Hoover is still in the Qing Dynasty, but he is no longer working in the Kailuan Coal Mine, but works directly for the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, mainly responsible for organizing immigrants from the Qing Kingdom to Nyasaland.

Although Roque despises Hoover's character, he also has to admit that Hoover's work is still very capable, the Nyasaland Agricultural Company now has more than a dozen agents in the Qing Kingdom, Hoover's work is the most fruitful, nearly three-tenths of the Chinese in Nyasaland were sent by Hoover, with the cooperation with the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, Hoover made a lot of money, and should start his political career earlier than another time and space.

Another time and space was after the outbreak of World War I, when Hoover began to emerge in the political field, and now Hoover has better conditions and more adequate funds, and there is no reason why he is not as good as another time and space.

Roque knew the fate of Hoover in the future, and Ida definitely didn't know, so Roque lost his mouth, and Ada asked what was going on.

"Hoover is still very capable, digging coal in the Far East is too wasteful of talent, I am ready to let Hoover try to develop in politics to see if he can play a greater role." Roque casually found a reason to go back to this matter, it is also normal for business to be excellent, there is a saying in the United States that first-class talents go to business, and second-rate talents enter politics, this statement is actually not accurate, power and wealth are a pair of symbiotic twin stars, both are indispensable.

"The Rand Bank still has to carry out its business to the United States in advance, as if it was paving the way for Hoover." Ida doesn't care if Hoover can succeed in the political field, in Ida's view, Roque's operation of Hoover is also an investment, and it is good to succeed, and there is no loss if it is not successful.

Since the 80s of the last century, the United States has surpassed Britain in terms of gross domestic product to become the world's largest.

It's just that Britain is still self-sufficient in goods, so the vast majority of British people have no personal experience of the fact that the United States' GDP has jumped to the first place in the world, and ordinary Britons cannot understand what the so-called "industrial scale" of the Americans is, and the importance of the United States to Europe will not be highlighted until the First World War starts.

In World War I, there were two countries that could be described as turning over, one was Japan and the other was the United States.

Although the British say that London is the center of the world at every turn, it is not actually economically, and now the economic center of the world has begun to shift to the United States, and Ida will certainly not ignore this, and the RAND Bank will definitely carry out its business to the United States in the future, so the so-called "paving the way for Hoover" is actually a piggybacking business.

"Come on, when I get back to Johannesburg, I'll talk to Henry and Smalls about the share structure, and then you'll be a real banker." Roque is actually guilty, although Ida is obviously selfish when he runs around the world, but compared with Ada, the general manager, the three real shareholders of Roque, Xiao Si and Henry, are a little too indifferent to Rand Bank, and it is also appropriate to increase Ada's shares.

"No, it's good for now, the current RAND Bank is no longer the RAND Bank of the past, and every percentage point of change may be millions of pounds in the future, are you sure Cecil and Henry will agree?" Ida doesn't care about her shares, but more about the relationship between Roque and Xiao Si and Henry.

Now the situation in southern Africa seems to be getting clearer and clearer, Nyasaland is Roque's territory, Rhodesia is Xiao Si's private property, Matilda's family is in the Transvaal, Roque and Xiao Si and Henry join forces to almost influence the future of southern Africa, so what is a rand bank, Ida will not be so short-sighted.

The Earl of Selborn was still very courageous, and proposed a plan for the joint autonomy of the southern African colonies, of course, including Rhodesia and Nyasaland, another time and space, Nyasaland and Rhodesia are a whole, after the autonomy of southern Africa, the British government let the South African company decide its own fate, when the old Cecil Rhodes had also died, and the small Si because after the Boer War, the Cape was indifferent to the British government's review of Cecil Rhodes, and chose not to merge with southern Africa and be independent of southern Africa, which eventually led to Rhodesia being reclaimed by the British government.

Now Roque will definitely not let Xiao Si make this mistake, if Southern Africa is autonomous, Roque will definitely persuade Xiao Si to let Rhodesia be incorporated into Southern Africa, so that Rhodesia will naturally obtain autonomous status, whether to stay in the Union of South Africa in the future, or break away from the Federation of South Africa to become a country in the actual sense, depends on the future situation of the Union of South Africa.

