The British said they didn't want money, but the British officials in London were very disappointed with the situation in Australia, which had been developed for 20 years, but it was not yet self-sufficient, and now during the war, there was a shortage of British male labor, and there was no incentive to immigrate, and Australia was too far away from the United Kingdom, and the cost of development was far from that of the Americas, so Australia could not give up.

But throwing it away in vain is not the style of the British, if possible, they want to exchange this place for more valuable land, Zhoushan in China is one, but they value India more.

Now the British have controlled most of the Indian Peninsula, but the Indus Valley is controlled by the Chinese East India Company, although Henry Pitt has a large say in this company, and even the shares of the British and the British East India Company combined, more than the shares of the Chinese emperor, but the problem is that the authorization of this company is issued by the Chinese government, and it is the Chinese government that authorizes them to occupy the land of India, and they occupy the territory on behalf of China, so de jure China had more power than Britain over the territory of the Chinese East India Company.

If this territory can be annexed, the British East India Company basically controls the whole of India, and Henry Pitt's development is impressive, their pressing here is relatively small, but the production development is very good, he hired a lot of Chinese officials, built a large number of water conservancy projects here, opened up more farmland, mostly used to grow cotton, and now the cotton exported by Chinese companies to China has been comparable to the export of the entire British East India Company, this speed is too amazing, it will not take a few years, They would have surpassed the East India Company.

Without the East India Company's cotton trade, Britain's trade with China would be very unbalanced, and it would have to constantly send real money to purchase Chinese tea. It's not that the British are reluctant to pay silver, the problem is that the price of silver in China has fallen greatly, after the opening of trade, China's gold-silver ratio has rapidly increased to 1 to 14, and there is no difference in the price of silver to China, which means that silver is no longer a commodity, but can only play a monetary role.

Transporting a boatload of silver to China for tea and other commodities is just a one-way trade, but transporting cotton is different, cotton sent to China is a trade, there is a certain profit, and shipping Chinese goods back, it is another trade, and it is a profit.

With China's opening up, the British know more and more about China, but the more they understand, the more they feel that Qianlong's words make sense, China really lacks nothing, no matter what goods Britain brings, either they can see better similar goods in the Chinese market, or they can find substitutes, and China has nothing to import.

Maybe the opium is counted as one, but the emerging Great Zhou Dynasty has a great deal of damage to the opium, far from the Manchu Dynasty, the attack on the opium is the emperor's order, and the governor and the customs who can enforce the law will be allowed unless they want more bad rules.

In their view, Henry Pitt's policy in Sindh was very weak, and they could not see the effect of the policy of recuperation adopted by the Chinese officials employed by Henry Pitt on production, and they could only see the inefficiency of Henry Pitt's policy.

The East India Company reported that if the province of Sindh were given to the East India Company, they would be able to get ten million a year from there, of which six million from trade and four million from land. They saw Henry Pitt's inability to extract as an over-acceptance of China's inefficient tax policies.

Britain would be more willing to accept Australia in exchange for Cinder than to sell Australia for £20 million in cash.

So the British offered to exchange Australia for China's lease of Zhoushan Island, but they needed to exchange the shares of the Chinese East India Company in the hands of the Chinese emperor. Britain also made it clear that neither the Chinese emperor nor the Chinese government could interfere in the disposal of the assets of the China East India Company under any pretext after the sale of its shares.

The British sent to offer them to be trustworthy.

Lin Di thought about it and felt that this deal could be done, and the emperor was willing to lease Zhoushan to Britain while adding money.

Now it's just an extra piece of India as an addition.

Lin Di said that this suggestion could be considered, and that he had to ask the emperor to make a decision.

As for other issues, of course, the British still have to mention it, it is nothing more than some trade privileges and the like, they feel that China's trade policy is not friendly to the British, they did not mention the matter of opium, any country has the right to prohibit the import of a certain commodity that is unfavorable to itself, the British recognize this, so except for the only exception, the British East India Company never trafficked in opium, and all the opium trading was carried out through their retail agents.

The British put forward the issue of wool tariffs, China's tax policy is almost a year to change, at first very simple, simple like an African primitive tribe, only levy a fixed tax in and out of the port, a child who can count can be a tax officer, and then a tax on bulk commodities such as tea, followed by cotton, and not specifically for wool textiles, but according to the general commodity tax rate, a load of 10 taels of silver, but suddenly the Chinese listed wool separately, wool cloth import tax as high as 30 taels of silver per load.

