After three months of unremitting efforts, with the advice of the industrial team, the chemical team and other relevant personnel, the glass factory at the Manchester base was finally officially completed and put into operation a week ago, although the production method is somewhat backward, but in the 17th century, there were not many countries that could produce glass.

During this period, although glass products have been commercialized, only a few have really mastered the manufacturing process, and in the current situation, it is definitely a high-profit product.

As early as a month ago, the first batch of well-behaved natives were transferred from the mine mining plant to the glass factory in the preparatory period for training, and now the natives are basically able to fire glass.

Thanks to the new immigration laws at the Manchester City base, future Bumiputera with good behaviour can become official residents of Manchester City after verification. In the Immigration Act, there are two stages for indigenous people to become official residents, the first stage is to become a slave to become a free person, and the second stage is to become a full resident through application.

It seems ridiculous that the aborigines have become outsiders, and it is up to a group of outsiders to decide whether they can survive on their own land, but this is the reality, and the weak are destined to have no voice.

Many years later, the descendants of the indigenous people will be sad when they talk about this period of history, but today their ancestors have been working hard to become full-fledged residents, learning Mandarin and learning all the skills taught to them by the people, just to get the recommendation of the leader of their group.

Seeing that piles of glasses, glass bottles, mirrors and other glass products are being manufactured in a steady stream, the long-planned trade plan has officially begun, for this trade, the industrial team has filled the fuel tank of the Sea Blue with newly filtered vegetable diesel, and filled two spare oil barrels, which should be no problem for a long voyage.

The reason why I chose to officially start the trade plan now is because all the work is basically not in place, such as the armament transformation of the Sea Blue and the transformation of the cabin area.

In order to deal with the dangers that may be encountered, the Sea Blue must be equipped with cannons. This can make people feel safe, although the cannon that can hurt the Sea Blue has not yet appeared during this period, but it can't be used to hit the Sea Blue when it is in danger.

After the pressure of Wang Tiezhu and others, the military industry team finally determined the imitation artillery sub-mother cannon within two weeks, that is, the Flan machine gun that should be advanced, compared with the Fran machine gun, its range is more accurate and the lethality is greater.

After casting the sub-mother cannon for test firing, the military engineering team worked hard day and night to cast 20 guns, and then fixed these guns in various positions on the Sea Blue. Finally managed to transform the Sea Blue into an armed warship.

Wang Tiehammer was very satisfied with this, and he couldn't wait to drive the Sea Blue to Batavia to see the surprised expressions of those old Dutchmen who looked like dirt buns when they saw the Sea Blue.

Now that he finally had a chance to go out for a spin, Wang Hammer had checked every gun and weapon on the ship before setting off to make sure that there was no problem before informing the other representatives of the trade group that they could set sail.

The Executive Committee was not at all worried about the exposure of the Sea Blue in front of the Dutch, if the Travers were to carry out trade activities in the future, it would be necessary to deal with the Dutch and Spaniards, and when an iron ship the size of a hill appeared in front of them, it could also indirectly illustrate the strength of the Travers.

The person in charge of this trade trip to Batavia was Hu Xijing, who was now the hottest figure in the base, and her influence was basically below that of Zhou Lao and Wang Tiehammer. She has designed and proposed many of the key policies in the base.

For example, this trade activity was also planned by her, and even let Wang Tiehammer appear in Batavia with the Sea Blue, in order to show the strength of the traversal, she asked Chen Wenqing to mobilize all the members of the security team to set off with the ship.

In addition to the glassware he brought with him, the most of the mirrors shipped to Batavia this time were mirrors of various sizes, and since he knew that this thing could be sold for tens of thousands of taels of silver, Hu Xijing decisively rejected the proposal of the industrial team to sell Manchester City knives.

Although the knives and agricultural tools made by the modern steelmaking method are higher in quality and appearance than the same products made in other countries during this period, it is not easy to sell them at a good price, and the people who use them determine that they cannot be sold at a high price.

She basically had a blueprint in her mind, and the early trade activities were mainly based on the sale of mirrors, through which the original capital was accumulated, and finally the products for trade were slowly expanded.

In the cabin, Hu Xijing stood in front of the window and looked at the forests and islands that had loomed in the distance, and we were almost in Batavia.

Well, it's almost there, if you see the high bulging hill, then it's Batavia, "But you have to be prepared for it, the hygiene situation in Batavia is not very good, and you can even see feces everywhere on the streets." ”

Zhao Shijie stood behind Hu Xijing and kindly reminded her, so as not to vomit when she got off the boat and saw this scene. After many days of getting along, he also got to know the strong woman Hu Xijing again, although her appearance always gives people a very cold and arrogant feeling, but her heart is extremely enthusiastic.

Ten minutes later, the Sea Blue appeared about a thousand meters outside the Batavia Sea, and when the Dutch sentry stood on the watchtower and saw the fast-moving white object in the distance, his heart could not be calm.

What is that, why is the speed so fast, stunned for a while, the sentry immediately sounded the alarm bell, this is the standard shaking method of enemy attacks, as the alarm bell sounded, the Dutch soldiers in Batavia City began to enter a state of war, and a flag soldier stood on the watchtower and kept changing the flag in his hand towards the Sea Blue.

"What do you mean, what is the little flag in the soldier's hand?" Hu Xijing saw through the telescope that the Dutch soldiers on the shore kept changing the small flags in their hands.

"It's a flag, I guess it's asking where we're coming from, or telling us to stop." Zhao Shijie stood aside and explained.

"Yes, that's right, it's for us to stop moving forward, and the other party asks us where we came from. Look at the answer. Wang Tiehammer walked in from the deck at this time.

Tell them that we are from Australia, a mysterious country, and that we are here to trade with them.