To be honest, Blanco is now a little afraid of meeting the British, especially after the East Coast people publicly executed several British spies. This incident seems a bit strange to Blanco. You should know that the infamous May agency used to secretly execute spies. It is indeed a bit unusual to openly hang six British men this time, which may indicate a certain policy tendency of the East Coast people? Blanco is now extremely reluctant to get involved with these British people, even though Portugal now needs the help of the British.

"Sir Harrison, it's a bit inappropriate for us to meet now. You're too reckless." Blanco sighed.

After closing the business station in Baoan Township, Ping'an County, his family opened two commercial halls in Luoqia Port and Qingdao Port. Among them, Luoqia is mainly warehouses, mainly engaged in import and export trade of bulk commodities, and Qingdao mainly buys and sells some small commodities, and the trade volume is quite high. The two are combined for less than 200,000 East Coast silver dollars a year.

At this time, Sir Harrison met with Blanco in the Leonardo store of the Almeida family, and the banner was to discuss business. But who knows what the Mei organ of the East Coast thinks? Since the British spy case was solved, Pu Ting, the spy leader who has always claimed to be a strong man, was furious, so that the East Coast spies had much tighter surveillance of foreign store. Blanco and Harrison were both "businessmen" with formal identities. Although they were unexpectedly affected by the East Coast spies, it was not a problem to be stared at by others like this.

"We have lost a lot of staff here. Now we need to rebuild the intelligence system urgently and need your help." Sir Harrison was also straightforward enough. He made a request that made the Portuguese embarrassed: "Don't tell me you are not capable. You have been on the East Coast for so many years, and you will never have a trump card."

When Blanco heard this, he looked bitter. He was trusted by Governor Silva and His Majesty Joao, and he served as a contact person for the Portuguese spy network lurking on the east coast for many years. He naturally knew that the distribution of spies in the Portuguese Kingdom on the east coast was quite honest. To be honest, there were quite a few of them. The most valuable of them were two Ming spies who had been lurking for twenty years. They were chess pieces that Portugal had laid out when transporting and immigrating to the east coast. One of them now works in a shipyard, and the other serves as a township cadre in a certain inland area. Perhaps because he lived on the east coast for many years and had a good future. These two people have become increasingly difficult to control in recent years, and they are no longer willing to continue to play for Portugal. Therefore, if it is not an important matter, Blanco would not disturb these two people.

Now Major General Harrison obviously asked the Portuguese to help flee people. This is definitely a very dangerous move. A bad two Portuguese spies will also be implicated. He was extremely reluctant to agree to this matter, so he tried his best to shirk Major General Harrison, and said to him: "Dignity Sir. What do you think about the formal alliance between our two countries against Spain? His Majesty O'Nei sent a special envoy to London last year, but it did not receive a response. This year he plans to send a mission led by Earl Mellor to London again. I don't know what the Duke of Guard will consider the problem."

Blanco's meaning is actually very clear, that is, since the English are unwilling to formally form an alliance with the Kingdom of Portugal, how can we expect them to take the risk of establishing people for England in the East Coast? You must know that once this matter is discovered by the people of the East Coast, it is a great excuse for war. At that time, tens of thousands of East Coast troops head north along the Geral Mountains, and I don't know how many Portuguese towns will fall for it. The Portuguese are not stupid! It is not impossible to do what to do in the fire, but it must have enough benefits. Major General Harrison will not be able to take any conditions, and he hopes to make money from nothing and let the Portuguese do things for them. So how is that possible?

"The Duke of the National Guardian was very dissatisfied with your country's insistence on protecting the royalists. Some leaders of the royal rebellion in our country lived in Lisbon all year round, and the royal fleet often obtained supplies at the mouth of the Tejo River. They wantonly attacked the merchant ships in England, which caused dissatisfaction among many people. Your country has done this all year round, and still expects the Duke of the National Guardian to agree to form an alliance with your country? And even if the Duke of the National Guardian agrees, will the rich men in the parliament agree?" Major General Harrison is a staunch republican, so he is very dissatisfied with countries such as Portugal on both sides of the snake and rat. He wants to establish good relations with the Republic of England and even further form military alliances, but also form a good royal party for ideological reasons. This is undoubtedly unbeatable and destined to Portugal. England's current complex and changeable diplomatic relations.

