Roque's biggest advantage is that he will not be constrained by Congress when mobilizing various resources.

Although Nyasaland has joined the Federation of Southern Africa, Nyasaland is nominally Roque's private domain after all, so Roque still has various privileges in Nyasaland.

Even from a business point of view, the umbrella company is also Roque's private property, and Roque does not need to ask anyone for instructions no matter what he wants to do, at most it is enough to pay the tax in full.

And the director of the General Administration of Taxation of the Federal Republic of Southern Africa is Ida, in all issues related to Roque, Ada will not only not make trouble for Roque, but will take the initiative to cooperate with Roque's work, so Roque can easily mobilize all kinds of materials to Kuwait, and no one will say anything about this issue.

On board the freighter from Port Edward, in addition to the various supplies urgently needed to renovate Kuwait City, there were more than 1,000 African construction workers, nearly 100 technicians, and five armored vehicles produced by the Nyasaland Automobile Factory.

This is just the first batch, and each of the next shipments to Kuwait will include five armored vehicles, and Roque even plans to send Scout tanks to Kuwait for duty, along with desert testing.

In short, Roque's purchase of Kuwait was not a whim, but an intention to pocket Kuwait permanently.

Although the current Kuwait has not yet shown its true value, Roque has successfully bought Kuwait, and he is still very happy during this time, and he can't help but laugh when he eats, which makes Phyllis very curious, Roque rarely has such a gaffe.

Of course, Roque will not explain, just like Roque initially insisted on spending a lot of money to emigrate to Nyasaland, when quantitative change did not cause qualitative change, Roque's behavior was always questioned, but the facts will always prove that Roque is so far-sighted.

Of course, even if oil is discovered in Kuwait, as long as Kuwait's oil reserves are not leaked, it is estimated that no one cares, after all, oil was discovered in Iran last year.

In another time, Kuwait discovered oil in 1938, which did not affect Kuwait's independence in 1961, and then with the advancement of technology, Kuwait's oil reserves were determined, and then the British government at that time regretted it too late.

So even now that oil has been discovered in Kuwait, the British government and the Ottoman Empire, at best, think that Roque is lucky.

Roque's luck has always been good.

In mid-February, Carl Fox's drilling team discovered oil in its first well in Kuwait.

And it's the best kind of self-blowout well.

The quality of the oil is also very good, and it can be used directly without any treatment.

Carl Fox was simply ecstatic, and he was going to announce it to the public as soon as possible.

But it was opposed by David.

"There are two ways, one is that you announce to the public now that Kuwait has discovered oil, and then because of this oil, maybe a war between Southern Africa and the Ottoman Empire will break out, and London will be greedy, and then the ownership of Kuwait is estimated to be disputed, and we will all become sinners in Southern Africa - the other way, we will make a fortune quietly, the oil should be extracted, and the extracted will be sent back to Nyasaland, and no one can leak this news, and I think the Lord will definitely award us a one-ton medal- Made of gold! "David is very sober, and the self-blowing well coupled with the good quality will make many people in this world go crazy.

"Wait, David, our drilling team employs a lot of local natives, and even if we don't leak the news, they're going to leak it—" Carl Fox didn't have a full understanding of imperialism.

"Hehe, leave this question to me-" David sneered gloomily, this kind of thing doesn't have any psychological pressure on mercenaries.

"You're not going to kill them all, are you?" Carl Fox suddenly realized why these mercenaries were always with their guns.

"Hehe, what do you say, only the dead can keep secrets-" David didn't think there was anything wrong with this, in fact, David had received Roque's secret order, for southern Africa, Kuwait is still too small, and the next Umbrella Company is about to start expanding, the Persian Gulf, the Euphrates, and even the entire Middle East Peninsula are the targets of the Umbrella Company.

It's all coming, and if the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence in the Middle East were limited to Kuwait, it would be a great shame for this era.

So after the first oil well was produced, the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence in the Middle East began to expand dramatically.

In fact, the Middle East is really easy to expand in this kind of terrain, the most critical stronghold in the desert is the oasis, and Kuwait City is actually an oasis, but Kuwait is located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, so it will form a port.

