The meal was very harmonious. Both parties were a little bit pleasing to each other, so they would naturally be harmonious.

Emperor Hua didn't want to talk about diplomacy. At least, when King George of Greece did not ask himself on his own initiative, he would never say first that these are all matters of the people below, and the people above were actually just creating an atmosphere. Emperor Hua knew very well.

The Greek king wanted to talk, but he didn't know what aspect he should start, mainly because he had no power, which was a relatively embarrassing place, and power was mainly in the hands of Prime Minister Tricuspis.

"How is it, does the taste still taste good?" George I asked with a smile.

"Very very good." Hua Huang looked calm on the surface, but in fact he was a little anxious, waiting for this guy to talk about some substantial issues.

There is actually something in common between Emperor Hua and George I. Emperor Hua wants to find allies to help speak in Europe. That's all. Although the influence of the Greek Kingdom is a little smaller, if you really can't find a more ideal partner, Emperor Hua can accept it.

George I wanted to establish good relations with China and get on the fast lane of Asia-Europe trade. China is an Asian superpower and is rising rapidly. George I still knows this. Being able to catch the cart of China will definitely help the economy of the Greek Kingdom, not only in terms of economy. Now China and the Ottoman Turkish Empire are bordered. In the face of the two major threats of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, China also has the right to speak. With the iron-fisted style of the Chinese Emperor's military, this right to speak will appear more important in Europe.

George I also needed the mouthpiece of Emperor Hua. In addition, once he had an ally in international diplomacy, he could greatly enhance the weight of the Greek royal family in national politics, rather than being purely an iconic figure.

"It's enough for His Majesty to like it." The Greek queen looked beautiful, dignified and generous.

Emperor Hua had a good impression of the Greek queen. Emperor Hua admired the steady and charming temperament of women of thirty or forty. Thinking that Zhao Qingluo, who was at this age, should be better than the Greek queen.

Europeans pay great attention to desserts, just like the end of a symphony. Even if ordinary families don’t have time, don’t eat the starter or only eat the main course, they still eat desserts, even a small piece of chocolate and an ice cream.

The dessert for this time is a chocolate mousse with hazelnut cream sauce.

Hazelnuts and chocolate are a great combination for taste.

Emperor Hua liked Greek desserts very much. After eating one, he took the initiative to ask for another one.

"This is our favorite food from George Yevna. It turns out that His Majesty also likes it. This is great." The Greek queen smiled.

Emperor Hua smiled and said, "So it's the princess who loves to eat?"

George Yevna, who was the same year as Emperor Hua, was a standard little loli. When Emperor Hua mentioned him, he secretly glanced at Emperor Hua and found that Emperor Hua was looking at him, and his face turned pink.

The cute president sweated and thought to himself that foreign girls are really precocious. The nine-year-old little loli seems to understand the things between men and women. If she is not reborn, she will still be a little kid who is not enlightened at the age of nine, then she will know the primary school students who watch cartoons, right?

After dinner, King George I of Greece invited Emperor Hua and his group to the garden to drink Chinese tea. In Europe, there were Chinese tea everywhere. In order to welcome Emperor Hua, they were still very sincere.

"How is it? What level is this? We don't understand it very well. It is said that this is the best tea you can buy in Athens." George I smiled.

Emperor Hua didn't understand very much, so he looked at Princess Jie, who was an expert in this field.

Gege knew that this was just ordinary tea, and was sold as a good product in Greece. He couldn't bear to refute others' face and reminded with a smile, "In Europe, it may be okay, but it will be more expensive just because things leave the place of origin. In China, this kind of tea is not particularly good."

The Greek queen laughed and said, "Your Majesty the Queen is so tactful. The things are like this. It is not easy to buy authentic ones after leaving the place of origin. This is also the charm of trade. In the place of origin, very ordinary goods can only be sold at very ordinary prices, but if there is no other place, they can be sold at a good price."

After the Greek queen finished speaking, Princess Katrina Kaif helped translate the Greek queen's words.

"Yes, we walked around in Athens and found many novel things." Jaeger covered her mouth and smiled, obviously moved by the temperament of the Greek queen.

The cute president nodded secretly when he heard this. The Greek queen was not simple either. The two of them were indeed husband and wife. Obviously, there were a lot of words. George I was not convenient to talk to him on his own initiative. After the Greek queen turned around like this, she turned to the trade between the two countries without any trace. To develop diplomatic relations, she must start from foreign trade so that she can upgrade to the strategic partner level step by step.

