Australia's military arms exports have always been under the joint supervision of the National Military Commission and the Ministry of National Security, and the export of weapons must basically be maintained at least five years or less, otherwise it will be regarded as a crime, and this article is clearly written into the Constitution.

The purpose is to deliberately widen the gap between the weapons of the present time and space, and ensure that Australia remains in the lead.

The 36-pounder gun, although it is one of the most advanced weapons by far, its performance and materials are not the best, so there are no restrictions on export.

Yang Guoping, as a leader of Australian military enterprises and scientific research, has actually done a very good job, in addition to being the director of the Weapons Research Institute, he is also the general manager and chairman of Daqin Military Industry.

Although the nature of this enterprise is state-owned, its operating environment is basically the management style of a private enterprise, but like other Australian state-owned enterprises, which also makes it a little out of place, but it is a private owner in the state-owned faction.

Many times, Yang Guoping will be regarded as a private party by the state-owned faction, and he wants to kick him out of the Daqin military industry, but it is not so simple, because there is no one in the entire Australian community who can replace him.

What's more, he is very good friends with the military, corporate employees, researchers, etc., and has won unanimous praise from them, and an easy change of command will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the employees within Daqin.

In order to improve the quality of life of employees and researchers, Comrade Lao Yang can be regarded as super broken-hearted, and constantly introduces various new weapons and types of weapons suitable for export.

The news of Lieutenant Joseph's successful acquisition of artillery from Daqin spread quickly in Southeast Asia, and the most powerful Dutch in the region were the most concerned about the matter, in fact, the Portuguese in Macao, but their concern did not seem to be as great as that of the Dutch.

It is not to blame the Dutch for paying too much attention, Spain and the Netherlands have been fighting for decades, whether in Europe or other colonies, the two are not pleasing to each other, and now the artillery that Manila actually buys will not pose a threat to themselves, this is the most important question for the Dutch to think about.

According to their competitive nature, the Dutch would definitely buy no less than Spanish artillery, or even more, so as to suppress each other.

Joseph had little trouble buying the guns, and the Dutch quickly sent a buying team represented by Brown into Christmas Island.

Although Yang Guoping knew that the level of European manufacturing in this period was not much higher, he did not expect that what he regarded as tattered or defective products could be so liked by several European powers, which was simply unexpected.

Now he seems to regret that he had priced the 36-pounder cannon too low, and that he should have quoted three thousand or five thousand men if he had known that the Spaniards and Portuguese would have bought it.

"Lao Yang, I think you are at a loss this time, Brown has arrived, I will come to meet you later, I believe you have a good meeting, the old orders in the Netherlands will definitely be larger than in Spain, and they like to ship goods to other places for sale."

Xiao Baitu said with a smile on his face, he has dealt with the Dutch a lot, and naturally has an understanding of their preferences, after all, the Dutch are based on commerce, and their sensitivity to business is much higher than that of the Spaniards who plunder by force.

"Thank you for the reminder, if everything goes well, I want to set up a permanent office on the island, which is responsible for receiving merchants from all over the world, what do you think?" Yang Guoping looked at Xiao Baitu and asked for his opinion, after all, the other party was more business-friendly than him.

"This is a good thing, and is conducive to the development of your company, Christmas Island is currently an important window for Australia to the outside world, you look at Yang Wenwen clothing company, there is a permanent office on the island, so their business can get bigger and bigger, the main reason is to be able to get in touch with customers in the first time, your production is military products also need to communicate and contact with customers for the first time, so as to make the enterprise bigger."

Speaking of setting up an office on Christmas Island, Xiao Baitu was excited, if it weren't for the high secrecy of military enterprises and the fact that the policy does not allow it, he estimated that he would directly invite Yang Guoping to set up a factory on the island, and now there are five factories on the entire Christmas Island, the largest of which belongs to the dried fish processing factory built by the local catering boss Huang Fatzi.

With the special policy support of Christmas Island, many local enterprises have set up branches or offices here, which has also provided a certain contribution to the economic development of the island.

In the evening, Brown met Yang Guoping at the newly built Christmas Island Hotel.

"Yang, in addition to the 36-pounder gun, we also want to get other weapons, including your more powerful artillery." Brown's request was so unexpected that Yang Guoping did not expect that the other party would like to obtain other weapons, it seems that as Xiao Baitu said, the Dutch are not only to compete with Spain, but also very keen on reselling weapons.

During this period, the Thirty Years' War in Europe came to an end, although the economies of various countries were seriously traumatized by the war, but it was not to the point that they had no energy to continue fighting, and the weapons brought by the Australians gave both sides a glimmer of hope for victory, as long as they got more weapons, they would be able to quickly end the war and grasp the fruits of victory.

For countries that did not have a fleet to sail to the Far East, buying from the Dutch, who had the largest fleet of transport ships in Europe, became one of the ways to do so.

"Mr. Brown, we are very welcome if you want to buy more weapons, here is a list of our military factories, which mainly describes the performance and power cost of various weapons."

After getting to know the Dutch, Yang Guoping temporarily wrote a specific list at noon, in which in addition to guns, there are also multi-functional daggers and military shovels, as well as steel helmets and clothing for combat use, etc., these things have naturally been reviewed by the National Security Committee and can be exported, otherwise even if he wants to export, he will not be able to ship them to Australia.

After carefully reading the list, and briefly looking at the uses of the various supplies, Brown seemed very happy, for it was evident that the things provided were completely part of an army, let alone sold to others, and that the Netherlands would be invincible if they had such an army.

Immersed in the beautiful imagination, the corners of Brown's mouth couldn't help but show a smile, although he has not seen the real thing, but the surprise that the Australian brings every time is definitely exciting, and he believes that this time will be the same. (To be continued.) )