Chapter 523 Trip to Northern Rhodesia
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After flipping through the telegrams a few times, Pamela Mountbatten pulled out a few of them, picked up the phone and waited for a while and said, "Marina, Zakharova, come here, it's Ellen who has a report on island animals. For an article on evolution, please help me make a trip and submit it to Nature magazine."
"Did he really write it?" Seeing Pamela Mountbatten's eyes roll, Princess Margaret changed her words, "I mean, his hobbies are really wide-ranging. But those two women of unknown origin seem a bit fierce. ah."
"They are a bit difficult to mess with, but they are not of unknown origin." Pamela Mountbatten replied disapprovingly, "The two of them are from Northern Rhodesia and came here specifically to protect me."
Isn't it surveillance? Princess Margaret wanted to say this, but as soon as Pamela Mountbatten finished speaking, her eyes fell on Princess Margaret again, as if she was waiting for something.
So the whole room was as quiet as a chicken until two tall women with frosty faces came to the door. After Marina came in, she said directly, "Miss Pamela, where are the documents?"
"That's it! It's okay to go by yourself. Zakharova and I will go to the medical company." Pamela Mountbatten dressed while talking, and then looked at Princess Margaret as if she remembered something, "Marg Li Te, are you going?"
"It's okay anyway!" Princess Margaret was a little embarrassed and expressed her desire to follow.
"This is today's schedule!" Pamela Mountbatten had finished dressing and gave Zakharova a form. "The list of mergers and acquisitions for the privatization of the arsenal is the main agenda in the country recently. The shipbuilding industry is currently booming. During this period, it is not easy to make mergers and acquisitions. Let’s put one side aside first, and the information of the military industry companies to be merged and acquired must be reviewed. This is what we are most concerned about, and we also include Mr. Mihajlovic.”
"Miss Pamela, I understand." Zakharova looked at the schedule, "About the trip to Libya?"
"The exploration team has already gone. I don't necessarily have to go there in person. The place worth going to in person recently is New Delhi. The medical company has been integrated and a series of preparations should have been made. By the way, Those of you who went to Northern Rhodesia shouldn’t be at odds with the Germans, right?”
Seeing Zakharova smiling, Pamela Mountbatten also smiled, "It seems I was right. But thanks to Northern Rhodesia for the Comet airliner order, I know that without your strong support, the light It is the Northern Rhodesia Commissioner who cannot get this done.”
Of course, the most urgent thing for Pamela Mountbatten now is that Charles Brooke can transfer his previous work from the Colonial Department to
The sovereignty of Sarawak was to be returned, and she hoped to get this done before heading to New Delhi to avoid long nights and dreams.
At this moment, after Alan Wilson had finished writing the necessary report on Whitehall, he boarded a plane accompanied by Grace and headed to the capital of Northern Rhodesia. This was an impromptu trip.
When I came to Cairo this time, I didn't expect to go to Northern Rhodesia, but Grace came to Cairo and took the initiative to invite me. Alan Wilson thought that he had indeed promised to come to Northern Rhodesia, so he accepted the invitation as a guest. .
The appearance of Hedy Lamarr surprised Grace very much, but Alan Wilson did not meet with Grace and mentioned that he hoped to find some assistants for Vivien Leigh.
"Uh, do you need someone reliable?" Grace pondered for a moment, focusing on Hedy Lamarr for a long time before continuing, "Mr. Allen, I think a few may not be enough. How many female assistants are needed?" ?”
"French Woodpecker Pictures and the United States only need Vivian, that's all for the time being." Alan Wilson was not embarrassed at all. He just wanted a few assistants and bodyguards. These people from the Balkans who had slipped through the net needed The colony covers hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
"But I heard that you have some misunderstandings with Southern Rhodesia?" Alan Wilson was unwilling to talk more about this issue, and instead asked about the recent mutual accusations between Northern and Southern Rhodesia and what was going on.
The origins of Rhodesia date back to the Victorian period. Cecil John Rhodes was the son of a sickly clergyman from Hertfordshire. His mind was filled with ideas about Britain's responsibility to lead the world and his bank account was filled with money. The South African gold rush brought huge gold mining profits.
Using diplomacy and bribery, threats and subterfuge, Rhodes created a company to acquire concessions in the heart of Africa, far north in the British Cape Province of Good Hope. This area was then called Zambezia.
