The news of the Dutch foreign envoy's visit is no secret throughout Manchester City, and the fact that the number of police patrolling the streets has doubled these days shows that there must be a big man coming.

No matter who the big man is, the lives of the common people are indeed the same, but there is a new gossip topic after dinner.

However, for those Dutch immigrants, they are still very happy, after all, they are officials from their home countries, and the significance is extraordinary.

Van Diemen visited most of the factories in the Manchester Industrial Park and the cooperative steamship manufacturing plant during his four-day visit, which gave him a lot of inspiration and confirmed that the Australians did not have enough manpower to build so many ships.

Just from the semi-finished products that are being built in the dockyard, and the number is only two or three, so Australia needs to order ships from the Netherlands to carry out the transformation, with this major discovery, it can be regarded as a big reassurance to Van Diemen, at least it can show that the Australians still have weaknesses.

On the fifth day, Van Diemen's official visit was almost halfway completed, followed by talks to discuss cooperation between the two sides and strengthen regional defense.

According to the proposal of the Australian government, in order to strengthen the ties between the two sides, it is hoped to establish diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, and invite the Netherlands to send an ambassador to Manchester City to facilitate exchanges and information transmission between the two governments.

Van Dimen thought this proposal was good, and the Australians had already stationed an embassy in Batavia in the early stage, and he could basically see the role of the embassy.

In addition to proving that the two countries have diplomatic relations, the embassy also promotes the political relations between the two countries, followed by promoting economic, cultural, educational, scientific and technological, military and other relations, and the embassy also has consular functions.

Of course, its main responsibility is to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of its citizens and legal persons, to issue or renew passports to its citizens, and to issue visas to foreign citizens.

Although the embassy in Batavia is affected by the confidentiality policy of the Australian mainland, and many rights are limited, with the introduction of the comprehensive lifting of the ban, the role of the embassy will also increase.

Van Diemen was an ambitious colonialist expander. At the same time, he was also an extremely studious person, and the Australian system could be said to be very good, so he decided to introduce this system, first of all, he would appoint an official who was well versed in Australian affairs and several retinues to Manchester City.

Diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level also represent the relationship between the Netherlands and Australia is not ordinary, although Van Dimen still had the idea of exploring Australia's strength before coming, but after a round of visits, he has fully realized that being an enemy of Australia will be the end of the Netherlands.

Since they could not be enemies, they simply became the best partners and friends, and for the time being, there was not much entanglement of interests between the Netherlands and Australia, and they even hoped that Australia's entry would squeeze Spain's colonies in Southeast Asia clean.

On the streets of Manchester Boulevard, Van Diemen and an entourage were dressed in the casual clothes of ordinary Australians. Walking down the street, looking east and west, like a curious baby, interested in everything.

"Captain Adams," Van Diemen saw Adams, the former captain of the East India Company, who was buying fruit in a fruit shop.

The attendant was also surprised, he didn't expect to be able to recognize acquaintances here, and looking at each other's appearance, it seemed that life was very good.

Although Fan Dimen's cry was not loud, because of the close distance, the other party still heard someone shouting to him, and looked at the source of the sound. Adams was also surprised that he would meet an acquaintance here.

"Mr. Governor, I really didn't expect to meet you here, I have heard of a foreign envoy from the Netherlands these days. I didn't expect it to be you, if I knew it was you, I would definitely go to the Diaoyutai Pavilion to meet you. "Old Adams seems to have a good life, just look at his face.

"How is Adams, is life okay? How are you here. ”

"I'm a naval teacher at Manchester City College. I also work part-time as a technical consultant for the shipyard, so it's not surprising that I'm here, so let's go and sit at my house. "Under the leadership of Adams. The three of them walked two blocks to a residential complex, and Adams pointed to one of the two-story cottages and said, "That's my house." ”

Home, as he pointed in the direction, this building with a Roman style, although it does not occupy a large area, is very beautiful from the outside.

"Then I'm going to bother, I heard that your family has migrated to Australia, right?" Not long ago, Adams and the crew members sent out that year set off from the Netherlands to Australia via Batavia, so naturally they could not escape Van Dymen's eyes.

"Yes, Mr. Governor, now our family of six has emigrated to Australia, and their government is very good to us, this house is a free gift from them, and they have also been arranged for employment, maybe you will see you in Batavia in the future."

"Uh, really?" Van Dimen looked at Old Adams with a curious expression, waiting for him to explain.

"Ari is now a naval soldier, and when he graduates from his studies, he will officially enter the fleet to serve, so I said you will meet it."

Australia attaches great importance to the descendants of this group of old sailors, and spares no effort to train them, you must know that building a navy can not be completed in decades, but requires a hundred years of accumulation, and these crews are passed down from generation to generation and can be said to be extremely experienced.

Therefore, for this special group of people, the Australian government has a special arrangement, which will basically engage in work related to their ancestors in their employment arrangements.

"So that's the case, no wonder Adams, you don't want to go back to the Netherlands, life here is really good, even if I get here, I don't want to go back, Adams, you tell me honestly, if the Netherlands and Australia start a war, can you win."

"No, no, Mr. Governor, I advise you not to think that Australia's might is not so simple, and it is said that they are working on a new type of weapon that can drop gunpowder from the air to the designated place."

"Air, my God, why are Australians thinking so strangely, how dare they think of anything, the lethality of this weapon must be very great, Adams, don't be nervous, I just ask, now Australia and the Netherlands have become official diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level, closer than the Spaniards, how can there be a war, I just ask." Fan Dimen patted the other party's shoulder and smiled.

While Adams can't be fully trusted, at least one thing is certain: Australians do dare to imagine. (To be continued......)