Berbera's seizure of ships was like a wave in the sea, and it did not cause any waves.

It is true that the Japanese government has expressed a serious protest to the British government, but the Japanese government can do nothing but protest.

At present, the Japanese Government still needs the support of the British Government in order to accomplish the grand cause of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe."

As for whether this behavior will lead to the breakdown of the alliance between Japan and Britain, Roque doesn't care, if it breaks with the British government, then Japan will not even have lamp oil, guess whether the United States will help Britain or Japan at that time?

There is no need to think about this question, the United States and the United Kingdom are also thicker than water.

The British government did not do nothing, and after the Japanese government protested to the British government, Winston sent a telegram to Roque, instructing Roque to investigate the matter and give an explanation to the Japanese government.

Winston still kept a back hand when he sent the telegram, and there was no time limit, which meant that Roark could check it slowly.

Roque is very satisfied with Winston's attitude, that's right, if you don't give money, you always have to give some welfare, the Japanese merchant ships are not all the goods of the British duke, and some of the cargo owners are Japanese, after detaining five ships, the next Japanese merchant ships are honestly paying money, and Roque finally has the ability to implement "strangulation tactics" against the Somaliland rebels.

When the 2nd Cavalry Division began to move, Roque came to Socotra Island on the destroyer "Alligator" at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Socotra Island is strategically important because of its special location, which holds the Red Sea as an outlet to the sea.

For a long time, Roque had plotted against Socotra, hoping to buy it up and build a port to serve as a supply point for southern African merchant ships between southern Africa and Port Elizabeth.

This request was rejected by the British government, and the British Royal Navy has a military base on Socotra Island, which is surrounded by a naval exclusion zone that is strictly forbidden to civilian merchant ships.

Roque played a trick at that time, and also in the name of establishing a base, sent mercenaries from the Umbrella Company to the island and built a supply depot in the northeast of Socotra.

Ten years later, the depot has grown from 125 people to a town of about 3,000 people, all inhabited by families of mercenaries.

The arrival of the destroyer "Crocodile" was warmly welcomed by the residents of the town, and among the welcoming crowd on the dock, even the officers and men of the Royal Navy, these guys came to see the excitement, unless Roque took the initiative to visit the naval base on the island, otherwise the proud Royal Navy would not take the initiative to visit Roque.

Not even if Roque was the British Field Marshal.

Socotra Island covers an area of 3,635 square kilometers, this island has been isolated from the African continent for 18 million years, long-term geographical isolation has allowed Socotra Island to retain a lot of endemic flora and fauna, the most eye-catching is the Socotra Dragon's Blood Tree that looks like a mushroom, the sap of this tree is dark red, so it is called Dragon's Blood Tree, and it is said that Dragon's Blood can increase the effectiveness of spells.

This is not a joke, a lot of wizards and alchemists in Europe think so.

In addition to the dragon's blood tree, there is also a plant called the desert rose, which looks like an alien and has pink flowers on its mallet-like branches, which sounds amazing.

In front of the office of Base Commander Bloom, Roque saw the Desert Rose and the Socotra Dragon's Blood Tree, which was indeed amazing, the Dragon's Blood Tree was like a giant umbrella, or the kind that had been carefully trimmed.

"When we first came here, we didn't even have a well, and we had to bring in water from Port Edward – now we not only have a well, but we have cultivated nearly 5,000 acres of land, we have our own pasture, we can be self-sufficient in all the food, and we can also supply it to the naval base, which has trucks coming every day, milk, eggs, mutton, coffee – after all, our prices are cheaper than if we were shipping from home." Bloom is of German descent, has British ancestry, is fluent in German and English, and most of the mercenaries working in Socotra are of Chinese descent, so Bloom's current Chinese is also good, but unfortunately only to the extent that he can speak and write.

This was already good, Bloom didn't have any construction machinery when they opened the wasteland, and Roque could imagine how difficult it was for them in the first place.

"It's really difficult, the soil here can grow crops, but there are a lot of stones in the soil, we have to get all the stones out, some of the huge stones we blow up with explosives, so that the naval base sends people over several times a day, and they think we have a fight here-" Bloom is lucky, or the residents of this town are lucky, they have a strong force behind them, the town is now not only self-sufficient, but also has hospitals and schools, and they are not affected by the world war, Compared to the ruins of Europe, it is like a paradise.

