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While the United Kingdom was advancing its Eastern strategy, battles in Southern Rhodesia still occurred from time to time. The white armed forces led by Ian Smith were standard anti-guerrilla forces.

The main equipment of the Rhodesian Air Force, among them, the Hawk Hunter is only equipped by the first squadron, the Canberra bomber has only ten of the fifth squadron, and the more than forty vampire fighters accounting for the majority are only [-]. The rest of the air force of the country Belongs to the South African Air Force.The remainder consisted of a large number of propeller attack aircraft.

Rhodesia's agricultural production level is actually not advanced, and the extremely high commodity rate of agricultural products does not represent how outstanding its mechanization rate is.Taking private farms as representatives, the extremely large amount of labor input is in contrast to the extremely meager wages that can only subsist. The secret of the commodity rate is obvious.

After Ian Smith went back this time, he obviously aimed the strike at food. To a certain extent, in order to force the black armed forces to submit, he started a scorched-earth strategy in Southern Rhodesia, which has been operating.

At the time of the widely respected economist Myrdal South Rhodesia, the guerrilla and anti-guerrilla warfare between the two sides was still in full swing. The British High Commissioner finally had the opportunity to perform. I hope that the two sides will sit down and have a good talk, and discuss an unsatisfactory outcome. The solution to hurt and anger.

The dawn of peace seems to have appeared, at least part of the public opinion thinks so. Myrdal has long devoted himself to the study of equality between blacks and whites. Some believe that he can find a solution to the problems of Southern Rhodesia. The source of the touted public opinion is Whitehall.

Even a piece of toilet paper is valuable, and Myrdal must first be endowed with such value, so that at least some people believe that he represents the dawn of peace.

Isn't this kind of thing about flattery in the end?There are so many self-made people, nothing more than stories that have been shaped.

On the other hand, there has been news feedback about the arms sales of handsome men in the sky, and a certain big country has shown interest in handsome men in the sky who have already experienced the war in the Middle East.

This is what Alan Wilson said, as long as you meet, you will definitely feel close, as if you should be serving in your own Air Force.

"I really hope that a loyal and beautiful man can bring his talent back to the warm beaches of East Asia." Alan Wilson not only expressed his feelings, but also picked up the microphone with the news of Myrdal being killed by black armed forces, "British The issue of Southern Rhodesia has been very disappointing. The partition plan was announced immediately. As for whether the two sides accept it, the British army will withdraw as scheduled. Now that the garrison has left, everyone can do as much as they want. When we intend to solve the problem, we have followed Mr Myrdal's death is a thing of the past."

Alan Wilson, like a man who is not in the crowd, regards Myrdal's death as a turning point in British attitudes. After retirement, the supreme authority can consider writing a book about the art of throwing the pot away.

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Makins followed up on the arms sales and came to the office to convey the latest situation to the supreme authority, "They are quite satisfied with the performance of the fighters. After all, they have actual combat experience in the hands of the Iraqi Air Force. Definitely..."

"You can't give even a penny in profit. This is not a passenger plane, it's a fighter jet, and it's an arms sales contract."

Alan Wilson directly vetoed, "If you think you can bargain, you can try to find the big brother of the Soviet Union. Of course, you should be more polite and tactful when you speak, and don't be too straightforward."

"I think they can also accept it. Isn't it justified that you get what you pay for?" Maggins' addition to Alan Wilson is a bit funny, and this is also worth reminding?

"Ah? Although the rules of the free world are true, their country is completely different from ours." Alan Wilson pouted, "It's always right to be careful, so don't suffer."

Makins is still too young, and he always puts the commercial credit of the free world on countries in the other half of the world. For countries under the Soviet system, one must have a mentality of not being too wary, not to mention anything else, war After the Rolls-Royce engine incident, didn't the Soviet Union also break the contract?

In the history that Alan Wilson originally remembered, North Korea ordered a thousand Volvos in the 70s, and they have been reneging on their debts. They have built a national network, cheated the Egyptian Telecom Company, and kidnapped Japanese.

