Children are the hope of the future, and this is well known in Southern Africa.

In addition to those families who came to southern Africa with their families, Nyasaland's immigration companies will also take the initiative to find those uncared for children in the Qing country through various means to send them to Nyasaland, where they will be better cared for, well educated, and will naturally have a higher degree of recognition and loyalty to Nyasaland when they grow up.

The Times in Southern Africa is a branch of The Times in London, as the largest newspaper in Britain and Southern Africa, The Times has a huge influence in both the British mainland and Southern Africa, although the Times is a private enterprise, but usually the Times is considered to be the spokesperson of the government agencies, so the report of the Times immediately caused a strong response, and countless people took the initiative to take to the streets to petition the government, asking the government to immediately wage war against the Dutch East Indies, Let the Dutch pay for their blood debts.

"The Prime Minister and the Governor have been busy coordinating these days, asking the Dutch side to release it as soon as possible, and now the Dutch have replenished the food and enough drinking water for the Ark, and at the same time sent doctors to the Ark to check the health of the crew and passengers, and the seizure of the Ark is not an order of the East Indies Governor's Office, but a private act of Medan officials, and now the East India Governor's Office is investigating, and will definitely give us a satisfactory explanation." Ade and Viscount Gladstone did not have time to come to Nyasaland, and it was Sidney Milner who went to Nyasaland to appease Roque.

Roque is much more casual in the face of Sidney Milner, and many things are not easy to say directly in front of Viscount Gladstone, and even to Ade, there is no taboo about Sidney Milner.

So Roque made no secret of his antipathy towards the Dutch: "Investigate! Hehe, investigate for three years and five years, and then come to a bullshit conclusion, and say sorry, is this considered a success? ”

"So what do you say? People can't be resurrected from the dead—"Sidney Milner's Chinese language skills are also steadily improving.

As the status of the Chinese is getting higher and higher, officials in southern Africa, except for those who are stubborn, as long as they want to develop in their careers, are taking the initiative to learn Chinese.

Now the situation is becoming clearer and clearer, Roque is the successor of Ade's "King James", and at the same time a member of the Matilda family, and is the viscount canonized by the British Empire, although Ade and Philip are still in good health, but as they get older, sooner or later they will retire from politics, and the most likely to succeed Ade as prime minister is Roque,

So don't look at the fact that Chinese is not the official language of southern Africa now, but smart people know that if you want to continue to mix in the political arena of southern Africa in the future, Chinese is a language that must be learned.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to learn, some people are willing to learn.

Sidney Milner is willing to learn.

When Ade served as the commissioner of South Africa, Sidney Milner was just a passerby to Southern Africa, and with the experience of living in London, he returned to Southern Africa again, both Ade and Sidney Milner had already made Southern Africa their home and carefully managed, Sidney Milner knew how much Ade valued Roque, so Chinese was not a problem for Sidney Milner at all.

"Do you think so, too?" Roque looked at Sidney Milner with disdain in his eyes.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm the first secretary of the federal government, and whatever I say or do, it's in the interests of the federal government." Sidney Milner is not angry, he is also routine, as for what Roque does, Sidney Milner will not care at all, and he will not worry.

In the grand scheme of things, no matter how drastic the measures used by Roque are, they are all protecting the interests of southern Africa, and if this matter is lightly let go, then more ships from southern Africa will be seized in the future, not only migrant ships, but also merchant ships, fishing boats, oil tankers, and even warships are not a deterrent.

To put it mildly, the Dutch Governor of the East Indies may not be perfunctory in southern Africa, but he does not pay enough attention to this matter, and he does not have enough understanding of the follow-up caused by this incident, or he does not know enough about Roque, if this incident happened in Tanganyika or South West Africa, try it-

It is impossible, this kind of thing would not have happened at all in Tanganyika and South-West Africa, don't look at the Germans in Europe, but in Tanganyika and South-West Africa, the Germans are very honest, and ships from Southern Africa often have to pass through Walvis Bay to and from Europe, which is an enclave surrounded by South-West Africa, and this kind of accident has never happened.

That is, the Dutch East Indies are too far away from southern Africa, and the Chinese are too low-key in the Dutch East Indies, so the Dutch will think that the Chinese are easy to bully.

"Then you guys should take it slowly—" Roque glanced down at the calendar on his desk, looking at his watch absentmindedly, "--The mercenaries of the Umbrella Company should have arrived in the Lion City by now." ”

It's about 4,000 nautical miles from Port Elizabeth to the Lion City, and it's only six days to get on a diesel-powered fast merchant ship.

