Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

While Southern Africa is adjusting educational resources, another European country is on the verge of civil war.

In 1931, a revolution broke out in Spain, the royal family was overthrown, Alfonso XIII went into exile, and Niceto Alcalá Zamora established the Second Spanish Republic.

The Second Spanish Republic was still chaotic. At least 28 governments were established. The left-wing alliance and the right-wing alliance took turns in power. The left-wing alliance was dominated by the Popular Front, while the right-wing alliance was dominated by the Spanish Falange Party and the Popular Front centered on Francisco Franco.

With the support of Russia and Mexico, behind the Falange were Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, and Portugal.

 After the founding of the Second Republic, the left-wing alliance was the first to come to power.

After coming to power, the Left Alliance implemented a series of democratic and land reforms, responded to the League of Nations' call for disarmament, closed military schools, distributed the land of the Spanish royal family to the poor, and restricted the spread of religion. The constitution stipulated the separation of church and state, implemented an eight-hour working day, etc.

Most of these policies have not been effectively implemented. Although the left-wing alliance is in power, the right-wing alliance is very powerful in Spain. The royal family's land is divided up by the big nobles and big landowners in Spain, and very little is given to the poor; Catholicism

It has not been effectively restricted. The Jesuits have gone underground, religious figures have spread anti-left alliance ideas among believers, and the economically important Catalonia region has strongly demanded autonomy.

 Amid numerous contradictions, the left-wing alliance government collapsed and the right-wing alliance came to power.

  The right-wing alliance came to power, abolished all policies of the left-wing alliance government, killed and arrested members of the left-wing alliance, confiscated the poor people's land, and restored Catholic status. There was a lot of resentment for a while.

At the beginning of this year, Spain held a general election. Out of a total of 9.25 million votes cast, the Left Alliance narrowly won with 4.75 million votes and regained power, winning 267 seats in Congress.

  The right-wing League won 132 seats and is still the second largest party in Spain.

After the victory of the left-wing alliance, Manuel Azanilla became president and Casalos Giroca became prime minister. The left-wing government once again changed the policies of the right-wing. This caused strong dissatisfaction among many right-wing alliances, and the right-wing alliance was therefore ready to launch a coup.

A coup, an attempt to overthrow a republican government.

Roque has been paying close attention to the situation in Spain.

 The Spanish Civil War in another time and space is considered to be the prelude to World War II, in which most countries in the world were involved.

Now the Spanish Left Alliance also has the support of Russia.

 Behind the right-wing alliance are Germany and Italy.

 At the beginning of October, the Falange and Germany reached an agreement to obtain assistance of at least one thousand machine guns from Germany. This situation aroused Roque's vigilance.

 According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to possess heavy weapons, including machine guns.

Now Germany has clearly broken through this limitation. The domestic arsenal is not only capable of meeting the needs of the German troops, but also has spare capacity for external export. Thousands of weapons are produced at one time. It is obvious that Germany's military industrial capabilities have been restored to a certain extent.

 The UK and France should also be aware of this situation.

 I don’t know what the British and French think.

 Mostly it is still a policy of appeasement.

 After all, the backer behind Spain’s Popular Front is Russia.

 In order to curb Russia's expansion, Britain and France will definitely choose to betray Spain.

 Even if this would further stimulate the ambitions of the Germans and Italians.

Roque No matter how the British and French treat the Spaniards, Southern Africa is thousands of miles away from Spain. Neither the Falange nor the Popular Front have any interest entanglements with southern Africa. The British and French don't care about it, and Roque is even less bothered.

But I didn’t expect that there would be business coming my way.

  The Falange Party obtained a thousand machine guns from Germany, and the Popular Front was naturally not to be outdone.

The bourgeois ruling class of European countries is hostile to the Popular Front. Because Russia is blocked, aid cannot reach Spain at all, so southern Africa has become the best choice for the Spanish Popular Front.

 The person who came to southern Africa on behalf of the republican government was Clavi Calderon, who had dual identities of the Popular Front and the Comintern and had a complicated background.

 Rock did not see Clave Calderon.

The reason is very simple. In order to prevent the outbreak of civil war in Spain, the League of Nations called on all countries to remain neutral and imposed an arms embargo on Spain. As the five permanent members of the League of Nations, Southern Africa naturally had to follow the policies of the League of Nations, so Roque simply did not see Clavius ​​Calderon.

 Of course, Southern Africa remains neutral.

This does not mean that Southern African companies should also remain neutral.

Clavi Calderon came to southern Africa with a big order.

Roque even knew exactly how much money Clavier Calderon could mobilize.

 “Mr. Calderon, welcome to Southern Africa” The person who came out to receive Clave Calderon was Sidney Milner, Minister of Commerce of Southern Africa.

