Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 523 The Ultimate Pursuit

Most cities in this era are black and white, gloomy, and shrouded in gray smog, just like this weird and changeable world, making it unclear where the future lies.

Under the night, Little Rock is obviously more vivid and bright. Nyasaland has a sky full of stars that London can never see. In Adelaide's memory, such a beautiful and fresh night sky has only appeared in Adelaide's childhood. In Pretoria, Ade likes to sit down and look at the stars and think slowly after a day's work.

Little Rock also has a well-developed public lighting system. At night, most of the cities in Pretoria are dark. This is the biggest difference between Pretoria and Little Rock.

In this era of the world, perhaps only Little Rock is so extravagant to install street lights on all roads in the whole city, so under the bright moonlight, the lights of the city and the bright Milky Way complement each other, which is the harmony and unity of nature and technology. Unknowingly, many humanistic questions popped up in Ade's mind, such as the future and destiny of the entire human race——

This proposition is too big, let's focus on southern Africa.

"Before I came, many people asked me my opinion on the autonomy of southern Africa, as if I had unified southern Africa, so I should have a natural position and oppose the autonomy of southern Africa—" Ade held a glass of ice water and said nothing Drink, looking at the devastated city in front of me, I said slowly: "—Actually, I was against it before. There are many hidden dangers in southern Africa, Boers, Zulus, South African companies, and now you have Nyasaland, To force these factors to be integrated together, to be honest, the prospects are unpredictable. I would rather keep the status quo. The Transvaal is getting better and better now. Assalan is just astonishing and Rhodesia is thriving. I've been thinking about it and I can't understand why you and Cecil Rhodes Jr. support the formation of the Southern African Union. This is not your style. It has always been, As long as it is not related to the Chinese, you have never been willing to take the initiative to take responsibility. Although you did not say it clearly, I can see that you don’t even like the British, but now you are willing to let the Chinese form a group with the Boers and Zulus. Alliance, can you tell me why?"

Adelaide has always been short in language, and there are few such long-winded speeches. It can be seen that although Adelaide has left southern Africa during this period, Adelaide has been thinking about the issues in southern Africa, so Adelaide can hit the nail on the head. Analyze Rock clearly and clearly.

Rock didn't expect Ade to be so direct, and he was a little speechless for a while.

"If it's inconvenient to say it--" Ade smiled freely. Most people in high positions are very rich and will not reveal their hearts easily. If Roque doesn't want to tell the truth, then Ade would rather Roque say nothing .

"No, it's nothing inconvenient. First of all, I have to say that I don't like certain English people. My wife is British. Almost all my friends are also British. I accept the knighthood from the king. I got pretty much everything I could get in England, so I have no reason to hate Britain—” Rock was the first to state this, and it’s a serious matter, politically correct no matter what.

Ade could obviously accept Rock's explanation, and looked at Rock with a smile, his eyes were encouraging and warm.

Yes, it is the legendary aunt's eyes.

"—As for the Boers and Zulus, if I could, of course I wouldn't want to admit them, but they are part of southern Africa, and we couldn't and couldn't separate them from southern Africa. Hundreds of thousands of troops spent hundreds of millions of dollars to eliminate the Boer country and achieve the current situation. If the Boers and Zulus are artificially separated, then for those who died in the war and bleed, It is the greatest irresponsibility. I also participated in that war and fought bloody battles in the war. This is the result of the joint efforts of all of us. No matter what, we should not give up easily." Rock said as nicely as possible, even if Ade put on a posture of digging out his heart and lungs, but Rock didn't dare to accept the move.

One thing is certain, Rock will remain loyal to Britain until the end of the First World War, so that Rock can receive the legacy left by Britain in southern Africa, or even the whole of Africa.

It seems a little inappropriate to talk about inheritance now, but after the British strategy shrinks, those rights in Africa are destined to be given up. The First World War will deal a heavy blow to Britain, and the gold in Johannesburg will not be No matter how important it is, because the United Kingdom has lost its status as the center of the global economy, the dollar has begun to replace the pound as the most important currency in the world, and this cannot be changed.

