Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 2086 Take the way of the Americans, leaving the Americans with nowhere to go

As southern Africa adjusts its education resources, yet another European country is on the brink of civil war.

In 1931, a revolution broke out in Spain, the royal family was overthrown, Alfonso XIII was exiled abroad, and Niceto Alcala Zamora established the Second Spanish Republic.

The Second Spanish Republic remained chaotic, with at least 28 governments successively established. The left-wing coalition and the right-wing coalition were in power in turn. With the support of Russia and Mexico, behind the Falange are Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, and Portugal.

After the establishment of the Second Republic, the first to come to power was the Left Alliance.

After the left-wing coalition came to power, it implemented a series of democratic and land reforms, responded to the call of the League of Nations to disarm, closed military academies, distributed the land of the Spanish royal family to the poor, and restricted the spread of religion. The constitution stipulated the separation of church and state, and implemented an eight-hour working day.

Most of these policies have not been effectively implemented. Although the left-wing coalition is in power, the right-wing coalition is powerful in Spain. The royal family’s land is divided up by the big nobles and landlords in Spain, and very few are given to the poor; Without effective restrictions, the Jesuits went underground, religious figures spread the idea of ​​​​anti-leftist alliance among believers, and the economically important Catalonia region strongly demanded autonomy.

Amid many contradictions, the left-wing coalition government fell and the right-wing coalition came to power.

The right-wing alliance came to power, abolished all the policies of the left-wing alliance government, killed and arrested members of the left-wing alliance, confiscated the land of the poor, and restored the status of Catholicism.

At the beginning of this year, a general election was held in Spain. Among the total 925 million votes cast, the left-wing coalition narrowly won with 475 million votes, regaining power and gaining 267 seats in Congress.

The right-wing coalition won 132 seats, still the second largest party in Spain.

After the victory of the left-wing alliance, Manuel Azania became the president and Casalos Giroca became the prime minister. The left-wing government once again changed various policies of the right-wing, which caused strong dissatisfaction among many right-wing alliances. A coup d'état, an attempt to overthrow the republican government.

Rock has been very concerned about the situation in Spain.

The Spanish Civil War in another time and space is considered to be the prelude to the Second World War, in which most countries in the world are involved.

Now Spain's left-wing coalition also has the support of Russia.

Behind the right-wing coalition are Germany and Italy.

At the beginning of October, the Falange and Germany reached an agreement to obtain assistance from Germany with at least [-] machine guns. This situation aroused Rock's vigilance.

According to the "Versailles Treaty", Germany is not allowed to own heavy weapons, including machine guns.

Now Germany has obviously broken through this limitation. The domestic arsenal not only has the ability to meet the needs of the German army, but also has spare capacity to export to the outside world. It is clear that Germany's military industry has recovered to a certain extent.

Britain and France should also know this situation.

I don't know what the British and French think.

Mostly the policy of appeasement.

After all, the backer behind the Popular Front in Spain is Russia.

In order to contain Russia's expansion, Britain and France will definitely choose to sell Spain.

Even if this further stimulates the ambitions of the Germans and Italians.

Rock doesn't care how Britain and France treat the Spaniards. Southern Africa is thousands of miles away from Spain. Whether it's the Falange Party or the Popular Front, they have no conflict of interest with Southern Africa. The British and French don't care, and Rock doesn't care.

But I didn't expect business to come to my door.

The Falange obtained a thousand machine guns from Germany, and the Popular Front was naturally not to be outdone.

The bourgeois ruling class in European countries is hostile to the Popular Front. Because Russia is blocked, aid cannot reach Spain at all. Southern Africa has become the best choice for the Spanish Popular Front.

Clavi Calderon, who came to southern Africa on behalf of the republican government, had a complex background with dual identities of the Popular Front and the Comintern.

Rock didn't see Clavi Calderon.

The reason is very simple. In order to prevent the outbreak of civil war in Spain, the League of Nations called on all countries to remain neutral and imposed an arms embargo on Spain. Southern Africa, as the five permanent members of the League of Nations, naturally had to follow the policies of the League of Nations, so Roque simply did not see Clavi Calderon.

Southern Africa, of course, remains neutral.

This does not mean that Southern African companies should also remain neutral.

Clavi Calderon came to Southern Africa with a big order.

Roque didn't even know how much money Clavi Calderon could mobilize.

"Mr. Calderon, welcome to Southern Africa—" It was Sidney Milner, Minister of Commerce for Southern Africa, who came to receive Clavi Calderon.

