After graduating from Oxford University in 1909, Thomas Edward Lawrence traveled to the Middle East as an archaeologist to participate in the excavation of the ruins of Kakhmets, the capital of the Hittite kingdom in the Ottoman Empire.

As an archaeologist, Lawrence did not show any excellence, and it was not until the outbreak of the World War that Lawrence was given the opportunity to work for the British War Department because he could speak Persian and became an intelligence officer for the War Department.

During the World War, Lawrence became a British liaison officer, providing weapons to the Persians on the peninsula to help them resist the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and actively fought for the rights of the peninsulars after the war, and was considered a hero of the peninsula by many peninsulars.

Because of the advent of the Umbrella Company, Lawrence may no longer have the opportunity to work for the British War Department, but this does not prevent Roque from taking an interest in Lawrence, whose talent for intelligence work is strongly needed by the Umbrella Company.

"So, why are you, as an archaeologist, here? Shouldn't you go looking for mummies? Roque was still curious about Lawrence's work, and that curiosity stemmed from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

"We need rest too, I've been on vacation for the past few days, and then I heard that there's free stuff to eat here, so—" Lawrence wasn't too cramped, and he didn't know where he got the invitation.

"Archaeological work is boring, more than a hundred of us worked in the Valley of the Kings for more than thirty days, and we can't say that we found nothing, we found a mummy, but unfortunately it was a cat, it was packed in a cat-shaped box, more often we found a grave, but there was nothing but a cobra-" Lawrence was very talkative, chatting about the interesting things at work, and it sounded like the job was not so boring, and the audience was soon surrounded by an audience, and there were bursts of exclamations as Lawrence narrated, Or a cheerful laugh.

Located on the west bank of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings was buried, by more than 60 pharaohs of the Egyptian dynasty, most of whose tombs were visited by tomb robbers, and the burial items were plundered, some of whom were even archaeologists themselves.

"We found a lot of valuable things, scepters studded with precious stones, masks made of gold, gold bracelets carved with gemstone patterns, and a lot of gold products, which is a very challenging job, only the bravest people can do it, and of course the harvest is very great, and we have to be worthy of the investment of investors——"

Lawrence began to digress, and before Roark realized it, Ida whispered in Roarke's ear: "This guy is cheating money, I guess the team has no funds-"

It dawned on Roque that when he looked at Lawrence again, he was exactly the same as those crooks who seduce investors with their rhetoric, and he no longer had the aura of the protagonist of "Lawrence of Arabia".

I have to say that excellent people will be excellent no matter what they do, Lawrence may not want to cheat investment, and he won't dare to cheat Roque, but others don't care, now someone has begun to ask for Howard Carter's contact information, and a few noblewomen still flatter Lawrence, it seems that this guy will not have food even if he doesn't dig a grave.

In addition to being an archaeologist and intelligence officer, Lawrence was also an accomplished writer, translator, and military man, and he had a wealth of experience, writing several influential books, including translating Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", and returning to England in another time and space, first joining the Royal Air Force under an alias, and then being exposed by reporters to retire from the Air Force and joining the Army under a pseudonym, and finally retiring from the Royal Air Force when he reached retirement age.

Such a person is really not lonely no matter where he goes.

"You don't think about it, this guy has a lot of promise." There is a difference between Roque and Lawrence's archaeology, but Lawrence himself.

"I don't know how many people I have to see every day." Ida didn't like the bombastic Lawrence, who chose the wrong person because he was too busy with work to have time to talk to women, and he later confessed in his book "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" that the reason why he was trying to fight for the rights of the Persians was to give it as a gift to a Persian.

Roque doesn't care about Lawrence's private life, this kind of thing is normal in the current Britain, of course, Lawrence is not worthy of Roque to solicit personally, he is not important to this extent, the strength of the umbrella company on the peninsula, with or without Lawrence is actually the same.

Roque was originally going to show up and leave, but he was still invited to the small living room by McMahon, and this time McMahon was more direct.

"Using the Umbrella Company to contain the Ottoman Empire? Colonel, thank you for looking so highly at the Umbrella Corporation, which is only a commercial corporation and does not have the strength to directly confront a vast empire. Roque directly refused, the umbrella bullied second-rate countries like the Netherlands and Portugal, and it was okay, and it would not directly confront the big powers.

