In the afternoon at Assries, Roque felt a hostility in Assries.

Roque could be sure that he had never met Sastri before, so Roque didn't know why Sastri was like this.

But Roque doesn't want to look for a reason, if Sustry is a member of the British cabinet, then Roque may pay more attention, the Indian cabinet-

Hehe.

"Good evening gentlemen, and thank you for the welcome dinner—" Sarstry, not realizing that he had made a mistake, greeted Neville and Viscount Gladstone warmly.

Roque was expressionless, looking at Sastri with a slightly mocking look in his eyes, and those who knew Roque knew that Roque was already on the verge of an outburst.

Viscount Gladstone smiled and nodded at Sustri, his hand holding the cup motionless.

"Good evening, Mr. Suastry." Neville did not attend the welcome ceremony in the afternoon and his attitude towards Sassri was normal.

"Locke—" Sarstri's aim was still Roque.

"You call me Locke?" You're welcome Roque, most of the time Roque doesn't care about the red tape, but don't think Roque does that to everyone.

"Is there something wrong?" Sastri is pretending to be stupid, only familiar people can call their names directly, and unfamiliar people still have to respect the nobles, otherwise they will be suppressed by the entire aristocratic class.

"Hehe, are Indians so rude?" Roque looked as if he was shaking his head and smiling bitterly, this map cannon was a bit big.

Astries' face immediately turned the color of pork liver.

Viscount Gladstone was still smiling and nodding, the same expression, just now it was a distant expression of friendliness, and now it is completely not a big deal to see the excitement.

Oops, this is too British.

"I'm sorry, who are you?" Neville only reacted at this time, oh, it turned out that he was here to find fault-

For Neville, Roque is not only a colleague who also serves the Empire, but also a friend and partner, a white glove, a financier, and the largest ally of the Empire's overseas territories.

Sastries –

Who is Sastry?

A qualified politician is so forgetful, not even as good as a fish with a seven-second memory.

"Lord Nyasaland, is this okay?" Sastri Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, at this time he realized that Roque's energy in the UK was much greater than he imagined.

Just kidding, the size is also a serious imperial marquis, field marshal, former commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, minister of defense of southern Africa, and a top rich man with unfathomable wealth.

With so many identities, none of them can be taken lightly by a member of the Privy Council of India.

Even if Roque was Chinese and Sustry was white.

Roch didn't speak, and looked Sastry up and down condescendingly with the arrogant gaze of a top nobleman, the look in which he looked like a slave owner picking a slave in a slave market.

I almost didn't open my mouth to see my teeth.

Sadri's face was red and white, and he couldn't say a word, he didn't know that Brad's office was investigating him, and Roque never ignored the inexplicable hostility.

Sastry's hostility towards Roque is really not out of nowhere, as in Chapter 624 above, Roque once led the newly formed 1st Division to India to garrison.

During his time in India, Roch opened up relations with the Gurkhas, directly employing them into the Umbrella Company, which had a serious impact on the business of the Sastri family.

Another reason is a bit deeper, India was once a British colony, as was southern Africa.

Southern Africa is now a British overseas dominion, and during the World Wars, it became one of the most lucrative countries after the war.

India considered itself to have made a great contribution to the British Empire during the World War, and more than 20 million people starved to death in India during the World War in order to raise food for the British father.

As a result, after the world war, Britain did not fulfill its promises, India's domestic food shortage continued, coupled with the incurable American flu, India's population has actually decreased by about 50 million in recent years.

As for why it is estimated, just as the colonial government in southern Africa did not know how many Africans there were in southern Africa, the colonial government of India did not know how many people there were in India.

In Southern Africa, Africans are not counted in the statistics.

In India, Dalits are known as untouchables, with a status roughly similar to that of Africans.

"Mr. Asstri, is the situation still so bad in India?" The Viscount of Gladstone is an old man, and this may sound like a mockery of India, but in fact he is helping to relieve the siege of Sustri.

"Ah, no, it's much better, it's much better—" Sastri stiffened, the actual situation in India now may be worse than before.

Let's not forget that there is also an economic crisis.

"Well, I'd actually like to hire some workers from India to work in Australia, Locke, you know, Australia lost too many people during the world wars." Viscount Gladstone quietly diverted his attention, and now Australia is indeed miserable.

During the World War, Australia, with a population of only 5.5 million, conscripted 500,000 Australians into the Expeditionary Force, and about 150,000 casualties were suffered during the World War.

