Don't forget that Southern Africa is still a creditor of the British Empire, so Roque's refusal of capital ships under the pretext of lack of money is really outrageous.

The British government was so poor that the king's palace had no money to repair it, so it still sold iron to build battleships and maintain the naval superiority of the British Empire in the world.

Southern Africa, which was obviously powerful, disdained battleships, which made Balfour both happy and indignant.

Fortunately, because Southern Africa did not develop capital ships, it did not have the ability to compete with the British Empire.

The indignation was due to the fact that the British Empire was building capital ships, but Southern Africa was indifferent, which clearly did not take the Royal Navy into account.

Roque did not take the Royal Navy seriously, but this did not prevent Roque from properly expressing his envy for the battleship "Queen Elizabeth".

The battleship "Queen Elizabeth", the lead ship of the "Queen Elizabeth" class battleships, began construction in 1912, when the British Admiral was still Winston.

Under normal circumstances, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" has a displacement of 29,150 tons, a full load displacement of 33,020 tons, and a total of five sister ships of the same class, namely Queen Elizabeth, Warweary, Barham, Warrior, and Malaya, of which the construction of the Malaya came from British Malaya.

The "Queen Elizabeth" has the world's largest caliber main gun, 15 inches, which is converted to 381 mm.

If the "Queen Elizabeth" wants to attack the "Transvaal", it must first enter the range of the main guns, and before that, the carrier-based aircraft on the "Transvaal" have enough time to sink the "Queen Elizabeth".

On the 7th of July, Viscount Gladstone arrived in Portsmouth, and on the 9th, former Canadian Prime Minister Bowden arrived in Portsmouth, and now only the Cabinet Member of the Privy Council of India, Sastry, has not yet arrived.

The Indians were indeed slow to move, and it was not until the 12th that Sastry arrived at Portsmouth, where Roque went to the docks to meet him with Balfort, Viscount Gladstone, and Bowdoin.

"The Indians were so slow that they made us wait here for a whole week, and they just let him take a boat to New York." Roque has always been very dissatisfied with people who have no sense of time, and if it were in southern Africa, it would be better to retire a week late.

"Normal, when will the Indians be fast?" Viscount Gladstone also did not like the Indians.

Although Viscount Gladstone has gone to Australia to take up his post, Roque still maintains a good relationship with Viscount Gladstone, and through the Australian company, Roque has invested more than 20 million pounds in Australia, and half of Western Australia has been bought by Roque.

"When you're being chased by bullets—" Former Prime Minister Bowden had a dark belly and vomited.

Roque and Viscount Gladstone burst out laughing.

Balfour seemed to be dissatisfied with the few people who were chatting happily, and turned to glare at Roque with stern eyes.

Roque turned a blind eye, what happened to the Privy Councillor, the lord is a marquis, who is he staring at?

No big, no small!

"Yesterday I went to St. Roque, my lord, you really have the courage to build a city directly in the barren mountains and mountains, the French are too stingy with us Canada, only give us one square kilometer, it is better not to send it-" Bowden's envy of Roque is overflowing, Canada actually has no less resources than southern Africa, but unfortunately there are too few Canadians, and they are too close to the United States, with a total population of less than eight million, and an average of less than one square kilometer.

Canada's territory covers an area of 9.98 million square kilometers, second only to Russia in the world.

"What you're looking at is a city, but it's actually a sand dune with little economic value, or the French wouldn't have given it to us." Roque also just returned from St. Roque, and Christian didn't know how many Africans had died of exhaustion, and built the port of St. Roque into a first-class military port that could dock battleships.

Roque praised Christian's work, and if he continued, Christian might get a knighthood.

"You haven't been to Southern Africa, and there's nothing surprising me since I left it, and Canberra is building like a snail compared to Southern Africa," Viscount Gladstone seemed to be very upset with Australia.

In 1901, the Australian federal government was established, in order to determine the issue of the capital, Australia's two major cities Sydney and Melbourne quarreled, and it was not until 1911 that the Australian federal government passed a resolution to choose a place between Sydney and Melbourne to establish a new capital, so it chose this vacant land 238 kilometers away from Sydney and 507 kilometers away from Melbourne, which was later Canberra.

When the Australian federal government chose Canberra, Canberra was not yet called that, so the Australian federal government brainstormed and finally chose the traditional name of the local residents - Canberra, which means "meeting place", and the people are also called "meeting place".

