It may sound like a fantasy that the lottery can become an important income for a country, but it is true.

In southern Africa, taxes are the main source of revenue for the federal government, but the big businessmen represented by Roque and Smalls have countless ways to avoid taxes, and the middle class is not large enough, so the federal government's finances have been stretched thin since the day it was established.

Although London has been subsidizing the finances of southern Africa over the years, even if the autonomy of southern Africa has not stopped, but the huge expenditure of southern Africa has determined that some of the funds have to be raised by themselves, and borrowing has become a lifesaver for the federal government, not only banks, but also London will provide low-interest or even interest-free loans to southern Africa, otherwise the federal government will not be able to maintain until now.

Another important reason why Ade called Roque here is next year's budget.

According to the regulations of Southern Africa, the budget of the federal government must be put to a vote by the National Assembly and approved by the National Assembly before it can be put into practice.

It's already December, and at the end of October, the federal government has submitted the budget for the next year to Congress, but Congress has not passed it, so Ade is also in a hurry.

Speaker of Congress Philip is Roque's father-in-law, and Ade wants to exert some influence on Philip through Roque.

Roque is unable to refuse Ade's request, and as the election looms, the relationship between Ade and Philip grows strained, and Roque is now the only link between Ade and Philip.

On the weekend, Roque and Phyllis went to Philip's house for dinner, and brought the children back by the way, they were also national leaders, Ade was too busy all day to get out, Philip could get off work early every day to enjoy the joy of family, and he didn't have to work easily, but he had to taste the feeling of working until the early hours of the morning every day, and Roque really couldn't figure it out.

However, it is estimated that even if Philip becomes prime minister, it is estimated that Philip will not work until the early hours of the morning, which is not to say that Philip is irresponsible, but the way of working is different, Ade is a bit paranoid workaholic, Philip is more open-minded, and will not pursue perfection in everything.

Philip still lives on a suburban estate, citing a preference for the clean air of the suburbs.

This is a habit developed when working in London, and compared with London, which is known as the "fog capital" with serious air pollution, the air in the city of Pretoria is also good, after all, there is almost no winter in Pretoria, there is no need to burn coal for heating, and naturally it does not produce too much smoke.

When Roque arrived, Philip was sitting on the lawn in front of the house reading the newspaper, and Roque glanced at the Southern African edition of The Times.

It is estimated that yesterday's editor-in-chief was a bit floating, and there were only two huge words on the front page - world war.

Don't get me wrong, the world war hasn't broken out yet, and the editors of The Times are trying to attract attention in this eye-catching way.

It's been a bit of a mess during this time.

It feels like everything is out of order.

"The budget submitted by the federal government is not rigorous enough, especially your Ministry of Defense, there is no enemy around southern Africa, why do you need so much budget?" Philip was blunt that it was the power of Congress to oversee the government.

Roque didn't speak, but casually clicked on the newspaper that Philip had in hand.

"Sensationalism—" Philip did not judge the situation clearly enough, estimating that southern Africa was too far away from Europe, to the extent that it was far away from the ends of the earth.

"It's really not grandstanding, if the Balkan war can't be properly resolved, then it will definitely cause serious problems, and now the contradictions are already very acute, if there is any more accident, it will be equivalent to throwing matches into a pot of boiling oil, and everyone knows what the consequences will be." Roque really doesn't want to go into a long story, but many people are just that naïve.

With the outbreak of the Balkan War, many people have smelled the smell of gunpowder more and more, but there are still people who are blindly optimistic, or take the initiative to bury their heads in the sand and pretend to be ostriches, but they are unwilling to face the reality.

There are also many people in London, including London, who believe that a world war is impossible at all, on the grounds that George V and William II, as well as the relationship between Nicholas II, are all relatives, and if there is anything that can be solved by sitting down and discussing, there is no need to rise to the level of war at all.

Even if a war breaks out, it will not be too intense, at most it will be a symbolic local conflict.

"The Balkan War has just ended, and the participating countries need time to recuperate, and there will be no war for at least two years." Philip also has a reason, not blindly optimistic.

However, the situation was obviously more severe than Philip had estimated, and the London Conference was a failed negotiation, not only did it not solve the problem between the Balkan Union and the Ottoman Empire, but it further intensified the contradictions because of the evil intentions of Britain, France, Germany and Austria, and as a result, shortly after the signing of the Treaty of London, the Balkan Union broke out into war with internal divisions, which further intensified the contradictions, and in the "Peace of Bucharest" signed in the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria, which had initiated the war, lost almost all of the land it had gained in the First Balkan War, Serbia, Negro, Romania, and Greece, which had won the Second Balkan War, sided with the Entente, and Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, whose interests had suffered badly, joined the Central Powers.