"Thank you, please take me to pay tribute to Lord Halewood." Clavi Calderon did not forget to greet Ade, which quickly shortened the relationship with Sidney Milner.

"Please understand that our lord also has his last resort." Sidney Milnerdroc apologized. He came from afar and didn't even get a chance to meet. How can such an attitude make people willing to pay? Woolen cloth.

In the account of the Spanish Republican Government in the Rand Bank, there is a total of 5000 million rand.

cash!

Clavi Calderon smiled and said nothing. He really could understand why Roque didn't see him, but he was still uncomfortable.

The Spanish Republican government did not fully count on southern Africa. When Clavi Calderon came to Southern Africa, the Spanish Republican government still maintained contact with the Americans.

As in southern Africa, the United States and southern Africa remained surprisingly consistent in their attitudes toward the Spanish Civil War.

The United States is also the five permanent members of the League of Nations, so the U.S. government also responded to the call of the League of Nations and imposed an arms embargo on Spain.

However, on this issue, American companies also have the so-called "commercial freedom", and the US government has no right to interfere.

The strictest enforcement of the arms embargo is Britain and France.

This fully proves the attitude of Britain and France on this matter.

After all, the Spanish Falange can get assistance from Germany and Italy.

The policy of appeasement is real.

Sidney Milner is officially the Minister of Commerce for Southern Africa. As a minister, Sidney Milner is actually inconvenient to contact Clavi Calderon.

Although in southern Africa, no one knew about Clavi Calderon's itinerary, Sidney Milner was very careful to place the meeting place in Hot Springs Valley not far from Pretoria.

Hot Springs Valley is now a world-famous tourist attraction. Kitchener and Ade live here all year round. Rock also likes to take a bath in Hot Springs Valley when he is free, and visit the two single old men by the way.

A former governor and a former prime minister, the construction of the hot spring valley is naturally beautiful and perfect, but it is a pity that Clavi Calderon is not in the mood to appreciate the beauty of the hot spring valley.

"We need airplanes, tanks, cars, fuel, machine guns, bombs, etc., all war-related things, only two countries in the world can provide them, one is your southern Africa, and the other is the United States." Calderon can't wait, the situation in Spain is indeed very dangerous.

"Don't worry, Southern Africa firmly supports the Spanish people's determination to pursue a republic." Sidney Milner expressed his sincerity. Spain has always had a good relationship with Southern Africa.

If it weren't for Southern Africa's insistence, the "American flu" would have become the "Spanish flu." For this reason, Roque also received a letter of thanks written by the then King of Spain, Alfonso XIII.

After the World War, Southern Africa maintained close trade relations with Spain, and became Spain's third largest trading nation after Britain and France.

So you can imagine how sad the Spaniards would be when Britain and France implemented a policy of appeasement.

Clavi Calderon's order volume is not large, 1500 tons of gasoline, 50 military vehicles, [-] fighter jets, which can be equipped with tanks for an armored regiment——

I almost forgot to say that the Russian general Dmitry Grigorievich Pavlov once participated in the Spanish Civil War as the commander of an armored brigade.

It is a pity that the Spanish Civil War did not bring correct experience to Pavlov. Because of the insufficient performance of tanks at that time, Pavlov believed that tanks could not fight alone without infantry, and could only assist infantry in combat. , the disastrous defeat of the Western Front Army.

For this reason, Pavlov was sentenced to death for treason.

In this time and space, Pavlov should not be so miserable.

After all, the performance of tanks in southern Africa is obvious to all.

There is no need to sell the "Tiger" and "Leopard" types. The tanks developed by Nyasaland Heavy Industries for the French came in handy again. The tanks equipped by the Falange Party were obtained from Germany, and their performance was not as good as that of southern African tanks.
With such a small demand, 5000 million will definitely not be used up.

Sidney Milner isn't worried.

In the last world war, Spain remained neutral and did not participate in the war.

Therefore, the Spanish Republican government has no idea about the consumption of the war. As the war progresses, orders will definitely increase.

Spain is now betting on both sides. While contacting southern Africa, it is also contacting Americans.

Sidney Milner has confidence in the performance of southern African weapons. In the subsequent use of the Republican government army, as long as the performance of southern African weapons is better than that of American weapons, the Republican government will definitely place more orders. to Southern Africa.

This makes sense for Southern Africa.

After all, the Second World War is approaching. If it is on the Spanish battlefield at this time, the southern African weapons will perform well.

Then, it will be impossible for the United States to reap the benefits of fishing in another time and space.

So this order has to be done even if it loses money.

(End of this chapter)