If you have a life to make money, you have to have a life to spend money!

If he had to make a choice, John Churchill would rather stay in Ireland and play the game of urban attack and defense with the Yellow Turban thugs.

Their weapons are unlikely to hurt themselves drinking afternoon tea in Dublin's tall castle.

Take 10,000 steps back, those Yellow Turban thugs really have the ability to attack the city, and they are absolutely sure that they will get on the ship back to England before they hang themselves from the street lamp.

Ireland is indeed much safer than India.

John Churchill couldn't figure out why his father wanted him to go to India to be neighbors with that piece of maniac.

However, old Churchill flicked the cigar ash and laughed: "Nonsense, you are my favorite son, how can I let you take the risk!" ”

John Churchill Sr. was puzzled by the elder Churchill's words, but he soon solved the mystery for his son.

He asked, "John, you say, what is the jurisdiction of the Viceroy of India?" ”

John Churchill was stunned for a long time, and then replied noncommittally: "The Viceroy of India is naturally India, and perhaps Burma will be added?" ”

"Big mistake!"

Old Churchill laughed.

This blind spot was found by the British civil servant Haji, who he relied on, for which Churchill Sr. paid 100,000 pounds for the consultation.

And Haji, who is scheming and scheming, does not work as a chicken thief, does not want pound cash, but asks for payment in gold.

Still, the elder Churchill felt that the money was well spent.

Old Churchill asked the servant to take out a world map of the British Empire from his study.

On the world map, there are color-coded imperial territories everywhere.

The Sun Never Sets Empire lives up to its name.

John Churchill narrowed his eyes and looked at the map carefully.

But no matter how he looked at it, the area under the jurisdiction of the Indian Governor was only India and half of Burma, and of course, there were some snow areas privately demarcated by the British, as well as Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and other places with little credibility.

Seeing the doubt in his son's eyes, old Churchill laughed and decided not to sell Guanzi anymore.

He took his magnifying glass and focused on a spot in the Persian Gulf.

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Aden, an important city in Yemen, the poorest country in the world, is located at the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula, guarding the gateway of the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, and is known as the key point of maritime communication in Europe, Asia and Africa.

At the same time, Aden is also the temporary capital of Yemen's capital, Sana'a, after it was occupied by the Houthis.

However, for the Chinese, the most familiar is the Gulf of Aden escort.

In this era, the Gulf of Aden was also infested with pirates, and their name was the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

"Even if I, as Prime Minister, don't know if I don't look closely, but the Viceroy of India is not just India.

In other words, at the time of the empire's conquest of India, there was no political entity in the world called India, and India was originally a broad man-made geographical concept.

In fact, the Viceroy of India really governs the entire Indian Ocean!

Of course, this does not exist in any official document.

But the British Empire, as a country with a system of the law of the sea, is particular about basing its norms on past jurisprudence.

Since Aden, or Yemen, thousands of miles away, was included in British India as early as 1839, it was administered by the East India Company, and later by the Viceroy of India.

Extending further from this example, it is evident that if a new colony is opened up on the west coast of the Indian Ocean, it can of course be included in the jurisdiction of the Viceroy of India.

If this is the case, my dear son, what is unreasonable about you, as the Viceroy of India, making money in India and working in Africa?

Of course, we need an excuse to make this happen.

Or rather, it's not an excuse at all, it's something that we're supposed to do, and we just have to go with the flow. ”

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It has to be said that Sir Hage, a civil servant, is indeed a genius who exploits policy loopholes.

Churchill was glad that he was able to have such a sleeping dragon and phoenix chick.

It is undeniable that inflation in the empire is getting worse these days.

In fact, inflation has been soaring at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.

However, just like the so-called gray rhinoceros incident, inflation objectively exists, but it is ignored by people, knowing that it has swelled to a certain extent, and quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, and finally everyone has to face its threat.

The excuse that Hagi suggested to Churchill Sr. was this huge gray rhinoceros.

This is a clever plan to kill two birds with one stone, and if successful, it will not only solve the disadvantages of additional currency issuance, but also benefit the Churchill family itself.

Although as wartime prime minister, the elder Churchill's power was close to unlimited.

The elder Churchill would have had enough support from Victoria to push his own plans.

However, in order to avoid facing an endless counteroffensive after the war, Churchill Sr. still followed Haji's advice and went through the whole process.

Two days later, in the Reichstag building, the elder Churchill was on crutches and under the support of the attendants to talk to many parliamentarians.

"Parliamentarians and gentlemen, I have to stress that India is the internal combustion engine of the economic development of our British Empire, but at the moment we are fighting German thieves, Ottoman robbers, and Chinese tyrants for the sake of civilization!

Just one internal combustion engine is not enough to give us a head start in this long competition.

At the moment, what do we need to stabilize prices and get our exchange rate back on track? ”

"Is it a reduction in currency issuance?"

One congressman shouted, "Just reduce the damn money issuance and we'll get our prices down!" ”

"Idiot, that would ruin our economic miracle!"

Churchill stomped his crutch and exclaimed, "It's gold, gold!" You idiot! ”

"Tyranny is draining our gold reserves bit by bit through smuggling and unfair trade, and that's the root cause of the market's lack of confidence in our pound, not that we're printing a little extra banknote, okay?

I can guarantee with the honor of the family that this government has not printed much more pounds at all, and there must be something else, more essential, for the soaring prices!

That's the Ming people doing ghosts!

They are stealing our gold with industrial products!

But for the time being, we don't have the ability to cross the Atlantic to punish the squinting-eyed thugs.

But!

We can't clean up Mingren, can't we clean up others?

There is only one way to solve the current dilemma of the shortage of precious metals, especially gold, and that is to completely conquer South Africa and conquer the country established by the two Boer mongrels!

According to the latest intel from Imperial agents, the newly discovered gold reserves in the Transvaal are far greater than expected, and that would be a huge fortune, a fortune enough to keep our empire running and ultimately win all wars!

And those Boers have a population of only 200,000, and our warriors of the British Empire can drown them with a mouthful of foam!

To use an old Chinese saying, they are walking the streets with gold in their hands!

I believe that as long as there are 20,000 regular troops, it will be enough to wipe out these unworthy fellows, let the light of justice and reason shine on the southernmost tip of the dark African continent, and divide those haunting gold mines into our great India! ”