After the exchange with Tom Dupont, Roque decided to end today's work, and it doesn't matter if there is anyone waiting in line for Roque to meet him, just cancel it temporarily.

Although Roque refused decisively in front of Said, in retrospect, Roque only convened relevant officials to discuss the possibility of helping Said return to China.

It must be emphasized that if Roque helps Said to restore the country, there is no doubt that the Black Sea outlet will belong to Southern Africa, not to mention the ownership of the Black Sea estuary.

"Even if we don't help Saeed to recover, the two river basins will definitely belong to southern Africa, and we now have 500,000 people in the two river basins, and no one can take the two river basins away." Martin had a clear understanding of the Two Rivers Valley, and during the World War, Martin was in charge of the offensive in the direction of the Two Rivers Valley.

The 500,000 people here refer to the immigrants from the two river basins, and the armed personnel of southern Africa in the two river basins do not exceed 20,000, almost all of them are mercenaries of the umbrella company, and after the end of the world war, the southern African expeditionary force has been withdrawn from the two river basins.

There is no way, the cost of stationing troops overseas is too much, and the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa cannot afford it.

"We're going to talk about the Garibaldi Peninsula now, and the Black Sea access is still important—" Roque tried to bring the conversation back, but it didn't work well, and the attendees didn't think the Black Sea access was very important.

Everyone knows that the Black Sea outlet is used to clamp Russia's choke point, but now Russia does not pose much threat to European countries, so the Black Sea outlet is not so important, and the "Straits Management Committee" has more than 1,000 troops stationed in the Bosphorus and Dardanelles.

Russia is not one of the two poles of the world in the past, including the United States, which is still partial to the Americas, and has little influence on Europe.

So Roque's words did not resonate much, and no one thought that Russia would become the gendarme of Europe in the future before the rise of Russia.

"If we want to help the Ottomans recover, then we will have to face the entire Entente directly, and this risk is too great for us to afford." Anton directly vetoed that the Dardanelles is not the Suez Canal, it really doesn't matter that much.

"Said's increase is too low, and the Garibaldi Peninsula is not under Said's control, and Said is generous." Paul Coker, who returned to Southern Africa after the end of the World War as Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, was equally disapproving of Said's apparent lack of sincerity, which was a great disrespect to Roque and to Southern Africa.

"The key thing is that our main task now is not expansion, we have just got South West Africa and Tanganyika, and it would be better to completely annex these two regions in the next decade, and then think about external expansion." Derek Dodd, who is still the deputy secretary of defense, is sober that although the pie is big, it must be able to eat it.

Since the two deputy ministers and one chief of staff did not agree, Roque was as good as he could, and could only say that Said had miscalculated and wanted to use southern Africa as a gunman, and Said was not qualified enough.

When Roque rejected Said, the DuPont family in the United States had already begun to act.

Holding the patent of phenolic plastics, Bakelite company is in very good condition, phenolic plastics are characterized by: insulation, stability, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, non-flammability, good rigidity, small deformation, heat resistance, can be used for a long time in the temperature range of 150 to 200 degrees Celsius.

Under the condition of water lubrication, phenolic plastics have a very low coefficient of friction and excellent electrical insulating properties, and are called "universal materials".

It is widely used in the automotive, radio and power industries.

Beckland is an accomplished scientist with more than 100 patents, numerous honorary positions, millions of dollars a year for his patents on phenolic plastics, and a good businessman with a business sense rarely seen in scientists.

One day in early May, a special guest came to Beckland's office, and he opened his mouth to buy the rights to manufacture and sell phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth can be regarded as the most important market in the world except for the United States, and Bakelite can obtain more than $400,000 in profits from the Commonwealth every year, but the person who comes only plans to spend $100,000 to buy the production and sales rights of phenolic plastics in the Commonwealth for 10 years.

This figure certainly did not satisfy Bakeland, who had less than ten years to complete his patent when it expired in 1926.

However, what made Beckland hesitate was that the guy named Franklin who visited Beckland represented the Dupont family, and remembered the legends of the Dupont family, and Bekland shuddered.

"A hundred thousand dollars is not a small number, and the patent protection for phenolic plastics is less than eight years old, so what is there to hesitate, Mr. Beckland—" Franklin's eyes were sharp, his expression was gloomy, and he looked at Beckland like a hunter looking at his own prey.

