Brown's welcome does not mean the real welcome in his heart, as the overlord of the sea, the Netherlands, who once defeated the former empire on which the sun never sets, was proud of Spain, even if it was shelled by Australia at the beginning, it was just a mistake in their eyes, and it was only because they did not fully understand the premise of the Australians that they would be caught off guard.

Later, because of the alliance of interests with the Australians, the Netherlands never retaliated, and with a little scruple about the Australian artillery, the two sides were still as normal as the usual hello and me.

Now that the Australians want to participate in the maritime competition in Southeast Asia, the Dutch will have to reposition the relationship between the two sides, and in the foreseeable future, Australia's participation in maritime affairs will inevitably lead to a conflict with the Netherlands.

The Netherlands, as the old hegemon, will never allow it, even if Australian goods can bring strong enough benefits, but they are almost too small compared to maritime supremacy.

From the beginning of the visit to the warship, Brown saw where the advantages of the Australians were, where their disadvantages were, Australia's advantage is superior to the advanced weapons and equipment, and the advantage of the Netherlands is in the crew with rich maritime experience, which is also Australia's disadvantage, which can be seen from Zhang Wei's apprenticeship plan, so this apprenticeship can not be agreed to from any aspect of consideration.

It is even necessary to do everything possible to prevent the Australians from approaching Dutch warships, and if they can, the Netherlands should ban the export of large ships to Australia.

"For the sake of the interests of the Dutch East India Company in Batavia and the East, we should prohibit the sale of ships to Australia, and according to my inference, although the Australians have some shipbuilding skills, they lack overall and perfect shipbuilding skills, so they need to buy them."

Brown told Van Diemen his judgment with certainty, and the introduction of immigration from Europe in the next year also made Brown discover a pattern, most of the immigrants introduced by Australia are mainly shipbuilders and other metallurgical workers, and there are fewer immigrants than ordinary people.

This fully shows that Australia lacks technical talents, they need a large number of skilled workers, if you can cut off or control this proportion to a certain extent, Australia's manufacturing speed will be relatively slowed down a lot, but the rich transportation money is too tempting to let go, even if the Dutch do not luck the Portuguese and Spaniards will also ship.

The Australians want to have a say at sea, which has made the Dutch in Batavia begin to worry, but fortunately, two warships will be sent from the mainland to the east in the near future, and the sea power of the entire Batavia Viceroyalty will be greatly enhanced, and at the same time, the domestic firearms foundry has also brought good news, according to the account provided by Van Diemen, although they have not built the same level of artillery as the Australians, they have made a far breakthrough in the range of artillery.

Two pieces of news that were at least reassuring came to dispel many of Van Dymen's concerns, but it wasn't enough, and he felt it should be done as soon as possible; Knowing where the routes to the mainland of Australia are has always been a mystery for him.

"Did the people we sent out find out where Australia is?" Fan Dimen asked, this matter has been investigated for more than a year, and there is no result, which is simply unbelievable.

"Your Excellency the Governor, you should know that the Australians have always been very conservative about where their homeland is, so our people can't find out at all, not even from the mouths of those Australian crews."

"So you haven't found it yet, Brown, is that the explanation you're going to give me?" Van Dimen's temper is getting worse and worse now, and he has even found that his temper is getting worse and worse, and in the final analysis, it is all caused by Australians.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor, but I have changed my plans, and if it succeeds, we will get a map of the route to the mainland of Australia."

The shrewd Brown seems to know that it is almost impossible to find out the route map of Australia from the mouths of Australians, so a few months ago he secretly stuffed a spy into the immigration process, let the spy with a little shipbuilding skills sneak into Australia, and then find a way to tell him the real situation in Australia when he returns to Batavia.

Not to mention that his plan was very successful, the spy did infiltrate Australia and also entered the shipyard to work, but it was almost impossible for him to return to Batavia from the beginning, and the entire Australian cargo ship would be subject to a strict inspection, and there would be no one to hide, because the Australians would not give him a chance to hide.

Until now, the spy who sent out has not returned, as for whether it has been exposed, Brown does not know, but he has sent a few more people, and he believes that as long as he sends more people, he will definitely be able to inquire about the news.

"Well, it's a good plan, as long as we know where the old Australian mainland is, we can launch an attack on it."

In Van Dimen's heart, there is still a plan to attack the Australian mainland, which is a dream plan he has been dreaming of for more than a year, and the original shelling behavior of the Australians really made him too faceless, and he was a little unwilling not to find this field.

The plan was good, but Brown's concern was also there, if the Australians continued to send more warships, how would the Netherlands respond, knowing that they had bought ten sailing ships from here, and knew that they would be converted into warships, and they should have carefully considered selling them at that time.

"Your Excellency the Governor, my concern now is that the Australians will continue to send more warships to Hong Kong, and then a very combat-ready fleet will be formed."

"Will the Australians really do that, and if so, we should get more warships from home to Batavia," so that we have an advantage. Van Diemen immediately thought of the tactic of winning more and less, even if the Australian battleship artillery was sharp, it would be defeated because of the numerical inferiority.

But what they don't know is that their worries are almost zero, and the Ministry of Defense will not send new warships to garrison Hong Kong at all, which is a large amount of military expenditure, and the Ministry of Defense cannot afford it, and the Australian government cannot afford it, so their worries are almost zero.

And the battleships Shunfeng and Sortie docked at the dock have completed their replenishment and are about to sail to Hong Kong to carry out his garrison mission.

With a few whistles, the two white warships, under the watchful eyes of the embassy staff at the dock, slowly moved out of the dock and headed towards the east to reach their final destination, but with their departure, the discussion about them did not disappear with the two warships in the streets and alleys of Batavia, but became a topic of discussion after dinner.