Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 213 Divide and Conquer

According to the plan of the Johannesburg City Government, there will be no room for lazy people in the future Johannesburg.

Because of the cruel policy of the Expeditionary Force Command against the Boers, a large number of Boers in Johannesburg were thrown into concentration camps, which gave the Johannesburg City Government the opportunity to transform Johannesburg.

The transformation first started from the shantytowns. I still remember when Roque first arrived in Johannesburg. At that time, Johannesburg left Roque with the feeling of a large disorderly slum area. The whole city was full of randomly built houses. The rich are okay. At this point, the houses built can still be seen, and those who have no money can directly build a shed, and then they can survive in Johannesburg.

At that time, Johannesburg didn't even have a government agency. Rock came to Johannesburg as a senior police officer and actually wanted to live in a hotel, so there was no plan in Johannesburg at that time.

It's different now, the expeditionary force occupied Johannesburg, and Johannesburg became a city under the control of the British government.

Now that there is a city government and a police station, Johannesburg will be on the right track. If it is still the same as before, how can it reflect the superiority of British rule over Boer rule?

What is superior is legal.

In the planning of the Johannesburg City Government, most of these existing houses or shacks will be completely demolished, and then a unified residential area will be built.

If you want to buy a house in a residential area, you need a certain amount of financial strength. People without strength, or people without jobs, will not be qualified to live in Johannesburg in the future.

After the transformation of the city is completed, it is wishful thinking for the new Boers or Zulus to set up a shed on the outskirts of Johannesburg and settle down. For the sake of the overall image of the city, the Johannesburg City Government will not allow this to happen. The scope of work of the police department.

Rock is the chief of police, so if there are no accidents in the future Johannesburg, there should be no Boers.

Of course, Johannesburg will also welcome those Boers with economic strength to settle in Johannesburg, but the overall number will certainly not be too many. The war has brought huge financial pressure to the British government, and the Boers also suffered heavy losses in the war .

On this issue, Alfred Milner is negotiating with the Boers, and the Boers have proposed a huge compensation of 2000 million pounds, demanding payment to the Boer farmers who suffered heavy losses in the war.

Alfred Milner agreed in principle to some compensation to the Boolean farmer, but he did not agree to use it in the name of compensation.

And in terms of the amount, Alfred Milner and Stein and Beagle, who led the negotiations on the Bull side, had huge differences.

Steyn was the president of the Orange Free State. As for the Transvaal Republic, after Paul Kruger went to Europe to seek support, the presidency was assumed by General Schalke Beagle.

These two presidents are representatives of the Boer negotiators. As for the more famous Louis Botha, Jan Smother, and James Herzog in the future, they are still fighting on the front line of the battle, insisting on the Cape. Guerrilla warfare continued to cause problems for the Cape Colonial Government and the Expeditionary Command.

Even if the troubles created are getting smaller and smaller, it can still put pressure on the Cape Colonial Government and the Expeditionary Force Command to strive for better conditions for negotiations.

Rock doesn't like the Boers, not at all. In the original history, during the British colonial period in Johannesburg, the Chinese could still survive in Johannesburg. When the four colonies establish a federation in the future and the extremely conservative and xenophobic Boers come to power, the federation will begin. The implementation of the segregation policy will be a disaster for all people of color, including the Chinese.

Therefore, Roque will never sit back and watch the Boers control the Federation. At the very least, in the Transvaal, Roque must ensure that the British, or the British, control the Transvaal government. Everything Roque has done now , are all preparations for the transformation of the colonial government into an autonomous government in the future.

Regarding the government's dominance, it's not that Roque has not considered this issue. At this stage, the Chinese can only rely on the power of the British to spread their branches and leaves in Johannesburg. At least until the second generation of Chinese grows up, the Chinese are not Possibly direct control of the Transvaal government.

If you think about it, you can understand that most of the current Chinese are miners who don’t know a single word. They have no education at all before, and many of them can’t even speak English, so the value of their existence is to vote, and then use their hard work and sweat , to create a better life for the second-generation Chinese, and to allow the second-generation Chinese to receive a complete modern education as much as possible. After the second-generation Chinese grow up, the Chinese can be said to have truly integrated into the Transvaal.

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The officials in Johannesburg who were present knew more or less about the ongoing negotiations, so the negotiations were also one of the hot topics at the dinner.

To end the war, some concessions must be given to the Boers, which has become the consensus of all.

The question is how large the concessions should be, and officials are deeply divided on this issue.

"If the Boers are willing to give up their country and swear allegiance to the king, then it's okay to give them the treatment they deserve. After all, our purpose is to develop the gold in Johannesburg, not to destroy the Boer race." Blake Nelson glared The ability to tell nonsense with eyes closed is not bad.

To be honest, this is also a choice of last resort. If possible, the British will never let the Boers go.

But this kind of thing can be done or not. Even if Britain wants to eliminate the Boers, it can't just shout and kill.

The problem now is that the expeditionary force has no way to solve the threat of the Boer guerrillas. In the Cape territory, the Boer guerrillas are haunted, not only attacking the regular army, but also attacking the Cape local government. The expeditionary force is exhausted, but the Boer guerrillas cannot be found. Naturally, there is no way to solve this problem.

Although the Republic of Transvaal and the Orange Free State have lost all their land, the two governments are still in operation, and even Sorenzo Marquez has a government in exile. As long as this problem cannot be resolved, then negotiations are the final the result of.

"If you ask me, we shouldn't have negotiated with the Boers at all. Hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of millions of pounds in military spending shouldn't have gotten this result." Marcus Beaufort was really unwilling, but at the same time he was very helpless.

"If the war does not end, then hundreds of thousands of troops will continue to exist, and more military expenditures will be wasted, and a final and comprehensive victory may not necessarily be achieved." Blake Nelson did not want to see this result either, but comprehensively On balance, if the war can be ended in a short time and avoid greater waste, it seems to be a good choice.

"In fact, we still have a third option, that is, we can negotiate and accept the Boers, but after peace comes, we can transform the Boers according to our wishes." Rock proposed the third possibility.

"It's impossible for the Boers to accept the transformation we want." Marcus didn't want to give the Boers any chance.

"How to transform?" Black was very interested.

"After the signing of the peace agreement, the Military Control Council transitioned to a democratically elected government. What we are worried about now is that after future negotiations, the population of the Boers will affect the leadership of the government—" Rock is not just talking nonsense, In fact the provisional government only existed for five years. After Alfred Milner's term ended, elections were held in the Transvaal and Orange. As expected, the Boers won and succeeded in taking the leadership of the government. right.

In fact, the Boers were able to come to power thanks to the Chinese workers.

In the original history, when the Conservative Party was in power, South Africa began to introduce Chinese workers from the Qing Dynasty.

This was originally intended to solve the problem of insufficient labor in Johannesburg, but in the mouth of the Liberal Party, it became the Conservative Party's "resurrection of slavery."

As a result, the Conservative Party was defeated in the 1905 election, and the Liberal Party came to power to form a cabinet.

At this time, Yang Smother went to visit the newly elected Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman, reminding Campbell Bannerman of Britain's promise to allow Boer self-government during the peace negotiations.

Campbell Bannerman readily agreed to Yang Smotz's request, because during the election, the Liberal Party used Chinese workers as an excuse to attack the Conservative Party. Now that the Liberal Party came to power, Campbell Bannerman began to worry about the counterattack of the Johannesburg gold mine owners. After the Boers had self-government, the Liberal Party did not have to worry about this problem.

The so-called self-government means elections. In Cape, although the Progressive Party led by Cecil Rhodes won the victory, in the subsequent negotiations to establish a federation, Cape was also unable to support itself. In the end, the Boers won the federation. dominance.

