Sitting in Winston's position, you have to strike a balance both internally and externally.

Not to mention the outside, the internal refers to the internal British Empire, in fact, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are very satisfied in this regard, these are all demanding greater autonomy, and do not have too many territorial claims, after all, their own land is not used up, at every turn is millions of square kilometers and millions of people, the standard land is vast and sparsely populated, even if you get an enclave in Africa and the Middle East, you can't take care of it.

Relatively speaking, the biggest headaches for Winston are Southern Africa and India.

During the world war, the contribution of southern Africa is indeed great, but southern Africa also obtained the most abundant benefits, after the annexation of southwest Africa and Tanganyika, the total area of southern Africa has reached 5.5 million square kilometers, almost the entire southern African bag, if you add the two river basins, the volume of southern Africa will swell to a point that Britain is afraid of, which is not in the interests of the British Empire.

In other words, the current southern Africa is already a big tail.

During the world war, southern Africa made a profit of about 12 billion pounds through trade with Europe, and Britain, France, and Italy together owed about 2.5 billion pounds to southern Africa.

If Southern Africa is as vast and sparsely populated as Canada and Australia, then the British government will be somewhat reassured that Canada and Australia, although large in territory, are sparsely populated and have limited potential after all.

Southern Africa is different, during the world wars, more and more Europeans chose southern Africa as their first choice for emigrating overseas, and millions of people emigrated to southern Africa every year.

At the same time, Southern Africa is quietly increasing its migration from the Far East, and it is said that more than 100,000 people migrated to Southern Africa through Port Edward every month during the World Wars.

100,000 people a month is just Port Edward, but what if you add St. George (Tanganyka dar es Salaam) a little further north, and Port Elizabeth, which is no less massive than Port Edward?

In March of this year, the population of Southern Africa was finally updated, and according to data reported by 11 states in southern Africa, plus federal government statistics, the total population of southern Africa is now finally over 15 million.

For this data, not only London, even Pretoria does not believe it, not to mention other states, the population reported by the Nyasaland government two years ago has exceeded 2 million, and now three years have passed, and the population has only increased by 400,000 to 2.4 million, so where have the 100,000 people who enter through Port Edward every month go?

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Health of Southern Africa, in Nyasaland, hospitals in Nyasaran count that as many as 200,000 newborns are born every year, perhaps an increase of 400,000 in two years.

However, the data of hospitals does not represent the real data of Nyasaland, which is not included in the statistics of small hospitals and clinics in addition to state hospitals and municipal hospitals at all levels.

Not to mention, in southern Africa, Africans are still no longer counted, and the federal government does not know how many Africans there are in southern Africa, this data can refer to the Congo Free State, a Congo Free State with a total area of 2 million square kilometers, when Leopold II began his colonial rule, the population was about 25 million.

By the time the Congo Free State was overthrown, it was optimistically estimated that the combined populations of both the Kingdom of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo were less than 10 million.

Referring to the performance of the African-American soldiers in the Southern African Expeditionary Force during the World War, London's parliamentarians, no matter how sluggish, knew that the rise of southern Africa could not be contained.

So after the end of the world war, Winston's position had quietly changed.

During the World War, the British Empire needed the full cooperation of Southern Africa to withstand the frenzied German offensive on the Western Front.

Now that the world war is over, the future world pattern, and even the balance within the British Empire, has become the main problem that Winston has to face.

"It's easy to meet the demands of the French, the Asia Minor Peninsula is huge, as long as the French government doesn't dislike it, give the Asia Minor Peninsula to France—" Roquekang said to others, the Ottoman Empire after the disintegration was miserable, Southern Africa demanded the Two Rivers Valley, the British government demanded access to the Black Sea, France was eyeing the tiger, and even Italy wanted to gnaw on the corpse of the Ottoman Empire.

Japan had little demand from the Ottoman Empire, which was too far away, but it had a strong problem with the German islands in the Pacific that the East Indies had seized during the World War.

"What nonsense are you talking about, the peninsula of Asia Minor must not be allowed to be touched by France." Winston is like a vulture that protects its food, and there are seven or eight hundred thousand square kilometers of the Asia Minor peninsula, so it was given to the French?

Think beautifully!

