Chen Mu reflected on the meaning expressed before and after this letter, thinking about why Elizabeth would call herself the Queen of France, and Zou Yuanbiao and the others, who were sitting at the bottom of the head, looked at Drake with unkind expressions.

You don't need to look at Chen Mu to know that most of the officials below think that this seemingly equal letter is 'disrespectful', and it's not anyone's fault.

This is a collision of Chinese-style diplomacy and European-style diplomacy.

Under normal circumstances, the result of the letter being delivered to Wanli is the same as not being delivered to Wanli.

Elizabeth sent people to deliver the credentials in order to establish European-style diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty, which was impossible.

The Dutch wanted to trade, but after being rejected by the government, they engaged in smuggling, and then clashed with the local pirate Zheng Zhilong, and the Portuguese in Macao, who were close to the Ming Dynasty, made trouble, and they were pulled down in a blink of an eye.

Even if it was really the Forbidden City, it would at best be played with as a tributary state in Chinese-style diplomatic relations, which might have contributed to the progress of the Ming Dynasty, but the English would never have gotten what they wanted.

Chen Mu lived in the era in the past, and the whole country can be said to be the biggest fan, and the phobia of lack of firepower is also what he will suffer, since he learns from the teacher, he has to learn that set thoroughly, is British diplomacy equal? Is American-style diplomacy egalitarian?

Outside the tributary civilized world, the only relationship between nations and between the strong and the weak is annexation, stalemate, colonization and extinction.

For example, after the rise of England, which now wants to trade, everything that can be annexed has been annexed, everything that can be colonized, and everything that can perish has perished, and the countries that cannot realize the above three means have coexisted in a state of stalemate.

The tributary system is the best, most civilized, and most benevolent system of regional hegemony from ancient times to the present, and it is also an expedient for the peaceful coexistence of the strong and the weak.

The real fact is that in the era of predominantly agriculture, there was no fertile land worth conquering, and there were no goods worth exchanging equally.

To say that it is difficult to say that there is no powerful country in the world in history who is not arrogant, and the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty is reflected in the fact that after getting tired of playing the trick of beating children, he formulated a set of rules of 'you give me face, I will give you candy'.

If you are willing to pay tribute, you will come to pay tribute, anyway, you can't make money from you, you have to have some face, the emperor is happy to give back something, and you are allowed to go back to offer, if you are not happy to pay tribute, you just stay on the tree, don't disturb the Taoist soaring.

At least I won't you if you don't do business with me, and I'll do it for you, and I'll shout that I'm free trade.

Where is there any equality, it is nothing more than strength or weakness, strength is strong and fart is fragrant, and talking nonsense with open eyes is more true than true.

Therefore, American-style hegemony is a very normal thing, despite barbarism, even in the 21st century, is it possible to let a small backward country go to the yellow-haired commander and say, 'Open the door, free trade'?

And now the English want to trade with the Ming and give you 'safe passage and other much-needed privileges', is this normal?

Why do you say it's ugly?

However, Chen Mu is very civilized.

"I already know the content of the letter, your queen said that she wants to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and trade is beneficial, but first of all, how many people does your country have?"

Drake, who had not gone to school and had only received a little theological education, could not answer this kind of question, not to mention that he made the officials stare a little frightened, and they could only turn their heads to look at the younger but more erudite Francis Bacon.

The young former envoy attaché to France lived up to the expectations of the pirate leader and replied respectfully: "Honorable general, England has four hundred to six million men. ”

"There are a lot of cottage workshops in our village, producing cotton and linen, woollen wool, woollen spinning, clothing, glass, paper, leather, pottery, coal, salt, and foodstuffs processed with copper, iron, steel and grains. ”

"What goods we supply is related to the needs of your country, of course our most exported goods in Europe are wool and wool, which accounted for eighty-two per cent of the goods sold in England last year, although less and less wool was sold, and last year only more than 4,000 bales of wool were sold, but as many as 130,000 woolen horses were sold."

