In this way, in 1695, the torment of the years had turned the young Pimont into the old Pimont, and in this year, Orne fell ill and died, and the island of Timor fell into civil strife again, Pimont finally seized an opportunity to capture the port of Dili by force, and so, at the age of sixty-five, Pimont became the real governor of Timor.

However, Pimont's tragedy began again, and after years of wandering and pirate life, he changed from an elegant gentleman to an extremely tyrannical and cruel man, and his heart was full of hatred.

After he became the governor of Timor, he began a frenzied revenge on Orne's family and subordinates, who were wiped out all over the house, leaving not even women, and he brutally killed the local natives, especially those who had helped Orne.

He was a tyrannical and murderous man who was more than the tyrannical Orne.

Eventually, the natives rebelled again, and by this time, Pimont, who was already seventy-three, was forced to re-board the ship and flee to sea.

In June 1700, Pimont died of illness on the run, and a group of loyal men buried him on an uninhabited deserted island not far from the port of Ambon......

The above is the legendary life of Pimont, the governor of Timor, the Kingdom of Portugal - the Portuguese aristocrat of the Old World: Pimont. Sangers. Baron Henry.

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Another important piece of information about the Old World that Nicole received that night was the Archangel, another medium-sized galleon of the Timorese Navy, broke away from Orne-controlled port of Dili and returned to Macau after about a few months, reporting the situation on the island of Timor and the disappearance of the Governor of Pimont to the Macau authorities.

So Gu Jin paid very keen attention to this information, and told Pimont this information in the lunch meeting the next day.

Of course, it's not to say it directly, but to tell Pimont that Orne has just replaced you, that the port of Dili has suffered another military disaster, that the people are unstable, and that the Archangel is a genuine navy, and it is estimated that it is difficult to truly support a rebellious half-blood.

So it's really hard to say whether they are of the same mind with Orne.

Immediately afterward, Gu Jin strongly suggested that Pimont should send someone to contact the Archangel as soon as possible to get this capital ship of the Timorese Navy to join your team, and Pimont, who was suspicious, accepted Gu Jin's suggestion.

Captain Phillips-Austin, who was here, was very confident in the possible return of the Archangel, and he told Gu Jin at the wine table that Mr. Captain's suggestion was very wise, and Captain Rubens of the Archangel was not a greedy person, according to the first mate of the Princess Casa, he was originally going to send the faster Archangel to sea, but obviously Rubens was unwilling to go to sea to pursue the legitimate Governor, and Captain Phillips was also good friends with him.

Obviously, Captain Rubens had various excuses to go to sea not to obey orders, and Captain Phillips judged that this was probably the reason why the Princess Casa was sent, so it was not impossible for Rubens to join Pimont's side.

The telegram of the Red Chamber concludes by emphasizing that, in any case, the course of history has certainly changed somewhat as a result of our intervention, and that in the Old World, Orne was not very strong after gaining control of the port of Timor, but continued to struggle for more than ten years before it stabilized, during which time the civil strife on the island of Timor continued until 1673.

Obviously, this period was the most vulnerable period for Ornet – especially in the first few years, but during this period, for various reasons, Pimont and Macau did nothing, and the opportunity to recover Timor Island was missed.

Then, the current situation of Pimont is much better, his strength is not weaker than when he first came to the port of Timor, and it has even been strengthened, so it should be possible for him to return to the island of Timor in the next one or two years to fight Orne again, maybe he can really gain control of the port of Dili in advance.

The telegram concluded by saying that this was the conclusion reached by some members of the Fire Pond Club after careful discussion.

And it turns out that because of their interest, the people of the Huotang Club have in-depth deductions and researches.

As the so-called hard work pays off, some of their inferences and suggestions are indeed very valuable for reference, in a word: not in vain.

Later, including the deduction of Timor and Pimont, as well as various predictions and judgments of the international situation, the Huotang Club's judgment of the world political situation was often accurate.

It's easy to see why, the tradition within the club has always been to encourage arguments, free speech, brainstorming and pioneering thinking---- which was the fruit of a group of lads who were talking nonsense by the fire.

Of course, another important advantage is that they have a large historical database, and they have a thinking and vision beyond this era, so the Huotang Club later became a powerful and influential group in the Australian Parliament, and it is a very well-known, semi-official "out-of-house" forecasting body, which is a later story......

That morning, Pimont's small fleet was gone, and the Nicole and Pride continued their scheduled course into the Maluku Sea, fortunately without encountering a tropical storm along the way.

On June 30, 1657, the Nicole and Pride finally arrived off the coast of Manado Harbour.

Manado doesn't exist today, and there is nothing but deserted beaches.

The painting style along the coast of Sulawesi is exactly the same as that of Timor, the rainforest scenery here is very typical, and everyone looks quite interesting in the telescope, as for the aboriginal figures, the crew did not see them from the telescope, in fact, no one wants to see them.

It is said that the natives here are not very fierce, there is a tradition of maritime trade, the social and economic development is much higher than that of the natives in the South Sea jungle, although the marriage customs are more "chaotic", but they have basically gotten rid of the group marriage system, these are okay, everyone's main concern is that at least they do not eat human flesh.

Because the natives learned agriculture at an early age, of course, they also hunted animals and caught fish in shallow waters, but according to historical records, especially the notes of some missionaries, it seems that the natives here also occasionally had the custom of hunting human heads.

The natives were much more advanced in seafaring skills than the surrounding peoples, and it is said that the people lived in a type of building called a houseboat, and the tribes of the sea lived by fishing and gathering, supplemented by extensive primary agriculture, and the people here were placed in caves on the cliffs after death, along with the deceased of the family.

When the Nicole and Pride sailed close to the coast, the crew had occasionally seen these dense burial mounds in telescopes on the coastal cliffs, and according to the historian Dr. Zhu Da, it was better for those with dense phobia not to see the caves on the cliffs.

According to Old World history, an unknown Dutch navigator once arrived here more than twenty years ago, and his diary has been handed down, which is now available in the Red House Library, and many people have read it:

“...... There should be business opportunities here, because the natives are not very lazy and have a certain sense of morality.

They knew that their ancestors were honored in the houseboat, and that if they wanted to obtain a certain commodity of life, they had in mind the concept of trade in addition to gathering, fishing, and looting.

Of course, their concept of trade was still at the stage of barter, and Indian calico and iron tools were hard currency in the eyes of the natives.

Although there are already families, people still basically live together in the form of tribes, and the concept of private ownership is somewhat vague......

In short, all we can do now is to deal with such a people with great patience, and if we can't do that, then we should go back to the ship and sail out of this wild land......"

Yes, it is precisely because of this that the Netherlands finally came to Manado decades later---- the port city of Manado, which was once called Menado in the Old World.

However, in this period, the reason why the Dutch missed out on the port was because of spices.

For the traders, the main reason for leaving here was that there were no spices worth mentioning, no gold and silver, and no considerable market to explore, so after the Dutch left here, only some merchants came here sporadically to purchase or replenish, and it was not until more than a hundred years later that the Dutch returned to start their formal rule, and only then did the Dutch learn from the British and colonize and administer there, not just do business with the locals.

It is worth mentioning that the Dutch at that time also brought many Chinese immigrants recruited from the northern continent with them......