378 Guests from afar
Tianjin Wei, which was once one of the largest guards in the Ming Dynasty, is now the most prosperous port after the political center of the Hong Dynasty moved north.
The Hong Dynasty relied on their strong maritime power, and while blocking the ocean-going trade channels of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan, they still had the spare strength to continue their ocean-going trade.
With Shanxi, a province famous for porcelain manufacturing, fell into the Hong Dynasty, and the southern Qiongzhou Province and Dayuan Province gradually began to develop their silk manufacturing industry, in fact, most of the specialties of the Far East China were able to be independently supplied to foreign Western maritime merchants.
Of course, limited by factors such as production capacity and technology, raw materials, etc., the Hong Dynasty is still not enough to meet the huge trade needs of Westerners, and these industries still have great room for development.
However, it is undeniable that with the establishment of the Hong Dynasty government in Beijing, which is now named Beijing by Li Tianyang, the trade system, which had been depressed for some time, began to regain its vitality.
As an excellent deep-water wharf adjacent to Beijing, the political center of the Hong Dynasty, Tianjin City will dock here for countless materials from the Southern Great Yuan and Luzon.
The northeastern province of Liaoning, as an important industrial base of the Hong Dynasty in recent years, has been investing a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as various advanced technologies, and now it is time to start harvesting.
The current steel output of the Anshan mine has reached the scale of the Shilu mine in Qiongzhou Province, and the monthly output of steel is recorded in tens of tons.
However, due to the fact that the steel of the Shilu Mine contains other unknown elements, the steel of the Shilu Mine is still the exclusive steel production area of the Hong Dynasty army.
On the one hand, because of the input of countless members of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and on the other hand, it is necessary to provide people's livelihood circulation, so most of the steel produced in this mine will be decentralized to the people, and most of its circulation sources are sent to Jingshi for distribution.
"Hello, we are an envoy from the European Republic of the Netherlands, bringing our King William III and blessings to His Majesty the Hong Dynasty to become emperor."
In addition to being the most prosperous in commerce, Tianjin also has one of the most significant features, that is, it can be regarded as an important stronghold of the new Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hong Dynasty.
In particular, in the past few months since Li Tianyang announced the establishment of the Hong Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, many fleets have docked here and wanted to enter Beijing to meet Li Tianyang.
Whether it is out of consideration for Li Tianyang's safety, or as the identity of the lord of a country, Li Tianyang needs to persuade countless ministers and generals to get out of the Forbidden City, and at the same time, he will mobilize the people, not to mention the visits of outsiders.
The director of the Foreign Affairs Department set up in Tianjin today is a prominent figure of the new generation of the Hong Dynasty, surnamed Li Mingjie, and now he is the director of the Tianjin Foreign Affairs Department.
"Excuse me, do you have any proof?"
With a smile, Li Jie asked questions and requests to the guest who had come from afar.
"Oh, my name is James, and here is a clay letter from our King with the coat of arms of the kingdom, and a certificate signed by our Parliament."
"I myself am the Viscount of Tulip in the Dutch Province of the Netherlands of the Republic of the Netherlands, and this is a certificate issued by our Parliament and the King, please look at it."
The foreigner named James is dressed very fancy, at least not in line with the aesthetics of the Hong Dynasty, but it also reveals his aristocratic temperament.
As a result, after carefully studying the various documents and certificates given by the other party, Li Jie was very sure that the other party was indeed the envoy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
You must know that to be able to achieve the position of Li Jie as the director at the age of more than 30 years old, it requires a very high level of real talent.
Li Jie himself is not only proficient in Western English, French, Spanish and other languages, but also memorizes thousands of various coats of arms of Western nobles and royal families, and can directly identify them as belonging to the general history of the family.
"Please also wait a while, our office will now report to the imperial court about the arrival of your country's envoy group, and arrange for someone to accompany your envoy group into Beijing."
The kind smile on Li Jie's face never stopped, the hair dyeer was like a spring breeze, and the arrangements made were also very satisfactory to Viscount James and the members of the accompanying team.
"Our guest house has cleaned out a few rooms with elegant scenery, I will send someone to take you guests to stay in, and I will also arrange time to take Mr. Viscount to visit the scenic spots in our city in the next few days."
"Our old rival is finally gone!"
Li Tianyang, who was far away in the capital division of Shuntianfu, received a quick report from the members of the foreign guards of Yingtianfu, and Chongzhen's death was a lot of emotion for him.
One of the biggest feelings is that time, the biggest killer, never cares what your status and power are, and it is always unstoppable when you are damned.
Of course, because of Chongzhen's death, Li Tianyang's heart also rose a little anxious, you must know that he Li Tianyang is three years older than Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and now Chongzhen has died, that is to say, there is not much time to give Li Tianyang.
"Door Master, should we take advantage of the turmoil in the south of the Zhu Dynasty to increase our offensive?"
As the head of the military department in Beijing, Wu Chao felt that the opportunity was just around the corner at this time, and he was busy making suggestions.
"Almost all the troops that our military department can use are already in the three-way army, and now the fifth army stationed in the Beijing Division, in addition to guarding the Beijing Division, also has to deal with the resurgence of the grassland and the Jurchen barbarians in the northeast, and cannot be reckless."
Boss Hong Chengchou reminded him, and he didn't agree with Wu Chao's proposal very much.
As the former governor of the Ming Dynasty who has been loyal to the Ming Dynasty for decades, now Chongzhen's passing, with the former ministers such as Hong Chengchou, there are more or less sighs and remembrances.
"The affairs of the front-line battlefield will be handed over to Marshal Wu Jie for their consideration, and what we need to do is to ensure their logistics."
After the political and military center of Hongmen moved north to Beijing, Li Tianyang and his team put more energy on relocating the people's livelihood and increasing the development process of the land outside the northeast pass.
As for military matters, Li Tianyang instead let Wu Jie and his generals do whatever they wanted, as long as what they did was in line with military regulations, then Li Tianyang didn't say much.
Professional things should be handed over to professional talents to do, with the steady expansion of Hongmen's territory and strength, Li Tianyang will also.
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