Philip is a traditional British aristocracy, and his interests have long been firmly tied to the British Empire, although after the autonomy of southern Africa, Philip will consider the interests of the Matilda family more and more, but Philip is still tough on the issue of Germany, after all, Britain is the suzerainty of southern Africa, in Philip's view, a strong Britain can better safeguard the interests of southern Africa.

Unlike Philip, Roque has long seen through the paper tiger nature of imperialism, the world war is the best opportunity for southern Africa to completely get rid of the British clamp, miss this time, and I don't know when I will wait for the next time, an autonomous southern Africa can not let Roque be satisfied, a completely independent, has a huge influence in Africa, and has a certain voice in the world Southern Africa is Roque's goal.

After the war, in order to contain France, Britain began to secretly support Germany, so there will be no eternal enemies between countries and countries, and there will be no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests.

Firmly on this, Roque was very honest with Philip: "Of course whoever gives money will sell to-"

"Including the Germans?" Philip asked.

"Philippe, local companies have not completely broken off their cooperation with German companies." Roque did not answer positively, but only stated a fact.

The mainland's balanced policy and glorious isolation are not a joke, Britain has always been like this, nothing will be completely done, and it has truly achieved the goal of being a man and leaving a line, so that we can meet in the future.

During the period of French hegemony on the European continent, Britain organized seven consecutive anti-French alliances in order to break France's hegemony on the European continent, and finally completely defeated Napoleon and crushed France's last hope for its rise.

In the first half of the nineteenth century, Russia's ambitions were gradually increasing, and its ambitions for the Balkans were increasing, when the Ottoman Empire was no longer able to resist Russian expansion, and Britain pulled France together to help the Ottoman Empire against Russia, trapping Russia firmly in the Black Sea.

After the Franco-Prussian War, France, in order to take revenge, abandoned its former suspicions and formed an alliance with Russia against the German-Austrian alliance, and Britain remained gloriously isolated and did not join either side, trying to profit from it.

As a result, Germany began to challenge Britain's maritime supremacy, and Britain quickly formed an alliance with France and Russia to form the Triple Entente.

This is the essence of Britain's-stirring stick, even if the arms race is in full swing now, British domestic enterprises still have not completely broken off their ties with German enterprises, the reason cannot be outsiders, free trade certainly cannot be used as a reason, in order to support Germany in the future to contain France is the truth.

If you offend people miserably now, what if Germany and France form an alliance to isolate Britain in the future?

Don't think it's impossible, think about the European Community, think about the Brexit drama of the 21st century, and it would not be surprising if Britain decided to reshuffle its government one day to become a socialist country.

Even British companies are secretly colluding with Germany, and it is understandable that Roque is doing this, but don't the Germans know that the construction of railways in southern Africa harbors evil intentions? I must know, but the Germans have no choice, just like Liu Beigang was defeated in the White Emperor City, and then he had to pinch his nose and join Wu to resist Cao.

"Locke, you always have to think about the children-" Philip's expression was complicated, in fact, what Roque did was also blameless, Roque did not sell strategic materials directly to the Germans, but to the Americans, as for who the Americans sold to, then Roque didn't care.

So Philip can only say it from a moral level, but it's also far-fetched.

"I just think about the children, and I hope that when they grow up, Southern Africa will be stronger, face the international environment more relaxed, and be more comfortable facing the world." Roque followed Philip's topic and said, as for the British title, who cares.

To put it mildly, if Roque had not shown enough value, Britain would not have made Roque a viscount at all.

It is precisely because Roque is becoming more and more valuable to the British Empire and Southern Africa that the British government will not hesitate to envelop Roque, as long as Roque does not break through the bottom line of the United Kingdom, the British will give Roque a higher and higher title.

This is the most cost-effective way to get around.

It is estimated that Henry and Owen really didn't want to see Philip's stinky face, so before the meal, Henry and Owen came together.

Henry and Owen both came with their children, and the children got together and immediately began to shout, and the aristocratic demeanor that Phyllis and Lacey and Carina emphasized was immediately thrown out of the clouds, and the lonely manor was full of joy inside and outside, and the bantams sent by Christian were the most popular with the children, and even the girls had to try them.

When he met Roque, Henry was still concerned about the mines in Katanga, and enthusiastically asked about the latest situation in the Congo Free State.

