Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2058 A Big Project Worth 5000 Million
In 1933, the British defense budget was only a pitiful 2000 million pounds.

Switching to other countries, 2000 million pounds is not a lot.

Too little for the UK.

Referring to the defense budget of previous years, 2000 million pounds is not even enough for the Royal Navy. After all, the cost of a "King George V" class battleship is as high as 1600 million to 1800 million pounds.

The "King George V" class is a first-class battleship that the United Kingdom plans to build in response to the out-of-control arms race. There are a total of five ships in this class. As long as Germany breaks through the "Versailles Treaty" and starts building battleships, the United Kingdom will start this plan.

Britain is now shrinking military expenditures in preparation for the construction of "King George V" class battleships.

In fact, as early as 1924, Lord Thomson, who was the British Air Force Minister at the time, proposed an air force plan. It was estimated that by 1930, the number of combat aircraft in the British Air Force would reach 1200, reaching the level of southern Africa in 1924.

This plan was widely opposed by the British government and opposition. At that time, no one in Britain, except Lord Thomson, believed that the British sky needed 1200 aircraft to protect.

The attitude of the Royal Navy was particularly fierce.

After all, if the Air Force gets too much funding, the funding of the Royal Navy will be affected.

Lord Londonderry's plan is to increase the number of combat aircraft in Britain to 850 in the next two years, from 890 now.

This requirement is not high. After all, a considerable part of the existing combat aircraft in the UK has been in service for as long as ten years, and there is no guarantee that they will be able to fly. Even if they are replaced normally, it is not too much to add 40 aircraft in two years.

So as soon as the budget of 15 pounds came out, the British Parliament was wildly criticized by British public opinion.

The British media are very vicious.

More than the French media.

In the mouth of the British media, the British Parliament is a rat that steals lamp oil, and is the chief culprit for the loss of the glory of the British Empire.

The Air Force is a rotten old baby who was just born, and they are so pitiful that they can only fly hot air balloons to protect the skies of Britain.

The Royal Navy is the mouse catcher of the Prime Minister's Office. They eat big fish and meat every day, and are they still in the mood to catch mice?

I am afraid that even the ability to catch mice has been lost.

The Southern African media has not been idle either.

Unlike the British media's venomous tongue, the southern African media focused on the comparison between the British Air Force and the Southern African Air Force.

The RAF now has a woeful 850 combat aircraft.

Southern Africa's navy alone has more than 1000 combat aircraft.

If you add the helicopters of the Air Force and Army Aviation, the number of combat aircraft in Southern Africa exceeds 2500.

Not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality, the Southern African Air Force far exceeds the British Air Force.

As mentioned above, a considerable part of the British Air Force's combat aircraft has been in service for as long as ten years.

At present, aviation technology is changing with each passing day, and the replacement of aircraft is also very fast. Even if it does not reach the level of battleships falling behind before they were built during the arms race, the technology ten years ago has almost been eliminated now.

The aircraft with the longest service life in the Southern African Air Force has actually reached ten years.

For example, long-range bombers used for strategic bombing.

Bombers are not the same as fighter jets.

Generally, bombers will only be dispatched when air supremacy has been obtained.

Therefore, the service life of the bomber is not important, as long as it is properly maintained and can still fly.

Except for bombers, all combat aircraft in southern Africa have not been in service for more than ten years. The new combat aircraft that have just been finalized in the past two years account for about [-]%.

With such a comparison, the readers' sense of happiness and security is simply overwhelming.

Although the Southern African Army has never boasted that it is "No. [-] in the world" or "No. [-] in Africa", it has long been recognized as the uncrowned king.

In recent years, the southern African navy has built warships like dumplings. In the early years, some people criticized southern Africa for lack of battleships and insufficient deterrence.

In recent years, fewer and fewer people talk about battleships. The many exercises that the Southern African Navy has participated in have proved that aircraft carriers are the future. Therefore, the Royal Navy, which has many battleships, has become a chicken tile in the mouth of the Southern African media. dog.

In addition, Southern Africa is located in Africa and is the most powerful country in the region, lacking natural enemies——

Therefore, southern Africans, especially those who have just immigrated from Europe to southern Africa in recent years, cannot be more satisfied with southern Africa.

It feels so good to be able to sleep peacefully at night!
Vargas has also slept well these days.

Roque's admission of Brazil to the Southern African Union was conditional.

The Southern African Union accepts Brazil, and Brazil must accept Africans from Southern Africa.

Yes, Rock finally made up his mind to solve this problem.

Southern Africa has never recognized that there are Africans in its territory. In fact, Africans have always existed.

