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After flipping through the telegrams a few times, Pamela Mountbatten pulled out a few of them, picked up the phone and waited for a while, "Marina, Zakharova, come here, it's Ellen who has a document about island animals. For the article on evolution, you help me run a trip and submit it to the journal Nature."

"Really he wrote it?" Seeing Pamela Mountbatten's rolling eyes, Princess Margaret changed her words, "I mean, his hobbies are really wide. But those two women of unknown origin seem to be a little fierce. what."

"It's a little hard to mess with, but it's not of unknown origin." Pamela Mountbatten replied disapprovingly, "The two of them are from Northern Rhodesia, and they came here specifically to protect me."

Isn't it surveillance? Princess Margaret wanted to say that, but as soon as Pamela Mountbatten finished speaking, she turned her attention to Princess Margaret again, as if she was waiting for something.

So, the whole room was as quiet as chickens, until two tall women with frosty faces came to the door, and Marina said directly after entering, "Miss Pamela, where are the documents?"

"That's all! It's okay to go by yourself, Zakharova and I will go to the medical company." Pamela Mountbatten dressed as she spoke, and then looked at Princess Margaret as if she remembered something, "Margot Rita, are you going?"

"It's okay anyway!" Princess Margaret was a little embarrassed, expressing her desire to follow.

"This is today's schedule!" Pamela Mountbatten had finished dressing and gave Zakharova a form, "The list of privatizations and acquisitions of the arsenal is the main agenda in China recently, and the shipbuilding industry is currently booming. During this period, it was not easy to acquire mergers and acquisitions, so let’s put one side first, and the information of the acquired military enterprises must be reviewed, which is also our most concerned thing, and we also include Mr. Mikhailovich.”

"Miss Pamela, I understand." Zakharova looked at the schedule again, "About Libya's itinerary?"

"The exploration team has already gone. I don't have to go there in person. The most recent place worth visiting in person is New Delhi. The medical company has been integrated and a series of preparations should have been made. By the way, Those of you who went to Northern Rhodesia shouldn't be at odds with the Germans, right?"

Seeing Zakharova smiling, Pamela Mountbatten also smiled back, "It seems that I am right. But thanks for the Comet airliner order from Northern Rhodesia, I know that without your strong support, the light It was the Commissioner of Northern Rhodesia who could not have done it."

Of course, Pamela Mountbatten's most pressing matter now is that Charles Brooke can get back his previous Sarawak rule from the Colonial Department. She hopes to get this done before going to New Delhi. Night long dreams.

At this moment, after Alan Wilson had finished writing the necessary report on Whitehall, he boarded the plane, accompanied by Grace, to the capital of Northern Rhodesia, which was a temporary itinerary.

I did not expect to go to Northern Rhodesia on this trip to Cairo, but Grace came to Cairo to invite him. Alan Wilson thought that he had indeed promised to come to Northern Rhodesia, so he was invited as a guest. .

The appearance of Heidi Lamar surprised Grace very much, but Alan Wilson did not meet Grace and mentioned that he hoped to find a few assistants for Vivien Leigh.

"Uh, do you want a reliable person?" Grace pondered for a while, and continued with his eyes on Heidi Lamar for a long time, "Mr. Allen, I think a few may not be enough, how many assistants do you need? ?"

"French Woodpecker Pictures and the United States only need Vivian, and that's all for now." Alan Wilson was not embarrassed at all, he just wanted a few assistants and bodyguards. It is a colony of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

"But I heard that there is some misunderstanding between you and South Rhodesia?" Alan Wilson was reluctant to talk about this issue, and instead asked about the recent accusations between North and South Rhodesia, and asked what was going on.

The origins of Rhodesia are Victorian, Cecil John Rhodes, the son of an ailing priest from Hertfordshire, was full of ideas of British world leadership and bank accounts full of The huge profits brought by the South African gold rush.

Using diplomacy and bribery, threats and intrigue, Rhodes created a company to acquire concessions in the African heartland, far north of the British Cape of Good Hope. The area was then called Zambezia.

Rhodesia was named after him, and the British government never directly controlled the area, instead allowing Rhodes' companies to retain a high degree of autonomy, backed by British troops from outside the area. White settlers, mainly from Britain and South Africa, first exploited agricultural and mining concessions for profit, and later took complete political control of this vast, fertile and mineral-rich land.

