These British aristocrats, even if London becomes a foggy capital in winter, insist that London is the center of civilization that everyone in the world should aspire to, but they themselves do not live in London in winter, but live in country houses with beautiful environment and good air.

People like the Duke of Bateford, who have not left Britain for 40 years, are not at all unusual in the British aristocracy, and their life range is basically no more than 100 kilometers around London, stubbornly hiding in their castles, ignoring the changes in the world around them, and not caring about the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in southern Africa, thousands of miles away.

Regardless of what the old duke who had not left England for 40 years thought, after the Earl of Gladstone went to Australia, he sent invitations to the Nyasaland Company and the Favart Company, hoping that Roque and Henry could invest in Australia.

Henry doesn't know what mineral resources Australia has, Roque is very clear, Australia in another time and space is called "the country sitting on a minecart", and the domestic resources are no less abundant than that of southern Africa, especially bauxite, with reserves accounting for more than one-third of the world's total reserves.

In addition to bauxite, Australia's iron ore reserves are more than 15.3 billion tons, and Australia's iron ore is not only high-grade, but also easy to mine, easy to transport, and extremely low mining costs.

"Well, do you want to accede to the Australian government's request—" Roque accentuated the word "request", and now is the right time to do it.

"What are you doing in Australia? Raising sheep? "Henry didn't know about Australia, which is now famous for its wool, and the merino sheep from southern Africa were introduced from Australia.

Known as the "country of sheep's rides", Australia is known as the "country of sheep's rides" in addition to that nickname for minecarts, and Australia is the country with the largest number of sheep herds and the largest export of wool in the world.

"Mining, that's the report from Christian Exploration." Roque is prepared that the Christian Exploration report doesn't really reflect the situation in Australia, but at least it proves that Australia does have the potential to invest.

"Then what are you hesitating about, let's go directly to buy land, buy as much as we can, if there is no mine, we will hire someone to herd sheep-" Xiao Si is still simple and rude, as long as it is something that Luo Ke is sure of, Xiao Si will resolutely and unmistakably execute.

"Okay, if you all want to buy it, then why don't you buy it." Henry doesn't care, it doesn't matter if he makes money or not, what he wants is the attitude of advancing and retreating together with Roque and Xiao Si.

Roque can only sigh that people are blessed, now in Australia, the price of land is unbelievably cheap, and someone in Western Australia bought a farm with an area of nearly 2,500 acres for only about 100 pounds.

2,500 acres is about 10 square kilometers, which is about 10 pounds per square kilometer.

With the strength of investment by Roque and Xiao Si, the purchase of farms often starts in tens of thousands, and the total area of Australia is 7692024 square kilometers, but it does not cost much to buy them all.

I'm afraid that Australians won't sell it.

Buying land doesn't require Roque, Henry, and Xiao Si to come forward in person, as long as Roque, Henry, and Xiao Si are willing to pay for it.

Roque, Henry, and Xiao Si jointly invested 10 million rand to set up an Australian company, specifically for investment in Australia, if all the money is used to buy land, referring to the price of land in Western Australia, it should be able to buy 1 million square kilometers.

Roque did go to Australia with the idea of buying land, and now in Australia, land prices are at an unprecedented trough, and now take the opportunity to buy it at a low price, even if it is unlucky, there are no mineral resources on the land bought, and it is not a loss to invest in pasture and raise sheep.

It was not only Roque who took the opportunity to buy assets at a low price under the banner of investment, but after Ida learned about this situation, the Australian company's capital became 20 million rand, and the extra 10 million was the investment of the RAND Bank.

With a capital of 20 million, it is a first-class enterprise even in southern Africa, and it immediately attracted the attention of Ade.

"Yes, Australian companies are indeed mainly invested in Australia, which is rich in resources, minerals, forests, pastures, farms—" Roque is honest, there are so many feng shui treasures in this world, and Australia has a nickname in addition to the two nicknames related to mine carts and wool, and it is also nicknamed "the country with ears of wheat".

"Southern Africa is now 5.5 million square kilometers, not enough for you to invest? That's 20 million, it's not good to stay in southern Africa and do something! Ade was dissatisfied with Roque's behavior of turning his elbow outward, and the fat water did not flow into the fields of outsiders.

"Sooner or later, the resources of southern Africa are our own, and while the Australians are still unable to develop their own resources, we will first occupy the Australian mines, and Australia will have to live on our faces in the future." Roque made a good calculation, thinking about how many sins Australia had done because of iron ore in another plane, and Roque had some hurtful thoughts.

