Portugal and Belgium were both standard small countries, with a population of one or two million occupying one or two million square kilometers of overseas colonies, and this miracle could only happen in the bizarre Age of Discovery.

Although the Berlin Conference recognized the rights of Portugal and Belgium in East and West Africa and the Congo Free State respectively, this recognition needs to be guaranteed by strength, and Portuguese East Africa is now a thing of the past, except for a part of the independent Kingdom of Mozambique, most of which was incorporated into southern Africa, and Britain, France and Germany did not take the initiative to find a place for Portugal.

After all, it is not that southern Africa is bullying others, but that Portuguese East Africa itself is not angry, and even the colonial natives can't beat it, so how can they still have the face to come out and cry out for grievances, and the European countries are already very kind if they don't take the opportunity to fall into the ground.

Including the current East Indies, the Queen of the Netherlands has gone to George V to cry, and London has just issued a routine official letter asking the Federal Government of Southern Africa to restrict the business activities of domestic enterprises outside the country (this can't be written, I'm sorry, digging a big hole).

See, the Dutch governor in the East Indies has already gone to the Lion City, and it is still just a commercial activity, and it can only be said that the nobles of the House of Lords are not old and dizzy, but really blind.

Compared with Roque who fanned the flames everywhere, Xiao Si has more responsibilities, and Xiao Si does not have any big ideals, as long as he can keep Rhodesia, in the hands of Xiao Si, Rhodesia's territory has been further expanded, which has completely exceeded Cecil Rhodes's expectations for Xiao Si, so Xiao Si and Roque are now advancing and retreating together, Roque is going to conquer the city, and Xiao Si is going to make money.

Therefore, on the issue of Orange, Xiao Si and Roque have a tacit understanding: "The agricultural products of the Orange farm are insufficient, and there are no basic conditions for the establishment of a large-scale processing plant, and the processing industry in Johannesburg is already very mature, and there is no need to repeat the construction in Orange." ”

The South African company under Xiao Si's name is a giant in the agricultural processing industry in southern Africa, and textiles, canned food, vodka, beef and mutton and even potatoes are all within the business scope of the South African company.

To Louis Botha's detriment, Johannesburg, next door to Orange, has the largest wool mill and vodka factory in southern Africa, and the largest canning factory in Nyasaland, which in principle are all southern African companies, but have nothing to do with the Orange state government.

"Luis, to develop the economy, we must first improve the business environment, our investment is to make money, we can't be scolded while enduring humiliation, and we are not masochists." After all, Roque still couldn't bear to see Louis Botha hit a wall everywhere, after all, he was also a high-ranking official, and it was indeed too miserable.

Louis Botha was speechless that Orange excluded not only the Chinese, but also the British, which was the real reason for Orange's isolation in southern Africa.

If this point does not change, Orange will always be ignored by everyone, just after the end of the Boer War, in order to compensate for the losses of the Boers in the war, the British government is financial aid and interest-free loans, and tens of millions of dollars have been given back and forth, but the result is not visible at all, and now Louis Botha wants to change and is powerless, unless Louis Botha can be ruthless to kill a group and then drive away a group, but in this way Louis Botha will also lose the trust of the Boers, so Louis Botha is really in a dilemma.

Roque and Smalls did not force Louis Botha, while Orange was wandering in place, the Cape and the Transvaal were developing rapidly, and now even Bechuana was improving, and sooner or later reality would force the Boers to make a choice, and if the Boers were obsessed, Roque would not mind a group of poor whites in southern Africa.

It's all self-inflicted.

"I heard that the Umbrella attacked Muscat—" Si took the initiative to bring the topic to the Persian Gulf.

"Not to the extent of attacking Muscat, and it's not an umbrella, it's the desert bandits." Roque vehemently denied it.

Just a few days ago, a British American oil exploration team from Muscat was attacked by desert bandits near Muscat, killing all 65 people, including technicians, guides and security personnel.

The incident finally provoked a strong reaction from Anglo America, which believed that it was the umbrella company behind it, and had filed a lawsuit against the umbrella company in London.

The umbrella company will definitely not admit it, this kind of lawsuit can be fought slowly, and it will be no problem to fight for more than ten years, but if the British and American oil companies dare to continue to send oil exploration teams to the peninsula, desert bandits will definitely appear.

"Desert bandits are abominable!" Xiao Si laughed, obviously also teasing.

Roque's face is not red, and his psychological quality is very good, but Louis Botha also laughed: "This is business behavior!" ”

Roque and Xiao Si both laughed, and the stone man finally got his senses, how can there be any pure commercial behavior, the merchants of the Age of Discovery are also pirates, and when they encounter other commercial ships at sea, as long as they are strong, they will take the initiative to attack, even if it is their own merchant ships, Britain is making a fortune on this, and the "commercial behavior" of the peninsula is nothing more than a continuation of the Age of Discovery.