According to the British and French discussions, the German colonies in North and West Africa belonged to France, while South West Africa and Tanganyika belonged to Britain.

Of course, South West Africa and Tanganyika have not yet been annexed by Southern Africa, and the British government has entrusted Southern Africa with management, but this is no different from annexation, the difference is only a formality.

The "Fourteen Points" put forward by US President Woodrow Wilson, one of which is about colonies, specifically states that the colonial question should be handled justly, and the interests of the local population and the legitimate demands of the colonial government should be taken into account in deciding all issues related to sovereignty.

In this way, it will be easy to do, in South West Africa and Tanganyika, the main inhabitants are now Southern Africans, and it is the Federal Government of Southern Africa that is responsible for the administration, so on the sovereignty of South West Africa and Tanganyika -

Hehe, this issue does not need to be discussed.

"What then, should we do, as Woodrow Wilson put it, to guarantee the autonomy of the inhabitants of Asia Minor? Woodrow Wilson also wanted the Dardanelles to be a free shipping lane that would always be open. Roque had mixed feelings about Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points", and nominally southern Africa was also a British colony, so the "Fourteen Points" proposed by Woodrow Wilson was also quite beneficial for southern Africa to get rid of the constraints of the British government.

Generally speaking, however, the "14 points" are still based on US interests, and the overall consideration is for US interests, and this is the most blatant manifestation on the third point.

The third point of the "14 points": abolish all economic barriers and establish equal conditions for trade.

In other words, everyone should open the market and let's do business together.

The background here is that the GDP of the United States has surpassed that of the United Kingdom, and it has jumped to the first place in the world.

Most of the world's markets are monopolized by Britain and France, and the United States has strong industrial strength, but lacks overseas sales markets.

"Hmph, Woodrow Wilson is dreaming, wait and see, 'Fourteen' will soon be thrown into the garbage." Winston didn't like "Fourteen Points", and he didn't like Clemenceau either, and the United States did far less in the world war in this time and space than in another plane, so Woodrow Wilson didn't actually have much of a say.

This was absolutely bad news for Germany, which had agreed to negotiate on the basis of the "Fourteen Points", which Woodrow Wilson had previously advocated for peace without victory, and which Woodrow Wilson himself had abandoned.

It's simply not realistic.

I have to say that from a political point of view, compared with mature politicians such as Winston and Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson's performance is really a bit naïve, as the president of the United States, the "Fourteen Points" put forward by him were finally abandoned by himself, and Woodrow Wilson also participated in the Paris Peace Conference and formed the final resolution, but the US Congress refused to recognize it.

The League of Nations was also proposed by Woodrow Wilson, but the United States did not join the League.

Miraculously, the United States is such a strange country with such contradictions.

Roque did not care about Woodrow Wilson, only about how to get the two river basins, but Roque did not have time to deal with this issue, and on August 5, Louis Botha came to Paris from southern Africa as a representative of the federal government of southern Africa to represent southern Africa at the Paris Peace Conference.

Roque was not unhappy with this arrangement, and after attending the Paris Peace Conference, Louis Botha would remain in Europe as the representative of southern Africa to the League of Nations, and his influence in southern Africa would be further diminished.

In southern Africa, the strength of the Boers is already weakening.

During the World War, businesses in southern Africa were stimulated by a large number of orders from Europe, and the economy developed rapidly.

But this benefit does not seem to have much to do with Orange, which has no industrial enterprises in the first place, and during the World War, the demand for raw materials in other states did stimulate the progress of Orange's mining industry, but compared with other states, this progress is basically not worth mentioning.

As soon as Louis Botha arrived in Paris, Roque hosted a dinner for Louis Botha in his castle to welcome Louis Botha's arrival, which was attended not only by the generals of the Southern African Expeditionary Force who remained in France, but also by the southern African businessmen in France, as well as Jan Smolts, who had hurried from London.

The world is really wonderful, the three people who were originally opposed after the establishment of the federal government actually met again in Paris in their current capacity.

The three people are in very different moods than they were ten years ago, when they all represented their own ethnicities, and now they have only one identity in common.

ps: Originally, there were some plots in this part, but I can't write it anymore, and the brothers know the reason.

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