Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 59 Hurt each other

When Liang Dingxin boarded the ship, he carried a deposit of 120 pounds from Rock.

Rock is not worried about Liang Dingxin absconding with money. Like Rock, who has been naturalized in Cape Town, Rock is now a half "foreigner", and Liang Dingxin is a "second ghost" who has taken refuge in foreigners. The thighs of the British are the same when they return to the Qing Dynasty. If Liang Dingxin dares to abscond, then Liang Dingxin is looking for death.

Just like what Roque said, the Qing Dynasty is now at the most intense stage of the boxing movement, not to mention two devils like Liang Dingxin, many real foreigners have been beaten to death by boxers, and Liang Dingxin probably dare not go out of China. The military camp of Yongying, where can he escape to?

What's more, as long as Liang Dingxin tastes the sweetness of being a "human trafficker", even if Roque whips Liang Dingxin, Liang Dingxin will not leave. The money is too easy to earn. One woman is 20 yuan, two 40 yuan, one hundred is two thousand——

2000 yuan, if Liang Dingxin earns a salary honestly, it will take ten years to earn so much. Unlike the police, Liang Dingxin has no gray income as a translator, so Liang Dingxin cannot refuse this temptation.

In fact, even if Liang Dingxin ran away with the money, Roque didn't feel bad. He could only say that Liang Dingxin was short-sighted. As long as Liang Dingxin honestly sent people to Cape, Liang Dingxin could earn ten 120 pounds in the future, or even a hundred 120 pounds. Pound sterling is nothing now.

It's really this "little" money. After the gambling game is reopened, Rock can get about 120 pounds from the gambling game every other week. This part of the money does not need to be "contributed". There are other incomes, such as the contribution of the gangsters near the pier, such as the monthly allowance of shops in the port area, and various fines. Although this part will be turned over to the police station, the police station will give half of it as a bonus. Give them to Rock, so Rock's current salary is not five pounds, nor ten pounds, but forty pounds a month.

That was the normal income of a colonial sheriff.

Calculated in this way, Rock's annual salary should be around [-] pounds, which is equivalent to the salary of a director of the British Ministry of Finance.

That's right, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many British people who abandoned their families and went to work in the colonies.

If various gray incomes are added, Roque's salary is about the same as that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Of course, most of them are shady, so Roque needs to use other ways to launder his name before he can become Roque's legal income. .

In order to deal with these gray incomes, Rock bought a safe and put it at home on Mill Street. Every other week, Rock would go back and put the money in the safe, watching the money in the safe slowly disappear. With more and more, Rock's mood is getting better and better. Now even if Rock doesn't live with the British, Rock still has the capital to gain a foothold in this era.

At the beginning of February, after fully understanding the situation on the battlefield, Lord Roberts changed his strategy and moved his main attack direction from Natal West to the Orange area with weaker troops in the middle. .

This tactic had a miraculous effect. On the western front, the British Expeditionary Force defeated the militia commanded by the most ferocious "black general" of the Boer coalition forces, Piet Kronye.

In mid-February, the expeditionary force broke through the defense line of the Boer coalition forces and lifted the three-month siege of Kimberley by the Boers.

Yes, although "linear tactics" have fallen behind the times, the Boers have too few troops to do anything to Kimberley, which is heavily fortified by the British army. Although they surrounded Kimberley for three months, the Boers were unable to break through the British defense line. Entering the frontal battle, the Boers still couldn't beat the British's volley tactics.

"Our army won, and the linear tactics succeeded again. It is estimated that I will become a clown next." Henry was hit hard. It is estimated that the entire Cape, only Henry hopes that the British will be defeated, which will fully prove Henry's forward-looking, now As the British army was victorious on the front lines, Henry's views on "linear tactics" became a farce on the stage.

One drink and one peck is fate. Henry wanted to bring Roque to the newspaper to make a splash, but Roque refused this opportunity to stand out for Henry. Now, only Henry will be laughed at.

It should be noted that around New Year's Day, Winston published Henry's comments on "linear tactics" in the "Morning Post". This article aroused great repercussions in the UK. Failure as a reason to criticize the ruling Conservative Party for not thinking ahead and sticking to the weak. Even the military was scolded by the Liberal Party as a dead body. They actually kicked out a person with such insights into "linear tactics" from the army. No wonder the expeditionary force was beaten by the Boers. Get ashamed.

The Conservative Party resolutely refuses to admit its mistakes, and continues to increase troops to the Cape while the parliament is talking about it, striving to end the Anglo-Boer war as soon as possible.

The military's attitude was more ambiguous. They didn't fight back against Henry's grandstanding, nor did they recall Henry to the army. The military didn't even contact Henry, which made both Henry and Roque feel a little uneasy.

"Don't worry, the victory on the front line does not mean the success of linear tactics. The Boer coalition army and the expeditionary force are not at the same level. There are now more than 25 troops on the front line. The total population of the Boers is only 44. Except for the old and the weak Sick and disabled, how many people can really go to the battlefield? So you should know why the military is silent, and people who really understand the situation will not laugh at you." Rock is not worried, anyway, even if someone is laughed at, they will Nothing to do with Rock.

"Now that I think about it, I was really crazy to tell Winston about those things." Henry regretted it. If he had known earlier, he would not have fooled with Winston.

Rock wanted to laugh out loud, but he was afraid that Henry would become angry. Fortunately, Phyllis was still there.

"Brother Henry, I think you're doing the right thing. I won't laugh at you. If it were my father, my father would do the same." It sounds like Phyllis has a strong Electra complex.

"Since you adore your father so much, why don't you obey your father's advice and marry that fat pig from the Alsop family?" Henry was furious, grabbed Phyllis and started to rant.

"You just married a fat pig!" Phyllis screamed, comparable to a sonic attack.

"Lacey looks much better than a fat pig." Henry laughed, not realizing that there was something wrong with comparing Lacey with a fat pig.

"Lacey has a marriage contract, but it's a pity that the groom is not you, ah ha ha ha ha ha hiccup." Phyllis laughed so hard that she almost hiccupped, mercilessly stabbing each knife.

"Lacey's heart is mine." Henry insisted, he wanted to get his heart if he couldn't get it.

The two brothers and sisters were busy hurting each other, and Roque had a dull expression on his face. This kind of drama has been staged many times recently, and Roque is really helpless.

　Today is still the third watch. I feel that if this continues, my name will sooner or later be changed to: Catfish·Laomo·Yutou

　　

　

(End of this chapter)