Winston lost without complaint. His opponent Attlee was not an unknown person, and his campaign strategy was better than Winston's.
Of course, the main problem lies with Winston. He is too persistent in confrontation. In an interview with The Times, Winston even jokingly said: Without war, I would feel lonely.
It was this sentence that sentenced Winston to death.
Winston was probably the only Englishman who still wanted to fight.
Attlee did not want to fight, so after arriving in Potsdam, the first person he went to see was the bearded man.
This worried Rock.
Roque doesn't want to make relations with Russia too tense, but at the same time he doesn't want to get too close to Russia.
The deadlock was broken after Stoudemire arrived in Potsdam.
In fact, before this, Stoudemire had completely retired and did not hold any political positions. He did not even live in Pretoria. He spent most of his time in Salisbury, Rhodesia, and did not care about the world.
The reason why Stoudemire came to Potsdam was also Russia.
"I'm in trouble. The Russians have discovered a diamond mine, which may have an impact on the price of diamonds. We need to form an alliance with the Russians to jointly maintain the price of diamonds." Stoudemire hopes that Roque can help and connect the dots.
Rock was speechless.
Diamonds were once the main business of the Rhodes family, and Cecil Rhodes Sr. made his fortune from diamonds.
Now the situation has improved a lot. Under the leadership of Stoudemire, the Rhodes family has fully blossomed and has become a veritable resource tycoon. Diamonds are becoming less and less important in the Rhodes family's industrial chain.
"What's the point of making money from the poor? It only makes sense if the rich are willing to pay for it. Diamonds, like other jewelry, never cheat the poor." Stoudemire defended himself in this way, but he still couldn't impress Rock.
To put it bluntly, it is dirty money.
From being ignored to being a symbol of love, the value of diamonds has been hyped up by the Rhodes family. If you insist on emphasizing the meaning of diamonds, it is all nonsense. This thing is just a stone. If you don’t believe it, look at the emergence of artificial diamonds.
After that, why did no one discuss the value of diamonds anymore?
In Rock's view, the Rhodes family has made shady money in the diamond industry for decades by relying on hype and hard work, and it's almost time to stop. Continuing to make money will harm the world.
"I came to Potsdam to discuss the future of all mankind with the leader of the most powerful country in the world. You asked me to form a group with the Russians to make dirty money - what do you think?" Rock didn't want to get involved in this matter.
Shameful.
"Are you the Prime Minister of Southern Africa?" Stoudemire said seriously.
"Of course -" Rock will have to wait until the war is over before he can retire.
"Then you help me -" Xiaosi has a chance of winning.
Rock's questioning look!
Prime Minister helps you make money?
It seems reasonable. After all, the Prime Minister has the obligation and responsibility to safeguard the interests of southern African enterprises.
But this is also an industry. Roque is also the leader of the Southern African Union, but he also deeply hates the human resources industry that is booming in the Southern African Union countries.
The development of Southern Africa is inseparable from the contribution of human resources enterprises. The strong competitiveness of Southern African products has a lot to do with low labor costs.
The construction of southern Africa is also thanks to African workers. There is a corpse of a worker buried under every southern African railway track. This is not entirely an exaggeration.
Even the Southern African Expeditionary Force has a large proportion of African-American soldiers, especially the front-line combat troops.
Although human resources companies have brought huge benefits to southern Africa, Roque cannot become the spokesperson for the interests of human resources companies in any case.
On the contrary, in recent years, the Southern African Union has also rectified the industry, requiring human resources companies and employees to sign formal labor contracts and make clear provisions on minimum wages, working hours, leave systems, social insurance and other aspects to effectively protect the interests of workers.
At the very least, you can't treat people like slaves.
Although this will affect the competitiveness of southern African companies to a certain extent, Roque would rather see companies spend more energy on technology research and development and improving labor efficiency, rather than see companies gain profits by exploiting workers.
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To put it bluntly, it is too low.
"Throughout southern Africa and around the world, the De Beers Mining Alliance has millions of workers. If diamond prices collapse, they will lose their jobs, so the number of people affected may exceed tens of millions." Stoudemire's words made Luo
Can't be ignored.