The unification leader of Vietnam just visited Singapore and hoped that Singapore would pay war reparations. The reason was that Singapore became rich as a base for the US military in the Vietnam War and made ill-gotten gains. This made Singapore look like a question mark. It was short of saying that the Vietnamese were sick?

Not to mention other countries, before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, dozens of countries owed the Soviet Union hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign debts, and the emperor had been president for 20 years without returning.

The Soviet Union itself was up and down, and did not recognize intellectual property rights. The countries that supported it also followed suit, and they all learned the skills of reverse engineering from the Soviet Union. How can they be careless?

In the military field, other countries, not limited to the opposing camp, should be strictly guarded against. If it is in the civilian field, this matter cannot be discussed.

Makins nodded convincingly, expressing his admiration for the supreme authority defending national interests, "I see, according to our pricing, it can't be even a penny cheaper."

"That should be the case." Alan Wilson replied blankly. "It can almost be concluded that they are crying for poverty. If you want to talk about the currencies of other countries, they may not have much in their hands, but if you want to talk about British pounds. It's true that we don't remember when we are in Xiangjiang. account?"

Originally, there was also a cooperation project on the railway in the Great Lakes region of Africa, and the UK is not prostitutes for nothing, and they all have to pay money.

Alan Wilson can't always cooperate in civilian use, and has to discount arms sales. Even the most loyal communist fighters can easily be hanged by street lights if they do so.

As the Secretary-General of the British Cabinet, Alan Wilson can choose to cooperate, but he must not suffer unilaterally. This is also an offshore balance in a certain sense.

Strictly guard against arms sales, Britain can make certain concessions on the northern line of the Roatan Railway, because this matter is indeed more profitable for the United Kingdom, and hopes to find a stable foreign exchange for the Rhodesian royal territory. Channel, but also the development of the Great Lakes.

The construction difficulty of this railway is not low. In fact, the one that has been built before is not low, because East Africa happens to be an area where wild animals migrate.It is necessary to find out a route with the least impact, and to connect places such as the Kingdom of Uganda and Kenya, which may be more difficult than the previous railway line.

Therefore, Alan Wilson's attitude is completely different from arms sales on the matter of China-UK cooperation in building the Great Lakes region of Africa. Anyway, there is a huge gap in labor costs between the two countries, and they can agree to each other as long as they have similar conditions.

After work, Radwich drove to pick up Alan Wilson, and the latter took this year's Korean history textbook to read. There was no difference in the text. Korea has not yet de-Chinese characters in these years, and the Korean history textbook he I can also understand that various maps do not exist. The passages of the Great Korean Empire in later generations belong to the field of history and civil science.

When Xia Meng was cooking, Alan Wilson was immersed in the ocean of knowledge and couldn't extricate himself, but sometimes he would laugh out loud.

"What are you looking at, you know how to giggle." Xia Meng cooked the meal, greeted her man, and laughed heartily when she met the supreme authority.

"It's nothing. It's rewarding to read the history of the Koreans in their own way." Alan Wilson closed the book and followed Xia Meng to the dinner table. "It's like reading the history books of the Irish."

"What's wrong with the Korean history textbooks?" Xia Meng is not a person who knows the truth, and he doesn't know what fun men can get from boring history books.

"What's wrong? It should be said that it's different. Among the dynasties of your country, the Yuan Dynasty received the greatest praise, and the image of the Qing Dynasty is also relatively good." Alan Wilson ate noodles, vaguely , "This is roughly similar to the history textbooks on the European side. The most influential person is Genghis Khan, and the Qing Dynasty began to understand each other."

"There are many heroes in our country." Xia Meng retorted softly, "Tang Zong Song Zu, Qin Huang Han Wu."

"I know all the characters you mentioned, but others don't. Europeans know Genghis Khan, and if there is a second one, it is Batu." Alan Wilson explained truthfully, "A country has no population and no borders, basically It’s insignificant. Taking Turkey as an example, most people think of Suleiman as a name, and his reign was the peak of the Ottoman Empire, and the remaining Ottoman sultans, even if they are also caliphs, who knows who they are?”