"Now Egypt is in danger, the Ottoman Empire won the Second Balkan War and is now sending troops to the province of Damascus, and I have intelligence that the Ottoman Empire has war plans against Egypt." McMahon was in a hurry, or Roque would not have had a chance to come to Egypt.

"You mean, the Ottoman Empire, after losing to the Kingdom of Italy and the Balkan Union in succession, won only this one victory, and several countries beat Bulgaria en masse, so that it had the confidence to confront the British Empire? You also overestimate the courage of the Ottomans. Roque rightly didn't believe it, though Roque knew very well that the Ottomans were indeed so super-confident.

Again, this country really can't be measured by common sense, during the world war in another time and space, the Ottoman Empire did attack Egypt, and McMahon was forced to write to Sharif Hussein so he chose to write to Sharif Hussein, which gave Lawrence a chance to appear.

"Maybe not now, but the Ottomans must have made plans to attack Egypt." McMahon was also very confident, and it is estimated that there were also internal lines within the Ottoman Empire.

This is almost certain, everywhere in the world, southern Africa is now infiltrating Tanganyika and south-west Africa, and so is Britain, which has always valued intelligence, not only the Ottoman Empire, but Germany is also estimated to have been infiltrated by the British.

This information is rarely released, but it can be seen from many historical details, such as before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Russia knew this information in advance, and then informed the United States, but the United States did not believe it, and then led to a great loss of strength in the Pacific Fleet.

History is always strikingly similar, and it was also before Germany attacked Russia that the United States knew about it and reported it to the Russians, but Russia didn't believe it either.

There are some things that are extremely scary to think about, and with Russia's intelligence capabilities, they can learn about the relevant information before Japan attacks the United States, so doesn't the United States know?

"Hehe, the Ministry of Defense of Southern Africa also has a lot of plans and is ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time, which is normal and does not explain anything, some situations will never happen, and in different periods, in the face of different situations, there are also different ways to deal with them." Roque didn't think the plan could say anything, this thing was also true and false, it wasn't that the umbrella company didn't have the strength, but McMahon's bid was not enough.

Or rather, Roque did not receive a higher level of authorization, and the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company would only be dispatched if the Ministry of War recognized the interests of Southern Africa on the peninsula.

The current Britain is too picky compared with the previous Britain, Britain during the Boer War was more trenched, and more than 200 million were burned in a war, and other countries, including the United States, are estimated to feel liver tremors.

As a result, after the battle, Britain learned from the pain, and since then it has changed its strategy and contracted comprehensively, Egypt only has a few thousand troops, and this number of troops is not enough to stuff the Ottomans after the outbreak of the world war.

Don't forget how Britain treated the Ottoman Empire during the Italian-Turkish War, and even the support provided by the Ottoman Empire to the North African troops through Egypt was not allowed to pass, this account was remembered by the Ottomans, before because of the Italian-Turkish War and the Balkan War, the Ottoman Empire had no time to settle accounts with the British, and now the opportunity has come, the "Bucharest Peace Treaty" has just been signed, and the Ottoman Empire can't wait to increase troops on the peninsula, and the purpose is obvious.

"What is the purpose of the umbrella to support the Sultanate of Najd?" McMahon is blunt, there are some things that everyone knows, and they just don't say it.

"In order to protect Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth is the core interest of the umbrella, and the Sultanate of Najd was originally a loose alliance, and it was accidentally made a little big." Roque is at will, and the UK actually operates it this way.

Only the Aden Protectorate was now under the direct control of the British, and there was a loose alliance between the Aden Protectorate and the Sultanate of Najd to secure the Aden Protectorate, which of course was eventually incorporated into the Aden Protectorate, which later became Yemen.

Port Elizabeth is the same, at least on the surface, it's a routine operation.

"You don't want Port Elizabeth to be annexed to Southern Africa?" McMahon went straight to the heart of the matter, and the posture of Adan and Umbrella in Port Elizabeth was not an easy way to give up Port Elizabeth.

Unlike Roque's "official but not repaired", Port Elizabeth was a small fishing village when it was run by British officials, and after it became Roque's private property, Adan Company and Umbrella Company began large-scale construction.

Now Port Elizabeth has the largest port in the entire Persian Gulf, and the city construction is no worse than Cairo, and even more than in many aspects, so the oil reserves of Port Elizabeth must be more than Adan advertised.