Facts have proved that Prime Minister Suhabidatu's coquettish operation has indeed made Sulu gain great trade benefits.

In addition to being scared enough at the beginning and secretly losing a little face, if you look at it from a purely trade point of view, it is an indisputable fact that Sulu has gained huge trade profits through trade with Australians.

The point is that through the monopoly of Australian goods, Sulu has also achieved a very good trade surplus, which is called a trade surplus in the fashionable words of the old world.

In the next few days, the Australians' large-scale purchases made the comptoirs of Sulu make a lot of money, because the comptoirs received a list of about 120,000 taels of silver that the Australians had put forward one after another!

In fact, this amount is basically equivalent to more than half of the amount paid by Sulu to buy Australian goods earlier.

As a result, not only will the domestic unsalable inventory be sold out, but the commercial houses that have received large sums of money will have greater strength to do more business.

All this also made the originally dismal business of Hollow Harbor suddenly flourish for a while.

Of course, there were side effects, as prices in the entire port area rose by 20% in the next two months after a lot of stock in the port was sold out, and it was not until three months later that prices rose by 20%.

Of course, behind this result, there is a deeper contradiction, which is not expressed here for the time being.......

In the course of doing business with Australians, the compradors of Sulu found that the goods that Australians were interested in were basically local specialties of the nature of primary products and raw materials.

For example, wood, tung oil, fur, yellow wax, and various dyes including indigo.

As for other goods from the surrounding areas, such as camphor oil, raw and cooked leather, etc., the Australians also bought a large number of them, and the Australians also looted almost all kinds of local medicinal materials, including cinchona, dragon's blood, arecine and dried betel nut.

However, it is really puzzling that Australians are not dismissive of the traditional specialties of Sulu merchants: pearls, corals and other jewelry.

But in any case, all kinds of local products other than jewelry, including all kinds of wood, coconut fiber, rope, etc., which used to be a light business in Hollow Harbor, have suddenly become in-demand goods.

However, Australians' largest acquisitions were copper, iron, tin, lead and red mercury.

In addition, there are various kinds of coarse linen, iron farming tools, wooden furniture, rattan weaving supplies for farmers, etc., in addition, a large amount of coconut oil, dried coconut, and rice are purchased.

Due to the large volume of goods needed by Australians and the shortage of manpower, there was a backlog of goods in the dock plaza very quickly.

So the Australians asked Sulu to provide more labor to carry the goods, and offered to recruit porters for three cents a day!

You must know that in the Oriental countries of this era, an ordinary family of six, husband and wife together, with an average monthly income of four taels of silver, is a well-off family, and now to the dock to move goods to Australians, a day actually give three dollars of silver! In this way, it is much higher than the average daily income of a well-off family!

After the shopkeepers of the suspicious trading house repeatedly confirmed the price with the translator Xue Laixiang, they were overjoyed, and immediately transferred more than 300 soldiers to act as porters through the prime minister, which really greatly accelerated the speed of carrying the goods.

Of course, how much of the money paid by the Australians ended up in the pockets of these ordinary soldiers, and they don't know Zhu Beiguo, who is the manager.

However, Xue Laixiang was very clear, and he later told Zhu Beiguo that these Sulu soldiers would not get any silver at all in the end, and they could only get small copper coins exchanged according to the official proportion, and they would also be deducted by the officers in large quantities......

Regarding the whereabouts of the real money and silver spent on his own purchase of Sulu, not only Zhu Beiguo's heart is very clear, but everyone also knows that no matter how stupid this group of people is, they are also revealed by the telegram of Bayu and the two of them, in a word, although this trade is large and cheap, but it is the inner treasury of the prime minister and the king of Sulu State, as for the ordinary traders and producers, they don't even see the silver slag......

Therefore, when Zhu Beiguo took Hu Xiaolin, Ren Ke Wei @ Hong and them to go deep into the commercial area of Huoluo Port Wharf in the name of market research, he had already deeply experienced the indifference and hostility of ordinary merchants to Australians, and deeply understood what foreign trade monopoly and currency control were.

According to the trade agreement reached previously, Zhu Beiguo and his colleagues had to do so through a comprador firm designated by Sulu when they purchased supplies.

So, when Zhu Beiguo and more than a dozen others went ashore in full gear, the firm quickly sent representatives to greet them.

