In early September 1677, off the coast of India, the wind and sun were beautiful, but the waves were not good. The double-deck battleship "Fubowanli" seized the tail of the southwest monsoon and sailed into the port of Colombo again after a year's absence, intending to exchange contracts with the Dutch East India Company.

The treaty to be exchanged between the two sides is called the Colombo Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, which basically includes the rights of ships on the east coast to dock, replenish, repair and do business in the ports of Malacca and Galle as agreed between Morreel and Balthazar Burt at Colombo last time. That is, no more than 10 East Coast vessels may enter the above two ports each year, but they can only carry out activities in designated places, including rest, business and religious activities, and the stay shall not exceed six months; Each ship can only purchase local goods up to 30,000 dong per year, and can only be purchased from designated merchants; Acknowledging that the Dutch East India Company had a special interest in Ceylon, and that the East Coasters were not allowed to enter into any agreement with England or Portugal that would jeopardize the interests of the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon; Eventually, the port of Cape Town and the island of Henghai under the East Coast were opened to the Dutch East India Company, and the Dutch had the same rights they had previously granted to the East Coasters in Ceylon and Malacca.

The general meaning is that there are so many articles, basically the content confirmed by both parties before, after the polishing of the writing and the improvement of the details, it has been bound into a book, signed by their respective superiors, and now it can take effect after the completion of the contract exchange. It is worth noting that I don't know for what reason, the treaty signed by the two sides this time is not without loopholes, for example, the treaty does not stipulate the size and tonnage of ships entering the east coast, but only stipulates the amount of local goods that can be purchased by people on the east coast. This was very advantageous for the East Coasters, who were interested in repairing supplies, sheltering from bad weather, and housing the sick and wounded rather than doing business, because they did not particularly care about the business of Ceylon's precious stones, cinnamon, pepper, and other specialty goods, and it also illustrated the huge difference in thinking between a for-profit organization like the Dutch East India Company and a government organization like the East Coast Republic of China.

The Colombo Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation was written in two copies, Chinese, Dutch and French, and was kept by the other side without intermediaries or witnesses. The copy in Molie's hand has been signed by Huang Yi, the captain of the New China Pioneer Team, and the copy in the hand of Balthazar Bert has been signed by Governor Van Goens, and each will only need to bring back the version in the other's hand to complete the exchange.

Mo Liege had no doubts about whether he would be able to complete the mission, because during the year when the agreement was reached and waiting for the contract to be renewed, the Dutch East India Company actually gave the East Coast people "temporary permission", but the news could not be delivered to Ningbo and Denglai in time, and it could not be used.

At nine o'clock in the morning of September 8, representatives of the East and the Netherlands formally exchanged the text of the treaty in Colombo, and fortunately everything went wrong. After that, he only attended a banquet in the city the next day, and then declined all visits, and spent several days negotiating with the Dutch to buy a plot of land for temporary dwelling.

On 14 September, after leaving seven or eight professionals to deal with this matter, Moree's battleship "Fubowanli" slowly left the port of Colombo and arrived thirteen days later in the port of Goa, the core of Portuguese rule in the East.

In fact, Moree's visit to Goa was not improvised, as he had already stopped in Goa on his way to Colombo. The main reason why he came with his ships was to deepen his ties with the Portuguese and prepare for the future. After all, the Dutch East India Company has now signed the Colombo Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation with you, but you know that people will never turn against you in the future? If you really think so, you can only say that it is too naïve, because the world is constantly changing, friends can become enemies, enemies can also become allies, and often in a short period of time, Europe is particularly familiar with this set, you don't see that on the eve of Napoleon's war of aggression against Russia, there were Russian officers who mocked the Prussians for "betraying us only four times in three years", which can be seen.

Therefore, although the East Coasters had tentatively reached an agreement with the Dutch East India Company and signed a treaty, this did not mean that they would not be prepared for both. Anyway, they only promised not to collude with the English and Portuguese to harm the interests of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ceylon, so you can't blame the development of normal relations with the Goan side, right? Therefore, this time, Moreel made a special trip to Goa on his return trip to meet with the Portuguese.

Now Goa's man has become Pedro de Almeida Portugal, the lucky man who just became Viceroy of India this year. Like his predecessor, Luis de Mendoza Furtado i Albuquerque, he was appointed governor and was also honored as the viceroy of India, a title not available to every governor, and his power was not exactly the same.

The Viceroy of Portugal – whose real name is Portugal, Pedro de Almeida Portugal – was somewhat surprised by the second visit from the East Coast. When Moree's ship first visited Goa a few months ago, he was greeted by the Governor of Albuquerque, who was only an adjudicator at the time, and who had personally met with Moree and others, and remembered some of the things discussed at that time, such as the deep trade cooperation between the two countries.

The so-called in-depth trade cooperation is actually that the new Huaxia Island colony of the people on the east coast exported a large number of goods such as medicines, hardware products, and ship equipment to Portuguese India, and then imported all kinds of Indian specialties from the Portuguese. To be honest, this pattern of trade was beneficial to both sides, and the people on the east coast wanted to do it for a long time, but given the intricate interests of Portuguese India and Portugal, and the unhappy past of the war between the two countries because of the outbreak of war in Brazil, it was not until these two years that the two sides had substantial contacts and reached some preliminary agreements on the development of trade cooperation - which was not easy, because the commercial route from Lisbon to Portuguese India was already done by fixed people, The people on the east coast are now a sideways foot, squeezing out others to grab business, this resistance is naturally very great, no wonder there has been no progress for many years before, this is directly cutting off people's financial routes!

