Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 277

Only at this time can the benefits of a thriving population be reflected.

Henry went to pick Rock, Owen greeted him at the door, and Philip Matilda waited in the hall. Except for Arnold who had some unpleasantness with Rock, everyone in the Matilda family was present.

Today's Philip Matilda has a smile on his face, completely without the seriousness and harshness of his previous work, just like facing an old friend, Roque is quite flattered.

Phyllis appeared on the stage under the spotlight of all eyes. She was dressed in a white dress and was extremely holy. She stood at the corner of the stairs and smiled at Roque so pure and from the heart. Roque will never forget the appearance of Phyllis at that time .

There was not much red tape. Rock gave Felice the ring and jewelry that represented the proposal. Felice accepted it shyly and timidly amidst the applause of the crowd. The proposal ceremony was completed. According to the custom, it will start now. Phyllis It's Rock's fiancée. Next, we can discuss marriage.

Compared with the Chinese, the marriage of the British is relatively simple.

There is no almanac in the UK. Generally, a holiday is found before the wedding can be held.

Naturally, Roque had no taboos, and there was no almanac in Johannesburg, so even if Roque wanted to pick an auspicious day, he had no choice but to choose an auspicious day. In the end, it was Philip Matilda who made the decision and chose to hold the wedding on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve is December 12th, and it is less than four months away. Time is tight and tasks are heavy, and Rock needs to speed up.

The main reason is that the new houses have not yet settled down.

In fact, there are quite a few Roque houses. In Johannesburg, Bigwig, and even Pretoria, Roque has houses, but except for the house on Mill Street in Cape Town, basically every place is similar. The nature of the temporary foothold is actually not suitable for a new house.

Relatively speaking, Phyllis has no requirements for the new house. "Fantasy" has satisfied all of Phyllis' fantasies. Lacey and Karina who accompanied Phyllis have also been conquered by Rock's generous efforts. Henry and Owen are going to be unlucky Well, the gems they got probably couldn't satisfy the two women who had already experienced "Dream".

In four months, it is actually impossible to build a new house from scratch. After all, the new house of Rock and Phyllis is not suitable for a wooden house. Not to mention building a palace like Olympos, at least If only a mansion like Mill Street in Cape Town.

In fact, there are ready-made ones, and the guild hall in Ziwei Town is quite suitable.

After the founding of the Rand Bank, the Guildhall took on less and less significance and is now used as the headquarters of the Agricultural Society.

This is not a problem. The Agricultural Association's occupation of the hall is actually only temporary. Now that the new headquarters of the Agricultural Association has been built, as long as Rock needs it, the Agricultural Association can vacate the hall within a week.

Then the new house is the guild hall. After the agricultural association moved out, Rock would have to renovate the guild hall, and then use it as his residence in the Transvaal.

On the second day of the proposal, Rock sent Phyllis back to Bigwig Town.

"Is there an engagement ceremony that needs to be held before the wedding?" Rock still had doubts. It seemed to be like this on TV before.

"Hehe, you are so stupid, our two families are the only nobles in Johannesburg, who will hold the engagement ceremony for you." Phyllis did not take a carriage, and rode with Rock.

"Hmph, you are now Mrs. Nyasaland. You must pay attention to your position when you speak!" Roque was vicious. He married a chicken as a chicken, married a dog as a dog, and walked away with a pole. door, I will speak from the position of Baron Nyasaland.

"I heard that Qing Dynasty is polygamous. Will you marry many wives in the future?" Phyllis still did her homework.

"Hehe, it's not polygamy, it's polygamy—" Rock explained seriously, because he didn't know how to translate "concubine", so Rock used the word "lover".

"Oh——" Phyllis said "oh" with a lot of meaning, and her eyes were full of the meaning of "as expected, you are a scumbag".

"Don't think about it—" Rock also knew that no matter how he explained it, he would be powerless, so he simply used Fu Gang.

Phyllis had a smug look on her face, and she didn't seem to take it very seriously, she just used this topic to laugh at Rock.

Rock is really powerless. To Phyllis and Ada, this is actually not fair.

But when has this world ever been fair?

So did the Boers of Orange.

This year's rainfall is much higher than in previous years. It seems that they want to make up for all the rain that did not fall in the previous two years. When it first started to rain, the Boers in Orange were also ecstatic, but as the rainfall increased, Joy turned into worry, which turned into trouble, and finally into disaster.

After entering September, the flood finally broke out in Orange. The water in the center of Bloemfontein was more than one meter deep, and the water depth in some areas was more than two meters. The Boers finally tasted the bitterness of "eat and take". Fontaine was thousands of miles away, and even if there was rescue, it would not come within three to two months.

Relatively speaking, Johannesburg has been less affected by floods because of the construction of water conservancy projects in the past two years. Because of the perfect drainage facilities, the city of Johannesburg has basically not been affected. Even if the farms around Johannesburg are partially affected, the farmers They also tried their best to save themselves, but they were not affected much.

These situations were seen by the Boers of Orange, and the imbalance in their hearts became more and more serious.

A temporary food distribution point in the center of Bloemfontein.

Because Orange is not self-sufficient in food until now, it has to rely on food relief dispatched from Cape and Transvaal. There are only three food distribution points like this in Bloemfontein.

That's right, the Transvaal—to be precise, Johannesburg is now capable of providing support to Orange, that is to say, Johannesburg is already self-sufficient in food.

At noon, countless Boers gathered at the temporary food distribution point. Each person could receive two pounds of potatoes, one ounce of coffee, one ounce of sugar, half an ounce of salt, and very little meat a day.

This food supply is not much better than the concentration camps during the Boer War.

This is also due to the bumper potato harvest in the Johannesburg area this year. If Johannesburg hadn't harvested a lot of potatoes some time ago, the Boers wouldn't even have potatoes.

