Britain has rich experience in establishing countries. After the world war in another time and space, Britain established the Kingdom of Iraq in the Mesopotamia and established Jewish settlements in Palestine. These measures had an important impact on the future of the Middle East.
In this time and space, Rock will definitely not let the British government harm the two river basins. Now hundreds of thousands of Chinese have settled in the two river basins. They have not only opened up farms to resume production, but are also building an oil pipeline between Port Elizabeth and Beirut.
In order to ensure the safety of the oil pipeline, Roque also needs to ensure that the two river basins are under his control.
As for the Ottomans and Persians who used to live in the Mesopotamia, Ali Rashid moved some of them to Egypt and gave the other part to Lisa Khan, exchanging them from the Persian Empire for Khuzestan.
Southern Africa did not show up.
This work has now been basically completed. If possible, Roque still hopes that the Mesopotamia River Basin will be entrusted to Southern Africa as a Class A mandated area. If it is not possible, then Roque will temporarily establish a country controlled by Southern Africa to solve the problem.
Leave it to future resolution.
After ending his exchange with Louis Botta, Roque's mission in France is coming to an end. However, before returning to southern Africa, Roque will go to the United Kingdom to receive his second Order of the Garter and give a speech in Congress. At the same time,
He will also be canonized by King George V of England at Buckingham Palace.
Relying on his performance in the world war, George V decided to promote Roque to the title of Marquis of Nyasaland. In this world war, only Roque and Kitchener received this honor. French and French who had been transferred back to the UK
Haig was made a viscount.
The night before leaving Paris, Roque attended the farewell dinner held by French President Poengale for Roque. This should be a coincidence. Roque's world war journey started with Poengale's dinner, which also ended with Poengale.
End of dinner in Calais.
The dinner was held at the Elysée Palace, where Poingale's official residence is located. Roque arrived at the Elysée Palace with Louis Botta at six o'clock in the evening.
As the Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Roque attracted much attention. Clemenceau, as the French Prime Minister, greeted Roque at the entrance of the banquet hall. Foch, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, accompanied the French Commander-in-Chief Pétain and the American Commander-in-Chief Pershing.
When they met Roque, Clemenceau and Roque shook hands warmly, and their words were full of regret: "It's such a pity. I was planning to find time for us to have a good chat, but I didn't expect you to leave France now. I really hope
We still have a chance to meet, but it's a pity that I'm old, otherwise I really want to go to southern Africa with you."
Clemenceau was already 76 years old when he became Prime Minister of France, making him the oldest among all leaders of the Allied Powers.
Compared with Clemenceau Foch and Pétain, Roque, who is less than 40 years old, is simply too young. As a senior official, Pershing is young enough, but he is already close to 60 years old.
"If there is a chance, when you retire, I will send someone to take you to southern Africa. We can go fishing and have a picnic together in Lake Nyasa. The whitebait in Los Angeles is simply amazing. During this time in France, I was dreaming
It all tastes like whitebait." After spending a long time in France, Roque has adapted to the French language style, and feels that his usual speech is like an aria.
"Hahahaha, then you have to wait a moment, I want to be the French Prime Minister again -" Clemenceau refused to accept his old age, the taste of power is indeed wonderful.
After greeting Clemenceau, Roque embraced Foch, Petain and Pershing in turn. No matter how many differences there were between them during the World War, their purpose was the same, to defeat the Germans.
Now that the war is finally over, everyone breathes a sigh of relief, and all the unhappiness has disappeared along with the smoke. To be fair, Foch and Petain-Pershing are both extremely outstanding soldiers, and Roque expressed his gratitude to them respectively.
"Thank you Ferdinand. It's an honor to fight side by side with you. You are the most outstanding soldier I have ever seen. Your contribution to the world war will definitely be remembered -" Roque said to Foch
The impression was very good, especially when Foch was in charge of the Ninth Army and he cooperated with the British Expeditionary Force commanded by Roque.
After Foch became the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces, the differences between Roque and Foch do not seem to be important now. After all, being the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces is more complicated when considering issues than being the Commander of the Ninth Army.
"I also want to thank you Locke. Without your bravery and decisiveness, I am afraid that the World War would not be over now." Foch also highly praised Locke. During the World War, Britain also changed its leadership three times, and finally it was under Locke's leadership.
Under his leadership, the British Expeditionary Force got on the right track.
For Petain, Roque has another kind of feeling. Without Petain's two efforts to turn the tide, the World War might have taken a completely different direction, especially during the Battle of Verdun, when Roque had just taken over the British Expeditionary Force.
The Commander-in-Chief had not yet truly taken control of the British Expeditionary Force. If France was defeated at that time, then Roark would have to lead the British Expeditionary Force back to the British mainland. In that case, victory might be far away.
