In this incident, the royalists of Lorenço Marques suffered heavy losses, most of the royalists were either killed or forced into exile, and very few royalists remained in Lorenço Marques.

Prior to this, most of Lorenço Marques' farms were in the hands of the royalists, and the Labour Party was more concerned with new industries and businesses, and had less interest in traditional plantations.

This gave Roque and Xiao Si a chance to make a move.

Just before the referendum began, when Lorenço Marques was still under martial law, Roque and Xiao Si's men went on a land spree in Lorenço Marques, buying most of the farms around Lorenço Marques in just a few days.

Some farms are even owned by Labour members, not owned by the Loyalists, and the Labour Party is not sure that its interests will not be violated until the dust settles, so some people are willing to temporarily exchange the land that cannot be taken away for cash, and in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, the price of an acre of farm has reached more than a pound, but in Lorenço Marques, an acre of farm is cheapest for only ten pence.

So after the referendum, most of Lorenço Marques' plantations have quietly belonged to Roque and Xiao Si, Roque only bought a hundred thousand acres, and Xiao Si bought more than two million acres in one go, and is the largest landowner of Lorenço Marques at present.

With so many plantations, it definitely takes a lot of manpower to run them.

So next, Roque and Xiao Si have to organize people to go to Lorenzo Marques.

There is no doubt that it is the Chinese who have the ability and the ability to go to Lourenço Marques, and although the intensity of immigration in southern Africa is much worse than before, there will always be three or five boats a month, and there must be five or six thousand people.

Roque doesn't need to settle too many people in Lorenço Marques, only one or two thousand, and the whites of Lorenço Marques will become a minority.

If the Chinese are helpless in Africa, this numerical advantage will not play any role, just like the Africans now, although in general, the largest ethnic group in southern Africa is still Africans, but Africans have no political rights, can only live at the bottom of the whole society, and do not play a role.

Once the total number of Chinese in Lorenço Marques exceeds the total number of 100 people, quantitative changes can cause qualitative changes, and Lorenço Marques joined Southern Africa through a referendum, so if there is any accident in the future, it is logical to have another referendum.

It was then that the fate of Lorenço Marques would be decided.

Sidney Milner was not surprised by Roque's arrangement, and if Sidney Milner's previous understanding of the value of population was not sufficient, then through the referendum of Lorenço Marques, Sidney Milner now fully understands why Roque insists on emigrating to southern Africa.

Even if some Chinese people don't seem worthy of Roque's actions.

Although most Chinese are hardworking and capable, there will always be some black sheep.

When the migrant ships traveled between southern Africa and the Qing state, they returned with not only farm goods to be sold to the Qing country, but also those Chinese who had been repatriated to the Qing country because of their crimes in southern Africa.

Some of the Chinese who remain in southern Africa are also gradually reduced to the bottom of society because of poor farm management or other reasons.

That is to say, there is a great demand for labor in southern Africa, and this part of the Chinese who have lost their farms can also find jobs to eat, but it is absolutely impossible to live a more comfortable life.

What really frightens Sidney Milner is that even these Chinese who have fallen to the bottom of society have the right to vote according to the current laws in southern Africa, considering that the total number of Chinese in southern Africa has exceeded that of the British and Boers, and thinking about the previous referendum of Lorenzo Marques, Sidney Milner really shuddered.

Fortunately, Roque is not dissatisfied with southern Africa, so the referendum of Lorenzo Marques will probably not happen in southern Africa in the short term.

But what about the future?

Now Roque will still maintain respect for the federal government because of Ade and Philip, but if Ade steps down and Philip grows old in the future, who in southern Africa can form a counterbalance to Roque?

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Ade will train Roque as a successor.

Since there is no way to check and balance, then simply let Roque become the prime minister of southern Africa, and at that time, whether it is Nyasaland, the Transvaal, or Orange, it will be Roque's territory, and Roque will favor one over the other.

Knowing this, Sidney Milner preferred to make a big detour when he returned to Pretoria, and also to meet Roque via Nyasaland.

It doesn't matter what you talk about, the key is to deepen the relationship, and extend the relationship between Roque and Ade to Roque and Sidney Milner through another relationship, which is good for both Roque and Sidney Milner.

Even good for the future federal government.

Roque knew this, of course, and held a gala welcome dinner at Eagle Castle that night to catch Sidney Milner.

