As far as Roque is concerned, Roque's performance in terms of wine color is simply a saint.

Admittedly, Roque also has stains, but those stains on Roque are not worth mentioning compared to the other British nobles, at least Roque did not abuse Africans when he recruited them, and he could fill their stomachs and give them some compensation, even if those payments were insignificant, which was already merciful compared to other colonists.

As for Ada-

cough, who hasn't ordered lace news, an earl and commander-in-chief like Roque plus a high-ranking colonial official, I'm sorry for Roque's titles if he doesn't have any gossip news, and the people around Roque are counted as one, except for Ade and Kitchener, who are unmarried for life, everyone else counts as one, and they all have problems in this regard.

Xiao Si is the same, as far as Roque knows, Xiao Si has a lot of romances.

"How do you think about being the director of the Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, it's not like you." Roque joked that Xiao Si, a winner in life, actually doesn't need to wade into this troubled water.

Sometimes Roque is very envious of Xiao Si's living state, his family is well-off, his strength is strong, he has a father who has made great contributions to the British Empire, he has hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land under his name, and he will have tens of millions of pounds of income every year if he does nothing, and if he is not strong-willed, most of them will live less than 40 and he will need that.

Compared with those losers in Britain, Xiao Si has indeed worked very hard, and compared with the South African company when Cecil Rhodes was alive, the current South African company has developed into a trust-like giant integrating agriculture, industry, trade, investment, and finance.

"You have already served as the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, and I can't lag too far behind, otherwise I won't have the face to educate Gavin in the future." Xiao Si is right, Gavin was just born, Xiao Si became Gavin's godfather, and he also intends to marry his youngest daughter to Gavin and become an in-law with Roque, which is the rhythm of being completely tied to Roque.

For this kind of marriage, Roque does not object or take the initiative, everything depends on the children's own choice, Roque is now this kind of net worth, and there is no need to marry to enhance his strength, if Gavin really looks at Xiao Si's daughter, then Roque also likes to see it.

Compared to Gavin, it was actually Arthur who was more popular, and although Gavin was nominally more important than Arthur, there were few families in southern Africa who were eligible to marry the first heir to the Earl of Nyasaland, so Arthur became a better match.

It's a pity that with the rise of Roque's status, Arthur's status has also risen, and now Arthur is already a Baron of Cyprus before he is an adult, and there are fewer and fewer girls who are also promising and qualified to be Mrs. Cyprus.

"You don't have much face right now, what can you teach Gavin? Wine tasting? Hunt? Gambling? Roque was speechless with a series of questions, referring to horse racing, one of Si's favorite sports.

Horse racing has always been a popular sport in Johannesburg, and during the Boer War, Johannesburg mine owners organized horse races, which shows their enthusiasm for horse racing.

He is the largest bookmaker in the horse racing industry in Southern Africa, with four of the top 10 horses in Southern Africa owning him, and he makes more than R10 million a year from the sport.

"And what can you teach Gavin? Fight? Homicide? What does it take to be a good Minister of War? You yourself are not qualified! Xiao Si sneered, probably because Xiao Si dared to accuse Roque in person that he was not a qualified Minister of War.

Roque raised his eyebrows and didn't speak, at this time, if Roque said a few more words, it must be another favorite mode of mutual harm.

Roque's time is precious, and he doesn't have time to talk nonsense with Xiao Si.

The "Relief Committee" established by the Entente was not only to provide relief and reconstruction to post-war Europe, but also to participate in armed intervention in the new Russian government.

On this issue, Roque really didn't dare to participate, and it was 404 that dared to participate, but on the two issues of disaster relief and reconstruction, Roque still had a lot of say.

Disaster relief requires a lot of supplies, especially in the context of the pandemic in the United States, the demand for medical supplies has skyrocketed, and Johannesburg Pharmaceutical has put into operation two mask factories with a daily output of 100,000 pieces, which are still unable to meet the needs of the expeditionary force.

In addition to medical supplies, what Europe needs most is food.

One of the main reasons why Winston advocated opening the Black Sea was to obtain grain produced in the Russian Empire.

After Russia's new government withdrew from the war, grain exports were largely halted, and the once-alleviated food crisis in Britain and France flares up again.

Southern Africa is not cereal-growing, so it is largely self-sufficient and cannot afford to export to Europe.

At this time, the United States became the only option for Britain and France, so the Entente would consider appointing Hoover as administrator of the Relief and Reconstruction Agency.

