After Roque's speech, Phyllis immediately sent a hug and kiss to Roque, and rhythmic applause rang out in the entire auditorium, which was a tribute to Roque's appreciation and appreciation.

Roque stepped down from the podium to accept congratulations from Winston and Victor Foster.

"The speech was wonderful, Locke, why don't you tell us about your performance in the Natal counterinsurgency, it will be even more exciting." Winston's expression was very happy, even if William was too much, he couldn't do anything to William as an elder brother, and now William was unlucky, and Winston was also happy to hear it.

"The Sandhurst Royal Military Academy hasn't included Natal's example in the textbook, and we'll talk about it when they do." Roque was also in a good mood, and the applause continued at this time, and the sporadic boos were inaudible, which proved that the speech was not bad.

"Locke, go back and give me a report, write in detail about your experience in the Boer War, especially the details of the attack on the positions of the Boer coalition forces, the expeditionary force is too much, and we don't know many things." Victor Foster wanted to know more details about the war, which the expeditionary force would certainly not report.

"Okay, I'm going to go back and sort it out, after all, it's been a few years, and some details can't be remembered clearly." Roque promised that the report would definitely be written, but Roque would not highlight the injustice that the commandos had been subjected to in the Expeditionary Force.

In fact, it doesn't matter if this aspect is written or not, even if Roque vents in the report, it is estimated that Victor Foster will not be able to find justice for Roque, this lid is really going to be lifted, the image of the entire army will be damaged, and it will not do Roque much good, but will add more enemies to Roque.

Roque now has a demand for the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which trains junior officers and staff officers at Sandhurst, as well as the Royal Army Military Academy in Woollich; The Royal Army Military Academy in Woolwich trains artillery, engineer and signal officers.

Roque is very hopeful that some officers from the Northern Rhodesia Division and the new 1st Cavalry Division will be sent to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Royal Army Military Academy in Woollich in batches, which will effectively improve the quality of officers in the Northern Rhodesia Division and the new 1st Cavalry Division.

Although Roque does not look down on the "thin red line" tactics that are now popular in the British army, the British troops also have advantages that Roque does not have, such as staff officers, artillery, and engineers.

Most of the cadets at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy are resident students, and Roark's short-term training course is a day student, so after the lecture, Roark returns to his estate with Phyllis and Winston.

It was already lunchtime, and Phyllis arranged lunch as soon as she got home, and she had to take care of Gavin, while Roque and Winston were chatting in the living room.

"Your counterattack is simply fantastic, William is now assigned to India, Lord Northern Rock is ready to apologize to the Daily Mail as a price, are you still satisfied with this result?" Winston had come to listen to Roque for other purposes, because of his special relationship with Roque, he was the best person to make peace.

"If someone else speaks, then at least add the Mirror and the Observer, since you are the one who speaks, then forget it." Roque gives Winston face, and Winston immediately smiles.

Lord Northern Rock was still very capable, becoming an assistant editor of Youth magazine at the age of 17 and a contributor to the Morning Post and St. James's Gazette.

In 1888, he founded the magazine "Answering Readers' Submissions", which was a great success, and then in August 1894, he bought the "Evening News", which was on the verge of collapse, and then founded the "Daily Mail", "Daily Mirror", and "The Observer".

Committed to journalism reform, he advocated concise and easy-to-understand news writing, and used maps and photographs to annotate reports, and the newspapers he founded were very influential, and in 1908, after taking control of the Times, Northern Rock established the first newspaper group in Britain, the Northern Rock Group.

Now Northern Rock has not received the "Times", "Daily Mail" is the most influential newspaper under the name of Northern Rock, Northern Rock is willing to "Daily Mail" as compensation to Roque, it is indeed very sincere.

"What are you going to do with the Daily Mail, do you run it yourself, or do you resell it?" Winston was interested in the Daily Mail, and as a politician, Winston was well aware of the influence of newspapers on public opinion.

Don't forget, Winston went to South Africa as a journalist, and a long time ago, Winston was a famous professional writer, otherwise Winston wouldn't be very good at making news.