"Now we have a clear division of labor, some of us are in charge of running the supply depot, some of us are in charge of running the farm, and my wife is also learning to grow vegetables with my Chinese neighbors, and she uproots the desert roses in the garden and planted cucumbers, tomatoes, and onions, and I just made a suggestion, and then she kicked me out with the dog, and I slept on the street with the dog—" Bloom's mind jumped quickly, and he could hear that Bloom and his wife had a good relationship.

"Very well, you guys have worked hard—" Roc was genuinely happy for Bloom and the townspeople, who were isolated but happy from the bottom of their hearts.

"It's not hard, I'm grateful that you didn't look at us differently because of us Germans, when we first came to Socotra, it was really difficult, but the hard days passed quickly, now we raise cows and milk, sheep and shear sheep, chickens, ducks and geese are also very much, all kinds of eggs can not be eaten, we still have a few fishing boats, often go out to sea to fish, each time can beat thousands of catties, the two churches in the town do not interfere with each other, some are Catholic, some are Protestant, when we go to church on weekends to observe services, If there were too many people in the Catholic church, it would be okay to go to a Protestant church, and it would be warmly welcomed by everyone—" Bloom's depiction of a scene might have caused an uproar if it had been on the European continent.

But no one cares about this kind of thing in the town, there are thousands of people in the town, you don't see anyone looking up, today you borrow two green onions from my house, tomorrow I go to your garden to pick a cucumber, it's not a matter at all.

"How many students are in the school?" Roque is concerned about the next generation, which represents the future of Southern Africa.

"There are more than 600 secondary and primary schools combined, and last year we had two children admitted to the University of Nyasaland and one child admitted to Rhodes University, and they both promised to return to Socotra to work after graduation, so we collectively paid for their tuition." Bloom's data made Roque very happy, a town of more than 3,000 people, more than 600 people in middle school and elementary school, this demographic structure has a great future, and it will be difficult in a few decades.

It won't take a few decades for the population of southern Africa to rival that of the British mainland in a few decades at the current rate of population growth.

There are now about 45 million people in Britain proper, plus more than half a billion colonies.

During the World War, the birth rate of the participating countries was miserable, with a total population of 45 million in Britain, only 790,000 births per year in the two years after the World War, and about 1 million births in Germany, with a population of 67.2 million; The worst is France, with less than 500,000 of its 39.8 million people born, and it is no wonder that World War II was bulldozed by Germany just after the outbreak of World War II.

Even during the World War, the population of Southern Africa grew at a rate of more than five percent, so it won't be many years before the population of Southern Africa will surpass that of the United Kingdom itself, and by then—

Lunch was eaten at Bloom's house, a small two-story red brick building, Bloom and her wife from Germany have five children, the eldest daughter is in middle school, and she is doing well in school, and before eating, she used the violin to play a song "What a Beautiful Jasmine" for Roque.

The girl's performance was met with applause, and Roque encouraged the girl to study hard and asked her about her ideals.

The girl's dream was to become a medical school in Johannesburg, and she hoped to join the Southern African Defence Force after completing her studies.

Such an ideal was to be encouraged, and Roque gave the girl a gold pen made by Itno, as well as gifts for the other children.

After a hearty meal, Roque and Bloom inspect the town's farm.

The farm is next to the town, and there is a small hill made of stones in the middle, Bloom said, the stones that make up this hill are all picked up from the cultivated land, and at first these stones are transported to distant places and discarded, and then people throw stones in the middle of the farm as a memorial, so there is this hill of broken stones.

There is a huge dragon's blood tree at the top of the hill, which was also specially transplanted to commemorate the town, and the name of the town is Dragon's Blood Town, which sounds a bit mysterious, but it is a true portrayal of the people of the town.

"We are still continuing to reclaim the land, and in the future we are going to reclaim 10,000 acres, double the current size, and then we will be able to export agricultural products, in fact, it is very good now, we can sell milk and eggs to the naval base, and we can earn about 5,000 pounds a month." Bloom's words simply embarrassed Roque, look at how people make money, and then look at themselves-

Roque suddenly felt that he had played a negative role, and this kind of thing of setting up cards and charging fees was really hurtful, and he would be punished by God if he did too much.

There are now about 500 cows on the farm in Dragon's Blood Town, all of which are centrally managed, and Roque suddenly noticed one thing after visiting the cowshed, the farm in Dragonblood Town seems to be collectively operated, not owned by the residents.

This was once the model that Louis Botha dreamed of, but it did not appear in southern Africa, but took root in Dragon's Blood Town.