This call is one of the results of Sun Lao's social activities in Dili City a while ago.

Mr. Sun is now a good friend with the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Timor, the Rev. Gencarus, both sides admire each other's knowledge, the Bishop recently heard Pimont say that the Australians cooperated with Ingres to set up an orphanage in Macau City, so he immediately decided to talk to Sun Lao about the intention of cooperation in this regard, the Diocese of Timor is very poor, although there are orphanages here, but the scale is very small.

Although Dili City is not as developed as Macau, and the population of Timor Island cannot be compared with the mainland, in the past ten years, there have been constant wars on Timor Island, coupled with the rebellion in Orne, there are actually many orphans in Dili City and Timor Island who need help from the church, and the problem now is that there is no money.

Hou Xianglin said in the telegram that Bishop Carlos wanted to cooperate with the Australian Commonwealth in the same way as the city of Macau, and that there were currently 45 orphans in the Dili Church Orphanage, 20 of whom were under the age of five, and the rest were between the ages of five and eight. In fact, they are child daughters-in-law or maid maids, so there are no older children in the orphanage at the moment, and of course, if the two sides reach a cooperation, then these children will be given priority to us when they grow up.

According to the bishop's prediction, if Australians are willing to have indigenous orphans, the church will also adopt a group, but the specific number of bishops is not clear, obviously there are many people, in short, the premise of all this is one word: money, Australians need to be supported in funds and materials.

After the plenary meeting in the evening, Sun Lao asked Xiao Fei to call Xin'an City back immediately: We want these children! Whether it's a pure-blooded native, as long as it's able-bodied, we've taken all of these children. and instructed Hou Xianglin to provide some material help to the orphanage on behalf of the Australian Commonwealth in the capacity of Governor of Xin'an, waiting for the arrival of Nicole.

At 8 a.m. on June 19, 1658, the Pride left the Red Pier and set sail for Macao, carrying 15,000 pieces of glassware and mirrors, including 200 glass hand-held lamps for Zhong Qiao's two families, 6,000 ceramic bottles weighing a total of 3 tons of sweet potato spirits, and Lao Wang's latest product: 1,000 cans of Xianrendong milk wine.

In addition, the 1,000 metric cotton printed cloth of Huasheng Textile Company is also an important trade item for this voyage.

Incidentally, there were also 100 Federation 1 handcuffs and 3,000 rounds of paper-shell combined ammunition produced by the Dawning Machine Factory, which were secretly supplied to the King of Sulu as agreed.

At present, the glass factory and cement factory are working overtime day and night production, and it is expected that in a month, the Nicole will be able to leave for Holo and Xin'an Port.

However, there were some benefits to the delayed departure of the Nicole, during which time it was possible to produce as many glass mirrors and utensils as possible, as well as wood-framed glass windows and cement, which were favored by Dili merchants.

On June 24, the Pride arrived in the waters near Manado, where it was to deliver a portion of the Australian cargo and handcuffs to the king's delegates, according to an agreement with Zheng Fu.

In the early morning of this day, when the Pride had just appeared near the foggy Menado coast, he saw a colorful house boat used by the locals approaching from a distance, and after the two boats approached, Zhu Beiguo picked up the binoculars to observe, and found that the one standing on the bow of the ship was actually the king's guard who accompanied Zheng Fulai to negotiate secretly that night, and there was a stranger standing next to him.

The Pride had done business with the locals nearby, and Zhu Beiguo had participated in the whole process, and he was familiar with the costumes of the locals.

The two ships leaned against each other, the king's guards bowed with their fists folded, and said something loudly, and the stranger standing next to them also spoke, saying authentic Nanjing official dialect!

It seems that this is a translator, Zhu Beiguo listened to the other party's pronunciation in a little surprise, and thought to himself, is this Sulu country really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger? Where did the king find such a good translator?

However, at this moment, Zhu Beiguo was not allowed to think too much, he immediately returned the salute with his fists, and responded loudly:

"Sulu's envoy at the moment?"

Zhu Beiguo, who received an affirmative response, put down the gangway and took the two of them to the deck.

The two sides stood still, and Zhu Beiguo spoke again:

"Please show the inquest for an examination."

The other party immediately took out a seal from his arms, bowed down and handed it to Zhu's hand, Zhu Beiguo took it, and took out another seal from his arms, but it was just a bumpy match with this seal, and he put it in his arms.

The so-called exploration is a kind of token, and there is a set of strict acceptance procedures.

At this time, Hu Xiaolin, Peng Qiang and other five or six people were waiting there, everyone was familiar with each other, they all smiled and nodded when they met, and the two sides did not talk much, so they took the two of them directly to a corner of the cabin and uncovered the canvas, where there was a row of three-layer bamboo baskets, which contained two thousand pieces of glassware and glass mirrors, and there were several bamboo baskets on the side, which were stuffed with straw.

Zhu Beiguo took out a handcuff and handed it to the king's guards.

The latter took the handgun and looked at it for a long time, obviously not seeing anything famous, so Zhu Beiguo smiled and said to the translator next to him, please go to the deck to demonstrate the use of this handcuff, then took the handcuff in the guard's hand and walked in front, after the translation and translation, the two hurriedly followed.

The method of using the Federation Type 1 pistol is very simple and straightforward: hold the handle with one hand, pull a metal bolt back with the other hand to expose the nest, stuff the paper shell bullet into it, and then push the metal bolt forward to close the nest, pull the plate machine with the spring with the thumb, and then raise the gun to aim, pull the trigger to shoot the shot, the user can get started with a little training, compared with the ordinary arquebus, it can be described as extremely fast, and a few breaths can be fired.

And within ten zhang, almost 100 shots and 100 hits, and outside ten zhang, you can also hit about 50%.

Seeing that the firearm was so sharp, the king's guards and the interpreter were all surprised, and at last the two sides reached a deal, and the price of the gun was sixty taels of silver, two thousand rounds of ammunition, and one hundred and fifty taels of silver, plus the glassware and glass mirrors in the cabin, for a total of sixty-three thousand taels of silver.

At noon, another house ship docked on the Pride, and the two sides handed over the silver goods on the sea, and after the completion of Zhu Beiguo, in accordance with the survey rules agreed in advance, returned the other half of the seals, but this pair of seals was exchanged, the original king's guards were in the hands of Zhu Beiguo, and the half of the seals in the hands of Zhu Beiguo's hands were handed over to the king's guards, and the details of this exchange and survey Zhu Beiguo was also known for the first time, Zhu Beiguo sighed in his heart, these details have never been mentioned in the history books and research documents, if not in person, Looking at the ancients only based on ancient books and posterity, after all, it is separated from reality......

Zhu Beiguo was sighing that Li Sanduo, who was in charge of the specific delivery, had already completed the finishing work, and according to the usual practice, they needed to entertain the guests for a meal.

So the king's guard and the translator were invited to the crew restaurant, Li Sanduo took out the fairy cave milk wine developed by Lao Wang to entertain each other, the dishes are relatively simple: braised pork, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, fish-flavored eggplant and white radish pork rib soup, this is the cooking skills of the ship doctor and chef Dai Xiaoshan after being complained about many times, it is said that Dai Xiaoshan learned a few hands from Sun Lao before leaving, and now it is used to fry and sell, the effect is actually very good, but after a tour of wine, the two guests ate and drank a little forgetful, and the translator was not careful, The voice became extremely slender, which made Zhu Beiguo, Li Sanduo and Brother Dai Xiaoshan, who were sitting with them, almost at the same time, see that the translator was actually a woman!