Maybe George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II don't want to fight for the sake of everyone being relatives, but those countries in the Balkans don't care about this, and after they choose sides, each country feels that its strength has recovered and there is strong assistance, and it will definitely be eager to launch the third Balkan war, at this time, even if Britain, Germany and Russia do not want to fight, they will be forced to drag into the war.

"If the war lasts longer, then it does take time to recuperate, but the war lasted only two months before the Ottoman Empire conceded defeat, and victory came too easily for the Balkan Alliance, and all countries did not suffer much loss, and it did not take too long to recover their strength." Roque is certainly more professional than Philip in this regard.

The key is that Roque has a plug-in, and his understanding of the general trend of history is Roque's biggest plug-in.

"So what, even if a world war breaks out, we will not be threatened." Philip didn't have the big ideals of Roque, who wanted to profit from the world war, and Philip just wanted to be alone.

For Southern Africa, if you don't think about supporting the British mainland, then there is really no need to maintain a strong army, and with the strength of the troops of the Tanganyikat Army in South West Africa and Tanganyikat, a few farmers can be temporarily recruited to win the battle at that time.

Again, this is an inextricable knot, with fewer people in southern Africa and even fewer in south-west Africa and Tanganyika.

In order to attract immigrants, southern Africa will take the initiative to reimburse immigrants for immigration expenses, and at the same time help build farms after settling down.

The Germans did not have such wealth, let alone help build farms, and could not even reimburse the cost of immigration, so the population of southern Africa has been growing rapidly in recent years because of the increase in Chinese, and the combined number of whites in southwest Africa and Tanganyika is less than 100,000.

With just this amount of manpower, there is no need to dispatch the mercenaries of the umbrella company, so that Mu Mu and Lu Taitai can directly bulldoze them with their people.

Lu Taitai because the Congo Kingdom has just been established and the strength is not strong enough, but Mumu is different, after the reconciliation between Fort Glory and Tanganyika officials, Mumu has not stopped training the army, and now Mumu has nearly 50,000 well-trained troops, which is not worse than the strength of the Tanganyika German army.

"Not really, but I want more." Roque was suddenly in a bad mood, and if it were Ade, he would not be so stubborn, at least he would take the initiative to ask Roque what he thought, while Philip was more arbitrary.

This has something to do with their relationship, Ade and Roque are strictly colleagues, but Philip is Roque's father-in-law, in front of Henry Owen and Phyllis, Philip has always been strong, so Henry and Owen don't like Philip very much, and they don't come to Philip's house as often as Roquedo.

"How much more do you want? Pocket all of Africa? Philip would have asked, but Roque couldn't accept it.

"If you don't have financial problems when you become prime minister in the future, then we're going to have to work hard during this time—" Roque wanted to turn over.

In fact, there are many countries that think this way, except for Britain, which wants to maintain its position through world war, other countries basically want to turn over, but there are not many that can do it.

In another time and space, the only countries that succeeded in turning over through the world war were the United States and Japan, and before the world war, the United States and Japan were both debtor countries, and the creditors were all Britain.

As a result, after the World War, the United States and Japan not only paid off the money owed to Britain, but also became British creditors, successfully achieving a class jump.

Now Roque also wants to replicate the success of the United States and Japan, and Roque not only wants to make money, but also to gain more territory and have a greater voice in the League of Nations, which was formed after the World War, which is worth fighting for.

"Can you make a lot of money?" Philip is still more interested in making money, after all, no matter who is on stage, he has to care about financial issues.

"Absolutely, Henry and I have been stockpiling since a few years ago, just to sell during the World War." Henry on Rocla increased his persuasiveness, Henry was actually forced by Roque to increase production in recent years, otherwise Henry's character would have been a salted fish a long time ago.

"Sell to whom?" Philip's eyes suddenly sharpened, and even though Roque's operation was very secretive, there were still some rumors coming out.

Mainly because of the deal between Roque and the Germans, in order to get South West Africa to agree to Roque to build a railway from Bechuana to Walvis Bay, Roque sold some important materials, including steel, to the Germans through the Americans, which was certainly unacceptable to Philip.

Although Philip was not so loyal to the British Empire, he could not make mistakes in such matters of right and wrong.

If you're not careful, you're going to be doomed.