Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 175 Afrikaans

In this world, if Rock had friends, then Henry must be one of them.

Rock has always thought so.

If Henry's family hadn't come to Johannesburg, then Rock and Phyllis might indeed develop into lovers. Rock could feel that Phyllis liked Rock, and Rock knew that he liked Phyllis too. Rock liked the lightheartedness of being with Phyllis.

But all of this has gradually become unclear now.

First of all, Arnold would never approve of Rock and Phyllis dating.

Then there is Owen, although the relationship between Roque and Owen is not bad, but that is under the premise that Phyllis is not involved, even though Roque is now the chief of the Johannesburg Police Station, he can be regarded as a high-ranking authority, but Owen is really good. Not necessarily in favor of Rock and Phyllis dating.

The reason is simple, the Matilda family is aristocratic, and Rock is Chinese, if the daughter of Baron Matilda marries a Chinese, then the Matilda family will become a joke in the aristocratic circle.

In this regard, the British are decidedly traditional and conservative.

Representative in this regard was Winston's father, Randolph Churchill.

Randolph Churchill's father was the VII Duke of Marlborough. The Duke did not agree with his son's choice at first, because the family was wrong. Marrying the daughter of an American commoner was not in line with the tradition and status of the nobility. Nobility intermarried The object of most of the time can only be nobles.

But due to Randolph Churchill's insistence, the Duke finally agreed to the marriage, but at the same time he put forward a condition that Randolph must enter Parliament before the wedding can be held.

Winston's mother, who was white and the daughter of a millionaire, was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" at the time.

Just because Winston's mother is an American, and she married Randolph Churchill, who had a poor family, was ordinary, and even a little ugly, Winston's mother would face such huge resistance. Silk, the resistance to face can be imagined.

For the same reason, Baron Matilda would probably not agree with Phyllis and Roque.

It is even for this reason that Ada can be with Roque, but Ada does not intend to disclose her relationship with Roque.

Rock also knows these objective facts, so Rock will not force Ada—

On the train, Rock didn't take the initiative to make Phyllis happy as usual.

Rock thought that Henry should understand Rock.

So Rock didn't expect that Henry's reaction would be so strong after Phyllis said those words just now.

Moreover, it seems that Henry's anger is not only because of what Phyllis said just now.

"You too!"

After Rock finished cursing, Henry became even more angry, turning his head to look for things.

Rock pulled out his baton and handed it to Henry.

Henry grabbed the baton and threw it at Rock's shoulder.

Fortunately, I know the severity.

For someone like Henry, Rock can hit three with one hand.

Facing the truncheon with the sound of wind, Rock stepped sideways, stumbling and catching in one go, easily knocking Henry to the ground.

"Asshole!" Henry didn't give up, he got up and continued.

"Enough!" Phyllis screamed.

"Why didn't you just say stop when he hit me?" Henry was dissatisfied, and Phyllis was obviously pulling sideways.

"Come on, come on, I'll let you punch me." Rock pretended to be a hero.

"Don't run!"

"Don't run!"

"Don't fight back!"

"not return!"

"you swear!"

"Whoever runs away is a puppy!"

Phyllis' face collapsed——

Henry threw away his baton, grinned grinningly and walked up to Roque——

"Can you be more serious?" Phyllis felt a severe headache.

Henry punched Rock heavily in the stomach.

Rock fell to his knees with his arms around his stomach.

"You're crazy!" Phyllis was startled, and ran over with her skirt in her hands.

"He deserves it!" Henry put his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky, smiling triumphantly.

Phyllis didn't talk nonsense, and kicked Henry's calf hard.

Henry put his arms around his calf and wailed immediately.

Phyllis wore leather shoes.

After a few minutes, the three of them were finally able to sit down and communicate normally.

"——I knew at a very young age that the title belonged to Arnold, the family property also belonged to Arnold, and even my dog ​​belonged to Arnold, so after graduating from university, I came to Cape Town to find my own. My own life——" Don't look at Henry's cheerfulness all day long, but there are tears of bitterness behind his back.

"I don't care what you think, I will never marry that idiot, if you don't let me marry Locke, then I will become a nun!" Phyllis was determined.

"In fact, even if we give up the Matilda Gold Mine—" Rock really doesn't care. After buying the farms around Krugersdorp, the Far West Rand Gold Mine is ready to emerge. If the Matilda Gold Mine can be used In exchange for the Far West Rand gold mine, Roque would be very happy.

"Why?"

