The rifles brought back by the armored vehicles were exactly the ones sold to Lisa Khan by the Umbrella Company before the outbreak of the world war. These exported weapons have special numbers on them. A layman may not know what they mean, but an insider will know them at a glance.
Source of firearms.
After discovering this, Li De was furious. In fact, Port Elizabeth and Lisa Khan have always had a good relationship. Otherwise, Port Elizabeth would not have sold weapons to Lisa Khan. Now the Persians actually use weapons produced in southern Africa.
It is really ungrateful to use weapons to attack new immigrants.
"Lord, we can cut off our support for Lisa Khan and find a new interest spokesperson from the Persian Empire -" Li De was ruthless. Lisa Khan's first year in junior high school and Elizabeth Port's fifteenth year wanted to deal with Lisa Khan.
A warlord like Khan should not be too simple.
"Wait a minute, send a telegram to Lisa Khan and see how he explains this matter." Rock was not in a hurry. Li De didn't know enough. In the face of interests, ungrateful wolves abound. Lisa Khan
This is nothing.
What's more, this is not necessarily Lisa Khan's instruction, because it will not do Lisa Khan any good. It is not now to find fault. It is better to find fault during the world war. Now the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company have returned to Elizabeth.
Hong Kong, unless Lisa Khan is crazy, he dares to send people to harass the Mesopotamia at this time.
Of course, no matter what the situation is, Rock will not take it lightly.
If Lisa Khan knows about this, then Rock will have to adjust his relationship with Lisa Khan.
If you don't know, it means that Lisa Khan's control over his troops is weakening.
Now that Luo Ke had made his decision, Li De stopped talking nonsense and turned to appease Ma Zhuang.
Although this approach is the most beneficial to Port Elizabeth, it is not a good thing for the new immigrants in Nanshan Town. Their threat has not been truly resolved. The horse bandits have hit a wall this time. If they come back next time, they may
After all, if you succeed, you can only commit a thief for a thousand days, and there is no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days.
Rock's estimate was correct. Lisa Khan did not know about this matter. After sending a telegram to Lisa Khan, Lisa Khan rushed to Port Elizabeth the next day and explained to Rock face to face.
"Lord, I swear on the honor of my family that those bandits are indeed not my troops. I have ordered people to investigate this matter and ordered the troops to strengthen patrols on the border to prevent this from happening again." Lisa Khan vowed.
The situation in the Persian Empire is very complicated. Lisa Khan now urgently needs the support of the British government and is more dependent on Port Elizabeth than before the outbreak of the World War.
But what surprised Rock was that just when Lisa Khan needed the support of the British Empire the most, Lisa Khan took frequent actions in private and was not friendly to the British Empire.
Before the outbreak of the World War, the Persian Empire was basically divided between the British and the Russian Empire. The northern part of the Persian Empire was the Russian Empire's sphere of influence, and the southern part was the British sphere of influence.
During the World War, the attention of Britain and the Russian Empire was firmly attracted by the Allies in Europe, and they had no time to look eastward. This gave Lisa Khan an opportunity. Over the past four years, Lisa Khan gradually replaced the internal ranks of the army with Cossack officers.
British officers, and took the opportunity to expand his troops to about 40,000 people, making preparations to overthrow the Qajar dynasty.
At this time, Lisa Khan was more dependent on Port Elizabeth than ever before, because Lisa Khan also needed Port Elizabeth to provide enough weapons to arm his troops.
After explaining, Lisa Khan began to make requests.
During the World War, the arsenals in southern Africa had to go all out to meet the needs of Europe and were unable to provide Lisa Khan with more weapons. The more important problem was that Lisa Khan had no money to buy them. Now the most basic rifles can no longer meet the needs.
Lisa Khan's needs, Lisa Khan wanted aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery. The sale of these weapons was beyond Li De's rights.
Aircraft and tanks are indeed advanced, but advanced technology also means more expensive prices, more complex operations, and higher requirements for logistics and maintenance. Rock does not believe that the current Persian Empire has the ability to use these weapons.
"These weapons have high requirements for soldiers and require a long period of training. Even after the training, instructors need to be dispatched to ensure that these weapons can truly function. Are you sure you can accept these conditions?" Roque asked.
You're welcome, Lisa Khan. No matter how great Lisa Khan's achievements will be in the future, the current Lisa Khan is not worthy of Rock's attention.
Li De was right. If Rock really didn't like Lisa Khan, it wouldn't be difficult to find another interest spokesperson in Persia.
Rock's conditions made Lisa Khan look embarrassed. During the World War, Lisa Khan finally cleared out the British officers in the army. If he invites these instructors back now, all his previous efforts will be in vain.
