"Now I can basically determine that the Chinese imperial government has its own standardized diplomatic model."

"Because my formal meeting with His Excellency Zhao Dongsheng, Governor-General of the Chinese Empire in Ceylon, was almost the same as my meeting with His Excellency Zhang Yansheng, Commissioner of the Imperial Chinese Empire in Goa, at the residence of the Viceroy of Ceylon (Colombo), and my meeting with His Excellency Zhang Yansheng, Commissioner of the Imperial Chinese Office in Goa."

He took a sip of the Arctic Ocean brand soda in a small glass bottle made in China, Ludwig van der Per, the special envoy of the United Provincial Republic for the plenipotentiary negotiations with the Chinese Empire, wrote in his diary.

"Although I have received information that Portuguese rule in Ceylon was destroyed by the Chinese Empire only two years ago, I feel completely different from what I see now."

"The Port of High Brown I see is unlike any other I've ever seen. Because this large port with six plank roads is not only not the humble and dilapidated appearance of colonial ports, but also the lively and busy and chaotic and dirty appearance of those on the mainland. ”

"Six long plank roads are symmetrically distributed with large loading equipment on steel tracks, like on the wharf in the Chinese section of the port of Goa. There is also a track in the middle of the tracks on both sides of the boardwalk. On this track is a series of flatbed cars pulled by machinery, also powered by water vapor. ”

"Most of the ships entering the harbor were towed into the berths on either side of the boardwalk by a small, all-black steam-powered vessel that looked like it was all steel. The hoisting equipment, which also uses water vapor as the power, will move along the track to the moored vessel and quickly load the cargo from the vessel onto the flat truck next to it. ”

"When a series of flatbed trucks are filled, the steam-powered machinery that pulls the flatbed trucks from the boardwalk along the tracks to the depths of the docks. Observed from the dock, the flatbed truck's destination should be those tall warehouses deep in the dock area. ”

"Although Gao Langbu Port gave me the feeling of a new and unprecedented experience, the mixture of water vapor everywhere, the noisy roar of machinery and the rhythmic slogans shouted by the workers of the Chinese Empire gave me a very new and rhythmic feeling of flowing water."

"This new feeling reminds me of an experiment I saw when I was at Leiden University. In that experiment, the wooden cards in a long queue quickly fell one by one after the first one fell. The impression left by that experiment was almost exactly the same as that of the efficient and orderly freight system in the Chinese Empire's Gaolangbu port. ”

"This makes me have to admire the civilization of the Chinese Empire, which is really very high. The reality of running everything in a scientific way makes me have to admit that my friend Mr. Li Wenwen explained to me that the government and people of the Chinese Empire regarded science as a religion. ”

"From the pier to the city of Gobron, I had a clear sense that the whole Goblanch was a brand new city that had just been built."

"While I know that the Romans used lime and volcanic ash as building materials for many spectacular buildings, the Imperial Chinese buildings I saw in the city of Goblon must have used some kind of high-quality building materials. Because the pavement of the entire urban area is the same as the plank road in the dock area, which is built of some kind of gray building material. ”

"In addition to these outstanding features in terms of technology, Golden's architectural style should be a more formal Chinese imperial style of architecture."

"Unlike the architectural styles of other European countries, most of the buildings in the whole city of Golf Brown are two- or three-story buildings made of red bricks. The most striking feature of these buildings is that the roofs of these buildings are long, triangular structures covered with cyan tiles. ”

"The wide and neat streets, the cleanliness and sanitation, the perfect drainage facilities, and the multi-storey buildings of red bricks and blue tiles in the Chinese Empire style on both sides of the streets, all combined with the neatness and orderliness that pervades the whole city, form an urban style that I am obsessed with."

"The contrast of all this with the dirty, chaotic, cluttered and noisy urban images of the countries of Europe made me and my colleagues feel a sense of barbarian shame in the face of civilization."

"I can't help but feel ashamed. Because almost every city I've seen, whether in the colony or on the mainland, is filled with all sorts of filthy filth and dilapidated and gloomy buildings. More than that, the people who flood these cities are as stupid and dirty as brutes who have just escaped from the pigsty. Especially in the port city, in addition to the same squalor, disorder, rundown, and chaos, it was full of filthy and stinking sailors and merchants who had just run out of taverns and chicken yards. ”

"Originally, when I was in the port of Goa, the contrast between the docks of the Chinese Empire and the docks of Portugal was already very stark. But in the face of an efficient, clean, beautiful and hygienic city in Ceylon, which was completely controlled by the Chinese Empire, I have to admit that, to a certain extent, the officials and citizens of the Chinese Empire were completely understandable about the barbarism and ignorance of Westerners. ”

"Unlike me, who was caught up in thought and shame, my colleagues cowered and embarrassed like hillbillies when they got out of the carriage and were greeted by the officials of the Imperial Chinese Empire in Ceylon. Mr. Pietro, the purest martial artist, seems to have been struck by the cityscape he saw along the way. I saw him secretly spraying himself with fine perfumes he bought from a Chinese merchant house in Goa. ”

"To my surprise, among the officials of the Imperial Chinese Government who greeted us, there were three or four young faces who were clearly Westerners. These young men with European and Chinese faces had cut off their hair and beards, and were dressed in simple and capable gray uniforms in the style of the Chinese Empire. All they did was help the officials of the Imperial Chinese government, who had greeted us, to translate our conversations. ”

"It is clear that these young Europeans are basically former employees of the East India Company in the South China Sea."

"I felt distinctly the discomfort of a few of my colleagues from the East India Company at the scene of the young employees of the former East India Company, who had apparently taken refuge in the Chinese Imperial Government."

"Of course, this discomfort is nothing compared to the demands of the government officials of the Chinese Empire later."

"Because after a brief greeting with everyone, an Imperial Chinese official in white uniform asked us to undergo a health check and sanitation clean-up in a medical facility in Ceylon, just like the sailors and soldiers who were quarantined in the docks."

"To be honest, the sights we saw along the way forced us to accept such a somewhat aggrieved and humiliating request."