When Nyasaland became a fiefdom of Roque, the Boer War had just ended.

Objectively speaking, at that time Nyasaland was the lowest starting point of all the British colonies in southern Africa.

Needless to say, Cape became a British colony more than a hundred years ago, and with the blessing of Cape Town, Cape had the best foundation among all the colonies in southern Africa at that time.

The second best foundation is not the Transvaal, but Cecil Rhodes's painstaking Rhodesia for many years, then the Transvaal and Orange, then Basutoland and Eswatini, and the worst conditions should be Nyasaland, which is to have no people, no money, and no resources.

Roque was self-made at the time, with nothing but 200,000 square kilometers of empty land.

It sounds like 200,000 square kilometers is huge, but at that time Nyasaland was notoriously barren, poor and remote, and there was not even an outlet to the sea, but Vanyahaland had a little value to use, and Cecil Rhodes would not sell Nyasaland to Roque.

It was on this basis of poverty and whiteness that Roque led the Nyasaland people to dredge rivers, build railways, build factories, and open up wasteland, and Los Angeles, the largest city in southern Africa, also rose from scratch.

Every time you come to Nyasaland, you will be a huge surprise for Winston.

This time, Nyasaland surprised Winston in particular.

When he left the bar, the barkeeper insisted that he would not want to pay Feige, and Roque simply signed a check for the barkeeper, who was so happy that he decided to frame the check and hang it with the photo in the future.

The amount on the check is not much, but with Roque's signature, it should be able to sell for a lot of money by the time the bar owner's grandson is born.

Back in Los Angeles, Winston tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night.

"What's wrong?" Clementina noticed Winston's abnormality, and since coming to Nyasaland, Winston rarely lost sleep.

Winston was irritable and simply rolled over and went out on the balcony to smoke a cigar.

Clementina didn't speak, silently poured some wine for Winston, and sat quietly in her chair, waiting to hear what Winston had to say.

"I went to Star City with Locke today—" Winston said in a low voice, with obvious vicissitudes and loneliness.

Clementina still didn't speak, she knew that Winston didn't need her advice, just someone to talk to.

"Before I went, I thought Star City was an ordinary town, there was nothing special, and after I arrived in Star City, I realized that I was very wrong, Locke copied Tower Bridge in Star City, copied Buckingham Palace, and copied the White House in the United States, and built a large number of oriental-style palace complexes, I asked Locke why, Locke said, those buildings are for making movies - or rather, those buildings are props, props for making movies." Winston sat in the dark, the cigar in his hand flickering on and off, and his voice was staccato and staccato, just like Winston's mood, gray and obscure.

Of course, it's not just about making movies, Locke also hopes that Star City will attract tourists and become one of Nyasaland's tourist attractions in the future." Winston smiled silently, not in the future, but in the reality that was happening.

"That's a good idea, I'd like to see what you said, I haven't been to the White House yet—" Clementina was good at guiding and knew how to guide Winston into speaking her mind.

After leaving office, Winston had planned to go to the United States with Clementina, and he was still on the schedule.

When Roark learned of Winston's plan, he did not stop Winston from traveling to the United States, but reminded Winston to be aware that the transportation methods in the United States and the United Kingdom are different.

In another time and space, Winston suffered a serious car accident in the United States, when Winston walked through Fifth Avenue in New York, he forgot that Britain drives on the left and the United States drives on the right, so he only pays attention to the road on the right, and does not notice that there is a car coming on the left, and as a result, he was hit with 15 bones and bruises all over his body.

After being taken to the hospital, the doctor on duty first asks about the patient's family income to determine if he can afford to pay the medical bills.

Churchill endured great pain and proved that he had enough to pay before he was put on the operating table.

"There's nothing to see, the White House is actually a broken house, which was later burned down by Canadian troops, and the White House became a black house, and the United States painted the house white to cover up its shame—" Winston, like most Britons, looks down on Americans, and grits his teeth when he mentions the United States.

Winston in another time and space also invested in the U.S. stock market, but unfortunately Winston couldn't play Wall Street financiers and was cheated with all his money.

"But that's the president's office." Clementina does not know the story of the White House, but she does know that the United States has surpassed Britain to become the most developed country in the world.

Winston was silent again, his impression of the British Empire was weakening, and Winston was heartbroken, but there was nothing he could do.