Replaced by ordinary people, maybe they will have to mourn the innocent victims, several people present are obviously as strong as iron, there will be no such heart of the Virgin at all, there will definitely be victims under the power dumping, the little people are so insignificant, they don't even deserve a name.

"Are you going to get Muscat next?" Xiao Si really knew Roque too well, and Roque would never allow anyone else to get their hands on the peninsula.

"No, let's take our time—" Roque really didn't think about Muscat, which is now also a British protectorate, but it is also dispensable in the British colonial territory, and its status is not comparable to that of southern Africa.

Therefore, if it were not for the intervention of the British and American oil companies, it is estimated that the British government would not have bothered Muscat, at most the governor of Egypt would have mediated and finally reluctantly reached a peace agreement with little binding force.

The current Muscat is not the future of Oman, many tribes around Muscat do not obey the rule of Muscat, and it will not be until after 1970 that the future Oman will gradually take shape, so the umbrella company still has a chance, depending on who conquers those primitive nomadic tribes first.

Therefore, the attitude of the British government is also very ambiguous, Roque and the Earl of Selborne have been angry early, and do not expect the British government to be completely biased towards the umbrella, as long as the British government remains neutral, anyway, whether it is Muscat or Port Elizabeth, it is the British sphere of influence, the meat is rotten in the pot, the umbrella and the Adan company are pure British enterprises, and the Anglo-American oil company has American capital involved.

In other words, as long as Britain still wants oil in Port Elizabeth, it must ensure the interests of the umbrella company, which is not difficult to do, and the British and American oil companies are now an empty shell, and even the explorers cannot penetrate deep into the peninsula, and there is nothing to look forward to.

"Port Elizabeth, is it considered a territory of southern Africa now?" Louis Botha also has expectations on this issue.

"Count—" Louis Botha is not broken, and it would be strange for Roque to speak so well: "-No, Port Elizabeth is my personal domain, and I have spent a lot of money." ”

If Port Elizabeth is a territory of southern Africa, then it is also a British territory, and there will definitely be corresponding interests in the future, and then Roque will agree or not?

It's better to be vague like this, and whoever wants to get involved in it must be careful of the desert bandits.

"So what reason does the Ministry of Defense have to send the Navy to Port Elizabeth?" Louis Botha was disappointed that if the peninsula was also a territory of southern Africa, then the Ministry of Agriculture could also try to develop agriculture on the peninsula.

It's one thing to succeed or not, people must always have ideals.

"The destroyer in Port Elizabeth was bought by the Umbrella Company, and the Ministry of Defense does not care to whom the Port Edward shipyard wants to sell the ship." Roque is indifferent, there is no such thing as harming the public and private interests, and the umbrella company will buy cruisers next, can you manage it.

Louis Botha then remembered that the Edward Shipyard was also Roque's property, and even Port Edward was Roque's private domain.

"You're doing this—" Louis Botha was really unable to comment, he was both a referee and an athlete, and he said back and forth, and he took all the good things himself.

"That's the power of capital." Xiao Si was busy eating foie gras, and raised his head in the middle of his busy schedule, and the South African company was also a referee and an athlete, and the European grandmother gave her the right.

The menu for the dinner party for Louis Botha is sure to be extraordinarily rich, and the French chef at the Rhodesia Hotel cooks exquisitely, each dish is just one bite per person, and people are looking for a taste of life, not a filling.

Of course, if you think a certain dish is delicious and you are not afraid of losing face, you can continue to order, and the chef will definitely not refuse, but will be honored.

Louis Botha didn't care about these things at all, and he was full of praise for foie gras.

"One more, no, two-" Xiao Si Tuhao, table manners do not exist, the poor will be ridiculed if they wear a glass bead ring, Xiao Si wearing a glass bead ring is the real self, Louis Botha just made no secret of his teeth, in the eyes of some people, this is more disgusting than picking his feet in public.

Before the foie gras came up, Carlos came first, and there were still marks of being beaten on his face.

Neither Roque nor Xiao Si asked, as if they hadn't seen it.

Carlos came straight to Louis Botha and bit his ear.

What Roque feared did happen, Swift had clashed with several officers of the Northern Rhodesian Division in the bar, and was now being detained in the bar, and Carlos was accidentally injured while trying to persuade him to fight.

If it weren't for the fact that the officers of the Northern Rhodesian Division were also Chinese, it is estimated that Carlos would have been detained together.

"Why?" Louis Botha was still able to withstand the fire.

"Swift touched a woman's ass, an officer's female companion—" Carlos was really hard to say.

Shame on you.