manynovel Chapter 275
Chapter 275
: Dragon Kingdom National Gifts and Railway Cooperation
After lunch with Yuri, it was a rare break.
Wang Yao took a nap in his temporary palace for an hour to ensure he had enough energy in the afternoon.
During this period, his nap will not be disturbed unless there is something particularly urgent.
After waking up from a nap, I sorted out my appearance with the help of Eva. At about 1:50, I met Yan Liwen, the ambassador of the Dragon Kingdom to Qin, in the important foreign guest reception room.
“On behalf of the government and people of Dragon State, I wish you good health, Your Majesty.” Yan Liwen stood in front of Wang Yao, bowed, and was given a gift by the deputy secretary.
Eva took the gift from the Dragon Kingdom’s diplomatic secretary and opened it in front of Wang Yao.
I saw a bottle of tea lying inside, with a red sticker saying, Wuyishan Dahongpao.
Since the Russian Empire announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with Qin, more than a dozen countries have successively announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with Qin.
The Dragon State stated that it would need to wait for Qin’s founding ceremony before formally establishing diplomatic relations with Qin.
But this does not affect the former embassy in Myanmar being used directly as the embassy in Qin, and even Wang Wenbin, the special diplomat of the Long Kingdom Garrison Corps in Jingdong, was transferred to the Qin Imperial Capital to serve as the deputy envoy of the embassy.
During the diplomatic meeting, Wang Wenbin also followed Yan Li437.
As a national gift, the Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao sent by the Dragon Kingdom this time is undoubtedly the ancient tea produced by the ten old tea trees on Wuyi Mountain. It is a treasure even in the Dragon Kingdom.
Wang Yao was quite surprised. He thought that the Dragon Kingdom would send a national gift to congratulate him on the founding ceremony of the People’s Republic of China, but he didn’t expect that this time he would directly send ancient tree tea as a national gift.
At the founding ceremony of the Qin State in October, the Dragon State had to send silk or porcelain, the quintessence of Chinese culture, to rival Wang Yao’s imperial status.
Wang Yao stood up and ordered a personal attendant to take out the gift he had prepared.
“Please, on my behalf, express my heartfelt blessings to the Dragon Kingdom government and people, and thank them for their gifts.” After saying that, he asked the attendant to open the gift he had prepared.
“This is Qin’s return gift.”
The attendant opened the gift box and saw a crystal clear jade statue lying inside. Judging from the shape, it was still a Taoist jade statue.
This is still very rare in Southeast Asia, where Buddhism is widely believed.
Wang Yao also searched for a long time from the treasury of Myanmar before he found this jade statue of King Guangze.
After Ambassador Yan Liwen received the national gift, he looked at it carefully for a while.
After all, most people in Qin used to believe in Buddhism, but more people in Nanyue believed in Taoism.
“Thank you for your gift, and may the friendship between the two countries last forever!” Yan Liwen asked his deputy secretary to keep the return gift.
Wang Yao then shook hands with Yan Liwen. The two stood in the middle, flanked by Yan Liwen’s deputy secretary and Wang Yao’s attendant, holding the national gifts exchanged between the two countries.
In front of them were many reporters taking pictures.
This kind of diplomatic scene can be regarded as formal diplomacy, and the exchange of gifts fully sends a signal of friendship between the two countries.
After the filming was completed, Wang Yao reached out to Yan Liwen and asked him to sit down.
Yan Liwen waited for Wang Yao to sit down before taking his seat dignifiedly.
After the two people took their seats, the deputies and secretaries of both parties took their seats one after another and started today’s meeting.
“Your Majesty, this time I represent the Dragon Kingdom to discuss railway cooperation with you.” Yan Liwen said solemnly: “During the Burmese period, our Dragon Kingdom had negotiated with the Kingdom of Myanmar and the Kingdom of Siam about Chiang Mai to Taunggyi. The city’s cross-border railway cooperation is now a thing of the past with the Myanmar government. I wonder if you can continue to cooperate on this railway?”
“In addition, there is also the construction of a railway line from my country’s border city to Yangon, which has been blocked by the separatist forces in northern Myanmar. The situation in Qin is now stable. I wonder if you can discuss the construction of this railway with our country.”
During the Burmese period, railway construction was backward, and many places did not even have railway lines. For example, Chin State in the West has no railways.
Although Myanmar intends to build railways to connect the country and allow the government’s rule to penetrate into remote areas, it has been unable to complete due to numerous obstacles due to the armed forces of the minority tribes (abcf) in various places.
The railway from the southwest of the Dragon Kingdom to the Tianzhu Ocean through Burma is also a critical strategic railway for the Dragon Kingdom.
It can directly bypass the Nanyang and Malacca waters, allowing the goods in the southwestern inland of the Dragon Kingdom to go directly to the sea from the Tianzhu Ocean.
Of course, this railway is also very important to Qin now.
After all, the goods from the Dragon Kingdom are transported from the Qin Kingdom’s railway to Tianzhu Ocean, so tolls must be collected, right?
Goods from Qin State can also be transported to Dragon State for international trade through this railway.
The economic benefits created along the railway and the rise of trade at the port are all real.
Wang Yao said: “You may be disappointed with the railway from Chiang Mai to Taunggyi.”
“The Kingdom of Siam rashly interfered in Qin’s civil war, funded the rebels, sheltered the rebels, and also wanted to incorporate the Burmese naval fleet. This is openly an enemy of Qin!”
Wang Yao’s attitude was very firm, and Yan Liwen listened carefully and nodded from time to time.
He has also heard about some small moves made by the Kingdom of Siam. The diplomatic relationship between Qin and the Kingdom of Siam is now tense. In order to curb the expansion of Qin’s power, the Kingdom of Siam even introduced the Eagle Kingdom to restart the Siam military base.
But after all, this railway is one of the key external projects of Longguo National Engineering Bureau, so I still have to go through the motions and ask Qin Guo.
Wang Yao added: “However, although the railway from Chiang Mai Province to Taunggyi cannot be built, you can still continue to build the railway from Taunggyi to Loikaw City and even Pasang District.”
Loikaw City and Pasang District are two important cities in the original Kayah State. They have never been connected by railways. Now Kayah State has been merged into Eastern Shan Province.
Of course, it was not without conditions for the Qin State to continue to hand over this railway to the Dragon State for construction.
On the grounds that the country had experienced a war, Wang Yao hoped that the Dragon State could provide a batch of food and aid the Qin State in building a seed base out of humanitarian spirit to help Qin State’s agricultural construction.
In terms of industry, Wang Yao has the Red Alert Base as support, but the Red Alert Base does not produce food. If Wang Yao wants to feed the empire’s tens of millions of people or even hundreds of millions in the future, he needs huge food reserves.
You must know that the world’s four major grain companies now control most of the world’s crop seed breeding, and have begun to raise grain prices in the international grain market in Southeast Asia.
The Kingdom of Siam and other Southeast Asian countries had a bad relationship with Qin and would not sell grain to Qin.
Wang Yao could only find ways to introduce grain and high-yielding hybrid rice breeding technology from Longguo on the one hand.
On the one hand, scientists from the Red Alert Base will produce hybrid rice and crops and build a seed breeding base.
These all take time.
But Wang Yao has no shortage of talents. It only takes one or two years for Qin to become self-sufficient in crop seeds.