"Of course it's running it yourself, but it's not enough to have the Daily Mail, so what's the situation with The Times?" Roque wants to play a big game of chess, if Roque preemptively establishes a newspaper group before North Rock, then more than half of London's future public opinion will be under Roque's control.

"It's not good, the Walter family is not in a good situation right now, their position is too neutral, not biased towards the Conservative Party, not biased towards the Liberal Party, this position is fine, but it is neither liked by the Conservatives nor liked by the Liberals, so the Walter family is looking for a buyer, do you want to take over?" Winston was well prepared, and it seemed that Roque's purpose was similar.

The Times is the largest newspaper in Britain by circulation, and its circulation once exceeded the circulation of all newspapers and magazines in London except for The Times combined.

In 1785, John Walter founded the "Times", which is still controlled by the Walter family, but because the Walter family is becoming more and more politically conservative, the "Times" is not doing well, and its sales are strongly affected by the "penny newspaper".

Penny refers to cheap newspapers such as the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, which was founded by Colonel Sray in 1855 for two pence.

Even though the Daily Telegraph was sold for such a low price, Colonel Slay could not afford to print it, and soon sold the Daily Telegraph.

In 1888, the Daily Telegraph had a circulation of 300,000 copies, surpassing The Times as the world's largest newspaper.

"Why not? Contact the Walter family and say I want to buy The Times and ask them to give me a good price. "Roque has a lot of money, and two pence is too expensive for Roque, and one penny is the best.

The Daily Mail and The Telegraph outsold The Times, relying on their low selling prices.

Money is no problem for Roque, the selling price is not the key factor in determining whether the newspaper is profitable, Roque does not make money by selling newspapers at all, and the income from buying advertising is much more than buying newspapers, not to mention that Roque values the influence of newspapers more, even if he loses money, Roque must have a channel to make his voice heard.

"No problem, I'll call Little John when I get back, and I've heard that Little John has priced The Times no more than £10,000, which is actually quite appropriate." Winston knows that Roque is not short of money, and the key is that he is willing to spend it, so money is not a problem.

Winston was still very efficient, and that night, Roque received a call from Winston, and the Walter family offered a price of 12,000 pounds, which was higher than Winston's estimate.

According to Winston's meaning, this price is obviously negotiable, but Roque didn't care about the money, directly agreed to the price on the phone, and hired a lawyer to go to Little John the next day to buy the Times as quickly as possible.

For Winston, the price of 12,000 pounds is a bit high, but for Roarke, the price is too cheap, the Times, although not doing well now, has an unrivalled influence, and the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have high sales compared to The Times, but their influence is far behind.

It was only after coming into contact with the media industry in London that Roque discovered that the Sun had not yet appeared.

Then Roque is welcome, since Roque already has the "Times" and "Daily Mail", then it is logical to have another "Sun", after the establishment of "The Sun", the Locke Newspaper Group is about to come out.

Because Roque will not stay in London for a long time, for this newspaper group that has been formed, Roque still went to Ida, hoping that Ada can serve as the general manager of the newspaper group.

"We have already set up a film company, and it is normal to add a newspaper group, the two industries actually complement each other, you can promote movies in newspapers, you can also promote newspapers in movies, believe me, these newspapers will make a lot of money." Roque doesn't mind giving the money to Ada, it's all Arthur's in the end anyway, even if Arthur doesn't have a knighthood, then with the newspaper group, it's not bad to be a media tycoon.

The combination of these three newspapers in Roque's hands is very reasonable, and the politically oriented "Times" has enough influence, as long as Roque keeps injecting funds, the influence of "The Times" will become more and more influential.

The entertaining Sun has just launched, and Roque needs to train more paparazzi before The Sun can really make a difference.

As for the "Daily Mail", it now has a certain base in the UK, and if Roque can hit the market with a lower price, then the sales of the "Daily Mail" will sooner or later surpass that of the "Daily Telegraph", and then Roque will have enough power to sway public opinion in London.

It's important for Roque and Winston and Neville Chamberlain.