Rock can watch diamond prices collapse with a sneer.
But we cannot ignore the fact that millions of workers are unemployed.
"The Mining Alliance has one million employees?" Rock doubted the authenticity of this data.
Rock's first pot of gold was also discovered in the mining industry. Gold mines and diamond mines are both profitable and do not actually require many workers.
The industries with the most workers are coal and steel.
If there is a problem in these two industries, Rock will take the initiative to solve it without Stoudemire's request.
"Not only do we have millions of employees, but there are also hundreds of millions of rands in taxes every year -" Stoudemire did not explain the millions of employees, but the hundreds of millions of rands are indeed real.
Why does Rock tolerate Stoudemire using diamonds to make dirty money?
A very critical issue is that Stoudemire did not go it alone, but shared the profits from diamonds with the federal government of Southern Africa.
For some special industries, the federal government of Southern Africa imposes heavy taxes. For example, the tax rate for the luxury goods industry is as high as 50%.
This is the main reason why the price of luxury goods produced by Intero and De Beers is much lower in southern Africa than abroad.
At least what Stoudemire said was right. The best thing about luxury goods is that they never cheat the poor.
Since we are talking about this, let me help you.
The new British Prime Minister Attlee arrived in Potsdam. As the host, the bearded man must be a landlord. As usual, there was another welcome dinner in the evening.
As the chief guests, Rock and Truman witnessed the scene where Attlee and Bearded Man drank and chatted like old friends.
"The British Empire is making changes, actively resuming post-war reconstruction, paying attention to people's livelihood, paying attention to the economy, and adjusting its overseas territorial policies. The British Empire and Russia have a profound historical friendship. We should work together to ensure the security of Europe and the entire world."
Attlee was very excited, he finally came to the center of power in this world.
Attlee had a deep connection with the Communist International. After graduating, he became a lawyer and joined the Labor Party in 1908, which was a major component of the British Labor Party.
"Does this guy think the British Labor Party is the same as the Russian Labor Party?" Truman couldn't help but complain.
"It does look similar." Rock smiled.
The British Labor Party is still a hundred times better than the United States, no matter how much it tries to sell dog meat.
Attlee's election manifesto was not to fool the British. He was really concerned about people's livelihood and economic development, which is why he was able to completely defeat Winston when his popularity reached its peak.
In the just-concluded British general election, the Labor Party led by Attlee received 393 votes.
Winston and the Conservative Party received a total of 213 votes.
Therefore, the Labor Party does not need to form a coalition government with the Conservative Party, and Attlee has the perfect stage to perform.
When Macdonald came to power, the Labor Party's advantage was insufficient, and Macdonald had to form a coalition government with the Conservative Party, and eventually resigned quietly.
Cooperating with the Conservative Party is tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger.
Rock was not concerned about the relationship between the British Labor Party and the Communist International. He was worried about whether the relationship between Britain and Russia would change after Attlee came to power.
With the Communist International gaining the upper hand in France and Italy, Britain became the last stronghold of capitalism in Europe.
Fortunately, the British Labor Party has no affiliation with the Comintern, otherwise Britain would have become the first European country to surrender to the Comintern.
Different from Winston's always tough approach to Russia, Attlee is looking forward to Russia. From the fact that he was the first to visit the bearded man after arriving in Potsdam, it is not difficult to speculate that after Attlee came to power, Britain and Russia
relationship will improve significantly.
The key is how good it gets!
"Russia and the United Kingdom are brotherly countries. We will jointly maintain peace in Europe and the world and conduct in-depth cooperation in more fields-" Big Beard's words were even more frightening. Rock couldn't help but wonder if Attlee had reached an agreement with Big Beard.
What secret agreement?
If this is the case, then the environment for southern Africa in Europe will be very difficult.
At the meeting the next day, Attlee showed more goodwill towards Russia and showed no strong opposition to the hasty agreement reached by Roark and Truman in the absence of the British Prime Minister.
When Winston attended the meeting, Big Beard demanded that Britain expel the Polish government-in-exile in London and confirm that the Polish provisional government established with the support of Russia was the only legitimate government of Poland.