Goa was occupied and colonized by the Portuguese in the last century, and it has been almost one hundred and sixty or seventy years now. Today, the city of Goa is prosperous and affluent, the heart of the Portuguese in India, as they describe it: "...... It has tall houses and beautiful churches. In the eyes of strict moralists, this city is another Babylon, one of the greatest megacities in India. ”

There is no doubt that the rulers of Goa were Portuguese and their Indo-Portuguese people, and there was a strict hierarchical distinction, i.e., the first class was those born in Portugal; The second class is those born in Asia and whose parents are Portuguese; The third class is those born in Asia to Portuguese parents and Indians on the other, or to Portuguese parents and African on the other.

The above is the ruling class. Below the ruling class were the Catholic Indians or blacks (usually soldiers), who were the middle and thugs of Portuguese rule, brutally oppressing the Hindus or Muslims below them in order to please the Portuguese colonizers.

As soon as Moree entered the harbor, he was greeted by the Governor of Portugal and the large crowd of officials surrounding him. They shook hands one by one, and even the officials of Indo-Portuguese origin (of lower status) were not left behind, which made them a little flattered and at the same time a little moved.

The Portuguese governor held a grand banquet for the Moree in his castle, and almost all the famous people in the city came, officers, priests, officials, great merchants, navigators, artists, socialites, etc., which dazzled the people. Mo Lie's eel actually didn't like this kind of overly complicated occasion, and it was still in such a hot weather, which made him very tired, but after all, he still managed to complete this social activity.

According to the deep-rooted blood hierarchy of the Portuguese, Asians – whether Indians, Malays or Chinese – are actually very statusless, and a 100% Asian like Moree in Goa City in this era, even if he is killed by the Portuguese and the other party happens to have a bit of a noble title, then all he needs to do is apologize. But at this banquet held by the Portuguese governor, both the Portuguese and the Indo-Portuguese flocked to him, and there was some flattery and flattery in his words, which was also stained with the light of the East Coast Republic of China.

Yes, that's right, it's the light of the country! They would not have had such a good attitude had it not been for the bitter military campaigns launched by the East Coast Army in Macao, India, East Africa, West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Portugal during the Portuguese War. In other words, the respect and glory that Mo Lie Eel currently enjoys are all fought by the East Coast Navy and Army, and Lieutenant Colonel Mo Lie Eel, who personally participated in the attack on the Portuguese fleet back then, has the right to enjoy all this today.

Of course, the Portuguese have such a good attitude, in addition to being scared and subdued back then, it is also related to the situation in India today. More precisely, it has to do with the enormous pressure faced by the Portuguese colonial powers! The years of fighting with the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ceylon greatly depleted the strength of the Portuguese, especially many valuable Portuguese soldiers who were also killed and wounded in the battle, which made the Goan side more or less unbearable.

You know, in those days, only about 2,000 Portuguese came to India from Lisbon every year – in fact, the official statistics were much higher, but in addition to the disappearance of ships at sea, many people actually tried their best to flee before they got on the ships, and did not want to come to serve in the East - and the number of them who could serve as soldiers was even more limited. In the most recent bloody battle on the island of Ceylon, more than 600 Portuguese and Indo-Portuguese troops were killed on the spot, which caused almost the entire upper class of Goa to unrest the society, and the then Governor João Nunes da Cunha could barely suppress the situation, and finally when he was dismissed and retired and returned home, he did not even receive the honorary title of "Honorable Governor of India", which shows the poor perception of the Lisbon upper class, and how unforgivable it is to lose 600 soldiers of Portuguese descent.

The Dutch East India Company was still aggressively expanding in Ceylon, Malabar and other places, constantly squeezing the strategic space of the Portuguese, grabbing their sphere of influence and cutting off their trade, and the Goan side was exhausted and did not know how to deal with it.

If there were a few more large-scale wars with the East India Company and serious casualties, God knows what would happen, you must know that the Indians were not dead, and once the Portuguese could not control the situation, wouldn't the Indians overthrow their rule and expel them from Goa completely? And if they didn't go head-on with the Dutch East India Company and instead seek a compromise, the heretics who believed in Calvinism would not give any face, and would not pay any attention to these things, and continue to shout and kill the Portuguese, which was a great headache.

So, now the Portuguese are very, very hopeful that a strong foreign force will intervene and give them a certain degree of help to better resist the Dutch offensive. This foreign force, they originally counted on the English, but after so many years, although the development of the British East India Company in India is also very good, in the final analysis, they dare not face the Dutch head-on, and they are bullied very badly! What's more, they are now devoting a large part of their energy to the Qing side of the Far East, because the profits there seem to be also very high, which leads to their lack of strength to compete with the Dutch in India, and the Portuguese and the English are still in a comprehensive passive state, which is needless to say, there is indeed a huge gap in strength.

But now they seem to see an additional option, and that's the East Coasters! These infidels, who had risen to prominence in the Southern New World for nearly fifty years, still show no sign of weakening, and their warships roam the western Indian Ocean, and no one can challenge supremacy. Even the Dutch East India Company, which was roaring in India and the East Indies, did not dare to fart when the Cape Town colony was robbed, which shows that the introduction of East Coast forces is indeed a good choice.

Even if the East Coasters may take this opportunity to stay in India in the future, what does it matter? India is so big, the Portuguese have not yet eaten it all, and everyone works together to make a fortune, provided that the ambitions of the Dutch are suppressed to the extreme.