On December 23, 1657, the battleship "Zheng He I" sailed into the port of Mumbai. The giant battleship slowly approached Pier 5 in the port of Mumbai, a modern pier that had just been completed and could dock 10,000-ton ships.

"Your Majesty, the battleship has entered the dock." Li Derong came to the rest cabin to report to Gao Junshan.

Gao Junshan asked, "When can we go ashore?" ”

Li Derong replied: "It has been arranged on the dock, and after the battleship is stopped, we can go ashore." ”

"Let's go up to the deck and have a look!"

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It was 7 a.m. Mumbai time, and the fiery red sun was hanging in the east, and the sun was imprinting the shadows of the high mountains on the deck for a long time, and he held the side of the ship with both hands, watching the ships shuttling up and down the docks.

Mumbai is now an international seaport, and ships entering and leaving the wharf are from Asian countries and European countries, and European merchant ships are mostly British.

China and Britain were allied states, and merchant ships could travel freely to and from each other's ports and even inland waterways. Ships from other countries are restricted from entering the ports of China, and they have to pay a lot of port fees, these ships are not allowed to enter the inland waters of China, and their goods can only be transshipped to the interior through the transport ships of the Cao Gang, of course, this will cost a sum of money.

Chinese merchant ships were also free to travel freely in Britain, including the British inland waterways. Britain adopted the same policy as the Chinese in other countries, and merchant ships were not allowed to enter Britain's inland rivers directly.

The battleship docked steadily at the No. 5 pier, and the governor Gao Huanghe and the commander of the Fourth Army Bai Wenxuan led hundreds of civil and military officers to meet Gao Junshan on the dock.

Gao Junshan was on the dock, and after meeting with the civil and military officials one by one, he got into the Luan car and went to the headquarters of the Fourth Army Corps, accompanied by Gao Huanghe and Bai Wenxuan.

As in the case of Yangon, the villa in Mumbai was built in the compound of the headquarters.

This villa is larger than the one in Yangon, because it was built later, and its style is all modeled after the Yangon villa, this villa is not only larger than the one in Yangon, but also has one more floor than the villa in Yangon, the second and third floors are high mountain private bedrooms, each floor has four separate rooms, for the queen and the concubines to live.

There is a concubine living in the villa now, this concubine is Dong Xiaowan who came from Jinling, she was at the behest of Gao Junshan, and she made a special trip from Jinling to serve Gao Junshan, and she also just arrived.

The villa in Mumbai is also a separate building, and there is no problem with security in the compound of the headquarters, with a sentry at the gate of the villa and more than 20 wings in the front yard, which are prepared for the Imperial Guards and the newspaper room.

Gao Huanghe and Bai Wenxuan sent Gao Junshan to the gate of the villa, and Gao Junshan claimed that he needed to rest, so he sent the two away.

He hadn't seen Dong Xiaowan for a few years, but when he saw him today, Dong Xiaowan was a little fatter than before, and he was more mature.

"How is the ninth sister now?"

Gao Junshan's first sentence when he met asked the ninth sister, the ninth sister was born to him and Dong Xiaowan, and had just passed her eleventh birthday.

Dong Xiaowan said: "Back to the emperor, I don't know much about the concubines of the ninth sister now, has the emperor forgotten?" The ninth sister is not by the concubine's side, she is studying in the palace in the capital! ”

Gao Junshan then remembered that the ninth sister has always been in the capital, and the conditions in the capital are good in all aspects, especially the study of the ninth sister.

"Do you often go to see the Ninth Sister?" Gao Junshan asked.

"I have seen it, but I don't go there often."

Gao Junshan asked again: "Have you been to see it recently?" How tall has the ninth sister grown? ”

Dong Xiaowan said: "Half a year ago, the concubine went to the capital, she has about ......."

Dong Xiaowan looked around, she saw the bookcase in the corner of the living room, and said, "It's about as tall as that cabinet." ”

Gao Junshan followed the direction pointed by Dong Xiaowan and saw the bookcase in the corner of the living room, which was a small bookcase, and the bookcase was about one meter four high.

Gao Junshan approached the bookcase excitedly, as if this bookcase was the ninth sister, he gestured very seriously, to see where the ninth sister was to him, after comparison, he confirmed that the ninth sister was chest height with him.

He gestured with his hand and asked Dong Xiaowan, "Did the ninth sister come to this place of mine?" Isn't it? ”

Dong Xiaowan said: "Half a year ago, it should have been, and now it should be taller." ”

"Oh, I'm getting taller again!"

Gao Junshan raised his hand and gestured to the position where his daughter had grown taller.

"Let's eat first, the concubine personally made a few Jiangnan side dishes for the emperor."

Dong Xiaowan has lived in Jinling for many years, and has not done anything else, concentrating on studying Jiangnan snacks.

The two went to the dining room, where the villa was the same as that in Yangon, with house slaves and maids, who brought the food to the table and waited for the emperor's concubines to eat.

After the meal, the two were indispensable, and the husband and wife loved each other for one night......

The next day, Gao Junshan arrived at the Governor's Palace, which is the city hall of Mumbai, where the Governor and the Mayor co-located in order to save money, which is a five-storey building facing the street, which is very luxurious.

Governor Gao Huanghe administered five vassal states here, the largest of which was Songzhou, which should not be called a vassal state, he was a special province of Huaxia.

Today is the day when Gao Huanghe held talks with the British mission, and the content of the talks was on the management of the Indian Peninsula.

Bombay was originally the headquarters of the British East India Company, because Britain had a treaty with China, and 51% of the shares of the British East India Company belonged to China, so China sent troops to Mumbai.

Although the Chinese currently occupy the entire Indian Peninsula, and now the British want to negotiate and jointly administer the area, Gao Junshan admits this account, because the original treaty signed is that the two countries jointly administer the Indian Peninsula.

The British believed that Delhi was a landlocked country, and that the access to the sea was controlled by the Chinese, and that without access to the sea, they would lose the conditions for foreign trade, so they proposed to hand over Bangladesh to the British.

Gao Junshan resolutely did not agree to hand over Bangladesh to the British for administration, and the British did not back down and would not give up until they got the right to manage Bangladesh, for the following reasons: first, there was no access to the sea in Delhi and Chola; Second, the combined territory of Delhi, Chola, and Bangladesh is not as large as that of Songzhou and Pakistan.

The negotiations reached a stalemate, with the two sides refusing to give in to each other for the sake of Bangladesh. Huaxia insisted that the entire Mughal state was wiped out by Huaxia, and that Britain should not make excessive demands, and that it was already benevolent and righteous to be able to hand over Delhi and Chola to British management. The British, on the other hand, believed that the British had landed on the Indian Peninsula first, and that the two sides had an agreement to jointly administer the Indian Peninsula, so it was completely legal to take over Bengal.

Although the negotiations reached an impasse, the atmosphere at the negotiating table was still friendly, Britain was struggling, they needed the support of Huaxia in many places, and Huaxia did not want to lose such an ally as Britain.

During the recess, Hua Xia arranged for the British delegation to visit Manchester City for half a month.