The same is true for South Korea. In modern society, South Korea is already independent, or a country that thinks it is independent.

The perspective of Koreans looking at history has also changed. The North Korean king Lee Ji, who once kowtowed to Huang Taiji three times, is also regarded by modern Koreans as a model of taking care of the overall situation.As for those ministers who were close to the Ming Dynasty in Li Zhen, they were considered to be the chief culprits who caused disasters for the Joseon Dynasty.

"But Genghis Khan is not Han." Xia Meng tilted her head, explaining the historical concepts she accepted.

Alan Wilson took a sip of the noodle soup, took a sip, and said, "Do you think William II was talking about the Mongolian country with a population of 100 million when he spread the threat from the East? Will a powerful country that has fought all over the world be respected? Respect for what? Respect Shakespeare?"

Now all countries in the world respect the United States and the Soviet Union. Even the United Kingdom respects the Soviet Union. Is it because it respects Soviet literature and art?Even if there are, the main respect is the tens of thousands of nuclear bombs of the Soviet Union, as well as the tank army that can't be seen once it is spread out.Do you respect the Russia that even the Poles can conquer the capital?

Or will they respect the infant America whose White House was burned down?Alan Wilson of course knows that this general perception is bad, but most people are on that level.

If the world were full of smart people, Oxford and Cambridge would have been overcrowded long ago. My child is smart but doesn’t study hard. It’s just a self-comforting lie.

After enjoying the delicious food, Alan Wilson revealed another piece of good news to Xia Meng. Britain intends to cooperate with Xia Meng's motherland to increase the influence of Africa.

This is good for both countries. Britain can consolidate its traditional influence in British Africa. A big country should not get much in other aspects except political influence, but it will definitely be useful in African affairs after forming a good relationship.

Negotiations are definitely not so easy. Whether it is arms sales or railway cooperation, it will take a long time to negotiate, and the meeting on the partition of Southern Rhodesia was held in London again.

The death of Myrdal, a widely respected Nobel laureate in economics, is absolutely valuable. After Myrdal's death, the British public opinion has spread the power of public opinion, and the hatred between whites and blacks is almost impossible to live safely in one country. Governance is the only reasonable way to protect each other's interests.

Otherwise, the future of Southern Rhodesia will be either whites cleansing blacks or blacks cleansing whites. The hatred between the two sides can be fooled without using a plan. Isn’t Myrdal who wanted to propose a plan already buried in southern Africa?

In the second half of [-], in terms of foreign affairs, the Eastern Strategy and the Southern Rhodesian issue became the top priority of British diplomatic work.The former, in particular, also drew strong protests from the Soviet Union, believing that Britain's move had evil intentions and posed a threat to the Soviet Union.

The purpose is definitely what the Soviets thought, but of course Britain cannot admit it, saying that the weapons it sells are absolutely in line with the concept of defensive weapons, and the threat to the Soviet Union is obviously an unfounded worry for Moscow.

"This is a world of reconciliation. We should seek common ground while reserving differences. Can I say that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can change some new words?" Pamela Mountbatten teased her husband and said, "Is this useful to fool the Soviets?"

"You have to talk about whether it's useful or not. You can't stop talking about it just because it's useless." Alan Wilson replied disapprovingly, "It doesn't matter what the Soviet Union thinks, what matters is what our customers think. Anyway, both military and civilian cooperation are currently being discussed. It is almost the same, and it is estimated that there will be a good result.”

At the end of the year, a round table meeting on Southern Rhodesia was held again in London. When representatives of the two sides met, Britain came up with a partition plan, and at the same time stated that the British army would soon withdraw from Southern Rhodesia.

In this plan, as the main ethnic group in Rhodesia, the blacks will obtain 80.00% of the land, which is 30 square kilometers, including the capital Harare, and the whites will migrate to the north near the Rhodesian royal territory. The plan is to divide the North and the South with the blacks, and the two ethnic groups will never interfere with each other.

