Immediately afterwards, Minister Haruban and Zheng Fu, who were in charge of negotiating affairs with Australia, suddenly ran to the court with anxious faces and handed a "diplomatic written note" from the Australian Commonwealth to His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister.

The "diplomatic note" said that after testing, the quality and price of the copper sold to the Australian Commonwealth by the comprador of Holo Port a few days ago did not meet the requirements of the agreement reached between the two sides last year, and Australia's material procurement activities in Holo Port in recent days have been prevaricated and perfunctory, and the corresponding stores have also been closed, resulting in the inability to complete the Australian procurement plan.

The strongly-worded letter concludes with a direct inquiry to the Sulu side:

Does the trade deal we reached last year count as a matter of fact?!

Is there any sincerity in the Sulu Kingdom to abide by this agreement?!

Don't tell us in the end that last year's agreement has passed through the past and has become a historical document with no legal effect!

At the end of the letter, it is solemnly stated that if the Sulu Kingdom breaks the treaty, then you will have to bear all the consequences......

It seems that this strongly-worded letter did play a role, and on the morning of the second day when the Nicole arrived in Harbor Hollow, Zhu Beiguo received a written reply from Zheng Fu:

Sulu will seriously investigate the incident of unqualified copper, and if the situation is true, the parties will be severely punished, and as for the procurement, Sulu will definitely fully cooperate, and the Minister of Trade will be sent to supervise the whole process.

Subsequently, the Prime Minister issued a notice, ordering all merchants in Holo City and Holo Port to open their doors unconditionally, not only to open their doors, but also to sell things at a reasonable price, stipulating that the price of all goods must not be higher than the price level before the arrival of the Australian Magic Ship, and violators will be severely punished.

Then, early in the morning of the second day after the Prime Minister's Office issued the notice, before the sky was clear, Captain Haluban and Zheng Fu appeared on the deck of the Pride, and the two respectfully approached Zhu Beiguo, the Australian Federal Trade Representative, and handed him a letter.

This letter is the handwriting of Prime Minister Suhabi, and the Prime Minister's beautiful traditional Chinese characters made Zhu Beiguo have to recite several admiration in his heart, according to Zhu Beiguo's later recollection in his diary, this letter "is extremely beautifully written, it is a sincere and beautiful letter ......."

In short, he himself was actually touched by this letter.

This letter is not only gorgeous, but also sincere, and the most impressive sentence of Dr. Zhu is:

“...... Although I Sulu is a small remote state in the South Seas, I have admired China for a long time, and after hearing that the Australian Federation is the Great Song Yashan, it is actually the orthodoxy of China...... Therefore, there can be no ...... in the theory of no-show."

Well, Zhu Beiguo later admitted in his memoirs that when he sent this letter of credit telegram to the Red Mansion and Nicole, everyone was actually a little moved, and they all sighed with emotion, I can't imagine that although this Sulu is located in the South Seas, it is really deeply influenced by Confucian culture, according to the orthodox Confucian Huayi debate, this prime minister is an overseas Han Confucian student, forget it, the gentleman is not for himself, we are also Chinese sons and daughters, then don't embarrass him too much, after all, people are also doing business with us, and they are angry and wealthy. In this way, since Brother Zhu, you are negotiating with this prime minister, then ask him directly, what do you want to do? Anyway, the Han tenant slaves must be released, this principle cannot be shaken, as for the specific operation, your prime minister will happily give a clause first, don't be sloppy.

At this time, Lao Ba said in the call back, the number of tenant slaves, 200 households, 200 households, the family is anxious to wait for this batch of labor, we don't have time to spend there with him.

So Zhu Beiguo immediately informed the two representatives of Ha Zheng of this meaning, saying that since your Prime Minister is sincere and sincere, then just say what you want to do.

So the other party immediately put forward conditions: one is to increase the supply of Australian goods, and the other is to properly compensate the nobles who released the Han tenant slaves.

In the end, the trade relations between the two sides returned to normal, and the Sulu State not only obtained more than 50,000 taels of silver in this trade, but also signed an agreement that the Australian Commonwealth would give certain economic compensation to the Sulu nobles who "contributed" Han tenant slaves and other Han labor.

This agreement stipulates that the Kingdom of Sulu will "liberate and provide to the Australian Federation in batches" all the Han tenants under its rule, and the Australian side will give each person (regardless of men, women, old and young) compensation of three taels of silver according to the number of people provided by Sulu, and according to the increase in the number of Han tenants released, the Australian Federation will also appropriately increase the supply of Australian goods.

Therefore, in the trade this time, the Australian side allocated more than 60,000 taels of Australian goods from Nicole's cargo to supply the Sulu side, which exceeded the original bilateral trade volume of 50,000 taels of silver.

For this reason, the Nicole received 280 Han tenant slaves at one time before leaving, and the total number of men, women, old and children reached 600, exceeding the original agreement of 200 households.

Next, on behalf of the Kingdom of Sulu, the prime minister also said that he would collect Han Chinese tenant slaves who had "escaped into the jungle" as soon as possible, and gradually increase the number of submissions when Australians visited Jolo City the next time.

Of course, the people of Holo City did not know about these agreements, but the citizens of Holo City quickly felt the Prime Minister's statecraft from another angle.

First of all, because of the Prime Minister's resolute and iron-fisted actions, the merchants and workshop owners in Holo City finally opened their doors honestly - if they don't open the door when the time comes, the property will not be official, see who dares not to open the door!

Moreover, the citizens also bought the necessities of life at a low price - those that exceeded the official price were immediately confiscated to see who dared to sell them at a high price!

So the vast majority of the Sulu people rejoiced.

As the market gradually began to stabilize, the voices of praise for the wisdom of the Prime Minister and His Majesty the King began to appear again, but because the citizens had just been arrested and beheaded a while ago, the praise did not seem to be as enthusiastic as before.

However, the matter did not end, some passionate low-level aristocrats and scholars began to gather to make a public opinion, they said angrily, the recent market fluctuations and the arrest and beheading of Chinese people, if you want to trace the source, all this is not caused by the Australian "devil ship" anchored outside the port?!

Therefore, we should not do business with Australians, we should "boycott Australian goods" and resolutely not associate with Australians!

There are even more fierce people who say that the Chinese people should kneel down in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the gate of the royal palace to petition, and shout various slogans, such as our country and our people should be the same enemy, and they will not hesitate to fight with the Australians, even if our Sulu country becomes a scorched earth, they cannot grovel.

At this time, there were still some scholars who were fishing in troubled waters, and they actually shouted the slogan of the king's pro-government and the corresponding election of the virtuous and capable in public.

So this time, the Prime Minister turned his face faster than he turned the book, and he immediately ordered his own soldiers to arrest the few people led by him into the prison, and also issued a notice saying:

"National affairs have their own decisions between His Majesty the King and the Prime Minister, and now the country of Sulu is peaceful and peaceful, and the scholars and common people are all full of eulogy, and now there are arrogators who have intensified their efforts and talked about the government in vain? ! What is the intention of this?! Now that the Australian devil ship is outside, and the country's great enemy is currently present, you are openly sitting down to discuss and negotiate, mocking the court, so where do you want to put the court and the princes? If you look closely, your heart can be punished! Therefore, the wind cannot be long! If it is not punished, where is the law of family and national etiquette?! ”

Two of them confessed under torture that the Australians instructed them to kneel outside the prime minister's mansion to petition, with the purpose of provoking the relationship between the king and the prime minister......