This year, the northeast wind started very early, and it was only mid-October, and the whistling north wind was blowing. At this time, a number of East Coast ships (four flute-type transports, two fast cruisers, and two expedition ships) were also ready in the port of Suez, loaded with a large number of metal ores (lead, tin, copper), livestock (Turkmen horses and camels), and slaves (Polish and German mercenary prisoners of war), and left the port of Suez like arrows from the string in the cold north, headed south, and finally arrived at Xinhua Port on November 11, which had just entered the rainy season.

After arriving at Xinhua Port, Captain Jiwen and other members of the expedition went to meet with Shi Qinjie, the leader of the New China Pioneer Team, and Major Guo Zili, the new commander of the Second Fleet of the Navy. They will consult with the military and political leaders of New Huaxia Island to see if they can give strong support - such as sending the main warships with them - to go to Persian Bandar Abbas again in order to fight for the greater interests of the East Coast Republic of China - the ignorant Persians are too snobbish to show them the powerful warships of our Great East Coast, they will not give enough good.

Let's not mention the matter of Captain Givin and others, but only the large number of goods imported from the Ottoman Empire this time. Among these goods, metals such as lead, tin, and copper are to be shipped back to the country; Some of the purchased Turkmen horses were shipped to military horse farms in South Africa and mainland China, and some were shipped to Australian military horse farms; Camels are also treated in the same way, some are shipped to Australia and South Africa, and some are shipped to Southern Patagonia, of course, New China Island itself will keep a considerable part of the camels for its own use, after all, the western tropical arid savannah areas still need this kind of leather livestock.

In addition to these, the most unusual of the "goods" brought back from the Ottomans were more than 4,000 prisoners of war. Of these, about 1,500 Polish prisoners of war were killed. More than 2,500 German Hessian mercenaries took prisoners of war. According to the plan. All German mercenaries were to be sent to the Far East. Join the East Coast Advance Team system and fight against the Qing army. Everyone who served for five years or killed at least one true Tartar was immediately assigned a brick house, 30 acres of arable land, 20 acres of potang woodland, several livestock and a daughter-in-law, and at the same time automatically settled in the local area and became a colony of the Republic of East China.

After automatically acquiring citizenship, they also have the option to remain in the army and receive their full salary - five dollars per month, compared to three dollars a month before that. In fact, the monthly salary of three yuan is not bad for these bitter Hessian mercenaries. Because even the German mercenaries hired by the Dutch East India Company to serve in the East Indies had a monthly salary of only 9-12 dong (about 3-4 yuan). What's more, they are still "slaves" bought by the East Coast, and it is already God blessed to be able to get this kind of treatment.

Therefore, under this cognition, the feelings of these German mercenaries are basically quite stable, and although they are reluctant to go to the unfamiliar Far East to fight, their resistance is not particularly great. I believe that after arriving in Shandong, the government of the Heishui Pioneer Team will do some ideological work for them, and they will soon be able to correct their mentality under both soft and hard measures. Become a qualified Stand Up soldier and fight against the Qing army for the benefit of the East Coast. They are all old soldiers. Many people go out with their fellow villagers to beg for a living when they are more than ten years old, and they don't know how many battles they have experienced in their lives, how many times they have faced life and death fights, they have rich combat experience, their will to fight is acceptable, and they are familiar with the latest firearms technology and tactics.

Now that the shipping season between New China Island and Australia has just ended (five months from May to September every year), migrant ships are currently moored in the harbor for overhaul. If you want to send more than 2,500 German mercenaries to the port of Gushan in Western Australia, you can really only rely on these ships of the East African Transport Company. Otherwise, it will have to wait until next February, when three newly built 1,100-ton migrant ships from China will leave for the Far East, where they can be piggybacked on to Australia and then to Blackwater.

However, considering that Xinhuaxia Island has entered the rainy season, it is the season of high temperature and humidity, and mosquito diseases are rampant, and this is often the most unbearable time for outsiders (who are not adapted to the local climate), and they will be knocked down by terrible diseases such as malaria, cholera, and dysentery if they are not careful. There were still almost three months to go between now and February, and Kyle, who was in charge of transporting the prisoners of war, suspected that by February, only half of the more than 2,500 Germans would still be healthy—something Kyle could not accept. Therefore, they must be sent away as much as possible!

But that's easier said than done! This involves a complex issue of ship deployment, which is far from being the mastery of a small section-level cadre in Kyle, and must be consulted by Shi Qinjie, the highest local governor.

