Port Hedland, Western Australia.

Lin Guokai and his deputy Ballmer looked at each other across the desk.

"So," Ballmer finally spoke, "while we're busy here to keep the African Army supplied, and the Boss is playing with the Queen of England?" ”

"He's just gotten the Queen of England, and he's probably been down to business." Lin Guokai's tone was very uncertain.

"But if he goes public like this, it will give people the feeling that he is not doing his job, right?"

"I don't think our employees think so."

"Chinese employees really don't think so," Ballmer shrugged, "but they will rejoice that the great Mr. Lin Youde has another world-famous goddess, and on the day the news is announced, all the bars in Hedland will be filled with Chinese drinking in the name of congratulating Lin Youde." But our employees come from all over the world, let's say, we have many employees from the Commonwealth, what do they think? ”

Lin Guokai shrugged.

"I think that at the time of the war between Britain and Germany, the employees of the Commonwealth who remained in Vale to serve should no longer regard themselves as British, right?"

"They weren't British, they were Commonwealth, but ......," Ballmer, an American, pouted, "well, I don't understand the difference, because we poured tea into the sea nearly two hundred years ago to gain independence." ”

"Speaking of which, the boss is at war with the United States, where will you go from here?"

"Vale is Vale, Germany is Germany, isn't it?" Ballmer shrugged, "I'm probably going to donate money to buy state-issued war bonds, and then get on with what I'm supposed to do." The boss is extremely smart, and he will definitely not do such a thing as letting Vale directly declare war on the United States. Besides, how could a company of ours declare war on a country, and the East India Company had never done such a thing back then. Although their armies did fight some battles with the countries founded by the Indians. ”

Now that Britain and Germany are at war, Vale can continue to gain a foothold on the territory of the Commonwealth countries, because Vale is a company, and it is a company registered in the United States, everyone knows who funded Vale, and now it is operating according to whose instructions, but Britain cannot move it.

Of course, this has something to do with Vale's large number of African armies and the Middle East Production and Construction Corps. The Australian government considered it for a while, feeling that without the full support of the British Home Expeditionary Force and the Royal Navy, it might not be able to do anything in Western Australia's Vale - even if Vale did not mobilize the Chinese troops in the Persian Gulf, his own paramilitary forces in Western Australia would be enough for the Australian government to drink.

The police in Vale's area are nominally under the jurisdiction of the Australian government, but in fact from the police officers to the lowest level of police officers are almost all Chinese, including Vale's mine garrison used to defend mines and mining railways, and the ecological balance protection team used to "exterminate kangaroos and koala armies", Vale's paramilitary forces are no less than the Australian government's standing army.

It is the Australian government itself that is responsible for this.

At first, Vale's paramilitary forces were only a little bit, and the company's territory was in uninhabited Western Australia, and the Australian government felt that it didn't matter, so it turned a blind eye. Not only that, but the councillors in Western Australia are also happy because Vale brings people and tax revenues, which not only improves the government finances of the Pilbara region, but also drives the development of Western Australia as a whole.

As a result, these days as parliamentarians became nourishing, and with the political donations from Vale, these parliamentarians naturally did everything possible to protect Vale in the Australian Parliament and stop those forces in the government who were worried about Vale's failure.

At this time, the Australian government woke up from a dream and was shocked to find that the total population of the area under Vale's control had caught up with several major states in Australia, and if both sides began to arm the general public, the Australian government might not be able to pull out a numerically superior army.

Originally, the Australian government still had the courage of the war queens, but now Vale has Jewish war queens to help, and as soon as Britain and Germany declared war, Lin Guokai mobilized a team of Jewish war queens from the Middle East.

So now the Australian government has nothing to do with Vale, so it just continues to turn a blind eye -- so that it can not only ensure that its own small life can continue, but also get some political donations from Vale, why not?

In this way, Vale relied on its own hard power and the convenience of being a company rather than a political entity to successfully maintain its neutrality in the face of the Anglo-German war.

