All the ingredients for lunch are brought in from southern Africa, including the wine and utensils used in southern Africa.

"A London local chicken sells for about 12 shillings in a London restaurant, and the southern African chickens plus the freight cost only 10 shillings, this is the cost advantage of southern Africa, Canada has more than 9 million square kilometers of territory, India has hundreds of millions of labor, but still need local support, and we in southern Africa have the ability to feed back to the country, so we have to do what we do best." Roque is justified in that compared to Canada and India, Southern Africa is indeed very competitive.

"Sir, when was the last time you were in London? Now a chicken costs at least a pound, and only the rich can afford to eat it—" lamented Clark Bell, who said that living in London was not easy in an era of soaring prices.

"I'm sorry, but the last time I went to London was six years ago, maybe seven years." Roque really can't remember, the last time he went to London was to go to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst to gild, and it was the only time, that memory was not good, and Roque is a little blurry now.

"It doesn't matter, even if you go to London in another 10 years, London won't change." Clark Bell also doesn't like the city that is shrouded in thick fog all year round, but many literary and artistic young people obviously don't think so, they don't know the dangers of smog, but think it's a symbol of romance.

"Locke, if war breaks out, how much supplies can Southern Africa provide to the mainland?" George White finally got to the point.

Roque knows that Congress is working on a lot of contingency plans for all kinds of eventualities, and supplies are a big part of it.

The reality of the British Isles determined that Britain had to rely on its dependence on colonies to meet its own needs, and the "British Isles" here does not refer to three "islands", the British Isles is composed of two main islands, the British Isles and the island of Ireland, plus many small islands, and the origin of this term is likely to be a homonym for "British Three Roads", which is used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales.

There was no Ireland yet, and Ireland did not become a Dominion until after the First World War, and then became an independent state.

The total area of the British Isles is only 250,000 square kilometers, which is much smaller than that of France and Germany, and it is impossible to meet the needs of the people by relying on locally produced materials, so Britain mainly relies on the import of colonies to maintain its own prosperity.

If war breaks out, Britain will inevitably begin to mobilize, and because the decline in the agricultural and industrial population will have a significant impact on production, it will inevitably become more dependent on overseas dominions and colonies.

In the previous plan of Congress, if there was a shortage of goods in the United Kingdom, then it would increase imports from the United States to alleviate the shortage of materials at home.

Now it seems that there is a better option.

"All!" Roque was categorical, but the meaning of "all" was different from what George White understood: "When the time comes, Southern Africa will do everything it can to provide the land with all kinds of supplies it needs, and we have developed rapidly in recent years, from nothing at the beginning, to now we have achieved initial results, and London should also know the situation in Southern Africa, we can produce almost all kinds of materials needed locally, rifles, ammunition, artillery, beef, fruits, and all kinds of textiles, we can provide them." ”

Roque didn't dare to take it all in, although southern Africa is developing rapidly, but the foundation is too poor, after all, the development has only been a few years, and the strength is still incomparable with the United States.

The United States now has a population of 100 million, while southern Africa has only 10 million Africans, and the gap in human resources is too great.

"Locke, capacity is the most important issue." George White also did not have a say in this matter, and the shortcomings of southern Africa were indeed obvious.

"Yes, I understand that we have been trying to increase the population as well, but this is not a problem that can be solved in a short period of time." Roque is also very helpless, the current southern Africa does not have the strength to compete with the United States in an all-round way, but in some areas, southern Africa has successfully established an advantage.

For example, in the field of military industry.

Without the advent of Southern Africa, Britain would now have begun to order various supplies from the United States to meet domestic needs.

Now the situation has changed a lot, although Britain still orders supplies from the United States as in another time and space, but the structure has changed a lot, Britain orders more living supplies from the United States, and military supplies are more from southern Africa, especially weapons and ammunition, and the 0.303 that Roque has been insisting on has finally begun to work.

0.303 refers to the caliber of the Lee Enfield rifle, and Southern Africa, like the United Kingdom, insisted on the strange caliber of 0.303 inches, which translates to 7.7 mm.

The rifle now armed with the U.S. military is a replica of the Mauser's Springfield rifle, which is the same 0.3-inch caliber as the Mauser, which translates to 7.62.

