While Nyasaland was carrying out educational and health care reforms, the southern African fleet to the United States for the Washington Naval Conference departed Walvis Bay for Portsmouth to join up with the British delegation before heading to the United States.

The fleet in southern Africa consisted of three warships and one supply ship, the flagship of which was the heavy cruiser "Johannesburg", which had just been commissioned, supplemented by two destroyers.

Originally, Roque was preparing to appoint Secretary of the Navy Bridges as the head of the regiment and Patton as the deputy commander; However, when the Commonwealth's representatives of the colonies and overseas territories were selected, Roque found that Bridges was not up to the task, so he had to take the lead of the delegation to the United States.

The British delegation to the Washington Naval Conference was headed by Arthur James Balfour, President of the Imperial Secret Chamber, Foreign Secretary, John Jericht, Secretary of the Navy, and Auckland Campbell Jetts, British Ambassador to the United States.

Yes, it was the same Balfour who proposed the "Balfour Declaration".

Viscount Gladstone, Governor General of Australia on behalf of Australia to the United States.

Representing Canada at the Washington Naval Conference was Robert Laird Bowden, who served as Prime Minister of Canada during the World War.

Representing New Zealand in the United States was New Zealand Supreme Court Justice John William Salmen.

India is represented by Variman Sankaranayana Slinkwasa Sastri, a member of the Indian House of Secrets.

Oops, this name is so long, if he were the protagonist, he could easily save 500 words per chapter.

July 3, the southern waters of Celtic.

Roque sat on the only chair in the bridge of the heavy cruiser "Johannesburg", which was originally the captain's position, and since Roque was on the "Johannesburg", this chair belonged to Roque.

Roque was joined on his journey to the United States by Owen, who had just become foreign minister, as well as Smalls and Sidney Milner.

"Shall we go to the Washington Naval Conference, will we negotiate with London, or separately?" Irving has yet to figure out the process of the Washington Naval Conference.

"Probably together." Roque doesn't know much now, most of them are still together.

"That's terrible—" Owen grimaced, if Southern Africa had participated in the Washington Naval Conference as part of Great Britain, the interests of Southern Africa would certainly have been greatly affected.

With the importance that Britain attaches to the navy, I am afraid that Britain will not give much share to southern Africa, and the capital ships will not be built, anyway, southern Africa will not build capital ships, and the aircraft carrier Roque still attaches great importance to it.

"Don't worry too much, it's man-made." Roque is not in a hurry, with the contribution of southern Africa to the world war, southern Africa is fully qualified to participate in the Washington naval conference alone.

Of course, this will have to wait until Roque and Balfour meet.

Roque's concern now is not the Navy Conference, but that Balfour Declaration.

After Rothschild took the initiative to leak the "Balfour Declaration" to the media, Balfour was roasted on the fire by Rothschild.

Originally, Belfort wanted to carve out part of the Trusteeship Area in Southern Africa, but Southern Africa decisively refused.

Britain is not without colonies in the Middle East, Egypt is so big, it is still easy to settle some refugees, why bother to settle in the Southern African Trust Zone.

"Are we really going to abandon the capital ships?" Owen is still a traditional "giant ship cannon" and can't keep up with Roque's rhythm.

"The capital ship is about to be eliminated by the world, and now the development of the capital ship is a pure waste of resources." Roque is resolutely pragmatic, there is no need to think about capital ships or anything, aircraft carriers and submarines can fight for more.

At the Washington Naval Conference in another time and space, there was no agreement on the issue of submarines, and the main controversy occurred between Britain and France, and Britain feared that France would pose a threat to the British Navy if it had too many submarines; France, for its part, insisted on building more submarines to defend its interests around the world.

The United States, Japan, and Italy do not have a high demand for submarines, the United States does not look down on them, Italy does not need them, and Japan cannot afford to build them.

If the United States does not propose to convene a naval conference in Washington, then Japan's current shipbuilding scale will be maintained for a year or two at most, and the Japanese government's finances will be completely dragged down by the navy.

"It's good to build one or two as flagships—" Owen's face was full of regret, and the British and Americans were in the Sovereign class and South Dakota at every turn, but the largest warship in southern Africa was a cruiser-

That's a big difference.

British Sovereign-class battleship, 25750 tons.

Six South Dakota-class battleships under construction in the United States, 43200 tons.

Japan's Mutsu 33,800 tons.

Even the Italian battleship Durio has 22,700 tons, and the largest warship in southern Africa is 9,500 tons -

Alas, it's shameless.