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This is the final solution proposed by the United Kingdom. Regardless of whether the two parties agree or not, the local British troops will withdraw. In fact, the withdrawal work has already begun, and the British troops in Southern Rhodesia will be withdrawn to Botswana.

When Botswana became independent, it had negotiated with the United Kingdom on the retention of military bases, and its army construction was under the guidance of the British army.

After Botswana's independence, Alan Wilson also expressed his concern for this new country. The total population of this new country of 50 square kilometers is 70, not counting the [-] British soldiers and their families. Endowed, a model of resource-rich countries.

Botswana has achieved nominal independence, and with Whitehall's emphasis on care, the living standards of the local blacks must be much better than those of the same race in South Africa.Whitehall has a lot of concerns. Since Botswana became independent, it quickly checked the national population of Botswana and established a household registration system to prevent the influx of people from neighboring countries. It is not insincere.

In southern Africa, where wars are frequent, life in Botswana is considered a ceiling, and the leadership after independence has also maintained a good relationship with the United Kingdom.The UK is also stepping up the use of public opinion to build an information cocoon and shape local people's vigilance against other countries. There are only 50 people in a country of 70 square kilometers.

What's more, Botswana's own land conditions are not too bad, not as bad as the countries in the Middle East. With the sparse population, it can be regarded as having the characteristics of a resource country. The whites in South Africa and some places are worse than the black compatriots in any country.

After years of public opinion shaping, the concept of frequent wars in neighboring countries and the wholehearted desire to reach Botswana has been deeply ingrained in the minds of the local people.Of course, Britain is an exception. While sharing benefits, the local British army abides by the fact that Botswana has become independent and does not interfere in the country's internal affairs.

The current situation in Botswana is also the original intention of the United Kingdom to copy it to Kenya. Compared with Botswana, a landlocked country, Kenya has the coastline of East Africa and faces the Indian Ocean. At present, when Nyerere is more inclined to the Soviet system, Kenya’s position is right. very important to the UK.

At present, the negotiations on independence between Kenya and the United Kingdom are very smooth. If the Southern Rhodesia issue has not been resolved for a long time, Kenya is now independent.

The attitude of the United Kingdom has been shown, and the division of Southern Rhodesia cannot be changed. However, Ian Smith and Mugabe are still fighting over the amount of land. Mugabe believes that the whites still have too much land. , has exceeded the proportion of the population occupied by whites.

Ian Smith retorted that Harare, the capital built by white people for many years, was handed over to Mugabe's side, and should be properly compensated on the land. It seems that there are still disputes between the two sides.

Since the two have so much time, Alan Wilson naturally has nothing to say, otherwise people would think that the British Empire has become so difficult that it can't afford to eat.

When I went home this day and saw Pamela packing a suitcase, Alan Wilson looked at the box full of pounds and reminded helplessly, "Don't bring so much cash home, or people will think I'm embezzling when they see it." of."

"Exaggerated, father, who would believe that the richest lady's husband is corrupt?" Pamela retorted, shaking her little hand, "This is all legal income, which can stand anyone's verification."

"My daughter, you still overestimate the wisdom of citizens." Alan Wilson put down his briefcase, thinking that he had been clean all his life, and the cash in his wallet had never exceeded five hundred pounds, although the main reason was that there were too many banknotes in the photos. Going in factor, but really exemplary compared to the rest of the family.

"I know, I will never let this scene appear in front of you in the future." Pamela zipped up the suitcase and muttered contentedly, "I want to transport the tiger to the reserve."

"The Caspian tiger you raise may damage the local ecological chain." Alan Wilson persuaded, it's best not to do this, the question of who is more powerful than the lion or the tiger is not important.

I am afraid that the living habits of tigers may change in the grassland environment. Living alone and living in groups are not completely irreversible. If tigers live in groups in Africa, the destructive power will be too great.

"I've made up my mind!" Pamela said enthusiastically, "Sophia's family has the final say on matters in Africa. Whether she wants to marry Albert or not. I'm going to the Rhine Once the group army goes, this matter will be done."