It is impossible to come up and talk to others about the issue of military alliances.

Princess Katrina Kaif naturally understood the meaning and began to lead the way with the Greek queen. Now China's trade with Europe has gradually restored its trade surplus.

In terms of foreign relations, restrictive policies were still adopted in the middle and early Qing Dynasty, just like in the early stages.

Although overseas trade was expanded later, there were still certain restrictions. This restriction included several aspects: the import and export of ships must be approved by the government and obtained a license.

In trade, ships that are too large (large ships with more than 500 stones) are not allowed to be exported, but can be imported.

The embargo of military weapons. Large wood (camponium wood, camphor plate), nitroxide (for gunpowder making), and iron goods (including iron pots) were exported in large quantities in the past, but later banned.

Food is not allowed to be exported, but only food eaten on ships is allowed. There is also a limit on the number of people going to sea. Business people are not allowed to export casually without asking, and human trafficking has always been prohibited, and human trafficking is prohibited as slaves. Therefore, foreigners came to China to abduct humans as slaves and were hindered, so they changed to recruiting Chinese workers (the so-called "piglets"). This is the future.

When foreign merchant ships arrived in China, all gun positions on the ships had to be unloaded and kept by the entourage. The goods brought were only allowed to trade within the specified date, and only three ships were allowed to come at a time, with one hundred people per ship, and no more than twenty people arrived in Beijing. The trading ports were only allowed to be in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, and later they could only be in Guangdong, with very strict restrictions. In the past, China exported a lot, and they had to use foreign currencies to buy Chinese goods, so foreign money was used along the coast of China for a long time.

Foreign trade in the Qing Dynasty could be divided into three stages. The first stage was China's outsourcing. The second stage was a balance of imports and exports, with bartering, and exports gradually decreased compared with the first stage.

In barter, there are restrictions on items, nitrosulfonium and copperware cannot be exchanged, and there are also restrictions on the quantity of silk and satin.

Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, trade was always restricted from outside.

China's entry into Super League was a matter after the Opium War.

At that time, the restrictions on foreign trade were also reflected in that foreign merchants could not directly contact Chinese merchants when they came to China. If they had direct trade relations, they must go through the organization of Chinese merchants - intermediary institutions, which is the so-called public business, also known as foreign merchants, foreign merchants.

Before the Opium War, there were differences between foreign merchants and foreign merchants. Foreign merchants refer to foreign merchants, and foreign merchants are Chinese merchants who undertake foreign trade.

Barbarians must go through public trade (foreign merchants) and cannot directly enter the market to deal with Chinese merchants.

This is true for business transactions. Public transactions appeared in 1720 (the 59th year of the Kangxi reign). There were no restrictions when they were initially established. In 1760, there were 19 companies. In 1771, public transactions closed down due to the arrears of barbarians and merchants.

It was restored again in 1782, with only twelve companies. Later, another company was added, so it was limited to thirteen companies, which is the so-called thirteen companies.

Because these thirteen companies specialize in foreign trade, they are also called the Thirteen Foreign Company.

Their business is to handle customs declaration and tax on goods of foreign merchants, manage the daily life of foreign merchants, and to represent foreign merchants to receive and sell goods. The goods cannot be exchanged without public transportation. The foreign merchants just wait for loading and unloading to leave.

This was a way to prevent the activities of the barbarians and merchants from snooping.

There are also restrictions on the areas where foreign merchants in Guangzhou Thirteen Trains live.

A shopping mall was set up in different countries as a temporary place for foreign businessmen to come to China.

Merchants from the same country live in the same place, such as the British business and business center.

The business hall is managed by the public bank and owned by the public bank. It is subleted to foreign merchants by the public bank, and the restrictions are also very strict.

In 1759, the so-called "Regulations on Preventing the Barbarians and Businesses" were promulgated, which stipulated that foreign merchants must return to their country after selling goods, and prohibited from living in winter; business halls were not allowed to trade; public merchants were not allowed to arrears of debts from barbarians, giving barbarians some excuses; barbarians were not allowed to hire Chinese servants, and the place of residence was sent to prevent them. These regulations were later revised and restricted even more.

