The conflict between Spain and the Netherlands has lasted for nearly half a month, the Spaniards have always had the advantage with powerful weapons, even if the Dutch have more than their ships, they have not occupied a little advantage, it can be said that the Netherlands is the loser in this conflict, and the Dutch have paid for half of the colonies of the Malay Peninsula.

With the continuous expansion of the war, it has seriously affected the normal passage of merchant ships in this area, Australia has to come forward to mediate, hoping that the two sides will maintain restraint and avoid the escalation of the conflict.

For the old Australian hypocrisy, the Dutch are hating in their eyes, but there is no way, you say that you can't beat others, you can only watch, if you want to come up with something to say, you can't say anything.

This time, if it weren't for Brown's head in the water and wanting to annex the Australian colony of Malacca, this kind of thing would not have happened, and there are already quite a few people in the Governor's Palace in Batavia who have opinions about Brown, believing that this mistake was entirely caused by him, and that such a thing would not have happened if it were not for personal reasons.

The voice has already gotten out, and once it does, it's hard to stop, and Brown knows that the day of punishment is not far off, and the only thing he can do now is to minimize the damage, and maybe his political career is not over.

originally wanted to regain the lost ground again with new weapons, but the Australians obviously won't let people get their wish, this time the cracks in the relationship between Australia and the Netherlands have increased again, Brown has an unshirkable responsibility, if you have to find someone to let you come out and carry the black pot, it must be him, after all, it is his own thing.

The Australians came out to mediate, and it was a good thing for the Netherlands at this time, because the Spaniards did not dare to disobey Australia's advice, and the Australian boss was now their boss, as long as they spoke. The Spaniards would have stopped fighting.

Sure enough, not long after speaking in Australia, the Spaniards made a request that they could negotiate, which made the Dutch both excited and ashamed to see when the Spaniards could speak to them like this. Since the rise of the Netherlands on the sea, no country has had the courage to speak to them.

Spain took advantage of the weapons this time, knowing that if this war continues, they will not be able to take much advantage, not to mention, and may be blamed by the Australians, after all, the Australians do not want this war to continue, and the warships of the Netherlands and West are fighting like this on the sea, and many merchant ships dare not run this sea area, for fear of being hurt.

So the Australians came out to mediate for their purpose. As a mediator, it is natural to come out to preside, and the venue is in Malacca.

The two sides reached a wartime truce for ten days, and no military operations were allowed to be launched during these ten days, and even in order to avoid disobedience, Australia specially mobilized two warships to monitor, just to let them know that as long as one side dares to act, Australia will enter combat mode.

Of course, they didn't dare to mess around, after all, the Australians were watching from the sidelines, and if they came to mess around at this time, they were looking for death. Australians are not vegetarians.

Negotiations began, and the Dutch accused Spain of entering their colonies for no reason and started a war to demand their withdrawal.

The Spaniards naturally argued that Malay was their own territory. In addition to being robbers, the Netherlands also came up with some strong evidence.

This evidence is nothing more than when and which man first landed on the land, and the Dutch rejected this lawsuit on the grounds that Spain did not establish a town here.

Both sides have their own opinions, and the evidence presented is relatively convincing. Now that the Spaniards have actually occupied it again, they have a greater advantage to a certain extent.

The Dutch wanted to press Spain through Australia and promised to regain the lost territory. It is a good deal to give away part of the territory close to Malacca to Australia, but is Australia so stupid, how can the Spaniards take so much effort to give up the territory easily, so this is impossible.

Negotiations between the two sides have continued to a standstill, and the truce has passed, but in fact, neither side wants to fight, and it is not good for either side to continue fighting, and Brown knows this.

Brown has been criticized by the country, asking him to do a good job in this peace talks, everything is still based on the interests of Batavia, which is equivalent to saying that he can give up here, but Brown is an Eastern expansionist, how can he easily give up the territory here, let him give up it is better to surrender directly.

But the current situation also shows that it is impossible to recover, but it is not what he wants to see completely relinquishing, he wants to use the Australians to make enemies with the Spaniards to make the two sides fight, and finally seize the territory of Manila.

Although this plan is good, but there are flaws, how to say it, the Australians cannot be at war with Spain at this time, this must be absolutely not to think, the Australians are intervening in the Ming War, it is impossible to send troops to fight, from the troops around Southeast Asia can be seen that the Australians do not intend to send people from the mainland.

In addition, the Australians have been involved in the Ming War, and it is very dangerous for them to fight on both sides, and there is a big problem, which must not be done, Australia is said to have signed an agreement with Spain, which guarantees that the interests of both sides will not be violated.

So Brown wants to use the relationship to provoke a war between Australia and Spain, I'm afraid it won't work, after all, people are not stupid, and there is a treaty there.

In the end, Australia gave a suggestion, that is, the two sides each took a step back, Spain withdrew part of the occupation to the Netherlands, and the Netherlands did not hold the war responsible, and the two sides signed an armistice agreement to ensure the negotiations.

This proposal was negotiated with Spain, according to the Spaniards' own ideas, in fact, they occupied such a large area of land and could not manage it at all, so once the armistice agreement was signed, they would transfer part of the land to Australia, of course, the price was definitely preferential, after all, the Australians provided them with advanced weapons, and they naturally had to be generous with their allies.

The Dutch could not accept this proposal, but it was difficult for them to regain the lost territory, and it would be difficult without the support of advanced weapons, so in the end the Dutch would still agree, after all, it was quite good to be able to get back some of the lost territory, and it was better than not getting it back at all. (To be continued.) )