The envoy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands did not stay in Tianjin for a long time, and three days later, Li Jie received a release document from Beijing, asking him to take this envoy group to Beijing City to report.

"Hello Emperor Hong, James Brown, Viscount of Tulips in the Dutch Province of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, on the orders of King William III and members of our Parliament, I have come to congratulate Your Majesty on his ascension to the throne of the King, and to present the congratulatory gifts that have been carefully prepared by our country."

On the Jinluan Palace, Viscount James, who stepped into it for the first time, was shocked by the magnificent but majestic palace, retracted the usual arrogance of Westerners, and saluted Li Tianyang with respect.

"Welcome, my friend."

With a friendly smile, Li Tianyang expressed his good mood to the guests below.

"You and I have long had a deep friendship and have maintained it until now, and I also believe that the friendship between you and me will continue to work together to create a better future."

"This is what the king of our country wants!"

Listening to Li Tianyang's kind words, Viscount James also nodded in agreement.

"In addition to the congratulations of our king, in fact, the members of our parliament also let His Majesty contempt take the words, hoping that the commercial and trade relations between your country and our country can continue to be maintained and create more opportunities for cooperation."

"It's inevitable."

If it is said that many indigenous kingdoms in the South Seas that originally served the Ming Dynasty as their suzerain, they have turned against the newly established Hong Dynasty to offer their loyalty and surrender to the Hong Dynasty because they were influenced, threatened and suppressed by the Hong Dynasty, then the Westerners sent envoys all the way to express the goodwill of their kingdom to Li Tianyang and recognize the existence of the Hong Dynasty, which is a naked temptation of interests.

The maritime strength of the Ming Dynasty is vulnerable, in fact, from this moment on, it has been behind other Western kings quarrelling, plus their literati class and royal family have been self-contained, focusing more on infighting and extravagant life, giving up the development and promotion of advanced technology, even if there are thousands of years of cultural heritage, but in the eyes of the Westerners who come into contact with it, it is just a group of earth monkeys in the Far East.

However, with the rise of the Hong Dynasty, they mastered advanced shipbuilding technology, as well as invincible geothermal weapon technology, and trampled the self-righteous Westerners under their feet again and again, making them their own subordinates.

The advent of the steam engine brought advanced things such as ships and trains, which gave Westerners a sense of crisis, and a feeling that they had been surpassed, so that they no longer dared to compare this mysterious civilization in the East with other so-called ancient civilizations that they had defeated with strong ships and cannons.

Of course, the more important reason is profit.

The vision of the Hong Dynasty was too vicious, and the territory they occupied and the scope of their influence were the richest and most demanded by Europeans in this Age of Discovery.

Silk, tea, porcelain, spices, and so on, are the specialties of the Chinese civilization in the South Seas and the East.

However, as the occupation of the Hong Dynasty affected the export channels of the most profitable goods, and the Westerners could not defeat the enemy in front of them by force, then they could only act according to the rules of the other party and seek cooperation with the other party.

The gifts brought by James' envoy were enough to show the sincerity of their kingdom, and in the subsequent exchanges, he expressed to Li Tianyang a request for the further development of commercial relations between their kingdom and the Hong Dynasty, and obtained Li Tianyang's consent.

But the next thing is to let the professionals of the Ministry of Commerce deal with Viscount James, and all Li Tianyang needs to do is just an attitude.

With the arrival of the Dutch envoys, the envoys of the Western Europeans also came one after another, and the appearance of countless blonde and blue-eyed foreigners made Beijing, which has not been so lively for many years, a little more angry, and also made the people in the city a little more knowledgeable and talked after dinner.

The Ming Dynasty actually treated Westerners with the same contempt as Westerners looked at Chinese civilization, but Li Tianyang, who had the influence of knowledge from later generations, even if he was now a well-deserved overlord in the eastern seas, Li Tianyang still maintained a welcoming attitude towards these Western visitors.

Before the dust settles on the power struggle, the Hong Dynasty expanded and developed outward, and the pace of ocean trade was impossible to be as careless as the Westerners.

After all, the Westerners had already occupied the commercial opportunities of the Age of Discovery, Africa and the Indian Peninsula had become colonies of their invaders, and the Americas had also been discovered and established by them.

The Chinese ocean-going trade team still retains the non-violent factor that Confucian culture has immersed in its bones, even if most of the maritime merchants dare to kill people and intercept goods, but compared with the ambition of Westerners to swallow elephants, there is still a big gap between the Chinese maritime merchants, at least in ambition and armament.

However, the army of the Hong Dynasty now needs to be used all over the confrontation with the Ming Dynasty army, even if it divides the slightest force to trade in the ocean and compete with the naval fleet of the Westerners, it may bring about the defeat of the hegemony of the mainland of the homeland, which is something that Li Tianyang will never allow to speak out.

However, if the Hong Dynasty now wants to continue to expand its chances of victory in the war, it is also inseparable from the ocean trade, a channel to quickly obtain monetary benefits, to ensure the cooperation and unity of their own team forces, so maintaining a cooperative relationship with the Westerners and taking what they need from each other is also a good thing that complements each other, and at the same time, Li Tianyang must do what they must do.

As long as the Westerners have enough demand for oriental specialties, and as long as the fleet of the Hong Dynasty has maintained a strong enough strength, then for the Westerners who are unprofitable and have always known how to weigh interests, they will not do anything contradictory to the emerging kingdom of the Hong Dynasty.

Even, the envoy group of Westerners will be glad that Li Tianyang, the ruler of the Hong Dynasty, has a broad vision that is completely different from the previous Ming Dynasty, and has an optimistic and intimate attitude towards the commercial relations between them, which avoids many worries and worries.