Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1811 The French Navy with Spine
Since the "Le Figaro" disclosed the "shipbuilding plan", Sean Ferguson, the new plenipotentiary representative of Southern Africa to the League of Nations, has attracted much attention.

Sean Ferguson is also serving as the ambassador to France, and he has a good relationship with many French political figures. Renard Capet, who has been called "the richest man in France", and Sean are even closer friends. One night, Renard held a dinner at his residence in Paris, and Sean was also invited.

"False, "Le Figaro" is spreading rumors, and the 'Shipbuilding Plan' is absolutely false——" Sean has repeated this sentence countless times recently, but the more Sean is eager to deny it, It looks more and more self-deprecating.

"It doesn't matter. If it's true, I'd like to donate one as a testimony of my friendship with the lord. Of course, it would be great if I could name this battleship 'Capet'. My sister will definitely support me in doing so." Do. "Reynard is very smart, regardless of whether the "shipbuilding plan" is true or not, his statement can easily make people imagine.

Leonard's surname is Capet, and his sister is Ida.

As the largest spokesperson of southern African capital in France, the French Capet family has unimpeded access to France by distributing various southern African commodities.

After the outbreak of the economic crisis, France also began to restrict foreign goods to protect its own industry.

Renard was prepared for a long time. Before the French government started trade protection, he opened several factories in mainland France and North Africa.

The French government began to restrict foreign goods, such as the import of complete vehicles.

Renard's factory imports parts from southern Africa, assembles them in France and sells them.

When the French government began to restrict spare parts, Renard simply put his own trademark on the imported spare parts, so those spare parts became the products of the Capet family.

When the French government began to notice the Capet family's OEM production——

There is no more. As the richest man in France, Leonard is also very powerful in France. He cannot be slaughtered by others. He has already retreated to this point. He still has to hunt him down to the end. Don't treat the silent lion as a kitten.

So Leonard is really not flattering. If there is a similar shipbuilding plan in southern Africa, Leonard really doesn't care about the 2000 million.

It's not francs, it's rand. Now one rand is about 50 francs.

"Reynard, don't be kidding, really—" Sean's expression was tangled, like the kind of Samoyed with a biscuit on his nose, but he hadn't heard the tangled password yet.

Well, swap out the Samoyed for a Labrador.

Summer is not so obedient.

Labrador is really, you don’t even want your parents for a bite to eat.

"Sean, as long as Southern Africa promises not to deploy new battleships to the Mediterranean, the French government will support Southern Africa." Poengale is also Renard's guest. There are shares in the company.

This is no way, the situation in France is like this, if you want to expand your business, you must have the cooperation of politicians.

The key is that the Capet family has a good reputation.

The business scope of the Capet family includes but is not limited to automobiles, textiles, arms, food, daily necessities, chemicals, but also schools and hospitals.

Not to mention the former, but to talk about the latter two, which are praised by everyone in France, and Poengale is the spokesperson of Capet Hospital.

Briand is the spokesperson for Capet College.

This is not a commercial act, it is purely public welfare, and no one can fault it.

"Raymond, Southern Africa will not build new battleships, nor will they deploy them to the Mediterranean—" Sean explained very hard, saying that he was interrupted by Poengale just after speaking.

"Very well, it's settled like this." Pongale has already got the promise he wanted.

The purpose of Poengale is to prevent southern Africa from deploying battleships to the Mediterranean. As long as southern Africa does not do this, Britain, the United States, and Japan should be nervous about building as many battleships as they want.

Anyway, France is not nervous.

Even if nervous, France is because of Germany.

Now Poengale has seen through it. Since the rise of Germany is inevitable, once the world war breaks out again, it is estimated that Britain and the United States will not be able to rely on it. What France can really rely on is southern Africa.

Thinking about the strong combat effectiveness of the Southern African Expeditionary Force during the First World War, the French government is considering expanding the area of ​​Saint-Roch and giving Southern Africa an enclave, so as to tie Southern Africa as firmly as possible to the French tanks.

You must know that the French are not stupid. During the First World War, the British Expeditionary Force had been fighting near the strait, and the French knew very well that they would abandon France and withdraw to the British mainland at any time.

Otherwise, France would not have given Saint Roque to Southern Africa.

The British Expeditionary Force could abandon France.

Southern Africa can't abandon Saint Rocco, which has become the territory of Southern Africa.

This does not match the character of Rock that Poengale understands.

Looking at the triumphant Pingale, Sean was really powerless.

