No matter how reluctant Cecy Wardhouse may be, Viscount Gladstone's offer is unchangeable, after all, it is the will of the Governor, and it sounds like a terrible phrase.

Cecy Wardhouse is indeed tough, insisting on not agreeing to Viscount Gladstone's demands and not giving up an inch of the country.

After all, it is 20,000 square kilometers, and if this agreement is signed, then Sisi Wardhouse will become a traitor, and his political career has come to an end.

Roque certainly did not give the Germans a chance to breathe, and on February 1, "unidentified forces" appeared in the northwest coastal area of southwest Africa, which was a relatively mature area of southwest Africa, not only developed in agriculture, but also rich in mineral resources, with copper and iron ore urgently needed in Germany, so Ceci Waldhouse could only return to the negotiating table again, and signed his name on the "Kuando River Agreement" in pain and humiliation under the triumphant gaze of Viscount Gladstone.

This agreement also became the biggest achievement of Viscount Gladstone's tenure.

Of course, for the British Empire, such an achievement was insignificant, and a mere 20,000 kilometers was not enough for the name of Viscount Gladstone to appear on the list of knighthood promotions.

Roque's name also did not appear on the list of knighthood promotions, but Roque didn't care, the title was already dispensable for Roque, and southern Africa was Roque's core interest.

On the twentieth of February, Viscount Gladstone arrived in Port Edward by ship from Cape Town to begin his inspection of Nyasaland, accompanied by Roque as Lord of Nyasaland.

Today, Port Edward has become the largest port on the east coast of Africa, as busy as Cape Town, with dozens or hundreds of ocean-going ships entering and leaving Port Edward every day, bringing various industrial products from Nyasaland to the Indian Ocean coast and the Far East, while also bringing a steady stream of fresh blood to southern Africa.

Specifically, the ships leaving the port were loaded with cars, canned goods, weapons and ammunition, and all kinds of meat products, while the ships entering the port were basically loaded with new immigrants and oil, and of course there were various ores from Madagascar, which were to be sent to Port Edward for primary processing and then to the interior of southern Africa.

So now Port Edward, in addition to the port area, living area and storage area, there is a new industrial area, the largest civil car factory in southern Africa is in Nyasaland, just by exporting cars every year, it can bring tens of millions of rands of income, of course, these revenues have nothing to do with the federal government of southern Africa, and the government of Nyasaland, most of the income belongs to Roque.

After the implementation of the "new tax law", Roque can definitely be called a "model taxpayer", Cape Natal may still have people who evade taxes, no one dares to do this in Nyasaland, everyone knows that the director of the General Tax Department is Roque's "second wife", and no one is uncomfortable in this matter.

The port area is located on the dockside side around Locke Square, which is the busiest area of Port Edward, where nearly two kilometers of streets are lined with branches of major companies in Port Edward.

On the other side of the 150-meter-wide street is a breakwater that stretches for more than 10 kilometers, and there are many iron chairs next to the breakwater, but these chairs are not used well during the day, and it is not until nightfall that people who have worked hard all day go to the beach to take a walk and rest.

The grandest building on the whole street is not the City of Port Edward, but the branch of the Rand Bank in Port Edward, this complex of 30 hectares, although the main building is only five floors, but the height is astonishing 40 meters, the whole body is made of white marble, and there are 12 columns up to 20 meters in front of the door, this main building has what is said to be the largest vault on the east coast of Africa, and there are hundreds of tons of gold stored in it.

There were once people who tried to attack the idea of underground vaults, but they were all killed on the spot by the mercenaries of the umbrella company responsible for protecting the vaults, and the mercenaries hired by the RAND Bank were all Chinese, all of whom were physically strong, skilled in technology and tactics, and their personal combat ability was said to be on par with the regular army of southern Africa.

On the other side of the quays next to Locke Square is the storage area, which is connected to the docks by trams, which are also the most common means of transportation in Port Edward.

When Viscount Gladstone disembarked, Port Edward was still as busy as ever, two huge cargo ships were loading, but there were no sweaty dock workers on the docks of Port Edward, and the workers who appeared on the docks were also neatly dressed, and they were skillfully transporting huge boxes to the cargo ships through gantry cranes.

"This kind of box is called a container, it is definitely an epoch-making invention of ocean transportation, in the past, our ocean-going freighters, in order to increase the carrying capacity, usually have to work on the hull, sometimes there is still residual power, but because of the lack of space, can not load more goods, with containers, we can make full use of each horse power, transport more goods, this is the invention of one of our dockworkers, it is said that this dock worker made a fortune with this invention, Patent fees are in the hundreds of thousands of pounds each year. Roque proudly introduced.

In fact, this is all the role of propaganda, in fact, the container was invented by Roque, but Roque will not care about this honor, so in the propaganda of Nyasaland, the inventor of the container becomes an ordinary dock worker, and this legendary dock worker also made a fortune with this invention and became a strong evidence of the Nyasaland dream.

Speaking of this "Nyasaland dream", it is also inspired by the "American dream", which the United States has been desperately promoting for hundreds of years to attract European immigrants.

Now Nyasaland is also promoting the "Nyasaland Dream", and no one cares if the dock worker mentioned above exists, and the opportunities and dreams reflected in this story are what people care about.

"That's really impressive!" Viscount Gladstone was also moved by this simple little story, in Viscount Gladstone's memory, this kind of thing could only happen in Nyasaland, even in the United States, which desperately promoted the "American dream", the probability of such a thing happening is not very high.

No matter what industry, as long as there is an opportunity to make money, once it shows its signs, it will be divided up by various big aristocrats, big businessmen, or officials, it is difficult for ordinary people to make money, even if it is indeed an epoch-making invention, it is difficult for ordinary people to make a fortune, at most they can get a low patent transfer fee, and more profits are still earned by investors.

