Both Roque and Jan Smotz are preparing for a democratic representative system in a few years.

The premise of democratic representation is elections, and only when the people elect a parliament can the parliament implement the democratic representative system.

Roque tried every means to increase the Chinese base, just to prepare for future elections, this year's election is different from future elections, not all adults have the right to vote, in the previous Cape, only adult white men who paid regular taxes had the right to vote, women and people of color did not have the right to vote.

Since the Transvaal has not yet formed a parliament, the Cape law is used, and according to the regulations, the Chinese in the Transvaal do not have the right to vote.

Roque was not worried about this problem, and when the Transvaal wanted to implement a democratic representative system, this regulation would definitely have to be revised, after all, the farmers in Johannesburg were basically all Chinese, and it was impossible for the Transvaal government to ignore this part of the force.

Roque also did not allow the interests of the Chinese to be ignored.

If what Roque is now running is the economic base, then Jan Smoltz and Louis Botha are working hard to build the superstructure.

The four Cape colonies combined, after all, there were 600,000 Boers, and the Boers were also white, so the Boers were born with the right to vote, which allowed Jan Smuts and Louis Botha to focus all their energy on party building.

"Is it necessary for us to form a political party as well?" Henry suddenly proposed.

"Don't be impulsive, Jan Smoltz and Louis Botha probably want us to do this, otherwise why do you think Jan Smoltz brought it up tonight?" Roque is not fooled, dealing with these old foxes, and if he is not careful, he will fall into the pit.

If this had been replaced by Roque half a month ago, he might have already ambitiously set up a political party to work against the so-called People's Party of Jan Smozi.

But in this way, Roque fell into the hands of Jan Smoltz, don't look at Jan Smoltz is now full of confidence, in fact, whether the "People's Party" created by Jan Smoltz and Louis Botha is legal or not is a different matter, once Roque and Henry also create a political party, then the question will change from "whether the party is legal" to "which party can win", and then the problem will become complicated.

Roque and Henry were aristocrats, and if even the aristocracy was involved in the struggle of the political parties, then the aristocracy would lose its transcendent status, which was what the common people of England, including the Boers, wanted to see.

In the current cabinet system in Britain, the highest organs of power are actually the House of Lords and the House of Commons, the House of Lords is the traditional territory of the British aristocracy, and theoretically, only the nobles can enter the House of Lords.

The House of Commons is a puppet of the House of Lords, and the members of the House of Parliament are elected, and all along, only nobles who cannot enter the House of Lords, or children and nephews of nobles in the House of Lords, will enter the House of Commons.

Of course, there are elected members of the House of Commons, but the number of such members is very small, and the British political parties and ordinary people have always wanted to break the monopoly of the aristocracy on the House of Lords, but unfortunately they have not been able to do so.

The transcendent status of the aristocracy is reflected in the fact that the aristocracy never joins a political party, but sits high above and watches the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party fight, and in the end, no matter who wins, they must obtain the consent of the aristocratic class before they can really take over the power.

Roque does not yet know what kind of election method the Transvaal will implement in the future, and if it is the same as the British mainland, then Roque and Henry will not be able to form a political party, at most they will act as the backing of a certain party.

"Damn, is it really so insidious?" Henry muttered to himself, clearly not yet appreciating the cunning of the old foxes.

"What do you think, well, we'll go to Pretoria tomorrow." Roque finally remembered Ade's teaching, and at this time, the old fox should be allowed to deal with the old fox.

Early the next morning, Roque and Henry took the train to Pretoria, and the meeting with Jan Smoltz was handed over to Joe Russell, as for Jan Smoltz was happy?

Who cares about him!

Ade was very satisfied with Roque this time, and after listening to Roque's report, it was already noon, so Ade simply left Roque and Henry to have lunch in the Palace of Justice.

"A democratic representative system is impossible, and even if it is to be implemented one day, it is only on the premise that we are ready for it." Ade was indeed fooling the Boers, and had no intention of implementing a democratic representative system.

