Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 233 The Law of the Jungle

For 27 months, the brutal tug-of-war and guerrilla warfare almost turned the Transvaal into ruins. The old order was completely destroyed, and the new order had not yet been established. Watt returned to the British mainland, and what was left to local officials like Rock and Philip was devastated.

And, the Boers who suffered heavy losses in the war and harbored a deep hatred for the British government.

The "Peace Agreement" determined that the British government would pay the Boers £300 million as compensation for their losses in the war.

Such a small amount of money certainly cannot make up for the losses of the Boers, let alone heal the psychological wounds of the Boers, but it can settle the Boers as quickly as possible. There is no room for the Boers in the Transvaal. Only Orange is left to choose from. Fortunately, Ade is not only the governor of the Transvaal, but also the governor of Orange, so there is no problem in coordination.

"It will take some time for the compensation for the Boers to be paid. During this period, the police station must take over security as soon as possible, and at the same time take over the concentration camp. Before the compensation arrives, the stability of the concentration camp must be ensured." Philip has also realized that now The release of the people in the concentration camps might cause serious social conflicts.

In fact, the conflict is almost unavoidable. The farms of these Boers have been confiscated during the war, their houses have been burned by the expeditionary forces, and their livestock have been robbed. They must not be willing to accept this result. If they are allowed to leave like this, then Next, the Chinese farms around Johannesburg will be in trouble. The Boers dare not find trouble with the city government and the Governor's Palace, so they can only vent their anger on the Chinese farmers.

As whites, Boers still have a psychological advantage when facing Chinese.

"Currently, there are less than 500 police officers in the police station. We need to further expand the scale of the police station to cope with the increasingly complex situation." Luo Keti requested that now is a good opportunity to expand the police station.

"Is 500 police officers not enough? There are less than [-] government employees in Johannesburg." Philip had a headache because the police department was already very large.

"If we don't expand, we will have to rely on the army if there is an emergency." Rock is not very optimistic. After the expeditionary force is withdrawn, the garrison in Johannesburg will be replaced by a colonial servant army. What kind of combat effectiveness can such a unit have when the guerrillas disarm?

Anyway, Rock is not optimistic.

Philip also knew that the colonial servant army was unreliable, so he had to agree to Rock's request: "Then recruit some new policemen, but the number should not be too large, the financial pressure is great——"

Listening to Philip lamenting the heavy financial pressure, Roque was also speechless. Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines. As long as the tax rights are recovered, will there be financial pressure?

Stop it, if a city like Johannesburg is under financial pressure, then Pretoria is probably going to suffer.

Facts have proved that the Johannesburg city government is indeed not short of money. On the second day after the police station took over the refugee camp, the supplies sent by the city government were directly doubled on the basis of the time when the expeditionary force managed the refugee camp. Didn't know the Peace Agreement had been signed, so I couldn't be more grateful to the police who took over the camp.

Rock also dispatched doctors and nurses from the Bigwi Town Hospital in due course to conduct physical examinations on the refugees in the refugee camp.

The results of the examination are not bad. Most of the refugees are just malnourished and have no serious diseases.

This can actually prove from another aspect how cruel the refugee camps under the management of the expeditionary army are. Under normal circumstances, a refugee camp of this size must be plagued by plagues and diseases. Refugees from disease have unfortunately passed away.

Those Boer guerrillas who laid down their arms and returned to Johannesburg were in greater danger than the more stable refugee camps.

The first article of the "Peace Agreement" stipulated that the Boer field troops and armed citizens must lay down their arms and hand over all the guns and war materials owned or controlled by them.

At the same time, Article [-] of the "Peace Agreement" also stipulates that: Boers are allowed to keep guns for self-defense, but they must apply for a license.

In the Johannesburg area, the police department is responsible for collecting weapons and issuing licenses.

Rock set up checkpoints at all intersections entering Johannesburg. All Boers who returned to Johannesburg could only leave one handgun with six bullets, and all other weapons must be handed in.

