More and more people realize that the arms race will end in a world war on an unprecedented scale, but only Roque knows how big the impact of the world war will be on the future world.

Not to mention the Balkan Peninsula, which became a mess after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, the Middle East Peninsula was also a mess after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, because of McMahon's letter, and after the end of the First World War, the rebel forces led by Hussein ibn Ali even clashed with the French troops who were entrusted by the League of Nations to take over the Mediterranean coast.

McMahon wrote to Hussein ibn Ali because the Anglo-French forces were pinned down by Germany in Europe and therefore did not have enough strength to attack the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

Now that the peninsula has mercenaries from the Umbrella Company, compared to Hussein ibn Ali, the Umbrella is a private enterprise, but it is a British enterprise with pure blood, so after the outbreak of the world war, McMahon will definitely not be willing to go far, and the Umbrella Company will be able to occupy the entire peninsula in name only.

and even into the heart of the Ottoman Empire, the peninsula of Asia Minor, which was coveted by the Russians.

Looking at the map, you can see the importance of the Asia Minor Peninsula, Constantinople next to the Bosphorus Strait guards the entrance to the Black Sea and cannot control the Bosphorus, and the Russian Black Sea Fleet is only in name, just like the Mongolian Navy, it only exists in the fleet.

In the 202 years from 1676 to 1878, there was an average of one war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire every 20 years, and so far it has been fought ten times without a victory, and the First World War will break out eleventh.

In Roque's plan, after the outbreak of World War I, it would be the best time for southern Africa to annex the peninsula.

But there will certainly be some deviations in the implementation of the plan, and the officers in southern Africa are very offensive under Roque's influence, and Don has been working beside Roque for many years and is a leader in the middle.

Despite Reed's constraints, from August onwards, desert bandits backed by the Umbrella Company began to frequently cross the Shams Mountains and make their way into the heart of the Muscat Sultanate.

Part of the Hajar Ranges, a natural barrier to Muscat, the interior of the mountains is an endless desert with a warm and humid climate along the coast, as opposed to the arid and inhospitable inland desert terrain.

In the past, desert bandits never set foot in the Hajar Mountains, so the coastal area, including the Hajar Mountains, became a paradise for Muscat people to live in, under the repeated attacks of desert bandits, the inland areas of the peninsula became a no-man's land of red cliffs, and Muscat was surrounded by thriving people, just like the Chu River and Han borders.

In mid-August, when a mercenary group formed by the Anglo-American Mining Company attacked an Umbrella Company patrol near the Hajar Mountains, the patrol suffered heavy losses, and Donn immediately dispatched the Umbrella Company mercenaries to launch a retaliatory attack on the Muscat Sultanate.

"You promised me the day before yesterday that you would guarantee the independence of the Sultanate of Muscat, but now the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company are appearing in Sib, which is less than twenty kilometers from Muscat, how do you explain it now?" Winston was furious when he learned of the situation, and when he was in Cairo some time ago, Winston's son, Temur, had just visited Winston, and Winston had also emphasized the British government's support for the Muscat Sultanate.

In 1888, Faisal took over as Sultan with the support of the British, and the Muscat Sultanate and the British government signed a number of unequal treaties, so as to be fully subject to the British.

The situation of the Sultanate of Muscat was very complicated, with serious ethnic and religious problems, and serious internal divisions, and if you only look at historical records, no one would have imagined that the Sayyid Dynasty, which once crossed the Asian and African continents, and that the capital Muscat was a small medieval town with a population of less than 5,000 people.

In fact, it is a large-scale, relatively hierarchical tribe.

That is, Britain did not have enough population, so it had to rely on the locals to maintain its rule.

Roque didn't speak, and directly handed the report that Lide gave to Roque to Winston.

"It's Anglo-American again, why can't you open the Persian Gulf coast, Anglo-American is also a British company, you can work together." Winston is not naïve, and there are of course prerequisites for working together, such as charging a part of the fee, or simply taking a stake in Anglo America, which is also a common way of capital operation.

"The Nyasaland Military Industrial Group and the Royal Artillery Factory are also British enterprises, so why doesn't the Royal Artillery Factory take out the naval artillery technology and share it with all of us?" Roque will not work with Anglo America.

The premise of cooperation is the unknown risk, oil drilling is very risky, and it is normal to find oil when the well is drilled, so it is necessary to work together to share the risk.

But this risk does not exist here in Roque, the coast of the Persian Gulf has the richest oil reserves in the world, so abundant that oil can be found by drilling a well, and Roque does not lack economic strength and human resources, so there is really no need to cooperate with British and American oil companies.

Now the world's dependence on oil is not high, and it is only in southern Africa that oil is regarded as a strategic resource reserve, and Britain, France, Germany and the United States have not yet realized the importance of oil to the future world, so Roque will never allow any other company to set foot in the Persian Gulf.

Even British companies can't, and if Britain realizes how big the oil reserves are along the Persian Gulf coast, it will be difficult for southern Africa to monopolize the peninsula.

"It's two different things, and we're talking about it now—" Winston smirked, which was one of Winston's achievements.

The transfer of naval artillery technology is one of the conditions for Roque to sell aircraft carriers to the British Admiralty, this transfer is certainly not free, but the price will not be very high, Roque's way is still very wild, if the Royal Artillery Factory does not cooperate, then Roque will directly look for other ways, and Britain is not the only one in the world that has artillery technology.

The largest caliber artillery that the Nyasaland military-industrial complex can now produce is ten inches, which translates to 254 millimeters.

The most advanced artillery technology in Britain has reached 15 inches, which is converted to 381 mm, which is also the most advanced artillery technology in the world, and will be applied to the latest level of Queen Elizabeth-class battleships.