After listening to Ade's words, Henry nodded frequently, Roque could only smile bitterly, the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, Ade, the old fox, was defeated by reality after all, no matter what, Ade couldn't have imagined that the situation would collapse so quickly.

"Of course, the Boers will try to do everything in their favor, and the worst can happen, so we have to be as prepared as possible-" Ade continued, Henry blank and Roque thoughtful.

"Locke, what comes to mind?" Ade asked by name.

"Some less mature ideas—" Roque didn't dare to say.

Roque thought to himself, if the Boers asked for autonomy, then would Roque be able to push the boat along?

In the long run, Roque also hopes that the Transvaal can be autonomous, of course, the autonomy here is not the kind of autonomy that is tied to Orange, Orange is now clearly a burden, whoever gets involved is unlucky, what Roque wants is that the Transvaal and Orange are autonomous separately, the Boers in Orange play theirs, and the Chinese in the Transvaal play their own, without interfering with each other.

Such an idea must not be told to Ade, if Ade knows, it is estimated that Ade will not let Roque walk out of the Palace of Justice.

"Tell me?" Ade's attitude towards Roque was encouraging.

"After meeting with Jan Smoltz last night, Henry proposed that we could form a party of our own against the Boer People's Party and the Orange Unionist Party, which I felt was inappropriate, and now that I think about it, it seems that we could try it as well." Roque really wants to try it, and there's nothing to lose if he doesn't succeed, but if he succeeds-

"It's not impossible to form a political party, the Cape is now implementing a democratic representative system, and in the long run, the Transvaal and Orange will definitely have to implement a democratic representative system, so it's okay to prepare in advance, the key question is, what are you going to do, if you implement a democratic representative system in the Transvaal, are you sure that you can defeat the Boers." This is what Ade meant by "being ready", that even if there was a democratic representative system, the Boers would not be able to take power.

At the very least, the Boers must not be allowed to take power in the Transvaal.

Or the unavoidable reason, Britain launched the war for Johannesburg's gold, Britain needs to use this gold to control the world's finance, so the Transvaal's gold is the bottom line of Britain, in another time and space, although South Africa finally gained autonomous status, but Johannesburg's gold has been continuously shipped to London, which strongly supports London to strengthen its status as a world financial center.

"If the farmers in Johannesburg had the right to vote, then we could easily win against the Boers." Roque shows his hole cards.

"Chinese?" Ade's expression was complicated.

"Yes, Chinese." Roque replied honestly, there is no threat at this time, the situation is like this, let's see what to do.

The current farmers in Johannesburg are not the same as they were in the Transvaal Republic.

During the Transvaal Republic, Boer farmers had large farms, often thousands of acres in size.

Relatively speaking, the farms of Chinese farmers are much smaller, under normal circumstances, the farms of Chinese farmers are about 1,000 acres, and the small ones are only a few hundred acres, or even about a hundred acres, so that the land in Johannesburg has not increased, in fact, the number of farms has increased compared to the times of the Transvaal Republic.

The increase in farms means an increase in taxpayers, and it also means an increase in the number of voters, and as long as Ade agrees to give the Chinese the right to vote, Roque really doesn't pay attention to this point of Boers in the Transvaal.

"You used to send Chinese to Johannesburg just for this day." Ade said lightly, looking at Roque's gaze.

The calmer it is, the more strange it is, and Roque's heart is alarmed.

"No, when I arrived in Johannesburg, there were already Chinese workers in Johannesburg-" Roque must have shirked his responsibility, and this pot can only be carried by Xiao Si: "-At that time, the living environment of Chinese workers was very bad, they were my people, I definitely couldn't sit idly by, and later I learned that someone was selling Chinese laborers to Johannesburg on a large scale, and it was an American named Herbert Hoover, who worked in the Kailuan coal mine in the Qing Dynasty. Hoover sold to De Beers Unified Mining Company, uh, Henry and I bought a gold mine at the time, and that's a bit of a coincidence, we also need workers in our gold mines, so—"

If necessary, Roque could still confess Nelson Holt and Kevin Trevecon together, but that was not necessary, with Xiao Si and Henry taking the blame together, this amount was enough.

