On the morning of the third day of Nicole's arrival in Holo Harbor, all the fleet's trading activities in the Sulu country were finally completed, and no matter how much the merchandisers and workshop owners in Holo City struggled, under the iron bowl of Prime Minister Suhabi Datu, the Australians' purchases in Holo Harbor finally achieved the desired goal.

The port of Jolo is the largest trading port and cargo distribution center in the southern seas of the South Seas, and the goods here include products from Luzon, Mindanao, Borneo and Sulawesi, metals including iron, tin and lead, as well as bulk foods such as rice and coconut oil, as well as local products such as timber, coconut fiber, various dyes, tropical medicinal herbs and tropical fruits.

Now, Nicole and Pride have also bought a new trade item, coal.

It's just that the coal here is quite expensive, and after conversion, a ton of coal actually costs six taels of silver! More expensive than hard mahogany in the local market! In this regard, Zhu Beiguo was powerless after negotiations, because he found that the reason why coal was expensive was not because the locals sold it expensively, but because it was extremely difficult to transport, this thing was not like wood, which could be trapped in wooden rafts and floated all the way through the waterway, and the coal could definitely not be transported to Holo Harbor in this way, so the cost was spent on manpower, even if the prime minister used a large number of soldiers to transport coal to the Australians out of the motive of showing sincerity and goodwill to the Australians, the cost of this was also amazing, there was no way, The money still had to be paid honestly.

It seems that the coal here is really unaffordable, everyone agreed after discussion, or the coal on Timor Island is cheap, and there is a quantity, this Holo Port does not produce coal locally, and the trouble to transport is not only small, but also expensive, of course, if we go to Zixia Island to dig coal, it will be cheaper.

However, the king and the king were satisfied with the business of the Australians, and they made a lot of real money.

This time, Sulu's trade surplus was realized, and the real money paid by the Australians enriched the Sulu country's treasury, which is not counting the profits from the sale of the Australian goods bought, no wonder the prime minister welcomed the arrival of the Australians, and tried his best to cater to the various procurement requirements of the Australians.

Of course, it is still the same sentence, the so-called officials and people are different, and the joys and sorrows between nobles and commoners are completely different, at this time, the citizens of Holo City once again found that their goods were taken away by the government, leaving behind nothing more than a pile of rotten copper coins and soaring prices......

As a result, a storm will brew in the city of Holo, in which some people's heads will fall to the ground, and some will soar, and the young King and the cunning Prime Minister will also deduce their own different life endings in this storm......

Of course, this is a later story, at this moment, for the Pride and Nicole, it is finally time to set sail and leave, and on the last day, it is the 280 families of Han tenant slaves who are on board, this time, a total of 630 men, women and children have been accepted on board, including more than 20 underage men and women, and more than 30 elderly people over 50 years old.

Obviously, this is another group of labor with a very good age structure.

The process of the Han tenant slaves getting on the boat was still very unsmooth, and it was still the same scene, the Han tenant slaves were driven up the trestle by the Sulu soldiers with ropes and sticks, and the women and children cried and wailed along the way, unlike in the past, in the distance, there was a circle of onlookers, full of sympathy for the citizens of Holo.

But this time the receiver did a little smarter, there were already more than a dozen lifeboats from the Nicole docked on the dock, Hu Xiaolin, Peng Qiang and other crew members did not catch up with the Pride like last time, but separated the family from the crowd on the spot, and then tied the family together again, and put cloth pockets on everyone's heads, so they directly brought people to the dinghy, and tied and wore hoods because they were afraid that these people would jump into the water from the dinghy and escape.

When the dinghy was loaded with the family, they rowed directly to the Nicole in the distance, and it was not until the family cried up to the front deck of the Nicole that they untied the ropes and took off the hood, and then forcibly drove the family into the men's and women's bathrooms to take a bath, and after bathing, they were forced to change into new clothes.

There are just some specific details of the operation - when the family arrived on the deck, the men and women were immediately separated and taken into different cabins on the lower deck, and then these people were forcibly stripped naked on the spot, and the belongings in the clothes were shaken out and put aside, and then the people were driven directly into the men's bathroom to take a bath, and after the bath, the men were driven out naked, and the old clothes had already been thrown into the sea, and a few new clothes and pants were stuffed into their arms and let them change into them.

However, the treatment of women was much more gentle, and several crew members came and stuffed new clothes into the arms of frightened women or girls, and then drove them into the women's bathroom to take a bath, of course, after bathing, it was casual to change clothes or not, and the clothes were not forcibly confiscated.

The next step was to take the people to the cafeteria to eat, and the food was undoubtedly sumptuous, and the delicacy was probably the first time in their lives for this group of tenant slaves.

By this time, the servants seemed to have to calm down, and at last they took the family to the large cabin that had been prepared, where there was a row of bunks, bedding and bedding, and a place to drink water and go to the toilet.

This method of divide and conquer really did not cause any trouble, not only did it smoothly bring people on the boat, but also took a bath and ate food, unlike the time when it was on the boat.

It's just that this method took a long time, and everyone tossed and turned on the dock for most of the day, dozens of round trips, before the 630 men, women, and children were settled.

At the same time, in the Red Mansion, thousands of miles away, the bigwigs from all walks of life also began to get busy, and the gods and goddesses began to make various plans and bargain with each other in order to distribute these laborers, and all the people in the industrial group were trying to make their side have more labor.

On the morning of April 21, 1658, the whole of Dili Harbor was awakened by the low but neutral whistle of the Nicole, and the people in the quayside square and the east and west batteries witnessed the shocking sight again, a moving hill of ships slowly passing over the sea, faster than any ship in the harbor, and one could only judge by the tri-colored flags hanging from the mast and the figures on the deck that the ship was a human product and not God's Noah's Ark or the Devil's ghost ship.

Pimont's Governor's Mansion is on higher ground, he was attracted to the roof balcony by the screams of the servants, Pimont is already a person who is prepared for the so-called "power of technology" of the Australians, but when he faces this big iron ship again that feels that the entire port is not enough for her to moor, he was still deeply shocked, yesterday Hou Xianglin told him in person that the Nicole, which the Australians came to transport ore, would arrive at Xin'an Wharf tomorrow morning, and asked him to support some manpower and ships to carry the goods, Pimont immediately agreed, he responded, Sufficient manpower will be prepared for Governor Hou.

However, although he had been on the Nicole many times, the first few times he was only shocked and excited, and never seriously looked at the giant from the perspective of transporting goods, and now that the matter was approaching, Pimont calmed down and estimated the cargo capacity of this ship, and had to admit that it seemed that he still underestimated the loading capacity of this big ship, according to the size of the ship in front of him, he had to double the number of people to carry, no, it felt that doubling the number of people was not enough......

Now he finally understands what Zhu Beiguo told him at the beginning - how much ore you have, how much we will transport......

God forbid, this is not a lie! If I were to fill this ship with ore......