Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

In 1933, the British defense budget was only a pitiful 20 million pounds.

In other countries, £20 million would not be that much.

Too little for the UK.

Referring to previous years' defense budgets, 20 million pounds is not even enough for the Royal Navy to build. After all, the cost of building a "King George V" class battleship is as high as 16 million pounds to 18 million pounds.

The "King George V" class is a first-class battleship that Britain plans to build in response to the out-of-control arms race. A total of five ships of this class will be built. As long as Germany breaks through the Treaty of Versailles and starts building battleships, Britain will start this plan.

Britain is currently reducing its military spending in order to prepare for the construction of the "King George V" class battleship.

In fact, as early as 1924, Lord Thomson, then the British Air Force Secretary, proposed an air force plan, which was expected to bring the number of combat aircraft of the British Air Force to 1,200 by 1930, reaching the level of southern Africa in 1924.

This plan met with widespread opposition from both the British government and the public. At that time, no one in Britain except Lord Thomson believed that the British sky needed 1,200 aircraft to protect it.

The attitude of the Royal Navy was particularly fierce.

After all, if the Air Force receives too much funding, the Royal Navy's funding will be affected.

Lord Londonderry's plan is to increase the number of British combat aircraft from the current 850 to 890 within the next two years.

This requirement is not high. After all, a considerable part of the existing combat aircraft in the UK have been in service for as long as ten years, and there is no guarantee whether they can fly. Even with normal upgrading, adding 40 aircraft in two years is not excessive.

Therefore, as soon as the budget of 150,000 pounds came out, the British Parliament was wildly criticized by British public opinion.

The British media are very vicious.

Even more so than the French media.

In the eyes of the British media, the British Parliament is a grease rat that steals oil from the lamp, and is the culprit responsible for the decline of the glory of the British Empire.

The Air Force are old and rotten babies that have just been born. They are so pitiful that they can only fly hot air balloons to protect the British sky.

The Royal Navy is the rat catcher of the Prime Minister's Office. He eats big fish and meat every day, but is he still in the mood to catch rats?

I'm afraid I've even lost the ability to catch mice.

The Southern African media is not idle either.

Different from the British media's venomous remarks, the Southern African media focused on the comparison between the British Air Force and the Southern African Air Force.

The British Air Force currently only has a measly 850 combat aircraft.

The navy of Southern Africa alone has more than 1,000 combat aircraft.

If you include the helicopters of the Air Force and Army Aviation, the number of combat aircraft in Southern Africa exceeds 2,500.

Not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality, the Southern African Air Force far exceeds the British Air Force.

As mentioned above, a considerable part of the British Air Force's combat aircraft have been in service for more than ten years.

With the rapid development of aviation technology, aircraft are also being updated very quickly. Even if they are not as backward as the battleships were not built during the arms race, the technology of ten years ago has almost been eliminated by now.

The longest-serving aircraft in the Southern African Air Force are actually ten years old.

For example, long-range bombers used for strategic bombing.

Bombers and fighters are different.

Generally, bombers will be dispatched only after air superiority has been obtained.

Therefore, the service life of a bomber is not important, as long as it is still able to fly if it is properly maintained.

Except for bombers, all combat aircraft in southern Africa have been in service for less than ten years. The proportion of new combat aircraft that have been finalized in the past two years is about 10%.

With such a comparison, the readers' sense of happiness and security is simply overwhelming.

Although the Southern African Army has never boasted that it is "No. 1 in the world" or "No. 1 in Africa", it has long been recognized as the uncrowned king.

The Southern African Navy has been building warships like dumplings in recent years. In the early years, some people criticized Southern Africa for its lack of battleships and insufficient deterrence.

In recent years, fewer and fewer people have talked about battleships. The many exercises that the Southern African Navy has participated in have proven that aircraft carriers are the future. Therefore, the Royal Navy, which has many battleships, has become a bastard in the eyes of the Southern African media.

dog.

In addition, Southern Africa is located in Africa and is the most powerful country in the region, lacking natural enemies——

Therefore, southern Africans, especially those who have just immigrated from Europe to southern Africa in recent years, really couldn't be more satisfied with southern Africa.

It feels so good to be able to sleep peacefully at night!

Vargas has been sleeping well these days.

Roque's admission of Brazil into the Southern African Union was conditional.

The Southern African Union accepts Brazil, and Brazil must also accept Africans in southern Africa.

Yes, Rock finally made up his mind to solve this problem.

Southern Africa has never recognized the presence of Africans in its territory. In fact, Africans have always existed.