"You should go to Henry for this question, it's useless to look for me." Roque didn't want to get into trouble, as long as it was something that had something to do with the new Russian government, Roque didn't want to get involved.

The vast majority of steel and cement in southern Africa comes from Henry's fiefdom of Favart, which is now the largest steel and cement company in the UK.

During the world war, although there was no German landing in the British mainland, but because of the German bombing, the British mainland also suffered some losses, last year several British cabinet officials went to southern Africa to investigate, the three northern states of southern Africa are very envious of the wide and flat interstate highways, the northern three states refer to Nyasaland, Rhodesia and the Transvaal, the financial situation of these three states is better, so the tri-state government took the lead in building the interstate highway connecting the three states, and now Los Angeles and Salisbury, Pretoria, Interstate highways between Johannesburg are in operation, interstate highways between Los Angeles and Port Edward are being built in Nyasaland, and interstate highways between Johannesburg and Walvis Bay are being built in the Transvaal.

After the cabinet officials returned to London, they proposed to Parliament that they wanted to upgrade the roads in the United Kingdom to a high standard similar to the Southern African Interstate Highway, and this proposal was being reviewed by Parliament, and if it was passed, then Favart Steel and Favart Cement could get another big order.

"Who said it's useless, whether it's relief or reconstruction, it needs a lot of money, which is useless for RAND Bank?" The food needed by the Relief and Reconstruction Agency can be provided by the South African company, the steel and cement have Henry, the funds still need to be solved by the RAND Bank, and the British and French have exhausted their funds for the world war, although they can get German compensation after the war, but the Germans have no money now.

Roque didn't speak, but held his chin and thought about it, another time and space seemed to be after the defeat of Germany, which was to obtain funds from British and American banks, and then gradually rebuild the entire country from the ruins of the defeat.

Now it's not the turn of the Americans, and the RAND Bank now has money.

"You go back and make a plan, and then give it to Ada for review." Roque doesn't care about the operation of the Rand Bank, I believe that Ida will not miss this opportunity, and now for Roque, it is still the top priority to defeat the German army first.

At a time when all kinds of bulls, snakes, ghosts and gods were planning for the division of interests after the war, the expeditionary force was actively preparing for a counteroffensive.

In the plan of the staff of the expeditionary force, the counteroffensive of the British expeditionary force still started from Arras, with Vimy Ridge as the center, Roque invested 75 divisions of nearly 1.2 million people to launch a full-scale counteroffensive against the German army, this time Roque also no longer set campaign objectives for the troops, after breaking through the German defense line, Roque allowed the troops to advance as much as possible, preferably directly into German territory, to cause the Germans to the greatest extent, and force the Germans to the negotiating table as soon as possible.

The scale of the attack was so great that both Winston and Kitchener contacted Roque to join forces with the Royal Navy and launch a landing attack off the coast of Germany to open up a second battlefield.

This statement is incorrect, if a new battlefield is opened, then it should be the fourth or fifth battlefield.

After much consideration, Roque still rejected Winston and Kitchener's suggestion, as landing across the sea would take longer to prepare than directly committing infantry to attack, and what Roque lacked most now was time.

Seeing that summer is just around the corner, Roque hopes to end the war before winter arrives.

At the end of May, the British Expeditionary Force had stockpiled nearly 10 million rounds of artillery shells, 12 billion rounds of ammunition, 1.5 million tons of various aerial bombs, 150,000 tons of oil, and 4.6 million tons of various supplies needed for operations in France, and preparations for the counteroffensive had been completed.

On May 27, Roque and Petain met in Paris and decided to set the time for the counteroffensive as June 1.

At this time, the British Expeditionary Force had completed the transfer of troops, and Roque was still engaged in the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the Canadian Legion, and the Anzac Corps, and the British home force would serve as the reserve for the entire campaign.

In order to give full play to the role of the colonial servants, Roc also organized the Indian Legion and distributed it evenly among the participating troops to cooperate in the battle, and if cannon fodder was needed, then the Indian Legion could come in handy.

Also at the end of May, the bad news finally came in India, because the British government looted India, and the great famine in India has killed at least 20 million people.

Million!

Roque couldn't believe it when he saw this number, not all of them died of starvation, and a considerable number of them died of the American flu and natural deaths, and the Indian colonial government was a bit lazy to count these numbers in the number of people who died due to famine, which was obviously not enough for the British government to lose people.