At this point in time, Kuwait City has actually become a huge construction site, a barracks for mercenaries, a logistics camp for the drilling team, a temporary barracks for construction workers, and a huge warehouse around the port, which has occupied more than half of Kuwait City, and the entire Kuwait City has no former indigenous people, they were either sent to Nepal or hired by the umbrella company, and the previous chief was shipwrecked on the way to settle in the UK, and the family was left with no bones.

The current Kuwait City is no longer called this name, but Port Elizabeth, although the name is a bit vulgar and the Ottoman Empire probably does not recognize it, but in the official documents of Nyasaland, Elizabeth has replaced Kuwait City as the new name of this brand new city.

According to custom, Port Elizabeth is still divided into two parts, the port area includes military barracks, warehouses, and office areas, and the living area is still the traditional two-story wooden building in Nyasaland, and now Kuwait City, where about 5,000 people already live, much larger than before.

Among them, nearly 4,000 are mercenaries of the Umbrella Company.

It should be emphasized here that the newly discovered oil field is a bit far from the location of Port Elizabeth, so the Umbrella Company immediately sent people to occupy several oases around the new oil field, declaring that this area is completely owned by the Umbrella Company.

This seems a bit ridiculous, but no one has raised any protest against the actions of the Umbrella Company, and even the indigenous tribes who originally lived in the oasis are gradually thinking of moving further away as the Umbrella Company's power expands.

This gave David greater confidence, and by the end of March, the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence in Port Elizabeth had expanded to 150,000 square kilometers, almost tenfold from the previous Kuwaiti territory.

This act of the Umbrella Company finally came to the attention of the Ottoman Empire and the Kega Kingdom.

However, what is speechless is that although the Ottoman Empire and the Kaiga Kingdom have noticed the actions of the Umbrella Company, they are not in a position to restrict the Umbrella Company.

Two years ago, Britain and Russia negotiated a division of their sphere of influence in the Kingdom of Qajar, with the northern part of the Kingdom of Qajar belonging to the Russian Empire, the southern part to the British, and the central part to the buffer zone.

Later, France, Austria, and the United States successively forced the Kaiga Kingdom to sign unequal treaties, so by 1909, although the Kaiga Kingdom was still nominally an "independent" country, it was actually in a semi-feudal and semi-colonial state.

In this case, although the Kaiga Kingdom noticed that the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence was expanding, because Port Elizabeth was surrounded by deserts, the Kaija Kingdom really didn't care much.

As for the Ottoman Empire, they simply issued a no-nonsense statement emphasizing that Port Elizabeth remained Ottoman territory.

It's speechless to say, even the current official documents of the Ottoman Empire have begun to use the name Port Elizabeth.

Of course, Roque liked this situation, and Roque didn't care much about the Ottoman Empire's statement, and simply instructed Christian to go to the Ottoman Empire under the activities, if the pound can't be handled, then add the rand, anyway, the Ottoman Empire will not exist for long, and another time and space will be in 1922, and the Ottoman Empire will finally fall.

Oil from Kuwait has given new life to Nyasaland's economy, after the price of oil in southern Africa soared to a pound per barrel, almost double the price in Europe.

Relatively speaking, the price of oil in Kuwait is very low, the cost of each barrel is only one shilling, and most of them are transportation costs, but the price of oil in southern Africa will not fall quickly in a short period of time, after all, Kuwait's oil needs a process to reach a certain scale.

In fact, Kuwait's oil production is not small, if calculated according to the standards of the 21st century, the daily output of the first oil well reached 25,000 tons, if calculated according to this value, even this oil well, the oil produced every day is enough to meet the demand of the whole of southern Africa.

So Roque has no intention of expanding production at all, anyway, Roque does not make money from this, and the daily output of Port Elizabeth oil depends entirely on the demand for oil in southern Africa.

This behavior, of course, attracted the opposition of Rudolf Diesel.

Rudolf Diesel's reasoning is simple: if the price of gasoline falls, it will be more conducive to the development of the Nyasaland car plant, and the increase in automobiles, in turn, will increase the demand for oil, so the two aspects are complementary to each other.

Roque did consider this issue, but before the outbreak of World War I, Roque was not prepared to expand Port Elizabeth's oil production, which would lead to unnecessary trouble, and even before the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Roque would not actively expose Port Elizabeth's oil reserves.

Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.