On the occasion of Liu Yun's visit to Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty, Dutch Lieutenant Aili also returned to Batavia, accompanied by Jiang Junbo and Tang Wei, two brothers, after the ship docked, Aili kindly sent a soldier to send the two to the embassy.

At this time, although the main office area of the Australian Embassy has been built, some of the attached building facilities are still under construction, because of the benefit of materials, the construction period has been seriously delayed, slowing down, at this time the construction site can be seen that the hired workers are not very busy, and some even sit on the side smoking and playing cards.

It is a scene of a later urban construction site, but the workers lack a yellow hard hat and a green camouflage uniform, otherwise they will definitely give the people the illusion of returning to the time and space of the later generations.

Chu Yun, an army second lieutenant in charge of the security of the embassy, was confused when he saw Tang Wei and Jiang Junbo behind a Dutch soldier, how did these two come together and arrive in Batavia.

Because when Chu Yun left Manchester City, Tang Wei's mercenary company had not yet been formed, so he still didn't know about the cooperation between the two.

"Mr. Mason, thank you for leading the way, and if you have the opportunity, you must come to our embassy as a guest." Along the way, Tang Wei had a good relationship with the colonial soldier in the Batavia region of the Netherlands, so he politely invited the other party when leaving.

"Tang Wei, why are you here, is there any work assigned to the two of you by the Executive Committee?" After seeing Tang Wei send Mason away, Chu Yun stepped forward to greet the two.

"Let's take a look, preparing to go to Daming to recruit a group of soldiers, Jiang Junbo said directly with a relaxed face and without hiding."

"Recruiting soldiers, is the War Department preparing to expand the number of troops," Chu Yun first thought of the expansion of the army, after all, the expansion of the army is an opportunity for promotion for veterans like them, so it is more sensitive.

"Well, no, we're going to recruit a group of soldiers, and we're going to form a mercenary company." Tang Wei said with some embarrassment.

"You, okay," Chu Yun didn't know what to say for a while, and said to the two soldiers on duty at the door: You guard here, and then he took the two of them into the reception room of the embassy, and personally brought a cup of hot tea to the two: "Taste this tea, but it is an authentic Daming product, you can't drink it in Manchester City, tell me what's going on." ”

Tang Wei saw that the other party was so polite and wanted to hear it, so he didn't hide it, after nearly half an hour of brief introduction, from the formation of the cavalry to persuading everyone to agree, to taking You Nanzhe's new steamship to Christmas Island, Chu Yun finally understood what was going on.

"So the domestic army is about to change its weapons, and even the steam ships are coming out, which will make the captain happy, and it is not far from a complete fleet." Because Chu Yun was a security guard on the Sea Blue before the crossing, he still used his previous name for Wang Tiehammer.

"That's not, the boat is really good, it can run to the eighteenth festival, it is estimated that there will be a lot of boats going to Christmas Island and the mainland in the future, by the way, why can't this embassy see Ambassador Liu, where did he go." After sitting for a while, Tang Wei felt a little strange in his heart, it stands to reason that the two of them have been here for so long, although they are not official identities, but Liu Yun should come out to see them, and they will not put a bureaucratic stand in front of their own people.

"Ambassador Liu, oh, by the way, if you come a few days earlier, you can go to Daming with you, this time Ambassador Liu has already stepped on the land of Daming, you said that you want to recruit Daming homeless people to be mercenaries, right, I give you a suggestion, do you want to listen."

"Chu Yun, you say, what suggestions."

"When I came in, I saw the few people with wooden sticks on the construction site, did you notice anything wrong?" As Chu Yun spoke, his eyes deliberately glanced out of the window.

"Japanese," Jiang Junbo looked at Chu Yun with a surprised expression. Because he found that although those people looked similar to the Han people, they were obviously a little shorter, and they seemed to walk a little loopy.

"Yes, the Japanese ronin, a group of Japanese ronin who were forced to leave, they are Catholics, they escaped because they did not want to quit, there are civilians and samurai."

"It's not good for you to use the Japanese, the Japanese have always regretted their wolf ambitions if they turn against the water," Jiang Junbo said with a worried face.

"It's all right, these people are Catholics, but they are very loyal, they have not lived well in Batavia, until we gave them this job, and some former samurai found dignity, or else, they still work as coolies in restaurants or docks."

Looking at Chu Yun's disapproving expression, Tang Wei guessed what his suggestion was, to recruit Japanese samurai, and sure enough, Chu Yun gave them a serious analysis.

"You don't have much money, you want to rely on mercenaries to earn the first pot of gold, the usual expenses of weapon training need money, and the minimum freight to recruit the Ming wanderers to transport here alone is at least one hundred and sixty taels of silver, just transporting people will make you spend all your savings, the advantage of using the Japanese is that you don't need to train, you just need to give them orders, most of them have participated in the Battle of Shimamoto, and have a certain combat foundation, plus they are very obedient to orders."

The Japanese have a strong sense of hierarchy and have always been famous for obeying and carrying out orders, which can be seen from the mythological anti-Japanese war dramas of later generations or real historical materials, but because of that history, most people have little affection for them.

Now to let yourself use them, this is a big ideological struggle for Tang Wei and Jiang Junbo, and it is no less than a big struggle for Tang Wei in mind and mind, his grandfather and grandfather both participated in that historical war, and taught him not to forget this history since he was a child.

However, what Chu Yun said is also very reasonable, if you don't use these Japanese and go to Daming to recruit homeless people, the cost from training to army formation is indeed a lot, and the money for himself and Lao Jiang is definitely not enough.

"Tang Wei, I know your concerns are because of that period of history, and the Japanese have always had wolf ambitions, since the Tang Dynasty, but you can use these people to accumulate original capital, and then when the capital is large, it is not too late to recruit the Ming **, if I were you, I would save it in the early stage of entrepreneurship."

"Well, okay, Chu Yun, listen to your advice, but is it easy to recruit these Japanese ronins, do you want to go to Kyushu."

"No, there are more than 100 of these people in Batavia, more than 20 of them have been recruited by us, and dozens of them are working as coolies, if you recruit them now, they will be great benefactors to them, and they can't wait to worship you as the head of the family and follow them for generations."

"Don't, but this matter is going to trouble you, we are not familiar with this here, you have to help us a little, and your share is indispensable to make money." Tang Wei said politely, while writing a blank check to Chu Yun.