This kind of artillery is now highly secretive, in order to prevent the leakage of secrets, Britain is used to refer to the "14-inch" gun, in order to catch up with the progress of the trial production and manufacture of the artillery is carried out at the same time.

This shows how much pressure the arms race has put on Britain.

If he could, of course, Roque would have liked a fifteen-inch gun, but this was unlikely, so Roque relented and hoped for 13.5-inch gun technology, which was installed on the Tiger battlecruiser.

It is precisely because Britain has 15-inch caliber artillery that this "transfer" can be discussed, otherwise don't even think about it.

"Winston, in the past, the empire was understaffed on the peninsula and had to rely on the inhabitants of the peninsula to maintain its rule, and now that there are enough British people on the peninsula, why should you protect the Muscat Sultanate?" Roque fanned the flames, and the British were supporting the Muscat Sultanate at the same time as they were supporting the Aden protectorate, and they were secretly in contact with the Persians, who were ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and this Roque wanted to monopolize the peninsula.

Britain's policy of ruling the peninsula is the same as the balance on the European continent, neither wanting to see France dominant, nor allowing Germany to come from behind, a hundred years ago Britain and Prussia joined forces to form an anti-French alliance, crushing Napoleon's ambition to unify Europe, and now Britain and France are joining forces to contain Germany, this balance is indeed playing perfectly.

"If you don't support the Muscat Sultanate, do you support your umbrella company? Your territory is in Nyasaland. Winston didn't like Roque's outstretched outreach, given that Southern Africa and England were separated.

"Don't do this, you help me, let's share the benefits." Roque is simple and rude, and when he can't make sense, he simply smashes it with money.

"How do I share?" Winston's eyes lit up immediately.

"Adan Company, I'll give you one percent of the proceeds." Roque felt that one percent was enough, but he didn't expect Winston to look down on it.

"One percent? Did you send Hanako? "Winston didn't know what one percent of Adan was, and he had barely heard of the name Adan before.

"What do you want to do if you don't work and only get paid?" Roque despises people who want money to die, and he really doesn't have enough people to swallow elephants.

"Then you go to someone else to cooperate-" Winston is not angry, Roark wants to cooperate with Winston, what he values is the resources in Winston's hands, now Winston is the British Minister of the Navy, and after the world war, he will successively serve as the Quartermaster, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs, and the Minister of Finance who Winston knows nothing.

If you have a good relationship with such a person, you won't suffer any loss.

"Well, let's get to know Adan first." Roque was not in a hurry, and let Winston understand what one percent of Adan Company meant.

Today, Adan owns most of the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, as well as the Adan Islands in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, and in the East Indies, Adan owns more than a million hectares of plantations that grow natural rubber and cane sugar, which are needed in southern Africa as well as in the United Kingdom.

In Madagascar, Adan owns 12 mines and a large number of plantations, and nearly 10,000 workers work for Adan in turn.

In the Congo Free State, Adan took over all the mines owned by the Haut-Katanga Mining Consortium, as well as a large number of plantations in the southeastern part of the Congo Free State, which have not yet resumed work because the Congo Free State is still at war, but sooner or later the war will end and these mines and plantations will be revitalized.

When Adan Company was established, it was Roque's private enterprise, and now as Adan Company's business scope becomes wider and wider, Roque also needs to use interests to pull more people onto the big ship of Adan Company, so as to better expand.

Of course, Roque's shares to Winston are the kind that only take dividends and do nothing, and for the same reason, Neville will also become a shareholder of Adan Company in the future, with Neville and Winston's help, Roque believes that a clown like Anglo American Petroleum will not be able to shake the interests of Adan and its umbrella on the peninsula.

"A million hectares, you just buy the whole East Indies." Winston didn't expect the strength of Adan Company to be so huge, but Winston didn't care much about the peninsula that Roarke paid more attention to, but the plantations in the East India made Winston even more eye-catching.

This can't be helped, although Port Elizabeth has discovered oil, but no one knows how much oil is in Port Elizabeth except Roque, and there is more than one place in the world that produces oil in Port Elizabeth, and even Romania is not the most important oil producing area in the world, Baku and Poland are the top two regions in terms of oil production, both of which are now located within the territory of the Russian Empire.

"Is it big?" Roque really doesn't think a million hectares are that big.

Winston then remembered that Nyasaland had an area of more than 200,000 square kilometers before, and now it is still expanding, so one million hectares is really not big, and it is only 10,000 square kilometers when converted.

"How much oil is in Muscat?" Winston also thought that Roque's main target was the Muscat Sultanate.

"Not much—" Roque didn't know the exact data, there should be, but not much, after all, in Roque's memory, the Sultanate of Muscat was not famous for oil.

"Then why are you targeting the Muscat Sultanate all the time?" Winston really couldn't understand that the Sultanate of Muscat still had some value in the coastal zone, and the inland was barren mountains and deserts, and according to British standards for colonies, they didn't want to give it for nothing.

Land is the most common resource for the UK, and the various data are no longer listed one by one, but replaced by Roque, and Roque does not care about land.

It's useless to care, look at the current Canada, not counting Labrador and Newfoundland, with an area of 9.5 million square kilometers, the sense of existence is not even as good as that of the Congo Free State, the total population is just over seven million, and one square kilometer is less than one person, which is the real vast and sparsely populated.

"Winston, to figure out a problem, it's not that I'm targeting the Sultanate of Muscat, but that the Sultanate of Muscat has been infringing on the interests of the umbrella company, if it weren't for the Muscat Sultanate providing various conveniences to the Anglo-American oil company, the Anglo-American oil company would not have had a chance to land on the peninsula at all, and the Muscat Sultanate is still obsessed, and it is estimated that they will not shed tears when they see the coffin." Roque categorically denies that against the Sultanate of Muscat, the umbrella company is the victim in this matter.