"Why don't you go? Albert is now a second lieutenant." Alan Wilson sighed, thinking that it would be great if Arnold wasn't at school today.

It is also logical that the objection is invalid, because there are not many daughters, and Alan Wilson's tolerance for daughters is obviously higher. After comforting himself, he continued to follow up the work. Makins was in charge of the military tour group in the East and told him a piece of news. "They are very interested in the artillery radar technology and have already proposed to buy it. Is the "Fez" artillery automation command system considered within the jurisdiction of Batumi?"

"Does it count as the control area of ​​Batumi? You see that the United States is sticking to others like a licking dog, so you know whether it counts or not."

Alan Wilson snorted softly, and then said, "The imaginary enemy must be the Soviet army. If you inform the United States, the Americans will definitely nod. Let's inform, don't make it look like we are secretly selling it."

A certain big country learned from the Soviet Artillery doctrine, and it is the second largest in the world in terms of scale. Of course, in this era, the second in the world and the second last in the world are similar in front of the Soviets, the difference between three hours and three days.

The traditional artillery method of measuring distance with fingers is called the eye jump method, which is a simple method commonly used by the army to measure distance.

The specific method is to stretch the arm forward, keep the thumb upright, close the left eye, make the line of sight of the right eye point to the left side of the target along the side of the thumb, keep the head and hand still, then close the right eye, and make the line of sight of the left eye pass through the same line of the thumb side, and remember to align the line of sight to a certain point on the ground, then visually measure the width from the left side of the target to this point, and multiply it by ten, which is the distance from the standing person to the target.

The principle of the saccade method is that the distance from the left eye to the right eye of a person is about one-tenth of the arm distance, and then multiplied by ten times the width of the measured target, the distance of the measured target can be obtained.

The Soviet artillery uses optical rangefinders to measure the oblique distance of air targets or the vertical height of targets and the ground. It can also be used for ground artillery measurements. It can be used to observe the distance between ground fixed targets and moving targets. ten times.

However, in terms of anti-artillery, European countries are more professional. After all, facing the direct threat of Soviet artillery, hand-held laser rangefinders are the standard equipment of the British Army. This time, the British artillery radar is also favored.

Artillery radar uses radar to scan the trajectory of artillery shells to estimate the position and point of impact of enemy artillery.

Compared with other range-finding equipment, the radar has the characteristics of fast detection speed, long distance, and all-weather work. Alan Wilson knew in his heart that if the arms purchase is negotiated this time, the laser range finder and artillery radar will be used in Vietnam. superior.

"At that time, if the maritime military exercise is carried out in the Gulf of Thailand or off the coast of Saigon, the effect should be good." Alan Wilson has even begun to imagine the war at this time. If the Royal Navy can threaten in the direction of Cambodia, it can be greatly improved. The relationship between the two countries, the most important thing is that the Soviet Union will definitely jump.

As he expected, the U.S. government has a flexible moral bottom line. For artillery radar and laser rangefinders, which are obviously directed at another army power, that is, the Soviet Union, it has shown the magnanimity of the free world. This is absolutely Do not violate the ban of the Paris Coordinating Committee.

Since the United States has no objection, Alan Wilson is of course optimistic. The more things are needed, the British-made lp-7 laser range finder and the "Simberlin" artillery positioning radar have all appeared in the procurement process. Regarding the northern line of the Tanzanian Railway, the northern line should be called the Roken Railway, connecting Rhodesia, the Kingdom of Uganda and Kenya, and promoting the development of the Victoria Great Lakes region in Africa.

The "Simblin" artillery reconnaissance radar is a short-range mortar reconnaissance radar. It is a second-generation mortar reconnaissance radar developed by the United Kingdom. It entered service in the British and Federal German troops in the 70s.

It is mainly used for mortar positioning and firing calibration. The detection range of 120mm mortars can reach [-] kilometers, and the detection distance of [-]mm mortars can reach [-] kilometers.

In the current time, it properly belongs to the category of high-tech weapons, but in terms of strengthening the army, only the Soviet Union can feel the danger, it is a purely defensive weapon.

