Seeing James, who represents the British government, sign his name on the contract, Zhuo Fei's heart can't help but feel excited, with this contract, the umbrella company also has a reason and bargaining chips to expand aggressively in Australia. got a valid contract recognized by the British government, but Zhuo Fei was not happy about it, and he was not satisfied with it, because he had greater ambitions.

"Sir James, now that the matter of helping your government transport prisoners of war has come to an end, may we talk about other areas of cooperation?" Zhuo Fei took a document from Taylor and handed it to James. "This is a plan drawn up by our umbrella, and I believe that Sir James will definitely be interested in our plan after reading it." There was a thick stack of documents that Zhuo Fei handed to Sir James, and Sir James only glanced at the cover and immediately became interested.

What Zhuo Fei handed over to Sir James was a copy of the army training materials, and on the cover it was written a few big words on the Australian New Army training plan, the independent army was strong in combat, and the new army units trained by the Chinese government with the help of the umbrella company were also defeated and retreated in the North China Theater. The British have always been very interested in the Chinese New Army troops, and when they learned that the Umbrella Company had helped the Chinese government train the New Army troops, they were in a hurry to blindly get employment contracts with the Umbrella Company from the US government.

"Sir James, your country is currently facing a German landing offensive, and I think you should be well aware of that. But your country has many colonies overseas, and in these colonies, your government can easily organize a million-strong army for counter-attacks. Far from other continents, Australia has a large arsenal and industrial and mining enterprises, and if you can work together to benefit from these resources, you may soon be able to acquire a new army that is capable of fighting in the future. ”

James roughly flipped through the information that Zhuo Fei handed him over, and was silent for a moment before he spoke, "Zhuo, this training material is very good, but you must understand that I don't have the authority to reply to you now, I must report this matter to the cabinet, and then wait for the cabinet's decision." But personally, I very much agree with this plan, the situation facing the Reich is very serious, the Germans are aggressively trying to attack the Reich itself, if the Reich has a large number of elite troops like your army, I believe it will easily repel the German attack. ”

Zhuo Fei didn't really care about Sir James's tentative words, "Sir with all due respect, there is an old Chinese saying that the opportunity must not be lost and never come again. If your government fails to seize this opportunity, perhaps the next time we talk about this issue, our umbrella company will not have the same attitude as it is now. Zhuo Fei's James, who took retreat as an order to advance, was like a pins and needles, and immediately sent his retinue to send a telegram to the British mainland.

"Sir, I personally think we can work together somewhat." In order to ease the atmosphere a little, Zhuo Fei smiled and took out a cigar for Sir James, and then personally helped the other party light a cigarette. "I know that Sir Ancestor's ancestors were also nobles who started with military exploits, but after World War I, Sir Clan's family gradually faded out of the military world. I would like to say that if your Government agrees to hire an umbrella company to help train the Forces nouvelles, I hope that your country's plenipotentiary for the Forces nouvelles will be you, Sir Sir . ”

"Oh, why is that?" Sir James was puzzled by Zhuo Fei's proposal, after all, he had already left the army. But in the blink of an eye, a thought suddenly flashed in Sir James's mind, maybe his family could take advantage of this opportunity to return to the military.

"No, because I believe Sir has the ability, and I want the plenipotentiary to work with our umbrella company to be acquaintances." Zhuo Fei couldn't help laughing, and Sir James, who heard the meaning of Zhuo Fei's words, also laughed, but Sir James didn't know that Zhuo Fei had other intentions in this move.

"Why can't you work with the British? Umbrella is not controlled by any one country, which shows that we can work with all countries in the world. "Sending Sir James away, in the face of the unknown staff, Zhuo Fei's answer was very simple." Australia is currently a British colony, if we want to take root in Australia, we can't avoid dealing with the British government, rather than confronting the opponent, it is better to take the initiative to cooperate, only in this way is in the interests of our umbrella company. ”

"We are now recruiting nearly 100,000 Chinese recruits from Southeast Asia, and these recruits need to be trained before they can be brought to the battlefield. The British have arsenals in Australia, a large number of mines and all kinds of materials, and on the surface, we help the British to train their recruits, and in fact, our recruits will also be trained together. And, in this way, all the expenses we spend on training recruits will be paid for by the British. ”

Borrowing chickens to lay eggs, this is the actual intention of Zhuo Fei to come up with this training plan, borrowing the resources of the British in Australia to help the umbrella company train recruits. Not only that, Zhuo Fei is not only thinking about training recruits without paying a penny, but even if it is the cost of buying land in Australia by the umbrella company, Zhuo Fei is also thinking about not paying a penny. In Zhuo Fei's view, the British government is simply a fat pig to be slaughtered, and if he doesn't cut a piece of meat, Zhuo Fei feels that he has dealt with the British in vain.

