Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 229 BMW (for subscription)

On the first day of the new year, Henry came to Johannesburg to find Rock for a drink.

"What's wrong with you?" Rock was surprised to see Henry. As the chief of the Pretoria Police Department, Henry is also very busy.

"Hahahaha, it's okay, I just want to drink with you." Henry was so happy that he could see the back molars, he laughed loudly and patted Rock's shoulder hard.

Rock had no choice but to look at Keppel with questioning eyes.

Keppel is Henry's assistant, and his status is similar to that of Li De who is next to Rock.

By the way, after returning to Johannesburg from Kimberley, Li De, Martin, and Gold were promoted to inspectors at the same time. Li De's current position is the assistant chief of police, and Martin and Gold are both senior commando commanders.

Keppel dared not speak, and mouthed "Lacey" exaggeratedly.

Oh!

Rock suddenly realized.

Sure enough, as soon as he sat down in Rock's office, Henry couldn't wait to share: "Locke, I'm getting married!"

marry?

Shouldn't we be engaged first?

"Before Christmas, I went to Cape Town to visit General Hopkins. General Hopkins agreed to my marriage with Lacey. Next month, Lacey and I will hold a wedding in Pretoria. , Remember, you are not allowed to go anywhere when the time comes, you are my main best man." Henry is here to assign work, the main best man has a heavy responsibility, and Rock, as Henry's best friend, is duty bound.

In fact, at the level of Henry and Rock, it is very difficult to find a best man. After all, those who are similar to Henry and Rock are almost all married and have children after becoming famous. There are very few bachelors like Henry and Rock.

In other words, it can also be understood that in the Transvaal, Henry and Roque are both the hottest diamond kings, and no one cares about Roque's skin color at this time.

Just kidding, Roque is now a serious aristocrat, with a high position in Johannesburg, and many assets under his name, any of which is enough to make people ignore Roque's complexion.

Don't think that white people are not snobbish. The nobles among white people are the most snobbish. Lacey's father, General Hopkins, is the best example.

When Henry was penniless, General Hopkins did not hesitate to drive Henry out of the army in order to sever the connection between Henry and Lacey.

Now Henry is also in a high position, he also has many assets under his name, and his title is higher than that of Rock. General Hopkins rushed to find Henry immediately. Don't listen to what Henry said. He went to Cape Town to find Hopkins. Pukins is nominal, in fact, three months ago, General Hopkins moved his family to Pretoria.

Although General Hopkins is stationed at Lady Smith.

"What kind of gift do I want to give you? Can I make you a set of furniture with gold?" Rock was very vulgar at the moment.

"I'm short of your gold? I also have a gold mine, okay!" Henry looked down on Rock's money——

Well, speaking of Rock's selfishness in this regard, Henry certainly doesn't know how much gold Rock has hidden in the basement of the Rock Gold Mine, otherwise Henry would probably vomit blood.

"Then why don't I just give you a car—" Rock wanted to be different. Cars are very cheap these days, and Stoudemire just bought one a few days ago.

It's a bit sad to say that, so far, there are only one Dalem sedan in Stoudemire in the four colonies of the Cape.

This car was bought by Stoudemire for fun. In order to serve the car, Stoudemire hired a driver, a maintenance engineer, and two repairmen from Daimler.

Only a rich and powerful guy like Stoudemire is willing to make such an investment regardless of cost.

In fact, the car itself is not bad in this era, with a 30-horsepower engine, headlights, windshield, and two-door 5-seater shape. Stoudemire couldn't put it down, but Rock scoffed at it.

WTF!

There is no industrial aesthetic feeling, no personality at all, the whole car looks ugly, and you need to hire a maintenance team to buy a car, how fragile it is!

Oh, Daimler is the future Daimler Benz. In 1926, Mercedes-Benz and Daimler merged, relying on Deutsche Bank to establish a unified automobile industry in Germany.

"Pull it down, you might as well give me a BMW!" Henry said surprisingly.

Rock almost stared out his eyes, and it took him a long time to realize that Henry was talking about horses, the kind of horses that eat grass.

