Skade escaped the fire of the Senate, and, of course, by the way, dried the Dutch, whose quarantine had expired, for more than ten days. By the time he returned from Hongji, he already had in his hand a thick stack of Jihua books on speeding up Hongji's development and strengthening the local defense. When the book was submitted to the Executive Committee and the Senate for review, he declared that he was going to "negotiate with the Dutch with all his might" and went into hiding.

The Ministry of Colonial Trade only has the right to propose and put forward a plan for the reinforcement of Hongji and the expansion of the scale of Hongji stations, which can only be implemented after specific discussions by the Executive Committee on the allocation of materials, the allocation of personnel, and the mobilization of troops. Skade was not particularly concerned about the bombardment of the Senate: he had sufficient evidence to prove that Hongji's lack of equipment was entirely due to "limited national strength". If it is said that the defense liliang of important targets is insufficient, Sanya is particularly insufficient in terms of its importance and investment amount. He didn't want to deal with the Standing Committee because he felt it was a waste of time.

Many people in the Standing Committee of the Senate, according to his words, "the professional ones are too professional, and the amateurs are too amateurs," and all of them are difficult to deal with.

"Alright, let's find a few people who know German," Skade said to himself in his office, "Dutch is a small language." "Dutch is colloquially called Low German and there is not much difference between German.

So the Dutch East India Company employed a large number of Germans.

Skade thought that there were quite a few people who knew German among the senators, and most of them were attached to the Colonial Trade Department.

Second report of the Dutch East India Company's junior merchant on the "Magdeburg" van Transtron to the Viceroy of Batavia de Carpentil.

Dear Excellencies, After a quarantine period of more than 20 days, we were finally allowed to disembark. Thank God that no one died during our time on board. All the human beings are healthy.

Originally, we were supposed to end the quarantine at the end of February, but at the end of the period, the port officials informed us that we were about to receive our senior officials, whom they called "executive councilors", and were not in Lingao, so we stayed on board for another week.

We've found that Australians use the same concept of "week" as we do. When their men boarded the boat to talk to us, they often referred to the phrase "day of the week" and "next week". They also refer to "Sunday".

However, the officer sent us a document with permission to leave the ship, with which the crew could go ashore and stay at the pavilion on shore. The sailors and soldiers were delighted to be able to go ashore. I ordered the captain to leave a third of the sailors and soldiers on board, and promised them to rotate every three days.

The Executive Committee has orders to the Harbour Officer, in which he is ordered to give us all kinds of needs, and not to be in need. We were also ordered not to leave the port area without prior written permission.

Officials at the port handed out a cardboard card to everyone who landed on shore. The cards have their names, their vessels and their ports of departure. And everyone is required to press their fingerprints on the jam. You must know that this practice of finger printing is popular among the Chinese people, and it seems to be a kind of credit indication for them.

When we landed on land, the people and workers of the port area crowded on the roadside to watch us. Some people even climbed onto the crane, and too many onlookers made us feel very difficult. The officers found out about this and sent guards to escort us.

We left the dock and were placed in a very large house not far from the pier, which was said to be used to accommodate sailors. The house is a special kind of longhouse, there are many rows of such longhouses in the yard, each longhouse is placed in a row of double-storey chuáng shops, a house can accommodate 40 people or more, and some longhouses are double-storey.

We, as officers of the crew, were housed separately in a compound with a similar two-storey building. Like the longhouse, it is a brick structure. But the interior is more elaborate. Each room is furnished with a variety of furnishings, and as for whether one person sleeps in each room or three people, they have a different number of chuáng rooms. Sleeps up to 4 people.

Whether it was an ordinary sailor's longhouse or a small building where we lived, the house was very clean and tidy, and there was no bedding on it, but there were straw mats and straw pillows, which were enough in the high climate. Each house is equipped with a toilet. The housekeeper strictly warned us that there were heavy fines and other penalties for any open defecation. For this I had to communicate with the ship's steward, and ask him to strictly control the manners of the sailors and soldiers, most of whom you know, were Germans.

There is a restaurant in the Seamen's Hostel that serves haode cuisine. There is also a large shop with a wide range of goods for sailors and fishermen who stop here.

