In fact, there are really not so many conspiracies, Franklin doesn't know the situation in southern Africa, no matter what it is, he will always think too much, Egypt may really have nothing to do with courtesy, treachery or theft, but in southern Africa, especially Nyasaland, most people believe in being kind to others, and the generosity, kindness, and gentleness unique to the Chinese are brought into full play, Dalton just had dinner with Franklin, and there are no more requirements.

"Taste this, this is our antelope leg that is abundant in southern Africa, delicate, lubricated, nutritious, please forgive me for not having enough adjectives to describe how delicious the antelope leg is, you just need to know that even if the Prime Minister comes to Nyasaland, our Lord will definitely have the antelope leg in his hospitality to the Prime Minister." Dalton was indeed very enthusiastic and took the initiative to serve Franklin, which only made Franklin even more apprehensive.

However, the antelope leg is indeed delicious, and the chefs of the Northern Division of Rhodesia are absolutely first-class, and the golden roast is glossy with oil, which looks appetizing, and the exotic mix of many spices makes Franklin really praise.

The spices are still very expensive in these years, and the general barbecue meat can be sprinkled with a little salt, even if it is rich in taste, and the taste of camel meat is indeed incomparable with antelope meat.

And oil is a symbol of abundance in this era, and people don't care whether fat will increase fat, this concept was actually proposed by Abu, and Abu also won the Nobel Prize for this concept.

"Try the wines produced in our southern Africa, the French in order to sell high prices, the brand of champagne is limited to a fixed area, in fact, our southern African wines are of good quality, our cocktails sell well all over the world, the wine base is the wine produced in southern Africa, only the use of wine produced in southern Africa, can make an original cocktail, this is our pride." Mallory is also very enthusiastic, and the French champagne is actually just that, since the French began to fight the "champagne" trademark, the sales of champagne in southern Africa have fallen sharply, and the sales of wine have been climbing.

Franklin took a bite of barbecue and then took a sip of wine, the aroma of the barbecue and the aftertaste of the wine were wonderful, which made Franklin feel like a fairy.

"You are indeed very rich in southern Africa, I can't even imagine that it is really as good as the newspapers advertise?" Franklin's interest in southern Africa was so great that the Times would have an intensive report on southern Africa every few days, and many people chose to emigrate to southern Africa because of the Times report.

"In our southern Africa, everybody lives and works in peace—"

"The barbecue we eat and drink wine now, in southern Africa, is actually the daily life of ordinary farmers, and there is a kind of food on the farm that people can't give up, try this, this is our red duck egg, which is a specialty of southern Africa, do you know why it is a red egg yolk? That's because these ducks grew up eating fish and shrimp. Dalton was very proud, singing and harmonizing with Mallory, and it was really because he left Southern Africa to know how good Southern Africa was, and this feeling has become accustomed to people in Southern Africa, and I thought that many parts of the world were the same as Southern Africa.

This illusion became very real immediately after leaving southern Africa, and the Nile Delta was actually not bad, but under British rule, the Nile Delta was a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor.

There is no such thing as "middle class" in Egypt, the rich are well-fed and lustful, the common people are struggling to survive without food and clothing, and the polarization is very serious, Franklin, as an official, is already the ruling class of Egypt, and it is impossible for the children in the family to eat canned food every day.

Canned food is an absolute luxury outside of southern Africa, canned whitebait in southern Africa is only sold for one shilling in Nyasaland, but in Egypt it is sold for five shillings, in fact, Egypt is not far from southern Africa, in which a large number of "two Cs", "Teutonic Africa" plans, now it seems, the British plan is the most likely to be realized.

"I can see that I was observing the defensive position just now, I have to say, this is the most complete defensive position I have ever seen in my life, your equipment is simply armed to the teeth, the whole regiment of the Bainbridge Rifle Regiment is only equipped with less than ten machine guns, and you are only two companies, and you are equipped with dozens of them, so won't this put a huge pressure on logistics?" Franklin is not a novice in the military, and the gap is really visible to the naked eye.

"It doesn't matter, we have transport ships, we have trucks, we have countless cheap labor, as long as we can solve problems with bullets, we will never pile up human lives, we are sparsely populated in southern Africa, and lives are very valuable." Mallory is a staunch believer in "firepower first", and there is no shortage of mineral resources in southern Africa, but people are lacking.

To be precise, it is the whites and the Chinese who are missing.

And it's really not a high-pitched song, just when Franklin was having dinner with Mallory and Dalton, the workers who had gone to the beach to bathe finally returned, and they were now wearing uniforms issued by the Northern Rhodesian Division, military shirts and shorts, and they still looked very energetic, the only regret was that there were not enough shoes, so the vast majority of the workers were barefoot.

However, this does not affect their enthusiasm, and some people find it a little resistant to having to get a haircut before taking a shower, but after getting the new clothes, that little unhappiness is immediately thrown out of the clouds.

Back at camp there is a hearty dinner, which of course varies from person to person, and there are certainly not many canned food for the workers to choose from, but a baked potato is enough to satisfy many people.

Coupled with a grilled fish, many people even have to swallow their tongues, in fact, Alamein's aquatic products are also very rich, but fishermen can never make a rich taste, Alamein's most common is a variety of salted dried fish, that taste is really not good.

Of course, they have to work when they are fed and drunk, and these workers do not have the concept of "human rights" in their minds, and they start working after being ordered to do so without the slightest resistance.

"Are the workers here so communicative?" Franklin was surprised that in his concept, the vast majority of workers were uncommunicative, and the Egyptian government had tried all kinds of coercion and inducement, but it didn't work well.

"It's not that hard, it's just a penny a day for everyone, and their enthusiasm can burn the sky." The sergeant major who completed the task had a calm expression, and the reason for not working hard was that the treatment given was not good enough, one penny per person per day, and only a little more than two shillings a month, which was much cheaper than in southern Africa.

"Let's go see—" Franklin couldn't believe that the Egyptian government had done the same before, but it didn't work.

"Franklin, with all due respect, even if you give a worker a pound a day, there's a good chance they'll not get that much at all—" Mallory was more tactful, after all, he didn't directly accuse the Egyptian colonial officials of being irresponsible.

This situation is actually very normal, and under the layers of exploitation and profit-sharing, the wages that workers can get are indeed very few.

The wages paid to the workers in the northern Rhodesian division were not high, but the real full payment was never deducted, and this was the world of difference.

After all, it's the money that gets it.

These workers actually work really hard, and the most feared thing is that they still don't get paid for their hard work, and the northern division of Rhodesia is paid first and then worked, which is completely different from the Egyptian side that promises to be very good but finds a reason to deduct it at will when it comes to payroll, so the workers don't mind working overtime at night.

In fact, the work is really simple, build simple fortifications, build a fence around the camp, and then clean all the houses.

However, the requirements of the northern division of Rhodesia are relatively high, and there are special personnel responsible for checking and disinfecting the rooms after they are cleaned, and they must ensure hygiene as much as possible before the soldiers can live in stone houses.

Contagion is no joke.

So by the time Franklin woke up in the morning, the camp had been completely renovated, not only had the fence and watchtower been perfected overnight, but the ground in the camp had also been leveled, Franklin casually walked into a stone house to check, the ground had been sprinkled with lime and disinfected, although the air was filled with the smell of medicine, but the indescribable stench had disappeared, and the military doctors in white coats were still busy, they had to disinfect not only the rooms, but also the workers.

I don't know how long these workers haven't showered, and many of them are still wearing old clothes, ragged and barefoot, looking sluggish.

This fits Franklin's impression of these workers.