The success of this trade gave the traversers a taste of sweetness, especially the shelling of Batavia, the Dutch people, which made them enthusiastic and full of hope for the future.

However, through this trade, some problems have also been highlighted, one of which is the shortage of human resources, although the total population of the Manchester City base has exceeded the 3,000 mark, but it includes most of the uncivilized natives, these natives can generally only be used as coolies, only a few intelligent and fast aborigines are accepted into the groups to receive professional systematic training.

As for the more than 500 Ming immigrants, they have become the focus of the training of various groups, and even some of the older ones have been absorbed into the newly established factories to work, because they have to learn too quickly and communicate more easily than those natives.

The shortage of human resources has become the biggest obstacle to Australia's development, and what the people need most now is to expand manpower, and only by expanding manpower can production be raised.

As far as the current production tasks in the base are concerned, it is basically enough to meet the internal demand, but don't think about it if you want to export to earn foreign exchange, the development of Australia can not be eaten all over the world, and the mirror will be sold out of the sky, and the mirror can be sold at a high price to earn the original capital for everyone in a short period of time, once the market is saturated, the mirror will become an ordinary item, and it will be too late for Australia to develop other related industries.

More importantly, the Dutch and even the European colonial countries will not give Australia such a long time, where can the specific location of Australia be concealed for a while, but it is impossible to keep it hidden, in fact, the Dutch as early as 1606, the Dutch William Janes's Duifgen, set foot in Australia and is the first recorded real landing of outsiders in Australia, and named this place "New Netherland".

So the specific location of Australia is not a secret to the Dutch at all, they just didn't think about it for a while, once they thought about it, they would definitely know where Australia was, and even the Dutch East India Company had a nautical chart in their hands.

"We don't need more immigrants, but also to speed up the progress of development, military, agriculture, urbanization construction must speed up the progress, otherwise once the Dutch know our reality, that is, when we perish, we have nothing else, we have the Sea Blue, the big deal is all on the ship, looking for a place to develop slowly, but this kind of opportunity is almost slim, take Taiwan and Hainan close to the Ming Dynasty, here we will not develop less difficult than Australia."

"Comrades, what Xiao Zhao said is right, we must speed up the progress of development, immigration is the key, tell us what you think." Zhou Aiguo affirmed Zhao Shijie's point of view, as the oldest man in the executive committee, he thought more than anyone else, and he was very pleased that Zhao Shijie could have this kind of thought.

"Immigration is certain, but immigration is not simple, if you want to immigrate from the Ming Dynasty, then it involves the problem of route transportation, from Daming to Batavia, there are Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, this route has the Dutch, the power of the Dutch is the largest, basically control the transportation of this route, their power has initially entered Taiwan, there is a key problem, the Dutch are also very fond of the Chinese, they even plundered the population along the coast of the Ming Dynasty to work in Batavia." Wang Tiehammer told the history he knew.

The Chinese are docile and kind, compared to the local aborigines of Southeast Asia, the European colonizers prefer the Chinese to work, take the Dutch in Batavia, in order to develop local commerce, and even ** some policies to attract the Chinese here, from the relinquishment of part of the management rights can be seen that the importance of the Chinese is higher than that of the local aborigines, as for the massacre of the Chinese, it was decades later, that is, they felt threatened to themselves, so they began to massacre the Chinese.

"What if we go on the Sea Blue, isn't there a natural disaster and a peasant uprising in the Ming Dynasty during this period, as long as we put up a big flag, we are afraid that we will not be able to recruit people, and then we will drive back to Australia directly with a boatload of people, no matter what Dutch and Spanish he is, their broken sailboats can catch up with us."

An Lan said with some assumptions, maybe in his opinion, this method is very good, but he didn't think about how big the cost would be, and there is a more critical question, where did the Sea Blue get so much aviation fuel to run back and forth, even if it can run, it can run several times. So as soon as he said this method, he was rejected by Wang Tiezhu and the people in the industrial group.

"This method doesn't work, that method doesn't work, then you have to tell me a method, you can't continue to catch the natives to train and teach, if so, I'm afraid that by the time we plan and train the natives, they will be old."

Seeing that his method was not approved by everyone, An Lan was obviously a little unhappy, although he failed to enter the foreign trade team to go to Batavia, but as the chief designer who is currently responsible for coordinating the planning and construction of the base, he has already felt the dilemma of insufficient manpower.

"It would be nice if we could use the Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish ships to help us transport them, and let's find an island as a transit point closer to the Manchester City base, or let them help us transport it directly to Batavia and back by the Sea Blue, what do you think?" Hu Xijing, who had not spoken all this time, and was in a state of thinking, suddenly said her thoughts, obviously she should have been thinking about this question just now.

"Xiao Hu, tell me your specific method, let's listen, if it's good and feasible, let's pass it." Zhou Aiguo said to Hu Xijing.

"Well, the method is actually very simple, I think as long as enough benefits are given, they will help us transport immigrants, but we may need to think about where this benefit is, and wait for me to go back and think about it."

"Xiao Hu will take the lead in this matter, sort out a procedure, and then we will all sit together and discuss." Zhou Aiguo explained to everyone.

"Elder Zhou, I think there is a place that is very suitable as a transit point for immigrants."

An Lan, who had just been denied a proposal by everyone, did not give up and continue to come up with ideas, but when Hu Xijing said that he had found a transit point, he searched hard for the map in his brain, and finally lived up to what he had learned, and a picture appeared in his mind, every year around November, thousands of red crab armies would crawl out of the woods to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.

The most suitable place to be used as a transit point is the later Australian Overseas Territory, Christmas Island.