Zhu Beiguo shook his hand gently at the three of them, signaling them not to be nervous, he knew that Zheng Fu and the other two were meeting in official uniforms at this time, obviously there was a confidential matter, and this was to inform us in a solemn way.

Zhu Beiguo sat down, first opened his mouth and asked in a deep voice:

"Brother Zheng has been visiting all night, and he will have something to teach."

"Brother Li, Brother Zhu, you have a clear understanding, the younger brother has a major confidential matter and wants to interview Master Gu."

Zheng Fu finally spoke, and then turned sideways to let out the other two people:

"These two are the sixth-rank guards in His Majesty's palace, they are His Majesty's cronies, and they are unarmed, Zheng Fu is willing to use his life as a guarantee."

"Well, it's late at night, can Brother Zheng tell me one or two, what will Captain Gu talk about?"

Zhu Beiguo asked with a smile.

"Brother Zhu and Brother Li are naturally fine, but this is a place to talk?"

Zheng Fu glanced at Peng Hu and the others, a little hesitant, obviously he was not familiar with Peng Hu and the others, and he didn't know whether to trust them or not.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it, Peng Qiang and Hu Xiaolin are both brothers of ours, and they are one, but they don't often meet with Brother Zheng, so Brother Zheng can rest assured that they will inform us."

"In this case, please don't take the two brothers Peng Hu into their hearts, this matter is related to the lives of His Majesty the King and I and others, I have to be cautious, in this way, I will tell each other together......"

From midnight to midnight, the lights were not turned off in the captain's room of the Nicole, and Zheng Fu and the two king's guards talked secretly in the room with Sun Lao, Captain Gu, Zhu Beiguo, Xu Zhi and others for a whole night before leaving......

Monday, April 15, 1658, The Red House, Mornington Island.

At half past eight in the morning, Xiao Fei was concentrating on manual work in the laboratory on the top of the building, with some copper sheets and a bunch of strange-shaped objects on the workbench, and he was going to make a relay today, which was a component of the radio communication equipment he was planning to develop recently.

At this moment, the electric bell on the table not far away suddenly rang.

Xiao Fei hurriedly put down his work and came to the table, the Marconi transoceanic transceiver during the First World War would ring through a relay when receiving radio waves, so as to inform the radio attendant to receive the telegram.

Xiao Fei saw that a green signal light on the top of the box was flashing constantly, indicating that a radio signal had been sent from afar.

An hour later, a long telegram was placed on the conference table in the conference room on the fifth floor of the Red Building, and Ba Fengtian was sitting in a chair reading it carefully.

"Nicole to the Red Chamber: Last night we received important information, Zheng Fu informed us that King Unduhhara of the Kingdom of Sulu intends to have a palace coup d'état in the next one to two years, if the coup is successful, the twenty-four-year-old King Unduhhara will be in power, and the power of Sulu Prime Minister Suharbi will be completely purged.

For this reason, Zheng Fu, on behalf of King Wenduhara, proposed to our side that he hoped that the Australian Federation would give material and moral support to the king's pro-government actions.

In return, the king expressed his willingness to accept the free trade principle proposed by our side, open the entire territory of the Kingdom of Sulu to become a free trade zone of the Australian Federation, and the port of Holo will also become a free port, and the kingdom will gradually abandon the ** system and currency control, and allow the Australian Federation to carry out free investment, business and cultural exchanges with the Kingdom of Sulu.

At the same time, the king said that he would gradually release more than 20,000 Han tenants in the country, and hand over these Han Chinese to the Australian Federation unconditionally.

At present, in addition to the more than 8,000 people in the vicinity of Holo Island, there are more than 10,000 people distributed throughout the Sulu Kingdom, including more than 5,000 people in the territory of the King of North Sulu and more than 6,000 people in the territory of the King of Shaba.

Obviously, this figure is much higher than our original estimates.

To this end, King Wenduhara expressed the hope that the Australian Federation could provide firearms assistance to help him build an army, and after the unification of Sulu, these Han tenant slaves belonging to the princes and kings of various places would be handed over to the Australian Federation.

In addition, the king also wanted the Australian Commonwealth to provide support for trade, including additional secret rations of Australian goods to the king's caravans of no less than 50,000 taels of silver per quarter, preferably in West Sulu or some secret port controlled by Australia......

Zheng Fu told us that the main reason why the king of Unduhara was so eager to seek foreign aid was that the king was currently facing pressure from two aspects: first, the powerful king of North Sulu had defected to the Spaniards in Luzon, and was now essentially out of the control of the Sulu court.

The people behind this situation were the Spaniards in Luzon.

Due to the "anti-smuggling" operations of the Kingdom of Sulu at sea over the years, the relationship between the Kingdom and the Spaniards was very tense, and in order to counter the Kingdom of Sulu, the Spaniards recently successfully bought the King of North Sulu and helped the King of Sulu to stand on his own in terms of firearms and trade.

However, because the king of Sulu was only a local prince, he still could not compete with the eastern king of Sulu, that is, the current king, in terms of morality and strength, let alone replace him, so in order to make the post-Sulu kingdom completely subordinate to the Luzon Spaniards and fundamentally eliminate the threat of the shipping lane, the Spaniards recently contacted the prime minister of Suhabi.

According to secret reports, Prime Minister Suharbi has now formed some sort of alliance with the Spaniards, and it is likely that some secret agreement has been reached with the Spaniards, and may even include supporting Prime Minister Suharbi to become King of Sulu in order to realize the plan of changing the dynasty.

Therefore, the king, who was young, had no real power, and was far inferior to Prime Minister Suharbi in economic and military power, was in an extremely dangerous situation, and he had to take measures to protect himself, so the king sent Zheng Fu to find us......"

Regarding King Wenhala's request for help, the attitude of the Red Mansion is basically the same: Anyway, for us, it doesn't pay much, it's just to provide a little more goods, as for providing weapons and even helping him train the army, of course this is okay, but obviously it's not free, for this, the two sides talked with Sun Lao Gu Jin and them all night on the Nicole, and it was already a matter of explaining it face-to-face. So, there's nothing wrong with acceding to their requests.

Obviously, for the king's side, it is also the wool that comes from the sheep, and it is reasonable to estimate that the cost of weapons and training is actually the king's profit from selling Australian goods, which is explained in a modern term, called "transfer payment".

The people in the Red Chamber believe that it can be seen from this that the current king is indeed in danger, and it seems that he is now giving up everything, in order to keep the throne, no, in fact, to save his life, this king should be able to pay all the price he can.

However, the crew members of the Pride and the Nicole disagreed, and the crews were basically divided into two factions: the royalists and the firewatchers.

In fact, the former faction does not have any lofty ideas such as so-called "strategic goals", at least not in the first place, and their feelings are very intuitive:

"Well, this young king looks quite pitiful, no matter how you look at that old treacherous and cunning prime minister, he looks like a villain in a palace fight TV series, or a white-faced traitor like Cao Cao......"

Especially when everyone learned from Zheng Fu that the king was actually the same age as Xie Muyang, the youngest in our crew, everyone couldn't bear to sit idly by.

Well, it seems that it is easier to have emotional resonance between young people and young people, plus people take the initiative to come to the door to ask for help, the attitude is very good, and people's promise of "fully opening up the country of Sulu" is indeed easy to make people feel good, so this faction subconsciously thinks that they should help the king.