Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 693

Some things really can’t be said too clearly. After the Boer War, southern Africa became a burden to the British Empire. The British Empire needed the gold mines in Johannesburg, but it didn’t need the natives and Boers in southern Africa. That’s why London allowed southern Africa to be self-governing.

Now southern Africa has gradually demonstrated more and more promising industrial strength. London may regret it, but the pride of the British Empire is still there, so London will not go back on its word.

In this case, the oil in Port Elizabeth became the last straw on the camel's body.

Before the discovery of oil in Port Elizabeth, no one thought that the deserted and remote Middle East peninsula with only endless deserts that seemed to have no sustainable development actually contained a large amount of oil. At that time, the governor of Egypt easily sold Port Elizabeth to the umbrella The company must regret it now.

But it's too late to regret it. Rock is a brave man who can only enter but not exit. Britain can buy oil if it wants it, and buy it with money. If you don't have money, don't say anything.

Now all Rock's energy is on preparing for WW[-], Port Elizabeth's oil production is getting higher and higher, Southern Africa integration is Ader's job, the Dutch in the East Indies are nothing to worry about, Rock's all Focus on the construction of Nyasaland.

The stronger the strength of the Nyasaland military industrial group, the better. Even if the current military industrial capacity has far exceeded the needs of southern Africa, Rock still builds more factories.

The production capacity of the Rhodesian Agricultural Company is also expanding. Stoudemire believes in Rock's judgment that the future market demand must be many times that of the current one.

Also insisting on Henry, Far Walt Iron and Steel Works can now produce almost all steel, including weapon steel, Edward Shipyard and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard cooperate to produce cruisers, all steel is Far Walt Iron and Steel Works Rock was not satisfied with what was provided, and asked Fawalt Steel Works to develop steel with higher strength, more wear resistance, and more corrosion resistance.

Henry still doesn't know that Rock's refusal to let Edward Shipyard develop dreadnoughts is preparing for future aircraft carriers. Otherwise, with the production capacity of Edward Shipyards, there will be no problem in producing dreadnoughts.

From a purely technical level, Edward Shipyard is really not good, at least the 305mm main gun on the dreadnought, Nyasaland cannot afford it.

However, with the help of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, these problems are not a problem. It is just a 305 main gun. Edward Shipyard only spent less than five thousand pounds to obtain all the technical information of the 305 main gun. .

Of course, the process of obtaining technical information is indescribable, and Brad's office owes a lot of credit.

Cars and motorcycles have also made great progress. The cars and motorcycles produced in Nyasaland sell very well in Europe. Last year, Nyasaland produced a total of [-] cars and more than [-] motorcycles. , more cars and motorcycles than all of Europe combined.

When European auto companies were still buying cars to send drivers, shops selling Nyasaland cars and motorcycles had already started to implement the four-S model, integrating vehicle sales, spare parts, after-sales service, and information feedback.

After Port Elizabeth began to transport oil to the UK, gas stations operated by Adan Company began to appear in the UK. The power of capital was fully demonstrated at this time. Royal Shell only opened gas stations in large cities with more than 10 people. Many cities Just one or two, and some people who bought a car had to travel halfway across the city to fill up gas.

Adan Company started to spread out in an all-round way. There was a grand occasion in London that eight gas stations operated by Adan Company were under construction at the same time.

Royal Shell also ridiculed Adan for not knowing how to operate. There are so many gas stations that must lose money. There are not so many cars that need to be refueled in London.

As everyone knows, Adan Company doesn't care about this cost at all, nor does it care about the salaries of seven or eight employees at a gas station. What Adan Company wants is the future market and occupy a favorable position in advance.

In order to better manage the European market, Nyasaland Motor Group and Johannesburg-based Holt Motorcycle Factory have set up branches in Walvis Bay. Compared with Port Edward, Walvis Bay on the Atlantic coast is closer to Europe. The produced vehicles can be shipped directly to Europe without having to go around the Suez Canal.

As a result, the transportation between Walvis Bay and Southern Africa has become a big problem. Although various materials in Southern Africa can reach Walvis Bay by sea, Rock still hopes to build a railway from Rhodes City to Walvis Bay.

"The straight-line distance between Rhodes and Walvis Bay is 1200 kilometers, which is about the same as the distance from Walvis Bay to Cape Town. To transport the steel produced by Fawalt to Walvis Bay, it must first be transported from Fawalt to Cape Town by rail. , and then shipped from Cape Town to Walvis Bay, it will take more than half a month, if we build the railway from Rhodes City to Walvis Bay, then the time can be shortened to three days.” In order to repair the railway , Rock rarely returned to Pretoria to explain to Ade himself.