If you mine mineral resources in Australia, you have to pay taxes to the Australian government, and if the Australian government is disobedient, Australian companies can reduce production, so that the Australian government will not make a penny.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, once Roque starts to invest in Australia, then Roque will have to support his own interests in the Australian government, so Australia will be a close comrade-in-arms in southern Africa at that time-

Needless to say, Australia, like southern Africa, is an overseas territory of the British Empire, which is also thicker than water.

"Locke, can you have a bit of a normal mind-" Ade is not as aggressive as Roque, and he is all digging holes for his own people.

In this way, it seems that Roque is more like an Englishman than Ade.

Roctor looked at Ade innocently, he originally served Southern Africa wholeheartedly, but he didn't expect to end up with such an evaluation, chilling.

"I think Locke is right when he says that if we can have a close relationship with Australia, then the whole Indian Ocean is ours." Sidney Milner, when he was all his own, occasionally made some extreme remarks.

In fact, if you look at the map, it is really like this, on both sides of the vast Indian Ocean, on one side is Australia, and on one side is Southern Africa -

Oh no, there's an eyesore Madagascar in between.

By the way, Southern Africa was right not to agree with the French government to take Madagascar into debt, and now the rule of the French government over Madagascar has again collapsed, and the French colonial government has been forced to transfer to the Comoros Islands.

This is tantamount to sending a fence, because the French government sold the Comoros Islands to the Umbrella Company a long time ago, and the headquarters of the Umbrella Company is located in the Comoros Islands.

Miraculously, although the French colonial government has withdrawn from Madagascar, there are still French companies operating normally on the island of Madagascar.

Without exception, these normal enterprises are all under the protection of the umbrella company, and they now do not have to pay taxes to the colonial government for exploiting resources, but the taxes that should have been paid are handed over to the umbrella company as protection fees, and as a result, the umbrella company can protect the interests of those enterprises more effectively than the colonial government.

"Yes, yes, if you are both as radical as the two of you, then sooner or later the world will be in chaos." Ade disagrees with Sidney Milner's statement that these are basically two systems, and Ade believes that as long as everyone keeps to themselves, then the world will be peaceful.

Roque and Sidney Milner are at the other extreme.

What extreme Roque and Sidney Milner did not dare to say.

"When has the world been calm-" Roque counterattacked sharply, the whole world is indeed at war all the time, the Boer War is followed by the Italian-Turkish War, the Italian-Turkish War is followed by the Balkans, the Balkans are followed by the World War, and now the World War has just ended, and Britain has provoked trouble again because of 750 million.

The topic was so heavy that neither Ade nor Sidney Milner spoke.

Probably feeling that the atmosphere in the office was a bit dull, Ade's cat took the initiative to jump on Ade's knee and beg for stroke.

Ade's cat is called Hessian Elf, which is a memorial to Ade's birthplace, the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, and Ade is of both German and British blood.

The Hessian Elf is a gray-and-white British shorthair with gray fur on its back and head, and white fur on its belly and legs.

The status of the Hessian elves in the Palace of Justice is extremely lofty, and they are affectionately called "rat catchers" by the staff of the Justice Palace, but Ade often reprimands the Hessian elves for not doing their jobs, and has never seen the Hessian elves catch mice.

The status of the Hessian elf in Ade's heart is definitely higher than that of Roque and Sidney Milner combined, although the Hessian elf weighs more than five kilograms, but Ade still let the Hessian elf lie on his lap, and under Ade's gentle touch, the Hessian elf let out a comfortable snoring sound-

Then he was taken away directly by Sidney Milner.

"This guy is so fat now that he only knows how to sleep all day - fat boy, you have to take responsibility, you know? Go catch mice—" Sidney Milner was looking for a mouse, and dared to nickname the rat catcher.

The Rat Catcher angrily gave Sidney Milner a paw and jumped onto Roque's lap.

Roque skillfully turned the Hessian elf over and gently scratched the Hessian elf's chin, and the Hessian elf immediately squinted his eyes in comfort, and his two paws held Roque's hand and began to snore again.

Ade's eyes were immediately filled with relief.

"I'm going to Australia to buy land, how about Sidney, do you want to join?" Roque sent an invitation to Sidney Milner, saying that Sidney Milner is actually quite rich now, not to mention more, hundreds of thousands of dollars will definitely be available.

Sidney Milner's dividends from Roque's business are more than R100,000 a year.

"What's so embarrassing—" Sidney Milner happily bared his big molars, not the slightest bit embarrassed.

Ade didn't speak, and quietly watched Roque's Sidney Milner petting the cat.