Chen Mu let out a long breath with a snort, to be honest, it not only made him feel reassured, but also admired its primitive accumulation.

The rest assured is that England is not yet very strong, and the admiration is because this primitive accumulation will make England strong rapidly.

Why does Fei Lao Er have a bad relationship with England? Because he wanted to be the king of England, why did he want to be the king of England? Because he suffers a lot in trade...... Spain's flagship product is wool, and so is England.

In the long competition, England began to accumulate strong production capacity, while Spain gave up its own production capacity and used the silver and gold of the New World to survive, resulting in no other competitive goods in the country.

There are political reasons, there are insults of piracy, and there are economic reasons that lead to a war between the two countries.

In fact, the general trend of history is often the trend that contemporary people can also feel, just like Zhang Juzheng sat on the position of the first assistant many years ago, the people of insight in the Ming Dynasty knew that he would become the first assistant; Before the Anglo-Spanish naval battle began, people of insight could also perceive the pace of the war.

"The Ming will consider allowing merchants to trade with you, but it depends on whether the profit is appropriate, after all, the Celestial Empire is far away from England."

Chen Mu nodded slowly with a very sincere expression in his life, and asked, "Have you brought samples of the goods, and the price of these goods, not here, but the price of these goods in England." ”

Seeing that Drake and Bacon were in a hurry to argue about something, Chen Mu raised his hand and said, "If you bring a sample, it may take a while for it to be shipped from Qilinwei Port, I suggest that you discuss it carefully in the next few days and give the right price." ”

"Because all the goods you can produce are not very attractive to the Ming Dynasty, because we can all produce them, and the Ming Dynasty that you can't produce also have, and they can all be sold in large quantities. As far as I know, you are not rich in gold and silver, so trade will be done by bartering. ”

"If your goods are priced low, we will buy them in large quantities from England; If your goods are priced at a high price, we will sell them in large quantities to England, and if the price is not in our favour, we will not have such a trade. ”

Bacon's face turned red in a hurry, and he said: "Our merchant ships can transport goods and buy and sell with the Ming Empire, anywhere." ”

Chen Mu smiled, he shook his head, still very sincere.

"Let me tell you a few things. First of all, in the Mingxi Agreement, all the lands in the north of the New World belong to the Ming Dynasty, and any country that tries to get their hands on it will be attacked by the Mingxi coalition army, and the counterattack will include its European mainland, so no one should land on the northern land. ”

"Second, you don't want to trade in the Gulf of Mexico, the land east of Mexico City is governed by the Ming and the West, and the islands belong to Spain, given the relationship between England and Spain, your merchant ships will be destroyed by Spanish ships as soon as they approach the islands, if you trade in the New World, then I will never see your merchant ships, so what difference does it make if you trade or not?"

"Third, the Ming ships can sail in any corner of the world, and France has a lot of pirates at sea, since your monarch thinks she is the queen of France, let those pirates not provoke my people, if she can't control it, it doesn't matter, I have no intention of interfering in the belonging of the French royal family, this will not affect our trade, I will send someone to tell Hum what the rules are, his pirates rob me a few ships, and my people will burn a few ports for him."

"Fourthly, in view of the foregoing, I consider it advisable to have the place of trade in England, and I am inclined to set up a fixed trading station in England and Ireland by the Ming Dynasty, where merchants may travel freely, and ask the Queen to grant the merchant the privilege of acquiring goods in your country, as much as the merchant so desperately needs; The Ming ship calls at the port once a year and sells a large number of goods. ”

"Fifth, and most importantly, Your Majesty is the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Empire or the Heavenly Empire, not the Khitan Great Khan, and the letterhead, if you have not been canonized by our emperor, if you don't Mu Tian's grace, how can you come to Fengtian to carry these things - I hope to transfer these things to the queen of your country as soon as possible."