"The Navy's upcoming construction of the Transvaal aircraft carrier has 25,000 tons, and the next step is to build the Nyasaland, which is not enough as a flagship?" Roque also wants to save face, and the 9,500-ton flagship is indeed not worthy of the coffee position in southern Africa.

From the naming of these two aircraft carriers, you can see the status of Nyasaland in southern Africa.

Needless to say, the two twin stars of Pretoria and Johannesburg are invincible, and it is only natural to name the first ship after the "Transvaal".

The twin stars in Nyasaland are Los Angeles and Port Edward, and the Southern African Naval Command is located in Port Edward, so it makes sense to name the second Transvaal-class aircraft carrier after "Nyasaland".

This time it was Cape that was lying on the gun, and there were actually two larger cities in Cape, one was Cape Town and the other was Kimberley, but the overall level was too big a gap with Nyasaland, and finally lost in the competition.

"An aircraft carrier as a flagship is certainly inferior to a battleship." Owen is stubborn, but the aircraft carrier looks like a ro-ro ship, and the battleship has thick black pipes, which looks more imposing.

Roque smiled and said nothing, a battleship costs millions of dollars, and after it is built, it can only be used as an escort warship, and the effect is not as good as light cruisers and destroyers.

On the afternoon of the 5th, the fleet arrived at Portsmouth to rendezvous with the British fleet for the Washington Naval Conference.

The British fleet consisted of six warships, the flagship of which was the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which served during the World War.

Although there was some unpleasantness between Belfort and Roque, in order to welcome Roque's arrival, Belfort prepared a grand welcome dinner.

During the banquet, Balfour and Roque talked about the "Balfour Declaration".

Compared with before, Roque's attitude has softened, it is okay to draw a site, but it can't be in vain, and the place can't be too big.

Even if he set aside some land for those refugees, Roque is confident enough to make them honest, and they want to expand like another plane and commit genocide against the natives at the same time, dreaming!

"With 25,000 refugees in total, how much space do you need? It is also unrealistic to establish a country, and a country of 25,000 people is really small, so it is better to let them go to South America, give them an island, and toss them around. Roque understated, got an island for Rothschild and saw how he expanded.

"Locke, Mr. Rothschild wants to get the Holy Land—" Balfour was embarrassed, there were many British overseas territories, but Rothschild had a crush on the Holy City, and people in other places didn't want it.

"The Holy City – the Holy City has been demolished by the Sultanate of Najd." Roque confessed that Roque couldn't carry this pot, so he simply gave it to the Sultanate of Najd.

"The Holy City has been demolished?" Balfour was simply shocked that the Holy City was not only a holy city for other religions, but also a holy city for Christianity, otherwise the Crusades would have been fought for hundreds of years.

"Yes, it seems to be a complete renovation of the Holy City, the previous buildings, including the city walls, have been completely demolished, and now that place seems to be called Rashid-" Roque's attention to the Middle East was obviously insufficient, and now Roque could understand more and more, and what Winston said about six meetings a day, one meeting for two hours, might be true.

Balfour was completely speechless, and deep down he actually felt a little lighter.

If Balfour really gave the Holy City to those refugees, then Balfour would probably be under great pressure.

So it's better to dismantle, it's wonderful!

"How are we going to talk to the Americans?" Roque pulled away from the topic and didn't dwell on it.

Well, easy 404.

"Of course, in the name of the British Commonwealth, during the world war, we made great sacrifices, and in the end we maintained world peace, and we do not want another arms race, but we are not afraid of competition." Balfour is still bold as the president of the House of Secrets, and his uncle is the former British Prime Minister Salisbury, the Salisbury of Rhodesia.

This is also the origin of family learning, and there is no doubt about the political family.

"So what do we get in southern Africa?" Roarke bluntly said that the British government also had a good calculation, tying southern Africa and the British Empire together, which was conducive to Britain's greater interests.

"What do you want?" Balfour also said bluntly, there is no point in going around in circles at this time, open the skylight and say bright words, don't hide it.

"Aircraft carriers-" Roque did not mention submarines, anyway, on this issue, Britain, France, the United States, Japan and Italy could not reach a consensus, and when the time came, Southern Africa wanted to build as much as it wanted.

"Don't want a capital ship?" Belfort was surprised by Roque's choice.

"Don't-" Roque decisively, but the reason given was strange: "-Can't afford it!" ”

Balfour immediately looked at Roque with disdain, what kind of reason was that?!!!

If an aircraft carrier is added with carrier-based aircraft, the cost is much higher than that of a capital ship.

The construction of a new aircraft carrier in southern Africa is about to begin, and the British government also knows that this kind of thing cannot be concealed from the British government.