Early the next morning, Sir James came to Zhuo Fei with a team of black circles, saying that the British government had preliminarily agreed to cooperate with the umbrella company. "Zhuo, the Imperial Cabinet has preliminarily agreed to your proposal, but the details still need to be negotiated." Seeing that James didn't finish his words, Zhuo Fei reached out and took the telegram handed by James, and read the contents of the telegram, but Zhuo Fei was angry on the spot.

Although the British cabinet agreed to Zhuo Fei's proposal and decided to hire an umbrella company to train the new army units for the British government in Australia, the British cabinet asked the umbrella company to provide the new semi-automatic rifle to the British government free of charge. The new semi-automatic rifle developed by the umbrella company has long been the standard weapon of the independent army, and the new semi-automatic rifle that combines the advantages of the AK gun family in later generations is definitely not comparable to the American Garand rifle, how can Zhuo Fei provide it to the British government free of charge.

"Zhuo, I also know that this request is indeed a bit excessive, but at present, the empire itself is already in danger, and it is only by continuing to fight with a large number of troops that we can get out of the predicament. The Empire's own army has long been depleted, and even overseas colonies can hardly assemble and train a large number of troops in a short period of time, so we urgently need an infantry weapon that can successfully suppress the opponent's firepower. I've seen the kind of semi-automatic rifles that the Independence Army was equipped with, and I can be unreservedly certain that even a new recruit could successfully suppress the attack of two or three German soldiers. ”

Sir James said this, Zhuo Fei understood, looked down for a while, Zhuo Fei immediately said, "That's good, sir, I don't say that it will be provided to your government for free, because that will damage the direct interests of the umbrella company." Love Zhou is sparsely populated, and it just so happens that the umbrella company needs to buy land in Australia to establish a rear base, so it's better to use the new semi-automatic rifle as a bargaining chip, and how about exchanging a piece of land with your government in Australia? ”

Zhuo Fei's implication was to prepare to exchange the new semi-automatic rifles equipped by the Independence Army for a piece of land in Australia, which was not a matter for the British government at all. There was no need for James to urge, and the British government quickly replied, not only appointing James as the plenipotentiary representative to negotiate with the Umbrella Company, but also agreeing to the Umbrella Company's proposal to exchange the new semi-automatic rifle for Australian land.

Among the mineral resources that have been identified in later generations, Australia has the world's largest gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, rutile, silver, uranium, zinc and zirconium resources, the world's second largest bauxite, lignite, cobalt, ilmenite and tantalum resources, the world's third largest copper and lithium resources, the world's fourth largest thorium resources and the fifth largest black coal and manganese ore resources. At present, most of Australia's population is concentrated in the north and east of Australia, and Western Australia, which has the world's largest iron ore reserves, is still in the wilderness.

"Sir, the main reason why we have chosen Western Australia is to show your government that we are an umbrella company. We just need a piece of land to be our logistics base, as long as the land is suitable for recuperation, there is no need to get involved in the affairs of Australia. It was impossible for Zhuo Fei to explain to James that he was doing this for the iron ore reserves of Western Australia, and in James's view, Zhuo Fei really just needed a piece of land.

By providing free design drawings for new rifles and helping the British government train recruits, Zhuo Fei exchanged it from the British government for the Pilbara region, which had 95% of Australia's iron ore reserves. The British thought that they had taken a big advantage, because the Pilbara region that Zhuo Fei exchanged for had become a wild place on the Australian continent after a brief gold rush, but the British did not know that it was actually Zhuo Fei who took a big advantage.

The Pilbara, which accounts for 95% of Australia's iron ore reserves, means that when the economic agent becomes the trend of the world, the umbrella company can use the Pilbara region under its feet to become the world's top 100 commercial companies. "I can't explain anything to you right now, but trust me, in less than thirty years, Umbrella Corporation will be a major company at the top of the world's business." After getting the contract documents recognized by the British and Australian governments, Zhuo Fei notified Angela and Vivian and others as soon as possible, but Zhuo Fei did not explain too much about everyone's incomprehension.