When the total area of ​​Southern Africa was only over two million square kilometers, the population of Southern Africa was less than two million, and there was less than one person per square kilometer. It was severely underdeveloped and was full of barren mountains and mountains.

Although the colonial governments of Southern Africa at that time did not admit that there were Africans in the territory, they knew with their feet that there must be Africans in Southern Africa, and there were quite a lot of them.

At this time, the situation is still controllable. Southern Africa is rich in resources and Africans can live without industrial products.

However, the new immigrants who have just immigrated to southern Africa are busy opening up wasteland and farming, and have no chance to come into contact with Africans, so this problem has been covered up.

Later, Southern Africa successively annexed the Kingdom of Mozambique, Southwest Africa, Tanganyika, Madagascar, Portuguese West Africa, and the number of Africans in Southern Africa increased.

With the increase in the population of Southern Africa, the population of Southern Africa has exceeded 100 million, and the area of ​​activity is getting larger and larger. Now there is no real wilderness in Southern Africa. In addition to various private farms and state farms, there are

If nature reserves are not developed, Africans will no longer have the ability to survive.

But this problem always needs to be solved.

There are now about 1.5 million Africans in southern Africa.

Roque's attitude is very simple. In order to "send" these Africans out of the country as gifts, the federal government of Southern Africa can even pay a sum of money as a resettlement fee. Every African who "voluntarily" leaves southern Africa can receive one hundred rands.

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Don't be too little.

One hundred for one person, one and a half million people is R150 million.

Consider that the initial start-up capital for the British air force program was only £150,000.

This shows how courageous Southern Africa is.

Vargas is actually more greedy than Roque thought.

Roque doesn't care about R150 million.

Someone cares.

For the Brazilian government, 150 million rand is not a small number. How much redwood must be chopped down and how much iron ore must be mined to make money?

In Vargas's view, the Southern African federal government's behavior is simply a waste of money. If it were replaced by the Brazilian government -

The Brazilian government will happily keep people here.

After all, Africans are also human resources.

This book has emphasized the significance of population to a country from the beginning. Only countries like India in the world have the right not to take human resources seriously.

"It would be great if we could get this money -" Fernando Gomez, Vargas's old friend and Brazilian Foreign Minister, felt heartbroken when he thought of the 150 million.

Although Brazil is rich in resources, the Brazilian government's finances are very tight. After all, in order to gain support from southern Africa to win the civil war, the Brazilian government mortgaged port operating rights, mineral resource exploration rights, and tariffs to Rand Bank and Rhodes.

Bank of West Asia.

It can be said that the current income of the Brazilian government depends on the mood of Rand Bank and Rhodesian Bank.

However, in recent years, the capital investment in assets in Brazil has definitely exceeded its output. The Rand Bank and the Bank of Rhodesia have been losing money. Naturally, there is no extra money for the Brazilian government, so the Brazilian government is in a very difficult situation.

difficult.

"Fernando, don't even think about it. Don't be interested in this money." Vargas knows the Southern African Union Government better than Fernando Gomez.

The federal government of Southern Africa is indeed very generous.

But at the same time, we also pay attention to the rules.

If you say one person has one hundred rand, then it must be one hundred rand for one person, even a newborn.

Vargas also understood what Fernando Gomez meant.

Well, for a large project worth 150 million yuan, according to Brazil's situation, the additional expenditure will be about 50% more.

In other words, if this money is distributed by the Brazilian government, in the end, those Africans who leave southern Africa will receive fifty rand each, which means that the Brazilian government is very conscientious.

After all, the current per capita annual income in Brazil is only fifty.

"It is absolutely a waste to give this money to those Africans. It should be used for more valuable things." Fernando Gomez has good reasons.

"If you increase your understanding of the Federal Government of Southern Africa and our Lord, you will know that this is the most valuable thing for Southern Africa now." The expression on Vargas's face was

Bitter, when will Brazil have the federal government of Southern Africa so rich?

As for Vargas himself—

If Brazil were as rich as southern Africa, how could Vargas, as the president of Brazil, remain impoverished?

If you look at the wealth owned by the Locke family, you will know that it can really be described as "as rich as the country."

However, Vargas also obviously ignored an issue.

It was not Southern Africa that made Roque rich. On the contrary, it was precisely because of Roque's help that the federal government of Southern Africa was as calm as it is today.

Yes, the biggest disadvantage between Brazil and Southern Africa is that Southern Africa can calmly deal with whatever it encounters. Whether it is an economic crisis or an overseas war, Southern Africa has the ability to become the final winner.

"I don't know what people in southern Africa are thinking, why should they give away precious human resources?" Fernando Gomez couldn't think of many things.

For Brazil, which has a population of only 35 million, the more Africans the better.