December 1, 1640

After nearly half a month of negotiation and discussion, the foreign trade team finally gained a lot, relying on 20 palm-sized mirrors to almost scrape the money in the pockets of the big Batavian businessmen, this practice almost made Van Dimen run away.

However, fortunately, in the end, the silver was not loaded back to Australia by the foreign trade team, but used it to buy a large number of urgently needed materials in Australia, such as salt, sugar, wine, cotton, etc. Eventually, some of them were re-inflowed back into the market, avoiding an economic crisis in Batavia caused by poor currency circulation.

Today is the day of the return of the Sea Blue, the port has been full of magnates to send each other, in this half a month, Australians have undoubtedly become the object of contact between businessmen and local magnates from Batavia, since the mirror bidding meeting, everyone knows that as long as they are friendly with the Australians, they will make a fortune.

Although Van Diemen hated the old Australian, he was still very reluctant to attend the send-off event out of courtesy.

"Dear Miss Minister, I sincerely hope that you will be a guest in Batavia again," Van Dimen said with some involuntary words, and to be honest, he didn't want Australia to come for a long time.

Although their arrival added a lot of tax revenue to themselves, but because of the high price of Australian mirrors, the amount of transactions is often huge, although Australians use a part of the payment method of goods, but there is still a large amount of silver inevitably flowing into the Australian ship, in the long run, he is really worried about whether there will be an economic crisis in Batavia. After Fan Dimen finished speaking, he then gave Hu Xijing a hug and said goodbye.

"Yes, I'm sure we'll meet again soon." Hu Xijing replied with a smile.

Later, Liu Yun, who was standing with Fan Dimen, also hugged her, and said in a more relaxed tone: "When you go back this time, you must urge the industrial team to get the telegraph out, so that we can directly contact the base and facilitate the transmission of the latest news." ”

Because it had been decided to establish an embassy in Batavia, Liu Yun and the three guys volunteered to stay behind to deal with related issues, on the one hand, it was also to reassure the merchants in the city, letting them know that the Australians would definitely return.

Although the construction area of the embassy has been planned, the main task left by Liu Yun is not to be responsible for the work of the embassy area, but to establish an intelligence network in Batavia, so that it is convenient to grasp the dynamics of the Dutch anytime and anywhere, just like the last time the Dutch sent a sailing ship to the sea to find out where Australia is, everyone in the foreign trade team did not know, and finally John told him to know, which made everyone see the importance of an intelligence network.

The Sea Blue sailed out of the port of Batavia and sailed at full speed towards the Manchester City base, finally arriving at the Manchester City base two days later in the evening.

After learning that the Sea Blue had successfully returned and brought back the entire ship's supplies, the crossing people in the base held a small welcome meeting to wash the dust for the foreign trade team.

Early the next morning, several responsible persons of the foreign trade group went to the executive committee to report on their work.

Zhou Lao, who was sitting above the round conference table, drank tea with a teacup while listening to Wang Tiezhu's report on this outing.

"I'm done talking, what instructions do you have, Old Zhou."

"The Republic of Australia," Zhou Guoai gently put down the teacup, and read Wang Tiehammer to him about what happened in Batavia.

"You fought against the Dutch, and you also succeeded in forcing them to sign a reparation clause, although this is a bit reckless, but at least it is a contribution, you should pay attention next time, but it seems that there is something wrong with you playing the banner of the Australian Republic, once the Dutch find out the truth, I am afraid we will be in danger."

"Old Zhou, it is a helpless move to play the banner of the Australian Republic, if we seem too weak, the Dutch will definitely eat us, and being strong can hide our internal weakness." Zhao Shijie followed Zhou Guoai's words and explained: "In fact, the Dutch have begun to investigate us, but I believe that they will definitely not know where we are in a short time. ”

"Align with the British."

"Yes, at this time, Britain was squeezed out by the Dutch both on the mainland and in the colonies, and the first Anglo-Dutch war will break out in a few years, and it will be the Netherlands that will be defeated in the end. Once the British are discovered, they will inevitably send forces to contain them, and we can also get the opportunity to emigrate from the Ming Dynasty. ”

After listening to Zhao Shijie's explanation, Zhou Aiguo nodded and reminded: "This method is good, but have you ever thought that once Britain develops, it will pose a threat to us in the future." "The first person to open the door to China in later generations was the United Kingdom, so as long as people who have studied history know this, it is no wonder that Zhou Aiguo will remind him of this.

Those who know the course of history know that the bourgeois revolution was taking place in Britain at this time, and the victory of this revolution would eventually end with the victory of the capitalist class over the feudal royal class, thus opening the road for Britain to become a pioneer of industrial civilization, and laying the foundation for two hundred years before it later dominated the world.

I have to say that Zhou Aiguo's concerns are also justified, according to the historical process, Britain will indeed develop into a world-class hegemon in the future.

If the strength of the cross-border cooperation with them is not well controlled, maybe they will set up an opponent for themselves in the future, which is something that everyone absolutely does not want to see.

"Therefore, we must be cautious about the cooperation with the UK, especially the weapons and related exports must be controlled, not the UK, that is, all other countries must ensure that our technology is 50 years ahead, and we may become game makers in the future." Wang Tiehammer has always attached great importance to weapons and technology, so he said it here to make the people here pay attention to this matter.

"What Lao Wang said is right, we must do this point, and we must strictly manage the export of technology and weapons, and I think it can be formulated with reference to the Batumi agreement."

Although Zhao Shijie's proposal is a bit of a bad taste, and it seems to have some restrictions on China's technology exports in retaliation against Western capitalist countries in later generations, this agreement is indeed the most suitable, as long as it can be used, and it saves a lot of thought.

This time it seems to be the report of the foreign trade team, but in the meeting, the Manchester City co-ordination agreement that was criticized by Western countries was determined in the future, and laid the foundation for Australia to be at the forefront of science and technology in the future.