Yes, for the people of Dili City, there is no end to the topic of Australians.

Of course, there is another important reason why the onlookers are here to watch - the man sent a group of Japanese people to distribute gifts to all passers-by at the door of the church, and the citizens of Dili City opened the red paper bag and found that it contained a small paper bag of sugar and ten copper coins, and it is said that on this day, the Australians distributed several large boxes of copper coins and more than a dozen loads of white sugar to the citizens of Dili.

At this time, the celebrities of Dili City also gathered at the cathedral, and the most eye-catching of the citizens was the gift-giving procession of the Loka tribe composed of a group of costumed indigenous maidens - the girls wore almost nothing but the grass skirts around their waists, which feasted the eyes of the people, including the crew of the Nicole......

That morning, the wedding march was played twice in the church, and the people outside the church took gifts twice......

In the morning of April 27, the galleon Archangel, which belonged to the Viceroyalty of Timor Portugal, docked at the blue pier of Xin'an Harbor, and after anchoring and mooring close to the hull of Nicole, Nicole's cargo pole began to operate, and many large and small parcels were placed on the deck of the galleon, mainly in various rattan boxes, which were said to be full of engagement gifts given to the couple by the people of the Red Mansion, and these gifts were loaded with twelve four-wheeled carriages after the Archangel was transported back to the dock of Dili Port. The boxes were all wrapped in red lings.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Sun Lao rode a tall horse, dressed in red and hung colors, and 200 garrison soldiers led by ** served as a guard of honor, waving various flags to welcome relatives, carrying six four-wheeled carriages to swagger through the city, and sent the gifts to the Duchess's manor located in the eastern suburbs of the city.

Next, the duchess got on a colorful eight-lift sedan chair, a group of drum band players composed of local natives opened the way in front, escorted by the garrison on both sides, and walked all the way for three kilometers, and finally arrived at the Blue Pier, and then in the sound of drums, the couple was sent to the front deck of the Nicole by the emcee, at this time the foredeck has been erected pergola, and the colorful flags are waving in the wind, when the newlyweds arrive outside the pergola, Gu Jin Xu Zhi and the crew accompanied the celebrities of Dili City, including Pimont, to drink there for two tours, so Gu Jin, as a person who came over, served as the wedding master of ceremonies, and the banquet lasted until midnight......

On April 28, this kind of excitement came again, but the difference was that the newcomers became Hou Xianglin and Zezilia......

For three days, from the 26th to the 28th, the soldiers of the garrison in Sin'an City were completely off and rested, except for those who patrolled in shifts, and as in Dili City, every Dili citizen and natives who were present at the scene received the same gifts outside the cathedral, and the Loka tribesmen received double portions because they participated in both. In addition, those who stayed overnight in the greenhouses in Sinanseong were also given sweet potato wine and meat......

The wedding has become a long-standing topic of conversation among the citygoers of Dili......

On 29 April, loading and unloading at the Blue Wharf finally resumed normal, and the Nicole was loaded with 800 tons of iron placer ore and 600 tons of coal, as well as about 300 tons of timber, rice, and miscellaneous goods, including 20 small bronze cannons and 150 Spanish arquebuses purchased by Hou Xianglin, from the two small Dutchman Kirk galleons that had last run aground on the beach of Sin'an City.

Stark Lorraine, the owner of the small Kirk fleet and captain of one of the ships, was now lying in a daze on his bed in his cabin, apparently having just woken up.

From the day before yesterday to last night, he boarded the shocking iron ship twice as a guest of the governor of Sin'an City, Hou Xianglin, and got drunk at the wedding scene, and the Australian sweet potato spirits were very appetizing to him, so he drank a little high in the past two days, and also made him wake up early today because of a dry mouth.

After a few glasses of water, Captain Lorraine, who had no appetite at all, felt that he should take advantage of this time to do something.

So he spread out the paper, dipped his quill pen in ink, and began to write letters to the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia.

Today is the 29th of April, and it seems that the last two days of the month are left, and if all goes well, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, a small Portuguese-flagged galleon, registered in the port of Dili, will enter the port of Dili under the name of the sandalwood trade, the owner and captain of which is actually a registered merchant and part-time informant of the Dutch East India Company, and the letter will be given to him to take to Kupang and then to the company's headquarters in Batavia.

The Dutch East India Company had many such small merchants, who came from all over Europe without any affiliation, and who were stragglers of the maritime community, who voluntarily joined the ranks of part-time informants in order to gain the protection of the East India Company of various countries and the right to trade in the ports under their control.

Obviously, this group of people may also be working as informants for more than one force, and it doesn't matter who this group serves as long as those forces have intelligence needs, and give them remuneration and convenience to do business in Hong Kong.

Captain Stark Lorraine is one of those people, and one of them.

Obviously, this business is full of dangers as well as opportunities.

In fact, the danger does not come from being an intelligence officer per se, as long as the two countries are not in a formal state of declaration of war, the profession of intelligence officer, or observer and postman, will not be discovered and sent to the gallows.

The risk of an intelligence officer is actually the interruption of your career, once you are found out and you are exposed to broad daylight, it is very difficult to get the convenience of entering Hong Kong to do business and employment opportunities.

Indeed, there are many opportunities in this industry, it is said that many self-made wealthy businessmen, in the first pot of gold earned at the beginning, is to work as an intelligence agent for various forces, get commissions and take the opportunity to do their own business and developed, this is a way for the bottom people to turn over, the only requirement is that you must have real skills---- such as skilled sailing skills, especially the technology of driving small fast sailing ships, the ability to sail at night without losing direction and avoiding various dangers, etc., but also to have a fearless adventurous spirit, And, of course, a little bit of good luck.

These two Kirk galleons belonged to Captain Lorraine, who had been an informant for the Dutch East India Company for five years in order to make a fortune in the South Seas, and as a Protestant and the son of a native Dutch lowland fisherman, he only served the Dutch East India Company.

Yes, over the years, in return for his service to the company, he was granted a license to enter the trading ports controlled by the Dutch East India Company, and occasionally received "commissioned trade" from the company, thus earning additional trade profits. Of course, when doing business, you must pay taxes, but they are much less than those of other nationalities of trading ships.

Captain Lorraine's venture into Xin'an Port this time was an order of "commissioned trade" handed over to him by the company's headquarters, with the purpose of testing and contacting Australians face-to-face.

The company had received a report from Macau, and the French version of the Macau Declaration was locked in the filing cabinet of the secretary of the company's board of directors, the contents of which had been read many times by board members, but most of the board members felt that it was clear that they could not really understand the Australian people with a single declaration, so it was necessary to get in touch with it.

Obviously, sending a small fleet of fast ships to infiltrate the port of Tan An under the blockade of the Portuguese and then doing business with it face-to-face is an important way to get to know the Australians.