After taking Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, the territory of Southern Africa has reached 5.5 million square kilometers, ranking second only to the Russian Empire, the Qing Empire, the United States, and Brazil in the world.

If you look at it this way, Southern Africa is also part of Britain and is not really independent, so George V does not seem to find a reason for Southern Africa to surrender South West Africa and Tanganyika.

What Roque now knows is that before the outbreak of the world war, the British government had a plan for the distribution of colonies in Africa, although the area was large, but the desert southwest Africa would become part of southern Africa, the key was Tanganyika, and the Tanganyika of this era also included Rwanda and Burundi, with an area of one million square kilometers.

Unlike Southwest Africa, which has many deserts, Tanganyika has more than 44 million hectares of arable land, and the rest of the land is also very suitable for pasture, 44 million hectares is converted into 660 million mu, plus the world's second largest lake, Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, Ngorongoro Crater, the Great Rift Valley, Lake Maniana and other natural landscapes, no one wants to give up easily.

When Southern Africa attacked Tanganyika, the Northern Rhodesian Division attacked directly to the north and took all the areas along Lake Victoria, according to the tradition of Southern Africa, if Tanganyika was handed over to Southern Africa for management, then Lake Victoria would definitely be integrated into Southern Africa as a whole.

"What did the Germans do with South-West Africa and Tanganyika?" George V finally spoke, and although he changed his surname, he was quite concerned about his cousin.

"Centralized management, unified return to Germany after the war." Roque is calm, no matter how relatives are, they can't change the situation of fighting in the same room.

George V nodded and said no more, without giving Roque a definite answer.

This is also understandable, although George V is nominally the king of England, in fact the king's power has been diverted, and Parliament and the government are the real forces that control Britain.

During the World War, it was the newly formed War Council that was in control.

Half of the members of the War Committee were present, Winston was silent, Lloyd George watched coldly, and Kitchener couldn't bear it: "Now that Tanganyika has been conquered, can the 1st Cavalry Division and the Northern Rhodesian Division be drawn to reinforce the French battlefield?" ”

Kitchener started with the war, and southern Africa wanted to get the support of the British government and rightfully annex South-West Africa and Tanganyika after the war, and now it had to make a greater contribution.

If Germany wins the final victory, the British Commonwealth will collapse, the global colonies will be divided by the Allies, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southern Africa, which are already self-governing dominions, will not be immune.

If Britain, France, and Russia fall, then with the strength of these dominions, it is indeed impossible to withstand the nearly 10 million troops drawn by the Central Powers from the Eastern Front and the Western Front.

"No, although the Southwest Africa and Tanganyikat armies have surrendered, there are still resistance forces in the territory, guerrillas are everywhere, and enough troops are needed to maintain law and order—" Roque's argument was not relenting, and this reason seemed far-fetched to Kitchener.

The first thing to be sure of is that Kitchener doesn't care which side Tanganyika belongs to after the end of the world war, anyway, whether it is handed over to Southern Africa or Egypt is in the Commonwealth, and the meat is still in the pot.

Kitchener was concerned about how to defeat Germany, so even if Tanganyika and South-West Africa were messed up, Kitchener would not care.

The difference is here, Kitchener can not care, but Roque can't not care, Roque wants to form an established fact, before the end of the world war, Southwest Africa and Tanganyika will be completely annexed, so that when the spoils are divided after the war, no one can take Southwest Africa and Tanganyika out of the belly of southern Africa.

"South-West Africa and Tanganyika don't need that many troops at all." Kitchener understands the strength of southern Africa, in France, the Southern African Expeditionary Force is indeed performing well, but it can be better, even the second cavalry division with the best performance is actually only a second-line army in southern Africa, and the real trump card is the first cavalry division and the northern Rhodesia division.

"Southern Africa, with a total population of only 5.5 million, has mobilized 670,000 troops to fight the Allies." Roque set up an ambush, using data from 1911 and not counting Africans.

Hearing the figure of 5.5 million, Kitchener and Winston frowned.

There is no way to frown, this statistical method was determined by the British government, and it was counted like this during the British rule, and to overthrow it now is tantamount to admitting that the previous British government did wrong.

