At the end of the meeting, Roque and Henry exchanged a tacit smile and took care of their things.

As soon as he walked out of the conference room, Sidney Milner stopped Roque and Henry: "Minister Locke, Minister Matilda, Prime Minister, please come over for a moment. ”

The Prime Minister summoned him and asked the newly recruited secretary Fei Qi to wait for him in the car, Fei Qi is a recommended student who just graduated from the Nyasaland Army Academy this year, and the recommended student refers to an outstanding talent with front-line combat experience who has been recommended to study at the Nyasaland Army Academy because of his outstanding performance.

Roque's previous secretaries, Angel and Barton, had been decentralized, one went to the Army and the other to the Navy, so after returning to Southern Africa, the Ministry of Defense recommended several suitable secretary candidates for Roque's pediatrics, and Roque chose Feige from among the spare personnel.

Feige's father also used to work with Roque in the Cape Town Police Department, and it makes sense that Roque trusts the old brothers more.

In the Prime Minister's office, Ade frowned, Roque's proposal today made Ade a little surprised, Roque had never been so tyrannical before the outbreak of the world war.

"Actually, I originally asked to place the Fort Glory troops in the Republic of Congo and the Kingdom of the Congo respectively, but it was Henry who reminded me that it was in our interests to resettle the Fort Glory troops in West Africa." Roque admitted that in the face of those ministers, Roque still has reservations, and there is no need to face Ade.

"The Portuguese, we were allies during the Great War of the Century." Ade reminded Roque that Portugal was indeed a member of the Entente during the World War, and that Roque even had two Portuguese divisions under him at that time, but these two divisions were demoralized, outdated, and poorly trained, and did not play a real role, and have always been symbolic.

The great power game of the world war is indeed no room for Portugal to intervene, and the two divisions sent by Portugal are also an attitude, during the world war, these two divisions did not participate in even a single battle, and their performance was not even as good as that of the Indian Legion.

"Sir, an ally like Portugal is not to be trusted." Roque didn't care about Portugal, which meant that the Entente won the world war, and if the Allies won the world war, then Portugal would immediately fall to the Allies, just like Italy.

Italy is the real thing to do, standing in first place.

"Then we can't blatantly infringe on Portugal's rights, we still have to have the posture we should have." Ade reminded Roque not to look so ugly, Southern Africa already has Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, with a territory of more than 5.5 million square kilometers, which makes Ade have to be surprised and apprehensive, for fear that the flowers in front of him are a good dream.

"Don't worry, I know, I won't leave anyone with any tricks." Roque is full of confidence, and it is estimated that Ade still thinks that Roque will be as open as Britain and France, so Roque's methods will not be so rough.

Is that spring bad, or peace is not fragrant, so you have to blatantly rob it.

Roque had a hundred ways to make West Africa a legitimate part of Southern Africa, and the Portuguese would have to knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, just like the Belgians who lost the Congo Free State.

Ade still trusts Roque, waving his hand to let Roque and Henry leave, bowing his head and starting to work on the papers.

When he went out, Henry was indignant: "So, why did I stay, I didn't say a word to me from beginning to end." ”

Henry was really unhappy, when Roque was no longer in Southern Africa, Henry was a frequent visitor to the Prime Minister's office, the number one celebrity in front of Ade.

After Roque returned to Southern Africa, Henry was immediately thrown into the cold palace, and he was left behind but didn't say a word, which is Roque, so Henry won't take it to heart.

"That shows that you did a good job, there is nothing to make the prime minister complain, believe it or not, if my answer just now does not satisfy the prime minister, we will both be scolded together." Roque was brisk and would go home to have dinner with Phyllis and Philip, and Roque was now at home.

"Then that means that you are alone in being praised, and if you are scolded, it is the two of us." Henry was even more unhappy, he was so serious in front of Roque, in fact, he had no opinion on Ade, Henry and Roque were both pulled up by Ade himself.

"Ha, that's right—" Roque couldn't help but laugh, and it was only in southern Africa that Roque could feel the relief he hadn't felt in a long time, and when he was in France, Roque often couldn't sleep at night.

In Southern Africa, even if Roque did something wrong, he had Ade and Philip behind him.

It was different in France, especially after Roque became the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, countless pairs of eyes stared at Roque, waiting for Roque to make a mistake.

Back home, Phyllis has prepared dinner with Lacey and Karina, which is a regular dinner party every week, and although Philip has a cook at home, Phyllis will also do it with Lacey and Karina.

"Good work, dear—" Seeing Roque return, Phyllis took the initiative to welcome him, giving him a fragrant kiss and helping Roque take off his coat.