After listening to this, Ade looked back and forth at Roque and Henry with eyes that hated iron and steel.

Roque and Henry are very honest at this time, and both of them are honest.

"Look what you've done!" Ade was very angry, but also helpless, everyone knew that the gold mines in Johannesburg were fat, and even the princes and nobles had to come up and take a bite, and the local officials in Johannesburg were no exception.

"You two are so short of money? One baron, one slave baron, such a large fief is not enough-" Ade slammed the table, and the cutlery on the table jumped wildly.

"I don't have a fief—" Roque muttered in a low voice, from the Baron there is no fief.

"What are you talking about?" Ade asked.

"Nothing—" Roque pretended to be a chick.

"What are the farms around Johannesburg? Nyasaland is not enough to be so large? The duke's land is not as much as yours-" Ade gushed endlessly, not noticing that it seemed to have deviated from the topic: "And you, your cement factory has been put into operation, the city government went to your factory to buy cement, you dare not sell it, what about cement?" ”

Ade turned his head and squirted at Henry.

"The cement is all for Locke to pull away—" Henry immediately sold Roque.

"I didn't know the city was going to buy it-" Roque was really wronged, and if Roque knew, he would definitely leave some for the Pretoria city council.

Cement is still more useful, the rich build houses with marble and granite, and the poor can't afford it, so they can only use wood.

In fact, wood is not cheap, the cheapest material is cement, a wood that takes decades to grow, the price must be more than a bag of cement with almost no cost, when the cement was first produced, Henry pulled a few carts to the Pretoria police station and hardened the playground in the police station.

This was supposed to be just to verify the performance of the cement, but the mayor of Pretoria, Mars Yates, after inspecting the police station's playground, said on the spot that he wanted to harden the floor of the church square, only to be told that there was not enough production to provide enough cement.

Henry is a nobleman, and although Mars Yates is the mayor, he can't do anything about Henry, but Mars Yates can sue, so Henry is unlucky.

"A baron, a baron, two police chiefs, good Pretoria and Johannesburg have made you miserable—" Ade continued, and Roque and Henry hung their heads in frustration.

Ten minutes later, Ade finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Roque immediately poured water.

Ade drank it all, and then his expression was really complicated, he was scolded for a long time and knew how to pour water, which really made people hateful.

"The farm is actually an accident, I know that the Chinese have a strong land complex, so they use the farm as a salary to pay the miners, the effect is still very good, the farm in Johannesburg is developing very fast, those farmers have brought their families to Johannesburg, settled in Johannesburg, even if they do not have the right to vote, they can generate taxes, enrich the agricultural market in Johannesburg, I recently and Professor Douglas are trying to set up a textile factory, if it can be successful, then the future, The textile industry could become another pillar of Johannesburg's economy. "Roque doesn't show a lot of urgency, sometimes it's just fighting.

"The farm is ready to produce wool?" Ade didn't expect the farm to grow so quickly, considering that a few weeks ago, Johannesburg officials were still seeking loans and subsidies for Johannesburg's farms.

"A few months ago, the Johannesburg farm raised merino sheep, the latest breed bred by the Royal Agricultural College of Gloucester, not only has a large wool production, but also good quality, we used to sell wool directly to the mainland, the price is not bad, but the money is very small, plus freight, there is almost no profit, so Professor Douglas and I both believe that it is necessary to set up a textile factory in Johannesburg." Roque has to rely on the economic card to impress Ade, and the location of the textile factory has actually been chosen, right in Scarlett's farm, where there are enough workers, and it is remote enough not to pollute the town of Ziwei and Johannesburg.

This can be regarded as a crooked hit.