The Bechuana Reserve has diamonds, and the reserves are still very high, ranking among the top in the world.

Roque is not very professional in this regard, but Xiao Si is professional, so Roque sent a telegram to Xiao Si, and Xiao Si arrived in Johannesburg the next day.

Amelia sent over more than 20 diamonds, all of which were raw ore that had not yet been processed, and almost all of them were colored diamonds with a little color, and they were still very beautiful when stacked together.

However, this kind of scene is very normal in Xiao Si's eyes, Xiao Si casually picked up the pink diamond that had been gnawed by the big man for an afternoon and looked at it a few times, and then threw it back on the table.

"This is not a good thing, even if the diamond mine is discovered in the Bechuana Reserve, it cannot be mined now, the world's diamond market is so big, and if there are more diamonds mined, diamonds will not be worth much-" Xiao Si's standard businessman's thinking is not the same dimension as Roque.

This is just right for Roque, Xiao Si wants benefits, but Roque wants living space.

As for Amelia, what he wants is social status, then give it to him, which is simple for Roque.

With the addition of Xiao Si, the matter was easily resolved, and Roque was in the middle, and Xiao Si and Amelia signed an agreement on the development of diamond mines in the Bechuana Reserve, and then Roque was able to send troops from the Northern Rhodesia Division into the Bechuana Reserve in the name of the South African Company.

In this regard, Xiao Si actually has more freedom than Roque, Roque also has to consider London's reaction, the South African company is just a business operation, and there is no need to even say hello to London, and the troops going to the Bechuana Protectorate are also in the name of developing mines, and the British government can't control it at all, and it doesn't want to care.

As the arms race deepened, all the attention of the British government was to maintain its overall superiority over Germany, to the point of southern Africa.

At the end of April, the prime ministers of the four colonies of southern Africa convened their first joint meeting in Pretoria to formally discuss the establishment of a federal government of southern Africa.

The issue was agreed on the first day, and almost everyone present agreed that the establishment of a united southern African federation would be more conducive to the development of southern Africa.

This consensus is only the first step, and there are many more issues to be discussed, such as the status of the colonies in the Federal Government of Southern Africa after the establishment of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, the location of the capital of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, and most importantly, the Constitution of the Federal Government of Southern Africa.

Prior to this, the laws of the four colonies of southern Africa had varied considerably, with the Cape having the strictest laws, the Natal having the most lenient laws, the Transvaal using more economic-oriented laws and the most friendly attitude towards minorities, and the Orange laws being the most traditional and the harsh rules relating to minorities.

Two months ago, Orange had just published a rule requiring Indians in the country to register in Bloemfontein to facilitate better administration of Bloemfontein.

In fact, this is a pretext, the reason why Bloemfontein wants to register Indians is to repatriate Indians in batches in the future.

There were many Indians in Orange, and during the plague, the stretcher team led by Gandhi was deeply involved in the rodent control in Orange, and won a great reputation among ordinary Boers, after which many Indians naturally stayed in Bloemfontein, and with the stability of law and order in Orange, more and more Indians immigrated to Orange.

Unlike the British in the Transvaal, the Boers in Orange are very wary of the number of ethnic minorities, and the number of Boers in Orange is about 300,000, and the total number of Indians has increased to 30,000, accounting for one-tenth of the total population of Orange, and there is a trend of rapid increase in the future, which has finally caused concern for the Orange government.

If Indians and Chinese were as industrious and uncomplaining, perhaps the Orange government would have tolerated the increase in the Indian population, since Indians are now in principle British and have the right to settle freely within the Commonwealth.

It's a pity that the increase in Indians has not brought much change to Orange, compared with India, Orange's living conditions are much better, and Indians don't need to be more diligent to live a very easy life in Orange.

Indians are also strange, as long as life can still get by, they will not take the initiative to think about how to improve the quality of life, they never seem to worry about whether there is overnight food in the granary, living in the moment is the best commentary for Indians.

Compared with the Indians, the Boers are higher than the sky and the fate is thinner than paper, obviously they used to be the masters of the Cape, and even the Transvaal and Orange, but now the Boers no longer have their own country, and the living space is getting smaller and smaller, so many Boers are very dissatisfied with the current life.

However, many Indians are very satisfied with their current life, so the final state is that they are obviously eating chaff vegetables, and the Boers eat with tears and tears, but the Indians eat happily singing and dancing.

