Chapter 59: Hurting Each Other

When Liang Dingxin got on the ship, he had a deposit of 120 pounds from Roque.

Roque is not worried about Liang Dingxin absconding with money, like Roque, who has become a naturalized Cape Town, Roque is now half a "foreigner", Liang Dingxin is the "second devil" who took refuge in foreigners, Liang Dingxin can only hug the thighs of the British in this life, and it is the same when he returns to the Qing Kingdom, if Liang Dingxin dares to abscond, then Liang Dingxin is looking for death.

Just like Luo Ke said, now the Qing Kingdom is in the most intense stage of the Boxer Movement, not to mention two devils like Liang Dingxin, the real foreigners have been killed by the boxers, Liang Dingxin probably doesn't dare to get out of the military camp of Huayong Battalion, where can he escape to?

What's more, as long as Liang Dingxin tastes the sweetness of being a "human trafficker", even if Luo Ke whips Liang Dingxin with a whip, Liang Dingxin will not leave, this money is too easy to earn, a woman is twenty yuan, two is forty yuan, and one hundred is two thousand-

Two thousand oceans, if Liang Dingxin earns a salary honestly, it will take ten years to earn so much, unlike the police, Liang Dingxin, as a translator, has no gray income, so Liang Dingxin can't refuse this temptation.

In fact, even if Liang Dingxin runs away with the money, Luo Ke is not distressed, he can only say that Liang Dingxin is short-sighted, as long as Liang Dingxin honestly sends people to Cape, Liang Dingxin can earn ten 120 pounds in the future, or even a hundred 120 pounds, and now this money is nothing.

It's really this "point" of money, after the reopening of the gambling game, every other week, Roque can get almost 120 pounds from the gambling game, this part of the money does not need to be "offered", in addition to this part, Roque also has other income, such as the filial piety of the gangsters near the docks, such as the monthly share of the shops in the port area, and various fines, although this part will be handed over to the police department, but the police department will give half of it as a bonus to Roque them, so Roque's current salary is not five pounds, nor ten pounds, but forty pounds a month.

That's the normal income of a colonial sheriff.

In this way, Roque's salary should be around five hundred pounds per year, which is equivalent to the salary of a director of the British Treasury.

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

If you add all kinds of gray income, Roque's salary is about the same as the Chancellor's salary, of course, most of this is disgraceful, so Roque needs to be whitewashed in other ways before it can become Roque's legal income.

In order to deal with these gray incomes, Roque bought a safe and put it in his home on Mill Street, every other week, Roque would go back and put the money in the safe, seeing that the money in the safe slowly increased, Roque's mood was getting better and better, and now even if Roque didn't eat with the British, Roque also had the capital to gain a foothold in this era.

In early February, after fully understanding the situation on the battlefield, Lord Roberts changed his strategy, moving the direction of his main attack from Natal West to the weaker Orange area in the center, and at the same time changing the rigid frontal attack tactics and adopting a roundabout strategy.

This tactic worked wonders, and on the Western Front, the British Expeditionary Force defeated the militia under the command of Piert Cronye, the fiercest "black general" of the Boer coalition.

In mid-February, the expeditionary force broke through the Boer coalition lines and lifted the three-month Boer siege of Kimberley.

Yes, although the "linear tactics" have fallen behind the times, but the Boers have too few troops, and there is nothing to be done about the heavily garrisoned Kimberley of the British army, although the siege of the Kimberley lasted for three months, but the Boers could not break through the British defense line, once they entered the frontal battle, the Boers still could not beat the British gun tactics.

"Our army won, the linear tactics are successful again, and I guess I'll be a clown next." Henry was hit hard, and it is estimated that in the whole Cape, only Henry hoped that the British would be defeated, so that Henry's foresight would be fully proven, and now that the British army was winning on the front, Henry's view of "linear tactics" became a farce on the stage.

A drink and a peck have their own destiny, Henry wanted to take Roque to the newspaper together, but Roque refused this opportunity in order to highlight Henry, so now, only Henry will be ridiculed.

It should be noted that around New Year's Day, Winston published a Henry comment on "linear tactics" in the "Morning Post", which caused a great repercussion in Britain, and the Liberal Party used the defeat of the British army at the Cape as an excuse to criticize the ruling Conservative Party for not wanting to make progress and holding on to the shortcomings, and even the military was scolded by the Liberal Party as a corpse vegetarian, and actually drove out a person with such insight into "linear tactics" from the army, no wonder the expeditionary force was beaten to disgrace by the Boers.

The Conservatives resolutely refused to admit their mistakes, and continued to send troops to the Cape while the parliament was fighting, striving to end the Anglo-Boer war as soon as possible.

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

"Don't worry, victory at the front does not mean the success of linear tactics, the Boer coalition and the expeditionary force are not at all on the same level, the front line now has more than 250,000 troops, and the total population of the Boers is only 440,000, in addition to the old, weak, sick and disabled, how many people can really go to the battlefield? So you should know why the military is silent, people who really know the situation will not laugh at you. "Roque is not worried, anyway, even if someone is ridiculed, it has nothing to do with Roque.

"Now that I think about it, I was crazy to talk to Winston about that." Henry regretted it, he knew that he wouldn't have been talking to Winston, what kind of idle clouds and wild cranes were pretending?

Roque wanted to laugh, but he was afraid that Henry would be angry, but fortunately Phyllis was there.

"Brother Henry, I think you did 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 father-love complex.

"Since you adore your father so much, why don't you listen to him and marry that fat pig from the Alsop family?" Henry was angry, grabbed Phyllis and squirted.

"You're just marrying a fat pig!" Phyllis screams, comparable to a sonic attack.

"Lacey is much better looking than the fat pig." Henry laughed, not realizing that there was anything wrong with comparing Lacey to a fat pig.

"Lacey has a marriage contract, but it's a pity that the groom is not you, ahhahahahahahahahahahaha Phyllis laughed so hard that she couldn't help herself, and she didn't show mercy.

"Lacey's heart is mine." Henry has a hard mouth, and if he can't get people, he has to get his heart.

The two siblings were busy hurting each other, and Roque looked sluggish, such a drama has been staged many times recently, and Roque is really helpless.