In recent years, Britain's high-quality woolen exports to China have grown rapidly, because the northern market has opened, and it can't be sold before, mainly because southerners don't like cotton, low-end they wear cotton, high-end they wear silk, woolen is too hot compared to the weather in Guangzhou. However, the demand in the northern market was very strong, and the dignitaries and nobles liked it, and the scarlet wool from Britain was even a generous gift from Qianlong to the ministers in the past. The Heshen family has a special warehouse to store wool.

As a result, China suddenly imposed special tariffs on woolen wool, which was listed as a commodity such as tea and cotton. It's no longer a general commodity.

Britain is not opposed to other countries imposing taxes on British goods, but they feel that the tax rate is too high, which affects the export of British goods. Britain has only imposed a 12% tariff on tea, and they hope that the Chinese will also be reduced to that level.

Lin Di was very disgusted by the shrewdness of the British, and he had to remind the other party that the Chinese tax rate and the British tax rate are two different concepts, that China is taxed according to weight, while in Britain it is based on price. He reminded the other party that the high-quality woolen products exported by the United Kingdom, the materials used to make a piece of clothing often cost dozens of taels of silver, and a load of high-quality woolen clans cost hundreds of taels, according to the standard of 30 taels per load, and the tax rate converted into the UK is not even less than 10 percent.

The British explained that Britain's exports are not all high-quality wool, and a large number of low-end woolen wool to make a dress is not even a pound, according to this price, a load of wool is worth 30 taels of silver, and China's tax rate is equivalent to 100%!

Lin Di did not want to talk about this kind of issue, and replied to the British Foreign Secretary that he asked them to talk to the Chinese tax department on trade and tax rates. As a diplomat, Lin Di is different from Westerners' understanding, the main job of Western diplomats in this era is to fight for commercial interests, the biggest purpose of diplomacy, in addition to security, basically that is, trade.

But Lin Di felt that he was the state envoy, and the China he represented was positioned according to figures like Su Wu and Zhang Qian in ancient times, and such small matters as trade and taxation were not his responsibility. What he should be in charge of is the cooperation between major powers, and the Chinese call diplomacy diplomatic relations, but it is not the meaning of foreign exchanges in the later sense, but a major matter between countries!

Negotiations with the British came to an end.

The negotiation process and records were all sent back to the country for record.

Then Lindi returned to France, and the Chinese officers Napoleon had gathered and confiscated their weapons, but the military uniform was still in French.

Lin Di immediately arranged for these people to return to China, this time also by land, returning to China via Russia. The Russians had already seized the Chinese mission, but Lindy thought that the Russians would let the soldiers go.

He personally escorted them into Russia and then demanded an interview with the Tsar.

The Tsar received Lindy for the simple reason that Russia had recently had a great diplomatic dispute with China, and the Chinese government claimed that Russia had detained their envoys, which Russia did not recognize. The Tsar was willing to explain this to Lindy on this issue. The reason was that Russia was too concerned about the relations between the two countries, so these missions were left in Russia for a few more days, especially the Tsar himself, who very much wanted to meet with the mission, but he never had time.

Lindy accepted the Tsar's explanation, and told the Tsar that the mission would not go to France and would not negotiate with Spain. Because of some problems in the friendship between China and Napoleon, China has recalled all Chinese who served in the French army, hoping that the Tsar would allow them to pass through Russian territory.

Where could the tsar have thought that Lin Di would use such a major event as Sino-French relations to fool him, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and immediately agreed to let them cross, and at the same time said that he had already met with the Chinese mission, and did not force them to stay, and had asked the government departments to issue them passage documents, but the administrative efficiency of the Russian government made him very disappointed, obviously they had made a mistake, and the tsar said that he would definitely urge that the documents for the passage of the mission be handled within three days.

Not only the Chinese mission, but Lindy said that the Chinese representatives in the mission would be recalled, and as for some of the French scholars, who had been expelled by His Majesty the Emperor, they would return to France.

Tsar Alexander really believed that China had a falling out with France, and the reason for the quarrel was also very logical, it must have been because of the collapse of the Spanish colonial issue.

Under the tsar's idea, whether it was the mission or the soldiers studying in France, they all passed smoothly, and of course there was no obstacle to the exchange of information, and Zhou Lang soon received Lin Di's letter.

But after Zhou Lang saw it, he was quite dissatisfied with Lin Di, Lin Di said that the British wanted to use the lease of Zhoushan Island in exchange for Australia, but asked India as an additive, but where is this using India as an additive, this is obviously a lease of Zhoushan as an additive!