While Roque and Philip were calculating Curzon, Curzon's behavior in the presidential suite of the Rhodesia Hotel also caused dissatisfaction among the accompanying officials.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it is not realistic to cooperate with the United States, at least not at this time, the Southern African consortium has a lot of investments in Australia, and we have to take into account the interests of the Southern African consortium." Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Robert is concerned that Curzon and Kitchina's personal relationship has seriously affected relations between Australia and southern Africa.

This is not good news for Australia.

"Don't worry, we're just using the Americans' strengths to promote Australia's development, and then improve Australia's position within the Commonwealth." Curzon was so ambitious that he announced as soon as he took office that he wanted to build Australia into a second southern Africa, something that now seems difficult to achieve.

"American money is not so easy to take—" Andrew Robert sighed faintly, the southern African consortium is black and greedy, and the American consortium is not much better.

Curzon wanted to bring in American capital, but in the end it was the American consortium that was introduced, and the US government was powerless in this regard, and at most it could only provide positive guidance.

Unlike southern Africa, in the past two years, the federal government of southern Africa has begun to consciously invest in basic livelihood facilities, trying to use state power to intervene in economic operations.

Not long ago, the Federal Government of Southern Africa issued a 100 million rand bond to upgrade the railways in the Kingdom of Mozambique, which will be integrated with the Southern African Railway network, and the Federal Government of Southern Africa will also own a stake in the Mozambique Railways.

This means that the federal government of southern Africa will continue to benefit from this project in the future, which seems to be small now, and the federal government will become stronger and stronger.

"At least Americans don't buy farms and throw them away from development." Curzon hated the Southern African consortium.

After Viscount Gladstone took office, a southern African consortium went on a large scale to buy assets in Australia, which largely alleviated the Australian government's financial crisis.

However, unlike Viscount Gladstone's imagination, the land purchased by the Southern African consortium was not directly developed, which also affected the continued income of the Australian government.

Curzon is now in such a situation that Australia will not be fully developed without bringing in American capital.

The introduction of American capital will affect Australia's prospects.

Do you want to die now, or do you want to die in a few years?

It's a philosophical question.

"We are in talks with Australian companies, which are already looking at investing more in Australia." Andrew Robert has a hard time, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and things must be done little by little.

"Negotiations? Where does an Australian company have the qualifications to negotiate with the government? Curzon didn't know much about the background of the Australian company.

"Your Excellency the Governor, behind the Australian company is a southern African consortium, and there are some local nobles, this company is really qualified to negotiate with the government." Andrew Robert was tired, and it was also a misfortune for Australia to be such a governor.

Curzon frowned, he really didn't know about this situation.

If the Australian company is only backed by a southern African consortium, Curzon can ignore it.

There are also local nobles behind them, and Curzon has to weigh them carefully.

Curzon himself was an aristocrat, and he was well aware of the strength of the native aristocratic community.

Note that it is a "group".

"What do Australian companies say?" Curzon's expression was calm, and he was probably still a little aggrieved in his heart.

This Nima has become a governor, and he still has to suffer from this kind of wretched anger, aggrieved-

Then you have to hold back, not to mention the governor, the king doesn't have much presence, otherwise George V's name wouldn't appear so often.

"In the past three years, Australian companies have invested more than 4,500 million rand in Australia to purchase land and invest in pastures in Western Australia, and in the next two years, Australian companies will increase investment to develop the purchased land." Andrew Robert is excited that without the 45 million rand, the Australian government would not have come out of the economic crisis so quickly.

"How much land has Australia bought in WA?" Curzon was more concerned with the result.

"About 25 million hectares—" Curzon was taken aback when Andrew Robert said the number.

"25 million hectares?" Curzon was unbelievable, it was too cheap too.

"Yes, 25 million hectares, but a lot of the land that Australian companies are buying is not good farms, but has no development value – at least barren mountains that have no development value right now, so the price will be cheaper." Andrew Robert can't help it, capital is all after profits, if it weren't for the fact that Australian land is so cheap, Australian companies would not be so aggressive.

"The capitalists in southern Africa are not as stupid as you think, and there must be information hidden in those barren mountains that we don't know, and we have to find out how to find out." Curzon opened his mouth to be a conspiracy theory, businessmen are unprofitable and do not get up early, so deliberate, there must be some plan.

Andrew Robert had no choice but not to tell the Australian government even if the Australian company had information that the Australian government did not know.