As for Northern Rhodesia, a huge copper mine was later discovered, but the local population was not large. Alan Wilson wondered if it was because of the conflict over the ownership of the copper mine.

Grace shook his head and explained directly, "It was the southerners who smuggled medicines into Northern Rhodesia, and we found out."

"What's this?" Alan Wilson frowned, which was a big deal.

"This will ensure the lives of the indigenous people. After we arrived in Northern Rhodesia, we were naturally interested in Southern Rhodesia, which was developed earlier. We hope to sort out this southern neighbor from history and see if there is any experience to learn from. ." Grace paused when he said this, "Naturally we began to study the Rhodesian Land Distribution Act."

Alan Wilson nodded. He knew the law. This law divided the land of Rhodesia equally between the tribesmen and the colonists, 40% of which belonged to the tribe, 40% were private farms for the colonists, and 100% were owned by the colonists. Five percent can be purchased and operated by the tribesmen, while the remaining 15 percent can be used as a nature reserve.

The act stipulates that colonists are not allowed to enter the tribal common land, not to interfere in the internal affairs of the tribe, and the tribe must respect the colonists' private ownership of the land. Tribes can come to the colonists' private farms to work, go to school, trade with the colonists, and obtain the materials needed by the tribe. Some tribesmen also stayed on the colonizers' land, settled down and integrated into the capitalist production system.

"We found out that the Southern Rhodesian Land Allotment Act has tripled the indigenous population since it was introduced. It's only 20 years since the Act of 1930," Grace explained. , "In addition to reproductive power, there is also modern medical care, which has saved many indigenous lives and allowed them to escape the laws of nature, so from two years ago, my father and the leader of Ustasha decided, Everyone is obliged to ban foreign medicines from entering Northern Rhodesia."

That's called professionalism! Alan Wilson's eyes widened a little, and he had to express his admiration. As expected of someone from the Balkans, needless to say, it must have been the scarcity of medicines that created the demand, which led to the discovery of business opportunities in Southern Rhodesia, which led to mutual accusations and conflict. confrontation.

"What are you talking about?" Heidi Rama woke up faintly and yawned. She had lived a full life recently, and her whole person had a lazy state. Compared with the radiance of men, she always Doze off.

"It's nothing, Grace said that there is a chance to take us to Victoria Falls." Alan Wilson's face was gentle, and he did not tell Heidi Lamar the local conflict, and the other party was not suitable for listening to this.

For example, these Slavs believe that, as in Southern Rhodesia, the formulation of a seemingly fair land distribution law will sooner or later be overturned by the increase of the indigenous population, but these Slavs are not many.

Alan Wilson can think of this, maybe Mikhailovich and the others will think of a solution from Europe. There may be people sent to incite anti-Tito groups who don't like the current government to cross the border, but such efforts are better than nothing. After all, as a socialist country, management is still very strict.

Even if Mikhailovich targeted the entire Eastern European countries and infiltrated the organization and smuggled it everywhere, it might not be able to quickly enrich the white people of Northern Rhodesia.

Finally, the plane landed from Lusaka, the most important city in Northern Rhodesia. Lusaka is also the industrial and commercial center of Zambia and an important distribution center for agricultural products. It is surrounded by major production areas and large pastures of crops such as corn, cotton and tobacco in the country.

The colonial government of Northern Rhodesia was also here. Alan Wilson found that Lusaka was still in good shape when he got out of the airport. UU read www.uukanshu. com looked at the appearance and thought it was a European honesty, of course, the scale is not to be expected.

Just the language spoken here, it's hard to imagine that this is a British colony.

"We are also learning English, which has been included in the textbooks for minors to learn. As for adults, it is more difficult to learn now." Grace pointed to a sign that gathered many languages, "The two following English The languages ​​are Croatian and Serbian. In fact, I wanted to add Russian at the beginning, but I thought it was unnecessary. But the final decision is still under discussion. We already know that many Germanic people have been removed from Eastern Europe. Deportation, these people should know Russian."

"You still miss the Germanic people in Eastern Europe?" Alan Wilson laughed in surprise, "Anyway, it's not a black native, so anyone can accept it, right?"

"In principle, Commissioner Allen, you know us well!" Grace said very frankly, "We have to help each other, as you said."

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