While Alan Wilson was still in Moscow, the repeater kept repeating about Asia and Africa every day.

In the British embassy, ​​the executive deputy sent telegrams to Northern Rhodesia several times, telling Grace that the two superpowers could not really fight each other, and that they must hurry up when everything is entangled and the United States and the Soviet Union are all involved. Quick decision.

"Start mining at a position 20 kilometers north of Lubumbashi. Drive out all the aborigines." Grace greeted his subordinates and ordered, "Give me all the mines accumulated over the years."

Having taken root in Northern Rhodesia for more than ten years, these Slavs have also developed some armaments, such as mining vehicles. The mining vehicles in Northern Rhodesia look like the Katyusha rockets used by the Soviet Union in World War II.

This minelaying vehicle can launch 208 anti-tank mines at one time, and the launch efficiency of conventional mines is even higher. It can be regarded as housekeeping equipment accumulated over the years of development in Northern Rhodesia. The mine is from the mine storage rack to the conveyor belt; the output mechanism ensures the mine distance of the mine; the conversion mechanism makes the mine enter the combat state.

The whole process is automatic. No operator assistance is required. Cooperating with heavy trucks transporting landmines, an area of ​​20 kilometers in length can be turned into a minefield within a day.

In order to speed up the efficiency, the mine-laying vehicles in North Rhodesia have already been concentrated, and Lubumbashi has stored a large amount of mines as raw materials for the mine-laying vehicles.

In the entire area north of Lubumbashi, there are scenes of goddesses scattering flowers all the time, and sometimes, there will be explosions, and the launched mines will be shaken and explode directly.

But on the whole, it can be described as orderly. The expelled tribe, seeing this scene from a distance, immediately hesitated. As early as when Tsung Bo was assassinated, Grace tore off his disguise and began to drive northward. A black tribe belonging to its own territory.

At this time, these people have no warmth at all, and it is really impossible to get these elm heads to move without killing them. Ordinary colonists would not dare to do this, for fear of arousing the resentment of the vast majority of people, but these ruthless people from the Balkans did so.

"It needs to be faster!" Grace held a telescope to monitor the efficiency of Bray, and ordered deeply, "You can't just focus on speed. If you don't really blow up a group of people, maybe those black people will come back. After that, barbed wire will be deployed to block the area." Separate them, put up warning signs, and don’t let people from Lubumbashi approach here in the future.”

"Don't worry, Colonel, within a week at most, all five million mines will be launched." The officer following Grace was full of confidence.

"Five million is only enough for the time being, and we need to make up for mines every year." Grace shook his head slightly and said, "For us to be able to avoid racial problems for a long time, these investments are cost-effective. Don't be like South Africans, and you have to The blacks were slaves, and the blacks were required not to resist, the memory in Yugoslavia tells us that there will be big problems in the future.”

The population of Northern Rhodesia is only 600,000 to 700,000, but there is no time to deal with these black natives whose number is ten times their own. Now that there is an opportunity to solve the problem, it is necessary to solve the problem at once.

So far, they have deported more than half a million people, and thousands of black people who wanted to resist were shot and killed. They have already achieved this step, and it is not bad to do things a little more excessively.

"Colonel, should all the more than 80,000 Belgian immigrants stay?" the officer frowned and asked unwillingly.

"Do you think we are offending the French?" Grace asked back, although the Belgian Congo is a colony of Belgium, but Belgium speaks French, which he already had when he discussed with Alan Wilson in conclusion.

The number of more than 80,000 Belgian immigrants is not too large. If they are expelled, they may offend France and Belgium. If they stay, they can have good relations with two European countries.

Although it did not win the entire Katanga province, it was enough to be ecstatic enough to get the land south of Lubumbashi. Copper mines controlled by the Belgians have also been acquired.

Grace has negotiated with the leader of the Belgian immigrants to ensure that the Belgians have the right to distribute the proceeds of the copper mine. It’s just that the history of exploitation that relied on black labor is coming to an end, and the Belgians also have to end their colonial history in a sense, and they have to do it themselves.

At the British Embassy in Moscow, Van Seed came in with a grumbling expression on his face. He seemed to be complaining that his superior was unkind, and pushed himself out to accept the spittle of the Soviets at a critical moment. "Permanent Deputy Minister, Gromyko wants to see you."

"You are the British ambassador." Alan Wilson retorted calmly, "When the British Empire needs you, as an outstanding diplomat, you must shoulder the responsibility. You must be worthy of the British training."

