Yue Fei said that civil officials do not love money, military attaches are not afraid of death, and the world is peaceful.

This is actually not a high requirement, a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way, and is loyal to the country and the horse leather shroud, which is originally a matter of course, but I don't know how it has become the standard of the prosperous world.

In the eyes of Ade and Philip, it was clear that the troops in southern Africa were strong.

While the armies of the rest of Africa were still at a level where they could not even assemble their weapons, southern Africa had built up a strong army that was invincible in Africa, relying on the strong military power left over from the colonial period.

Although the planes and tanks did not participate in the exercise, there were still as many as 1,000 vehicles used by the four divisions, especially the hideous armored vehicles and the artillery towed behind the trucks, which left a deep impression on Ade and Philip.

"The alligator armored car is the first armored vehicle we are equipped with, there are many models of this armored vehicle, this transport armored vehicle has an armor thickness of one centimeter, it has a certain protection ability for automatic weapon shooting, the car can transport 12 soldiers at a time, and there is an armored assault vehicle that is smaller, can only transport four soldiers, but is equipped with a millimeter large-caliber heavy machine gun, or a 40mm grenade launcher, so it has stronger firepower-" As long as new weapons appear, Roque will take the initiative to introduce.

Ade and Philip nodded their heads, but they didn't look surprised.

It was during the Boer War that armored vehicles were already used by the British Expeditionary Force.

However, due to the technical limitations of the time, the armored vehicle did not perform well on the battlefield and did not attract the attention of the British War Department.

In the hands of Roque, the armored car finally shined, there are not only military armored vehicles in southern Africa, but also police armored vehicles, compared with military armored vehicles, although the firepower of police armored vehicles is weaker, and the armor thickness is thinner, but it still plays a huge role in maintaining social order.

"Our artillery absorbs the advantages of both German and French artillery, compared to French artillery, our artillery has a longer range and greater power, and compared to German artillery, our artillery has a faster rate of fire and is lighter, this 125 mm gun is the latest product of the Nyasaland Arsenal, not only there are army models, but also naval models have been developed that can be installed on our destroyers and cruisers, the Nyasaland Arms Research Institute is developing artillery with a larger caliber, but for the army, The maximum caliber up to 155 mm is almost enough, and no matter how large the caliber is, it is the technical reserve of the Navy. "Artillery is Roque's pride, there was no steel plant in southern Africa, and now large-caliber artillery can be developed, and only Roque and Henry understand the twists and turns.

Speaking of the Nyasaland Arsenal, this is another pain in the hearts of some people within the federal government.

The Nyasaland Arsenal is now a huge military-industrial complex, no longer the small workshop that could only produce bullets, not only general-purpose machine guns, but also various artillery pieces, and has begun to export to Europe while meeting the needs of the southern African army.

Although the Nyasaland Arsenal was taxed by the federal government on the sale of weapons to Europe, more of the profits were made by the Arsenal.

And the Nyasaland Arsenal is Roque's private property, and it has nothing to do with the federal government, so there were people in the federal government who proposed to establish a federal government arsenal a long time ago, and they couldn't watch a lot of money be made by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

However, there is also a very key issue here, not to mention the arsenal established by the federal government, whether the quality of the products can be comparable to the Nyasaland arsenal, Roque as the deputy secretary of defense, the actual person in charge of the Ministry of Defense, it is not the federal government that has the final say on which company to give the order, but the Ministry of Defense, although the Ministry of Defense has a procurement committee, but the power to make the final decision is still here in Roque, so even if the federal government establishes an arsenal, whether it can get an order from the federal government is still two different things.

"How much do you sell an airplane to the Italians?" Ade still cares about money, and dreams of countless pounds and rands flying in the sky.

"Five thousand rand." Roque told the truth.

"What if it is sold to the Ministry of Defense?" If Roque dares to give a price that is more expensive than that for the Italians, Ade will have something to say.

"Two thousand!" Fortunately, the price given by Roque made Ade very satisfied.

So Ade snorted twice in satisfaction.

Philip didn't care, and helped Roque find a way to trick people: "You can't give the best planes to the Italians, you have to let them keep losing, and then there will be a steady stream of orders, and the Ottoman Empire, I heard that you signed a supplementary agreement with the Ottomans, Port Elizabeth is important?" ”

Three months ago, the Umbrella Company and the Ottoman Empire signed a formal agreement to purchase Port Elizabeth, which was one of the conditions for Nyasaland to agree to sell the aircraft to the Ottoman Empire.