Most of the members of the Boer guerrillas would obey the management of the police, and some expressed dissatisfaction, but they could only submit in front of the commandos with live ammunition.

The signing of the "Peace Agreement" seems to have broken the backbone of the Boers. Their courage has been exhausted in the brutal guerrilla warfare, and now they just want to return home and spend the rest of their lives quietly.

The problem is, their home has disappeared.

So conflicts are inevitable.

"Get out, this is not some damned Krugersdorp, this is Bigwig Town, you don't belong here, go where you should go." The only entrance to Bigwig Town, Sheriff Dunn waved the gun in his hand. pistol, roaring at a large group of Boers in front of him.

There were about 40 to [-] Boers in this group. They were guerrillas who had just returned to Johannesburg. Before joining the Boer coalition, they were all residents of Krugersdorp. Now, they are all homeless.

"Damn it, this is not Bigwig at all, this is Krugersdorp, you bloody thieves, you stole our home while we were gone." A Boer in his 40s He tried his best to argue that his arm was still wrapped in a bandage. It seemed that he had been injured in the war and hadn't recovered yet.

"Yes, it's you who should get out!"

"This is our home!"

"You nasty thieves—" the guerrillas yelled and cursed one after another, impatiently urging their horses, ready to break through the line of defense formed by the police and gold mine security guards.

Rock had already anticipated this situation, so in the past few days, Rock Gold Mine sent some security guards to Bigwig Town just to deal with these "going home" Boers.

"Don't be impulsive. I'm the sheriff of Bigwig Town. If someone dares to offend my majesty as a sheriff, he will definitely regret it." Dunn refused to give in at all, and pulled the hammer with a smirk.

Accompanied by the police and security guards, there was a "crash, clatter" sound of gun bolts.

Only then did the guerrillas realize that their long weapons had been confiscated, and all of a sudden they cursed the insidious provisional government and the Boer idiot who participated in the negotiations.

"Don't be impulsive—" Buck came late.

"Hello, I'm Buck, the mayor of Bigwig Town. If you have something to say, you can tell me." Buck was exhausted from running all the way, and the horse under his crotch snorted vigorously.

"There's even a fucking mayor!"

"Who appointed your mayor?"

"You English bastards—"

There was another burst of shouting and cursing.

Buck was not in a hurry, and quietly looked at the Boer with his injured arm.

"We are former residents here, and my name is Barnard." The Boer with an injured arm was calm.

"Hello Barnard, I'm Buck, the mayor of Bigwig Town, is your arm okay?" Buck tried to get close, and the hospital was not far away.

Barnard didn't answer, and looked at Buck with a cold gaze that made people shiver.

"You should know that after the outbreak of the war, the nearby farms were confiscated by the government, and all the previous houses were burned down. Sir Locke bought this place from the city government and rebuilt Bigwig Town. You should have seen it, now Bigwig Town has nothing to do with the former Krugersdorp, so I’m sorry, you are welcome to visit Bigwig Town, but this is no longer Krugersdorp.” Buck’s voice was not high, but there was This kind of calming magic power, following Buck's statement, the guerrillas who were still aggressive just now gradually fell silent.

"It's so easy for you to say, this is no longer Krugersdorp, and then we lost our homeland, and our family—" Barnard's voice became lower and lower, feeling that On the verge of breaking out.

"Your family members should be fine. They are all in the concentration camp. You can go and have a look." Buck diverted the attention of the guerrillas and let Barnard continue talking. A scuffle was inevitable.

Hearing that his family members are in the concentration camp, although this news has not been verified, it also calmed down most of the guerrillas. They actually knew how the Expeditionary Army treated the Boers in the "Occupied Area" precisely to protect The Boers in the occupied area, the guerrillas had to go deep into the Cape to fight.

However, their transition did not allow the expeditionary force to let go of the Boers in the occupied areas. On the contrary, because of the intensified attacks of the guerrillas, the expeditionary force in turn intensified their revenge on the Boers in the concentration camps.

Who can be blamed?

Blame the unreasonable tax increase before the war, deliberately targeting the British-born Transvaal Republic?

