By the time Derek Dodd arrived in Pretoria, Roque had officially taken over as Minister of Defence.

There was no imaginary flower dinner, no traditional handover ceremony, and Hopkins returned to Cape early before Roark took office, so Ade was left with a letter of appointment, sent by Sidney Milner.

After becoming Secretary of Defense, Roque finally rose to the rank of general, and he was only one step away from marshals.

"General, congratulations." Derek Dodd is really happy for Roque, and Roque is also expected to serve as Secretary of Defense.

"Thank you Derek, and I want to congratulate you on becoming the only deputy secretary of defense and taking up your post immediately." Roque has already prepared the rank of Derek Dodd, and Derek Dodd will be the deputy minister, and the rank will also be promoted to lieutenant general.

"Ha-" Derek Dodd was confused, his fright clearly outweighed his joy.

There was no way, Roque's appointment was too arbitrary, and there was not even a person to watch the ceremony, at least Derek Dodd's wife and children should be invited over to the ceremony to share Derek Dodd's joy.

"This is Pretoria, not London, it's all simple." Roque also didn't like formalism, if it was changed to Britain itself, the appointment of the deputy secretary of war would have to be awarded by the king, and the ceremony was very solemn.

Southern Africa doesn't have those red tapes, and if the king really wants to give Roque a medal, Roque is still unwilling.

In the case of an award, the king would tap Roque on the shoulder with his sword.

Although this is only symbolic, Roque still doesn't want to be put on the neck with a knife, and he doesn't even have to think about kneeling down on one knee or anything.

"This is the deputy minister? Sir, I need some time—" Derek Dodd couldn't laugh, everything from Jane to this point.

"Don't worry, your office is on the other end of the hallway, you have plenty of time." Roque is not in a hurry, when Roque was the deputy minister, it was best for the minister to not care about anything, and Roque had the final say in everything.

Now that Roque is the minister, the same is the minister, who doesn't care about anything, otherwise he would want the deputy minister to do it.

Derek Dodd still has the ability, he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst after graduation, and has worked for 20 years, with rich theoretical experience, but what he lacks is practical management experience.

Since coming to Southern Africa, Derek Dodd has been the head of the Army Academy, and over the years, the experience has been abundant, so Roque is really not worried.

Even if Derek Dodd makes a mistake, Roque can still fill in the gaps.

"What is my main job?" Derek Dodd gradually calmed down, and then he felt Alexander.

"The Ministry of National Defense has six divisions, each responsible for different work, the first department in charge of me is responsible for active duty, the second department is responsible for reserves, and the other divisions are your job, you should already know that there has just been a scandal in the Ministry of National Defense, I want you to come up with a practical plan in the shortest possible time, change the current logistics management, and strictly prohibit the recurrence of similar incidents." Roque is demanding, and this kind of thing is actually difficult to avoid, even in the twenty-first century.

"Well, I'll do my best - what's going on with the 101st Division?" Derek Dodd was curious, this incident has not had a big impact so far, the family scandal must not be publicized, Scripps was sentenced to death by a military court, and it will be executed in the near future.

Although Scripps escaped arrest by the Department of Defense, he could not escape Brad's net.

Scripps was quite smart, knowing that the matter was about to be revealed, and tried to flee from Southwest Africa to the United States, but was captured in Bechuana State, and all the money earned from selling military supplies was recovered.

"The details are in the file, you can go back to the office and take a look." Roque handed the dossier directly to Derek Dodd, the dossier must be confidential to the outside world, and it is not necessary for Derek Dodd.

"I'll see when I get back in the evening - by the way, where do I stay?" Derek Dodd has a headache, he now lives in Nyasaland with his family, but to become Deputy Minister of Defence he has to work in Pretoria, Derek Dodd's wife also works at the Army Academy, the oldest child has graduated and works in the British War Department, and the youngest child is still in primary school.

The family's reproductive ability is really strong, and Derek Dodd has a total of six children in his family.

"Of course it's Pretoria, there is a villa left for you in the family yard, which has been cleaned up and can be moved in at any time, if Lydia wants to come over, the children can go to Ziwei College and come back by train every week." Roque is still very thoughtful, the deputy minister is a high-ranking official, and the treatment is similar to Roque's, but the salary is a little less.

After Roque became minister, his salary rose to five thousand rand a year.

Derek Dodd is about two thousand rand, but if Derek Dodd continues to be the head of the Army Academy, he will receive another salary.