Rhodesia was named after him. The British government never directly controlled the region, but allowed Rhodes' company to maintain a high degree of autonomy and backed it up with British troops from outside the region. White settlers, mainly from Britain and South Africa, would first profit from agricultural and mining concessions and later gain political control over this vast, fertile and mineral-rich land.
As for Northern Rhodesia, it was later discovered that there was a huge copper mine, but the local population was not large. Alan Wilson wondered if there was a conflict over ownership of the copper mine.
Grace shook her head and explained directly, "It was the southerners who were smuggling drugs to Northern Rhodesia, and we discovered it."
"What's this?" Alan Wilson frowned, this is considered a big deal.
"This will protect the lives of the indigenous people. After we arrived in Northern Rhodesia, we were naturally interested in Southern Rhodesia, which was developed earlier. We hope to sort out this southern neighbor from its history and see if there is any experience we can learn from. ." Grace paused at this point and said, "Naturally we started studying Rhodesia's land allocation bill."
Alan Wilson nodded. He knew about this bill. This bill divided the land in Rhodesia equally between the tribesmen and colonists, of which 40% was owned by the tribes, 40% was the colonists' private farms, and 100% was owned by the tribes. Five percent can be purchased and managed by tribal people, while the remaining 15 percent is used as a nature reserve.
The bill stipulates that colonists are not allowed to enter the tribal common land, and are not allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of the tribe. The tribe must also respect the colonists' private ownership of the land. The tribesmen could come to the colonists' private farms to work and go to school, trade with the colonists, and obtain supplies needed by the tribe. There are also some tribal people who stayed on the colonizers' land, settled down, and integrated into the capitalist production system.
"We found that after the Southern Rhodesia Land Distribution Act came into being, the local indigenous population has tripled. You have to remember that this was a 1930 act, only twenty years ago." Grace explained , "In addition to the power of fertility, there is also modern medical treatment, which has saved the lives of many indigenous people and allowed them to escape from the laws of nature. So starting two years ago, my father and the leader of the Ustasha decided, It is everyone’s duty to ban foreign drugs from entering Northern Rhodesia.”
This is called professionalism! Alan Wilson's eyes widened a little, and he had to express his admiration. He was indeed a person from the Balkans. Needless to say, the scarcity of medicines must have created demand, which led to the discovery of business opportunities in Southern Rhodesia, leading to mutual accusations and confrontation.
"What are you talking about?" Hedy Lamar woke up faintly and yawned. She had lived a very fulfilling life recently, and her whole person had a lazy attitude. Compared with the energetic look of the men, she always Sleepy.
"It's nothing. Grace said that she would take us to Victoria Falls if she had the opportunity." Alan Wilson looked gentle and did not bother to tell Hedy Lamarr about the local conflicts. The other party was not suitable to hear this.
These Slavs believe that enacting a seemingly fair land distribution bill, like that in Southern Rhodesia, will overturn sooner or later due to the growth of the indigenous population, but these Slavs do not have a large population.
Alan Wilson can think of this. Maybe Mikhailovich and others will think of a solution from Europe. They might send people to encourage people from anti-Titoto groups who don't like the current government to cross the border, but such an effort would be better than nothing. After all, as a socialist country, management is still very strict.
Even if Mikhailovich targets the entire Eastern European countries and infiltrates everywhere to organize smuggling, he may not be able to quickly enrich the white people in Northern Rhodesia.
Finally, the plane landed from Lusaka, currently the most important city in Northern Rhodesia. Later, Lusaka was also the industrial and commercial center of Zambia and an important distribution center for agricultural products. Surrounded by the country's main production areas of corn, cotton, tobacco and other crops and large pastures.
The Colonial Government of Northern Rhodesia is also here. After leaving the airport, Alan Wilson found that Lusaka still has a decent appearance. Looking at the appearance, he thought it was an honest European city. Of course, it is expected that it is not large in scale.
Just the language spoken here makes it difficult to imagine that this is a British colony.
"We are also learning English, which has been included in the textbooks for minors. As for adults, it is more difficult to learn now." Grace pointed to a sign in multiple languages. "The following two English The languages are Croatian and Serbian respectively. In fact, I also wanted to add Russian at first, but later I felt it was not necessary. However, the final decision is still under discussion. We already know that many Germanic people have been imported from Eastern Europe Deportation, these people should know Russian.”
"You are still thinking about the Germanic people in Eastern Europe?" Alan Wilson laughed in surprise, "Anyway, anyone is not a black indigenous person, right?"
"In principle, that's the case, Commissioner Allen, you know us!" Grace said very frankly, "We need to help each other, that's what you said."
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