When the total area of ​​southern Africa was only over 200 million square kilometers, the population of southern Africa was less than 200 million, and there was less than one person in one square kilometer. The degree of development was seriously insufficient, and there were barren mountains and mountains everywhere.

Although the southern African colonial government at that time did not admit that there were Africans in the territory, everyone knew with their feet that there must be Africans in southern Africa, and there were quite a few of them.

At this time, the situation can still be controlled. Southern Africa is rich in resources, and Africans can live without industrial products.

However, the new immigrants who have just immigrated to southern Africa are busy opening up wasteland and farming, and have no chance to get in touch with Africans, so this problem is covered up.

Later, Southern Africa successively annexed the Kingdom of Mozambique, Southwest Africa, Tanganyika, Madagascar, and Portuguese West Africa, and the number of Africans in Southern Africa increased.

With the increase in the population of southern Africa, the population of southern Africa has exceeded [-] million, and the area of ​​activities is getting larger and larger. Now there are no real wilderness in southern Africa. In addition to various private farms and state farms, there are In the nature reserves that are not ready to be developed, Africans no longer have the soil to live on.

But this problem always needs to be solved.

There are about 150 million Africans in Southern Africa.

Rock's attitude is very simple. In order to "send these Africans out of the country", the federal government of southern Africa can even pay a sum of money as a resettlement fee. Every African who "voluntarily" leaves southern Africa can get a hundred ran special.

Don't think too little.

A person of one hundred, 150 million people is 5000 million rand.

Consider that the UK's Air Force program started with £15 in initial funding.

This shows how courageous Southern Africa is.

Vargas is actually more greedy than Rock imagined.

Roque doesn't care about 5000 million rand.

Someone cares.

For the Brazilian government, 5000 million rand is not a small number. How much mahogany must be cut and how much iron ore should be dug to earn it.

In Vargas' view, the behavior of the Southern African Federal Government is simply a waste of money, and it was replaced by the Brazilian government——

The Brazilian government will be happy to keep people.

After all, Africans are also human resources.

This book has been emphasizing the significance of population to a country from the very beginning, and only countries like India in the world are qualified to ignore human resources.

"It would be great if we could get the money—" Vargas' old friend, Fernando Gomez, who was the foreign minister of Brazil, felt heartbroken when he thought of the 5000 million.

Although Brazil is rich in resources, the Brazilian government's finances are very tight. After all, in order to win the support of southern Africa to win the civil war, the Brazilian government mortgaged the port management rights, mineral resource exploitation rights, and tariffs to the Rand Bank and Rhodes Bank of West Asia.

It can be said that the current income of the Brazilian government depends entirely on the mood of the Rand Bank and the Rhodesian Bank.

However, in the past few years, the capital investment of assets in Brazil must be greater than the output. The Rand Bank and the Rhodesian Bank have been losing money. Naturally, there is no extra money for the Brazilian government, so the Brazilian government is in a very difficult situation. difficult.

"Fernando, don't even think about it, don't think about this money." Vargas knew the Southern African Union government better than Fernando Gomez.

The Federal Government of Southern Africa has indeed been generous.

But also respect the rules.

If you say one hundred rand per person, then it must be one hundred rand per person, even for newborns.

Vargas also understood what Fernando Gomez meant.

As far as plucking goose goose is concerned, for a large project of 5000 million, according to the situation in Brazil, the additional expenditure will be about 50.00% more.

That is to say, if the money is distributed by the Brazilian government, in the end those Africans who leave southern Africa can get [-] rand each, even if the Brazilian government is very conscientious.

After all, in Brazil now, the per capita annual income is only [-].

"Giving the money to those Africans is definitely a waste. It should be used for more valuable things." Fernando Gomez has good reasons.

"If you learn more about the Federal Government of Southern Africa and our lord, you will know that this matter is the most valuable thing for Southern Africa now." The expression on Vargas' face is Bitter, when will Brazil have as much money as the federal government of Southern Africa.

As for Vargas himself—

If Brazil is as rich as southern Africa, Vargas, as the president of Brazil, can still be penniless?
Just look at the wealth owned by the Locke family. It can really be described as "wealthy and powerful".

But Vargas also clearly overlooked a problem.

It wasn't that Southern Africa made Roque's wealth, on the contrary, it was because of Roque's help that the Southern African federal government was calm today.

Yes, compared with southern Africa, the biggest failure is that southern Africa can calmly deal with whatever it encounters. Whether it is an economic crisis or an overseas war, southern Africa has the ability to become the final winner.

"I don't know what the southern Africans are thinking, why should they send away precious human resources--" Fernando Gomez had many things he couldn't think of.

For Brazil, which has a population of only 3500 million, the more Africans, the better.

(End of this chapter)