Before Roque could increase his troops on the peninsula, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire signed the Treaty of Cairo in Cairo, Egypt.

The Italians won a big victory, not only getting Tripoli and Cyrenaica, but also playing a little trick on the issue of the Twelve Islands.

After Winston's mediation, the Italians expressed their willingness to return the Twelve Islands to the Ottoman Empire, but there was no limit on the specific time, which left a hidden danger for the Italians not to leave.

In fact, even if you think of the Ottoman Empire, you don't have time to dwell on it, the Balkan Union has officially declared independence, and the Ottoman Empire has just lost the Italian-Turkish War, and is about to face the Balkan War.

Instead of returning directly to London, Winston took a boat directly to Southern Africa and disembarked from Port Edward.

Roark didn't pick it up, and Winston wasn't in a hurry to get to Pretoria, and it wasn't until August 5 that Winston traveled all the way to Pretoria along Nyasaland Rhodesia.

The current Winston is no longer the high-spirited and graceful young man he was at the beginning, but a middle-aged man with obvious bags under his eyes and a fat body, and his hair is actually beginning to lose his head.

"God, Winston, what have you been through in the last few years?" Roque was really surprised, and said that when Slavic women were young, Yang Liu had a thin waist and a graceful figure, and when they gave birth to children, they quickly became aunts, and British men were not far behind.

"God knows, it seems like time is passing on me very clearly." Winston's look at Roque was full of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Although Roque is also in his old age, he looks almost the same as when Winston first met Roque.

"It must be because the work is too hard." Henry and Winston are also old friends, and Winston is a rare visit to southern Africa, and Henry must be with him.

At the same time, there are also Xiao Si and Sidney Milner, Xiao Si and Winston are partners, Sidney Milner is on behalf of Ard, Winston is the British Admiral after all, and Ade can't say it if he doesn't ask.

The reception was not held in the hotel, but at Roque's house, and Winston was not coming to Southern Africa in an official name, but on vacation.

"You're right, I'm dealing with a bunch of old men every day, and I think I'm going to die before I get old." Winston laughed at himself, and the officials in Britain, especially the high-ranking officials, are indeed relatively old, and it is normal for them to be fifty or sixty years old.

The average age of senior officials in southern Africa is much younger, Prime Minister Ade is less than 60 years old, Roque Henry Owen Sidney Milner is in his thirties, and Louis Botha is not yet 50 years old, and it feels like he is about to retire.

"What is the outcome of the negotiations?" Roque did not make up for it, but was concerned about the negotiations that had just ended, and the specific contents of the "Cairo Treaty" were not released to the outside world.

Italy's refusal to publish the contents of the Treaty of Cairo was prepared to violate the rules, while the Ottoman Empire's refusal to publish the Treaty of Cairo was due to the fact that the content was too harsh, and the Ottoman Empire really could not afford to lose this face.

"What else, the Ottoman Empire is in a hurry to withdraw, the Italians are taking advantage of the fire to loot, and the Balkans have become a powder keg, which sooner or later will detonate the whole world." Winston never expected him to be a prophecy, and his political sensitivity was indeed a perfect score.

"The Ottoman Empire is finished." Roque knew the future of the Ottoman Empire, and the current struggle was only a lingering end.

"Not to mention the Ottoman Empire, the Umbrella Company has invaded the Arabian Sea coast on the peninsula, do you know about this?" Winston came to Southern Africa not only for a vacation, but also to warn Roque to exercise proper restraint.

"I know that the Umbrella Company is there to set up supply points along the oil transportation lines, and they are all desert wastelands without owners anyway." Roque understated, the actual situation is certainly not the case, the interior of the peninsula is indeed a desert area, and the coastal area is quite good.

"How can there be no owner, the umbrella company has had many conflicts with the Muscat Sultanate, the Muscat Sultanate has always exercised restraint, and the umbrella company should also exercise restraint." Winston is also very helpless, Southern Africa is now a vassal of the United Kingdom, and the Sultanate of Muscat is also a vassal of the British.

"The Muscat Sultanate deserves it!" Roque was direct, and there was nothing bad to say in front of Winston.

Roque and Winston have always maintained a good relationship, and Winston was able to climb so fast, although family background is important, and it is also inseparable from the return on investment in southern Africa.

It's really an investment, all kinds of accounts are very clear, and I'm not afraid of being audited by the State Administration of Taxation, which is much cleaner than those shady political donations.

Roque deserves to say that the Sultanate of Muscat supports the Anglo-American oil company in oil exploration along the Persian Gulf coast.