"Mr. Franklin, I don't want to sell my patents cheaply, and even though I have less than eight years of protection left on my patents, I should have at least $3 million in benefits in less than eight years in the next eight years." Beckland didn't want to sit back, and the price of $100,000 was almost an insult to Beckland.

"Hehehehe-hehe-" Franklin's laughter was like the scream of the devil in hell, which made Beckland very uncomfortable: "If you have a life to earn, you have to have a life flower-"

This is a threat to Hongguoguo, and Beckland has taken the case.

Franklin was so confident that he didn't care about Beckland's anger at all.

Beckland gasped for a while, and couldn't help but grit his teeth: "I know who you are working for, that Lord Nyasaland is British, don't you feel ashamed to work for him?" ”

The image of the Americans in the world at this time was that of the nouveau riche, and although the United States made great sacrifices for the Allies during the World War, it did not change the image of the Americans, and the Europeans, especially the British and French, still laughed at the rudeness of the Americans and humiliated the Americans in public, which Bekeland was well aware of as a Belgian.

However, it is regrettable that although Beckland knows that the image of the Americans is not good, but there is no way to change it, and it is not possible to improve the quality of the people overnight, the population of the United States has now exceeded 100 million, and the number of people has the advantage of having a large number of people in industrial production, but in some aspects, too many people are a drag.

If you look at India, sometimes a large number of people is not necessarily a good thing.

The rapid spread of education in southern Africa in recent years is one thing that the federal government has spared no effort to invest in, but also the small population.

If southern Africa had a population similar to India's, Ade, even if he sold the Palace of Justice, would not be able to raise the funds needed to make compulsory education universal.

"Mr. Beckland, it doesn't matter who I work for, if the devil pays me, I'm willing to work for the devil - the question now is, are you willing to take the hundred thousand dollars, or do you watch your hard work come to naught, I'm not threatening you, I'm just stating the facts." Franklin is not exaggerating, the United States in this era is very incredible, Peyton's factory will explode for no reason, Nikola Tesla's laboratory will ignite a fire for no reason, once or twice may be a coincidence, too many coincidences are concentrated then it is certainly not a coincidence.

"Mr. Franklin, the New York state government will not let you do whatever you want, this is New York, not Wellington of Delaware—" Beckland hysterical, his office in New York, and the factory was actually in New Jersey.

However, as a multinational company, Bakelite had branches all over the world, and in May 1910, Beckland established a general phenolic resin company with a daily output of 180 kilograms of phenolic resin products at the Rügers plant in Berlin, which was later merged into Union Carbide.

Wellington, Delaware, is the home of the DuPont family.

"Calm down, Mr. Beckland, you know, if I want to do something, I don't need permission from the New York City government." The old god Franklin is here, if it is the DuPont family, then if you don't make a move, you will ask Beckland to fly, and you really don't need the permission of the New York City government.

"You are too presumptuous, if you dare to do that, I will go to the White House and sue you." Beckland fought to the death, he knew that Franklin was not bragging, but it was really unacceptable for Beckland to sell the patent for only $100,000.

"Alright then, I'll wait for your accusation—" Franklin stopped talking nonsense, picked up the top hat in front of him and prepared to take his leave.

Before leaving Beckland's office, Franklin looked back and smiled strangely, and Beckland suddenly fell into an ice cellar.

After Franklin left, Beckland was distracted, and he always felt that something was about to happen.

So Beckland decided to go home from work at the end of the day.

Before preparing to board the car, Beckland suddenly remembered Franklin's creepy smile as he left, and suddenly decided to ask the driver to check the car.

"There is no problem with the car, sir, I have been in the car, waiting for your call at any time." The driver was a very spirited African guy who thought Beckland was doing too much.

"If you want to check, you check, less nonsense-" Beckland walked away with some resoluteness, the car he was riding in was also a lord car produced in Nyasaland, and it was given to Beckland by the Nyasaland military-industrial complex on its own initiative.

Although Beckland did not agree to the request of the Nyasaland military industry, he happily accepted the car.

The driver did not dare to disobey Beckland's order and carried out a detailed inspection of the carriage, as a result of which no problems were found.

"Under the car, under the car is also called inspection-" Beckland does not give himself a chance to make mistakes, life is only once for everyone.

"There won't be any problems under the car either—" Nunu muttered as he lay on the ground to inspect the bottom of the car, and then Beckland heard the driver's shrill exclamation.

"What's going on?" Beckland asked.

"Yes - someone planted a bomb under our car!" The driver was frightened and got up and ran.

Needless to say, this must have been the work of some family of repeat offenders.