Since then, the Boers have gone farther and farther on the road of death.

"—About this issue, it seems to be a deadlock on the surface, because the total population of the British in the four parts of the Cape is far less than that of the Boers, so as long as popular elections are held, it is inevitable that the Boers will come to power. Then we What we need to do now is to at least ensure the leadership of Cape and the Transvaal. The importance of Cape does not need to be emphasized. The Transvaal does not look very good now, but the Transvaal There is a Rand gold mine, so in the future, the importance of the Transvaal will even surpass that of Cape, and what we want to ensure is the order in the Transvaal." Rock once again emphasized the importance of population in popular elections. Realistically, everyone is breathing a little harder.

"Sir Locke, after the war, there will be no difference between the British and the Boers." Black kindly reminded Rock that what Rock said was actually politically incorrect.

Regarding the issue of "political correctness", Rock doesn't want to talk nonsense. If Blake is a Boer and demands better treatment under the banner of "political correctness", then Rock can understand.

However, Blake, an Englishman, emphasized "political correctness" on this issue. Rock had to suspect that Blake had lived to be a dog at this age.

So Rock was very blunt: "I hope those Boers think so, what we have to consider is, if those Boers think so, that's great, but what if not?"

Rock's questioning was fatal. Black opened his mouth and couldn't find a way to refute Rock.

"Those Boers sure don't think so. Even if they swear allegiance to the king, they can't be trusted. They've done it before." Marcus didn't trust the Boers either.

Marcus refers to the fact that after the British army captured the Transvaal and Orange, there was a period of time when the attack on the Boers was relaxed. At that time, as long as the Boer guerrillas laid down their weapons and declared their allegiance to the living queen, You can go home without any liquidation.

After the guerrillas entered the Cape, General DeWitt of Orange re-mobilized the former guerrillas who had laid down their arms and declared their allegiance to the Queen in order to obtain enough troops.

DeWitt quickly mobilized 3000 people, but the consequences were also very serious. Since then, the expeditionary force no longer accepted the oath of the guerrillas, and as long as they caught the guerrillas, they would all be shot.

"Whether they will take an oath of allegiance to the king, or whether they will keep their promise after taking the oath, is actually not important. What we have to do is to ensure that the Transvaal is under our control even in the worst situation. Instead of thinking too much about political interests like the members of Congress, the Transvaal is closely related to our interests, but for the members of Congress, the Transvaal is just a tool for them.” Roque said very realistically It doesn't matter to the members of Congress whether the Transvaal is controlled by the British or the Boers, because at that time, both the British and the Boers will be British.

But for the British in the Transvaal, there is a big difference. The war has lasted for so long, and both the Boers and the British have suffered heavy losses. After the war, the Boers and the British will immediately abandon them. Shake hands with hatred and join hands to build a happy and beautiful new South Africa?

Don't mess with it, if someone really thinks this way, then don't be weird when you are played to death.

"That's right, so it's best to kill all the Boers!" Marcus made no secret of his hatred for the Boers.

In fact, this is the mainstream thinking of this era. For any disobedient group, physical elimination is the simplest and most effective.

This is how white people treat Indians in America.

This is how the British treat the Boers in the Cape.

This was how the Germans treated the Jews until World War II.

So, no one really opposed Marcus' declaration of violence, and several officials nodded in agreement with sympathy.

"It's impossible to kill them all. The best result is to keep them away from the Transvaal. In that case, no matter how large the population base of the Boers is, it's useless." Rock is not so violent yet, and the two Boer settlements, The Transvaal does not accept the Boers, and the Boers can still go to Orange.

This is Rock's real purpose. The future South Africa will probably be Cape, Orange, Transvaal, and Natal.

In the Cape and the Transvaal, Rock hoped that the British would have an absolute advantage. Orange would definitely be dominated by the Boers. As for Natal, leave it to the Zulus.

　Gagen to Padaxing Brothers, you have nothing to say this time——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)