Palace Flower as Employment [Red Mansion]

While he was busy increasing his strength, Jia Qi did not forget to give credentials to Western European countries.

The content of the letter of credence is very simple, but the attitude is also very tough.

In the letter of credence, Jia Qi condemned the Queen of England in the name of the cabinet - the exchanges between the two countries, it is absurd enough for one country to interfere in the internal affairs of another country without any status. Many businessmen dare to criticize their Great Wei's taxation system!Does the queen of your country live in Buckingham Palace or live in the Tower of London and also listen to a sailor?

Jia Qi also informed the European countries that since the founding of the Great Wei, there have been only two types of taxes on commodity trade. It is daily necessities tax, the tax rate is 15.00% of the final transaction value, and the other is luxury goods, silk, high-grade tea, high-grade porcelain, high-grade wood, spices, gemstones, high-end cosmetics, all of which belong to the luxury trade, and the luxury tax is 30.00 %.Dawei has never collected tariffs on overseas businessmen, nor has it collected any additional taxes.Before today, Western merchants paid the same tax as the merchants of Wei.However, the British East India Company offended the independence of the Wei Dynasty and the majesty of the Emperor Wei. Therefore, starting today, "according to Western practice", the Wei Dynasty began to collect tariffs on Western European countries at a rate of 15.00%. The daily necessities tax or luxury tax that should have been collected is still correct.In addition, in view of the behavior of the British East India Company, all Western textiles, whether cotton or wool products, or blended products, will be charged with a 50.00% punitive tariff!

When Castiglione took the Wei envoys all the way to deliver the credentials to the governments of various countries, the governments of all countries exploded.

What?Before the Great Wei, there was no tax at all?

What?Because of the offense of the British, we have to bear joint and several responsibilities together?Just because Wei couldn't tell the difference between the British, the French, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and the Dutch?

Oh! no!

Parliaments are starting to work overtime and overtime.

The content of the discussion was nothing more than: whether to go to war with that ancient empire in the Far East.

Of course, considering the opponent's history, vast land, and huge population, in almost every country, more than two-thirds of the parliamentarians and officials in almost every country's parliament said that they did not have the strength to fight this battle.

Of course, there are also many extremists who have pointed their finger at the UK, thinking that it is all the fault of the UK, which has brought them bad luck.

At this time, although the Dutch retreated from their position as the overlord of the sea, their title of coachman on the sea still remained.Spain and Portugal have fought several battles for the supremacy of the sea. Before receiving Wei's letter of credence, especially before seeing Wei's envoys, neither of these two countries paid attention to Britain.However, after Wei's analysis, they discovered to their astonishment that Britain not only had the innate conditions to threaten their maritime supremacy, but even the acquired conditions were almost the same.

How the Netherlands fell from the position of maritime supremacy, the Portuguese and the Spaniards are well aware of it.

When can't you pinch?Of course, it is important to pinch Britain down!

All of a sudden, wars broke out in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Portuguese and the Spaniards joined forces to chase and intercept the British ships.At the beginning, everyone thought that the UK would not last long, but it turned out that the UK survived!Not only did Britain survive, but it also survived the joint attack of Portugal and Spain for more than a year without any sign of surrender.

This time, Portugal and Spain became more nervous, and they pinched Britain harder.

Then at this time, European countries—except for the United Kingdom—received a distress letter from their own businessmen, and then the letter of credence from Great Wei—this was for European countries, including the United Kingdom.

There are only six Chinese characters in the national book:

If you want to fight, then fight!

To be honest, Jia Qi left those British merchants in Honglu Temple to take care of them, but those British merchants did not buy it, and because of the punitive tariffs, the East India Company unilaterally dealt with them. Great Wei declared war.It's a pity that Jia Qi had been prepared for a long time. What the British ships encountered in Guangzhou was Pan Renmei's sea closure policy. Let alone the ships docked, they couldn't even get the Guangzhou beach into the ship's range.

British warships could only go north.

Their goal is Shanghai Prefecture.They have heard that Huzhou Prefecture is an extremely developed port, and there are a lot of goods in stock, all of which are high-end goods!

In fact, at the beginning, the British succeeded. The port of Huzhou Prefecture was very large and there were many ships. When the British opened fire, everyone was dumbfounded.Businessmen from all over the world jumped their feet in a hurry.

Because their ship is at the port.

The British also thought that a big victory was in sight.But they never expected that after a puff of smoke rose in the city, the lighthouse standing thirteen stories above the sea suddenly turned into a fort, and the powerful rockets hit the British ships with raging fire. Finally, Of the thirteen ships, only two escaped with smoke, and the rest sank into the sea.

The Navy of Shanghai Prefecture just set off and rescued all the British who jumped into the sea to escape.While businessmen from various countries were still praising Wei's kindness and tolerance, the Shanghai government government issued an order to execute all British sailors and make their heads into Jingguan.The British merchants and the few captains who were still alive were ordered to compensate the loss of the Shanghai government.

Of course the British can't afford it.It's not that they don't want to, it's that the amount proposed by the Shanghai government is too high.

The British East India Company also became popular. They gathered more ships and even persuaded the pirates. Of course, there were also merchants from various countries who were not much different from pirates.But this time they encountered the Great Wei's Donghai division.

Merchants from various countries stated in their letters that the ships of the Wei Dynasty were indeed made of wood, but there were many large ships, and the cannons on the ships fired far away, and there were also many guns. They were attacked almost at the crushing level. Except for the French who surrendered early and became the pawns of the Great Wei, the forces of other countries in the Far East have now suffered a devastating blow.Now, except for the French, ships from other countries can no longer enter Wei's Nanyang, because Malacca has been completely controlled by Wei.Now, Malacca is the southern gate of Wei Dynasty.

In this battle, Europe completely lost the Spice Islands.