And considering the current situation of southern Africa's vast and sparsely populated area and backward management methods, almost all the data, whenever the data related to the population appears, are always filled with a large number of uncertain terms such as "estimate", "maybe", "probably", "maybe", etc., and the statistical methods of different departments are different, and the figures obtained are hugely different, so Roque said that 5.5 million is not too much, because after 1911, there was no federal government-led population count in southern Africa. So now no one can say exactly how many people there are in southern Africa.

The data reported to Roque by Bullard's office was finalized by Bullard's office on the statistics of the state immigration offices and was not reported to London.

In 1911, for the first time, the Chinese population in southern Africa surpassed the white population, so the federal government never conducted a census again.

If you don't count, you don't exist.

The 670,000 Roque is referring to include the National Guard in southern Africa, the occupation forces in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, the Southern African Expeditionary Force in France, and the combined forces of Southern Africa and the Sultanate of Najd, which are on the offensive against the Ottoman Empire.

"By December last year, Southern Africa had provided Europe with 400,000 artillery shells, 500 million rounds of ammunition, 110,000 tons of various military and civilian supplies every month, more than 400,000 soldiers had already fought in France, and by Christmas the Southern African army had suffered more than 150,000 casualties, of which 120,000 had died, and we had done what we could." Roque understated, under the calm appearance could not hide the sadness and anger, the officers in the African division are all white or Chinese, most of the officers graduated from the Nyasaland Army Academy, from the first day of the establishment of the Nyasaland Army Academy, Roque was the dean of the Nyasaland Army Academy.

"No one denies the contribution of Southern Africa to the coalition forces." Winston seems to be objective, but in fact, his position is obvious, and Roque has always been friendly with Winston so that Winston can play a decisive role at this time.

Roque's purpose is South West Africa and Tanganyika, and although the Victoria Cross is rare, a medal, a knighthood, or an honorary title is not to earn Roque's loyalty, and loyalty should never be cheap.

"Southern Africa is contributing, but the government is paying for it—" Lloyd George finally spoke, but it was better not to speak, because if he didn't speak, no one would know that he was an idiot.

"Your Excellency, are you reminding me that in the future, trade between Southern Africa and Europe will be carried out with you?" Roque is welcome, there was no negotiation when Southern Africa pitted the Russian Empire, and it was quite kind when it supplied to Britain, although the price was also rising, but it had not risen to an unacceptable level.

In the context of the world war, rising prices were inevitable, trade between southern Africa and Europe was carried out through trading companies, and the nature of merchants was well known.

After all, the current trade system was mainly established by Britain and France, and although the United States has the largest gross domestic product in the world, the United States is still unable to say anything about trade policy.

For a long time, the United States has emphasized the opening of the door to free trade, that is, it wants to open the relatively closed British and French colonial markets, so Germany did not hesitate to launch a world war to challenge the colonial system established by Britain and France.

"My housekeeper told me that the prices of goods in the market had risen at least twice as much as they had before the war, that they could not even buy potatoes when they went late, that countless families were waiting to be fed, that the aid stations were receiving thousands of people a day, and that the situation in Belfast was even worse, and that important supplies had been put under control—" Winston only stated the facts, and did not seem to point fingers at anyone, but everyone knew what Winston meant.

"At least you still have a butler—" Lloyd George was also unkind to Winston, a true commoner-born official.

After a sumptuous but unpleasant dinner, Roque returned to the Rhodesia Hotel in London, where Angel had already received a thick stack of business cards and invitations.

"The Prime Minister has asked you to meet him tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, Mayor Chamberlain wants to have lunch with you, Minister Smozi wants to meet you, and here are two invitations from the Federation of Southern African Chambers of Commerce inviting you to a dinner tomorrow evening-" Angel reported on Roque's itinerary, which was a rare visit to London, and Roque's schedule was very full.

The Prime Minister summoned him as expected, presumably asking Roque what he thought about the world war and hoped that southern Africa would make a greater contribution.

Compared to Winston, Neville's progress was slower, but Neville was not the leader of the Chamberlain, he also had an older brother who was the Minister of Colonial Affairs, and the Chamberlain family was still a high-ranking power.

As for Jan Smotz, his current position is the head of the Material Distribution Division of the Ministry of War, and the Southern African Expeditionary Force was able to set up a logistics center in Dover.

In the context of the world war, where there is strife, there is unity, and when in southern Africa, Roque and Jan Smotz can be regarded as mortal enemies, and now that the world war has broken out, Roque and Jan Smoltz are still comrades-in-arms.

Life is wonderful.

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