It may sound a bit magical that lottery can become an important source of income for a country, but it is a fact.
In the national conditions of southern Africa, taxation is the main revenue of the federal government. However, big businessmen represented by Roque and Stoudemire have countless ways to avoid taxes, and the middle class is not large enough. Therefore, the financial situation of the federal government has changed since its establishment.
I've been struggling since day one.
Although London has been providing financial subsidies to Southern Africa over the years, even if Southern Africa's autonomy has not stopped, Southern Africa's huge expenditure determines that it still has to raise part of its own funds, and borrowing has become a life-saving straw for the federal government, not just banks.
, London will also provide low-interest or even interest-free loans to southern Africa, otherwise the federal government would not be able to maintain it until now.
Another important reason why Ade called Roque is next year's fiscal budget.
According to the regulations in Southern Africa, the federal government's financial budget must be submitted to Congress for a vote and can only be implemented after being approved by Congress.
It is already December. At the end of October, the federal government submitted the next year's budget to Congress, but Congress has not passed it, so Ade is also anxious to get angry.
The Speaker of Parliament, Philippe, is Roque's father-in-law, and Ade wants to exert some influence on Philip through Roque.
Roque could not refuse Ade's request. As the general election approached, the relationship between Ade and Phillip gradually became tense. Roque is now the only link between Ade and Phillip.
On the weekend, Rock and Phyllis went to Phillip's house for dinner and picked up the children. They were also national leaders. Adelaide was too busy all day long to get away. Phillip could get off work early every day and enjoy family happiness.
Roque really couldn't understand what it felt like to have to work until early in the morning every day instead of doing his job easily.
But it is estimated that even if Philip becomes Prime Minister, Philip will probably not work until the early morning. This does not mean that Philip is irresponsible, but the way of working is different. Adelaide is a bit of a paranoid workaholic, while Philip is more open-minded and will not worry about everything.
pursuing perfection.
Philip still lives in a suburban manor because he prefers the fresh air in the suburbs.
This is a habit I developed while working in London. Compared with London, which has serious air pollution and is known as the "Smog City", the air in Pretoria's urban area is not bad. After all, there is almost no winter in Pretoria.
Coal is needed for heating, and naturally it does not produce too much smoke.
When Rock arrived, Philip was sitting on the lawn in front of the house and reading a newspaper. Rock glanced at it and saw it was the Southern African version of The Times.
I guess the editor-in-chief was a little distracted yesterday. There were only two huge words on the front page - World War.
Don't get me wrong, the world war has not yet broken out. The editor of The Times is trying to attract people's attention in this eye-catching way.
This period is indeed a bit chaotic.
It feels like everything is out of whack.
"The financial budget submitted by the federal government is not rigorous enough, especially your Ministry of National Defense. There are no enemies around southern Africa. Why do you need so much financial budget?" Philip said bluntly that it is the power of Congress to supervise the government.
Roque didn't say anything and casually clicked on the newspaper in Philip's hand.
"Grandstanding—" Philip's judgment of the situation was not clear enough. He estimated that southern Africa was too far away from Europe, reaching the ends of the earth.
"It's really not grandstanding. If the Balkan war cannot be properly resolved, it will definitely cause serious problems. Now the conflict is very acute. If there is another accident, it will be like throwing a match into a pot of boiling oil. Everyone knows
What will be the consequences?" Rock really didn't want to go into a long discussion, but many people are so naive.
With the outbreak of the Balkan War, many people have smelled an increasingly strong smell of gunpowder smoke, but there are still some people who are blindly optimistic, or actively bury their heads in the sand to pretend to be ostriches, and just refuse to face reality.
Many people, including London, believe that it is impossible for a world war to break out. The reason is the relationship between George V, William II, and Nicholas II. They are all relatives. If anything happens, we can just sit down and discuss it.
There is no need to escalate to the level of war.
Even if a war breaks out, it will not be too intense and will at most be a symbolic local conflict.
"The Balkan War has just ended. The participating countries need time to recuperate and a war will not break out for at least two years." Philip also has reasons and is not blindly optimistic.
However, the situation was obviously more severe than Philip estimated. The London Conference was a failed negotiation. Not only did it not solve the problems of the Balkan Alliance and the Ottoman Empire, but it also further intensified the conflicts because Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, all of whom had ulterior motives, resulted in the Treaty of London just being concluded.
Not long after it was signed, the Balkan Alliance split internally and broke out into war, which further intensified the conflict. In the Bucharest Peace Treaty signed during the Second Balkan War, Bulgaria, which took the initiative to provoke the war, almost lost what it had gained in the First Balkan War.
