Even if Roque is not for the British Empire, but only for the Chinese in Nyasaland, he will insist on taking the line of strengthening the army.

Without the army, the prosperity of Nyasaland is now just a castle in the air, and there is no guarantee, not to mention the Germans, the British and Boers in southern Africa, who can squeeze the living space of the Chinese to the slightest.

Although Roque has his own plans, but in this regard, Roque also the fundamental interests of the British government are also the same, Roque hopes that the British government can gradually loosen the ties on southern Africa, and does not want Britain to consume too much in the world war, southern Africa has not yet replaced the strength of the United States, and compared with the United States, a strong Britain is more in line with the interests of southern Africa.

During his week-long stay in southern Africa, the Earl of Selborn inspected the 1st and 2nd Divisions, as well as the Favart Iron and Steel Works.

Compared with the Nyasaland Arsenal, the Earl of Selborn is more interested in the Favart Iron and Steel Plant, after all, shipbuilding requires a large amount of steel, and the British steel is all imported from the colonies, and the British government has not noticed the scale of the Favalt Iron and Steel Plant at all, after the Earl of Selborn inspected the Favalt Iron and Steel Plant, he immediately signed a purchase and sale contract with Henry on behalf of the British government, starting next year, the Favalt Iron and Steel Plant will export 100,000 tons of crude steel to the British mainland every year.

It wasn't next year, but when the Earl of Selborn signed the contract with Henry, it was already January 1908, and after the contract was signed, the Earl of Selborn left southern Africa and returned to the British mainland.

Roque still did not forget to remind Henry that no matter how high the price offered by the Earl of Selburn to Henry, the Favart Iron Works must first ensure the supply of steel to Nyasaland, and the rest of the production can be supplied to the British mainland.

"Don't worry, I'm going to expand the Favart steel plant again and double the annual output from the current 500,000 tonnes to 1 million tonnes, otherwise even Nyasaland won't be able to meet the current output." Henry is also ambitious, and it seems that the Earl of Selburn should have given Henry some promises.

Steel production, which fully reflects the industrial level of Southern Africa.

Last year, the steel output of the United States exceeded 23 million tons, the steel output of the United Kingdom was 6.6 million tons, the steel output of Germany was 12 million tons, and the steel output of southern Africa was only a pitiful 500,000 tons, which is stronger than Japan's 130,000 tons.

Japan's steel production increased thanks to the victory in the Russo-Japanese War, before the Russo-Japanese War, Japan's steel output was only 60,000 tons, after the Russo-Japanese War, Japan seized Russia's interests in the Qing State, and steel production tripled in just a few years.

There is still a lot of potential for the steel industry in southern Africa, with iron ore distribution in both the Cape and the Transvaal, with a total reserve of about 2.3 billion tonnes, accounting for 40% of Africa's iron ore reserves.

Although the profit margin of iron ore is certainly not as good as that of gold mine, it is better because of the large scale and high output of iron ore, and the overall profit is still very good.

The key is that the cost is low, the workers used in the Favart steel works are all Africans, and although the slave trade is legally prohibited in southern Africa, Henry still has enough workers, and in Natal, there are at least ten "labor companies" working for him.

"You'd better be careful, don't make such a big fanfare, be careful of being targeted." Roque reminded Henry that after the federal government was formed, white people, including Boers, could move freely within southern Africa at will, and that if the news of the Favart steel plant spread, it would definitely be used by those who wanted to do so.

According to Roque's information, the total number of Africans in southern Africa has been declining year by year since the Natal rebellion, and some of them have chosen to go to the Kingdom of Mozambique, as well as the large-scale infrastructure construction that has been underway in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, as well as the mines in the Transvaal.

Of course, the exact number of Roque is unknown, and the federal government will certainly not make statistics in this regard, let alone report it in the newspapers, and only the Africans in southern Africa will be paid attention to if there is a hole in the head.

"Hehe, so what!" Henry is domineering, and in this regard, Henry is still very sure.

Roque stopped talking, and since Henry was so confident, Roque stopped talking nonsense.

The Earl of Selburn was still very efficient, and soon after returning to England, he gave a total of five million pounds sterling of interest-free loans to southern Africa in the name of the Imperial Bank.

It is nominally an interest-free loan, but in fact there are no conditions attached, and there is no loan term, and it depends on the mood of the federal government if it is not repaid.

In the past, southern Africa was a British colony, and all the funds needed to maintain the government were paid by London, so the governments of the four colonies in southern Africa spent money very generously, and they asked London for money anyway.

Now that Southern Africa is self-governing and the federal government has been established, the British government has finally rightfully shaken off the big burden of southern Africa.