As expected, it was Captain Haluban and Zheng Fu who were the leaders, as well as more than a dozen other "assistants", and the reason why there was such a large group of people was because Zhu Beiguo submitted a variety of items to the Sulu State in the procurement list, and these categories corresponded to many industries, and the so-called "assistants" were similar to compradors in the old world who specialized in assisting foreign businessmen.

As soon as they landed, Zhu Beiguo and his entourage clearly felt the fear and hostility of the locals towards their side, even though Zhu Beiguo and his party had already received similar briefings from Xue Laixiang and Zheng Fu in advance.

Today, the locals still regard the Australians and the two ships on the sea as the embodiment of the devil, and also believe that the Australians deal with ghosts and are ominous people, and the king and the government do not seem to have come forward to clarify these rumors.

Therefore, Zheng Fu quietly told Zhu Xue and the others, in case of any unpleasant incidents, please don't misunderstand, the king of Sulu and the prime minister must welcome Australians and are willing to do business with you, and said that Sulu has a thousand reasons to maintain good relations with the Australian Federation, and there is no reason for the two sides to be unfriendly! Therefore, for the market research actions of Australian adults, Sulu will naturally do its best to maintain order, and order the public to fully cooperate to ensure the smooth progress of the market investigation of adults.

He also said that if a small number of people make trouble, the government will inevitably punish them severely, and will never let the adults in Australia suffer.

Well, having said that, after this group of people really walked into the dock market area, Zhu Beiguo and the others were embarrassed to find that they couldn't do any market research at all.

Because, there is no one to find in the market at all, Zhu Beiguo and his party looked at each other, looked around, and found that Nima's entire market was closed, by ! Then do a woolen market research!

Of course, it seems that there are also people who are active in the wharf business district, in addition to most of them are officers and soldiers, there are also a small number of onlookers from afar, obviously these people are more courageous, but even these people, when they saw a group of people from Zhu Beiguo coming from a distance, they immediately jumped away, and the shops next to them were also busy opening the doors, mercilessly giving this group of people a strong wall......

Well, Zhu Beiguo and his entourage are very depressed, this Nima, I'm afraid I won't even be able to talk in the end, how can I talk about market price investigation?

So after the brothers ate a few closed doors, Zhu Beiguo finally became a little angry, of course he couldn't say anything, after all, the Sulu compradors who followed him had a good attitude, and they couldn't punch the smiling people.

At this moment, Zhu Beiguo had no choice but to have a gloomy face, turned his head to look at Captain Haluban and Zheng Fu, and then put on a smiling and non-smiling expression, and said in a deep voice:

"Look at this situation, is it because the people of the country don't want to do business with me in Australia, this is not in line with your family's prime minister's statement, Sulu is very willing to do business with me in Australia, who said yesterday: 'My Sulu country has all kinds of reasons to be good friends with the Australian Federation'?"

Before Zhu Beiguo's voice fell, Xue Laixiang had already translated the words, and the two of them were suddenly refreshed when they heard it, only to see Captain Ha and Translator Zheng immediately turned back, and looked at the group of assistants behind them with a majestic face, the assistants didn't know what made the two adults dissatisfied, they all bowed their heads and were silent, the scene was very quiet for a while, and after a while, Captain Ha said to the group of people who followed in Sulu language.

Sure enough, Guanwei was the most effective in Sulu State, and before Captain Ha could finish speaking, a few compradors with dozens of soldiers began to smash the doors of shops along the street.

With the government intervening, things really took a turn for the better, and the doors of many shops were finally rudely smashed open by the soldiers.

However, what Zhu Beiguo and his party saw in the shop were the dim light and empty shelves, and in addition, there were people squatting in the corners, cowering and flickering eyes.

So the compradors shouted at the shopkeeper in a language that Zhu Beiguo and they didn't understand, and Xue Laixiang could only explain the scene to Zhu Ge and them in a low voice: The shopkeeper who sold coconut oil had already hidden the goods in the countryside, and the compradors asked him to transport them back immediately, because the "Australian people" wanted to collect Yunyun......

"Ao-sama? Levy? Well, actually, we bought it! And it's buying things with real money! Now in the mouth of the government, it has actually become a levy? Sure enough, it won us a lot of hatred......"

Zhu Beiguo thought hatefully at this time.