In 1912, the federal government hosted a worldwide competition for urban design, and a year later, the Australian Parliament selected the proposal of Walter Bury Griffin, a 36-year-old Chicagoan, a famous American landscape architect, from 137 editions collected.

Since that year, Canberra began construction, and it has been eight years now.

About twenty percent or so.

Construction in Canberra was halted during the World War due to a lack of construction workers, but it has now resumed.

"The federal government should hire a construction company from southern Africa, so that at most three years, Canberra can be fully completed." The construction of Canberra, another time and space, took 14 years and was not completed until 1927.

I don't know how long this time and space will take, but it is estimated that it will take less, and compared with another time and space, the current Australian federal government is at least financially rich.

"Gentlemen, please be quiet, the Dreadnought has already entered port—" Balfour was really helpless, and the team felt a little moved.

The battleship "Dreadnought" is the flagship of the Indian Navy, which is also a legendary warship, the world's first "dreadnought", started construction in 1905, commissioned in 06, originally last year the Royal Navy was ready to retire the "Dreadnought", and then for some reason, the "Dreadnought" was sent to India and became the flagship of the Indian Navy.

The Royal Navy originally wanted to send the battleship "Dreadnought" to southern Africa, but it was rejected by the federal government of southern Africa, and the federal government of southern Africa said that it was not that it was really disliked, but that we did not have anyone in southern Africa who could command the battleship.

This time Balfour's reminder had an effect, perhaps because he didn't want to be embarrassed in front of the Indians, Viscount Gladstone, Bowdoin, and Roque instantly became serious, and immediately had to have a temperament and discipline.

Alas, it would be nice not to be a demon.

The battleship "Dreadnought" slowly docked on the dock, and Sastryy walked up to the dock via the gangway.

Roque was disappointed that he was white, not Indian.

It's normal to think about it, when there was no autonomy in southern Africa, the officials were all white, and India must be the same, don't look at the British who say it nicely, for India, the British attitude has always been resolute.

After the outbreak of the world war, in order to win the support of India, Britain promised to give India the same autonomous status as southern Africa, Australia, and Canada after the end of the world war.

The Indians believe it and ask for money for money and grain for food, and would rather their own people go hungry than save food to supply the father of the suzerain.

As a result, after the war, Britain refused to fulfill its promises, but intensified its efforts to loot India, and the Indians realized the British face at this time, but the Indians did not rise up to resist and try their best to fight for their own interests, but silently accepted this reality.

Sure enough, a good son of the British Empire.

After greeting Belfour, Balfour introduced Roque and the others to Sastri.

When facing Bowden and Viscount Gladstone, Sastry behaved normally, with a mature and bright smile, and a kind and measured tone, which made people feel good.

When he arrived at Roque, Sastry's expression suddenly became much lighter, the greeting was neither hot nor cold, and the handshake was even more perfunctory.

Roque even keenly noticed that after shaking hands with Roque, Sastri quietly wiped the back of his hand on his clothes.

Nima!

What do you mean?

Roque had an almost instantaneous seizure.

But after all, he endured it, such a little person is not worthy of Roque's anger.

At the welcome dinner in the evening, Roque was not scheduled to attend.

However, Balfour repeatedly reciprocated, and Roque reluctantly rushed to the dinner scene.

Roque doesn't actually need to please anyone now, so when Roque arrived at the dinner site, the banquet had already begun, but fortunately it was a Western-style buffet, and it was normal for Roque to be late.

"Did this guy offend you?" Viscount Gladstone keenly sensed that there must be a reason why Roque was late.

"No, just a little tired—" Roque didn't admit.

"Hi Locke, I thought you weren't coming-" Neville suddenly appeared, having lost to Andrew Bernal Law in last month's election, and then Andrew Bernal Law invited Neville to be the head of the General Post Office, a position that Neville had held to his brother Austin.

"Didn't you just become the director of the General Post Office, so idle?" Roque was pleasantly surprised that the last time he and Neville met was during a ceremony in which France and Belgium presented St. Roque to Southern Africa.

"Of course, this position is much more idle than your Minister of Defense—" Neville laughed, the position of Postal Service General has been almost monopolized by these two guys in recent years.

"Good evening, Lord Nyasaland—" Sastri's ghost lingered.

Roque's expression immediately became impatient, and he didn't bother to pretend.