Without the support of London, Ade finally felt the pain of Louis Botha and Jan Smozi before.

It was in this case that the Imperial Bank's loan was credited to the federal government's account, so when Roque went to Ade, Ade wanted to deduct a part of it for the federal government's expenses.

"Less nonsense, Earl Selborn doesn't know how much it costs to form a division, I know for sure, not to mention that the third and fourth divisions are just reorganized, not newly built, and they don't even need to buy weapons and equipment, those previous weapons can still be used if they make do, even if you want to supplement the first and second divisions, it will be enough to give you a million-" Ade has also learned to play scoundrels now, how upright he used to be, but now he can even say such things.

It's really the world that is getting worse and the people's hearts are not ancient.

"One million is definitely not enough, the first and second divisions now add up to only fifteen thousand people, the shortfall in strength is more than half, I am ready to add twenty-five thousand professional soldiers in half a month, do you know the concept of professional soldiers? The cost is much higher than that of conscripts. "Roque was ready to pluck the goose, but he didn't know that Ade was so ruthless.

This is no longer a goose plucking, but after eating the goose, he left a mouthful of soup for Roque, and Roque definitely did not accept it.

"Okay, you can give it all to you, and then you will raise the military expenses of the first and second divisions by your Ministry of Defense." Ade also has a desperate plan, which requires more money to maintain than the cost of building a force.

"Then the 1st and 2nd Divisions are federal government troops, or are they Nyasaland troops?" Roque immediately blackfaced, money was involved, and Roque wanted to fight for the best interests.

"You can do whatever you want." Ade was a rogue with impunity, Nyasaland was located at the northernmost tip of southern Africa, facing pressure from Tanganyika, and the Germans would not threaten the rest of southern Africa unless they broke through to Nyasaland.

"One and a half million!" Roque prescribes conditions.

Ade's face was happy, and he immediately realized that something was wrong, Roque shouldn't be so easy to talk to.

"The federal government can leave 1.5 million, and the rest should be fully allocated to the Department of Defense." Really!

"Don't even think about it, give you 1.5 million for the Ministry of Defense, this is the final bottom line." Ade doesn't talk nonsense, and if Roque doesn't talk nonsense, he won't even have that.

Roque glared at Ade for a long time, and finally endured this breath.

As he walked out of Ard's office, Roque happened to meet Bob Giles, the federal secretary of the treasury.

During Ade's tenure in the Transvaal, Bob Giles was the Minister of Finance in the Transvaal, and now that Ade is the Prime Minister of Southern Africa, Bob Giles' status has also risen.

"Good day, Lord—" Bob Giles casually greeted Roque, and then hurried to meet Ade.

"Wait Bob, you haven't had time to spend that money yet, have you?" Roark wanted to start with Bob.

"It's true that I didn't have time to spend it, but Locke, this money can't be all given to your Ministry of Defense, government employees have to pay salaries, the prime minister has to implement a compulsory education system, and the Legislative Council office building in Bloemfontein hasn't had time to be repaired, and it costs money everywhere—" Bob Giles didn't give Roque a chance to speak, and he was finally able to find someone to talk to.

If Bob Giles hadn't mentioned Bloemfontein, then Roque would have been in a better mood, and now that he knew that Ade was going to use the money to repair the Legislative Council building, Roque immediately became angry and turned around and went to Hopkins' office.

Hopkins, as the secretary of defense, actually uses the same office building as Ade, to be honest, Roque can understand Ade's difficulties, for the sake of southern Africa, Ade is also exhausted, but Roque is just unwilling to give money to the Boers.

"The Prime Minister wants to use the money given to us by London to build the Legislative Council in Bloemfontein? This is simply too much! Hopkins finally had something to do, and immediately went to Ade, in a rage.

Roque was not in a hurry at this moment, and sat slowly on the sofa in Hopkins' office and drank tea.

The minister has to be a bit of a minister, and he doesn't care about anything, so it's better to let the big guy be the defense minister.

At least the big guys don't need that much salary, and Hopkins, the Minister of Defense, has an annual salary of about 5,000 pounds, which is about the same as the annual salary of the British Minister of Defense.

It is said that although Roque's annual salary as deputy minister is two thousand pounds, Roque also serves as deputy secretary of justice and commander-in-chief of the defense forces, so Roque receives three salaries alone, and the annual salary is actually more than that of Hopkins.

Of course, Roque doesn't care about what his annual salary is, anyway, Roque barely needs money, and the Rand Bank directly puts Roque's annual salary into Phyllis's account, and Roque doesn't care, just subsidizes the family.