"But I don't know anything about the Congo. According to the Soviets, you always mentioned it two days ago." Fan Xide was very depressed. He felt that the executive deputy chief had deliberately asked himself to go out to block bullets.

There is nothing wrong with this feeling, it is the purpose. Alan Wilson calmed down and said, "Then what do you want me to do? You have to know that currency needs physical support. The support can be gold, silver or other things. But it must not be printed directly on the printing plate. Printing money. When we competed with France in the colonial era, wasn’t it because of our trust in Britain that we made the pound the world’s currency?”

"The copper mines in Katanga have a huge supporting effect on the British currency." Alan Wilson said without joy or sorrow, "Money will not be despicable because it is stained with blood, nor will it be despicable because it has no blood. It is noble after being stained with blood, after all, it is printed by machines, and it is people who endow it with important value."

"If you don't have important raw materials in your hands, if there is no Kuching steel base in Malaya, is Britain still Britain? To put it bluntly, at this moment, why should I come to Moscow and sit calmly opposite the Soviets? , Do you think this can be done with the Three Kingdoms of England?"

"Relying on the British Isles, the value of the pound cannot be supported. Once the pound depreciates, the countries that have the pound in their hands will sell the pound in their hands. No matter what the result is, it will be an extremely uncomfortable consequence for the United Kingdom."

Fan Xide opened his mouth. He couldn't refute the British Foreign Ministry's permanent undersecretary, not just because the other party was a senior official.

This time, the United Kingdom attacked west and east, and then settled in the south, for the copper mines that are as famous as Chilean mines.

Alan Wilson is not greedy, didn't he leave most of Katanga's land? The rest of the land can still feed the local people, so let’s farm the land honestly, how dangerous is it to be a miner?

So far, with the help of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Alan Wilson himself appeased the insecure anti-Tito elements. Britain also got a very loyal thug, which is already a profit.

"But it looks like it's a foregone conclusion. There's no need for us to avoid the Soviets?" Fan Xide was puzzled. Even if he was in Moscow, as a high-ranking British official, could the Soviets still arrest the British Deputy Secretary?

"I'm here to respect the Soviets and prevent embarrassment for the other side and the UK." The British deputy secretary hiding in the embassy was stubborn. "What's the point of arguing? It's impossible for the Soviet Union to agree to our conditions, and vice versa."

There is another reason for avoiding entanglement with the Soviet Union on the Northern Rhodesia issue that cannot be explained too clearly. That is the main inhabitants of Northern Rhodesia, whether they are Croats or Serbs, are Slavs.

The Slavs in the Balkans and the Slavs in the Soviet Union are like-minded. According to the evaluation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the diplomats of the Third Reich, half of the people in this country are pro-Soviet and half are pro-Russian.

That is to say, in the whole country, half of the people lean towards the Soviet Union and half of the people lean toward Russia. The former are socialists, or nationalists. Such a country, after the start of Operation Barbarossa, was a huge threat to the Germans.

Those people in Grace were not born after the war. Many of them are the remnants of the war. Even if they are not pro-Soviet, they do not reject Slavic nationalism. At least at present, when these people are not dead, Britain cannot establish such a If one batch shows loyalty to Britain, maybe the next generation will see a change.

Facing the ambassador who accepted the accusation from the Soviet Union for himself, Alan Wilson didn't want to go too far, so he told Van Sied, "Talk more about Asian affairs, so as to put pressure on the Soviet Union~lightnovelpub.net~Katanga's Things are important, is it more important than a war between two populous countries?"

In the final analysis, Congo is very important in Africa, but in the world, it is still not on the table.

While Alan Wilson hid in the embassy and pretended to be dead, Kennedy, who wanted to monopolize the glory, also threw off the role of Britain and France, and responded to Khrushchev's previous letter, but before replying, the Soviet Union's second The first letter was sent to the White House. Compared with the first letter, the attitude of the second letter was obviously much tougher, and it was completely inconsistent with Khrushchev's first personal letter.

"There are also hardliners in the Soviet Union exerting pressure." Robert Kennedy also saw this letter, and said to his elder brother, "Responding to the first letter can relieve this embarrassment, and the second letter must be concealed from Britain and France. Faith exists."

After talking about this matter, Robert Kennedy did not leave and reported to Kennedy, "John, we have received news from Africa that the British Northern Rhodesia has occupied the Lubumbashi area and acquired the local giant copper mine. For yourself."

"Have the British waited for a long time for an opportunity? They really made them wait." Kennedy's face remained unchanged, and he even had doubts about the purpose of Britain and France's visit to Washington this time.