Chapter 144: Our Interests
The Blackwater soldiers were so strong in combat that the Dutch in Batavia were not surprised at all, they knew that the Australian army must not be simple, but they didn't expect that these people would only take a few hours to solve a medium-sized tribe with two thousand people.
This is both a surprise and a warning to the Dutch, the Blackwater soldiers are indeed unusual, although these are not from Australia, but the weapons in their hands are real Australian goods.
If Blackwater continues to garrison Batavia, not to mention that Van Dimen can't sleep, even the officers of those colonies can't sleep.
"Your Excellency the Governor, I think we should continue to hire Blackwater to fight for us, which will greatly reduce the threat of Blackwater." An officer suggested to Van Diemen.
Obviously, everyone is a little jealous of the strength shown by Blackwater, not to mention that the officers don't want to fight with it, even Fan Dimen doesn't want to, although these soldiers of Blackwater are only more than a hundred people, they have won a tribe with zero casualties, which has to be impressive.
As the colonial governor of Batavia, he didn't have to fight with the local natives, and if he wanted to take down a tribe in such a short time, he really couldn't do it.
Blackwater's battle report had been sorted out, and an officer was reading it out to the colony officials in his hand.
"Blackwater lost zero soldiers, zero casualties, captured 1,523 prisoners of war, and killed 670 enemies. Seven hundred and sixty young and strong people can be used. ”
After the officer read the report, everyone gasped, and there were no casualties, which was comparable to the Indians who led 100 people to conquer South America that year.
"Your Excellency the Governor, look at whether we continue to employ them, the Australians are simply terrible, I heard that they didn't use their rifles at all, but only carried out a few rounds of explosives, which scared those natives, it seems that their gunpowder is indeed good, and we should offer to buy it from the Australians when we have the chance." This was the advice of a more knowledgeable officer.
Unlike the victories that others see, he looks at the overall situation of the entire war and what factors influence it. In addition to being more sure of the combat quality of the Blackwater soldiers, he is also more concerned about having arms directly provided by Australia, and the reason why this war was fought so quickly can be said to be inseparable from the arms provided by Australia itself.
Van Dimen touched his chin with one hand in contemplation, and then said to Brown: "You are responsible for talking to Australia to see if they have any intention of exporting." ”
"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor, it is no longer suitable for the Blackwater mercenaries to stay in Batavia, if we don't give enough reasons to expel them, we will offend the Australians, maybe just when we fall for the Australians, in my opinion, we need to continue to hire them to serve us, after all, this is not a loss-making business, what do you think."
Of course, Fan Dimen is willing to continue to hire Blackwater, but now that Blackwater has just finished the first battle, he will let them continue immediately, and it depends on whether people are willing or not, if they are not willing to discuss, it is useless.
Obviously, Van Dimen didn't know the specific structure of Blackwater, and if he knew that the background of Blackwater was not that complicated, it was just a private security company, he would definitely vomit blood.
However, for the employment contract, as the two shareholders of Blackwater, Jiang Junbo and Tang Wei are naturally willing to continue to take it, and recently Blackwater's finances have fallen into a deficit, if there is no money to repay the bank's ELI interest, some of their share dividends will be auctioned by Manchester City Bank. Just yesterday, a telegram from the mainland calling for repayment had been handed over to Tang Wei.
"These bankers are really sacrificing, such an expensive email is actually just to send us a bill to collect arrears, what a local tyrant, you said that the strength we showed this time is not too much, I am afraid that Fan Dimen will have scruples about us, and will not let us garrison and train here."
Listening to Tang Wei's worries, Jiang Junbo just smiled: "This kind of thing will never happen, it is precisely because of his strength that he will be more afraid of us, and he will give us a contract even more, the interest on this bill is nothing, do you know how much we earned by catching more than 700 captives this time?" Three thousand five, our actual income this time is close to six thousand yuan, as long as the Dutch continue to employ, it is not a problem to pay off the loan at all. ”
Jiang Junbo's optimism made Tang Wei a little scared, isn't this guy afraid that the Dutch are really not hiring.
It's just that when Brown comes with a few Dutchmen and pays the capitation fee for the prisoners, his worries are completely gone.
"Mr. Brown, are you telling the truth? His Excellency the Governor really intends to continue employing us. Tang Wei looked excited, and the expression on his face revealed disbelief.
"Hehe, of course, your company has let us see your strength, so we decided to continue to hire you, this time I decided to increase the commission to 10,000, because the indigenous tribes you have to deal with are far more difficult than this time, and we hope that if you can, you can be stationed in the central region for a period of time to protect our construction personnel, of course, we will calculate the commission separately."
At this time, Tang Wei's heart had already laughed, although he knew that it was an excuse for the Dutch to deliberately support Blackwater to garrison Australia, but this did not prevent him from getting rich, on the contrary, he felt that this business was good.
As long as the Dutch are willing to pay, they can do anything for them that doesn't hurt Australia's interests.
Mr. Brown, it's time to celebrate our second happy collaboration, "and I think we're going to have a great time working together for the next few years." Jiang Junbo walked into the room and poured three times the red wine and handed it to him.
"Of course, we'll have a good time working together," Brown said, taking his glass and touching it with the two. Then the two sides had another conversation and experience about the battle, and Brown left with the people.
After the people left, Jiang Junbo raised his glass and said with a smile, "See, this is our interest, showing strength will also make the other party scruples, so under normal circumstances, they will not be stupid to use force directly with us, for them to hire this money is nothing, and after a while, we can also fight for some of our interests." ”
"Our interests," Tang Wei thought about Jiang Junbo's words before he thought about it, what do you mean that we should have a base that is completely our own, do you think the Dutch will agree?
"Let's wait and see, the Dutch will agree, but the time is not yet up." Jiang Junbo's face showed a mysterious smile, which made Tang Wei a little inexplicably mysterious.