"It's not the most powerful weapon that's the most useful, the most suitable one is the best -" Rock reminded Lisa Khan not to aim too high. Millet plus rifles are just fine. Why must we pursue aircraft and cannons?
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From the perspective of Port Elizabeth, no matter how far the relationship between the Persian Empire and Port Elizabeth will go in the future, Rock does not want a powerful country to appear next to Port Elizabeth. This is not in the interest of Port Elizabeth.
To put it bluntly, Port Elizabeth has taken Khuzestan by force through coercion and inducement. Lisa Khan is now afraid to turn her back due to the situation. This does not mean that she will not dare in the future, or it does not mean that Lisa Khan will not.
His successor would not dare.
For the long-term interests of Port Elizabeth, controlling Lisa Khan's strength within a certain level will be more conducive to the stability of the area around Port Elizabeth.
"Then we need more assistance, and at the same time we need a loan from the Rand Bank -" Lisa Khan settled for the next best thing. Since we won't provide planes and tanks, we can always provide some rifles, machine guns and the like.
When typing on the blackboard, please note that it means "give", not "sell".
"Lisa, the last loan you owed us hasn't been repaid yet—" Li De finally couldn't help it. It seemed like this wasn't the first time this happened.
"I will pay it back, but not now. I need greater rights, so I need more weapons to arm my troops." Lisa Khan said plausibly, and there was nothing wrong with what she said.
"Then let's talk about how to pay." Li De likes Lisa Khan. It doesn't matter if she doesn't have money to pay off her debts. She can pay in other ways.
Compared with Lisa Khan, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy owed more money to southern Africa. After the world war, Winston discussed the debt issue with Roque, but Roque did not force Winston to repay the debt. He had no money to repay.
It's easy to say that it's okay to transfer part of the benefits and treat it as payment of interest.
France is even easier to say. Ada is also in France now and is discussing with the French government how to repay the debt. Clemenceau wanted to use Madagascar to repay the debt, but Ada refused.
Roark did not participate in the negotiations between Li De and Lisa Khan. Winston sent a telegram, hoping that Roark would send troops to fight against the Somali rebels.
The rebellion in Somalia has a long history. Around the end of the last century, rebellion broke out in the Somali region under the control of the Kingdom of Italy. At that time, during the Second Boer War, the British government focused all its attention on southern Africa and had no spare time to take care of Somalia.
After the Second Boer War ended, the British government settled its accounts and found that the cost of the colonial war was too high, so the Somali rebels were shelved again.
During the World War, the Somali rebellion finally spread to the entire Somalia, and the Somali areas under British control were also affected by the rebels. At this time, the British government's attention was on the Western Front, and it was unable to extinguish the Somali rebels.
Now that the world war is over, the British government can finally take a breath. However, Britain's strength was seriously damaged during the world war, and it is also unable to send troops to Somalia to counter the rebellion.
Seeing that the rebellion in Somalia was about to spread to the nearby British colonies, Winston only then remembered that Roque was in Port Elizabeth.
When he heard the name Somalia, Rock felt his head was a little big. The Horn of Africa, which was once famous for its spices, now looks like a pirate country, and Somalia's location is very critical. If Somalia's
If the problem cannot be solved in time, ships traveling between southern Africa and Port Elizabeth will be under constant threat.
Just for this reason, Rock couldn't ignore it.
However, it is not easy to quell the rebellion in Somalia. Today, Somalia is jointly controlled by the Kingdom of Italy and the United Kingdom, and is divided into Italian Somalia and British Somalia. It is useless to take action only from the British side. It must act together with the Kingdom of Italy in order to
The Somali rebels were completely wiped out.
Thinking of the performance of the Kingdom of Italy's troops in the World War, Rock could only sigh. Don't think that the Kingdom of Italy can be invincible in Somalia if it cannot defeat the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1894, the Kingdom of Italy sent an expeditionary force to invade Ethiopia next to Somalia.
, as a result, the Italian army lost consecutive battles and was almost annihilated, which made the Kingdom of Italy the laughingstock of the entire Europe.
That war was called the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The 17,000 Italian expeditionary force that went out at that time suffered about 11,000 casualties, and 4,000 people were captured.
Meanwhile, Ethiopian troops suffered between 4,000 and 5,000 dead and approximately 6,000 to 10,000 wounded.
This should be the first time that a European country was beaten so badly by an African country. After the war, Ethiopia became the only independent country in Africa. The Kingdom of Italy did not give up, but it was never able to conquer Ethiopia.
Although the Kingdom of Italy has all kinds of troubled history, Roque took the initiative to contact the Italians and seek their opinions.