Previously, Port Elizabeth was still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire and was not the property of the Umbrella Company.

This supplementary agreement signed now officially determines the ownership of Port Elizabeth by the Umbrella Company from the legal level in the Ottoman Empire, and in the future, both the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire will recognize the interests of the Umbrella Company in Port Elizabeth, and even if the Ottoman Empire dissolves in the future, the heirs of the Ottoman Empire will have to accept this reality.

After the discovery of oil in Port Elizabeth, the Ottoman Empire questioned the ownership of Port Elizabeth and wanted to take it back.

Tripolitania, North Africa, was obviously more important than Port Elizabeth, so the Ottoman Empire had to accept the deal in order to buy Nyasaland planes to compete with Italy.

The current Ottomans certainly did not realize what they had lost.

However, even if you realize it, I am afraid that the Ottoman Empire is not capable of protecting its own interests, and the current Ottoman Empire is also in turmoil, and it is uncertain whether the country can sustain itself, and it is really impossible to take into account Port Elizabeth.

Roque has always taken advantage of your illness to kill you, and when signing the agreement, he still did a little trick, the area of Port Elizabeth stipulated in the agreement is a bit large, in addition to the original Port Elizabeth, the umbrella company under the pretext of maintaining the safety of the shipping lane, part of the land along the coast of the Persian Gulf is zoned to Port Elizabeth, although it is only some corners, it seems that they are worthless desert areas, but except for Roque, even Don, who signed the agreement, does not know how much oil is hidden under these deserts.

And gas.

This is where the confidence of the traverser lies, along the entire Persian Gulf coast, there are now only some scattered indigenous tribes, they still live a primitive nomadic life, eat the last meal without the next meal, a camel can be exchanged for a person, the population adds up to 20,000 or 30,000, the umbrella company does not make any effort at all, and sends these indigenous tribes to Egypt, which is more economically developed and has a better standard of living.

These indigenous tribes are also grateful to the Umbrella Company.

The British Governor in Egypt certainly welcomed the arrival of these indigenous tribes, and in this era, population was everything, and there were more people to enslave, and it was only so that the extremely conservative umbrella companies would not care about these resources.

Extremely conservative is the British government's evaluation of umbrella companies.

Because there are no indigenous people on the territory of the Umbrella Company, there are no slaves, only the families of the members of the Umbrella Company, and the Umbrella Company would rather let the women and children build Port Elizabeth brick by brick than leave the indigenous people behind, which is a sign of extreme conservatism.

The umbrella company doesn't want the natives, some people do, and even the Ottoman Empire is happy to accept it.

"It's very important, now Port Elizabeth hasn't shown its due value, in a few years, in a few years, Port Elizabeth will shine." Roque can still tell a few truths in front of Ade and Philip, and it would be too sad for Roque to wear a mask at all times and at all times in front of anyone.

"Port Elizabeth is still a bit far from southern Africa-" Philip regretted a little, Port Elizabeth is not a territory of southern Africa, but the property of the umbrella company, in other words, Roque's private property, the future will be Gavin and Alvin's, this is the crux of the matter.

"That's why we need some relay stations to keep our shipping lanes safe." Roque continued to make excuses for his actions.

"You don't have enough relays?" Philip couldn't even imagine how ambitious Roque really was.

"Far from enough, Port Elizabeth is in the Persian Gulf, and the umbrella company also needs a base in the Indian Ocean." Roque is full of enterprising spirit, he will never sleep on the credit book, with the big tree of the British Empire on his back, if he doesn't make good use of it, I'm sorry for Roque's viscount status.

"That's simple, Your Excellency Prime Minister, I think we should do something for the umbrella company." This question still has to be brought forward by Ade.

Although the Umbrella Company is Roque's industry, every income of the Umbrella Company outside of Southern Africa is taxed to the federal government, so it is not a conflict that the federal government should serve the Umbrella Company.

"What do you want to do?" Ade is also helpless to Roque, of course it is a good thing to keep enterprising, but you must also be careful of being strangled to death.

In Ade's opinion, Roque's thinking is too radical many times, and if it weren't for the old guys like Ade and Philip who are helping Roque sew and mend, Roque would not have been able to have a smooth ride over the years.

"Islands, we need more islands." Roctus poor dagger.

"What do you want the island for?" Ade really can't figure it out, there are three million square kilometers in southern Africa, which is not enough for Roque to toss?

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