Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1294 Too lazy to pretend

Don't forget that southern Africa is still the creditor of the British Empire, so Rock's rejection of the capital ship on the pretext of having no money is really outraged by both humans and gods.

The British government is so poor that the king's palace has no money to repair, and it still sells iron to build battleships to maintain the British Empire's naval superiority around the world.

Southern Africa is obviously powerful, but dismisses battleships, which makes Belfort rejoice and feel indignant.

Fortunately, because southern Africa does not develop capital ships, it is unable to compete with the British Empire.

The indignation is because the British Empire is building capital ships, but southern Africa is indifferent. This is obviously not taking the Royal Navy seriously.

Rock did not take the Royal Navy seriously, but this did not prevent Rock from expressing his envy for the battleship "Queen Elizabeth".

The "Queen Elizabeth" battleship, the first ship of the "Queen Elizabeth" class of battleships, began construction in 1912, when the British Lord of the Admiralty was still Winston.

Under normal circumstances, the battleship "Queen Elizabeth" has a displacement of 29150 tons and a full load displacement of 33020 tons. There are five sister ships of the same class, namely HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Warspite, HMS Barham, HMS Warrior, and HMS Malaya. Among them, the construction funds of Malaya came from British Malaya.

The "Queen Elizabeth" has the world's largest main gun, 15 inches, which translates to 381 mm. In Belfort's words, once the aircraft carrier in southern Africa is about to start construction, once it is targeted by the "Queen Elizabeth", it is basically impossible to survive .

Rock made a fuss and didn't make a fuss. If "Queen Elizabeth" wanted to attack the "Transvaal", it had to enter the range of the main gun first. Before that, the carrier-based aircraft on the "Transvaal" had enough time Sink the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

On July [-]th, Viscount Gladstone arrived in Portsmouth, and on the [-]th, former Canadian Prime Minister Bowdoin arrived in Portsmouth, and now only Sastri, the cabinet member of the Privy Council of India, has not yet arrived.

The Indians were indeed moving slowly. It was not until the 12th that Sastry arrived in Portsmouth. Rock, Belfort, Viscount Gladstone, and Bowden went to the dock to greet them.

"The speed of the Indians is too slow. He actually made us wait here for a whole week, and let him go to New York by himself." Rock has always been very dissatisfied with people who have no sense of time. If this is in southern Africa, It's better to retire directly than a week later.

"Normal, when will the Indians pass?" Viscount Gladstone didn't like Indians either.

Although Viscount Gladstone has gone to Australia to serve, Roque and Viscount Gladstone still maintain a good relationship. Through the Australian company, Roque has invested more than 2000 million pounds in Australia, and Roque bought half of Western Australia.

"When being chased by bullets—" ex-Prime Minister Bowden spit out a dark belly.

Rock and Viscount Gladstone burst out laughing.

Belfort seemed very dissatisfied with the few people who were chatting happily, and turned his head to stare at Rock with stern eyes.

Luo Ke turned a blind eye, what happened to the head of the Privy Council, my master is a marquis, who is he staring at?

so rude!

"I went to Saint-Roch yesterday. Your lord, you are really courageous. You built a city directly in the barren mountains. The French are too stingy with us in Canada. They only gave us one square kilometer. It's better not to give it—" Bowden's envy for Rock is beyond words. Canada actually has resources no less than that of southern Africa. It's a pity that Canada has too few people and is too close to the United States. The total population is less than 800 million, which is less than one person per square kilometer.

Canada's territory covers an area of ​​998 million square kilometers, second only to Russia in the world.

"What you see now is a city. In fact, that place is a sand dune with almost no economic value. Otherwise, the French would not have given it to us." Rock also just came back from St. Roque, and Christian was not tired How many Africans died, and the St. Roque Port was built into a first-class military port that can dock battleships.

Rock expressed his appreciation for Christian's work. If this goes on, Christian might get a title.

"You have never been to southern Africa. After I left southern Africa, nothing can surprise me. Compared with southern Africa, Canberra's construction speed is like a snail—" Viscount Gladstone seemed very dissatisfied with Australia .

In 1901, the Australian Federal Government was established. In order to determine the capital, Sydney and Melbourne, the two major cities in Australia, were at odds with each other for eight or nine years. It was not until 1911 that the Australian Federal Government passed a resolution, deciding between Sydney and Melbourne. We chose a place with good weather, mountains and water to build the new capital, so we chose this vacant land 238 kilometers away from Sydney and 507 kilometers away from Melbourne. This vacant land became Canberra later.

