Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 694

After the Bechuanaland State military exercise, Hopkins submitted his resignation to Adelaide, but Adelaide did not approve it.

If Hopkins resigns, then the only candidate who is qualified to succeed Hopkins as Minister of Defense is Roque. By then, Roque will be stationed in Pretoria. This is obviously impossible for Roque, so Hopkins is still going to stay on as Secretary of Defense.

It must be said that the Minister Hopkins is still very qualified. In principle, Southern Africa does not have a Ministry of Defense. Although Southern Africa is self-governing, it has no rights in defense and foreign affairs. This part of the rights still belongs to London, that is, London Most of the energy involved in the arms race really has no spare time to take care of southern Africa, so London will allocate funds to Roque to support Roque in forming an army.

In this regard, London is more concerned about the feedback from southern Africa to the British mainland.

During Hopkins’ tenure, a basic national defense system has been established in southern Africa. The standing division composed of four professional soldiers is the main force of the Southern African National Defense Force. In addition, there are [-] ordinary divisions composed of conscripts as auxiliary forces. The first cruiser is being built. Although the air force has not formed an army, four air force bases have been built in Nyasaland and Bechuanaland to deal with threats in the direction of Tanganyika and Southwest Africa respectively.

The amazing thing is that the establishment of so many troops did not cost the federal government much money. The Ministry of National Defense can undertake external projects because of the conscripts, and even achieve a balance of payments. Although Rock is in charge of all this, the results are in the name All thanks to Hopkins.

Based on this alone, Hopkins is a qualified Secretary of Defense.

If it were someone else, it might be because Roque had too much power and was worried that he would be ostracized, so he caused some troubles for Roque from time to time, both openly and secretly.

The biggest advantage of Hopkins is that it is not greedy for power. Without Roque's efforts and Hopkins' ability alone, it would be impossible to form an army of this size in southern Africa, let alone the air force and navy. Now it is still the few half-dead colonial servants who can't even beat the rebels to support the facade, unable to provide any form of help when the British mainland needs it.

It's different now. Rock has the ability to get funds from London, loans from the Rand Bank, and various resources within the federal government. Hopkins is happy to delegate power. After all, the annual salary of five thousand pounds is still Very fragrant.

After visiting the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice respectively, Roque still went to Philip's house for dinner at night.

Today, the speaker of the parliament also finished work early and went home to take care of his grandson. Phyllis has been in Nyasaland for the past two years and rarely returns to Pretoria. Philip is very rare to the two grandchildren.

Owen was also there when Rock arrived home, and the three men chatted in the study first as usual.

The topic must also revolve around the railway between Rhodes City and Walvis Bay.

"I really don't know why you like to build railways so much, and it's a desolate place like Georgetown. Maybe you won't be able to recover the cost in 100 years." Owen, the majority leader of the federal parliament, is not optimistic about Rock's proposal.

Georgetown is not far from the border between Bechuanaland and Southwest Africa. It is a newly named city. With a population of more than 2000 people, it is not qualified to be a city, but Georgetown will develop into a transportation hub of Bechuanaland in the future. Potential, now the railway between Rhodes City and Georgetown is being built, and Rock is also planning to build a railway from Georgetown to Crocodile City.

Crocodile City is located between the Okavango Swamp and Ngami Lake. During the military exercise, more than [-] troops were stationed in the Okavango Swamp. After the military exercise, the troops withdrew, leaving a super-large city, and A safe zone with a radius of hundreds of square kilometers.

Alligators have been hunted to extinction, at least in this area.

Both Rock and Philip are accustomed to Owen's slowness, so Philip didn't bother to explain at all, and Rock's attitude is better: "If the railway between Rhodes City and Walvis Bay is built, then it will take three days from Rhodes City to Walvis Bay, passing through Georgetown and Windhoek, and once the war breaks out—”

"So you think the Germans will agree?" Owen is really sad for Southwest Africa. Germany still has the strength to engage in an arms race with the British government in Europe, but it is at a disadvantage in Africa. The current situation in Southwest Africa is like a A toddler who has just toddled is facing a strong man who is eight feet tall and has an eight-foot waist.

"If we come forward, Southwest Africa will definitely not agree, so it is the Americans who come forward." Rock knows how deep the grievances between Southwest Africa and Southern Africa are, and it cannot be resolved with a few words.

"Everyone knows that you recruited those Americans." Owen was also speechless, and Rock often played some seemingly useless tricks, but they were very effective.

"Americans are still very useful." Philip saw Roque getting more and more pleasing to the eye in the past two years, and often laughed at his aunt.