"For you, beautiful young lady—" Roque magically pulled out a blooming rose from his back.

The smile on Phyllis's face was immediately brighter than a rose.

Lacey looked at Henry expectantly.

Hyon looked at Roque with a glazed look.

Rock ignored the two and went to the living room with Phyllis affectionately.

"Shameless dog thing, just picked in the neighbor's garden—" Henry accused someone of moral turpitude.

"So you're coming back empty-handed—" Lacey gritted her teeth, the woman didn't care where the flowers came from, the woman cared if they were there.

"No, I brought a heart." Henry's flesh is numb.

Resy disgusted with her face, pouted and turned to leave.

In the living room, Philip and Owen are chatting, the men of Matilda's family are still very happy, and it is the tradition of Matilda's family to be the male protagonist and the female protagonist.

"Locke, have you heard that the Entente are finally at war with the Russian Empire—" Owen fussed.

With a heavy heart, Roque finally made it this far.

But fortunately, Roque has returned to Southern Africa, and even if Europe fights lively, it has nothing to do with Roque.

"The commander-in-chief of the Entente is Ian Hamilton, I remember when you were the commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Ian Hamilton was your chief of staff, how is this person, can you defeat the Russians?" Owen didn't think Europe was messy enough, but from the perspective of southern Africa, Owen's reaction was the right one.

"Ian is good, he does have the ability, but now he is starting a war against Russia-" Roque shook his head and smiled bitterly, it was November, it was winter, and Russia with the weather bonus was almost impossible to defeat.

"Le Figaro published the death of the Tsar's family in the Russian Empire, and His Majesty had to fight." A frowning Philip explained.

That's right, it turned out that the French were the ones who got in the way.

The news of the death of Nicholas II's family has been widely reported, but it has never been confirmed.

The editors of Le Figaro were also very powerful, publishing not only the death of Nicholas II's family, but also the crypt where Nicholas II's family was executed, as well as photographs of the cemetery of Nicholas II's family.

When the rumors were not confirmed, George V could still pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Now the rumors have finally been confirmed, and George V is going to wage war against Russia, both in public and private.

"Duke" because of the 750 million pounds foreign debt owed by the Russian Empire to Great Britain.

"Private" must be because of the relationship between George V and Nicholas II.

Roque picked up the newspaper on the coffee table, and sure enough, the headline on the front page was "Nicholas II's family died in a basement in Yekaterinaburg".

The editors of Le Figaro made full use of the romance and gossip of the French, describing the death of Nicholas II's family as the stall literature of a third-rate tabloid, full of absurd and unconfirmed news.

Roque casually glanced at the newspaper and put it down, the news of the death was indeed true, and the details did not stand up to scrutiny.

"Will our troops in Europe participate in this war?" Philip was worried, the world war had just ended, and a new war had broken out, and there was really no peace for a moment.

"It should be, but it doesn't matter, Europe is too far away from us, so this war will not affect us." Roque took the green tea that Phyllis had brought and muddled it with Phyllis in front of Philip.

Philip's eyebrows twitched, and Owen looked down at the newspaper and pretended not to know anything.

Henry, who had just come over, was uninteresting, and after sitting down, he glared angrily at Roque.

Roque smiled and drank tea, and was stunned when he inadvertently saw the appearance of the teacup, and raised the teacup to look at the bottom of the cup-

Sure enough, there was a blue mark on the bottom of the teacup.

"Phyllis, put away this tea set and change the cup for me." Roque couldn't bear to be violent and ruined, this set of cups is not worth much now, and it will be terrible in a few decades.

"What's wrong?" Phyllis didn't know why, during the world war, there was a surge of various crafts in southern Africa, this set of teacups was sent by Christian, and Phyllis felt good and sent it to Philip, she really didn't realize how valuable this set of cups was.

Anyway, if Phyllis really knew the actual value of this set of cups, then she wouldn't have sent it to Philip.

Philip looked at him coldly and didn't say a word.

I finally managed to eat, and the previous table couldn't sit at all now that so many people could sit, so there was simply one table for adults and one table for children.

The men must have wanted to drink something, and Phyllis and Lacey and Irena can actually drink some too, but all of them have a temperance and a little bit of restraint.

After the meal, as usual, the women gossip in the living room, and the men go to the study to smoke and drink tea and chat, and the topic starts with the upcoming war.

ps: Today's four watches are completed, and I have something to go out later, if I come back late, the midnight update will be postponed until about twelve o'clock tomorrow -