Although Rock is a baron of the British Empire, and although Nyasaland is a territory of the British Empire, the War Office will have the same monitoring over Rock and Nyasaland. Because of Rock's special status, it has no control over Rock.
Monitoring in and Nyasaland will be stricter.
In fact, it's all normal. Rock has never relaxed his guard against the 007s. From the first day the War Office came to Nyasaland, Rock has been monitoring the War Office. There is also Brad in the War Office's base.
People are all engaged in intelligence work. When it comes to being despicable, no one needs to be more noble than the other.
What makes Rock a little sad is that the two Brads who were instigated to rebel are both Chinese. These are just the two who were exposed. No one knows how many more were not exposed.
After Roque learned the news, he immediately ordered Shi Zai, director of Bullard's office, to conduct a self-examination and at the same time strengthen ideological education among Bullard to strictly prohibit similar incidents from happening again.
Speaking of which, Roque also paid too much attention to economic development during this period and neglected ideological education. This is very inappropriate. After all, there are so many lessons learned from the past. This time Roque's golden finger did not fully play its role.
In fact, it is quite normal. There are now hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Nyasaland and Johannesburg. It is inevitable that some who are not determined will be bribed by the War Office to instigate rebellion. Fortunately, Roque has not made too many mistakes. Some things are even
Even if the War Office knew about it, it would not affect London's evaluation of Roark.
To put it bluntly, no one is perfect. He is a saint who has no requirements for material things or rights. It would be terrible if he existed in real life. For London, as long as Roque did not betray the British Empire, his personal character is a bit small.
The flaws will make London feel more at ease with Roque.
Rock had no intention of betraying the British Empire, including doing business with the Russians. Rock's starting point was to make money, and it was under the banner of a protective umbrella. It was not blatant. London would not go after Rock because of this matter.
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However, what happened eventually created a gap between Nyasaland and London. At the end of January, Chris Ellis, who had just taken over as Director of the War Office, came to Johannesburg to meet with Rock.
"Congratulations Chris, how does it feel to be promoted?" Rock and Chris Ellis are also old friends. Compared with Frank, Chris Ellis has a more friendly attitude towards Nyasaland.
Frank Frederick finally successfully transferred out of the maelstrom of Nyasaland and went to work in the War Department. Chris Ellis was naturally promoted and became the head of the War Office in Nyasaland.
During this period, the War Office had begun to show signs of transformation into the Military Intelligence Bureau. In the past, the War Office had only one director, Frank Frederick. After Frank came to Nyasaland, the War Office now has several directors.
It is estimated that it will be transformed into a military intelligence agency in a few years.
Maybe Chris Ellis can become the director of a department by then, so there's no harm in building a good relationship now.
"Thank you, Lord. It feels pretty good, but unfortunately it's not as good as I imagined." Chris Ellis finally felt the pain of Frank before.
Chris came to Nyasaland with Frank and established the Nyasaland base.
Chris still remembers that the purpose of setting up a base in Nyasaland by the War Office was to explore the use of colonial indigenous people and to try to penetrate into Portuguese East Africa to cooperate with Roque in completing the "Two C Plan".
It's a pity that Roque acted too fast. Before the war office could train enough agents, Roque had already subverted Portuguese East Africa, forcing the Portuguese to surrender and taking a big step towards completing the "Two C Plan".
What happened next was completely out of control. Before the War Office had time to digest it all, Rock targeted the Congo Free State again. Then the War Office began to follow Rock behind to wipe his butt, acting as Rock and London.
Between the mouthpieces, there was a time when Frank suffered from insomnia and nightmares, and a neurasthenia so severe that he almost had to return to London for hospitalization.
Now that Frank finally left Nyasaland as he wished, Chris took over Frank's job and immediately felt the "malice" of Nyasaland.
"I just took over the job, so there is always a process of adaptation, and some mistakes are inevitable." Rock said casually, saying that there really was no special meaning, but it sounded different to Chris's ears.
"Yes, mistakes are inevitable, so Lord, we need to cooperate better, make up for each other's mistakes at work, and try to avoid misunderstandings at work." Chris never mentioned what happened in Port Edward, as if it had never happened at all:
"Lord, you know that the Russian Pacific Second Squadron is currently in the waters of Madagascar. The military department is very concerned about the situation of the Second Squadron and hopes to learn more about the situation."
Chris finally got to the point. That's right. He should focus his energy on the enemy instead of doing things on his own territory all day long.