No one believes the truth these days, and people's hearts are not old.

"Sean, now that Southern Africa has separated from the Commonwealth, has the annual fixed joint exercise between the Southern African Navy and the Royal Navy been cancelled? If so, you can consider holding a joint exercise with the Italian Navy." The only Italian navy who spoke Field Marshal Paolo Tournet di Lefer, who was also the chief military advisor to King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy.

"No, no, Marshal, although Southern Africa has separated from the Commonwealth, the joint military exercise between the Southern African Navy and the Royal Navy will still be held—" Sean denied it before Poengale changed his face.

What a joke, Southern Africa just broke away from the Commonwealth of Nations, not declaring war with Britain.

Even if the relationship between Southern Africa and the United Kingdom is not so close now, there will definitely be some connections, and all connections will not be cut off directly.

In recent years, the Southern African Atlantic Fleet and the British Fleet, the Indian Ocean Fleet and the British Eastern Fleet, and the two Mediterranean Squadrons have been in frequent contact. Through the annual naval exercises, the Southern African Navy has also benefited a lot. Although the Royal Navy has many problems, it is still There are some merits. From experience, the Southern African Navy has to learn from the Royal Navy.

"Sean, I hope that our French navy can also participate in the next exercise in the Mediterranean Sea." Poengale was also active. This is a good opportunity to learn about the southern African navy.

France and Italy are very unfamiliar with the Southern African Navy. Although the Southern African Navy has only four battleships and four aircraft carriers on the surface, no one dares to underestimate the Southern African Navy.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. Even if Southern Africa blocks the news, it has held so many joint military exercises with the Royal Navy, and some information about the Southern African navy has spread to Europe.

For example, the blockbuster submarine technology in Southern Africa, the unique carrier-based aviation in Southern Africa, and the Marine Corps, which is only available in Southern Africa——

Thinking about how well the Southern African Expeditionary Force, which appeared on the European battlefield for the first time during the World Wars, no one dared to take the Southern African Navy lightly.

"I definitely welcome it, but I'm sorry Raymond, this needs to be contacted with the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of the Navy. I have no right to decide." Sean pushed it cleanly. What can naval joint exercises learn?
Learn how to scuttle a warship?
Speaking of the French Navy, it is estimated that it may be the biggest tragedy in modern naval history.

Another space-time World War II broke out, and no one knew that France stopped resisting after only holding on for 50 days.

At this time, the French navy had not joined the war yet. The Vichy government signed a contract with Germany, and Germany allowed France to retain part of the navy to defend the interests of the French colonies and the territory controlled by Vichy.

At this time, the British government's show operation came.

In order to prevent the French navy from attacking British shipping, Winston, who had become the British Prime Minister at the time, formulated "Operation Ballista", vowing to completely wipe out the French navy.

In 1940, Millskbier, the Royal Navy's "H Fleet" under the command of Vice Admiral Somerville besieged the French fleet in the naval port, requiring the French fleet to either join Britain in the war against Germany, or scuttle the French fleet within six hours. sink all ships.

In the ensuing battle, a group of warships of the French Navy, including three battleships, were sunk, and 1297 French sailors were killed.

Then in Dakar, North Africa, the Royal Navy launched an "intimidation" operation against the French Navy. Two French destroyers were burned and stranded, and the battleship "Richelieu" was severely damaged.

In 1942, French North Africa stopped resisting, and the surrender of the French angered Mustache. He immediately ordered the occupation of the whole of France and planned to capture the French fleet in Toulon.

At the same time, Eisenhower demanded that the remaining French fleet at Toulon and Dakar go to North Africa to join the Allied fleet.

Admiral Laborde, the commander of the Toulon Fleet, could not forgive the crimes committed by the British in Mirskbier and Dakar, and was unwilling to fight with the British army. Facing the siege of the Germans, the proud French navy rejected the British army. They are not willing to surrender to the enemy, whether they are Germans or British, they chose the most tragic way-self-sinking.

A total of 3 battleships, 8 cruisers, 17 destroyers, 16 torpedo boats, 16 submarines, 7 communication ships, 3 reconnaissance ships, and more than 60 French warships including transport ships, oil tankers, dredgers and tugboats All sank.

This French navy, once ranked fourth in the world, practiced its oath and defended its final honor with tragic self-destruction.

In this time and space, as long as the relationship with southern Africa is good, the French navy should not be reduced to such a miserable state.

So even if you will be scolded, you have to code out this story. The French navy still has backbone.

(End of this chapter)