645 Unintentional willow insertion
Most of the Chinese who Roque rescued from the Johannesburg gold mines for the first time left southern Africa, a place they hated, and most of those who stayed died in the past decade.
Buck can be regarded as one of the few witnesses, when he was in Johannesburg, Buck also tried his best to help Chinese workers, but Buck's power was limited and he could not change the general environment at that time, and it was a drop in the bucket after all.
The emergence of Roque really changed the fate of the Chinese, from 1901, a large number of Chinese came to southern Africa with the help of Roque, this time it is no longer all young and middle-aged, many people come to southern Africa as a family unit, since then the Chinese have settled in southern Africa, more and more people, more and more powerful, and now more than the total white population, becoming the first ethnic group in southern Africa.
The "ethnic group" here definitely does not include Africans, Africans in southern Africa are not recognized by the federal government, and the federal government will definitely not count the data of Africans, look at the current Congo Free State, the British media talk about the reduction of 15 million Africans during the rule of Leopold II in the Congo Free State at every turn, in fact, during the British rule in southern Africa, the total number of Africans in southern Africa also continued to decrease, but the official statistics are not counted, so there is no accurate data.
In fact, there is no accurate data in the Congo Free State, and this fifteen million data is still passed out of Roque's mouth.
With Roque's "guidance", this time the negotiations between the Republic of the Congo and the Kingdom of the Congo went smoothly.
The negotiations were still conducted in Bukavu, and with the lessons of the last time, Bukavu was like a great enemy, strictly controlling the belongings of all negotiators, and absolutely not allowing offensive items to be brought into the negotiation site, not even pens.
Guards were also arranged in advance at the negotiation site to prevent any accidents, and the water cups provided at the meeting site were paper cups, and the water was also cooled and boiled.
For the two lines that Roque casually drew on the map, Isaiah Chamberlain and Lu Taitai were actually not satisfied, but this time the person who presided over the meeting was not Feng Xun, but Christian and Yaya, in the eyes of Christian and Yaya who were almost going to choose people and devour, Isaiah Chamberlain and Lu Taitai had opinions and should be reserved, and the negotiations began on December 15, and on the 16th Isaiah Chamberlain and Lu Taitai signed the "Bukavu Treaty", and the rebellion that lasted nearly a year finally came to an end.
It is only internally that a reconciliation has been reached, and real peace depends on whether the Belgian Government recognizes the validity of the Bukavu Treaty.
However, even if the Belgian government does not recognize it, it cannot change the reality that the "Bukavu Treaty" will take effect immediately in the Congo Free State, in addition to begging for help from the international community, the Belgian government can also send an expeditionary force to wage war to change this outcome, but unfortunately the world's eyes are now attracted by the Balkan war that may change the future direction of the whole world, and no one really cares about the belonging of the Congo Free State.
Ade is also concerned about the Balkan War, but Ade is not the same as Roque in his concern about the Balkan War, and Ade is concerned about whether the Balkan War will have an impact on the Elizabeth oil fields under the control of the Umbrella Company.
Speaking of this is also a tragedy, as the prime minister of the federal government of Southern Africa, Ade did not know that most of the peninsula had become the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company, so Ade was surprised when Roque explained.
"You mean to say that the Sultanate of Najd is a colony of the Umbrella Company—" Ade really didn't expect that fifty years after the cancellation of the British East India Company, there would be a resurgence of similar enterprises on the peninsula.
In fact, it can't be said that Xiao Si's South African company is actually similar to the East India Company, the East India Company was kicked away after being used by the British government, but before it had time to kick the South African company, Rhodesia preemptively joined Southern Africa, so that the British government could not kick it.
"Don't use such ugly words, how can it be a colony, it should be said that the Sultanate of Najd is very yearning for our southern Africa, so it is willing to become a vassal of the umbrella company." Roque rebelled, and now he dares to tamper with Ade's meaning.
"Najd seems to be a desert area, is there a gold mine in the desert?" Ade had worked in Egypt and was fairly knowledgeable about the situation on the peninsula.
The desert of the peninsula is not the same thing as the desert of southern Africa.
The deserts of the peninsula and North Africa are real deserts, with no grass growing everywhere and only a few oases for human habitation.
The largest desert in southern Africa is the Kalahari Desert, but it would be more accurate to describe the Kalahari Desert as an inland dry zone, which is so large that almost the entire state of Bechuana is included, as well as parts of South-West Africa and Southern Africa.