When the Australian federal government chose Canberra, Canberra was not called this name, so the Australian federal government brainstormed and finally chose the traditional name of the local residents—————————————————————————— Fierce Gong Boil Chu Cape Muyin Healthy Thin?br />
The address was determined and the name was selected. The Australian federal government was addicted to it. So in 1912, the federal government hosted a worldwide urban design competition. One year later, the Australian Congress selected from the 137 versions collected. The famous American landscape architect, 36-year-old Chicago native Walter Burry Griffin's program.

It has been eight years since Canberra started construction that year, and the progress has been completed——

About 20.00%.

During the World War, due to the lack of construction workers, the construction of Canberra was forced to stop, and now it has resumed.

"The Australian federal government should hire a construction company in southern Africa, so that the construction of Canberra can be completed in up to three years." Rock blurted out that the construction of Canberra in another time and space took a total of 14 years and was not fully completed until 1927. .

I don't know how long this time and space will take, but it is estimated that the time will be less. Compared with another time and space, the current Australian federal government is at least relatively rich financially.

"Gentlemen, please be quiet, the 'Intrepid' has entered the port—" Belfort was really helpless, and the team felt a little unable to move.

The battleship "Dreadnought" is the flagship of the Indian Navy. This is also a legendary warship. It is the world's first "Dreadnought Ship". It started construction in 1905 and entered service in 06. The Royal Navy originally planned to decommission the "Dreadnought" last year. Later, for unknown reasons, the "Intrepid" was sent to India and became the flagship of the Indian Navy.

The Royal Navy originally wanted to send the battleship "Dreadnought" to Southern Africa, but it was rejected by the Federal Government of Southern Africa. The Federal Government of Southern Africa said that it was really not disgusting, but that we in Southern Africa did not have anyone who could command a battleship.

This time Belfort's reminder had an effect, perhaps because he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of the Indians, Viscount Gladstone, Bowden, and Roque immediately became serious, and they immediately needed temperament and discipline.

Alas, it would be great if this was not a monster.

The battleship "Dreadnought" slowly docked at the pier, and Sastri walked onto the pier through the gangway.

Rock was quite disappointed, it turned out to be white, not Indian.

It’s normal to think about it. When southern Africa didn’t have self-government, the officials were all white, and India must be the same. Regardless of the nice words of the British, the British attitude towards India has always been firm.

After the outbreak of the World War, in order to win the support of India, Britain promised to give India the same autonomy as Southern Africa, Australia, and Canada after the end of the World War.

The Indians believe it is true, and they want money for money and food for food. They would rather starve their own people than save food to supply the father of the suzerain country.

As a result, after the war, Britain was reluctant to fulfill its promise. Instead, it intensified and increased its search for India. At this time, the Indians realized the face of the United Kingdom. However, the Indians did not stand up and fight for their own interests, but silently accepted it. this reality.

Sure enough, he is a good son of the British Empire.

After exchanging greetings with Belfort, Belfort introduced Roque and others to Sastri respectively.

When facing Bowden and Viscount Gladstone, Sastry behaved normally, with a mature and bright smile, and a kind and measured tone, which made people feel good.

When he arrived at Rock's place, Sastri's expression suddenly became much lighter, and the greeting was neither hot nor cold, and the handshake was even more perfunctory.

Rock even keenly noticed that after Shastri shook hands with Rock, he quietly wiped the back of his hand on his clothes.

Nima!

What do you mean?

Roque had an attack almost instantly.

But after all, I still endured it. Such a small person is not worthy of Rock's anger.

At the welcome dinner that night, Rock originally planned not to attend.

However, Belfort made repeated orders, and Rock reluctantly rushed to the dinner party.

Rock actually doesn't need to please anyone now, so when Rock arrived at the dinner party, the banquet had already started. Fortunately, this was a Western-style buffet party, and it was normal for Rock to be late.

"Did this guy offend you?" Viscount Gladstone keenly felt that there must be a reason for Rock's late arrival.

"No, I'm just a little tired—" Rock didn't admit it.

"Hi Locke, I thought you weren't coming -" popped up Neville, who lost the election last month to Andrew Bernal Law, who then invited Neville Served as the postmaster general, the position Neville also held for his brother Austin.

"Didn't you just become the head of the post office, so free?" Roque was pleasantly surprised. The last time he and Neville met was at the ceremony that France and Belgium presented Saint Roque to southern Africa.

"Of course, this position is much more idle than your Minister of Defense—" Neville laughed loudly. The position of Director of the Post Office has been almost monopolized by these two brothers in recent years.

"Lord Nyasaland, good evening—" Sastri remained haunted.

Rock's expression was immediately impatient, and he didn't even bother to pretend.

(End of this chapter)