Moreover, the Dutch East India Company also intended to enter into a cooperation agreement with two Australian banks similar to that of the Imperial and Australian Company, and it is clear that the Dutch knew best the commercial value of such an agreement - only the Dutch were more ambitious, and the representatives of the East India Company from Batavia proposed a cooperation plan for a total amount of 300,000 taels of silver, and the Dutch went further this time: they intended to accept the proposal of the two Koreans to settle in Australian dollars, and even further proposed that if the Australians wished, It was possible to establish a trading terminal in Batavia, provided that only Dutch East India Company merchants were accepted.

In the view of Lao Ba and Han Letian, the conditions offered by the Dutch are really good, if we can really establish a cargo station in Batavia and accept the Australian dollar as the settlement currency, plus the branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China there, then our business will indeed grow.

Mornington Island soon received a telegram from Lao Ba, and the bosses of the big companies in the Red Mansion immediately boiled, everyone knew that once the Australian goods directly entered Batavia, it meant that the Australian goods would be oriented to the world, and such a market prospect was indeed exciting, so during this period, Lao Ba and Han Lotian were busier than ever......

During this time, Lao Wang was also very busy, and he gladly accepted the employment of the Duchess's "Chief Technical Adviser of the Manor Plantation Industry" - it is said that this employment was facilitated by the Duchess through Sun Lao, and this employment made the plantation park of the Duchess's manor of tens of thousands of acres of land become the largest overseas cash crop planting base of the "Federal Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Industry Supply and Marketing Cooperative".

Lao Wang predicts that in a year, in addition to the 3,000 acres of sugarcane forests, there will also be a lot of spice and spicy plants related to five-spice powder, and in the future, the planting of cocoa trees and tobacco leaves will also be expanded to thousands of acres.

During this period, various business talks were fruitful, including the acquisition of a mining loan from the Australian Development Bank of 100,000 taels of silver and a commercial loan worth $100,000 for municipal works.

The former is a loan from the Australian Development Bank to the company to expand the development of iron sand mines and coal mines in the Chagan Basin, and also includes a gold and silver mine in the eastern region, all the technical support of the project comes from "Aotuo Mining", when all the iron ore and coal produced in the mining area will be purchased by Aotuo Mining, for which Cao Limei will personally visit the mining area in the first half of next year.

A latter municipal project loan would eventually go to Hou Xianglin's "Pacific Construction Co., Ltd.", and Pimont secured the investment with tax collateral.

The money will be used mainly for the purchase of cement and steel bars in Australia, with an "extremely favorable" annual interest rate of only 5.8 per cent, and will be repaid in three years with the security of the customs duties of the Emperor and the commercial tax of Dili Oecussi.

In addition, the Duchess's plantation has also received a special purchase loan of $50,000 from the Commonwealth Industrial and Commercial Bank for the purchase of various seeds and various agricultural tools and agricultural machinery from Lao Wang's farm - including sugarcane harvesters, anti-epidemic drugs and pesticides.

According to the plan of Lao Wang and Zhu, the experimental farm on Mornington Island will become a seed orchard, and the large-scale production of food and cash crops will spread out.

After the departure of the Nicole, Zhou Ruiyue and the Chu brothers were appointed by Sun Lao in the name of the federal president as the deputy governor of Xin'an City and the captain of the security team of Xin'an City, which was to let Zhou Yue and the two of them go to assist Xiao Pingguo to undertake various daily affairs, and the other to share Wei Hongsu's high-flying security work in the city, so that Wei Su and the others could free up their hands to focus on the training of the garrison and the external defense of the city.

Yue Chu quickly took over the factory protection teams of the original factories, and after some reorganization, the security team of Xin'an City was officially established, but until now, the security team has only 150 guns.

Obviously, this point of people is not enough at all, at present, the garrison has supported the security team 300 people equipped with 57 rifles and grenades @ bullets, according to the agreed division of labor in the urban defense, the security team in the wartime to be responsible for the internal security of the east and west urban areas, and at the same time to undertake a part of the secondary direction of defense, such as the defense of the naturalization camp in the east city and the wooden wall in the east section - because this section of the city wall directly faces the city wall of Dili City a few kilometers away, with a wide field of vision and close to the coastline, if the enemy arranges troops here, not only will it be attacked on both sides, It will also be attacked from the sea, so the enemy will not use this area as the main direction of attack, but there is still a need for someone to defend it so as not to be broken by a surprise attack, so after discussing with the brothers, they handed over the defense of this section of the wall to the security team and the warriors of the Loka tribe.

Clearly, the vigilantes needed more soldiers—at least another hundred and fifty men needed to put all the Type 57 rifles to use.

However, at present, there is no recruitment in the naturalization camp, because in recent months, Lefik, the largest provider of trade labor in the naturalization camp, is currently transporting immigrants on the Leizhou Peninsula, and in the past few months, Xin'an City has only received two small-scale trade laborers, with a total number of less than 100 people, and during this time, the various engineering construction of the naturalization camp has not only not decreased at all, but also because of the need for defense construction, a lot of workload has increased, so Yue Chu's plan to recruit soldiers in the naturalization camp finally failed, there is no way, Xiao Wei Su Zhouyue and a few people discussed, they could only find Daddy Loka to find a way, because, recently the Daddy Loka tribe has grown stronger, last week, the tribe successfully ambushed a migrating tribe at the southern foot of Mount Tatamirao, and planned to go to the Beilu Plain to join the alliance of the tribes in the south of the mountain, at that time Wei Hong suggested that Daddy Loka take the opportunity to incorporate the rebellious tribe, so Daddy Loka made a decisive move.

Yue Chu's plan is to expand the security team to 500 people around the Spring Festival, as for the extra soldier equipment, Yue Chu plans to temporarily let the other 250 people only be equipped with 57-type grenades @ bullets and shields and spears that have been put together, obviously there is no problem with such equipment to maintain law and order, but it is a little difficult to deal with large-scale siege warfare, but fortunately, the Ministry of Finance has agreed to use new ships to transport enough 59-type rifles and ammunition production equipment to Xin'an City before the Spring Festival.

So that afternoon, Yue Chu took He Sizhi, the translator, and took a carriage to the rows of greenhouses in the south of Xin'an Xicheng, and he needed to visit Father Luoka in person.

Although the main buildings in this urban area are still the Shuangshanzi greenhouses left by Hou Xianglin in the past, many new stilt houses have been built around these greenhouses - all houses built by the Luoka tribe, according to Xiao Pingguo, this is the famous "red light district" and dining and entertainment business district of Xin'an City.

In the eyes of the tribesmen, Yue Chu's image of being more "handsome" than Wei Honggui and Brother Xianning was immediately popular with everyone—specifically, by women.