Compared to Cape Town, which Viscount Gladstone was more familiar with, Port Edward's deepest impression on Viscount Gladstone was its cleanliness and tidiness.

In addition to the rude sailors and labourers, there are all sorts of homeless people, beggars, special occupations, and countless thieves and smugglers.

In addition to the workers and well-dressed merchants, as well as a few policemen, there are no homeless people and beggars in the port Edward docks, and there are strict rules in Nyasaland in this regard, once a homeless person and beggar are found, they must be repatriated, and if they can't tell their hometown, then the Nyasaland government will find a job for the homeless or beggar.

Of course, there are certainly not many options for this "job", miners are the most common type of work, and only those who perform well have a chance to become state farm workers.

There are also sanitation workers on the docks of Port Edward, most of whom are African, and of course they are also neatly dressed, but their temperament is very different from the others.

"Isn't Nyasaland unwelcoming Africans?" Viscount Gladstone was quite curious, and Roque's rejection of Africans was also well known in the upper echelons of southern Africa.

"It's really not welcome, these workers are not Nyasaland, they are all from the Kingdom of Mozambique, or Natal, Madagascar, they are only working in Nyasaland, they are not allowed to settle in Nyasaland, they are not allowed to buy property, they only have one opportunity to visit their relatives every year, they will be fired if they exceed the specified time, and over the years, Africans have been secretly entering Nyasaland and trying to settle in Nyasaland, and those people are basically working in the mines now, and the mines only require healthy adult men." Roque was not relenting in this regard, as the welfare of Nyasaland belonged only to the residents of Nyasaland, and it was difficult for the foreign population to obtain the right to settle in Nyasaland.

Even new immigrants brought in by Nyasaland have a five-year probation period in Nyasaland, during which they must be repatriated if they do not meet the standards or break the law, and the Nyasaland government has never been soft in this regard, just like Roque.

"Hahahaha, you are now more and more like a pure British, that's it, we have to make full use of every human resource, absolutely not wasted." Viscount Gladstone thinks he has given Roque the highest rating, and although Roque doesn't think so, Roque won't deny it either.

Even if the British Empire is declining, it is still the most powerful country in the world, and Roque's code of conduct has always been to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade, and pragmatism is the most in Roque's current interests.

"I heard that the Federation wants to repatriate Indians in batches, who made this proposal?" Although Roque is in a high position, civil affairs issues are not within Roque's responsibility, and as long as the federal government does not repatriate Chinese Americans, Roque will not care who the federal government repatriates.

It would be better to deport everyone except those of Chinese descent.

"Who else would suggest it, of course, our clever Uncle Gianni—" Viscount Gladstone said with a hint of teasing.

The smart Uncle Janny is Jan Smoltz, and Roque doesn't know why Jan Smoltz has this nickname, and in Roque's opinion, it seems that it should be more of a "stupid Jan Smoltz".

Of course, the "stupidity" here is from Roque's standpoint, if you stand in the position of the Boers, Jan Smotz is indeed very smart, at least this guy successfully withdrew from the Ministry of Justice's investigation into the Ministry of Education some time ago, and it was the two Boer deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education who were thrown out of the bag, although Jan Smoltz once submitted his resignation report to Ade, but Ade still did not approve it in order to appease the Boers.

In the current federal government, the only ministers are Jan Smoltz and Louis Botha, and if Jan Smoltz resigns, then the Boers will not care whether Jan Smoltz is derelict in his duties at all, but will think that the federal government is deliberately suppressing the Boers.

It is the Boers who have the most serious "racial discrimination" in southern Africa, and you can imagine how arrogant the Boers were before the outbreak of the Second Boer War, even the British dared to discriminate.

During the Orange plague, Gandhi, who had not heard from him for a long time, led the stretcher team and made a great contribution to quelling the Orange plague, so there were many Indians settled in Orange, and now it has become the second largest Indian gathering area in southern Africa outside of Natal.

In this sense, Jan Smoltz is the standard British.

"That's not a clever suggestion—" Roque pretended, there were no Indians in Nyasaland anyway, and Roque was happy to see the excitement.

"Now the Indians in Orange are already making a fuss, there are people who are supposedly organizing strikes against Jan Smoltz's proposal, and there are people who burn Jan Smoltz's portrait at a rally in Bloemfontein, as if Bloemfontein has sent the police, and there are casualties, you don't know the specifics?" Viscount Gladstone was more than happy to see the excitement, the police system was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and Roque was now also the Deputy Minister of Justice.

Considering Henry, who is loose, free, casual, absent-minded, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, and does not go to work all day on vacation, Roque, the deputy minister, is more like a minister.

"It's not clear, similar incidents in the Department of Justice do not need to be reported, and the Department of Justice will not wipe the ass of the police departments in various states and deal with the trouble they cause themselves." Roque doesn't care about this kind of thing at all, and if this kind of thing is to be reported, then it will have to leave a document, and God knows whether these documents will become evidence of Roque's "wrongdoing" in southern Africa.

This kind of thing is not uncommon, and the newspapers in southern Africa often report on the atrocities committed by the Germans in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, which is the most powerful evidence of the happy life of the people of southern Africa.

Especially for Africans in southern Africa, compared to Africans in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, the Africans in Southern Africa are happy, at least the Federal Government of Southern Africa did not systematically massacre Africans in southern Africa.

Of course, a planned reduction is also essential.

This is also the news that newspapers in South-West Africa and Tanganyika are most happy to report, although unfortunately Africans in Southern Africa do not have the opportunity to see newspapers published in South-West Africa and Tanganyika.

Even if you read it, you can't understand it, the newspapers in South-West Africa and Tanganyika are in German, and the Africans in Southern Africa know very little English, so German is forgotten.