The figure of 150,000 is not worth mentioning compared with southern Africa, but most of the southern African expeditionary force is African, and the ANZ army is white, so Australia is the son of the British Empire and deserves a heavy reward from the British Empire.

In another time and space, Australia got some German colonies in the Pacific after the war, and all of Germany's colonies in the Pacific were occupied by the East Indies, and Australia basically got nothing.

"Yes, the contribution of the Anzac deserves to be remembered by all of us." Roque is not ambiguous on this issue, Roque was the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force during the World War, and Roque should actually be held responsible for the losses of the Anzac.

Of course, Roque's responsibility was overshadowed by the victory over Germany, and no one dared to hold it accountable, and if it did, the responsibility of the king and the prime minister seemed to be greater.

Although the war was not provoked by the king and the prime minister.

"We're going to erect a monument in Anzac Harbour and we'll send you an invitation when the time comes." Viscount Gladstone pretended not to see Sastri leave silently, and this face was a little hard.

"Is there something wrong with this man?" Neville is welcome, a member of the Indian Cabinet, who is not qualified to be compared to him as a member of the British Empire.

Not even more so than Roque.

"It's not that there's something wrong with him, it's that Rock and Southern Africa are doing too well – to be honest, I'm a little jealous." Viscount Gladstone laughed, and this sycophant Roque recognized it.

"Lord, Navy Council, do Australia have any ideas?" Roque tested Viscount Gladstone's bottom line, within the Commonwealth, Southern Africa also needs allies.

"No, I went to Washington to make up the numbers, and to be honest, I wouldn't have been willing to go to Washington if it weren't for Billy's busy work-" Viscount Gladstone really didn't have an idea, even if he did, Australia's national strength couldn't support Viscount Gladstone's ambitions.

Viscount Gladstone said that "Billy" is the current Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes, who is also a legend, from the establishment of the Australian federal government in 1901, Billy Hughes served as a member of the Australian Parliament until his death in 1951, a total of 51 years of membership, this record is estimated to be unbroken.

"You can fight for it, after all, Australia also has interests that need to be defended-" Roque fanned the flames, Australia has no strength, Southern Africa has, obviously complementary advantages.

Ahh

"How?" Viscount Gladstone smirked.

"Hey, hey, you two, it's too much to discuss this kind of thing in front of me, it's too much to take me as a cabinet minister seriously." Neville felt uncomfortable, and on this issue, Neville did not have any common language with the two colonial vassals.

"Hahaha, Cabinet Minister—" Roque scoffed.

"The Director General of the Postal Service is also a Cabinet Secretary—" Neville was invincible.

"It's enough to take care of your postman." Viscount Gladstone plays the flute.

What's that prop called?

Forgot.

The next morning, the British delegation departed from Portsmouth for the United States to attend the naval conference in Washington, D.C., and neither the king nor the prime minister came to see them off, presumably without much expectation for the naval conference.

Only then did Roque know that Australia also had a navy, but the warships were a bit out of reach, not to mention the age of the ships, and they couldn't even mix up a battleship, which was as "miserable" as Southern Africa.

The Royal Navy and the navies of various colonies and dominions also conducted joint exercises, and then the gap came out, and the Southern African Navy could fully keep up with the rhythm of the Royal Navy, and there was no problem at all in cooperating.

The Australian Navy and the Canadian Navy are a bit miserable, not to mention that they can't keep up with the rhythm, but they will pull back from time to time.

However, compared with the Indian Navy, Australia and Canada performed well, and the Indian battleship "Dreadnought" had to be towed back to Portsmouth for repairs shortly after leaving Portsmouth.

In the exercises of the Southern African Navy and the Royal Navy, Roque did not interfere in the whole process, handed over the command to Patton, and in order not to affect Patton's command, he even simply lived on the supply ship "Hercules".

It has to be said that purely in terms of riding experience, the supply ship is much stronger than the heavy cruiser, and the "Johannesburg" heavy cruiser, even if it is Patton's room, is less than 20 square meters, and the area is not as large as the balcony area of Roque's living room on the "Hercules".

So the next day, Viscount Gladstone also boarded the supply ship "Hercules".

Roque and Viscount Gladstone finally have a space to hide, and enough time to plot to dig into the corners of the British Empire-

Ah, this is not the right word, how can the communication between the two nobles be digging into the corner of the British Empire, it should be: discussing how to better serve the British Empire.