On November 20, 1678, Gao Wengang, the plenipotentiary of the East Coast Republic of China to Europe, who had arrived in Amsterdam for a long time, was finally received by William III, the son-in-law of the United Provinces, Prince Orange and the Duke of York.

Prince Orange's face was not very good. It is said that he had just recovered from a disease before, but he felt quite aggressive when speaking. For example, he directly accused the East Coast of two major crimes. One was that he committed a horrific "massacre" time in The Hague, and it was said that the murderer returned to the East Coast safely. In the future, he would use it. The other was that the unreasonable invasion of Dutch South Africa caused huge losses to the East Indian Company and also caused huge losses to the United Provinces.

Gao Wengang is from a diplomatic family and has been experienced for many years. Therefore, it is very simple and light to reply to these so-called "questions". It is procedural and not very difficult. Moreover, others did not really make things difficult for him, but just vented their dissatisfaction.

Then, Gao Wengang carefully filed a request to cancel the wanted order for the Devite brothers and sent it back to his family property in Dortrecht, so that John Devite could return to the United Provinces. As expected, Prince Orange seemed a little angry about this matter and refused as soon as he spoke, leaving no room for maneuver for Gao Wengang.

Gao Wengang immediately understood that Prince Orange was probably extremely disgusted with the Republicans and Dwight, which may be due to his childhood experience. Back then, after his father launched a mutiny and failed to seize power, John Dwight, as the political spokesperson of the bourgeois republicans, implemented strict surveillance policies on him and his mother. Specific measures include: 1. Replace the original escort of the young Prince Orange and replace it with the government-sponsored escort 2. The government-assigned teachers took over the education of Prince Orange. Of course, this was not thoroughly implemented.

In the early days of Prince Orange, many Orange members worked collectively to successfully win the right to educate Prince Orange by his mother, Princess England and Mary, daughter of Charles I. The high costs were also borne by the Dutch provincial government. This restricted the investment and annexation of land by traditional nobles in Friesland, Groningen, Upper Ethel, Drente and other provinces. At the same time, they also restricted these people from having too much contact with Prince Orange to weaken his influence, because the proportion of these traditional nobles in the army was very high.

The above are just some famous big measures, not to mention many small measures that disgusted the Orange family. These small measures may not be implemented by DeVit, but there is never a shortage of people in this world who dare to speculate politically. In order to flatter DeVit, they can do anything. So, over the past 20 years, the Orange family has really been fed up with all kinds of birds, and the family's financial resources and influence have been greatly reduced. Therefore, when they seized a good opportunity and once they turned on the stage, it was natural to retaliate against the DeVit brothers, although the revenge made people feel a little chilling.

So this time, Gao Wengang proposed to let John Devitt return to United Province, but was rejected by William III. He was really annoyed enough now. A bunch of people in the third-level parliament were following to make trouble. The provincial parliament and city council also saw a great resurgence of the republican forces, and the Orange party's influence on the local area was greatly reduced. In addition, the war had been fought for many years, and the country's financial burden was heavy and the people were suffering. Moreover, the number of troops commanded by Prince Orange, which was as high as 80,000, was also stalemate with the French in the South Netherlands. It was difficult to make an inch of progress and could never expel the enemy from this buffer zone between the two countries. Therefore, his reputation was naturally affected to a certain extent.

How could William III be willing to let John Devitt return to United Province in this case? Although this person's reputation among the people is no longer as good as before and there are many people who curse him, it is undeniable that he has a good ability to connect with merchants from all walks of life and the republicans are still very good and have a high influence. Once he comes back, he may not be able to subvert his position, but it is not difficult to cause trouble for himself in parliament and provinces and increase the voice of singing opposites. Therefore, as long as William III is not stupid, he will definitely not be able to release this person, unless you offer a price that he is difficult to refuse.

"John Dewit involved many charges such as betrayal of the country and murder of aristocrats. This is a wanted order jointly issued by the United Provincial Government and the Third-level Parliament. If you want to remove it, unless the seven provinces select judges to re-examine it, and I don't think there will be any difference if the re-examination is made." For these East Coast pagans who destroyed their good deeds in front of the Gwangenport Prison, the young William III really feels annoyed now, especially because they actually want to ask their number one political enemy and the nightmare of their youth to return to United Province. Is this a joke?

Gao Wengang was a little silent when he heard William III say this. Of course, he knew that since the Dewit brothers and a group of core members "flee" to the South Netherlands, the parliament and government, which were completely dominated by the Orange family, declared them "traitors", and each issued arrest warrants, and at the same time, he also took advantage of the situation to vacate the position of the Speaker of the Third Level Parliament, which made the Orange family's control reach its peak.

Now that several years have passed, the Orange family will inevitably slowly slide from the peak, as it has happened many times in history. At this time, pardoning Dewit and others is the privilege of the Orange family. As the largest noble in this country, Prince Orange has the right to pardon Dewit. This is another way in addition to the retrial of the case by judges in the seven provinces. Is it because my family has not declined fast enough? What are you dreaming about Spring and Autumn!

Since Prince Orange's attitude was so decisive and clear, it was not easy for Gao Wengang to continue to linger on this matter, because it would obviously only arouse the other party's anger and make things develop in a more unfavorable direction. Therefore, he wisely changed the topic and turned the focus to the recovery of trade between the two countries.

You should know that before the United Provinces changed drastically, this developed country was the largest agent of East Coast goods. It sold various commodities worth millions of yuan to the Mediterranean, Baltic and North Sea countries every year, making great contributions to the sales of East Coast industrial products. Of course, the Dutch also made considerable profits from it. For example, the Deher family, which has always had close relations with the East Coast, started from acting as East Coast iron products, and finally closed most of their own iron smelting workshops in Sweden, which also included the forced force of the Swedish royal family, and wholeheartedly represented East Coast iron products, which made great profits.

