Jia Lian is not unclear that this Magorny cannot be the Count of George Magorny in the last years of Qianlong in his previous life.

But Magorny's appearance still reminded him of the dark history that began at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in his previous life.

There is a unified standard in the field of historiography, and China's modern history should start with the Opium War in 1840.

But Jia Lian agrees with the personal views of the professor who taught him modern Chinese history in his previous university.

That is the real modern history of China, which should begin with the visit of the Magorny delegation to China in the 56th year of Qianlong.

Before their arrival, the West's impression of China was still in the account of Marco Polo's travels.

"Walking in the happiness provided by the city, which is unmatched by the cities of the world, people are confident that they are in heaven."

And when Magorny entered China, which was then ruled by the Manchus. only to find that China at that time was no longer a paradise on earth full of gold in Marco Polo's pen.

This gave Westerners the courage to fight all the way to Jinling with thousands of people a few decades later.

Jia Lian took a deep breath, this time Magorny, facing the real prosperous Zheng Tianchao, I don't know what it will be like.

"Your Excellency the Earl, Baron of England, greetings to James Magorny, head of the mission to China."

Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man in his forties, tall and handsome.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, you will lead the mission to travel thousands of miles to China. On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and on my own behalf, I would like to welcome Your Excellency. ”

Magorny sat in a mahogany chair and kept a natural smile as Jia Lian spoke.

"But Your Excellency, my experience in your capital has not been so kind."

Jia Lian raised his eyebrows and smiled indifferently: "There will be traitors and scum in any country, and they will all experience changes in the political situation and turmoil in the situation.

In the last century, the glorious revolution of your country once overthrew the royal family and established the protector of the country, but it didn't take long for it to be restored.

If it were an envoy who arrived in London at that time, I am afraid that he would not have been treated better than his Excellency today. ”

Is Magorny really surprised? You know, although Da Zheng's navy controls the sea near Da Zheng. But farther away, the area of activity of the British and other Western fleets.

As a large landowner, aristocrat, diplomat and state activist in England. Before coming to Dazheng, Magorny had spent time in India, Singapore, and Dutch-controlled Sumatra.

He knows Da Zheng very well. It's not a closed country, and their merchant ships travel all over the world. Their navy is very strong in the near seas, but it has little ocean-going capabilities.

Of course, Magorny believes that the lack of ocean-going capabilities of the Dazheng Navy is not due to technical reasons, but because the government of Dazheng has not awakened to the need for this.

Because, Magorny has found, in stark contrast to open Chinese businessmen and powerful Chinese soldiers, the Chinese government's lack of attention to the seas is the stark contrast.

This is also the reason why he organized delegations from various countries to visit China after he found out that this year was the year when the vassal states met with the Emperor Zheng Tianzi once every three years.

That's right, the joint visit to China of England, the Netherlands, France, Portugal and Spain, the five maritime powers that occupied the most important position in the world at this time, was organized by Magorny.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that he hadn't had time to start work in Dazheng's Shenjing. ran into the situation that the Japanese slaves rebelled against the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dazheng and were taken by the Emperor of Dazheng.

Then these envoys were thrown in the Sifang Pavilion for nearly a month.

Now, the new foreign secretary has finally arrived. He also chose to meet him for the first time, and Magorny felt that he was still quite proud.

And now, I actually heard that this young imperial earl actually knew the history of the United Kingdom and knew the Lord of the Protector. This surprised Magorny greatly.

"Dear, your excellency, your erudition has really surprised me. It was the first time in the Far East that I had heard of anyone who knew about the history of the Glorious Revolution in the United Kingdom. ”

Jia Lian smiled reservedly, and said in his heart that my brother knows more about British history than you. However, Jia Lian was not in the mood to discuss British history with a ghost guy from England.

"Monsieur Baron, I'm short on time. Let's get down to business, what is the purpose of your visit this time during the tributary period of our vassal states? ”

"You're really direct." Magorny was resisted by Jia Lian, shook his head helplessly, and decided to say directly: "Then I'll say it bluntly, we have two purposes for coming to China this time."

First, I would like to pay a visit to the Emperor of your country and affirm the friendship of the United Kingdom towards your country. And I hope to be able to leave a messenger of friendship in Shenjing, your country.

Second, communicate with your officials, including you, to open up trade routes between the two countries. ”

Jia Lian frowned, probably understanding what Magorny meant. The so-called visit to the emperor. I'm afraid it's just a pretext for them. The real aim was to broaden trade routes.

Jia Lian knew that Da Zheng's foreign trade was not as closed as it was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the previous life. But not completely open either?

A distinctive feature is that the import and export trade was actually controlled by the Dazheng Commercial Association, which included the royal caravans under the control of the Imperial Interior Office and the maritime merchants from all over the country.

If foreign merchants intend to directly cross the commercial general to enter the Great Zheng and ordinary merchants to start trade, there are very many restrictions.

This should be the intention of Magorny's intention in widening trade routes.

To be honest, in this regard, Jia Lian still has some support for Magorny. After all, he came from later generations and knew very well that it was inappropriate and unnecessary to set up artificial obstacles to commercial trade.

However, the interests of this business association are complex, and even directly related to the interests of the heavenly family. Jia Lian didn't think that Magorny had the means to coerce Emperor Longzheng to bow his head.

As for the envoys mentioned in Article 1? This is actually a matter of exchanging envoys. This is one of the goals that Jia Lian intends to promote after becoming the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple.

Jia Lian looked at Magorny and frowned, he naturally knew that the purpose of this Englishman would never be so simple, but what was their real purpose?

Shenjing East City, Huairenfang, inside a dilapidated courtyard. A few strange men dressed in oversized Zheng clothes were gathering.

"Hashimoto-kun, how's it going?"

The one named Hashimoto had met privately with Xu Li's housekeeper before.

Previously, when the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple jointly investigated, a substitute ghost was handed over to Zheng Ren instead of Hashimoto. The real Hashimoto was hidden.

"The door is very tightly closed, and we can't get out."