There are restrictions on trade and daily life, such as prohibiting foreign businessmen from inquiring about Chinese market conditions, barbarians are not allowed to sit in sedan chairs, barbarians are prohibited from going ashore, and there are certain regulations on donating taxes, etc.

In 1755, due to the increasing number of foreign ships to Zhejiang in recent years, Qianlong decided to increase the tax amount in Dinghai, Zhejiang to prevent it. He also said that Guangdong has been a place of trade since the Ming Dynasty, and Macau has emerged. Now there are more and more barbarians in Dinghai. If there is no restrictions, a Macau will appear in Zhejiang in the future.

The tax increase this time is to make foreign businessmen unprofitable. The purpose is not to increase income, but to restrict foreign businessmen and prevent the reappearance of Macau.

Foreign businessmen have come up with various ways to break the restrictions on them by local Chinese officials.

In 1793 and 1816, Britain sent envoys to Beijing twice to negotiate.

Before this, no foreign envoys had come to Beijing (the imperial and Russia had only sent trade groups). This was the first time that foreign countries had formally sent envoys to China, with the goal of breaking China's restrictions on foreign trade.

The first time was to lend Qianlong the birthday celebration, the United Kingdom sent Macartney to China, when Qianlong met them in Rehe.

They demanded the expansion of trade to ports such as Ningbo, Zhoushan, and Tianjin, demanded tax cuts and tax exemptions, and required the British to send envoys to Beijing, and to rent a small island near Guangzhou and Zhoushan to collect goods.

Qianlong rejected all these requests at that time and said: I am very satisfied with your sincerity in coming to pay tribute; but I cannot agree to your request that is contrary to the Chinese system.

In 1816 (the 21st year of Jiaqing), Britain sent Amesti to China again, but wanted to ask for additional ports and expand trade. Due to etiquette, the envoy refused to kneel down when he saw the emperor. The Qing government was very rude to him and ordered his deportation.

The British envoys came to China twice to expand trade and to gain more benefits than other countries.

China did not agree at that time.

On the issue of foreign trade, the Qing court had tightened restrictions, which prevented foreign trade from developing as it should. This was one aspect; however, it was necessary to impose some restrictions at that time, because the system of Sino-foreign exchanges had not been established. If there were no restrictions, it would be detrimental to China.

China mainly focuses on a self-sufficiency small peasant economy and has basically no demand for foreign trade products.

However, countries such as Britain are in the period of capitalist development and are very enthusiastic about capital expansion. They are not worth it.

Therefore, it imported opium into China and engaged in illegal trade, resulting in a trade deficit and caused a large amount of silver to flow into foreign countries.

As long as the opium is cut off, China, a major country that is still dominated by agriculture, is the most important thing. China is too big, and it is difficult for foreigners to gain benefits when interacting with China.

However, for small European countries like the Greek Kingdom, especially small countries that have just emerged, and big countries like China, foreign trade will definitely be able to prosper the economy and will be beneficial to them.

The most important thing is that China's industry has a certain foundation. In terms of industry, China is no different from the Balkans such as the Greek Kingdom and the Romanian Kingdom. The small countries that have just been removed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Of course, compared with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, China's industry is still very weak.

"In the future, we need to strengthen cooperation in education. Several domestic universities can first establish friendly schools with the university in your capital." After caring about the education issues in Greece, Emperor Hua made a decision.

The Greek king agreed with a smile.

The two sides talked a lot until after eight o'clock in the evening, Emperor Hua, Princess Jade, Princess Katrina Kaf, Catherine, Zhao Qingluo and his party said goodbye and left.

"I heard that Your Majesty will go to another country tomorrow. Please ask Your Majesty to have a few more days in our Greece? Three days are too short, and we have not prepared enough to invite Your Majesty to come today. It's really rude." The Greek queen politely said to the Emperor of China.

Emperor Hua looked at George I, and George I nodded politely and said, "Yes, this is what my wife and I mean. It is a very pleasant thing to ask His Majesty Emperor Hua to play in Athens for a few more days and chat with His Majesty."

The cute president smiled and said, "Okay, I also like life in Athens. We are also honored to be able to have a meal and chat with His Majesty the King, the Queen, the Prince and the Prince."

The cute CEO accepted the invitation from the Greek king, but he felt a little funny. You guy is so calm, but Emperor Hua is not very anxious.
Chapter completed!