But the Boers don't think so. They only see that Johannesburg has not been affected by the floods, but they don't think about why.

They only see that Johannesburg is now capable of providing support to Orange, but they don't want to know why no one is developing the farms in Orange.

They only see the Chinese farmers in Johannesburg living in warm and dry houses, but they don’t reflect on why they are still living in tents when the war has been over for several months and they have received enough compensation and loans.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, there will always be some people who are unwilling to be lonely and jump up and down, and Orange is no exception.

"It's all because the Chinese in Johannesburg took away our home. If it weren't for those damn Chinese, we can live in warm and dry houses now, and there will be rich farms. The Chinese in Johannesburg can drink fresh every day. Milk, they can't finish their eggs, they would rather put it in a jar and let it stink than give us alms, look what they give us, potatoes that even cows don't eat, such things, every one in Johannesburg There are tens of thousands of catties on the farm, we absolutely cannot accept this result—" Someone was inciting unscrupulously.

"Yes, we're going to the city hall, we're going back to Johannesburg, Johannesburg is our home—"

"Yes, we go to the city hall, we are also British now, London can't ignore us."

"Go to the city hall!"

There are still many people who responded, some were instigated, some were blindly following, and some were singing oboe.

"It's useless to go to the city hall. The city hall officials have betrayed us. They live in marble houses high above. They don't understand how damp and cold the tents are. We go straight to Johannesburg and take our home back. !" Someone was taking the rhythm.

"That's right, we have to rely on ourselves!"

"Go, go, go to Johannesburg and get what we deserve—"

"To Johannesburg—"

More people agree, and now they finally think of relying on themselves, but they don't want to think about what they were doing before.

"There are garrisons on the border, let's go like this, we will be driven back by the garrisons—"

"Don't worry, we have tens of thousands of people now, and the troops stationed on the border are just a few people. They can't stop us."

"We want to get back the spirit of the Great Migration, and absolutely do not accept London's arrangements for us."

Occasionally there was a voice of reason, but it was immediately drowned out by more roars. Only now did he have the ambition not to accept London's arrangement. When London gave money back then, no one refused.

Most people follow blindly, and more and more people leave Bloemfontein and move towards Johannesburg under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives.

The City of Bloemfontein soon learned of the situation.

"I'm going to call all the police and garrisons—" Austin Burns was silently arranging his equipment. This situation must not be indulged, otherwise it will cause unmanageable consequences.

"Wait, Chief, don't be reckless. There are tens of thousands of victims, and violence cannot solve the problem." Yang Smozi did not approve of the use of violence.

"Then what do you think should be done? Let them go to Johannesburg? Do you think the border garrison will allow them to pass, and do you think the Johannesburg City Government and the Johannesburg Police Department will accept them?" Austin Pence fired repeatedly , because of the existence of Yang Smother and Louis Botha, Austin Burns' work is not going well, and Austin Burns has long been very dissatisfied.

A month ago, Austin Pence visited the Johannesburg police station.

After the visit, Austin Pence had to admit that the Bloemfontein City Government and the Johannesburg City Government are not at the same level in terms of organizational capabilities and work efficiency.

After returning to Bloemfontein, Austin Burns grew impatient, preferring to be a sheriff in Johannesburg than police chief in Bloemfontein.

"Director, this is why we exist, now we have to contact the Johannesburg City Council to discuss a solution to the problem." Another loan for Bloemfontein, now Louis Botha is acting mayor.

"Okay, you guys discuss it slowly, and don't forget to let me know if there is a result." Austin Burns didn't talk nonsense with Louis Botha, picked up his hat and rushed out the door.

Louis Botha and Yang Smozi looked at each other, and there was something inexplicable in their eyes, discuss?

Don't be ridiculous, this kind of thing is not negotiable at all, if the Boers were reasonable, then they would have started rebuilding the farm.

There are more than 400 police officers in the Bloemfontein Police Station, plus the garrison of six local companies in Bloemfontein, the total strength exceeds 1000 people.

Because of the sudden incident, some garrisons stationed outside Bloemfontein had no time to return, so only more than [-] people were assembled urgently.

"We are now going to the border between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg to stop those who try to enter Johannesburg. I know Johannesburg's attitude towards the Boers. They will never allow the Boers to enter Johannesburg. Therefore, the police and garrison in Johannesburg must now Already ready, we must go immediately and drive all the Boers back to Bloemfontein before they make contact." Austin Burns communicated urgently with two captains of the garrison.

"How to catch up?"

"How to stop?"

Both captains were overwhelmed, let them go to the battlefield to fight, maybe they still have the courage, let them deal with this kind of thing, they are really not good at it.

"Sorry, I don't know either, let's talk about it later—" Austin Burns didn't have a complete plan either. This was the first time Austin Burns had experienced this kind of thing.

Then set off. Thanks to the grants and loans some time ago, the Bloemfontein Police Station and the garrison have also equipped a large number of passenger horses. Austin Burns noticed that the garrison carried heavy machine guns. Although the corners of his mouth twitched, But Austin Burns didn't speak.

Running all the way, the police and the garrison finally stopped the Boers in Orange before they entered Johannesburg.

In fact, it is less than 300 yards from the border between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg, which is about 270 meters in metric system. From this position, you can actually see the garrison and police in Johannesburg on the front border, and The farmers in Kronstad are already on the alert.

I have to say that Johannesburg is indeed rich, and even those unorganized farmers have enough raincoats and weapons.

The people of Orangeboole here are much more miserable. They have no raincoats and no weapons, so they can only beg the soldiers and police to let them pass.

Let them live.

　Sorry guys, it's late-

　　

　

(End of this chapter)