"What are you going to do?" Sidney Milner is no surprise at all.

Or rather, if Roque doesn't make any moves, Sidney Milner is surprised.

Roque nodded at the newspaper at hand and did not speak, the editor of the Times has been a little lazy these days, the front page has not been changed at all, except for the sentence "We want to pay with blood", the rest of the blanks are blacked out.

"Tell me, how many people have been dispatched by the umbrella company?" Sidney Milner is very curious, if there is no accident, it is likely that Roque and Sidney Milner will partner in Southern Africa in the future, so Sidney Milner must fully understand Roque's way of doing things, so that he can better cooperate.

"Two regiments—" Roque understated.

The establishment of the umbrella company is not the same as the regular army, a regiment of the regular army in southern Africa may have more than 2,000 people, and a regiment of the umbrella company is 1,000 people.

"Hehe, the Dutch are going to be out of luck—" Sidney Milner laughed, his tone full of pity for the Dutch.

With Sidney Milner's knowledge of the Umbrella, two regiments of Umbrella Company mercenaries could confront a division of colonial servants.

This has to be the kind of so-called elite troops, those used to scare the natives of the colony into scattering bravely, and it is estimated that it is more or less useless.

The troops formed by the Dutch government in the Dutch East Indies, although Sidney Milner did not know the specific situation, were mostly scattered rangers, and the two regiments of umbrella company mercenaries were enough to turn the Dutch East Indies upside down.

"How far are you going to go?" Sidney Milner doesn't know what Roque wants to achieve before he stops, and looking at Roque's posture, it is estimated that Roque has a lot of plans.

At the beginning, Roque supported the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa against the Portuguese, and sent no more than 500 troops to Portuguese East Africa.

By the time of the Fort Glory rebellion, Roque had sent more than 2,000 troops to Tanganyika, and as a result, the Fort Glory rebels had lost their armor and abandoned the regular troops that had come to reinforce them from the German mainland.

The mercenaries are still so good in the face of the German troops who have just ascended to the throne of the "world's first army", so what kind of performance will they have in the face of the Dutch troops who are already in the twilight?

It was also a colonial servant army formed by the Dutch.

So Sidney Milner is really looking forward to it, if Roque's model can succeed in the Dutch East Indies, then it means that this model can be replicated, and the colonial governments around southern Africa are expected to be worried in the future.

"It depends on how well the Dutch are aware of the mistake, and has the Lord made my request to the Dutch?" Roque has no specific goals at all, and it depends on the development of the situation, and if it is possible, Roque does not mind letting the Dutchman pack up and go home.

As for the belonging of the Dutch East Indies after the departure of the Dutch, it was up to the East Indians themselves.

"How could the Dutch agree to that kind of request now—" Sidney Milner was speechless, Roque's request was too harsh for the Dutch to agree.

Viscount Gladstone had asked Roque about his request before.

Roque said at the time that the Dutch East Indies Governor had to punish those responsible, compensate the Nyasaland Ocean Shipping Company, to which the Ark belonged, and at the same time relinquish the management of the Port of Medan, which would be managed by the Nyasaland Ocean Shipping Company.

This kind of demand, not to mention the Dutch, even the Viscount Gladstone thought it was excessive.

"I know the Dutch don't agree, but that's okay, after a while, the Dutch will understand how merciful I am now." Roque didn't think it was too much, now it seems that Roque is opening his mouth, in fact, Roque is just going to put forward a condition that the Dutch can't accept, and then Roque can follow up.

By the time the Dutch fully realized the seriousness of the matter and wanted to cede the port of Medan for reconciliation, Roque would certainly demand more at that time, and eventually Roque's goal was to drive the Dutch back to Europe.

Compared with Germany and France, the Dutch are still relatively easy to bully.

"You're merciful—if you're merciful, then I'm a saint." Sidney Milner was unscrupulous before realizing that it was blasphemy against God.

While Sidney Milner and Roque discuss how miserable the Dutch will be in the future, mercenaries from Port Elizabeth are slowly passing through the port of Medan on the fast merchant ship Nile Crocodile of the Christian Ocean Shipping Company.

The Ark was still docked in the port of Medan, and some crew members were cleaning the deck, and when they saw the umbrella company logo painted on the side of the "Nile Crocodile" slowly passing outside the port, some crew members immediately burst into tears.

Seafarers in southern Africa know that the umbrella company overseas is really the umbrella of southern Africans, and as long as there are mercenaries from the umbrella company, southern Africans will not be bullied.