"Okay, I'll give you the best BMW." Rock couldn't laugh or cry. The horse Henry mentioned was a racehorse, which was different from the "BMW" in Rock's impression.

Horse racing is considered a traditional sport in the UK, because horse racing has spawned a series of competitions and a large-scale horse lottery. The gold mine owners in Johannesburg like horse racing. In fact, they use horse racing to gamble. An excellent racing horse is worth tens of thousands of pounds. , much more valuable than a car.

In the evening, Rock had a banquet for Henry at home, and Owen also came to have a meal. Rock was as good as one against two, and knocked down both Henry and Owen at the wine table.

Early the next morning, Henry and Rock went to Bigwig Township to visit this "model residential area" in Philip Matilda's mouth.

After Philip Matilda visited Bigwig Town, he was full of praise for Bigwig Town. He also had great ambitions, saying that he would develop at least 20 small towns like Bigwig Town around Johannesburg, and he would plant Biggweed trees Johannesburg is full, and the bignonia tree is named as the city flower of Johannesburg.

Mr. Mayor probably didn't expect that the key to the reason why Bigwig Town is what it is today is that Rock's reckless investment is the key. Outsiders probably think that Rock is a fool. He gave away the farm and the house. The professor and the farmer are the ancestors.

In fact, these professors are much more difficult to serve than their ancestors. Now Johannesburg is a cultural desert. To make a city have a heritage and sustainable development, it is necessary to improve the cultural level of residents. Simply being able to read and write is not enough. We must also learn to master the mastery, and at this time the value of the professor can be reflected.

As for the farmer, this is actually a good deal. Rock has never given away the farm for free. One acre of land, Rock bought from the Johannesburg City Government, was probably worth a shilling, and then gave the farm as low wages. Workers, an acre of farms probably sells for about a pound.

One pound is equal to 20 shillings, and the calculation shows how much profit there is.

Of course, this business can only be done by Rock. Henry is also hoarding the land around Pretoria now, but he can't give it away when he buys it, even if he pays his salary to the workers of the Matilda Gold Mine. They also asked the Locke gold mine to be a guarantee, so Henry was very sad. Rock sold one pound an acre, but Henry couldn't sell it for ten shillings an acre.

"Most of the residents of Bigwig Town are police officers from the Johannesburg Police Department, and employees of Bigwig Hospital and Bigwig Public School. This ensures the basic quality of the residents of Bigwig Town. At least no one urinates and throws rubbish anywhere. What's the matter, every night, the residents of Bigwig Town will put their garbage at a fixed garbage transfer station, and the town government hires cleaning staff to transport the garbage directly to the abandoned mine pit in the distance for deep burial. This alone, Johannesburg and Biller Tolia can't do it." Rock is still very proud. In terms of hygiene, Rock has high requirements, and the effect is of course very good. Everyone who comes to Big Via Town will soon fall in love with it.

Regarding sanitation, it is definitely a tragedy for most cities at this time. Even London, the capital of the British Empire, is known as the "fog capital".

It sounds pretty good, right?

In fact, this is not the case at all. The industrial power these days is still the steam engine. Heating and cooking are either using coal or firewood. Otherwise, cities like London will be labeled as "unfit for human habitation".

The hygienic conditions in Ziwei Town are good. In fact, it also proves that the industrial level of Ziwei Town is relatively low. There is no industry in the whole town. There is not even a train station, so pollution is out of the question.

Henry obviously didn't think about this level, and only saw the glamorous side of Ziwei Town, so he nodded repeatedly.

"This will be our vote base in the future. If there is no election in the Transvaal, it's fine. If there is an election, the people here will definitely not vote for the Boers. Their current lives have nothing to do with the Boers." Rock is still confident about this.

"The situation here is not bad. There are still a lot of Boers in Pretoria." Henry is a little embarrassed, but this is not Henry's problem: "You are in Johannesburg, you can stop the Boers outside Johannesburg, Pretoria Ya no, now is a sensitive period, and the Boers still want to hold accountable those who killed the Boers during the war, although it is impossible to hold them accountable, but we still have to restrain ourselves now."