Australia doesn't have a military intelligence agency or a bullard, and it is better to count on the garbage from the Land and Resources Agency than on the private investigators in Canberra.

"Some of the scattered information that we know now is that there may be huge copper deposits in some areas of South Australia and Queensland, there may be iron ore in the Pilbara Mountains of Western Australia, and over the years, the Christian Exploration Company in Southern Africa has sent hundreds of explorers to be active in these areas, and we have also sent people to explore these areas, but nothing has come of it." Andrew Robert's expression was embarrassed, the dignified Australian government, the technical strength is not as good as a company, it is indeed a little embarrassing to say.

However, it is also normal, in terms of economic strength, the Australian government is really inferior to the Christian exploration company with the support of a consortium behind it, and in terms of execution, professionalism, professionalism, and logistics support, there is also a huge gap between government employees and corporate employees, in short, the gap is all-round.

Among other things, the Christiane Exploration Explorers can work in the field for more than a month in a row, which is not possible with Australian government employees.

"Continue to send people to explore, we must figure it out." Curzon was ruthless, and he knew that there must be something greasy in it.

"No, now the above areas are owned by Australian companies, and our explorers can't enter without the permission of Australian companies." Andrew Robert spreads his hands, private property is sacrosanct -

"It's all Australia's state property, so why don't they allow it?" Curzon was furious, and the Australian company had no choice but to let Andrew Robert get angry.

Andrew Robert could not answer the question, the laws enforced in Australia were enacted by the Australian Parliament, approved by the British Prime Minister and the London government, and if Curzon wanted to ask why, it would be better to ask the king.

The next day, after many mediations, Roque and Stimson continued to negotiate.

This time, Stimson's attitude was somewhat relenting, and he no longer demanded that all southern African troops withdraw from Canada, but his attitude on the issue of the Atlantic Fleet remained tough.

"If only symbolic forces were to be retained in Halifax, it would not be possible to secure the shipping lanes between Canada and southern Africa, and now that piracy is still rampant in the Caribbean, and our merchant ships are frequently treated unjustly overseas, the Atlantic Fleet was created to change that, not to change the balance of power in the Atlantic." Roque also made concessions, but still did not give an inch on the issue of the Atlantic Fleet.

After listening to Roque's words, Stimson was not good.

It is true that the merchant ships of southern Africa have been treated unfairly overseas, but that was a long time ago, and southern Africa took advantage of the problem to blackmail a military base from the Portuguese, and it was the Portuguese who really suffered from it.

As for Pirates of the Caribbean, it's just a pretext.

"If Southern Africa does not cancel the Atlantic Fleet, then the United States will also strengthen the strength of the Atlantic Fleet, and the United States will absolutely not sit idly by and let its interests be violated." Stimson also has a reason why he can't make concessions, after the signing of the "Washington Naval Treaty", the center of gravity of the United States is tilting towards the Pacific Fleet, and on the Atlantic side, the United States is indeed unable to catch it.

If we only count the tonnage of capital ships, the United States is indeed qualified to share the hegemony of the world's oceans with Britain, but the United States has to take into account both the Pacific and the Atlantic, on the one hand, it has to face a strong challenge from Japan, and on the other hand, it has to dominate the world for a hundred years, and the US Navy is actually powerless.

The situation in the United Kingdom is not much better than that of the United States.

The problem of Britain is that there are too many colonies, and the current Royal Navy can no longer guarantee the hegemony of the British Empire in the world, so it can only shrink strategically.

"This is the internal affair of your US government, and Southern Africa has no right to interfere." Roque looked indifferent, who to scare, if the United States had the strength to dominate the world, it would not take the initiative to initiate the Washington Naval Conference.

Although the Washington Naval Conference confirmed the international status of the United States, it also exposed the external strength of the United States, and Britain before the Boer War, and even before the world war, never feared anyone.

"Well, since Southern Africa insisted, then be prepared to suffer the consequences." Sting was tough, and the day's negotiations were fruitless.

It can't be said that there are no results, at least Stimson and Roque have now determined each other's bottom line.

Roque didn't expect to reach a consensus in a day or two, take his time, and this time the home game is in Pretoria.

ps: The day before yesterday, a friend had a car accident at night, and he had a big hole in his head, and he was still in the ICU - his friend didn't drink a drop of alcohol, and the other party's car owner was drunk driving, which was unlucky-