While in Johannesburg, there was a time when the relationship between Phyllis and Ida eased for a while because of the brotherhood between Arthur and Gavin's little brothers.

Now that the relationship between Jessica, Phyllis and Ida has fallen to freezing point again, it is estimated that an opportunity is needed to ease the situation.

Phyllis was also very busy during this time, Roque was busy digging holes for the Germans, and Phyllis was busy relocating the Gurkha who had emigrated to Nyasaland.

According to statistics in May, more than 50,000 Gurkha have immigrated to Nyasaland, making it the second largest ethnic group outside the Chinese in Nyasaland, but Roque does not want to settle these Gurkha in Nyasaland, but to resettle these Gurkha in batches to Bechuana Oblast, and this work is in charge of Phyllis.

On the whole, although there are many high-quality talents from Europe in Nyasaland, the overall population of Nyasaland is still dominated by Chinese, who account for more than 95 percent of the total population in Nyasaland, and Roque has no intention of changing this situation.

Comparatively speaking, Bechuana Oblast has a territory of nearly 600,000 square kilometers, and the population in the territory is only 100,000, including Africans, so there is plenty of room to accommodate the Gurkhas.

Hundreds of thousands is really not an exaggeration, although the British government has never paid attention to Bechuana, so that even the specific number of people in Bechuana has not been counted, but in another time and space, Bechuana has only 2.25 million people until 2016, so in 1908, it is estimated that Bechuana has a population of 100,000 is an exaggeration.

Even if it is a mere 100,000 people, they have to face the crazy plundering of the Germans in southwest Africa, and Roque sent a regiment of troops to be stationed in Rhodes City to stabilize the situation in Bechuana, but compared to 600,000 square kilometers of land, the strength of a regiment is really a drop in the bucket, so the key is to enrich the population in Bechuana, so as to ensure that Bechuana has remained in the federal government of southern Africa.

Compared with the native Africans, the fighting power of the Gurkha people does not need to be questioned, and the Gurkha families who immigrated to Nyasaland have an average of more than five children, some of the older children are actually old enough to work, but because of the age requirements for military service in southern Africa, these children are not yet allowed to enter the army.

However, there is no need to wait too long, after three or five years, these children will reach the age of military service, and it is estimated that the arms race in Europe has entered a white heat, and at the critical moment when they have to fight a war to decide their fate, these children will come in handy.

It should be explained here that theoretically, the military service system implemented by the Federal Government of Southern Africa is a combination of compulsory military service and professional military service, and all southern Africans who reach the age of 18 must enter the army to serve, and the length of service is two years, and if they perform well during the service, they can join the regular army and become professional soldiers.

The difference between professional soldiers and compulsory soldiers is mainly in the annual salary, the salary of compulsory soldiers is very small, which is basically equivalent to a pocket money, but the salary of professional soldiers is very generous, and the average annual salary of each professional soldier can reach at least one hundred pounds, which is enough to maintain a decent life for a family.

After the establishment of the federal government, new immigrants want to obtain all the rights of normal citizens, usually there is a probationary period, which is about five years, but if they join the army, this probationary period will be shortened to about two years, as long as there is no crime within two years, then after discharge, they can enjoy all the rights that citizens of the federal government of southern Africa can enjoy.

Including the right to vote.

When Roque formulated this rule, it was widely questioned, including by the immigration bureau.

However, Roque insisted on this issue, the current regular army in southern Africa has only four divisions, of which the only troops with overseas combat capabilities are the northern division of Rhodesia and the first cavalry division, and the current troop size is enough to maintain stability in southern Africa, but if World War I breaks out, it is still not enough to expand to the outside world, and even provide assistance to the British mainland, so in the future, Roque is ready to expand all the current four divisions into integrated divisions composed of professional soldiers. Then ten to twenty ordinary units composed of conscripts will be formed, so that the defense system of the federal government of southern Africa can be completely built.

Of course, when he explained to Ade, Roque's reasons were still very sufficient, and the reason why Ade agreed was also to take into account the actual situation of the federal government of southern Africa.

Although a unified federal government has been established in southern Africa, the ties between the various places are not close, and there is not even a road between the three capitals of Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town, only a railway, which certainly does not meet Ade's requirements for southern Africa.

The ordinary army that Roque wants to form is actually an engineering unit, because it will not undertake combat missions, so it does not need to train hard, so the time is just used to build roads and bridges, at least this can save the federal government a lot of money, after all, conscripts do not need salaries, and hiring people from a construction company like Christian, the federal government has no money now, so Roque's suggestion has been fully supported by Ade.