"If Henry is here, he can answer your question." Rock didn't respond positively, and at this time he missed the tacit understanding with Henry.

"Be careful." Philip still knew the situation well.

Rock nodded, and Owen was at a loss, unable to understand what Philip and Rock were talking about.

After Philip made an excuse to watch his grandson leave the study, Rock explained to Owen.

"The Germans need more steel—"

"What does this have to do with us?" Of course Owen knew that Germany needed steel. Britain had support from colonies around the world, which was relatively easy, but Germany was very difficult.

This is also the basis for the United States to have both sides. Germany and the United Kingdom are engaged in an arms race, and a large part of steel is bought from the United States.

"Fawalt." Rock said concisely.

"You want to buy steel for the Germans?" Owen was horrified, this is an enemy.

"Whoever said they want to sell to the Germans, I want to sell to the Americans—" Rock is confident. It is definitely not possible to sell directly to the Germans, but it is no problem to sell to the Americans. As for the United States buying steel from Fawalt Roque has no control over who he sells to after buying it.

"It's dangerous, be careful—" Owen's attitude was the same as Philip's attitude just now.

Cooperating with the Germans is a dangerous business, but if done properly, it should not be too much trouble.

This is the same as the French selling Miss Seventy-Five all over the world, thinking that Germany doesn't know the performance of Miss Seventy-Five.

In fact, they are all deceiving themselves. When Roque sells steel to the Americans, he will definitely ask the Americans not to resell the steel to the Germans.

This kind of request is actually useless at all. It is a matter of paying more hands, applying for a few shell companies, and going through a few more procedures. Fawalt's steel will not even be shipped to the United States, and it can be sent directly to Germany.

This is also the source of Rock's confidence that Southwest Africa will agree to build the railway. The construction of the railway between Rhodes City and Walvis Bay will indeed bring potential threats to Southwest Africa.

But will the threat go away without the railroad?

No, whether there is a railway or not, the threat still exists. The straight-line distance from Cape Town to Walvis Bay is about the same as the straight-line distance from Rhodes City to Walvis Bay. Georgetown is only [-] kilometers away from Walvis Bay. Eliminating hidden dangers can only strengthen oneself. If the strength is weak, then the threat will always exist.

Compared with the tense situation on the border, dinner was peaceful.

Philip lives in a manor on the outskirts of Pretoria. The huge long dining table can accommodate 20 people at the same time, and the smile on Philip's face has never disappeared.

After dinner, Rock and Philip went for a walk in the garden. This was the real time for Weng and his son-in-law to communicate freely.

"You still have to control it. There are more and more Chinese in southern Africa. Some people have described southern Africa as a Chinese colony. Pay attention to the influence." Philip said bluntly, without naming names, and Rock knew who was talking nonsense.

"Otherwise, what can we do? With such a big country, such a small population, and no more whites willing to immigrate, if the Chinese are not introduced, then Southern Africa will become an African country sooner or later." Rock also spoke bluntly, regarding Southern Africa With so few white people relying on natural reproduction, they will not be able to develop in 100 years.

Population is the foundation of everything. It is possible only if there are people, and everything is impossible without people.

Although Rock continues to immigrate, there is still a huge human resource gap in southern Africa. Among other things, the farms in southern Africa are hundreds of acres at every turn. The area is indeed large, but it can be exhausting to develop and utilize. The farms in the Transvaal and Nyasaland are better developed now. The farms in Rhodesia are seriously underdeveloped. The farms in the Cape have existed for hundreds of years, but they still rely on grazing. Lord, do you really think those farmers don't know how to grow alfalfa?It's just too busy.

The industry in southern Africa also needs a large number of workers. The arsenal, shipyard, automobile factory, and engine factory are currently operating at full capacity, but they still cannot meet market demand. If possible, Rock wants to replace all the miners in Johannesburg and Fawalt with My own people, but I really can’t do it. In the final analysis, there is still a lack of people. If there are enough people in Southern Africa, Rock will move all the Africans in Southern Africa to the Kingdom of Mozambique, and let them play by themselves. The new king can marry 1 wives.

"Compared to the past, it is much better now. At least the Boers are staying in Orange. The factors of instability in the federal government must be eliminated one by one. The arms race in Europe will definitely end in a world war of unprecedented scale. , before the war breaks out, we have to conduct a cleanup operation." Philip was worried, and his heart was as heavy as the sky with dark clouds.

Rock knew what Philip was referring to, but Rock also needed an opportunity, preferably by forcing some people to jump out on their own initiative.

(End of this chapter)