“Thank you, please take me to pay tribute to Lord Harewood.” Clavier Calderon did not forget to greet Ade, which quickly brought him closer to Sidney Milner.

"Please understand that our Lord also has his own reasons." Sidney Milnerock apologized. He came from afar and didn't even get a chance to meet. With such an attitude, how can anyone be willing to pay for it?

Woolen cloth.

 The Spanish Republican Government has a total of R150 million lying in its account at Rand Bank.

cash!

Clavi Calderon smiled and said nothing. He could indeed understand why Roque didn't see him, but he still felt uncomfortable.

The Spanish Republican Government did not fully count on southern Africa. When Clavi Calderón came to Southern Africa, the Spanish Republican Government still maintained contact with the Americans.

Like southern Africa, the United States and southern Africa maintain surprisingly consistent attitudes toward the Spanish Civil War.

The United States is also one of the five permanent members of the League of Nations, so the U.S. government also responded to the League of Nations’ call and imposed an arms embargo on Spain.

However, on this issue, American companies also have the so-called "commercial freedom" and the U.S. government has no right to interfere.

 The countries that enforce the arms embargo the most strictly are the United Kingdom and France.

 This fully proves the attitude of Britain and France on this matter.

  After all, the Spanish Falange Party can obtain assistance from Germany and Italy.

 Appeasement policy in action.

 Sidney Milner's official identity is the Minister of Commerce of Southern Africa. As a minister, it is actually inconvenient for Sidney Milner to have contact with Clavie Calderon.

Although no one in southern Africa knew Clavie Calderon's itinerary, Sidney Milner was very careful to place the meeting place in Hot Springs Valley, not far from Pretoria.

The Hot Spring Valley is now a world-famous tourist destination. Kitchinna and Ade live here all year round. When Rock has nothing to do, he also likes to take a bath in the Hot Spring Valley and visit the two single old men.

 A former governor and a former prime minister, the construction of the Hot Spring Valley is naturally beautiful and perfect, but it is a pity that Clavier Calderon is not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery of the Hot Spring Valley.

"We need airplanes, tanks, cars, fuel, machine guns, bombs, etc., all war-related things, only two countries in the world can provide them, one is your southern Africa, and the other is the United States." Kravi

Calderon couldn't wait. The situation in Spain was indeed very dangerous.

“Don’t worry, Southern Africa firmly supports the Spanish people’s determination to pursue a republic.” Sidney Milner’s expression was sincere. In fact, Spain has always had a good relationship with Southern Africa.

Had it not been for the insistence of southern Africa, the "American Flu" would have turned into the "Spanish Flu". For this reason, Roque received a handwritten letter of thanks from the then King of Spain, Alfonso XIII.

 After the World War, Southern Africa maintained close trade relations with Spain, becoming Spain's third largest trading country after the United Kingdom and France.

So you can imagine how sad the Spaniards must be when Britain and France implement the appeasement policy.

Clavi Calderon’s order is not large, 100,000 tons of gasoline, 1,500 military vehicles, and 50 fighter jets, which can equip an armored regiment of tanks.

 I almost forgot to mention that Russian General Dmitry Grigorievich Pavlov once participated in the Spanish Civil War as an armored brigade commander.

It is a pity that the Spanish Civil War did not bring correct experience to Pavlov. Because of the insufficient performance of tanks at that time, Pavlov believed that tanks could not fight alone without infantry and could only assist infantry in combat. This led to the Soviet Union’s failure in the early days of the Patriotic War.

, the disastrous defeat of the Western Front Army.

Pavlov was therefore sentenced to death for treason.

 In this time and space, Pavlov should not be so miserable.

  After all, the performance of southern African tanks is obvious to all.

There is no need to sell the "Tiger" and "Leopard". The tanks developed by Nyasaland Heavy Industry for the French are again in use. The tanks equipped by the Falangists are obtained from Germany, and their performance in all aspects is not as good as the southern African tanks.

 With such a small demand, we will definitely not be able to use up 150 million yuan.

Sidney Milner is not worried.

In the last world war, Spain remained neutral and did not participate in the war.

 Hence, the Spanish Republican government has no idea of ​​the estimated consumption of the war. As the war progresses, orders will definitely increase.

Spain is hedging its bets. While it is in contact with southern Africa, it is also in contact with the Americans.

Sidney Milner is confident in the performance of southern African weapons. During the subsequent use of the republican government's troops, as long as the performance of southern African weapons is better than that of American weapons, then the republican government will definitely place more orders.

To Southern Africa.

 This makes sense for southern Africa.

 After all, World War II is approaching, and if it is used on the Spanish battlefield at this time, southern African weapons perform well.

Then it will be impossible for the United States to reap the benefits as it did in another time and space.

 So this order must be done even if it costs money.