Back to the question of the Gurkhas.

Previously, Roque once wanted to resettle Chinese in Bechuana, but this idea was not realistic in a short period of time, after all, Nyasaland and the Transvaal have not yet been fully developed, and Xiao Si also strongly requested the introduction of Chinese to enrich Rhodesia, so Roque is indeed unable to resettle too many Chinese in Bechuana in a short period of time.

The introduction of the Gurkhas can effectively alleviate the tension in Bechuana, after all, the Gurkhas are fierce and brave and good at fighting, as long as they are given full rights, it is estimated that it will be difficult for the Germans in southwest Africa to do whatever they want.

"Every Gurkha family who voluntarily travels to Bechuana can be rewarded with ten acres of land, and if a family member serves in the federal army, then he can apply for a loan from the RAND Bank, which can then be used to expand the farm, or to buy livestock, and the arsenal has recently prepared to add a rifle production line to fully meet the security needs of Bechuana Oblast." Anton was also very concerned about the resettlement of the Gurkhas, and the Gurkha mercenaries in southern Africa mainly served in the Northern Rhodesian Division and the First Cavalry Division.

"Don't produce rifles, those Martini Henry will be completely eliminated, and the new immigrants in Bechuana can provide them with shotguns or pistols if they need weapons, and rifles cannot spread to the civilian population." As Deputy Secretary of Defense, Roque is also the Deputy Attorney General, and he also has to take precautions for the safety of the federal government's police.

Compared with shotguns and pistols, rifles have a large power and long range, and indeed require a certain degree of control.

Before the establishment of the federal government, guns were not banned in all regions of southern Africa, and even the British arsenal encouraged civilian guns for the sake of profit, which caused the proliferation of guns in southern Africa, and many Africans who herded cattle even carried rifles on their backs, which was a great hidden danger to social security.

After the establishment of the federal government, the control of weapons is gradually standardized, although in principle the federal government does not ban guns, but high-powered weapons, including rifles, are no longer allowed to be owned by ordinary people, even if the rifles purchased before, they can also be exchanged from weapon stores for new weapons that are not too powerful, and the federal government will provide financial subsidies for weapon stores to further reduce the number of rifles held by the people.

In fact, at close range, shotguns and pistols are more powerful and convenient to use than rifles, and ordinary people do not need rifles to protect their personal and property safety at all, so the control of weapons in southern Africa will be further strengthened in the future.

"In the face of the threat from South-West Africa, Bechuana still has a demand for rifles." Anton actually has his own little abacus, Bechuanar is not Nyasaland after all, but the Nyasaland Arsenal is a local enterprise in Nyasaland, so Anton will not care about the proliferation of guns in Bechuanaland, whether it will affect the security and stability of Bechuanaland, and it is only right to add more profits to the Nyasaland Arsenal.

Roque only smiled and did not speak, and the so-called threats faced by Bechuana were mostly the hype of newspapers and magazines in southern Africa, and the real situation was far from as bad as the newspapers portrayed.

Before the establishment of the federal government, Bechuana was indeed facing a serious threat from Southwest Africa, and German mercenaries in Southwest Africa repeatedly crossed the border into the then Bechuana Protectorate to plunder the population and livestock, causing serious losses to the Bechuana Reserve, and the border areas of Southwest Africa and the Bechuana Protectorate were often even tens of kilometers of no-man's land.

After the formation of the federal government, the Ministry of Defence sent an official note to the Governor-General of South West Africa that if South West Africa did not restrain such behavior, the federal government would retaliate accordingly to protect the interests of Bechuana.

If this note had been sent by Bechuana, the Governor of South-West Africa probably wouldn't have cared at all.

However, this note was sent by Roque on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, and Roque's name was signed underneath, which had to attract the attention of Southwest Africa.

If the Governor's Office of Southwest Africa doesn't care about Roque's note and continues to send mercenaries into Bechuana to do evil, then Roque will really use corresponding means to retaliate against Southwest Africa, as for whether Roque's retaliation is something that Southwest Africa can bear, just look at the current Tanganyika.

Not only Tanganyika, Roque's murderous reputation was not refined in a day, the fate of Portuguese West Africa, as well as the current situation of the Congo Free State and Tanganyika, together created Roque's murderous name, if Southwest Africa did not know each other, Roque would not mind killing the sacrificial flag.

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