Or is it the salivating, greedy capitalists?

A slap is never enough.

"Go to the concentration camp to see your family, and then go to the city government to receive your compensation. Your settlement is in Orange. If you go to Orange one day earlier, you can buy a farm at a low price one day earlier. Go to It’s too late, the price of the farm will definitely rise, if you continue to entangle here, you will get nothing.” Buck’s multi-pronged approach, this is the plan agreed by Rock and Philip, to divide the Boers from the inside as much as possible, even coaxing Bring deception, lure the Boers to Orange.

Before the war broke out, the total number of Boers in the Transvaal and Orange was 44, and the number of Boers who participated in the Boer coalition was 7.7, including 4.3 in the Transvaal and 3 in Orange.

During the war, a total of 3700 Boers were killed on the battlefield, 3.1 were captured, and more than 1 were exiled. Only less than [-] Boers surrendered in the end.

If these 2 people divided up the compensation of 300 million pounds, then everyone would get a little more compensation.

It's a pity that the 300 million pounds were compensated to all the Boers, so 30 people shared it together, and each person could only get about ten pounds.

Yes, there are only about 30 Boers left in the Transvaal and Orange combined. With such a small number of people, Orange can actually accept them.

Hearing that their family members were "all right" and that they could still receive compensation from the city government, a few impatient guerrillas could no longer hold back and wanted to turn their horses around and head to Johannesburg.

"What about our old house?" Barnard still refused to give up.

"It was burned by the expeditionary army." Buck said truthfully.

"And what about the animals on the farm?" Barnard pressed.

"It was snatched away by the expeditionary army." Buck's expression was sincere.

"Then what about the expeditionary force?" Barnard was furious. Before Buck could answer this time, Barnard asked himself and answered, "The expeditionary force has already withdrawn, right?"

"Not yet, the Expeditionary Force Command is still in Pretoria, and the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment is stationed in Johannesburg. If you go to the black market in Johannesburg, you might find things from your home." Buck replied in more detail. , The expeditionary army really didn't leave, if you have the ability to find it!

The expeditionary army and the guerrillas must not be offended. In fact, the police and gold mine security guards in Bigwig Town can’t be offended by the sporadic guerrillas. Barnard and the others only have more than 30 people. There are hundreds of mine security guards, and there are civilians with guns gathering farther away. There are even more people there, including women and children.

Barnard certainly couldn't have imagined how determined the Chinese would be to protect their property and family.

To put it bluntly, if you replace the Boers in the Boer War with Chinese, the Chinese will definitely not give in. The Boer War has only been fought for 27 months, and the Boers are exhausted and have to surrender humiliatingly. After 14 years of fighting, it did not break the backbone of the Chinese.

"Mr. Buck, your sophistry is meaningless. It belongs to us, and it will always be ours. No one can take it away." Barnard didn't go to the expeditionary army, so he confronted Buck in Bigwig Town.

"Hehe, Mr. Barnard, don't be so absolute. Before you came to the Transvaal, the Transvaal belonged to the Matabele people." If they seized the Transvaal from the hands of the Boers, then of course the British could also take the Transvaal from the Boers.

It should be noted that at this time, the Matabele people had disappeared.

"Bastard, you took our Cape Town back then, and now you are coming to take our Transvaal, which is the land our fathers took with their blood." Barnard was furious. Buck was legally depriving The rationality of the Boers occupying the Transvaal, with Barnard's cultural level, he couldn't tell what kind of harm it would cause, but Barnard knew very well that if they didn't fight, then the Transvaal would never From now on it has nothing to do with the Boers.

"We also paid our blood and lives for the Transvaal!" Buck refused to budge. During the Boer War, 1072 officers and 20870 soldiers of the Expeditionary Army were killed. This number is comparable to what the Boers paid when they defeated the Zulus. The price is much higher.

Oh, by the way, more than 20 Chinese police officers died in the war, and they should not be forgotten.

　The annual college entrance examination is coming soon. I wish all the students can get good grades and enter the school of their choice——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)