Blanco was a little silent when he heard this. But he did not deny it. His Majesty Joo really sympathized with the dead Charles I. He insisted that Cromwell was a regicide and that England's crown should not be put into the ground. Therefore, he maintained and helped the royal party in every possible way. Lisbon once became the base camp of exiled royals. However, in terms of real interests, especially after the Republic of England suddenly defeated the Netherlands, Portugal should resolutely abandon the losing royal party. Combining with the Republic of England is in line with the interests of Portugal. Therefore, when reason and the butt (the butt of the Portuguese king naturally sat on the side of the royal party) were intertwined, Portugal's strange and contradictory diplomatic mentality was undoubtedly revealed. The relationship with England was ups and downs, but it was never able to abandon past grudges to form a military alliance.

But speaking of this, both Major General Harrison and Blanco understand that it is probably too early to talk about cooperation between the two sides. The English complained that Portugal protected the royal party, and the Portuguese threatened the Dutch fleet last year (which led to the Portuguese colonial authorities having to completely stop the offensive in Recife, and the two sides reached a five-year truce agreement). England was particularly resentful of the inaction of doing nothing, so the two countries that were supposed to be together were always one step away and could not truly integrate together to fight the enemy.

After the fruitless death in Blanco, Major General Harrison returned to the Golden Deer Store in a bad mood. As soon as he entered the door, he heard Mr. Charles's deep middle-aged voice: "...However, because Europe loves that luxury, and the habits over a hundred years have made East India spices an indispensable seasoning for all classes of people, because East India silk has been loved by the upper class, and because East India cotton cloth is popular in Europe, he abandoned East India trade and allowed other countries to engage in such trade, which is not a good thing for England. The total English and the Dutch are less than 10% of the total population of Europe. After the Westminster Treaty, we obtained East India equal to the Netherlands.

The right to trade can be almost no competition to share this trade with the Netherlands. If this trade can also become a "burden" in the mouth of some people, then the "burden" is not added to these 10% of people, but to the remaining 90% of Europeans. It is really a ridiculous and weird statement that since Western countries are willing to be deceived and have been accustomed to enduring this "fraud" for a hundred years, then it is not a foolish thing for us to give up this interest and leave it completely to the Dutch?"

"In countries engaged in trade, the purpose of all laws should be to help encourage trade, and the measures taken should be appropriately considered as to the interests and progress of trade. But what is the actual situation? In many cases, the laws of our country have often brought obstacles and difficulties to trade. However, if everything is correctly examined, people will eventually find that whether it is domestic abundance, overseas victory and people's enthusiasm, or actions or talents taken in matters other than trade, it seems that it cannot provide much help to society until we can improve the conditions and conditions of trade."

"In my letter to the Duke of Guard, I have stated very bluntly that some of my insights drawn from observations and explorations on these issues, and I am sure that East India trade is of great benefit to England. This company exports English industrial products worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to India every year and can easily obtain two hundred thousand pounds of profit. We can assume that these two hundred thousand pounds of profits purchased in India in various specialties, and no one who is proficient in business will deny that the two hundred thousand pounds of profits obtained from India will increase at least three times when exported to other countries, bringing back a total of eight hundred thousand pounds. Then, I have good reason to believe that in peacetime, East India trade increases the total capital of England at least six hundred thousand pounds per year (delete taxes,

Salary, loss, etc. costs 100,000 pounds). The accounts are so clear. Are there still people clamoring to stop the East India trade? Are there still people who think that maintaining the South African colonies is a huge burden? If we abandon the support points that we have in South Africa and India, once the war begins, then our neighboring Dutch will definitely block us in every way and try to monopolize the East India trade. In this way, the Dutch can rely on the wealth obtained from the East India trade to strengthen their naval power, which will undoubtedly turn the fruits we obtained in the last Anglo-Dutch war into vanish. England will have to rely on the protection of the Dutch in the future and willing to trade under their banner. I will never allow this to happen!"
Chapter completed!