor.Emperor Hua looked at George I, and George I also nodded politely and said: "Yes, this is what my wife and I mean, it is a very pleasant thing to ask His Majesty to play in Athens for a few more days and chat with His Majesty." ”President Meng smiled: "Okay, I also enjoy living in Athens, and we are honored to be able to dine and chat with His Majesty the King, the Queen, and the prince and princess." ”President Meng accepted the invitation of the Greek king, but he was a little funny in his heart, you guy, you are still very calm, but the emperor is not very anxious.t1706231537: