Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 176 Negotiation (Subscribe)

When a child grows up, adults will tell him that if he cannot change the world, he must learn to adapt to the world.

Most people can't change the world, so they can only learn to adapt.

Rock wanted to try it.

Maybe Rock can't change the UK, but in South Africa, Rock still has a chance.

Of course, the premise of the change is that the British in South Africa are willing to accept the Chinese and give the Chinese the same voting rights as the Boers. If the Boers want to change the world, they have to ask the Chinese whether they agree or not.

Or rather, ask Roark if he agrees or disagrees.

Henry is Rock's best friend. Henry and Rock have such a close relationship. If even Henry disagrees with accepting Chinese, then other British people needn't be mentioned.

"Lock, I support you!" Phyllis expressed her attitude.

Henry didn't yell like before, but fell into deep thought.

It seems that this is a deadlock. The proportion of the population in South Africa is overwhelmingly dominated by Boers. If there is no X factor, the British will definitely not have an advantage in the election.

But accepting the Chinese has to take a certain risk. The Chinese can support the British, and they can also support the Boers. Don’t look at what Rock is saying now. If the Chinese and the Boers are in collusion, they will be able to take advantage of South Africa. People are pitted to death.

So the crux of the problem is whether the Chinese are worthy of trust.

Thinking of this, Henry looked at Rock, and there seemed to be no doubt about this.

"What are we going to do now?" Henry already had a decision.

"Give the miners a good deal, let them afford the land around Johannesburg, and they'll be farmers, and when the war is over, they'll have voting rights, I've bought Krugersdorp The surrounding [-] acres of land are enough to accommodate thousands of Chinese. If you disagree, I will arrange them directly to Krugersdorp when the next batch of miners come to Johannesburg.” Rock did not rely entirely on Henry, If Henry disagrees, Rock will throw Henry away and do it himself.

Fifty thousand acres sounded like a lot, but Henry and Phyllis had no reaction to this number. The nobles' attitude towards land these days was so casual, it was only tens of thousands of acres, and there were even nobles in Britain who owned millions of acres of land.

That's in the UK.

Not the Transvaal.

"Voting rights!" Henry was completely shocked at this moment. If what Rock said can be realized, then in the future, not to mention all the four Cape Colonies, the Transvaal will definitely be ruled by Rock and Henry.

It is a very simple truth, not to mention the four colonies, but only the Transvaal, if enough Chinese have the right to vote, then the dominance of the British in the Transvaal can be guaranteed.

Henry knows that voting rights can determine the ruling party, so the choice of the Chinese will be very important at that time. The Chinese can support Alfred Milner, and they can also support Philip Matilda.

if--

That also means that Baron Matilda may even become the prime minister of the Transvaal in the future!

"Lock, don't be too optimistic. The governor will not give all Chinese Americans the right to vote." Phyllis was still relatively calm.

"No, he will give it, and he will not give it when the time comes." Rock handed Phyllis a newspaper, which was the latest "Cape Town Daily", and the headline on the front page was: Jan Smuts The guerrillas he led wiped out the 17th Changmao Cavalry Regiment.

The 17th Long Mao Cavalry Regiment is a colonial force formed by the British in Cape. Most of its members are Boers. It is estimated that they did not have a strong will to resist when they were attacked.

Even so, the formation of guerrillas to annihilate colonial forces is shocking enough.

At the same time, there were reports in the newspapers that the guerrillas were wreaking havoc on the railways in the Cape. In the past, the Boers still dreamed of defeating the British, so they only attacked the trains, not the railways. Now that the Boers had failed in the frontal battlefield, the guerrillas began Using all means, the railway became the main target of the Boer guerrillas.

One point that needs to be emphasized is that the main range of activities of the Boer guerrillas is now in the Cape.

The scorched-earth policies of the expeditionary force against the Boers were only implemented in the Transvaal and Orange, and could not be implemented in the Cape, because a large part of the current farmers in the Cape were British.

"Locke, can we win the war?" Phyllis worried.

"Actually, we are now negotiating with the Boers." Henry threw out a big melon.

"Negotiation?" Even Roque didn't think of it.

"Yes, the negotiations have already begun. Representatives of the Boer Guerrillas are staying at the Hotel Ancestors, and the Pretoria Police Department is in charge of security." Henry smiled wryly, no wonder Henry knew so clearly.

Rock is a little confused. Rock knows that the British and the Boers will sign a peace agreement, but he doesn't know when the peace negotiations will start. It is less than half a year since Roberts announced the end of the war. If this news spreads, it is estimated that other Europeans will The country can laugh out loud.

"The war can no longer continue, Locke. You may have noticed that the railway line between Johannesburg and Cape Town has been interrupted for more than half a month. General Kitchener sent troops to repair the railway, but the speed of repair has not been destroyed by guerrillas. Soon, the war has lasted for two years, more than 5000 million pounds of military expenditures have been wasted, and hundreds of thousands of troops are trapped in the Cape. The real end of the war is far away, and London cannot allow this situation to continue. "Henry was very helpless. At least half of what Rock said was about to become true.

If possible, Britain really wanted to completely wipe out the Boers and end the war as soon as possible.

But now it seems that it is becoming more and more impossible to achieve this goal. The whole world is looking at the United Kingdom. France, Germany, the United States, etc., many countries have sent military observers to the Cape. Excessively, those military observers are now in Cape Town. They have repeatedly asked to go to the Transvaal and Orange, but they were all rejected by the Expeditionary Force Command on the grounds that the war has not yet completely ended.

As far as the current situation in the Transvaal and Orange is concerned, it is either barbed wire fences, fortresses, or execution grounds and concentration camps. If this gets out, where will the British Empire lose face?

Therefore, negotiation is the only way to end the war as soon as possible.

"I'm going to Johannesburg to find my father." Henry no longer hesitated. What Rock said just now meant to get rid of Henry and go it alone. Henry believed in Rock's execution ability. As long as Rock wanted to do it, Rock would definitely be able to do it .

Then we went back to Johannesburg together, Henry and Phyllis went home together, Rock went back to the police station by himself, before his buttocks sat firmly on the chair, Sam called, and Arnold became restless again.

Knowing that Arnold implemented a competition system in the Matilda Gold Mine, Rock did not go to communicate with Arnold, but informed Sam that those miners who were punished every day would be transferred from the gold mine, and Rock would make another arrangement.

Therefore, about [-] or so miners who fell behind in the competition yesterday received orders to leave the gold mine today.

Arnold must be dissatisfied with this. He just found a way to disgust Rock without directly confronting Rock.

Rock really didn't want to talk to Arnold, but after thinking about it, Rock decided to take a look.

See how arrogant Arnold can be.

Nearly [-] miners had already packed their luggage in the open area of ​​the camp. They were only notified after breakfast today, and they were panicked for a while.

"Brothers, don't worry. Director Locke found a good place for everyone. I will inform the brothers on behalf of Director Locke. Next, the brothers are going to help Director Locke open up wasteland. For every acre of land opened, the brothers can get a piece of land." This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—" Buck tried his best to calm the emotions of the miners.

"Aren't you going to be a long-term worker—"

"Why aren't you paid?"

"Open an acre of land, get an acre of land?"

The miners were immediately chattering.

"Shut up!" Tie Hook was full of anger.

The miners immediately fell silent.

"Come with me, take your own things, don't talk—" Tie Hook won't talk nonsense to the miners, it's useless to tell the facts and reason with these people. Any fool knows what to pick.

Buck looked at the iron hook with admiration.

"Hey, Mr. Barker, these are rough and ignorant people. Don't talk nonsense with them. If you don't obey, just whip them—" Iron Hook's words made people speechless, and they always whipped them. What's the difference with the British?

The British don't use whips to whip people. Seeing that the iron hooks are about to take the workers away, Arnold jumped out immediately.

"No, you can't let him take the workers away!" Arnold was smart enough to find Sam instead of the iron hook.

"Why?" Sam played dumb.

"The workers are gone, who will mine?" Arnold had a good reason.

"Oh, it's okay, Mr. Christian will send a group of Zulus over tomorrow." Sam said lightly.

"Who is Christian?" Arnold was mad.

"Mr. Christian is the largest builder in the Transvaal region, and he has tens of thousands of workers." Sam said seriously.

"No, don't want those Zulus, these yellow people must not go." Arnold doesn't want Zulus, and bullying Zulus will not bring any pleasure to Arnold.

Rock certainly wouldn't care about the Zulus.

"Sorry, Mr. Arnold, this is an order from Mr. Locke." Sam's tone was humble, but he did not back down at all.

"Does the gold mine belong to the yellow man, or to the Matilda family?" Arnold hesitated.

"It's not yours anyway." Rock's face was full of frost, and he wanted to drag Arnold out, and then kicked Arnold's ass hard, kicking Arnold out of the solar system.

You can also kick it into the sun.

　Report the results. As of today, the high order is 2700, and the average order is 2000. The results are not good, but they are not bad. Some friends said that we should control the update and see if we can increase the average order. I don’t think it matters, so today is still three changes ——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)