Now that these people have returned to the city and their property has been largely returned, the Governor has not only restored order and law, but has also brought a lot of investment, especially from Australians.

Citizens have also heard that Australians are planning a city on a wasteland west of Dili and are now recruiting labor, which is said to be paid far beyond the level of ordinary laborers in Dili, apparently giving many people who have lost their homes and gone bankrupt because of the war have an extra way to live.

Thus the Governor now walks the streets occasionally, and from time to time he receives enthusiastic cheers, blessings, and courtesy from the townspeople.

Soon after, news of submission came from all over the island, the Dunno tribe withdrew, and the Portuguese of Oecussi sent representatives in time to pay the taxes that had been in arrears for five years.

The Portuguese representatives from Oecussi sincerely apologized to the Doge, explaining why they had not followed the Doge in the past - the Dutch had secretly supported the natives in attacking Oecussi, and Orne had put pressure on the small Portuguese city.

Pimont was delighted with the return of the Portuguese in Oecussi, and he had planned to send a group of soldiers to take the town a little later.

Because he has just signed a secret development agreement with Australians, called the "Memorandum of Economic Cooperation between Portugal and Macao", the signing of this memorandum is the beginning of a series of specific business cooperation between the two sides.

Then the Australians told him that there was a large copper mine in the mountains near the outskirts of Gucusi, large enough to rival the Spanish Viceroyalty of Chile in South America.

If it can be developed there, it could change the trade landscape of Southeast Asia, and some commercial companies in the Commonwealth of Australia are willing to set up a mining company with the Governor General to run the project.

Pimont was overjoyed, knowing that for the time being, the world needed copper too much, but the world's largest copper mine was the Spanish-controlled Chilean copper mine, which currently produced a third of the world's copper.

So, for Pimont, the business at the Oecussi Copper Mine is big and busy.

For this reason, the Governor of Pimont was even ready for another battle, if the Portuguese in Oecussi did not submit to the Viceroyalty of Timor.

Fortunately, the Oecussi themselves came, which was good, and the Governor greatly forgave the Oecussi for their original "betrayal", and he told the delegates from the city of Oecussi, Mr. Mayor and the two councillors of Oecussi, that Oecussi's submission would be rewarded, because there would be a huge investment there, Oecussi would become a prosperous port city, the citizens would find a livelihood, and the merchants would have the opportunity to make a fortune.

Pimont then proudly told the delegates that the investors included the Australians and their allies, as well as themselves and the Governor's House, so that you would have a lasting economic boom where every Oecussi would benefit.

These benefits also include well-paid jobs and business opportunities as out-of-towners flock to the city, making Oecussi a thriving port city.

Of course, if you want to reap all these benefits, for the Oecussi, you only need submission and tolerance, and of course some land along the coast, which is needed to build a port.

Pimont was clever not to mention the copper mines to the Oecussi, and he had a tacit understanding with Dergus and Margaret, the advisor to the Doge's Palace, that it was better not to disclose such things too soon.

In addition, Pimont conveyed a friend-like suggestion from Australians: Your council should pass some laws to protect foreign commerce, with the minimum requirement that Aboriginal people be allowed to work in the city, as freemen, not as slaves.

On the afternoon of the day after the battle in Plaza 27 January, the people in the Red House learned through a telegram from the Nicole that Orne had died and that Pimont had successfully entered the Doge's Palace and effectively controlled the entire city of Dili.

In the evening of the same day, a telegram from the Red House suggested:

It is proposed to appoint Hou Xianglin as the "Director of the Dili Free Trade Zone Development Committee of the Commonwealth of Australia", let him stay in Dili City as the trade representative of the Commonwealth of Australia, and immediately start the initial construction of the free trade zone.

Obviously, this also means to take care of the relationship between Hou Xianglin and Miss Zezilia, and the partners in the Red Chamber think that this is the perfect arrangement for both career and life.

After receiving this telegram, Captain Sun Lao Gu and the others also felt that this was indeed a good suggestion, so they briefly discussed it and asked for Hou Xianglin's own opinion.

Brother Hou immediately said that there was no problem, but he put forward two "hopes" for Sun Lao.

Hope 1: This is a temporary appointment, after all, his career is engineering construction, he plans to go home and immediately apply to the "mutual fund" for a start-up capital to set up a construction company, the name has not been determined for the time being, but the company must be done, this is his lifelong career, as for what is the director of Rausch, this is an administrative bureaucrat, it is okay to do it temporarily, but he is really not interested in it.

Hope 2: He plans to officially marry Zezilia within the year, and then take his wife back to Mornington Island to open a construction company together.

Hou Xianglin emphasized that according to Catholic customs, girls can get married at the age of fifteen, and the girls will be sixteen before the end of the year, so they don't have to wait until they are eighteen years old, right?

Otherwise, not only will the sister-in-law be unhappy, but her sister-in-law will also be dissatisfied with your future wife---- Duchess will also be dissatisfied.

Hou Xianglin also said that it would not be impossible for him to submit a marriage request now, but considering that the duchess had just returned to Dili during this time, and now their aunt and sister-in-law were busy taking over the suburban manor, so I was embarrassed to propose marriage immediately.

Captain Sun Lao Gu had no choice but to nod perfunctorily and say Okay, okay, let's have a meeting in the evening and let everyone vote, including your personnel appointment, about marriage, after all, the woman is less than eighteen years old, and it may need to be discussed.

In the evening of the same day, a second telegram came from the Red Chamber, in which Xia Xiaoou predictively proposed that since Zezilia was under the age of eighteen, even if you were married in accordance with Catholic customs in other places, we could not recognize your marriage according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Zilia must be at least 18 years old to legally register her marriage, so once she returns to Mornington Island, she must attend Sunflower Girls' College, must not cohabit, and can only obtain Australian federal citizenship after passing the examination at the end of the three-year study period.

At the end of the telegram, it said: Everyone is equal before the law, there are no special citizens in the Australian Federation, and no one wants to engage in privileges!

In view of the fact that the last few sentences of this telegram are very up-to-date, and everyone is the same, the girls under the age of eighteen who were originally bought back are also in school, so Hou Xianglin had no choice but to bow his head and give in, saying that he must act in accordance with the system set by everyone and dare not destroy the system.

But in fact, Hou Xianglin didn't suffer much loss, after all, now the two of them are in Dili City, and the emperor is far away, so as long as they get married, they can be together, but after returning to Mornington Island, they will be on the line......

Immediately after that, a third telegram came from the Red Mansion, which talked about the mineral situation on the island of Timor, and about the specific distribution and reserves of coal mines, iron sand mines, gypsum, kaolin, and gold-silver symbiotic mines on the island, all of which Cao Limei had consulted from computer materials.

Another important point in the telegram was the case with regard to the Oecussi copper mines, which were located in the jungle not far south of the city of Oecussi, and which was obviously still the domain of the indigenous tribes, so we had to find a way to get them through the Portuguese, so that they would allow us to mine there.

Of course, the most ideal thing is to involve these indigenous tribes, whether it is dividends, or provide labor, in short, let the indigenous people obtain practical benefits to reduce resistance.

This important message was written by Wang Xue and Cao Limei, before the two hard-working ladies had retrieved very detailed information from the computer reference room, and Cao Limei also asked Sun Lao and them to bring back ore specimens for her.