These rifles brought back by the armored car were exactly the ones sold to Lisa Khan by the Umbrella Company before the outbreak of the world war, and these exported weapons all had special numbers on them, and the layman did not know what they meant, but the insider knew the source of the guns at a glance.

After discovering this, Li De was furious, in fact, Port Elizabeth and Lisa Khan have always had a good relationship, otherwise Port Elizabeth would not have been able to sell weapons to Lisa Khan, and now the Persians are actually using weapons produced in southern Africa to attack new immigrants, which is really an ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

"Lord, we can break off the support of Lisa Khan and find a new spokesperson for interests from the Persian Empire-" Li De was ruthless, in the first day of Lisa Khan's first year, there was the fifteenth of Port Elizabeth, and it was not too simple to clean up a warlord like Lisa Khan.

"Wait, send a telegram to Lisa Khan and see what he has to say about it." Roque is not in a hurry, Li De has not seen enough, in the face of interests, ungrateful white-eyed wolves abound, Lisa Khan This is nothing.

What's more, this is not necessarily at the behest of Lisa Khan, because it does not do Lisa Khan any good, and it is not now to find fault, it is not better to find fault during the world war, and now that the mercenaries of the umbrella company have returned to Port Elizabeth, Lisa Khan dares to send people to harass the two river valleys at this time unless he is crazy.

Of course, in either case, Roque won't take it lightly.

If Lisa Khan knows about this, then Roque will have to adjust his relationship with Lisa Khan next.

If not, it means that Lisa Khan's control over his troops is weakening.

Now that Luo Ke has made a decision, Li De stopped talking nonsense and turned to appease Ma Zhuang.

Although this treatment is the most beneficial for Port Elizabeth, it is not a good thing for the new immigrants in Nanshan Town, their threat has not really been solved, the horse bandits have hit the nail this time, and if they make a comeback next time, they may succeed, after all, there is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days.

Roque was right, Lisa Khan did not know about this, and after sending a telegram to Lisa Khan, Lisa Khan rushed to Port Elizabeth the next day and explained to Roque in person.

"Sir, I swear by my family's honor that those bandits are indeed not my troops, and I have ordered someone to investigate this matter, and I have ordered the troops to intensify their patrols of the border to prevent this from happening again." Lisa Khan swore that the situation in the Persian Empire was complicated, that Lisa Khan was now in dire need of support from the British government, and that his dependence on Port Elizabeth was worse than before the outbreak of the world war.

But to Roque's surprise, when Lisa Khan needed the support of the British Empire the most, Lisa Khan made frequent moves in private and was not friendly to the British Empire.

Before the outbreak of the World War, the Persian Empire was largely divided between the British and Russian Empires, with the northern part of the Persian Empire being the sphere of influence of the Russian Empire and the southern part being the British sphere of influence.

During the World War, both the British and the Russian Empire were drawn to Europe with the Allies, and there was no time to look eastward, which gave Lisa Khan, who gradually replaced the British officers in the army with Cossack officers during these four years, and took the opportunity to expand his army to about 40,000 men, ready to overthrow the Qajar dynasty.

At this time, Lisa Khan's dependence on Port Elizabeth was more serious than ever, as Lisa Khan also needed Port Elizabeth to provide enough weapons to arm his troops.

After explaining, Lisa Khan began to make demands.

During the World War, the arsenals in southern Africa had to go all out to meet the needs of Europe, and they could not afford to provide more weapons for Lisa Khan, and the main problem was that Lisa Khan had no money to buy them, and now the most basic rifles could no longer meet Lisa Khan's needs, and Lisa Khan wanted planes, tanks, and heavy artillery, and the sale of these weapons was outside the scope of Lide's rights.

Aircraft tanks are indeed advanced, but advanced technology also means more expensive, more complex operations, and higher requirements for logistical maintenance, and Roque does not believe that the current Persian Empire is capable of using these weapons.

"These weapons are very demanding for soldiers, they need to undergo a long period of training, and even after training, they need to send instructors to ensure that these weapons really work, are you sure that these conditions are acceptable to you?" Roque was not polite to Lisa Khan, no matter how great Lisa Khan's achievements were in the future, the current Lisa Khan is not worthy of Roque's too much attention.

Lide was right, if Roque really didn't like Lisa Khan, then it would not be difficult to find a new spokesman for interests in Persia.

