Lin Fei gave Fu He a gesture, signaling him to continue reading down, Fu He glared at Rogers, and continued to read down, the following clauses are about unifying weights and measures, cracking down on tax evasion, and smuggling goods, there are no traps, and Lin Fei did not speak.

Gradually, Fu He read the last article: "If the British people and the Chinese people have a negotiation lawsuit, how the British can be punished in accordance with the British agreed regulations and laws sent to the British consulate in the place where the negotiation and litigation are made." ”

Fu He frowned again when he said this, and said to Lin Fei in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the British have set a trap in the clause again, once we approve this clause, it means that we will lose the power to punish British criminals, even if the British kill, rob, and rape on our land, we can't take care of it." ”

Lin Fei nodded, then looked at Rogers, and said in a cold voice: "Mr. Rogers, are you embarrassed to write such a thing as consular jurisdiction in the agreement?" If I give you consular jurisdiction in the British Empire, should you also give us consular jurisdiction? ”

Rogers stood up, Lin Fei took the text in Fu He's hand, and said: "This free trade agreement, if you don't modify the tariff clause and consular jurisdiction clause of the agreement, I will definitely not accept it." ”

Rogers frowned and said, "Okay, let's go back and revise these two terms." Now that we're out of the way, it's time to share your opinions, right? ”

Lin Fei said: "We have preliminarily planned to open the islands of Horaku, Zamboanga, Manila and Cebu as economic and trade ports for trade with the British Empire. ”

Rogers thought for a moment and said, "Isn't it too little to open only four places?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "It's already a lot, our Chinese Empire is geographically composed of four parts, the Sulu Islands, Mindanao, the Visayas and Luzon, and the four ports I opened are located on these islands, basically covering all the population of our Chinese Empire." ”

Rogers nodded first, and then said, "I heard that the most prosperous places in the Chinese Empire are Yanhuang City and Chiyou City on Samar Island, and I hope that your country will consider opening these two places as treaty ports. ”

As the territory of the Chinese Empire became larger and larger, Lin Fei also set different functions for different cities, Yanhuang City and Chiyou City were used by Lin Fei as a high-tech research and development center, which was used to transform the high technology mastered by Lin Fei into real objects, among which Yanhuangcheng was responsible for the transformation of heavy industry technology, and Chiyou City was responsible for the transformation of light industry technology.

The high technology mastered by Lin Fei is the strongest booster for the development of the Chinese Empire, so Yanhuang City and Chiyou City are extremely important, of course Lin Fei can't open such an important place as a treaty port, so Lin Fei said: "Yanhuang City and Chiyou City can't be opened for the time being, I hope your country understands." ”

Rogers didn't force Lin Fei, so he nodded and agreed, Lin Fei saw that it was already lunch time, so he proposed to end this morning's talks, and then hold the next round of talks in the afternoon, Rogers agreed, and the two sides immediately adjourned.

On Lin Fei's way back, Fu He came over and said to him: "Your Majesty, for the afternoon meeting, should we bring forward the 'use of Huaxia coins to settle payments'?" ”

If the British can be persuaded to use Huaxia currency to settle the payment, Huaxia currency will go to the international currency stage, with the possibility of developing into an international currency, although Lin Fei wants to transform Huaxia currency into a world currency, but he knows that the current world currency is the pound sterling, and it will take a long and difficult process for Huaxia currency to replace it, Lin Fei said: "Now we have just opened the treaty port, and British merchants have just come in, let's not mention the matter of settlement with Huaxia currency, this matter will be talked about later." ”

Fu He didn't say anything more, Lin Fei had a brief lunch, and then returned to the office, intending to continue to monitor, the British were not used to the coarse tea and light rice provided by Lin Fei, so they went to eat in a high-end restaurant outside, and Lin Fei didn't know what the British said.

In the afternoon, the two sides continued talks, and the British side canceled the requirements for tariffs and consular jurisdiction to negotiate and redraw the treaty, and Lin Fei carefully checked the agreement to make sure that there were no traps in it, and then agreed to sign the "Free Trade Agreement between the Chinese Empire and the British Empire."

This was the first time that the Chinese Empire had concluded an agreement with a foreign country, and the signing of this treaty marked the official entry of the Chinese Empire into the international arena, and the open and secret struggle between the major powers had become a challenge that Lin Fei faced all the time.

Rogers signed the treaty, and planned to leave the next day, return to Singapore, and report to the governor of Singapore, that night, Lin Fei once again monitored the conversation between Rogers and Claros, and at the beginning of the conversation, Claros said angrily: "This time the Chinese Empire was not punished, it is really unwilling..."

