Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 107 Refreshing

A few months ago, Henry sent Rock to Oak Town. At that time, Rock said to Henry: Within two years, Stellenbosch should be turned into a paradise.

Henry dismissed it. In Henry's view, Oak Town at that time was hell, and Rock wanted to turn Oak Town into a paradise within two years, which was almost a dream come true.

Facts have proved that Rock does have the ability to "turn stones into gold". When Rock came to Oak Town, Oak Town was dilapidated and almost abandoned; the current Oak Town, although not yet called "Paradise", But compared with ordinary small towns, it is already much higher. At least in Cape Town, Oak Town is definitely first-class.

Different from ordinary towns without planning and design, Oak Town is almost torn down and rebuilt. With Rock’s unified planning, Oak Town is now in neat specifications and uniform in architectural style. Although the styles of the wooden buildings are similar, the details are different. , the Chinese’s budget-minded nature is most vividly expressed in Oak Town. The lawns and gardens that white people love almost do not exist in Oak Town. Served with various vegetables.

The ten oak trees that Rock requested were also discounted, and at least half of them were secretly replaced with various fruit trees. The saplings are still too small to be seen, and they will definitely be exposed in a few years, but the fruit trees will be fragrant all the year round. It's not bad, Roque wants to protect the environment, but he won't go too far, and it doesn't necessarily mean that only oak trees can achieve Roque's goal.

"Many police officers choose to make their homes in Oak Town. They have varying numbers of vineyards, at least 50 acres. There are nearly 2000 acres of vineyards around Oak Town, which can provide thousands of jobs. It won't take long. Oak Town The scale will become bigger and bigger, and in the spring, I plan to organize the reclamation of wasteland, plant grapes, orchards, alfalfa, whatever, just wait and see, I will have the day to fulfill my promise.” Walking in On the way to the refugee camp, Roque introduced Henry.

When it comes to alfalfa, I have to say that the farming techniques of the Boers are very different from those of the Chinese. Although the Boers are "farmers", they are not good at farming or grazing. A one-acre pasture The Boers can only raise one sheep, and five acres of pasture to raise one cow; but if they choose to grow alfalfa to raise cattle, one acre of alfalfa can raise ten to fifteen cows, and the efficiency is at least fifty times worse. What needs to be paid is nothing but hard work.

"The vineyards here are not cheap, right?" In fact, after Rock came to Oak Town, Henry also came to Oak Town many times, but Henry had never observed Oak Town carefully. Now that he heard Rock's introduction, Henry Aware of Oaktown's prospects.

As for whether what Rock said will come true?

Ever since he got acquainted with Rock, Henry has never doubted this question.

"It's not expensive. In the past, the owners of these vineyards were either in exile or locked up in refugee camps. One acre of vineyard is only one or two pounds." Rock understated, if Henry also wanted to buy a vineyard, Rock can help.

"It's really not expensive." Henry has no intention of buying a vineyard. Like most British people, Henry despises this kind of business. If he wants to be a farmer, even ordinary British people have more and better choices.

For example, Australia, or Canada, there is a lot of unowned land there, and new immigrants don’t even need money to acquire farms. They ride horses and go out to enclose land. They can enclose as much land as they can in a day, all of which are their own.

Rock doesn't talk nonsense, it's still the same sentence, your arsenic, my honey, everyone has his own ambitions, and we can't force them.

What's more, Rock doesn't want anyone to notice Oaktown. It's best if the Chinese can buy all the vineyards in Oaktown, so that Oaktown can become an alternative "Chinatown" in Cape. In the future, as long as the scale of Oaktown To a certain extent, Oak Town can also organize a parliament and form a government. At that time, the Chinese will also have the ability to make their own voices.

Coming to the refugee camp was equally refreshing.

In the past, the low, dilapidated tents with air leakage everywhere were replaced with tall and spacious military tents. Ten to 15 people lived in each tent. There was about [-] square meters of open space between the tents for children to play. Of course, children now We all study in tent teachers, women work in vineyards and wineries, there are no loitering people in the refugee camp, the ground is clean, there is no overflowing sewage, no foul-smelling defecation, and occasionally Boer women with wooden basins hurried past, they went to the river to wash clothes.

Although there was a riot just a while ago, there are no traces of the riot now. The isolation area that was originally located in a corner of the refugee camp has now been dismantled. Handled by the Zulus, no one knows where those captives are buried.

Including the women and children in the refugee camp, no one sympathized with the captives who tried to "break out of prison". When the gunshots rang out that night, those women and children didn't even get out of the tent. By dawn, all traces had been cleaned up. No one cared about the fate of those prisoners of war. Women should work and children should go to school, as if those prisoners of war never existed.

Seeing that the refugee camp continued to be in order, Henry finally believed that Roque was confident of responding to the investigation team's investigation. Henry returned to Cape Town on the same day and had to report to Police Chief August Russell and Governor Alfred Milner .

In the evening, the Oak Bar welcomed two special guests, two military observers from France.

"Hello, are you Inspector Locke?" The two military observers had a clear goal.

"Yes, I am, welcome to Oak Town." Rock, as a landlord, motioned Henry to pour the wine: "I'll take these two glasses, this is our self-brewed Elsie, because of the Elsie River Named, this wine is very good, comparable to Bordeaux red wine, maybe you don’t know, the first residents of Oak Town were French, they were Hugues from Bordeaux, because there is an environment similar to Bordeaux, so they Settle here, plant grapes, and make wine."

When it comes to Oak Town, Rock is eloquent. Oak Town has a lot to do with Bordeaux, which will arouse the interest of the two military observers.

They were indeed interested, and the two Frenchmen had also been through the wine field. As soon as the wine entered their throats, their eyes lit up immediately.

"It's really good, it tastes like Bordeaux red wine."

"I didn't expect such great wine to be found in Cape."

Well, it is indeed easy for men to build relationships at the wine table.

(End of this chapter)