"The construction of the railway requires the cooperation of Southwest Africa. Do you think Southwest Africa will agree?" Ade teased. Last year, Southern Africa just forced Southwest Africa to give up a large area of ​​territory. Now they want to build a railway. Ade will not agree.

"The construction of the railway is also good for Southwest Africa, and Southwest Africa has no reason not to agree." Rock also knew that there would be difficulties, otherwise Rock would not have come to Ade.

"Naive!" Ade said to the point.

"Don't let Southwest Africa pay for it, including the railways in Southwest Africa, which are also funded by the Atlantic Railway Company. Of course, after the railway is completed, the Atlantic Railway Company requires 50 years of operating rights to recover the cost." Rock took the bait and acted. Just do a full set.

This 50-year operating right is just a pretense.

If there is no accident, once the world war breaks out, then Southern Africa will send troops to Southwest Africa. At that time, let alone the railway, the entire Southwest Africa will be annexed by Southern Africa.

But in order to dispel the concerns of the Germans, the benefits that should be desired are still necessary, otherwise, what is the Atlantic Railway Company working hard to repair the railway map?

This Atlantic Railway Company is also a smoke bomb prepared by Rock for the Germans.

The registered place of the Atlantic Railway Company is in New York, USA. The general manager is an engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover. The Germans may be unfamiliar with this name, but it doesn’t matter. World War spread across the world.

Now Herbert Clark Hoover has returned to the United States to teach engineering at Columbia University and Stanford University.

Relying on the profits gained from being a "human trafficker" in the Qing Dynasty, Hoover often visited the upper class and was accumulating prestige.

After the outbreak of World War II, Hoover served as the chairman of the American Relief Committee in London, assisting those penniless Americans trapped in Europe to return home. Within a year, this committee helped 12 poor Americans return to the United States .

After that, Hoover provided relief to Belgium and France. The work of the American Relief Committee made Hoover a social figure and brought great honor to Hoover. Since then, Hoover has been called "the great humanitarian".

Now Hoover is in Windhoek, and like Rock, he is lobbying the colonial government of Southwest Africa, hoping that Southwest Africa will agree to the construction of the railway by the Atlantic Railway Company.

"If you can get Southwest Africa to agree, of course I have no problem here." As long as the federal government doesn't pay for it, Ade is fine.

"That's fine. The Germans won't cooperate with us, but they won't refuse the request of the Americans." Roque didn't worry about whether Hoover could persuade the governor of Southwest Africa. Regardless of his personal character, Hoover was still very capable, otherwise he wouldn't Possibly becoming President of the United States.

The period before the World War was the honeymoon period between the United States and Germany. The United States has now begun to show its powerful strength to influence Europe, and it has a good balance between the Allied Powers and the Allies. Unlike southern Africa, which has a natural position, the United States has never Tendency, whether it is Germany or the United Kingdom, as long as they pay, the Americans are willing to cooperate.

As for the United States' participation in the late World War, it had nothing to do with Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. At that time, the whole world knew that the Allies were doomed, and Germany had exhausted its treasury, and could no longer afford to buy supplies from the United States. Therefore, it is no longer profitable for the United States to do business again. When it comes time to change its business model, even if Germany does not adopt unrestricted submarine warfare, the United States will have to find a reason to join the war in person, otherwise it will not be able to keep up with the spoils after the war.

Even so, after World War I, Britain still relied on its colonies all over the world to maintain its hegemony over the empire on which the sun never sets. It was not until the colonial system established by Britain and France after World War II that the United States and the Soviet Union completely destroyed the empire on which the sun never set. Completely down.

Therefore, Rock's idea of ​​holding on to the British thigh is very correct. At least until the end of World War II, southern Africa must resolutely stay in the Commonwealth, which will be more conducive to the development of southern Africa.

"Be careful of Americans!" Ade reminded Rock. As a standard British person, Ade's feelings for the United States are a bit complicated, just like the eldest son who has run away from home and finally broke into a world outside. .

"I know that the United States puts its interests first, and so do we in southern Africa." Rock doesn't hate Americans, but he doesn't like them either. However, when it comes to making money, southern Africa and the United States share a lot of common language, and the United States always wants to subvert The colonial system dominated by Britain and France is actually the same in southern Africa.

Get rid of Ade, Rock is not in a hurry to return to Nyasaland, he comes to Pretoria once in a while, and always goes to the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice to report, otherwise Rock, the deputy minister, is really incompetent.

What Rock did not expect was that the official ministers of the two ministries were not in Pretoria, Henry went to Cape Town, and Hopkins was on vacation in Europe.

This minister is much more relaxed than the deputy minister, Roque.

(End of this chapter)