"Now Southern Africa is also overtaking the United Kingdom, I only realized this problem when I was in Star City, Locke has the courage to replicate the whole world in Star City, but the MPs in London are busy intriguing, no one pays attention to the people of this country are wailing in hunger, and the farmers in Southern Africa, they are busy increasing their income, pickling endless eggs, making fruit into wine, I read a report in the Nyasaland government the day before yesterday, the average annual income of farms in Nyasaland is about 1000 rand, It is only because of the large population on the farms that it seems that the average income per capita is not much. "Winston can still find the deeper details, and the average income is really deceptive.

This is the same as the GDP statistics of another time and space, when India counts GDP, it is eager to count even cow dung, and the rent of self-housing in the United States must also be counted into GDP, while the community where Roque used to live never provided invoices at the door of the noodle restaurant.

If you don't provide an invoice, you don't have any data.

"Even if there are ten people in the farmer's family, the average annual income of each person is 100 rand—" Clementina was shocked by the statistic.

In the UK, an annual income of £100 is the threshold for the middle class, and the exchange rate between the pound and the rand is now about the same, so everyone in southern Africa is middle-class!

Middle class per capita?

Clementina doesn't know if this data is accurate, and it is definitely not possible to achieve a per capita middle class in the UK.

"So you should know why I'm insomnia, it's hard to say whether such a powerful and southern Africa would be a blessing or a curse for the British Empire—" Winston was still worried about the distance.

The problem was that Winston had never thought about these questions when he was in the temple.

"I think you are overly worried, the Marquis of Nyasaland did not show any behavior against the British Empire, the Earl of Helwood and the Earl of Matilda will not allow him to do so, there are still many subjects in southern Africa who are loyal to Your Majesty, and Nyasaland feels that even if he is in power, he will not dare to risk the condemnation of the world." Clementina is not without knowledge, it is said that although Clementina was poor when she married Winston, Clementina was also from a noble background, and she still has the background she should have.

Otherwise, I'm afraid Winston wouldn't have married Clementina.

"You don't understand-" Winston obviously disagreed on this issue, waving his little fat hand and emphasizing: "-You don't understand at all, Earl Hellwood has chosen Locke as his successor, and no matter what Roque does, as long as it is beneficial to southern Africa, Earl of Hellwood will support it unconditionally; As for Count Matilda, don't forget that he is Locke's father-in-law, and they have both glory and loss, do you think he will have the power to support Locke. ”

Winston paused, took a deep breath, and finally had to admit: "-Even if the current Locke is not disobedient, who can guarantee that the future Locke, Locke's children will still be loyal to the king." ”

That's a long way to go!

"My dear—" Clementina's voice was gentle, and she leaned over and gently took Winston's hand across the coffee table, "-then, what does it have to do with us-"

Winston was stunned, and suddenly laughed dumbly, and in the darkness he could feel Winston shaking his head slightly: "Yes, what does it have to do with us then." ”

That's right, the world's major events are divided and combined, the empire ups and downs, when the British Empire is in full swing, the sea coachman and the invincible armada have become yesterday's yellow flowers, no one can guarantee that the British Empire will always be strong, Napoleon can not save the French Empire, and Winston is only one of the countless capable generals in the thousand-year history of the British Empire.

When the moon was in the sky, the night breeze was slightly cool, Clementina yawned and stretched out to get up from the chair: "Sleep, I have to send Diana to school tomorrow, you may not know, Diana likes to act, has joined their school's drama club, I heard that a stage play is being rehearsed, Congress does not need you to work day and night for the British Empire now, your daughter hopes to get your attention." ”

"What's there to do in a stage play, I'll take Diana to Star City another day and let her see how her father makes movies." Winston muttered, but guilt still came naturally.

Yes, it's been so many years since Winston dedicated himself to the British Empire and ignored his family's feelings.

It's time to spend more time with the family, and Winston decides to send her daughter to school tomorrow herself, so that when she grows up, she will have more warm memories of her father, not just the "greatest Englishman" who stood tall in the sky.

Of course, Winston now definitely doesn't know how attractive the movie is to the eldest daughter, and how much harm it will bring to the eldest daughter.

ps: The comments in the previous chapter, piercing my heart, please be a person-