"Second Squadron, I really want to have an impression." Rock pretended to be stupid.
"Umbrella Company and the Second Squadron have a business." Chris pointed out directly, and the War Office indeed knew about it.
This is normal. The Russians have a lot of materials to purchase. Such a large-scale material transfer cannot be hidden from the War Office. The reason why the War Office wants to investigate is probably because it wants to analyze the situation of the Second Squadron through specific orders.
Now that Brad's mole has been exposed, the War Office probably wouldn't dare to act rashly, so Chris simply came to Rock, hoping to get information from Rock.
It seems that after the establishment of the Belgian Congo, Nyasaland established an intelligence sharing mechanism with the War Office. In this case, it is appropriate for Roque to provide intelligence to the War Office. However, because of what happened in Port Edward, Roque was very unhappy.
Happy, so Rock doesn't want to cooperate now.
"Sorry, I really don't know about this, I want to ask." Rock pretended to pick up the phone.
"Lord, this is very important to the empire. Please forgive our urgency. I promise." Chris didn't finish his sentence, but Rock had already sensed Chris' sincerity.
In fact, the War Office is in a very difficult situation in Nyasaland. The War Office's base is on a small island in the center of Lake Nyasa, which is basically isolated from the world. Senior staff like Chris have their homes in Little Rock.
, you need to take a fishing boat to and from Little Rock and the base.
Frank used to be very wary of Roark and Nyasaland. When Chris arrived, Roark was already the Baron of Nyasaland and was now a military general. As long as Roark did not openly rebel, Chris was willing to work with Roark.
Live in peace.
"Okay, what kind of information do you need?" Rock put down the phone and leaned back in his chair comfortably.
"All, all the intelligence on Second Squadron," Chris demanded.
"All the intelligence of the Second Squadron is very bad. From the analysis of the time when the Second Squadron arrived in Madagascar via Cape Town, the warships of the Second Squadron are in poor condition and their speed has dropped seriously. This will seriously affect the Second Squadron.
The long journey of the fleet's combat effectiveness has caused the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Second Squadron to be low, and their combat effectiveness has dropped sharply. If the Second Squadron wants to defeat the Japanese combined fleet, then the Second Squadron must go through a period of rest and recuperation. If it is in this current state,
Is it enough that the Second Squadron cannot defeat the Combined Fleet and may be completely annihilated?" Roque also didn't know the situation of the Second Squadron, but Roque knew the final result of the battle.
"Lord, how did you come to this conclusion?" Chris did not believe Rock's judgment. Although Rock had performed well in previous wars, the army and navy were completely different. The experience of ground wars was basically used in naval battles.
Of no use.
"Based on the analysis of the situation of the Second Squadron, I don't have specific information about the Second Squadron. Even if the Umbrella Company cooperates with the Russians, the Russians will not let people from the Umbrella Company board the ship, so it can only be done through intelligence.
Comprehensive analysis." Roque no longer avoids the cooperation between Umbrella and the Russians. There is no point in continuing to deny the intelligence that the War Office has obtained.
What's more, Rock also wants to gain the trust of the War Office through such an exchange of information.
In other words, establishing a certain degree of friendship with Chris himself will be more beneficial to Chris's evaluation of Rock and Nyasaland.
"The situation in Russia is very bad. The Russian who is responsible for contacting the War Office is called Constantine. He lives in the De Beers Hotel. The actual transaction volume between him and the Umbrella Company is 600,000 pounds, but the value is 1 million pounds. This is just Constantine.
Ding is alone." Roque finally revealed some specific information. Although this is not directly related to the Second Squadron, it can also expose Russia's internal organizational and logistical problems.
"The Russians did not perform well in the war." Chris followed Rock's topic and said that in the ground war that had already occurred, the Russian troops performed quite amateurishly.
"So Russia cannot win the Russo-Japanese War. The war is a contest at the overall level of the country. Local advantages are not enough to influence the outcome of the war. Russia is now suffering from internal and external troubles. Everyone is only for themselves. Although Japan is weak in national power, they work together to defeat Russia.
It is almost inevitable that you know that I don’t like Russia, but I don’t like Japan either. So from the perspective of the British Empire, Japan should of course win, but Japan cannot win a big victory. It is best to win miserably, which is most in line with the British Empire.
The interests of the empire." Although Rock didn't know how London arranged things, Rock knew London's purpose.
What a bastard, if you don't do something at this time, it would be a shame for you.
