More than 10 days have passed since Tang Wei and Jiang Junbo submitted their reports and hearings on the formation of mercenary companies, and everyone's attention to the two of them has now been completely replaced by the formation of Shell Oil.

However, this is also good, saving them the trouble of diverting their attention, the approval report has been officially approved and approved two days ago, and the loan of 50,000 taels of Spanish silver dollars from the Bank of Manchester has also been approved at the same time, and the mortgage of the two is naturally the shares in the ownership enterprise.

The money and the report are available, and now there is a shortage of people and horses, with a loan of 50,000 yuan in their hands, the two had a meeting in the dormitory again, don't look at 50,000 yuan, it seems like a lot, but if they are all taken out to buy horses and recruit people, it is definitely not enough, just this money to buy horses is a bit insufficient, let alone recruit people to provide food and drink.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Australia does not need cavalry, even mercenaries, and the army and the National Guard have not gone out to capture native laborers for a long time, so how can anyone hire your cavalry to capture labor.

"Lao Jiang, I thought of a way, let's not form this cavalry for the time being, first organize a group of mercenaries to fight, there are many small countries in Southeast Asia, we can completely loot these countries and accumulate capital, otherwise our mortgaged shares will become public."

Tang Wei looked at Jiang Junbo with a serious face, not at all like the young man who wanted to get the cavalry up with enthusiasm more than ten days ago.

"Are you sure, first accumulate capital to form cavalry." Jiang Junbo asked again with confirmation.

"Everything has to be like a practical departure, cavalry is an absolute money-burning thing, I think the reason why everyone was persuaded by us is to see the way here, without government subsidies for our cavalry and no external source of income, they will definitely not be able to survive first."

In fact, what Tang Wei said was not wrong at all, at that hearing, there was a big reason why everyone was moved, so in everyone's mind, they would definitely go bankrupt and owe a lot of debts to the bank at that time.

But Tang Wei is not stupid, what is written in this report is indeed a group of cavalry, and this cavalry is also a land soldier, so this vacant space can still be installed, after saying that when the time comes, he will build the base outside, and it will be difficult for the country to interfere, as for where this base is built, the two have already discussed.

Learn from the experience of the Dutch East India Company and the European colonists, find a suitable landing place by the sea as a base, and go deep into the interior to attack the local indigenous tribes and countries, and in case of danger, you can immediately get on a ship and go to sea.

However, the premise of meeting these conditions must be to go out of Australia first, Australia is vast and sparsely populated, and the number of immigrants each year is limited, and it may be difficult for their mercenary companies to allocate enough personnel quotas, and only by going to places with large populations can they find enough manpower.

And where there are many people and there are no barriers to communication, and where the employment cost is low, I am afraid that there is only one Ming now, which will be a famine and a war, many people follow some reckless trouble in order to eat a mouthful of food, and in the end they can still not eat enough every day, and if they go to recruit people, they must not die beautifully.

"I heard that the Mermaid is setting sail for Christmas Island." Jiang Junbo stood by the windowsill and looked in the direction of the port, and suddenly said this for no reason.

The seemingly random bite made Tang Wei's head spin quickly, thinking about the relationship with himself to Daming.

The Mermaid's trial in the offshore sea has been successful, but the long-distance sea trial to detect whether the long-term operation of the steam power unit has failed has not been done, in this case, You Nanzhe proposed to let the Mermaid run back and forth on Christmas Island to test.

These days, the entire shipyard is constantly preparing supplies for this matter, because the existing steam power plant is too large, occupying a large part of the space at the bottom of the cabin, and can only be loaded with one-third of the previous cargo, considering that the Mermaid is still in the trial stage this time, the materials are not much to bring, except for some arms supplies, such as other food and clothing are not loaded, these things can be bought in Batavia.

Before sailing, the hull of the Mermaid has been all brushed with the white paint made by the chemical team, and the whole appearance looks much more beautiful, but the traces left by the past are still there, as for whether the Dutch will find out that this ship is a ship sent out to find Australia, You Nanzhe and Wang Tiehammer also made an arrangement, this time except for some Dutch who must go to sea with the ship, everyone else will stay at the base, as for the necessary personnel, the naval soldiers on the ship will also be strictly guarded.

Just when everything was ready, and the 10 newly installed 24-pounder cannons on the Mermaid had also been repeatedly checked and fixed without problems, and when they were ready for the last offshore sea trial test, You Nanzhe's office ushered in two people, these two people were Tang Wei and Jiang Junbo.

"Wanderer, I heard that the Mermaid is going to sail for a long-distance voyage test, and the location is on Christmas Island." Tang Wei asked with a smile on his face.

"yes, why do you two want to go out for a walk."

"Yes, yes, we also want to go out for a walk, I don't know if the tour worker can take the two of us with him," Jiang Junbo, who was standing on the side, immediately replied.

"Take the two of you," You Nanzhe frowned, seemed to be thinking, and after a moment of silence, he said: I'm afraid it's a little difficult to take you out, now everyone's departure from Australia does not need the approval of the Executive Committee, if there is no power of attorney, I will take you out It is tantamount to breaking the law, I hope you understand, if you just want to take a boat out to sea, I can let the Mermaid take you to this offshore sea at that time.

"Can you bring us with you when you get the application from the executive committee?" Tang Wei asked confirmantly.

"This is for sure, as long as you can get the approval, there is no problem with the two of you." You Nanzhe patted his chest and reassured. As the chief engineer of the voyage, You Nanzhe still has this right, but he didn't expect Tang Wei and the two to come, they had already come with the approval document approved by the executive committee, and before coming to the shipyard, Tang Wei specially went to the executive committee to ask for approval.

"Yougong, this is an approval, you see tomorrow's sailing, the two of us will go with you."

"Haha, Xiao Tang, you are digging a pit for me to jump in, okay, since you have the approval, I will take you, but what are you doing on Christmas Island, that place is not as comfortable as Manchester City now, and it will be a crime to go."

"We're just going to take a boat to transfer to Daming." Tang Wei said with an unusually serious expression on his chubby face.