Australians seem to be less hospitable than the Chinese, and the West Banks and some others say that every time they go to the coast of China, as long as they are under the banner of "tribute", they can get official hospitality, but we here in Australians, all the supplies from shelter to food, all have to be paid, but in terms of price, it is acceptable.

We were told that the name of the place was "Bopu", and we were informed that we could move freely in Bopu Town, and those who went out had to return to the hostel by 9 p.m. However, those places that are classified as "off-limits" are not allowed to enter. In general, Australians have very few restrictions on us, except for allowing us to do our free activities at the Bo Shop, there are no other restrictions on the coins and other items we carry, just reminding us that we need to exchange for local currency in advance when shopping, except for the prohibition of carrying weapons.

He also asked sailors and soldiers to swear an oath of respect for the laws of the land before they went out.

Every hour, a shrill flute would be played in the city, and the sound was so loud that it could be heard throughout the city. The morning, noon and evening flutes last for a long time, and the Australians are very skilled in using this system so that everyone knows the moment. Australians work strictly by the hour, and if you live with them for a day, you can roughly know what they will do the next day.

After all the men had settled down at the Mariner's Hotel, the man who was in charge of receiving us, whom they called the Minister of Trade, was to receive us and discuss with us that the three of us had decided to go together to meet with him.

On the morning of March 1st, we washed up early in the morning and changed into our most haode dresses.

In addition to Gonzalez and Leib, Trini, we also brought an attaché with each of us, and we brought related gifts.

We were led down the streets by young officials sent from the "Ministry of Trade". A very nice four-wheeled carriage ride is ready here! Yes, carriage, that's the one thing that surprised me the most. I don't know where else in East Asia can I see such a light and beautiful carriage, not even in Macau or Batavia.

I don't think you can find a similar vehicle even in Europe. It's a beautiful piece of art! No, the so-called fine craftsmanship does not mean how richly decorated and elaborately carved, on the contrary, there is almost no decoration and painting on the carriage, and the body is also black. There are no decorations worth mentioning other than the glass embedded in the doors and a pair of beautiful lights. However, the size and structure of the whole body and the proportions of each part on it are symmetrical and the structure is perfect, which gives people an incomparably strong shock. Forgive me, my lord, for not being able to put into words how I feel.

The carriage passed through the town of Bopu and headed for the town they called "Bairen". It was the center of Australian domination. Bopu Town is a very prosperous town, with many houses in the town, which can be called a more prosperous city. We could see that there were a large number of chimneys here, the height was amazing, and each chimney was emitting smoke from black and white sè. There was a strong, pungent smell in the air. On the way we saw a majestic castle – though it was not on the side of the street we passed, it was made entirely of red sè bricks, with large towers and turrets, where smoke of white sè and black sè was equally rising, and from time to time there was a loud sound of metal crashing. I asked the accompanying officer what the place was, but he refused to answer my question, which I thought was an Australian smelter, **** yard or mint. If it is true, the capital invested in Australia here is very large, and the road from Bopu to Bairen is built along a large river. But the river is currently in a semi-dry state. The Australians appear to be doing some kind of dredging and construction of the river. The amount of water in the river is not large, and it smells. The road is well built and paved with a kind of black sè sandstone. The carriage walked on it without feeling the slightest bump, and along the road there was carefully cultivated land, and the land was carefully cared for, and not an inch of land was not cultivated and planted with crops. The fields, like many places in Tuscany, are perfectly equipped with canals, dams and waterwheels to fully irrigate the soil. The irrigation project was so exquisite that Mr. Trini was full of admiration.

Locally, like Batavia, it can be cultivated all year round.

The fields have been planted with green rice seedlings, and some are vegetables. The slopes where rice cannot be grown are planted with a variety of crops and fruit trees that we do not recognize, and even on both sides of the road, many coconut saplings are planted.

The most striking thing about us walking was something of unknown purpose: some completely lifeless wooden stakes, painted black with a face. Wooden stakes stand in rows like street trees, connected to each other by black wire. Each stake is also fastened with a number of glass-made bottles.

The three of us discussed the use of these stakes, and came to no conclusion—none of us had ever seen anything like this. We consulted with the accompanying officer, and once again received a silent answer. @。