Roque's conditions were a source of frustration for Lisa Khan, who had managed to clear out the British officers in his army during the World War, and now if he were to bring these instructors back, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

"It's not the most powerful weapon that is the best, it's the most suitable that is the best-" Roc reminded Lisa Khan not to be too ambitious, millet plus rifles are good, why bother pursuing aircraft cannons.

From the standpoint of Port Elizabeth, no matter how far the relationship between the Persian Empire and Port Elizabeth will go in the future, Roque does not want a strong state to appear next to Port Elizabeth, which is not in the interests of Port Elizabeth.

To put it mildly, now that Port Elizabeth has forcibly seized Huzestan through coercion and inducement, Lisa Khan is now forced by the situation to dare not turn his face, which does not mean that he will not dare in the future, or that it does not mean that Lisa Khan's successor will not dare.

For the long-term interests of Port Elizabeth, controlling Lisa Khan's power to a certain extent is more conducive to the stability of the area around Port Elizabeth.

"Then we need more aid, and we also need a loan from the Rand Bank—" Lisa Khan retreated, since the planes and tanks were not given, then it was always okay to give some rifles and machine guns or something.

Knock on the blackboard and pay attention, it is "giving", not "selling".

"Lisa, the last loan you owe us hasn't been repaid—" Li De finally couldn't help it, it seemed that this was not the first time this kind of thing had happened.

"I'll pay it back, but not now, I need more rights, so I need more weapons to arm my troops." Lisa Khan has a lot to say, and that sounds fine.

"So let's talk about how to pay." Li De likes such a Lisa Khan, it doesn't matter if he doesn't have money to pay off his debts, he can pay in other ways.

Compared with Lisa Khan, Britain, France, Italy owe more money to southern Africa, and after the end of the world war, Winston once discussed the debt issue with Roque, but Roque did not force Winston to repay the debt.

It's even better to say in France, Ida is also in France now, and is discussing with the French government how to repay the debt, Clemenceau wants to use Madagascar to pay off the debt, but Ida refuses.

Roque was not involved in the negotiations between Lide and Lisa Khan, and Winston sent a telegram hoping that Roque would send troops to fight the Somali rebels.

Rebellions in Somalia have a long history, probably at the end of the last century, when the Somali region under the control of the Kingdom of Italy broke out, during the Second Boer War, and the British government was fully focused on southern Africa and had no spare resources to take care of Somalia.

After the end of the Second Boer War, the British government found that the colonial war was too costly, so the Somali rebels were put on hold again.

During the world war, the Somali rebellion finally spread to the whole of Somalia, and the Somali region under British control was also affected by the rebels, at this time the British government's attention was on the Western Front, and it was incapable of extinguishing the Somali rebels.

Now that the world war is over, the British government can finally take a breath, but Britain has been severely damaged in the world war and is also unable to send troops to Somalia to quell the rebellion.

Seeing that the Somali rebellion was about to spread to the nearby British colonies, Winston remembered that Roque was in Port Elizabeth.

When he heard the name Somalia, Roque felt that his head was a little big, this Horn of Africa, which was once famous for its spices, now has the appearance of a pirate country, and the location of Somalia is critical, if the problems of Somalia are not solved in time, then the ships between southern Africa and Port Elizabeth will be threatened all the time.

Just for this reason, Roque can't afford to ignore it.

However, it is not easy to quell the rebellion in Somalia, which is now under the joint control of the Kingdom of Italy and the United Kingdom, divided into Italian Somalia and British Somalia.

Thinking of the performance of the Italian Kingdom troops in the world war, Roque can only sigh, don't think that the Kingdom of Italy can not defeat Austria-Hungary, it can be invincible in Somalia, in 1894, the Kingdom of Italy sent an expeditionary force to invade Ethiopia next to Somalia, as a result, the Italian army was defeated in successive battles, almost annihilated, which made the Kingdom of Italy a laughing stock in the whole of Europe.

The war was known as the First Italian-Ethiopian War, when the 17,000 Italian expeditionary forces suffered about 11,000 casualties and 4,000 prisoners.

At the same time, Ethiopian forces suffered between 4,000 and 5,000 dead and about 6,000 to 10,000 wounded.

This should be the first time that a European country has been beaten so badly by an African country, after the end of the war, Ethiopia became the only independent country in Africa, the Kingdom of Italy did not give up, but was never able to conquer Ethiopia.

Despite the terrible history of the Kingdom of Italy, Roque reached out to the Italians for their opinion.

(End of chapter)