This proposal was strongly opposed by Winston, who demanded that Poland implement democratic elections under the supervision of the Allied countries and let the Poles decide their own destiny.
Attlee agreed to the bearded request with little hesitation.
This impressed Rock and Truman.
The Polish government-in-exile is in London, not in Pretoria or Washington, so neither Roark nor Truman care whether Poland's legal government is a provisional government or a government-in-exile, because Poland has now de facto fallen into Russia's sphere of influence.
Grams and Truman were powerless to change.
There is nothing the UK can do to change this fact.
But agreeing to Bearded's request would be tantamount to betrayal of the Polish government-in-exile, which would be a heavy blow to Britain's reputation.
When Poland fell, the Polish government did not consider exile in southern Africa or the United States, but went to the United Kingdom. This meant that the Poles believed that Britain could help the Polish government restore its rule over Poland after the war.
Now that Attlee has easily betrayed the Polish government-in-exile, no country will place its hope on Britain in the future.
Beard’s demands also include that Poland not be included in Germany’s compensation distribution plan, and that Russia transfer 15% of the compensation received to Poland.
Regarding German compensation, Rock, Winston, Truman, and Beard had previously discussed US$200 billion.
In fact, it's definitely more than that.
However, Germany is now unable to pay compensation at all, so it is useless no matter how high the compensation amount is set. At least US$200 billion will not make Germany completely despair. As long as it works hard, it will one day pay off its debt.
In fact, for Germany now, US$200 billion is enough to make Germans desperate, and they will not be able to pay it back in the next life.
Therefore, Rock and Winston proposed that in terms of compensation, Germany only needs to pay US$20 billion in the form of assets, industrial products and labor.
This plan is to limit Russia's expansion, because it was proposed at the same time that after Germany pays all compensation, the Allied countries will withdraw their troops from Germany and return Germany to the Germans.
Big Beard disagreed with this proposal. He had no intention of letting the Germans go. It was best to station troops on German soil forever.
If at this point, Attlee's concession did not surprise Rock.
So on the Black Sea issue, Attlee's concession was unacceptable to Rock.
As in previous meetings, Big Beard brought up old matters again and once again demanded access to the Black Sea.
At least it shares the Black Sea outlet with relevant parties.
The current outlet of the Black Sea belongs to the territory of the Ottoman Republic and is under the jurisdiction of the Southern African Expeditionary Force entrusted by the soon-to-be-disintegrated League of Nations.
The Black Sea outlet has been controlled by League of Nations forces since World War I.
The world war caused great damage to the strength of various countries, and the League of Nations troops were forced to disband. Therefore, the League of Nations handed over the situation of the Mandate area at the Black Sea outlet to the jurisdiction of the federal government of Southern Africa.
This is also the traditional way of doing things.
Roque attaches great importance to the Black Sea outlet. In previous meetings, Roque has resolutely rejected Big Beard's request and firmly controlled the Black Sea outlet in the hands of the Southern African Expeditionary Force.
During the previous meeting, Russia still needed help from southern Africa, so Big Beard's attitude was not firm. In addition, Roque had Winston's help, so Big Beard failed.
This time Big Beard also made a request for the entrance to the Black Sea. Winston refused at the time, and Big Beard did not bother.
"The Black Sea is indeed very important to Russia, and we should consider Russia's reasonable requirements." As soon as Attlee spoke, Rock became furious.
How important is the Black Sea to you, Attlee?
A reasonable request!
Why don't you cede London to Russia and let the bearded man have some fun?
So Rock directly said with a black face: "Are you crazy? Do you know what you are talking about?"
"Of course I know that the Black Sea has now become the most dangerous hidden danger in our world. We are here to eliminate the risk of war, so we should solve the problem of the Black Sea outlet in a more appropriate way." Attlee said from a tricky perspective.
, which probably means that our enemy is very dangerous, so we might as well surrender.
"The Black Sea is not British territory, and you are not qualified to decide the fate of the Black Sea's outlet." Roque must have locked Russia at the other end of the Dardanelles Strait, and no one will give him any face.