Shi Qinjie also attached great importance to the question of Kyle's reaction, and after careful consideration, he decided to help Shao Shude, Wei Boqiu, and others -- he planned to free up four flute transport ships from the East African Transport Company to carry more than 2,500 German mercenaries, and by the way, another batch of newly arrived horses and camels to Australia.

As for the transportation between the mainland of the new China Island, if the remaining three transport ships of the East African Transport Company alone are definitely not enough, after all, the export of goods from the new China Island to the mainland has increased rapidly, and the export volume of timber, sisal, dried fruits, seafood, coconut, honey, pepper and other commodities has almost doubled compared with two years ago, which has of course doubled the requirements for transportation capacity. Therefore, at this time, in order not to affect the export of materials to the mainland, Shi Qinjie had to take the time to go to the island of Mozambique across the strait and ask the Portuguese there to help. They also have a few idle three-masted galleons there, so it would not be a problem to take on some transportation tasks to the mainland, and it would be a big deal to pay a little more rent.

Now that the decision has been made, on November 18, after waiting for a tropical storm to leave, four transport ships of the overhauled East African Transport Company set sail and left Xinhua Port, then followed the warm current of Mozambique and headed south towards Gushan Port in Western Australia.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the issue of the transportation line between New Huaxia Island and Australia. In fact, in terms of meteorology and ocean currents, the new China and Australia can be navigated all year round. The reason why the East Coast government has limited the transportation season between the two places to between May and September is mainly because of the migration issue. To put it bluntly, the ships from Australia to New China Island are full of immigrants (and full of goods on the return).

They travelled north from the west coast of Australia, then entered the trade winds and returned to Xinhua Port along the southern Indian Ocean circulation. Most of the time this route is sailed in hot seas, and it is necessary to do everything possible to pass guò, otherwise migrants will die in large numbers in the hot and humid environment. From May to September, the sea is both windy and watery, making it easy for migrant boats to quickly pass through guò to reduce mortality.

If, however, after a few months, the emigrant ships pass through the area they are confronted with the north-westerly winds that cross the equator and suppress the south-east trade winds, and the currents are greatly slowed down by the unfavourable winds, the speed of the ships is extremely slow - and even if it were not for the sailing boats, the pure sailing ships would not be able to sail in this part of the sea at this time. One can imagine how many migrant bodies would have been thrown into the sea on the ship if the migrant boats on the east coast had passed by here at this time and headed for Xinhua Port at an outrageously slow speed.

Of course, if the ship is carrying cargo, then it doesn't matter. With care, the southern Indian Ocean is theoretically navigable all year round, and cargo doesn't get sick.

The ships of the East African Transport Company carrying the mercenaries arrived at the port of Gushan in Western Australia, where they would be maintained and then loaded with some rare cargo from the Far East to return to the mainland. These goods are of a wide variety of kinds, generally medicinal herbs, furs, animals and plants, books, antiques, jade, tea, porcelain, silk and silk, and some captured Australian aborigines - according to the policy, the aborigines should be resettled in other places as much as possible, so these Australian aborigines will try to "consume" in New China Island.

The German Hessian mercenaries were transported en masse to the Far East to serve as cannon fodder, and the Polish prisoners of war who came with them fared much worse. They are now legally regarded as indentured servants of the government of the Republic of East China, and each of them must work for five years in the state-owned plantations, coal mines, docks, lumberyards, and other places on New Huaxia Island to obtain the status of free people. And this, undoubtedly, means that they have an extremely high mortality rate. But so what? The Eastern Republic bought them back from the Crimean Tatars, not to be a grandfather, but to work! Whether it's digging coal, logging, farming, or working as coolies, or digging deep into the rainforest to expand territory and crusade against barbarians, they will not be left idle.

If you want to be free, you can! Let's do it for five years! After five years, you can settle down on New China Island, and then use the severance pay given to you by your boss to buy land, houses, livestock, and if you have money left, you can marry another daughter-in-law. The future is bright, but you'll first have to survive five hellish years in a dangerous environment full of mosquitoes, disease, and barbarian attacks! To be honest, this step has already wiped out a lot of people, and it is conceivable that there will be very few of the more than 1,500 Polish prisoners of war who will still be alive in five years -- in fact, three or five hundred would be good.

At the end of November 1649, more than 1,500 new Polish prisoners of war were "escorted" by the militia on the east coast, and 500 of them went to the Tacheng coal mine, 500 to the sisal and coffee plantations in the port of naturalization, and finally all the rest were sent to the cotton plantations in the port of Mianhe. From now until the next five years, they will use their own hands to create zào benefits for the people of the East Coast, and the so-called precursor to the king is the same. (To be continued......)