In the purchase of beautiful men, a certain big country still expressed the stingy nature of spending a small amount of money to do big things. After discussing with the Ministry of Defense, Alan Wilson said that it can be upgraded to the Marconi avionics system for the export of fighter jets. The greatest sincerity that the British side can show, if it is not enough, it can only stop here.

Opening the door to military technology has also made the consensus between the two countries on Africa's development more obvious. Britain believes that the colonial era has passed, and a certain big country should show a mature big country mentality.This is beneficial to the mutual interests of the two countries, and such a sincere attitude has also won appreciation.

Finally, after several months of back and forth, this cooperative development plan involving both military and civilian use was finally released, including military exchanges between the two countries and the East African regional development plan.

"We didn't make much money in the military, but we made a lot of money on the African issue. Ian Smith and Mugabe haven't talked yet? The points are all divided, so what's the point of tangling up the minutiae?"

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Wick thought that the supreme authority had such a big tone, and the details were thousands of square kilometers of land, so he could only say, "The general trend is good, and there is nothing wrong with a favorable plan to win some land."

"Maybe with the idea of ​​merging in the future, let me tell you, Nehru thought so at the beginning, but once they are separated, it will be difficult to think about merging." Alan Wilson snorted and sneered, "The South Rhodesia issue There should also be a result, once the division is successful, it will be merged with the royal family's territory."

The territory of the Rhodesian royal family in the north originally had an area of ​​75 square kilometers. After merging half of Malawi, the area reached 80 square kilometers. It occupied the salient part of Katanga Province in the southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and became 93 Eighteen thousand square kilometers.

After the partition of Southern Rhodesia this time, the land reserved by Ian Smith will be merged, and the area will exceed 100 million square kilometers.

Apart from the absence of an outlet to the sea, this royal territory of more than 100 million square kilometers has almost no major disadvantages.The entire territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a tropical rainforest climate, but most of the royal territory is the Zambian plateau, and the local climate is not a tropical rainforest climate.

There are the Zambezi River and the Congo River on the water source, and in terms of minerals, Africa is not comparable to South Africa, and it can be regarded as a concentration of minerals.

The land in Africa is not fertile, but Rhodesia in the north and south is considered good among them. Perhaps only the delta in Nigeria is definitely stronger than Rhodesia.

It didn't make the British government wait too long. Mugabe said that once the previous partition plan was followed, the capital Harare would become a border city, so the original partition plan was unreasonable.

If Ian Smith insists, Matabeleland North can be handed over to the whites.

Although North Matabeleland has a north, it is actually the western province of Rhodesia, with an area of ​​30 square kilometers. Alan Wilson asked Wick and Ian Smith to meet and persuade the other party to agree to come down. Victoria Falls Isn't it in the territory of North Matabeleland? The area of ​​[-] square kilometers is enough for [-] white people to live.

Of course, once partitioned, migration is necessary. During the partition of India and Pakistan, Hindus and Peace believers also migrated to ensure that the two places can develop in parallel without interfering with each other.

There are some questions that Ian Smith has to meet with Allen Wilson in person before he can answer, such as asking whether they will be marginalized once they merge with the North.

"You can rest assured that there are still some French-speaking Belgian immigrants in the royal territory. They were left behind when the Elizabethville area was merged. In the face of racial conflicts, ethnic conflicts are no longer important."

Allen Wilson said that this point can be assured, "Compared with the North, the advantages of Southern Rhodesia do not constitute a conflict. Although Southern Rhodesia has a lot of minerals, it is still incomparable with the North."

"It is also beneficial to get Matabeleland North. The north is adjacent to the royal territory, and the west is Botswana. We have a good relationship with the local government. Moreover, Botswana has a small population and a stable society. It is also wary of outsiders. Don’t worry about crossing the border. Land conflicts are definitely gone.”

The conflict between whites and blacks in Southern Rhodesia is a pure land conflict. In fact, when the agreement was signed at the beginning of the century, although it was unfair, the land distribution was actually the past.