When the time came to May 1st, the Nicole's hold was loaded with 200 tons of coal and 100 tons of iron ore, Gu Jin originally wanted to load some more, and scrape together 3,000 tons before setting off, but the Red Mansion Zhao Xihe Huali and they sent a telegram urging that now the family is completely ready, everything is ready only to owe the east wind, Gu Jin knows that the so-called east wind refers to the more than 600 Han labor force and raw materials such as coal, iron, bronze and other raw materials on the ship.

So after Sun Lao and Gu Jin discussed, the Nicole set sail at noon on May 2, followed by Captain Stark Lorraine's Kirk sailing team.

On the morning before sailing, Captain Lorraine received two documents, one of which was a letter from Sun Lao to the Dutch East India Company in the name of the Speaker of the Australian Federal Parliament, which was written in both Chinese and French.

The letter clearly stated that the Commonwealth of Australia proposes that the two sides open their markets to each other, remove all kinds of trade barriers, allow businessmen from both sides to freely live, do business and invest in each other's ports, and give both sides "most-favored-nation" treatment, as well as non-discriminatory national treatment for personnel of both sides.

The other document is written in Chinese, English, French and the local Dutch language, and is called the Declaration of Trade issued by the Commonwealth of Australia in the City Council of Macao, Portugal in 1657, referred to as the "Macao Declaration".

When Mr. Sun handed the letter to Captain Lorraine, he said that if the two sides could carry out trade cooperation in accordance with the spirit of the Macao Declaration, it would create great benefits for the people of the two countries.

Captain Lorraine accepted these two documents with great shock, although he did not seal them, indicating that the Australians did not intend to keep them secret, but when he found out that one of the documents was written in a Germanic-like script in the Netherlands, he was indeed shocked, he really did not think that how this group of Han Chinese, who were far away in the corner of the South Seas, in this remote corner of the world, knew that there was a place in the Netherlands? And I also know how to write documents in the local language! It's incredible! Because he had the impression that most people in the Far East were not aware of the fact that the earth was round......

Well, in short, it's the amazing Australian......

At twelve o'clock at noon on May 2, after a few deafening whistles, billowing smoke erupted from the chimney of the Nicole, and after a roar, the huge hull began to slowly leave the blue dock, and at this time Captain Lorraine had already boarded the helm of his flagship, the Starfish Brig Rapid Kirk, and he loudly issued various navigation orders to keep his small fleet on Nicole's side, and the Nicole slowly turned the hull and covered the two small Kirk sailboats behind her starboard side, At this time, the Kirk sailing fleet snuggled up to the Nicole like two chicks next to a big hen, and kept this sailing state with Nicole, sailing north at an average speed of six knots until the sun set, and then the two sides said goodbye to each other with flags and sailed separately to their respective destinations......

The Nicole left, and Sun Lao, Xiao Pingguo, and Gui Xianning stayed, and they all had their own jobs.

Among these people, Gui Xianning has the heaviest task, after the construction of the sugar factory is completed, the construction of the ammunition factory will begin immediately, and whether it is a sugar factory or an ammunition factory, Gui Xianning must strive to complete the construction of the factory and the installation of equipment, including trial production, before the Nicole returns to Xin'an Port again.

For the construction of these two factories, in addition to the civil construction is Hou Xianglin, Gui Xianning is not only responsible for equipment installation and commissioning, but also training production workers.

Now it has been preliminarily decided that the production operation of the sugar factory will be undertaken by the group of Japanese people who have retired from the garrison, and the production operation of the ammunition factory, Gui Xianning intends to hand over to the dozen or so tribal girls sent by the Luoka tribe.

Hou Xianglin** and the two were deeply relieved that Sun Lao Xiao Pingguo and Gui Xianning could stay here, and finally had their own family members who could discuss things.

However, Sun Lao said that the specific work on the side of Xin'an City is still in charge of Hou Wei and the others, Xiao Pingguo and Gui Xianning are temporary, and their own tasks are also very important---- that is, to negotiate future cooperation projects with Pimont, in addition to the company of Diao Mining, Sun Lao plans to discuss with Pimont how to obtain labor, and how to quietly get hands on the mountainous copper mine belt in the southwest of Ouku, which involves how to deal with the local indigenous people.

At the same time, Sun Lao had already learned from the Duchess Margaret that Dergus's slave trading fleet had gone to Goa, and Sun Lao immediately said, if possible, should we also involve this business?

Of course, this was just an idea of Sun Lao, except for revealing a little bit of tone to Gu Jin and briefly mentioning a few words with Hou Wei, he hadn't had time to discuss it with his partners on the Red Mansion and the Nicole Pride.

Sun Lao estimated that once he proposed this bill, he was afraid that it would cause a controversy, after all, the slave trade was notorious in history, so it is better to study it in a low-key manner now, so as not to cause a storm of controversy before the matter has even begun.

In addition, Sun Lao also planned to go to the field to inspect the iron sand mines in the Chagan Basin and the coal mines in Morro Bay, and then discuss with Pimont how to quietly control the Portuguese in Oecussi through the trade of Australian goods and obtain copper ore specimens there, which Cao Limei had repeatedly requested.

However, Hou Wei and the others resolutely stopped Sun from honestly inspecting the mine, and they said to Sun Lao in unison, the situation there is very complicated, you should not go, don't just get married...... Well, the latter words were not spoken by the two.

However, Sun Lao also immediately understood, so he immediately said, since you can't go out, you are idle at home, so I will take care of the kitchen on your construction site, Hou Wei and the others were overjoyed when they heard it, obviously in the past few months, the two brothers have had enough of the cooking level of the local chefs, so Hou Xianglin immediately ordered his subordinates to immediately call all the so-called chefs in the six greenhouses in Xin'an City, and gather them for me to worship Sun Lao as a master! I want that kind of kowtow incense!

Hou Xianglin also told his stewards and told those two-knife chefs that now that the cooking master is here, if you can't learn it within half a month, don't do this fat errand again!

So Sun Lao is also very busy, and he is very busy day and night......

As for Hou Xianglin, he and Zezilia have long lived and flown together, and they have not lived in a stilt house on the west bank of the Xin'an River for a long time, and now Governor Hou works as a supervisor at the construction site of the Governor's Mansion during the day, and in the afternoon he handed over the construction team to He Sizhi and others, and he got off work early to live a two-person world with Zezilia in the Duchess's manor, and his life was very simple and happy.

And Sun Lao, in addition to secretly plotting some things in the Governor's Palace in Pimont, is to give cooking classes to a group of so-called chefs who can't even put salt well in the greenhouse of Xin'an City, however, this has made Sun Lao gain a huge reputation here, and this reputation even extends to the next generation of these chefs, many famous dishes in later generations are passed down by these disciples and grandchildren of Sun Lao, tracing back to the roots, they are all from these chefs who worship Sun Lao as a master - according to legend, Later, the four famous Australian cuisines: Su Yang cuisine, Sun cuisine, Cantonese cuisine and Sun cuisine in Han cuisine originated from this.

Of course, that's another story......