The power of capital is terrifying, the last one to ignore the interests of capital and finally be guillotined by the new bourgeoisie was Charles I, and now the British Army cannot be crowned with the title of "Royal".

When Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had many contradictions with the aristocracy, and the British aristocracy had to follow some rules and regulations, and would not completely tear their faces and leave no room for them.

Roque has no such concerns, southern Africa is isolated overseas, British influence in southern Africa is getting weaker and weaker, more and more British people accept their Afrikaner identity, and their feelings for Britain mainland are gradually becoming weaker.

Even after losing his status as an earl, Roque was still the leading merchant in Southern Africa, the founder of the Southern African Army, the "king" of Nyasaland, and the leader of the three northern states.

Lloyd George has far less chips in his hands than Roque, if Roque and Lloyd George have a conflict, no matter who is more responsible, Lloyd George is the one who is sacrificed, and no one wants to risk offending Roque to defend Lloyd George.

After the meeting, a frustrated Lloyd George returned to his office, where Edward House, a diplomatic adviser to US President Woodrow Wilson, was waiting for him.

There was also a man waiting for Lloyd George with Edward House, Thomas Dupont from the American family of DuPont.

As Quartermaster General, Lloyd George's office was full of people every day, including Dennis Zangweil from Watford and Joe Ford, a senior manager at the RAND Bank.

Dennis Zangwill and Joe Ford both came from aristocratic families in the middle of the road, and I don't know how many such aristocratic families there were hundreds of years since the founding of the British Empire.

In England, aristocracy is often associated with words such as decadence, obsolescence, and extravagance.

In fact, this is not the case, it is undeniable that the aristocracy does have a lot of problems, most of the scandals in society are related to the aristocracy, but this is determined by objective conditions, after all, even if the commoner family wants to be arrogant and lascivious, there is no such condition, the aristocracy has a better education level than the commoners, has a stricter family tradition, most of the descendants of the nobility are still very good, and the children of the nobility are only a very few, but it is the disqualification of this very small number of people that has caused the whole society to be disgusted with the aristocracy.

Southern African enterprises, represented by the Nyasaland military-industrial complex, are not disgusted.

On the contrary, in order to better develop their business, as in France, southern African companies make full use of the network of the British aristocracy, and hire members of aristocratic families to work for southern African enterprises as much as possible, which is an important reason why southern African companies are invincible in the UK.

If the product is good, it must also be able to shout.

"We wiped out another 300,000 Germans in the spring offensive, does anyone count how many Germans we have eliminated since the outbreak of the war? The Germans fit for military service are almost dead—" Joe Ford casually put down the newspaper in his hand, and the topic in the lounge could not be separated from the battle at the front.

"You can just look at this kind of report, divide the German losses by 2, and multiply our losses by 2, which is probably the battle situation at the front." Dennis Zangwill sneered, the news of victories in the newspapers is often accompanied by large recruitment advertisements, and this matter cannot be thought deeply, if the front line has been winning, then why do so many new recruits need to be replenished.

No one can answer this question.

"Gentlemen, shouldn't we be confident of victory?" Edward House offered to talk, but was met with angry glares from Dennis Zangwill and Joe Ford.

The United States has not yet entered the war, and the Americans have sharpened their heads and focused on doing business and making money, so the Americans have no say in the war.

Like the profit-hungry Americans, Dennis Zangwill and Joe Ford came to Lloyd George to make money, but the southern African enterprises have excluded hundreds of thousands of people to help the British Empire fight while making money, and have paid huge sacrifices, The Times made it clear that more than 50% of the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force came from the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and Southern Africa was only one of the many British overseas territories, and the ineffective Anzac, the unresponsive Canada, Compared with India, which did not contribute to the work, southern Africa can be called a model worker of the British Empire.

The current United States, in the hearts of Europeans, has not yet gotten rid of the image of "nouveau riche" and "barbarian", don't look at Edward House and Thomas Dupont in suits and leather shoes, one represents the president of the United States, the other represents the Dupont family, but for the old British aristocracy, Americans are still a little less interesting, and people with a little status are unwilling to deal with Americans.

"The Lord annihilated 200,000 Ottomans on the Garibaldi Peninsula, which should not be exaggerated." Joe Ford ignores Edward House and continues to discuss with Dennis Zangwill.