However, after the East Coast people blatantly sent troops to collect the Dutch South African colonies, the relations between the two countries were in name only. The orders of the joint provincial government, which originally accounted for a large proportion of the trade, were directly cancelled and most of them were given to the British. Due to various relationships, many Dutch wholesalers were inconvenient to represent goods from the East Coast again. Therefore, the trade between the two countries suddenly plummeted. Apart from a little smuggling, it was infinitely close to zero, and there was no one else.

As a last resort, the East Coast people had to fully explore other agents, such as the Kurians, and the Italians. Unfortunately, the Kurians discovered that the Baltic trade was not good, and they were far from meeting the expectations of the East Coast people. I don’t know if they really couldn’t do it, or they were frightened by the Dutch’s prestige and dared not show off their strength. The Kurians were like this, the Genoese and Venetians were also a little unbearable, and they only increased their market share in the Italian region. The Greater Spain region saw a rapid decline in sales due to the large amount of Spanish precious metals outflow. Similar to this, the Ottoman Empire, which had a large amount of money shortage due to the continuous "blood loss" and had a trade deficit for many years. At present, except for importing some East Coast ordnance, other trade is very sluggish.

In this case, the East Coast people had to take on their own responsibility and developed the French market, which had been closed to the East Coast for many years through various channels, and obtained low tariff rates for export quotas to France for some commodities, which made the domestic industrial products market in the East Coast breathe a little slow down. Although it was still relatively uncomfortable to start work, it could barely maintain it.

Of course, this situation is definitely not a long-term solution. As the East Coast has solved some overcapacity problems through large infrastructure, people on the East Coast have been trying their best to solve the export of goods to Europe for several years. They even studied the financial situation of several major countries very "concerned" and tried every means to help them increase the amount of imported goods without large amounts of precious metals. This first step is naturally the United Provinces, the leader of European business.

Next, Gao Wengang and the two business officials he brought to carefully introduce to Prince Orange the "benefits" of resuming trade with the East Coast, and the focus was on relying on cheap and affordable East Coast goods to consolidate the well-connected sales network and countless agents of the "maritime coachman". You should know that now England's industry and commerce are rising rapidly. Although the German region is politically divided, the industry is prosperous and the commerce is developed. Both regions have used the east wind of this war to export large quantities of various commodities including weapons, military funds, ironware, daily necessities, textiles, food, building materials, glass, and leather. It made a lot of money, and it also gradually threatened the commercial channels of the United Provinces.

If it were in the past when the Republicans had the upper hand and the era when the Union Province abolished its ruling positions, the commercial center of Amsterdam had long reacted and implemented countermeasures. However, now, the Union Province was still leisurely and indifferent, and even helped boost the country's industrial and commercial progress by continuously giving large orders to the Kingdom of England. It is really incredible that the Union Province had been trapped in war in the past. For example, during the war with Spain, they imported weapons and military supplies from the East Coast, Germany, Portugal and Northern Italy through a large amount of weapons and military supplies produced from the East Coast, Germany, Portugal and Northern Italy to reduce their dependence on English industrial products. It can be seen that the Republicans did indeed carve their vigilance against Britain to their core, and even approached the French for this, which greatly angered the Orange faction, who advocated the United Kingdom's resistance to France.

However, Gao Wengang and his two subordinates were both drooling, but they did not inspire the young William III. The young noble seemed to have made any agreement with the English merchants, or they valued the power of England very much, and they might even be a Protestant country with the British. Therefore, they rejected the proposal of the East Coast people very simply and neatly, saying that the United Provincial Government had no plans to reopen trade negotiations with the East Coast in a short period of time. At the same time, they also said that the Dutch South African colonies were forced to "sell" to the East Coast Republic of China has been approved by the parliament. The signature of Prince Orange was effective, and the price was 200,000 rupiahs, which greatly hurt the feelings of the people of the United Provincial People, and they are now unwilling to discuss such matters with the East Coast.

He was rejected twice in a morning, even the clay man was a little angry, let alone Wen Gang, a second-generation high-ranking official who was originally from an extraordinary background. Therefore, his face also became cold. Although there was still a polite smile on the corner of his mouth, he was already very reluctant to look at it carefully, showing his inner dissatisfaction and irritability. Then, he tried to fight for a few more times, but Prince Orange's attitude was really firm and he didn't give in at all, which made Gao Wen Gang very dissatisfied. After feeling that it would be meaningless to flow here, he decisively stood up and said goodbye, and returned to the former East Coast Store in Amsterdam, which had just been sent by the Dutch for a few months.

The mall seemed to have been requisitioned as a temporary warehouse a while ago. There were a lot of salted fish, rotten vegetables and leaves scattered in the huge museum area, and occasionally some feces left by cattle and horses, which looked like a mess. Moreover, more importantly, a batch of goods worth tens of thousands of yuan that were originally stored in the mall had disappeared. The East Coast staff who arrived earlier ran for many times and only asked for compensation of several thousand Dutch guilds from the Dutch people, which was also unlucky. However, considering that the East Coast army had not been so clean in Zelan Province before and had the style of a locust army, Gao Wengang did not intend to continue to pursue the matter. He directly told the mall to re-do the account and cancel the deficit.

After settling in a newly decorated room, Gao Wengang did not waste time and immediately gathered all his followers and the store staff to hold a meeting together. At the meeting, Gao officially appointed the webmaster and other personnel of the Amsterdam Merchant Station, and arranged for them the next stage of work tasks: mainly to try to restore some old relationships in the past, especially those wholesalers with deep Republican backgrounds, who had to make great efforts to restore some business.
Chapter completed!