Presumably, Faisal, the king of the Muscat Sultanate, felt that the Muscat Sultanate was also a British protectorate, so he was entitled to share the oil revenues along the Persian Gulf coast with the umbrella company.

Unexpectedly, the umbrella company did not say anything about it, not to mention the oil exploration team that attacked the British American oil company, and frequently invaded the area controlled by the Muscat Sultanate, and now the control area of the Muscat Sultanate on the Arabian Sea coast has been occupied by the umbrella company, and the actual control area of the Muscat Sultanate is only less than 1,000 square kilometers of mountainous areas around Muscat, so Faisal had to ask Britain for help, hoping that Britain can help the Muscat Sultanate administer justice.

"When I was in Cairo, Colonel McMahon also said that there was a problem with the direction of the Umbrella Company, and that you should infiltrate the more affluent valleys of the Two Rivers instead of Muscat, which is of little value." Winston did not want to see a strong and unified power emerge on the peninsula, which was not in the interests of Britain.

However, there is no way to say this directly, the relationship between Roque and Winston is here, Southern Africa is part of the British Commonwealth, with Winston's understanding of Roque, it is impossible to limit the expansion of the umbrella company, so simply bring trouble to the east and let Roque toss the Ottoman Empire, which is full of holes.

This is a regular practice in the UK.

As for Colonel McMahon, the filial piety of the umbrella company has always been very effective, otherwise McMahon would not have said so, and the problem with the direction is not to limit the expansion of the umbrella company.

The valley of the two rivers was the former ancient kingdom of Babylon, the future Iraq, and now part of the Ottoman Empire.

After the end of the First World War, Iraq, like Palestine, was a British "Mandate".

In the case of Roque, he would have taken the opportunity to annex Iraq, but Britain did not do so, but established the Kingdom of Iraq in 1921 and gave Iraq full independence in 1932.

This shows how much importance Britain attaches to the peninsula.

"In what name? Protecting British immigrants in the Two Rivers Basin? Roque laughed dumbly, McMahon was also whimsical, the infamous McMahon line aside, during the First World War, McMahon wrote a letter to Sharif Hussein on his own initiative, in which McMahon promised that if the Arabs armed themselves against the Turks, then after the victory, the Arabs within the Ottoman Empire would become independent.

This mainly refers to Palestine, Iraq, and Syria, so strictly speaking, McMahon is the father of these nations.

As for the protection of expatriates, this is also the usual method of the British government, and in the Second Boer War, Britain launched a war against the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State under the banner of protecting the diaspora.

"There are indeed a lot of British immigrants in the valley of the Two Rivers." Winston emphasized that he was right, and that William Knox D'Arcy, who founded the Persian Oil Company, was British.

The Persian Oil Company in another time and space was the predecessor of British Petroleum, but in this time and space, the Persian Oil Company was on the verge of bankruptcy due to frequent attacks on oil wells by desert bandits, and could not even get the money to drill new wells.

Before Roque could answer, Phyllis came over and announced, "Gentlemen, it's time to eat—"

Phyllis was very welcoming as the hostess, and Roque rarely entertained guests at home.

Let's move to the restaurant together, Phyllis has arranged a Chinese dinner, and Winston wants to continue the conversation just now.

"Can we talk about something else? You two military people can wait until after dinner to talk about it. "Rock is the Minister of Defence of Southern Africa, and Winston is the Lord of the Admiralty of Great Britain, and the two do have a common language.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry—" Winston realized that he seemed to have snubbed Henry Jr. and Sidney Milner.

Henry didn't care, he wasn't interested in the peninsula, in fact, only Henry was the only one present who had actually been a soldier, but unfortunately he was later kicked out of the army by Hopkins, so he went to the Cape Town Police Department.

"This is not just a military topic, Port Elizabeth is becoming more and more important to Southern Africa and the United Kingdom, and we must ensure the safety of Port Elizabeth." Sidney Milner rose to political heights as soon as he opened his mouth, and the oil in Port Elizabeth was indeed important.

Britain is comfortable in the Balkans, because the oil in Port Elizabeth has gradually reduced Britain's dependence on Romanian oil, compared with Romanian oil, the oil in Port Elizabeth is cheaper and of better quality, so the British government will acquiesce in the expansion of the umbrella company on the peninsula.

"In any case, Roque you have to guarantee the independence of the Muscat Sultanate, and you can't go too far." Winston didn't mean to restrict the umbrella, and as for the Muscat Sultanate, Winston didn't care.

In 1891, King Faisal of the Sultanate of Muscat assured the British that he and his successors and descendants would not sell, encumber or transfer any part of the Sultanate of Muscat and its dependencies except to the British.

This is the benefit of Southern Africa remaining within the Commonwealth.