Compared to the Chinese in the Transvaal, this situation is simply too sad for the Orange authorities.

Obviously, they are all members of ancient civilizations, and the foundation is similar when they come to southern Africa, and the immigration conditions given by the officials of the Transvaal and Orange are also similar, but the Chinese of the Transvaal and the Indians of Orange do show two completely different states, which makes the official attitude of Orange towards Indians more and more disgusted, and finally leads to the Orange government's determination to clean up the Indians in the territory.

Just like the attitude of the Boers towards the British at the beginning.

It is clear that the Indians did not have the courage to resort to violent means against the unjust decisions of the Orange authorities, as the real British.

However, Gandhi had gained some social prestige through his efforts during the plague, so Gandhi led the Indians in Orange to strongly oppose the decision of the Orange government, and criticized the Orange government for its perfidy in the newspapers.

During the plague, in order to make the stretcher team led by Gandhi willing to work for Orange, Jan Smotz, then secretary of state for colonial affairs, promised Gandhi that after the plague, the Orange government would give Indians real national treatment and would not discriminate against Indians.

Now this regulation of the Orange government is clearly discriminatory.

To the dismay of the Orange government, many ordinary Boers were also incited by Gandhi to stand up against this regulation of the Orange government.

So the Orange government had to compromise and change the immediate rank to a free registration within three months.

In fact, the result is still the same, after the registration is completed, the Orange government will still repatriate the Indians in batches.

But it was a remarkable victory for Gandhi and the rest of the Indians, who forced the Orange government to reverse its decision as if they had won a major battle.

Roque laughed after knowing this, and had a new recognition of this "Mahatma".

While the prime ministers of the four colonies were meeting in Pretoria, Gandhi also came to Pretoria to try to secure a better social status for Indians after the establishment of the Southern African Union.

Roque had dealt with Gandhi anyway, so Gandhi took the initiative to find Roque, hoping to get Roque's help.

Gandhi's reason is also very strange, the Transvaal can accept even the Gurkhas, so it should also accept the Indians, so Gandhi hopes that the Transvaal will agree to accept immigrants of Indian origin and give immigrants of Indian origin the same social status as Chinese and Gurkhas.

"I'm sorry, it's not for me to decide, you should go to Lord Matilda for this matter." Roque knew at this time that the prime minister of the Transvaal was Philip, not Roque.

"I also hope to meet with Lord Matilda, but unfortunately Lord Matilda is busy with official business and has not been able to spare time, if I can, I also hope that Lord Matilda can help me to facilitate the opportunity for me to meet Lord Matilda." Gandhi was a bit more demanding, or rather, Gandhi was still relatively naïve.

In fact, Philip is not busy at all, and he played with little Gavin for a whole afternoon yesterday.

It's a pity that Philip and little Gavin get along with each other very dissatisfied, Philip likes fishing very much, so he took little Gavin to fish, Phyllis knew that after his attitude was resolute, Philip strictly forbade Philip to take little Gavin to fish, claiming that if there is a next time, Phyllis will limit the contact between Philip and little Gavin.

Don't see that Philip is the prime minister of the Transvaal, but at home, Philip's family status is really not high, white families and Chinese families get along differently, Chinese families even if they are a big family, they will live together, and the separation of the family is considered a precursor to the decline of the family, which is a very unlucky thing.

It is normal for white families to be separated, and when children become adults, even if they have not yet started a family, they will generally move out of the family, and the relationship with their parents is more indifferent than that of Chinese families.

Philip's family is the same, although Henry and Philip both live in Pretoria, Henry only takes Lacey and Paula home to have dinner with Philip on weekends, but Phyllis, the daughter who got married, often takes Gavin back to her parents' house.

That's why Philip loved Gavin's grandson very much.

Of course, Roque would not have told Gandhi about these things, let alone taken Gandhi to see Philip, and Roque could not make decisions for Philip.

So Roque refused very simply: "I'm sorry, Lord Matilda doesn't want to see you, you must have done something to make Lord Matilda unhappy, so I can't help it." ”

"What did I do?" Gandhi even asked rhetorically.

Roque was simply helpless, and Gandhi was too naïve to even understand such an obvious refusal.

Not necessarily, maybe Gandhi was playing dumb.

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