"The conditions of Lorenço Marques are indeed unique, in the past, the Portuguese engaged in the slave trade, selling Africans to all parts of the world, and then the slave trade was gradually banned by various countries, the Portuguese still relied on the plantations to earn a lot of money, cashew nuts, cotton, sugar and sisal have been successfully sold to Europe, and the fishery resources also have great potential - "Sidney Milner is still very optimistic about Lorenço Marques, that is, the Portuguese themselves died, so Lorenço Marques has come to this point.

Most of the people attending the banquet were officials of all levels in Nyasaland, and they didn't know much about Lorenzo Marques, so when they heard Sidney Milner's introduction, they caused a burst of amazement from time to time.

In fact, they didn't envy Lorenço Marques much, although Lorenço Marques is rich, Nyasaland is not bad at all, in terms of agricultural scale alone, and unit efficiency, Nyasaland is even more complete Lorenço Marques.

The most outstanding industry in Nyasaland, before Nyasaland, southern Africa was an industrial desert, and there was not even a single primary processing enterprise in the whole of southern Africa, and all kinds of minerals mined in southern Africa were sold to European merchants on the spot, and then those merchants were transported to Europe for processing and sale, so the mines in southern Africa could only earn some leftovers, and more profits were made by middlemen.

Roque's appearance changes all that.

To be precise, it was with Henry's Favart steelworks that Southern Africa finally began to develop its own industry.

Up to now, the motorcycles produced in Johannesburg, the automobiles and agricultural machinery produced in Nyasaland have been exported to all over the world, both in Europe and in the United States are very popular, in order to seize the market, Roque even set up factories in Europe and the United States, local production to meet local needs, so now even Phyllis does not know how many assets Roque has, I am afraid only the RAND Bank knows.

Under Ida's leadership, the core business of RAND Bank is to serve the industry of Nyasaland wholeheartedly, and wherever Roque opens factories, RAND Bank will open branches, and Nyasaland's products are very popular, which in turn strongly supports the expansion of RAND Bank.

All business activities with Nyasaland enterprises must be carried out through the RAND Bank if they involve the transfer of funds, so the business volume of the RAND Bank is not a problem, the problem is that the speed of talent training cannot fully meet the needs of the RAND Bank's expansion.

"Locke, when do you get your hands on Southwest Africa, Southern Africa will completely become our Southern Africa-" Little S. Long Wangshu, in this time Lorenzo Marques's incident, he gained more than Roque, so he was very interested in colonial expansion.

"Don't even think about it now, just wait-" Roque is not in a hurry, it is already 1909, the world war is imminent, and the Ministry of Defense has decided to double the size of the Wehrmacht to eight divisions on the current scale of four divisions, and then eight reserve divisions will be formed, and once the war breaks out, these reserves can be reorganized into regular troops at any time.

The implementation of the "new tax law" has brought huge changes to southern Africa, don't underestimate the mere three percent, put it into account as a whole, that is, the net income of millions of rand a year, and in the end, nearly half of this part of the money was invested by Ade in the Ministry of Defense, so the pressure on the Ministry of Defense is also very great.

At the end of last year, the 3rd and 4th Divisions stationed in Cape and Nantal had just been reorganized, and they were slightly smaller than the Northern Rhodesia Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, each numbering about 15,000 men.

However, the miraculous thing is that because of the implementation of the compulsory military service system, although the size of the army is expanding, the financial pressure brought by it is not large, but because of the third and fourth divisions, the funds of these two divisions have been reduced, so Ade will make up his mind to expand the armament war.

Of course, this is probably also related to the requirements of the British government, after all, through the conflict in Tanganyika, the southern African forces have fully demonstrated strong combat effectiveness, and the British government cannot turn a blind eye.

This also poses a new problem for Roque.

If the army in southern Africa is expanded, then when the world war breaks out, the British government will definitely send troops from southern Africa to Europe to participate in the war, and it is estimated that Roque will be very difficult at that time.

If the British government agreed to send troops to fight in Europe, it would be tantamount to making the Chinese in southern Africa work for the British.

This was not a problem in itself, but given the chain of command of the British troops, Roque immediately rejected the idea outright.

So the command is the main issue, and if those British generals are put in command of the southern African forces, then the southern African forces will definitely be used as cannon fodder.

Therefore, when the time comes, it is impossible to say that Roque will also go to Europe and personally participate in the world war that will absolutely the fate of all mankind.

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