Rogers said, "Mr. Claros, please don't say that, we have the equipment to communicate wirelessly this time...... The benefits gained from the Blue Bird machine are already great. ”

Claros sighed and didn't speak, Rogers said with a smile: "You don't have to be sad, the days ahead are still long, and we always have a chance to clean up the Huaxia Empire." ”

Claros's tone was a little more uplifted, and he said, "In the future, when we punish the Huaxia Empire, I must meet Lin Fei as a diplomatic envoy..."

Rogers and Claros both laughed, Rogers and his subordinates then rested, the room was quiet, at midnight, Governor Barak came to Lin Fei, he looked dejected, and said to Lin Fei: "Governor Sanders has not agreed to your conditions, he does not plan to sign a formal armistice agreement." ”

If the Spanish Empire did not sign a formal armistice agreement with the Huaxia Empire, it meant that the state of war between the two sides was not over, and the Spaniards still had the possibility of counterattacking, so Lin Fei was not surprised by this matter, he said with a smile: "Then what does Governor Sanders mean?" Do you want to keep fighting? ”

Governor Barak said helplessly: "He is already preparing to bring people back to Spain, and I plan to return to China, as for the prisoners of war you captured, we don't know if we will spend money to ransom them, and the parliament will discuss this matter for a while."

Lin Fei smiled and said, "Okay, I'll keep them as laborers, when will you bring the money, and when will I release them." ”

Governor Barak agreed, took his leave, and from then on, the diplomatic struggle caused by the Philippine War was over, in which Lin Fei skillfully used radio communication equipment and bugs to bring great benefits to the Chinese Empire.

The next day, on July 23, Lin Fei ordered the troops to continue to march to the north of Luzon Island and occupy most of Luzon.

While Lin Fei sent troops to occupy the cities, he also sent a large number of land reform teams into the countryside to actively mobilize local Chinese and Filipinos to carry out land reform.

At noon on July 26, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade of Lin Fei's troops occupied Bugui, the northernmost port city on Luzon Island, and all the major cities on Luzon were occupied by Lin Fei. Since then, Lin Fei has mastered the entire territory of the Philippines, including 8 million people and 300,000 square kilometers of land area.

After Lin Fei occupied the whole of the Philippines, he began to carry out follow-up work, and on the political stage, Lin Fei divided the Philippines into three provinces and one provincial autonomous region, the three provinces are Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and one provincial autonomous region is the Sulu Islands Autonomous Region.

In terms of personnel appointments, except for the sulu archipelago autonomous region, the supreme governor of the Sulu archipelago was the Sultan of Yagurul, and the governors of the other three provinces were all Confucian scholars recruited by Chen Fu from the Qing state, and these people were very loyal to Lin Fei.

Lin Fei also made a heavy decision, that is, to move the capital to Manila, and at the same time to change the name of Manila to "Dayu City", the reason for moving the capital is because Luzon Island is the richest and most developed area in the Philippines, and the capital is located here, which is convenient for the overall planning of various resources for development and construction. After the relocation of the capital, Yanhuangcheng will be stored as a high-tech center.

However, Lin Fei did not order to move the capital immediately, because the next thing the Chinese Empire wanted to do was to attack Taiwan and drive out the Japanese invaders, and all affairs should be centered on this war, and in this case, it was obviously inappropriate to move the capital.

Economically, Lin Fei continued the consistent economic policy of the Chinese Empire, encouraging more capital to enter the industrial field and strengthening the development of cultural industries; In addition to consolidating and upgrading the existing grain crop planting industry, we should also strengthen the construction of fishery, cash crop planting, and aquaculture.

Militarily, Lin Fei at this time had two brigades of infantry combat strength, one regiment and two battalions of artillery, and a total of more than 10,000 people of various specialized arms; in order to cope with the next battle in Taiwan, Lin Fei decided to expand the infantry to two divisions, and also expand the artillery and other specialized arms, and to unify these two divisions and all specialized arms under his jurisdiction into the First Group Army, personally serving as the commander-in-chief of the group army, and also extending the military rank system to the whole army.

In terms of education, since Luzon has been run by the Spaniards for a long time, there are many schools on the island, and there are many teachers in these schools who teach natural science subjects such as mathematics, physics and chemistry.

With the basic education of natural sciences, it is natural to have higher education in natural sciences, Lin Fei set up a university in Manila, named "Huaxia University", of course, the number of professors is very small, Lin Fei plans to gradually recruit knowledgeable scholars in the future.

All affairs were on the right track, and at this time, someone asked Lin Feijian: "Your Majesty, before attacking Taiwan, should you solve the problem of the concubine?" ”

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