All the land, Serbia, Romania, Greece, which won the Second Balkan War, sided with the Allies, while Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, whose interests were seriously damaged, joined the Allies.
Maybe Nicholas II didn't want to fight with George V and William II because they were all relatives, but the countries in the Balkans didn't care about that. After each chose their side, each country felt that its strength had recovered and it was strong.
If they receive strong assistance, they will definitely launch the Third Balkan War impatiently. At this time, even if Britain, Germany and Russia do not want to fight, they will be forced into the war.
"If the war lasted longer, it would indeed need time to recuperate, but the war lasted only two months before the Ottoman Empire surrendered. For the Balkan Alliance, victory came too easily. None of the countries suffered much losses, and it did not require much effort at all.
It takes a long time to regain strength." Roque is definitely more professional than Philip in this regard.
The key is that Rock has a plug-in, and his understanding of the general direction of history is Rock's biggest plug-in.
"So what, even if a world war breaks out, we will not be threatened." Philip does not have as big an ideal as Roque. Roque wants to profit from the world war, while Philip just wants to be alone.
For Southern Africa, if we do not consider supporting the British mainland, then there is indeed no need to maintain a strong military strength. With the strength of the German troops in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, we can win a battle by temporarily recruiting some farmers.
This is another unsolvable knot. There are few people in southern Africa, and even fewer people in southwestern Africa and Tanganyika.
In order to attract immigrants, Southern Africa will actively reimburse immigrants for their immigration expenses and will also help build farms after they settle.
The Germans are not so wealthy. Not to mention helping to build farms, they cannot even reimburse immigration expenses. Therefore, the population of southern Africa has been growing rapidly due to the increase in Chinese in recent years, while the white people in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika combined are not
to one hundred thousand.
With this little manpower, there is no need to dispatch the mercenaries of the Umbrella Company. Mumu and Lu Taitai can directly bulldoze it with their people.
Lu Taitai is not strong enough because the Kingdom of Congo has just been established, but Mumu is different. After the official reconciliation between Glory Castle and Tanganyika, Mumu has not stopped training the army. Now Mumu has nearly 50,000 well-trained soldiers.
The strength of the army is not inferior to that of the Tanganyikad army.
"It's true, but I still want more." Rock was suddenly in a bad mood. If it were Ade, he wouldn't be so stubborn. At least he would take the initiative to ask Rock what he thought, while Phillip was more arbitrary.
This has something to do with their relationship. Strictly speaking, Ade and Rock are colleagues, but Philip is Rock's father-in-law. In front of Henry Irving and Phyllis, Philip has always been strong, so neither Henry nor Irving like Philip very much.
He didn’t come to Philip’s house as often as Roqueto.
"How much more do you want? Take the whole of Africa?" Philip would also ask, but Rock couldn't accept this tone.
"If you don't want to encounter financial problems when you become prime minister in the future, then we have to work hard during this period -" Roque wanted to turn around.
There are actually many countries that think this way. Except for the United Kingdom, which wants to maintain its status through a world war, other countries basically want to turn over, but not many can do it.
In another time and space, the only countries that had successfully turned around after the World War were the United States and Japan. Before the World War, the United States and Japan were both indebted countries, and their creditors were the United Kingdom.
As a result, after the World War, the United States and Japan not only paid off the money they owed Britain, but also became Britain's creditors, successfully achieving a class jump.
Now Rock also wants to copy the success of the United States and Japan, and Rock not only wants to make money, but also wants to gain more territory and have a greater say in the League of Nations established after the World War. This is worthy of Rock
Fight for it.
"Can you make a lot of money?" Philip is quite interested in making money. After all, no matter who is on stage, he must be concerned about financial issues.
"Of course, Henry and I started stocking up a few years ago, just to sell during the World War." Rock asked Henry to increase his persuasion. Henry was actually forced by Rock to increase production in the past few years, otherwise he would
Henry's character has long been a salty one.
"Who to sell to?" Philip's eyes suddenly became sharp. Even though Roque's operation was very secretive, there were still some rumors coming out.
Mainly because of Rock's deal with the Germans, in order to get Southwest Africa to agree to Rock's construction of the railway from Bechuanaland to Walvis Bay, Rock sold some important materials, including steel, to the Germans through the Americans.
, this kind of behavior is definitely unacceptable to Philip.
Although Philip was not that loyal to the British Empire, he still could not make mistakes on such a big issue of right and wrong.