Chapter 218: Governor Tianzhu's Request
When she arrived at the ship, the queen only glanced into the cabin, and she couldn't take her eyes off it.
I saw that the cabin was full of silk, porcelain and tea.
Especially the silk embroidered with various patterns, shining straight to the eye.
Originally, Wilson also wanted to tell the queen about his experience of going to Da Zhou.
only to find that the queen did not belong, and did not take her eyes off the silk in the cabin from beginning to end.
If Wilson hadn't guessed what the queen was thinking at this moment, then all these years would have been in vain.
"If Her Majesty is satisfied with these silks, the minister is willing to offer ten horses." Wilson's words, the queen heard clearly, did not open her mouth to refuse, directly nodded and agreed.
In addition, the queen also directly asked Wilson for a batch of porcelain and tea.
How dare Wilson refuse?
But in his heart, Wilson was very bitter.
A piece of silk was sold to other noblewomen, but it cost hundreds of gold coins, and the queen did not take a penny here.
Combined with porcelain and tea, Wilson lost five or six thousand gold coins at once.
However, when I thought that the price of silk, porcelain, and tea was more than ten times the purchase price, my heart was not so bitter.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, tea and porcelain aside, just talking about these silks, the purchase price of each horse is one hundred taels of silver.
But after being shipped to Europe, Wilson dared to sell a hundred gold coins each.
This shows the huge profits here.
Wilson also knew in his heart that he was afraid that there would only be such a chance to make a fortune once.
Such a huge profit will definitely attract countless people who are red-eyed, so it is difficult to say whether Wilson has the opportunity to go to Da Zhou again.
On the way back, Wilson also met the envoys of France and other countries to the Great Zhou.
When the time comes, the nations will compete, and now such a price will certainly not appear again.
That's why Wilson couldn't wait to 'bribe' Her Majesty in exchange for his next opportunity to go to Da Zhou.
After receiving the benefits, Her Majesty began to ask Wilson about business.
"What is the situation in the Great Zhou? How much do you know? Her Majesty asked.
Wilson replied: "The Great Zhou is so great that it will take a month to get from Canton to the capital in the far south, and the minister cannot know the details."
However, although the itinerary was very busy, the minister had heard some about the situation of the Great Zhou court.
The minister heard that now the emperor of the Great Zhou is brewing a big reform plan, which was opposed by the southern nobles, but it was ruthlessly suppressed by the emperor of the Great Zhou......"
In Wilson's eyes, the gentry were the nobles of the Great Zhou, so they were called.
After Wilson informed Her Majesty of what he had learned, Her Majesty pondered for a moment and said, "Last month, Governor Frank of Tianzhu sent a letter again, suggesting that the British Empire attack Burma, a vassal state of the Great Zhou, do you think that if the parliament agrees to send troops this time, will the Great Zhou send troops to support Burma?" ”
Wilson thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid it will." ”
"Didn't you just say that the nobles in the Great Zhou Dynasty opposed the reforms of the Great Zhou Emperor, and the country was in chaos? In this case, Da Zhou still has the ability to send troops to Burma? ”
"Her Majesty is only afraid that she doesn't know much about Da Zhou." Wilson explained: "Although the Great Zhou is not very stable at present, the emperor has absolute power.
Just last winter, the nobles of the southern part of the Great Zhou raised an army to oppose the reforms of the Great Zhou Emperor, but they were ruthlessly suppressed by the Great Zhou Emperor.
It took less than three months for the rebellion to be put down, which shows that the national strength of the Great Zhou is not weak. ”
Swallowing his saliva, Wilson said again: "Besides, Da Zhou pays attention to the revenge of a gentleman, and ten years is not too late. Even now the Great Zhou Emperor is not free to support Burma.
Once the domestic situation in Dazhou is stable, it will also send more troops to Burma.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the minister heard a proverb to describe the emperor, called 'Under the couch, he allows others to sleep soundly'. The meaning of this sentence is that in the vicinity of the Great Zhou, no country that threatens him is allowed.
Even if this country is his ally, it will not be allowed. ”
"The Great Zhou Emperor is so domineering?" Her Majesty was astonished when she heard this.
Wilson nodded and said, "The Great Zhou Emperor is indeed very domineering, the ministers have known the history of this country, and they have done this since a thousand years ago!" ”
Seeing Wilson say this, Her Majesty didn't want to provoke the tiger of Da Zhou.
But in England, the queen herself doesn't have much power.
In other words, even if the queen herself is against it, as long as the majority of the members of parliament support the decision of Governor Frank of Tianzhu, it will become a given fact to send troops to Burma.
With a wry smile, Her Majesty said: "I'm afraid that in a few days, the council will summon you to consult about the situation of Da Zhou, do you know how to answer?" ”
"Your Majesty is reassured, the minister knows how to answer." Wilson clenched his fist, raised his right hand to his chest, and bowed solemnly to Her Majesty.
As the queen expected, on the third day after Wilson returned home, the parliament converted Wilson's consultation on the specific situation of Da Zhou.
As a true aristocrat, Wilson did not hide a trace of what he had seen and heard in the Great Zhou to the members of the Parliament.
"In this way, although Da Zhou is very large, his weapons are still mainly knives and guns, and he has never used firearms?" After listening to Wilson's account, some militant congressmen said excitedly.
"Indeed!" Wilson replied, changed his words, and said: "But the population of Dazhou is as much as 50,000, and the standing soldiers are even more than 2 million.
If the empire rashly sent troops to Burma, it was afraid that it would be ruthlessly counterattacked by the Great Zhou. ”
"What's this?" The main war faction parliamentarian said contemptuously: "Tianzhu also has a population of 20,000, but now it has not become a colony of the empire?"
Although the land and population of the Great Zhou are much larger than those of Tianzhu, without firearms, it is not the opponent of the empire. ”
Wilson objected: "The national conditions of the Great Zhou are different from those of Tianzhu, although Tianzhu is nominally a country, but there are dozens of states in the country, and they were not unified before, otherwise, the empire would not have colonized Tianzhu so easily."
Unlike the Great Zhou, the power of the Great Zhou was all concentrated in the hands of the emperor alone, and as long as the Great Zhou Emperor agreed to go to war against the empire, by that time, the Great Zhou would send thousands of soldiers to Burma.
Although we have the advantage of firearms, we are not their opponents at all in the face of dozens or even hundreds of times the Great Zhou soldiers. ”
"Your Excellency Wilson, your words are a bit serious!" The main battle faction said, "Maybe it is indeed as you said, the Great Zhou army is strong.
But as far as I know, the enemies of the Great Zhou are mainly from the grasslands in the north, so they have stationed the most elite troops in the country on the northern border......"