410 Can really be born
To deal with an old disrespect like Ade, you have to be an old ** like Hopkins.
Hopkins didn't eat Ade's set at all, and Roark still cared about the ugliness of the family, so Hopkins quarreled with Ade with a loud voice, mixed with countless indescribable words that hit the head of F, or S.
In just a quarter of an hour, Hopkins returned victorious, triumphantly like a big victory, but in retrospect he had his own little calculations.
"Locke, you are just too good at talking, obviously we worked so hard to get the money, why should we build an office building for the Legislative Council, our Ministry of Defense does not have its own office building so far-"
"How much do you want back?" Roque understood what Hopkins meant, but now that there are more monks and less porridge, he really has to save money.
"Half a family!" Hopkins was triumphant, and a fight made a million, and the fight was worth it.
"I'll solve the problem in the office building within a week." Roque has a big deal, and in Pretoria, Roque has too many methods.
Turning around, Roque went to Henry and asked Henry to give up the police station to the Ministry of Defense as the office of the Ministry of Defense.
Henry certainly disagrees, the police station in Pretoria is located in the center of Pretoria, right next to the church square, when Roque and Henry came to Pretoria together, the whole of Pretoria, except for the Palace of Justice in Ade, and the municipal building opposite the Palace of Justice, the police station is the most complete and largest complex.
Over the past few years, Roque has been busy renovating Johannesburg, and Henry has not been idle.
The current Pretoria Police Station is larger than before, and although the main building has been renovated and is only three floors, it is 30 meters high, which looks like it is not much better than the Palace of Justice, and it is indeed suitable to be used as the office of the Ministry of Defence.
"The Ministry of Defense moved into the police station, so where do you let the police station work?" Henry is now the Minister of Justice, and the police department is a subordinate unit of the Ministry of Justice, and the police department will have to move if Henry agrees.
However, it is not easy to move, the Pretoria Police Department used to be the headquarters of the Transvaal police system, and there are thousands of staff members of various patrol officers, commandos, and civilian personnel, so many people have to move.
The point is that there is no suitable place.
Now Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal state and the political capital of the Southern African Federation, is home to Ade, Philip, and the Transvaal City Council, so it is not easy to find a suitable office location.
It was also Roque who could make this kind of request to Henry, if it was a different person, Henry would have served tea to the guests a long time ago.
"Find another place to build it, don't say that the police station has no money." Roque must have understood that the richest unit in the whole of southern Africa is the police station, just look at the office building of the police department.
"It's not a matter of money, the Ministry of Defense has two or three kittens and puppies in Pretoria, the headquarters and the General Staff are in Nyasaland, Pretoria is an empty shell, do you want such a big office space and so many staff?" Henry despised Roque's behavior, and instead of working in the police system, he began to dig into the corners of the police system with impunity.
"What then?" Roque didn't really let the police station move, speaking of which, Roque's territory was in Johannesburg, and Henry was the head snake in Pretoria.
"Alright, leave this matter to me, I promise to satisfy His Excellency the Minister." Henry is helpless, Hopkins is Henry's father-in-law, and for Lacey's sake, Henry should also solve problems for Hopkins.
It is estimated that Henry still remembered that Hopkins drove Henry out of the army, so he deliberately ignored Hopkins.
Even if Hopkins is an old **, he is a face-saving person after all, and it is impossible to take the initiative to find Henry for this matter.
Roque is the most suitable person, and perhaps in doing so, he will ease the relationship between Henry and Hopkins.
After getting the money, Roque couldn't wait to return to Nyasaland, and now Pretoria also made Roque feel depressed, and the bureaucratic atmosphere was getting worse, and it was better to be Nyasaland.
Two and a half million is really not much, place an order for the Nyasaland Arsenal, settle the cost of the umbrella company, and then sign a contract with Christian Construction Company, and there is not much left of two and a half million.
Of course, a lot of money is thrown down, and the effect is still good, at least the northern Rhodesian division and the first cavalry division are fully loaded, and the regular establishment of the troops in southern Africa is 15,000 people in one division and 30,000 people in two divisions, and in the face of 50,000 German troops in Tanganyika, Roque can deal with it calmly.
Information from the German side was that in mid-January, three newly formed German divisions had boarded ships and were expected to arrive in Tanganyika in mid-February.
From this time, it can be seen how difficult it was for Germany to support Tanganyika.