Roque's current post-mortem for the Chinese in southern Africa is that if the Federation of South Africa after autonomy still develops according to the inherent trend, then Roque will push the Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Nyasaland to secede from southern Africa and become an independent country.

"They'll definitely agree." Roque has confidence in Xiao Si and Henry, not only because of the friendship between them, even Ida can see the benefits of Roque and Xiao Si and Henry joining forces, Roque doesn't believe that Xiao Si and Henry can't see it, so cooperation is still based on fairness, friendship or family affection will actually change over time, and only interests are always the core.

A week after Ida arrived in Kolkata, the India branch of RAND Bank was established on the same day as the Indian branch of Umbrella Company.

Both companies have their headquarters in the North District of Kolkata, a wealthy area of Kolkata known as the "City of Palaces", and through the Earl of Minto, the RAND Bank and the Umbrella Company, they each bought a palace from the Mughal period as the headquarters of the two companies in India.

At the level of the palace, it must be all kinds of grand and magnificent, and it is still worthy of the scale of the two companies.

What's more convenient is that the two palaces are in the same block, almost diagonally opposite each other, which is more conducive to the coordination and cooperation of the two companies.

The business of the RAND Bank in India must be to provide security services for the umbrella company, not only in India, the development of the umbrella company, in fact, is accompanied by the rhythm of the RAND Bank, no matter where the RAND Bank carries out its business, the umbrella company will also be stationed, and the RAND Bank is the largest financier of the umbrella company.

In other words, the umbrella company is the strongest thug of the RAND Bank.

Now the umbrella company is also strong, don't look at the umbrella company's senior management of all kinds of scars, can perform the assignment of the staff, must be carefully selected, strong body is the basic condition, can use basic English and people to communicate is also a necessary condition, this year in the Qing Dynasty sentence is good and blocked can be used as a translator, so the umbrella company of the Chinese can basically be regarded as high-tech compound talents, in the umbrella company to get a high salary is also a matter of course.

On the opening day, in order to show his strength, Xia Jiu lined up 20 "Tiger" military cars and specially modified armored vehicles at the entrance of the umbrella company, and the entire Calcutta was shocked for a while.

The British navy is better, and the army units are raised by their mothers, and they are not treated anywhere, so that many officers who serve in the army themselves cannot raise their heads and report all day long asking to be transferred to the navy.

This is not the case with the regular army, not to mention the colonial servants, or related military organizations, and the reason why the British troops in India, which are composed entirely of Indians, are so unbearable also has a lot to do with the British government's use of the troops in India.

A unit composed entirely of Indians, who were standard cannon fodder in times of war, and servants of white officers in peacetime, doing odd jobs for servants, could not ask for more.

The emergence of the new 1st Cavalry Division has partially changed the perception of white Indians on the colonial servant army, and the high-profile appearance of the umbrella company has once again refreshed the perception of the security industry among white Calcutta.

A large part of this change is due to the advent of armored vehicles.

The reason why the navy is so tall and tall has a lot to do with the navy's increasingly advanced equipment, a battleship can easily cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, and the "dreadnought" shipbuilding plan just passed by the Admiralty costs millions or even millions of pounds, so the navy certainly has confidence.

In the past, the army can be said to be millet plus rifles, queuing up to shoot this combat method, but also caused the army's casualty rate on the battlefield to remain high, a battle, not to mention the whole army annihilated, the front row of soldiers are either dead or wounded, such a situation leads to the army does not have much sense of honor, so chasing those ethereal sense of honor, it is better to think about how to survive first.

The emergence of armored vehicles has fundamentally changed the way the army fights, soldiers sit on armored vehicles overlooking other people, and take a sampan to look up at the battleship, the psychological effect is completely different, not to mention that the umbrella company provides uniform uniforms for all employees, when designing clothing, Roque was lazy again, and directly took the standard clothing of the German army in the Second World War from head to toe as the standard clothing of the umbrella company.

Of course, the color can't be wrong, and the iron gray itself is also the color that Roque likes very much, so it is estimated that a certain mustache will have a headache in the future.

It is said that the mustache will also participate in the First World War, and it is not certain whether he has a chance to live until after the war.

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