A few months ago, Henry sent Roque to Oak Town, when Roque told Henry: Within two years, Stellenbosch will become a paradise.

Henry was dismissive, in Henry's opinion, Oak Town was hell at that time, and Roque's desire to turn Oak Town into a paradise within two years was almost a dream.

It turns out that Roque does have the ability to "turn stones into gold", and when Roque came to Oak Town, Oak Town was dilapidated and almost abandoned; The current Oak Town, although it is not yet called "paradise", is already a lot more than ordinary towns, at least in the Cape, Oak Town is definitely first-class.

Different from ordinary towns without planning and design, Oak Town is almost demolished and rebuilt, with Roque's unified planning, the current Oak Town has neat specifications, unified architectural style, although the style of wooden buildings is similar, but the details are different, the Chinese careful nature is vividly expressed in Oak Town, the lawn and garden beloved by whites are almost non-existent in Oak Town, and the hard-working hostess makes full use of every inch of land to plant all kinds of vegetables in the lawn and garden space that was originally reserved.

The ten oak trees that Roque asked for were also discounted, at least half of them were secretly replaced with various fruit trees, and now the saplings are still small and can't be seen, and they will definitely be exposed in a few years, but when the time comes, the fruit trees will be fragrant all year round, and Roque wants to protect the environment, but it will not overkill, and it is not necessarily only oaks that can achieve Roque's purpose.

"A lot of police officers choose to make their homes in Oak Town, they have a variety of vineyards, at least 50 acres, there are nearly 2,000 acres of vineyards around Oak Town, which can provide thousands of jobs, and it won't be long before Oak Town will get bigger and bigger, and by Springfield, I'm going to organize the reclamation of wasteland, and I'm going to plant grapes, orchards, alfalfa, whatever you want, and wait and see, I'll have the day when I make good on my promise." Walking on the way to the refugee camp, Roque introduces Henry.

When it comes to alfalfa, I have to say that the farming technology of the Boers is really different from that of the Chinese, although the Boers are "farmers", but they are not good at farming, nor are they good at grazing, a ranch of one acre of land, the Boers can only raise one sheep, and it takes five acres of pasture to raise a cow; And if you choose to grow alfalfa and raise cattle, you can raise ten to fifteen cattle on one acre of alfalfa, and the efficiency is at least fifty times worse, and what you need to pay is nothing more than hard work.

"The vineyards here aren't cheap, are they?" In fact, after Roque came to Oak Town, Henry also came to Oak Town many times, but Henry had never observed Oak Town closely, and now after hearing Roque's introduction, Henry realized the prospect of Oak Town.

As for whether what Roque said will come true?

Ever since he met Roque, Henry hadn't doubted the question.

"It's not expensive, the owners of these vineyards used to be either exiled or locked up in refugee camps, and an acre of vineyards is just a pound or two." Roque understated that if Henry also wanted to buy a vineyard, Roque could help.

"That's really not expensive." Henry had no intention of buying vineyards, and like most Englishmen, Henry did not like this kind of business, and had more and better options to become a farmer, even if it was an ordinary Englishman.

For example, in Australia, and in Canada, there is more unowned land, and new immigrants don't even need money to get farms, and they can circle as much as they can in a day, all of which are their own.

Roque doesn't talk nonsense, it's still the same sentence, your arsenic, my honey, everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced.

What's more, Roque doesn't want anyone to notice Oaktown, it is better if the Chinese can buy all the vineyards in Oaktown, so that Oaktown can become an alternative "Chinatown" in Cape, and in the future, as long as Oaktown reaches a certain scale, Oaktown can also organize a council and form a government, and at that time, the Chinese will also have the ability to make their voices heard.

Coming to the refugee camp was equally refreshing.

The old low, dilapidated tents full of patches and leaky tents were replaced by tall and spacious military tents, each of which housed ten to fifteen people, and there was about thirty square meters of open space between the tents for the children to play, of course, now the children are studying in the tent teachers, the women are working in the vineyards and wineries, there are no idlers wandering in the refugee camps, the ground is clean, there is no overflowing sewage, there is no foul-smelling defecation, and occasionally there are Boer women with wooden basins hurrying by, they go to the river to wash their clothes.

Although there was a riot some time ago, there is no trace of the riot now, the quarantine area that was originally located in the corner of the refugee camp has now been dismantled, and the prisoners who were shot that night have been burned and buried, and no one knows where the prisoners are buried except the Zulus who are in charge of the treatment.

No one sympathized with the prisoners who tried to "escape", and when the shots rang out that night, the women and children did not even come out of the tent, and by dawn all traces had been cleaned, and no one cared about the fate of the prisoners, the women were supposed to work, and the children were supposed to go to class, as if the prisoners of war had never existed.

Seeing that the camp continued to be in order, Henry was finally convinced that Roque had the confidence to deal with the investigation of the mission, and that day Henry returned to Cape Town to report to Police Commissioner August Russell and Governor Alfred Milner.

In the evening, the Oak Bar welcomed two special guests, two military observers from France.

"Hello, are you Inspector Locke?" The two military observers were targeted.

"Yes, I am, welcome to Oak Town." Roque did his landlord's friendship and motioned to Henry to pour wine: "I invite these two glasses, this is our self-brewed Elsdie, named after the Elsdy River, this wine is very good, comparable to the red wine of Bordeaux, maybe you don't know, the first inhabitants of Oak Town were French, they were Hugers from Bordeaux, because there is a similar environment to Bordeaux, so they settled here, and planted grapes and made wine." ”

Speaking of Oaktown, Roque gushes about Oaktown, which has a strong connection to Bordeaux, which would have aroused the interest of the two military observers.

It is indeed interested, the two French people are also on the battlefield, and the wine has just entered their throats, and their eyes immediately light up.

"It's really good, it tastes like Bordeaux red wine."

"I really didn't expect that Cape would have such a great wine."

Well, it is indeed easy for a man to pull a relationship at the wine table.