"Think beautifully!"

Henry and Phyllis spoke in unison.

Oh oh oh, this noble family is really disharmonious.

"The gold mine belongs to the three of us, and no one can take it away. You don't have to worry about that, Locke." Henry is no longer the sheriff Henry he used to be. It is really common for aristocratic families to have such things as brothers fighting against each other.

"I'm not worried about the gold mines. This is Rand. Gold mines are everywhere. What I worry about are the workers in the gold mines." Rock is not worried about gold mines. For Rock, there are really a lot of gold mines. .

"What happened to the workers?" Henry didn't understand.

"Henry, have you ever thought about a question, what will the future Transvaal be like after the war?" Rock was not entangled in the issue of gold mines.

"What else, just like this—" Henry's reaction was a little slow.

"Locke, you mean those Boers?" Phyllis responded quickly, but the angle was still wrong.

"After the war, there will be no more Boers—" Rock had to admit that the British were indeed cruel, and compared with them, the Chinese were indeed too kind.

When it comes to the British, the first reaction in most people's minds may be "shit stirrer", or "gentleman", or: conservative, stubborn, no sense of humor, pretentious because they once dominated the world, and because of two World War I was reduced to a second-rate country and was unwilling, and so on and so on.

In Roque's impression, few people associate Britain with the word "cruel". Roque didn't know how cruel the British were until he came to this world.

When he first came to this world, Rock still imagined that he could establish a good relationship with the Boers and jointly build a "harmonious and beautiful" new Cape.

With Rock's understanding of the Second Boer War, Rock now finds that the British have no intention of letting the Boers go. The current actions of the Expeditionary Force Command are to kill the Boers and exterminate them. In short, it is best to wipe out all the Boers, so that Cape can enjoy long-term stability.

This is the true face of the British.

In fact, Roque is not surprised. The British have a criminal record in this regard. When they first arrived in Guibao, they would exchange glass balls for the gold of the natives, and then start selling opium if they failed to do business. After robbing the things, use the money to buy the scalps of the natives——

Rock had never heard of the "concentration camps," "barbed wire," and "scorched-earth policy" that the expeditionary force was now engaged in.

In Rock's impression, it seems that only Germany and Japan in World War II did this, and Britain has never had anything to do with these things.

This is the winner's right to speak, if the Germans won World War II——

Then I am afraid that the British will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

"How is it possible—" Henry muttered to himself, but he had to admit that what Rock said was true.

"It is very possible that the Boer men are either shot or exiled, and the Boer women are thrown into concentration camps. After two years, when the war is over, how many Boers will be left?" Only Rock in the whole world knows that the war will last for two more years before it ends.

"Then what should we do?" Henry was terrified and didn't notice Rock's mistake.

This "we" is used well, and Rock must have a way.

"Don't worry, although the Boers are gone, new Afrikaners will appear—" Rock felt sad.

In the original history, the second Boer War promoted the cohesion of the Boers, and the war greatly promoted the formation of the psychological state of national identity. After a long-term evolution and identification process, it finally formed a nation, that is, the Afrikaners .

Only the Afrikaans know how much blood and tears are contained in this short sentence.

"Who is an Afrikaner?" Henry had not heard the term.

"You, me, Phyllis, and other British people in South Africa, Boers in concentration camps, Chinese miners in gold mines, etc., we are all Afrikaans—" Rock didn't know How did the Afrikaners come into being? Now it seems that national integration seems to be the only possibility.

Of course, it is the integration of the Boers by the British, and the Boers are definitely not very happy, but the Boers are powerless to resist.

"Those Chinese miners—" Henry finally returned to the original question.

"Yes, those miners, compared with the gold mines, I value those Chinese miners more-after the war is over, peace will come again, the Transvaal will also end military control, and the interim government will transition to a democratic government. Voting will determine everything, so do you think, based on the current ratio of British to Boer in the Transvaal, if an election is held, can the British in Cape defeat the Boers?" Rock pointed directly at the core of the problem.

Yes, votes, votes are everything to an elected system.

Although the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange are gradually declining, there are still a large number of Boers in Cape and Natal. The four colonies of South Africa add up to more than 60 Boers.

In the same four colonies, there are less than 20 British people. If they really want to vote, the Boers can regain the leadership of the government with their feet.

If that happens, what is the point of spending more than 2 million pounds and mobilizing 44 people to start a war?

After figuring out this joint, Henry was sweating profusely immediately.

(End of this chapter)