This is wishful thinking. Who was "crueling" the Boers during the war?

Expedition!

It's not even "mutilation". It's normal for war behaviors during the war to have no bottom line. The current combat method of the Boers is actually infinitely close to "unrestricted warfare", so of course the expeditionary force headquarters can also use " "Unrestricted Warfare" counterattack, so it is impossible to talk about who is right and who is wrong.

"How many Boers are there in Pretoria now?" Rock's heart was heavy. Recently, Rock rarely went to Pretoria, so he didn't know much about Pretoria.

"Two or three thousand—" Henry gave a vague number, the real number should be much higher than this.

"Isn't Pretoria being rebuilt?" Rock was a little curious. Inspired by Johannesburg, in fact Pretoria almost toppled the entire city and rebuilt it. Even the most famous church was demolished. I heard that the next step It is not insignificant to demolish the Palace of Justice where Ade lived.

"Reconstruction also needs a process. Those Boers who returned to Pretoria were all farmers before the war broke out. They came back to fight for compensation." Henry was a little depressed. The farms around Pretoria are not being used now. When Henry bought it, he was bought by Stoudemire, so these two are the main "culprits".

"The Boers demanded 1000 million pounds in war compensation, but the Governor's Office only promised 100 million, and it's not compensation, but compensation." Henry was quite relieved, seeing how Ade bargained, the price was 90.00%.

"Hehe, 1000 million, I'm not afraid that the wind will flash his tongue." Rock laughed. Even the little property of the Boers before the war was worth 1000 million.

In fact, you can’t say that. Although most of the property of the Boers before the war was on the farm, the farm itself was also worth a lot of money. Referring to the farms run by the Chinese now, you can see that the land of the farm, as well as those cattle, sheep and livestock, It really adds up to a lot.

It's a pity that this is a bad debt now. If you want to compensate for the loss, you have to show evidence of the loss. The Bull farmer can't prove how much property they lost in the war. The final result must be that both parties are not satisfied.

But even if they are not satisfied, the negotiations will have to be pushed forward with difficulty. It is the consensus of everyone to end the war as soon as possible. Not only the British government can't hold it, but the Boers can't hold it.

After the war broke out, many Boers fled to neighboring German Southwest Africa and Portuguese East Africa.

The local Herero people in German Southwest Africa are rebelling, and the Germans themselves are devastated, and they don't care about the Boers at all.

As for Portugal, all they can do is to provide the Boers with a shelter, or for the little money in the Boers’ pockets. return home.

"You have to be careful. If the Boers know that Bigwig Town is so beautiful now, what do you think they will do? What was it called before?" Henry reminded Rock.

"It seems to be called Krugersdorp. No one knows this name anymore. It is now called Bigwig Town, and it will always be called Bigwig Town in the future." Rock is not afraid of those Boers, and now the Boers can't even enter Johannesburg. Come on, don't even think about Ziwei Town.

Rock has made a lot of efforts to protect Bigwig Town, including the guards of Rock Gold Mine and Crocodile Cove Company. The guards in these two places add up to thousands of people. The Boers have no organized armed forces at all now. Strength, so soft and hard Rock is not afraid.

Chatting along the way, when entering Bigwig Town, the first thing you pass by is Bigwig Public School.

Outside the iron fence of the public school, there are policemen with police dogs on duty as usual. Their task is not only to protect the order of the school from being affected, but more importantly, to check all strangers who try to enter Bigwig Town. In Bigwig Town, The police have the right to check passers-by at any time. If the purpose is unclear and there is no proper identity, they will be taken back to the police station for further interrogation.

That's right, it's an interrogation, which sounds like a violation of rights, doesn't it?

These days, no one talks about rights to you. Power and violence are the mainstream of society. The Boers will not talk about rights with the Zulus, and the British will not talk about rights with the Boers.

Come out to mix, sooner or later.

(End of this chapter)