Don't underestimate the 0.003 gap, although it is almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye, but it cannot be used on the rifle, the rifle bullet used by Lee Enfield is 0.303 inch in rifle cartridge, the specification is 7.7×56 mm, the Springfield rifle is the use of M1906 rifle cartridge, the specification is 7.62×63 mm, the length of the two bullets is completely different, so it cannot be used at all, if the United States wants to produce ammunition for the UK, it will have to build another production line, in the case of small batch orders in the UK, The United States will not make such a bloody investment.

What if a new production line is built, but the UK doesn't buy it?

At this time, it shows that Roque adheres to the benefits of uniform specifications, does not consider the rate of fire, only considers the power, 0.303 inch in rifle cartridge is indeed inferior to the M1906 rifle cartridge, after all, the charge is there, the United States is also because the Spanish Army was equipped with Mauser rifles during the Spanish-American War performed better in the war, so it was decided to obtain Mauser's authorization to develop the Springfield rifle, when Nyasaland expanded the arsenal, some engineers suggested the development of more powerful rifle cartridges, but Roque directly vetoedRoque was preparing for this moment.

In fact, it is not much worse, the effective range of the Springfield rifle is 550 meters, which is not as far as a thousand meters of Lee Enfield, but this range is meaningless, at a distance of one thousand meters, even if it is an accurate shooter, without a scope, it can only be blind, whether it can hit the target or not depends on God's will.

Under the combined effect of so many factors, southern Africa has now become the best choice for Britain, Britain not only orders the weapons and ammunition needed from southern Africa, but also orders a large number of daily necessities, only the part that southern Africa cannot provide, will be ordered from the United States, since the beginning of this year, Britain has ordered various materials from southern Africa worth more than 50 million pounds, which has effectively alleviated the financial crisis of the federal government of southern Africa.

The materials ordered by the British are mainly concentrated in military products, although most of the profits go to the Nyasaland military industrial group, but the federal government also collects more than 5 million in taxes, otherwise Ade would not have given Roque such a strong support.

"We need to make the most of India's human resources." George White actively helped find a way.

When it comes to human resources, India is a panacea, as all Britons know.

"We're also hiring a lot of Indian workers right now, but their efficiency is very problematic." Roque is also a headache, now not only Henry's mines, Nyasaland is also employing a large number of Indian workers.

There is no way around it, and if there is a choice, Roque is really reluctant to hire Indian workers.

Although the salary of Indian workers is very low, the salary of Africans is even lower, and compared with African workers, Indians are not very efficient, and there are many bad problems of all kinds, in southern Africa, Indians also regard themselves as British, and they kick their noses in the face if they give a little good face, and some people try to take advantage of the opportunity to work in southern Africa to immigrate with their families, which is strictly restricted, and southern Africa only needs adult men, and no one else wants.

Since the beginning of this year, at least 100,000 workers have been hired from India in southern Africa, which has helped to alleviate the labor shortage in southern Africa.

After lunch, the military observer mission will have all its work for the day, and it is simply impossible to expect them to work more than 10 hours a day.

Returning the Military Observer to the hotel, Roque went to McMahon again, and the Military Observer asked to go to the border town of Sylum tomorrow.

"What do you think? Can you be sure that Selum is safe? McMahon threw the question back to Roque.

"It's definitely not safe, we only have four companies in Sairum, and Sairum is less than ten kilometers from the border, and the guerrillas will go and return at any time, and if something goes wrong, we are afraid that we will not be able to explain it." Roque didn't want to look for trouble, looking at the meaning of the military observer mission, it would not stop after arriving in Serum, and he would definitely see with his own eyes the performance of the southern African army on the battlefield.

"Then don't go, you can go somewhere else." McMahon doesn't take risks either, isn't it good to stay in a hotel honestly? This is not London.

"Where?"

"You might as well lead them to Port Elizabeth, they were going to visit Port Elizabeth anyway." McMahon wanted to send the military observer mission away.

The military observer mission inspected Port Elizabeth because of the oil in Port Elizabeth, the British military has now begun to use internal combustion engines, the status of oil is becoming more and more important, Britain is now to determine the reserves of the Elizabeth field, if the Elizabeth field can replace the role of the Romanian oil field, then Britain will have a greater initiative.

"Port Elizabeth has also been unsafe lately, and yesterday there were some clashes between the Umbrella Company and the Ottoman army." Roque also didn't want the Military Observer Mission to go to Port Elizabeth, a group of people who were now hated by the people.

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