To be precise, the Kalahari Desert has not yet been formed, and even in the 21st century, there are obvious rainy seasons and dry seasons, the dry season is indeed dry and desolate, many rivers will dry up, but in the rainy season, plants will take advantage of the brief opportunity to grow wildly, the vegetation is lush, the pastures are abundant, and the wildlife is abundant, and there is no obvious difference from the rest of Africa.
The most obvious example is Lake Ngami, which now covers an area of more than 50,000 square kilometres, and only 200 points remain in the 21st century, and the environmental damage caused by more than 100 years of frenzied plundering can be seen.
"There may be, who knows, but there must be oil." Roque didn't know if there was gold on the peninsula, and there was a lot of black gold anyway.
"How many?" Ade asked a nonsense.
"I don't know!" Roque simply.
Oil reserves are like Schrödinger's cat, with the progress of exploration technology will continue to improve, another time and space the world from the fifties began to predict how many years of oil left on the earth will be enough to excavate, as a result of the decades passed, the oil available for mining is not only not less, but more and more, seriously suspected that this is a psychological panic deliberately created by oil countries in order to raise oil prices.
"The Persians are unruly, can you guarantee that they will be obedient?" Ade knows the Persians very well, speaking of which is also an ancient civilization, although it is declining now, but there must be pride in the heart, during the Crusades, Europe was defeated and lost on the peninsula, so now European countries are taking another approach and gradually increasing their influence on Persia.
"It's different now than a thousand years ago, when Damascus steel was famous all over the world, and the Persians used swords made of Damascus steel to dominate the battlefield, and now it's the age of hot weapons, and we don't have to fight with the enemy with bayonets, and we can destroy the enemy from 500 meters away." Roque is not worried about this problem, the times are evolving, and the methods must be improved.
Damascus steel was not actually produced by the Persians, but from India, and on September 3, 1191, the main forces of the Third Crusade approached the city of Jaffa under the leadership of King Richard the Lionheart of England, whose enemy was Saladin, the founding monarch of the Ayurbid dynasty.
Before the battle began, Saladin sent men to the Crusaders' camp and called out to invite Richard and Saladin to meet him.
Richard readily agreed, and after the meeting, Saladin took out a scarf and threw it into the air in order to demonstrate to Richard, and then pulled out his sword and swung it at the scarf, cutting the almost weightless scarf floating in the air in half.
So from that day on, a legend circulated in Europe: there was an unknown metal material in the East, and the sword forged from it was extremely sharp.
This material is Damascus steel.
Leaving aside the authenticity of this legend, even weapons made of Damascus steel are indestructible and ineffective against modern weapons, as evidenced by the fact that the Persian Empire has now been reduced to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal state.
Roque controlled the peninsula Persians in exactly the same way as the British controlled the colonies, the single colonial economy determined that the peninsula Persians could not get rid of Roque's control, Ali Rashid's troops unified the peninsula with the advanced weapons provided by the Umbrella Company, if Ali Rashid was disobedient, the Umbrella Company only needed to stop the supply of ammunition to the Sultanate of Najd, and Lee Enfield, which Ali Rashid's troops were equipped with, would become a burning stick.
"What is your position on the peninsula?" Ade cares about Roque's arrangements for the peninsula.
"The oil of the peninsula is important for the world of the future, and we will definitely annex the peninsula." Roque is simple and rude, the concept of a puppet state is actually not popular now, Southern Africa was directly part of Britain before the autonomy, there is no such thing as Southern Africa at all, Cape is the official name of Southern Africa, just like London is just a region.
"Enclave?" Ade asked.
"Yes, enclave." Roque confirmed.
"Unlikely—" Ade worried.
"Before the unification of the peninsula by the Sultanate of Najd, many people also thought that it was impossible to unify the peninsula." Before the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost the whole world thought that the PLA would not send troops, and before Russia annexed Crimea, the whole world also thought that Russia had nothing to do, and who would have thought that one pole of the world would collapse during the Cold War.
In "Peach Blossom Fan", it is said that seeing him rise up a tall building, seeing him feasting guests, and seeing his building collapse, so don't be in a hurry about some things, time will give the best answer, and doing your job well is the greatest responsibility for yourself.
"You let it go, I'll take care of the rest." Ade's trust in Roque is really overwhelming, even if Philip comes to power, it is estimated that he will not be able to give this level of support.
Roque, of course, also reciprocated, so the lottery revenue Roque is willing to share with the federal government, Christian sold a total of 15 million rand of lottery tickets throughout the year, operating costs plus prize money distribution add up to less than 5 million, and now the lottery has become the federal government's most important source of revenue.