After the establishment of the Southern African Federation, the Transvaal was in the center, and the defensive pressure was greatly reduced, relying on the police forces in Pretoria and Johannesburg, plus the militia groups in the two places, it was enough to ensure the safety of the Transvaal, so there was no need for the First Cavalry Division to be stationed in the Transvaal.
In response to pressure from South-West Africa, Roque transferred the Johannesburg Cavalry Regiment to the city of Rhodes in Bechuana.
Southwest Africa had previously sent a large number of troops to support Tanganyika, but now that the territory was empty, the Johannesburg Cavalry Regiment was more than enough to respond to any provocation from South West Africa, and could even put pressure on South West Africa in turn.
The Pretoria Rifle Regiment was transferred to Salisbury, where Rhodesia bordered Portuguese West Africa and Belgian Congo, but the Portuguese and Belgians did not dare to trouble southern Africa.
The Purple Motorized Infantry Regiment, which has the strongest combat effectiveness and the best equipment, was transferred to Little Rock, as the biggest trump card in Roque's hands, plus the Nyasaland Assault Regiment, which was originally stationed in Little Rock, Roque finally has nearly 10,000 mobile troops in his hands.
While the German government and southern Africa were moving troops frequently, the rebels at Fort Glory in Tanganyika were also growing rapidly.
Now it is no longer appropriate to use the term "Fort Glory Rebels", Mumu has officially played the banner of "Zanzibar", and newspapers in southern Africa and Britain have begun to use the neutral word "Fort Glory Troops" to replace the derogatory term "Fort Glory Rebels" after the Battle of Fort Helmut.
This was an open and honest show of support for Mumu, and the German government immediately launched another series of protests, but the British Foreign Office ignored the German government's protests on the grounds of "freedom of speech".
Just kidding, those newspapers in Britain are usually most keen to report all kinds of gossip about the royal family and nobles, followed by all kinds of incompetence of the British government, those professional writers in London, those articles published in the newspapers every day, look as unscrupulous as drunk, and if they have nothing to do, they will pull out the prime minister and the members of the upper and lower houses and scold them, and comment on Tanganyika is simply not a thing.
The British government is still lightly ridiculing the German government for not having a good temperament, and the meaning of the words is also to laugh at the incompetence of the German government, the scale of the Fort Glory troops in Tanganyika is now more than 50,000 people, and the German government can really put down the rebellion in Tanganyika with three new divisions?
Don't do it, Britain mobilized 440,000 troops to eliminate the Boers, but in the end it failed to achieve its goal, and if Germany could stabilize the situation with 50,000 men, it would be more and more incompetent to the British government.
Or the incompetence of the British troops.
Therefore, during this period, the most enthusiastic discussion in the London newspapers was whether Germany was worthy of the title of "the world's first army".
As a result, the mysterious troops who were in the limelight in the Battle of Fort Helmut were pulled out again to tell the story, although Mu Mu insisted that all the troops who participated in the Battle of Fort Helmut were the troops of Fort Glory, but no one believed this statement.
Almost all newspapers are consciously or unconsciously pointing their suspicions at Nyasaland.
In an exclusive interview with The Times, Winston touted the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division, although Winston did not respond positively to whether the mysterious force in the Battle of Fort Helmut was a southern African force, but in Winston's mouth, the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division could be called the "world's first army", and other Germans and French had to stand aside.
The editors of the Times were not much better than the editors of The Sun, and as a result, an interview was written in a splendid manner, which made people subconsciously think that since southern Africa was capable of defeating the German troops, the mysterious troops who completely annihilated the 2nd Tanganyika Division in the Battle of Fort Helmut came from southern Africa.
This kind of news is simply very gratifying for Britain in the midst of an arms race, Germany is powerless in the arms race, and Britain is also anxious, after all, this is a race with no end in sight.
Or rather, it is a race destined to end in destruction.
In early February, Yaya secretly came to Eagle Fort to meet Roque, hoping that Nyasaland would give greater support to the forces of Fort Glory.
It was also at this time that Luo Ke learned that Mu Mu was actually Yaya's younger brother.
This is not uncommon, Africans are not monogamous, it is normal for a person to have three or five wives in the tribe, and it is not uncommon for the scumbag to form a company, Yaya has twelve younger brothers, and Mu Mu is just one of them.
It's really alive.