Rock's greatest hope now is to receive British heritage in southern Africa, Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Transvaal, and even Cape, Natal, Orange, all of which Rock If you want, no one will despise your own territory is too big, especially Rock is too much on this point.

In the final analysis, there are still too many Chinese, so the Chinese need more living space. Now the combined population of the four colonies in southern Africa is one million. If Rock persists in immigration, after three to five years, there will be What's the situation?

Rock is looking forward to it.

"Yeah, we did a lot to conquer the Boers, but it's a pity that the sacrifice of the front line is not recognized in London, so now more and more people are in favor of self-government in southern Africa. Some people have never left London since they were born. For them For them, London is the center of the world and the whole of the world. For them, southern Africa only exists in newspapers and documents, which are dispensable and can be given up at any time.” Ade shook his head and smiled bitterly, lamenting that Members of Congress do not have a clear understanding of such a military aristocrat as Roque.

"They need to go to southern Africa to see for themselves before they know whether this land is worth their maintenance. Southern Africa, or Nyasaland, is dispensable for them, but for us, this Everything is worth our lives to maintain." Rock's rare impassionedness, the "maintenance" here has a richer meaning.

The "maintenance" that Rock said is definitely different from Ade's "maintenance".

Adelaide's maintenance refers to the maintenance of the interests of the British Empire.

Roque's defense refers to the interests of Chinese in southern Africa.

There seems to be no fundamental difference between the two now, and safeguarding the interests of the Chinese is actually safeguarding the interests of the British Empire.

But once there is a conflict between the two, it is estimated that Rock and Ade's choices will be completely different.

"That's why you always want me to go back to southern Africa?" Adelaide finally started talking about the business. As for the visit of the German foreign minister, Adelaide didn't even mention it.

No one is stupid, no, the political atmosphere in Britain is much more turbulent than that in Germany. The German government hopes to use the foreign minister's visit to bury the nail between Rock and the British government. British politicians can't see it either. Up to this point, the key is Roque's attitude. As long as Roque's attitude remains unchanged, let alone the foreign minister's visit, even if William II comes here in person, it will not have any influence.

Of course, if the British government wants to make use of the issue, that is another situation.

"Who else but you? Dr. Starr Jameson is in poor health, the Cape is in disarray, and Lord Matilda came to Johannesburg after the war and has insufficient influence throughout southern Africa. We can't let the Boers dominate the future Southern African Union. Although Louis Botha and Jan Smozi seem capable, if the Boers dominate the future Southern African Union, how do we face it? For those soldiers who died in the war?" Rock really had no choice but to search all over southern Africa, but he couldn't find a more suitable candidate than Ade.

Sometimes there is no way. When Ade was the commissioner of South Africa, he worked hard when he was the governor of the Transvaal and Orange. The Transvaal and Orange were thriving, and the Boers could be honest.

Now it is the Earl of Selborne, whose mind is not in southern Africa at all. He stays in the UK for half of the time. What he never forgets is building a "dreadnought" to maintain the British Empire's advantage over the emerging German navy.

As for southern Africa, for Earl Selborne, it may really be just a burden, so Earl Selborne began to promote autonomy in southern Africa within a few days of taking office.

"It seems that I have no way to refuse." Ade smiled wryly. At the beginning, Ade eliminated the Boer country by himself. Now if Ade becomes the first prime minister of the Southern African Union, then in the future history books, the evaluation of Ade will still be It really is mixed.

"Why do you want to decline? This is not my opinion alone. The situation in southern Africa is like this. It needs someone to come out to stabilize the situation, listen patiently to everyone's aspirations, and lead southern Africa forward. No one has this ability except you." Luo Ke is not putting a high hat on Adelaide. If anyone has the ability to turn the tide, then it is Adelaide.

In another time and space, after Ade left Southern Africa, he was probably disheartened, and he never returned to Southern Africa throughout his life.

This time and space is different, and Rock's repeated invitations made Ade feel Rock's sincerity.

The current development status of Nyasaland also allows Adelaide to see the prospects of southern Africa. If the four colonies in southern Africa and the Bechuana Protected Area can develop into Nyasaland, then Adelaide really has This is the ultimate pursuit of a politician.

(End of this chapter)