The National Assembly hall in Amsterdam is home to delegates from the Dutch Associated Provinces, where delegates from the Dutch provinces gather whenever the Netherlands has a major problem that needs to be resolved.

They are gathered here today, not for anything else, but to study the discussion of Australian export ships, according to the news from the Governor of Batavia, Van Dimen, the Australians only need to modify the ships built in the Netherlands without human power.

"This is an absolute fatal blow, and I am sure that once the Australians assemble a sailless fleet, the Netherlands will completely lose its maritime position, including all our colonies in the Far East."

But the Australians are our allies, and I'm sure they won't do that.

The two parliamentarians are arguing, while others are debating whether the problem will actually happen, for the Netherlands to be proud of their maritime supremacy, once defeating the powerful empire of Spain, the sun never sets, has made it impossible for the Netherlands to relinquish its maritime supremacy.

In the past, when facing the Spanish opponents, weapons and ships were almost the same, but now the Australians are different, they not only have powerful weapons, but also have the Netherlands, which say that there is no science and technology.

"I think there must be a fatal flaw in Australia's shipbuilding capacity, so they continue to carry out skilled migration from various countries, which can be seen from their recruitment of shipbuilders, so they should not have the ability to build ships in Australia, so they chose to transform."

This was the opinion of a well-known parliamentarian from the Amsterdam shipbuilding industry, and his analysis was in place, and it was based on his observations that he came to such a conclusion, and at the same time he proposed the delay in the delivery of the ship.

It can be said that this person has a certain ability and knows how to use the weight in his hand to negotiate, which is a very formidable opponent.

"I think Mr. Sidney is right, we have proposed to the Australians to postpone the delivery of the ship, and we can also take this opportunity to test the old Australian shipbuilding capacity, if they can build it themselves, I don't think there is any need to carry this plan forward."

"But Mr. Speaker. How can we tell if the old Australians really can't build their own ships, they have a huge iron ship, I think there is no one in the world who can build ships better than them. ”

"Great iron ship," Sidney nodded, recalling the councilor's words, "I think maybe you're right. However, it must be more difficult to build a huge iron ship than to build a wooden ship, otherwise why would the Australians come to buy our ship, so we deduce that the time, manpower and difficulty of building an iron ship are dozens of times that of a wooden ship, so they chose an easy iron ship. ”

Sidney's explanation doesn't make sense. However, they must not know that the Australians actually crossed over, including the Sea Blue, and even if Australia wants to build the same iron ship now, there is no way to complete it.

However, the Dutch Jedi would not have thought of it, nor could they know it, that if the secret of the Crossing Crowd was made public, it would definitely attract people from this world to snoop.

At this time, the focus of their discussions was on how to obtain the technology from the Australians to transform ships, and negotiations with the Australians have begun to buy the technology for how to build a steam engine.

This is so important for the Netherlands, if they can get this technology, combined with their own shipbuilding capabilities, and their maritime transport capabilities, they can completely squeeze the Spaniards and Portuguese to the bottom of the sea.

However, the premise is that Australia can teach this technique to Dutch craftsmen. So Sidney was also one of the representatives in the negotiations with the Consulate General in Europe, and as a large shipyard owner, he knew what this meant.

Therefore, with the advice of him, the shipbuilder, he said in the negotiations that the technical problems involved could not be escaped.

"Mr. Sidney, do you think the Australians will give us this technology? If it does, then the future of the Netherlands will be even brighter. One of the MPs was a little excited when he learned of his idea, because Sidney had promised to sell the technology as long as the Australians agreed to sell it. He will be shared with several of Amsterdam's major shipyards, and there is no shortage of MPs who own shares in the shipyards.

Once their own shipyard acquires this technology, one thing is for sure, they will quickly crush other competitors in the Dutch shipbuilding industry. This is a rare and good opportunity, and all smart people will not give up such an opportunity.

"I can't answer you yet, Mr. Ahersen, I can only tell you that the Australians did not refuse, so the possibility of sale is still very high, as long as we give enough benefits in exchange. I would say yes to them. ”

The exchange of interests proposed by the Netherlands is not without it, after all, they control a huge maritime transport fleet, and the goods exported by Australia to Europe are basically transported by their ships, and at the same time, they are also responsible for the task of transporting labor and grain, and they can make great discounts on these transportation charges, which is indeed a large expense for Australia.

And this is still on the good side, if there is something unexpected in the transportation process in the Netherlands, the custody of the Australians will be anxious, take this delay in the delivery of the ship as an example, the Australians expressed their dissatisfaction.

But they didn't say anything about action like last time, and basically half of the possibility is that the Australians lack the ability to build ships, so they rely on imports.

Sidney has not yet been able to fully confirm his conjecture, but as long as it is delayed for half a year, the fact that the Australians have not launched a new ship fully explains everything, and by then the initiative will be at least half in the hands of the Netherlands, and it is completely possible to blackmail the Australians into agreeing to the conditions.

But before that could happen, Sidney had to convince everyone to agree to it, because the call to delay the delivery of the ship had not been agreed to by all the councillors, and everyone was called here today to convince them.

"Sidney, your plan is too risky, and if the Australians come up with the same response, our economic losses will be huge, and I think it's inappropriate to treat our allies like this."

"Mr. Comon, I am also thinking about the future of the Netherlands, if Australia rebuilds all the ships we build, they can form a strong maritime transport force, what will this bring us, I think you here know better than me, what kind of threat this will bring to me, what the future of the Netherlands will be, we can all imagine."

Sidney's impassioned remarks did make some lawmakers ponder. (To be continued.) )