"Unlike Mr. Li Wenwen, the trade representative of the Imperial Chinese Office in Goa, His Excellency Zhang Yansheng, Commissioner of the Imperial Chinese Office in Goa, has a rather blunt attitude towards me."

"The meeting I had with him in my capacity as plenipotentiary of the United Provincial Republic was as rigid and rigid as a pre-arranged ceremony. Throughout the meeting, His Excellency Zhang Yansheng only announced in a firm and businesslike tone the position of the Chinese Empire on the conflict with the United Provincial Republic. Other than that, he didn't have any other effective conversations with me. ”

Take a sip of the South Sea liqueur (rum) with ice in a beautiful glass, Ludwig van der Perr, the special envoy of the United Provincial Republic for the plenipotentiary negotiations of the Chinese Empire, wrote in his diary.

"Even the most sluggish person can feel that His Excellency Zhang Yansheng has great contempt for me and the United Provincial Republic I represent. This feeling of being despised was so bad that I was very depressed for the rest of my time in Goa. ”

"I shared my thoughts with my good friend Li Wenwen."

Li Wenwen, who was also an official of the Chinese Empire, was helpless about His Excellency the Commissioner's attitude. He told me very helplessly that the Chinese Empire had encountered very bad behavior of the colonists of various countries in the operation to clean up the South China Sea region, and many of their behaviors broke through the bottom line of civilization, so that the overall view of Westerners in the Chinese Empire was very negative. ”

"Especially because the actions of many missionaries in the East have seriously violated the cultural traditions of the Chinese nation and excessively promoted Western religions, which has seriously offended the citizens of the Chinese Empire."

"Mr. Li Wenwen told me that because Western religions interfered with the sacrifice of the citizens of the Chinese Empire to their ancestors and propagated non-scientific and irrational views, it was a serious violation of the Religious Administration Act of the Chinese Empire. Therefore, many officials in the government of the Chinese Empire, as well as the vast majority of the citizens of the Chinese Empire, thought that Westerners were the kind of ignorant barbarians who believed in evil religion. ”

"Mr. Li's explanation made me even more embarrassed. For I must confess that even though the principal religion of the United Republic is of the more civilized Calvinist sect, the people who have become very ignorant by superstitious religion are still the dominant people in our United Republic of the United States. ”

"Even after the Reformation of the last century, the countries of Europe are no longer ruled by the rotten and evil Roman Church, but as a scholar, I know that most of the citizens of European countries are still the kind of fools who have basically no scientific and humanistic spirit, and are full of irrational religious superstitions."

"In particular, I am well aware that most of the missionaries who are engaged in missionary work abroad are members of the Society of Jesuits, a semi-military organization under the Church of Rome, and they are in some way agents and dogs of the Catholic countries expanding their colonies."

So even as a fellow European, I, a Protestant believer, have no position or means to justify the irrational behavior of the Jesuit missionaries who were controlled by the Spaniards. I can only explain in detail to my good friend Mr. Li Wenwen that there are various sects within Christianity in various European countries. ”

"It is clear that my friend, Mr. Li Wenwen, fully understood my explanation. He also very insightfully shared with me the spirit of Protestantism that he understood and codified. He told me that although he did not approve of any religion as a believer in science, he was able to understand the positive and advanced aspects of Protestantism for Catholicism. ”

"During my short stay in Goa, I had a very profound exchange and discussion with my good friend Mr. Li Wenwen. In the course of his communication with me, he secretly revealed to me a message, that is, as a country that pursues a people's democratic system, the imperial government of China still treats the United Provincial Republic differently from the royal feudal states such as Spain, Portugal, and Britain. ”

"Mr. Li Wenwen pointed out to me that the Imperial Government of China has made a relatively clear classification of foreign governments, and that all countries that practice royal power and believe in Catholicism are regarded by the Imperial Government of China as backward countries with low civilization levels. On the other hand, those countries that have a republican system and a system of democratic consultation, and do not tie religion to political power, will generally be regarded by the imperial government of China as civilized countries of different levels that can communicate and negotiate. ”

"In the South China Sea, for example, the Imperial Government of China believes that peace negotiations with the United Provincial Republic based on a formal apology from the United Provincial Government and economic compensation from the East India Company can be entered into."

"But for the Spanish colonists who committed a blood debt against the citizens of the Chinese Empire in Luzon, the Chinese Imperial Government has carried out legal executions of all Spaniards in the South China Sea region."

"If the Spanish government fails to admit its guilt and pay a war indemnity of 12,000,000 silver dollars and a state fine (including a punitive fine of 8,000,000,000 silver dollars for each of the total Spanish population and a war indemnity of 4,000,000 silver dollars for each of the total Spanish population), the Chinese Empire will maintain its war relations with the Kingdom of Spain until the Kingdom of Spain and all Spaniards are destroyed."

"In my subsequent communication with His Excellency Alfonso, the Governor of Goa (no longer the Governor of Goa, but the Governor of the Portuguese Colonial Area of Goa), I learned that the Imperial Government of China treated Spain differently from Portugal under Spanish rule."

"Although the Portuguese colonial army, colonial officials, and ordinary colonists in the South China Sea remained in the captivity of the Chinese Empire, the Imperial Chinese Government allowed the Portuguese to ransom their own nationals and officials on the grounds that it did not recognize the rule of the Kingdom of Spain over Portugal."

"Of course, this is still premised on the fact that the Portuguese government must make a formal written apology to the Chinese Imperial Government and pay the war reparations prescribed by the Chinese Imperial Government."

"Even though all the colonies in the South China Sea were lost and the rule of Ceylon was completely destroyed by the Chinese Empire, Mr. Alfonso, the Governor of the Portuguese Colony of Goa, was still very gloating to tell me that all Spanish merchant ships sailing in the Indian Ocean had now been converted to Portuguese documents and nationality."

"Because the Imperial Chinese government was very angry with the Spaniards, any ships and personnel of Spanish nationality would be arrested and executed by the Imperial Chinese Navy. So much so that the Spanish ships and people who traded in the Indian Ocean changed their nationality. ”

"It seems to me that it is a very cost-effective thing for the Portuguese to make a formal written apology to the government of the Chinese Empire and to pay a war reparations of half a million silver dollars."

"At this stage, the Portuguese, who had been rebelling against Spanish rule, were not officially recognized in the countries. By negotiating and eventually signing a formal treaty with the Chinese Imperial Government, Portugal was able to be treated as a legitimate and independent government, at least in the Eastern world. Not to mention, because the Portuguese showed full respect for the Chinese Imperial Government, the Portuguese were able to preemptively establish formal political and economic relations with the Chinese Imperial Government. ”

"As the first country to complete negotiations with the Chinese Empire and the first to establish normal relations with the Chinese Imperial Government, the Portuguese, who had been ahead of the curve for nearly a year, made a lot of money in trade with the Chinese Empire."

"'As long as it's Chinese, you can make money selling anything.'" Mr. Alfonso confided a very important message to me after drinking too much of the South China Sea liqueur (rum), which is very popular in the region. ”