"No, Lydia and the children are still staying in Nyasaland, the children are going to school, I would rather believe in the attached primary school." Derek Dodd doesn't distrust Ziwei School, but it is obvious that the hardware and software facilities of the affiliated primary school are better.

"Whatever you want—" Roque didn't forget to ask Angel to take Derek Dodd to the office, where Joey was waiting in line outside for Roque to receive him.

Roque now spends all his time under Patton's management, and his daily work is arranged by Barton.

Barton is still very understanding, and only arranges one morning of work for Roque every day, and he can arrange freely in the afternoon.

However, in this way, the morning work time is scheduled, either for meetings or for official business, and there is no time to relax.

Joey was also promoted, and after Scripps was captured, Congreve resigned voluntarily, and Roque arranged for Congreve to work in the newly established navy, believing that Congreeve would be more conscientious and responsible in the future with the lesson learned this time.

Joy succeeds Congreve as Director of Division III.

"I have appointed General Dodd as Deputy Minister of Defense, and in the near future, you have to cooperate with General Dodd to reformulate a set of management methods for combat readiness warehouses, and a second Scripps will never be allowed-" Roque said sharply, one Scripps is enough, if there is a second one, then Roque will not be able to explain.

Not to give an account to the citizens of southern Africa, but not to Ade.

In this political system in southern Africa, Roque's position was appointed by Ade, so Roque is only responsible to Ade, and Ade is responsible for the Congress, and the members of the National Assembly are elected by the voters, and the prime minister has nothing to do with the voters.

In this way, the impact of the elections on the population is minimized, otherwise there would be too many elections in southern Africa, not only the national parliament, but also the state councils of the states, and the municipal councils of the cities, and even the small towns have management committees.

The parliament of southern Africa is re-elected every two years, and one-third of the seats are re-elected each time, and the term of office of each member is six years, and the term of office of the prime minister is five years, and there is no limit to the term of office of the ministers, such as Roque, who is estimated to stay in the post of defense minister for a long time, no matter who is the prime minister of southern Africa, Roque is the first choice of defense minister.

"Okay minister, I will fully cooperate with General Dodd." Joey didn't dare to slack off, the new officials took office three times, Roque has only been in office for three days, and the directors of the three divisions have been replaced, showing the style of an iron-fisted strongman, and the previous Marshal Hopkins is simply a world of difference.

Compared with Roque, Marshal Hopkins is a good old man who has not changed for thousands of years.

Of course, this image of a "good guy" only exists within the Ministry of Defense, and externally Hopkins is an old ** who hates cats and dogs, and is competitive everywhere, never willing to suffer, and relies on three points if he ignores it.

Roque and Hopkins are also in the same vein in this regard.

However, Roque was equally strict internally, and he used to spend most of his time in Nyasaland and rarely returned to Pretoria.

In the future, Roque should be in Pretoria most of the time, so the staff of the Ministry of Defense no longer have the freedom and casualness of the past, everyone is at risk, and the work efficiency is very high.

Roque didn't talk nonsense, waved his hand to let Joey take care of himself, and then motioned for Barton to pour a cup of coffee.

"What's next?" Roque is very worried, and he doesn't know when such a day will be a head, and hopes that Derek Dodd can get into work as soon as possible.

"Next Admiral Bridges is going to negotiate with you about the Navy budget, and you now have fifteen minutes to rest." Barton also didn't want to give Roque too much work, but he couldn't do it if he didn't arrange it, some things had to be decided by Roque, and others didn't have the right to decide.

For example, the budget of the Navy.

In order to better develop the navy, Roque just ordered the establishment of the seventh division yesterday, and the director of the division, General Bridges, has served in the British Navy, but he has launched the British Navy 20 years ago and came to work in Southern Africa, and he is also a soldier left over from the colonial period.

If he could, Roque would rather use new people, and this is the case with the Eighth Division, which is in charge of the Air Force in preparation, but the Navy is different from the Air Force, all countries in the world do not have the Air Force, and Southern Africa is the first country to make the Air Force an independent army, so everything has to move forward in groping.

The navy is not like this, Britain originally relied on the navy to start, the current naval strength is still dominating the world, Germany has been crazy to build warships for more than ten years, the strength of the fleet and the British Royal Navy is still incomparable, there are such good conditions of course to take advantage of, Bridges's biggest advantage is to be able to listen to opinions with an open mind, will not be everywhere old qualifications, do not accept new things.

The route of developing the navy in southern Africa is certainly different from that of the British Royal Navy.