"To be honest, I really admire the boss," Lin Guokai said, touching the small porcelain pot on the alcohol lamp, confirming the water temperature, lifting the porcelain pot, and pouring water into the teapot containing tea leaves, "When he first established this company and chose the place of registration in the United States, he probably expected the current situation." ”

"Very clever indeed, combined with his accurate prediction of the location of iron ore and oil, I began to suspect that he was a prophet sent by God." Ballmer shrugged, his eyes staring at Lin Guokai skillfully fiddling with the tea set, "In this way, could he make a bet with the Queen of England because he foresaw something?" ”

"Perhaps he heard the oracle that the queen would love him. Otherwise, it is impossible for a smart person to play this kind of bet where the winner or loser is completely decided by the other party. Lin Guokai put the porcelain pot back on the alcohol lamp, lifted the teapot and poured out the water for washing the tea, then picked up the pot on the alcohol lamp again, and slowly poured water into the teapot, "This matter will be put aside for the time being, and the specific publicity will be handed over to the professionals, who will render this matter into a form that everyone likes to see." You've just come back from the Middle East, what's going on there? ”

Ballmer raised an eyebrow and replied: "The Arabs have almost all been driven into the depths of the desert, and many tribes have moved west to Mecca and Medina, and it is said that there have been quite a few conflicts with the local tribes over water, but these are rumors, and I don't know the exact situation, after all, I didn't go to the Red Sea coast." The forces of the Afrika Army marched along the Euphrates and Tigris rivers - ah sorry, now called the Little Yellow River and the Little Yangtze River, but they advanced north along the two rivers to the area known locally as Sumore, where the local Kurds did not allow them to continue north. ”

"According to the boss's plan, we should stop advancing to Sumor, and we can't move the Kurds, right?"

"That's right, but I don't understand a little," Ballmer shook his head, "If we can't keep the Kurdish control area in our hands, the railway from Basla to Istanbul can't guarantee stability, we should expel the Kurds like Arabs, anyway we have enough population to fill the area left behind by the Kurds." ”

"The boss doesn't want to be a complete villain." Lin Guokai picked up the teapot, filled the small tea bowls placed next to each other, and then picked up a bowl and put it in front of Ballmer, "If it weren't for the Arabs who happened to occupy the place with oil, he probably wouldn't have been so resolute in driving the Arabs away." In his Middle East colonization plan, I think there is a reason why the colonial area is only zoned to Sumor, and probably there is oil in the ground of Sumor. ”

"If that's the case," Ballmer said, picking up his teacup, "I'll have to pay tribute to the great prophet Lin." ”

Lin Guokai laughed, and also picked up a cup of tea and drank it all.

After putting down the teacup, Ballmer continued: "In terms of arms supply in the Middle East, there are no problems at the moment. Both the Afrika Army and the Production and Construction Corps still have considerable ammunition stockpiles. However, the Afrika Army wanted to continue to have automatic rifles, and the Thomson and Browning light machine guns bought from the Americans were not as good as automatic rifles among soldiers. ”

"Of course, automatic rifles are a good thing for the boss to come up with the concept and personally supervise the development." Lin Guokai sighed, "It's a pity that we can't mass-produce automatic rifles now, the accuracy of the stamping parts is not enough, and we have to polish it by hand, and the production cost is too high." If only the boss could sell us a German press. ”

"Now this situation is simply impossible, and Germany itself needs every press to produce parts and components with all its might to ensure the supply of the German army."

"yes." Lin Guokai picked up another cup of tea and drank it in one gulp, "We can only work hard to produce it ourselves and provide it to the African Army little by little." ”

"But the Australian troops are also clamoring to be armed with assault rifles."

"If you give them to them, the Australian government will be nervous again." Lin Guokai pursed his lips, "When the time comes, I will have to spend a lot of money on political donations." ”

As soon as Lin Guokai's voice fell, the phone rang.

He stood up, walked to the desk, picked up the microphone and answered: "I'm Lin Guokai, please speak." ”

After listening for a few seconds, he raised an eyebrow: "What did you say?" Are you sure his name is that? Wait, let's make sure he's behind his ears...... No, forget it, let him in. ”

After Lin Guokai got off the phone, Ballmer asked curiously, "What's wrong?" Does anyone want to come? ”

"A friend I haven't seen in a long time." Lin Guokai paused, "The classmates who studied in Germany with me and the boss back then. ”

"Could it be the general secretary of the Chinese branch?"

Lin Guokai nodded.

**

It didn't take long for Huang Xun to enter the room under the guidance of Lin Guokai's secretary.

As soon as the secretary left, Lin Guokai opened his arms and rushed up to hug Huang Xun: "Sure enough, it's you!" ”

"Of course it's me." Huang Xun also hugged Lin Guokai's shoulders with both hands and patted him lightly on the back, "I haven't seen you for a few years." ”

"Everywhere, this is all thanks to the boss." Lin Guokai let go of Huang Xun's shoulders and made a gesture of please.

But Huang Xun didn't move.

"Wait a minute, I'm going to take you to meet someone." He said with a stern expression.

Lin Guokai frowned: "What kind of person, so mysterious?" ”

Huang Xun smiled and whispered, "We're ready to act." ”

As he spoke, he took out a small stone figure from his arms and showed the stone man's one-eyed head to Lin Guokai.