Relatively speaking, Rock's impression of Pershing is not very good. This is not only because Pershing insists on independent command, but also because the United States, represented by Pershing, poses a potential threat to Britain and southern Africa. This is the third country in time and space.
During World War I, the benefits gained by the United States were far from comparable to those of another time and space.
At the end of the World War, the U.S. government finally realized this problem and hurriedly entered the war.
The war potential shown by the United States after it entered the war is indeed shocking. When the Allied Powers launched their counterattack, an average of 250,000 American troops arrived in Belgium every month. Let’s not talk about the significance of this number. Just say that 250,000 U.S. troops arrived in Belgium every month.
Thousands of troops and equipment were transported across the Atlantic from the United States to Belgium. Southern Africa does not currently have this capability.
Maybe the UK does, but the UK doesn't have that many troops to deploy.
Entering the venue, the guests at the banquet, led by Poengale and Winston Woodrow Wilson, applauded Rock.
Poengale took the initiative to invite Roque to speak.
As Roque spoke, Poengale and Winston Woodrow Wilson stood in a row next to Roque, smiling and applauding. A reporter took this picture.
"I'm very sorry. I thought I would just come here to drink and eat. I didn't expect to have to speak. I was not prepared. Your Excellency, the President, should inform me -" Roque started with a joke, and the guests replied
With good-natured laughter and enthusiastic applause.
This time the applause lasted longer, and the guests were very tolerant of Rock and gave him enough time to adjust.
"When I came to France three years ago, the World War was raging. The German forward was only a hundred kilometers away from Paris. The civilized world was in danger. Thank you to all the warriors who fought bloody battles and defended the order of the civilized world. , allowing us to celebrate victory here - thank you to all those who worked hard to defeat the evil group of the Allies. It is their hard work that gave us enough confidence to fight on the front line - thank you to the king, prime minister, president, prime minister and the king who worked day and night. Officials at all levels of governments of various countries, it is precisely because of your hard work that frontline soldiers will not go hungry to fight the enemy. In the past four years, 30 countries have been involved in the war, 1.5 billion people have been affected, and 65 million people have participated in the war. , 20 million people were injured, 10 million people lost their lives, countless families were torn apart because of the war, countless tragedies are being performed on the land that raised us, as a member of the Allied Powers, as the Minister of Defense and War of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, as the British Expedition Commander-in-Chief of the Army, I have an obligation to lead my soldiers to victory - but at the same time as an ordinary person, as a father of four children, I hope that when my children grow up, there will never be another war - May there be peace in the world!" Roque ended in a sensational way, and the applause resounded through the Elysee Palace again and lasted for a long time.
"Roque, you have the potential to be president, work hard!" Poengale admires Roque very much. There will be a ceremony later. Poengale will confer the position of Marshal to Roque on behalf of the French government, which is rare. honor.
"Don't listen to someone's nonsense, Locke, be your Minister of Defense and Minister of War. Maybe one day in the future, you can become the Prime Minister of the British Empire. This is what an Englishman should pursue!" Winston defended tightly, Roque is replacing Kitchener and becoming Britain's new generation of "military god". This honor is more prestigious than the French president.
"Lord Nyasaland, congratulations to you. Your achievements are unprecedented and may be unprecedented. If possible, I invite you to visit the United States. You can have a good chat with our General Pershing." Woodrow Wilson invited Rock in person.
Rock smiled and said nothing. He could visit the United States, but first the Chinese Exclusion Act was cancelled. Although Rock was British, he was also of Chinese descent.
If it were the old Rock, there would be certain things he would hold back in his heart.
Now Rock doesn't have to worry. In front of Woodrow Wilson, Rock said rudely: "The United States seems to have the Chinese Exclusion Act, so I'm afraid I won't be able to go. There are too many Chinese in my entourage—— "
Woodrow Wilson was immediately embarrassed when he said this.
Winston and Paengale both frowned a little at almost the same time, but soon returned to normal. Looking at Winston's expression, he actually felt a little relieved.
Before Rock had time to think about it, a short man suddenly squeezed in front of Rock, held Rock's hand and screamed.
"This is Mr. Nobuno Makino-" Winston took the initiative to introduce Rock.
"Ahaha, your Japanese is pretty good, you speak just like English." Rock laughed, but he really didn't understand.
Makino showed a weird expression, Winston's eyes widened and he looked funny, Pengali was dumbfounded, Woodrow Wilson looked at the sky speechlessly - at last there was someone more embarrassed than me.
"Lord Nyasaland, what I speak is English -" Makino said with a blushing face.
This is really not Rock's fault. The English pronunciation of the Japanese is really not much better than that of the Indians.