In Australia, the Ministry of Foreign Trade can be said to be a very powerful department, why use the word strong, because the main reason is that the Ministry of Foreign Trade has too many jurisdictions, and everyone calls it a small executive committee behind the scenes. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Basically, it can be said that everything can be related to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which is not the key, the most important thing is that this department holds the power of import and export trade and foreign affairs.

The main person in charge of the import and export trade is Wu Zhengdao, let's see what are the bigwigs who have gone out from this department, Zhou Yang, who first served in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, later went to District 51, and later became the governor of Hong Kong's overseas consulate.

In short, those who can enter the Ministry of Foreign Trade are basically elites, and when they come out of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, they will go to higher positions, so many people think of ways to enter the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

The greater the power, the greater the responsibility, this is a sentence that Xu Renguo often says to Wu Zhengdao, so that he always remembers his own responsibility.

For Elder Xu's kind reminder, Wu Zhengdao naturally reminded himself that he must have recently given him a job that the content of the job was to go to Batavia and Manila to discuss cooperation with the governors of these two regions.

This cooperation is somewhat special, mainly military cooperation, Australia hopes to cooperate with both of them in the military field, to put it bluntly, they want to use their place to practice their hands.

Xiao Wu, when you go, you must keep in mind our proposition, not to engage in military alliances, but to strengthen exchanges between the two sides in the military field, and you should go in the name of military exchanges.

This time, Xu Renguo called him to the office alone and told him, but the main content of this military exchange is military alliance.

If you want to say that you don't engage in military alliances, can you not be suspicious that others let your troops enter his territory? The problem is very difficult to handle, Wu Zhengdao is the person in charge of the foreign trade group, and the foreign language is called the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and the staff of the entire department is about 50 people.

Although there are many people, most of them are sent abroad, and there are expatriates from foreign trade teams in Batavia and Manila, but they have no obvious contact with the local authorities.

Wu Zhengdao, who was authorized to go out, took the merchant ship of the Dutch, and went to Batavia, this cooperation is relatively difficult, and there is no such concept at this time for military exchanges, and you send troops over to cooperate with the alliance, or attack, there are only a few possibilities.

As for the military exchange activities like those in later generations, no one else had them, so he was a little apprehensive before he set off, and he always felt that this thing was very difficult to handle.

The task has been issued, and it will definitely not work if you don't do it, and the second phase must be guaranteed to be completed, otherwise he will be the person in charge of the foreign trade team is derelict in his duties, and there are many people staring at his position, and several of them are also quite strong competitors.

If you want to keep yourself in this power department, you have to be good for others.

Wu Zhengdao and his entourage were also army officer Fu Helin, and this military exchange activity was mainly based on the army, so the army still needed to send someone out, otherwise many things would not be easy to discuss.

Fu Helin had never been to Batavia, and this was his first time going out, and he seemed a little excited, after all, it was very rare to leave the country to see the world.

When they went ashore, Wu Zhengdao directly went to the shore guard officer at the port, told them his intentions, and identified himself.

The situation was reported to the Governor's Palace, just in time for Nick to be there, and when I heard that the registration was coming, isn't this an old acquaintance, every time I go to Australia, Wu Zhengdao receives him, this time he came, and he is an acquaintance again, so he directly asked the Governor for instructions and he was responsible for the reception.

So Nick drove a carriage to the docks, and as soon as he got out of the car, he walked towards the house where the shore guard was on duty.

"Wu, I'm so glad you're here, it's my honor to be able to see you in Batavia, and I'll treat you well this time."

Nick warmly hugged Wu Zhengdao, and then took the initiative to lift the two of them and his suitcase, the two of them were like friends who hadn't seen each other for a long time, but speaking of which, the two of them were indeed friends, similar in age, and chattering.

This situation made Fu Helin a little surprised, this Wu Zhengdao's relationship with the Dutch is too good, if he didn't know his current location, he probably wondered if he had become a spy for the Dutch.

The main purpose of this visit to Batavia is to carry out exchanges between the two armies and lay the foundation for further military cooperation.

Wu Zhengdao is an Australian diplomat, and Nick naturally has to arrange the best place for him to stay, if nothing else, every time he goes to Australia, people treat him with courtesy, and he has to arrange the best place to receive him, but the Batavia Governor's Palace does not set up a post station for diplomatic personnel, so he can only arrange them to live in an inn.

"Wu, you are staying here tonight, this is the best inn in the whole of Batavia, although it can't be compared with your hotel, but please forgive me." Nick was sorry that he couldn't give the other person a better place to live.

After all, although Batavia is known as one of the Oriental Pearls of the Far East, it is not very luxurious, and the cleanliness of the streets cannot be compared with Chang'an Town. This made Fu Helin, who came for the first time, a little disappointed.

"Seriously, the environment here is not as good as some of our later villages, and the streets are full of feces, which is too disgusting."

"Hehe, this is not bad, after all, Paris, which will be known as the fashion capital in the future, is not much better than here, so you should be content."

Although the environment in Batavia looks uncomfortable, it is not bad compared to other colonial towns, after all, it is an international dock, and there are many import and export merchant ships every day.

Nick, as the lord of the east, first arranged for them to live in an inn, and then took them around Batavia City, and introduced them to some local customs, Wu Zhengdao came once, but he was not too familiar.

Then I took them to see the land for the sale of Australia as an embassy for construction purposes, at present, Australian construction workers have not yet come, but it is soon, when the embassy is officially built, then the officials and travelers in Batavia can choose to become the owner here, after all, the security of the embassy can definitely be guaranteed.

After the tour, it was time for a dinner party, where Nick summoned a number of Batavian businessmen and politicians to attend, who were also the upper echelons of Batavia, but he did not meet the historical expansionist Van Diemen.

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