"The Republic of the Congo and the Kingdom of the Congo have signed the Bukavu Treaty, but the war is not over, and the Belgian government is seizing the time to train an expeditionary force, and things may still be uncertain." Roque is not too worried about this problem, and the Belgian expeditionary force will definitely not be able to set off this year.

"How many expeditionary forces did Belgium form? Ten thousand? Or twenty thousand? "Henry looked down on Belgium, 12,000 men had no effect on the current Congo Free State, and Britain sent a total of 450,000 men to southern Africa during the Second Boer War, and the Boers combined were only 440,000 at that time, so Belgium had to form at least 10 million expeditionary forces.

This is not enough to add up the armies of all the countries of Europe at present.

So think about the 8 million regular army that Chang Kaishen claimed at the end of World War II, not to mention the combat effectiveness, this number can scare Europeans crazy.

"Locke, your tactics are too rough." Lord Matilda, a former Colonial Affairs officer, was disgusted.

Roque laughed, although Roque's methods were rough, so were the tricks, abductions, coercion, and temptations of the British when they expanded their colonies very subtle?

Taking into account the actual situation in Britain, it is true that it can only be abducted, deceived, coerced, and lured, and it is impossible to directly send troops to push it flat; the British army has only a few thousand people all year round, and it cannot even fight the name of "royal." If the US army is called Hanako, then the British army is a vagabond, and no one is much stronger than the other.

Since the independence of the United States, the United States has maintained a very small army, which is seriously underfunded, and it cannot even change its uniforms in a timely manner, and its weapons and equipment are not even as good as the National Guard formed by the states themselves.

The National Guard of the United States is the militia.

Later, because it wanted to show its strength, the United States formed a large white fleet that could be used to sail around the world, but the army was still not welcomed, so the troops sent by the United States to Europe to participate in the war did not even have weapons, and they had to rely on Britain and France to support.

"But if it's so blatant, there will still be hidden dangers." Owen thinks a lot, if it is described in a good word as thoughtful, and in a bad word it is forward-looking.

"There must be, the Belgian government is very unpleasant, but there is not much they can do, and they have the ability to bite me." Roque is not afraid, Belgium is a country in Europe that eats and sleeps and beats Doudou in the story of Doudou, anyone who comes up can bully it, if it weren't for Britain's continental equilibrium policy, Belgium would have been annexed by France a long time ago.

Before the Franco-Prussian War, one of the important reasons why Britain sat and watched France be defeated was that France wanted to annex Belgium, and Britain certainly did not want to see this happen, a France with territorial ambitions was intolerable to Britain, and before the Franco-Prussian War, France obtained Savoy and Nice from the Kingdom of Sardinia, two places one is a high-quality coal producing area, and the other is a natural harbor.

Therefore, on the issue of the Congo Free State, Belgium can do very little, the atmosphere in Europe is becoming more and more tense, and Belgium can't take care of the Congo Free State now, because whether it is France becoming strong or Germany defeating France, the annexation of Belgium is a piggybacking matter, and the international environment of small countries and widows is so sad.

"If you continue to do this, it is estimated that there will be an anti-southern African alliance in Africa." Owen expressed deep concern that southern Africa is now showing too aggressiveness, but London has not limited its expansion, but has only suggested that southern Africa should reorient.

Britain itself does not want to see southern Africa endlessly tormenting Belgium or Portugal, and wants southern Africa to focus on Tanganyika and South West Africa.

Think about the appeasement before the outbreak of World War II, Britain could sit on Germany's annexation of Austria, force Czechoslovakia to cede the Sudetenland to Germany in order to meet Germany's demands, and then allow Germany to annex the whole of Czechoslovakia, all in order to allow Germany to attack the Soviet Union and lead to disaster.

The same was true in southern Africa, where Britain had learned the lessons of the Second Boer War and could not form an expeditionary force to go to Africa again, so southern Africa became Britain's most powerful weapon against South-West Africa and Tanganyika.

"Europe is now busy with an arms race, and even countries like Belgium are starting to rearm their arms, even if there is an anti-Southern African alliance." Roque is more optimistic, the purpose of Belgium's formation of the expeditionary force is actually very vague, in the Belgian government's propaganda, the formation of the expeditionary force is to protect national interests, and the "national interests" here include not only the Congo Free State, but also Belgium itself.