When George Churchill was there, the British Embassy often held banquets, and later Andrew Russell's successor to the Minister to the Ming Dynasty also liked to hold banquets. However, Andrew Russell didn't sit in the position of minister for a long time. James, as the third minister to the Ming Dynasty, had not held a banquet yet. How could he forget the tradition of the British Embassy? So now he decided to hold a banquet to invite officials of the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ministers from various countries in the Ming Dynasty to attend.

The banquet is just a reason. In fact, James wants to use this reason to test the reactions of various countries to the current situation in the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he can also take advantage of the opportunity of the war between the Ming Dynasty and Russia to send a signal to the Netherlands and Portugal, and this signal is the Ming Dynasty's threat theory.

With the rapid rise of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty threat theory had a considerable market in Europe. The one who formally proposed this argument was the old friend of the Ming Empire, the former British Minister to the Ming Dynasty, His Excellency George Churchill.

Now, George Churchill is doing well in England. After George I's death, George Churchill was valued because of his good relationship with George II, and thus became a colonial minister from a nobility without authority.

The Colonial Minister, this position can be said to be established by George II specifically for George Churchill. His functions include colonial affairs not limited to Britain, and are also one of the members of the cabinet.

In addition, due to his keenness in the political judgments of various countries during the Ming Dynasty, George Churchill has become a key official and think tank for George II. If nothing unexpected happens, George Churchill may be able to replace the current Prime Minister Robert Walpole and become an important figure in Britain.

On this day, George Churchill came to his office in Downing Street early as usual.

After George II became king, in order to show his differences from his father George I, George II gave a building in Downing Street to Lord Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister and First Minister of Finance.

After receiving the gift, Robert Walpole did not take him as his own, but instead asked George II to use the building as a fixed office location for previous cabinet prime ministers. His request was approved by George II, and 10 Downing Street began to become the fixed office location of the British Prime Minister.

George Churchill's office is not at 10 Downing Street, but not far from the other side.

This place was specially selected by George Churchill, one to be closer to No. 10 Downing Street, and the other is that he stood on the third floor office and opened the window to see the building close by, so as to encourage himself to enter the building as the prime minister one day.

When he entered the office, George Churchill smelled the fragrance of tea. In the Ming Dynasty for so many years, he had long been used to the way of drinking tea in the Ming Dynasty. Instead, he was disdainful of European black tea, cocoa, and coffee. Moreover, the tea he drank was different from others. He especially liked to drink Longjing in West Lake, and it must be the best one.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was not easy to get the best West Lake Longjing. This was not only because of money, but also because of the small annual output. As for Europe, there was no need to think about it. The foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty, including 99% of the tea transported by Europeans from the Ming Dynasty, was black tea, and it was not very good. Compared with black tea that could withstand storage, green tea like West Lake Longjing is not easy to store and is extremely difficult to transport.

What's more, Westerners' habits of tea tasting are different from those of the Ming Dynasty. They don't understand what the best tea is, and only alternatives like George Churchill understand these.

These West Lake Longjing were specially created by him through his relationship. The number was not large and only for himself to enjoy. The tea sets he made were also brought back from the Ming Dynasty. Good tea needs good tea sets to make, which is the knowledge he learned in the Ming Dynasty. Now his servants make good tea for him the moment before he comes to the office every day, so that he can taste a cup of intoxicating good tea after sitting down.

After sitting down, George Churchill picked up the tea brought by the servant and put it under his nose and took it deeply, then sipped it. When the aromatic tea soup filled his mouth and flowed into his mouth, George Churchill couldn't help but agree softly. This is the real aristocrats! Compared with the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, Europe was all rural buffs, even the French were no exception.

After tasting the tea, George Churchill began to look at the piles of documents. As the colonial minister, his daily official duties were extremely busy. As Britain developed the world, Britain gradually occupied more and more colonies.

After reading a few reports, George Churchill was a little unquestioned and signed it casually and threw it aside. But when he was reading another report, he had just looked at George Churchill for a few seconds and sat up straight, staring at the words on it, and frowned.

He put down the report, picked up the bell on the table and shook it. Soon the secretary knocked on the door and entered.

"When did this report be sent?" George Churchill picked up the report and asked the secretary.

The secretary approached and glanced and replied, "This is just delivered this morning, Lord, Lord."

"Where is your Majesty and the Prime Minister?"

"I don't know this. Your Excellency, please give me some time and I'll ask." The secretary replied.

"No need!" George Churchill looked a little displeased and stood up and said, "I'll go and ask the Prime Minister directly."

After saying that, George Churchill took the report and strode away from the office, went downstairs and headed straight towards No. 10 Downing Street not far away.

As one of the members of the cabinet, George Churchill certainly had the right to visit the Prime Minister directly. Soon he arrived at the Prime Minister's office. Robert Walpole, who was sitting behind the office, stood up to greet him, and asked him laughed and why he suddenly came to find him at this time.

"Your Excellency, do you know the report that the Colonial Department just received?" George Churchill did not say much nonsense and handed over the report directly.

Robert Walpole took the report inexplicably, then sat down and opened it and read it.

Like George Churchill before, Robert Walpole frowned after just a few glances, and then he continued to look down. After reading them all, his face was a little gloomy and he called the staff of the Prime Minister's Office to ask what the report was going on.

When I learned that the report was about the colony, the staff responsible for classification did not care too much about it, but processed it as an ordinary report. More importantly, it was delayed for several days during the transmission of the report and was not officially copied to the Prime Minister, so they sent it directly to George Churchill's office with other ordinary documents.

After hearing this explanation, Robert Walpole's face looked extremely ugly, but George Churchill seemed a little more ordinary.

"Your Excellency, now is not the time to hold you accountable. I will establish the authenticity of the contents of this report immediately and make judgments and decisions as soon as possible. We have been delaying for a while, Your Excellency, what do you think?"
Chapter completed!