"It is estimated that it must also be divided by 2, and the Lord is also the Lord of the British Empire." Dennis Zangwill chuckled, and this was not sarcasm, but British dry humor.

In the propaganda of the British media, in the first phase of the Battle of the Dardanelles, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force commanded by Roque annihilated 200,000 Ottoman troops, with less than 50,000 casualties of its own.

Compared to the heavy losses on the Eastern Front, the Russian Empire has lost four million men since the start of the war, 500,000 in the past May, two million men on the Western Front, and two million in Germany, even if these figures are true, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force is outstanding.

In fact, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force did only annihilate 100,000 Ottoman troops in the first phase of the operation, but its own losses were indeed about 50,000 people, and it did not deliberately conceal it, 20:5 is enough to be excessive, if it is 20:2, or 20:3, it is really unreasonable.

It can't be that Xia Fei and Frenzi, the two top European soldiers, are not as good as the colonial soldiers of Roque.

"The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force is indeed a brilliant battle, but it is not enough to control the Dardanelles, it is necessary to occupy the Bosphorus Strait as well, so that it can truly have access to the Black Sea." Edward House didn't care, if he wasn't thick-skinned, he could still be called a politician.

"Opening up the Black Sea is not good news for the United States—" Dennis Zangwill chuckled, this time in the standard group taunt.

The Anglo-French alliance hoped to open up the mouth of the Black Sea, for the farm products of the Russian Empire, southern Africa could provide industrial products and meat products, but agricultural products could not be helped, Britain and France needed mainly imported grain from the Russian Empire, after the Ottoman Empire closed the Dardanelles, the Entente countries turned to import grain from the United States, so opening the Dardanelles Strait is not good for the United States.

Once the Black Sea outlet is opened, then most of the orders that the United States has managed to obtain will still have to be returned to the Russian Empire, perhaps in order to cope with possible difficulties in the future, Britain and France will keep the United States in the supplier sequence, but as long as the Russian Empire still has material exports, the United States will no longer have the current massive orders.

"It doesn't matter, righteous people are happy to see justice triumph in the end." Edward House is vague, this "justice" can refer to the Entente or the Central Powers, whichever side wins the war is just, not whichever side is just, which side will win.

"Lord, Mr. Minister is waiting for you in his office." Lloyd George's secretary came over, and the first person he saw was Dennis Zangwill.

"Thank you, Annie." The smile on Denis Zangwill's face was mature and charming, and he followed the secretary into Lloyd George's office.

As Quartermaster's Minister, Lloyd George had a large and luxurious office, no worse than that of the aristocratic officials he despised.

When Dennis Zangwill walked into the office, Lloyd George looked tired with his elbows propped up on the wide, dark red desk, his hands pressed against his eye sockets.

Dennis Zangwill sat down at his desk and took out a few papers from his briefcase and placed them in front of Lloyd George, the list of supplies for the previous quarter, which had previously been the responsibility of the War Department and now belonged to the Quartermaster Department.

Lloyd George didn't verify it, and went straight to the last page and scribbled his name.

"Thank you, David, and look forward to working together even more closely in the future." Dennis Zangwill doesn't dwell on it, picks up the papers and leaves.

"Wait a minute, Dennis—" Lloyd George called out to Dennis Zangwill.

"Anything else?" Dennis Zangwill, so he had a good time.

"I heard that you have a good relationship with Judge Bartholomew." Lloyd George did not know the newly appointed Lord Chancellor, Sir Bartholomew, but Dennis Zangwill.

"Yes, our two families are neighbors, Bartholomew and I lived in Watford when I was a child, my father was his godfather, and his father was my godfather—" Dennis Zangwell smirked, the aristocracy was intertwined and the relationships were intricate, and it was difficult for officials of commoner origin to enter aristocratic circles.

Unless a few generations later.

Of course, Roque is an exception, although it is not uncommon to have earls in England, but Roque, a powerful and economically powerful feudal official, is a top nobleman even in England.

"If I have time, I'd like to have a dinner with Sir Bartholomew—" Lloyd George and Yan Yuese, who said that white people don't pull ties through the back door?

The main thing is whether it is needed or not, and when necessary, the temple that should be worshipped still has to be worshipped.