Except for some particularly perverted guys, as long as there is hope in life, no one will take risks.

The main population of Johannesburg is now Chinese and Zulu, and the Zulu people are all in the mines, and the Chinese are either in the mines, reservoirs, or farms.

After the end of the war, thousands of guerrillas who had laid down their arms returned to Orange, and these people were mentally traumatized to varying degrees during the war, and some of the guerrillas returned home only to find that they had been separated from their wives and families and their families were broken, and in just two months, dozens of guerrillas committed suicide with guns in their makeshift tents.

More partisans were alcoholic, irritable, impulsive, and had serious violent tendencies, and in the first two months after the signing of the Peace Accords, there were daily violent incidents in Orange, where people were killed every day, and the extermination of Liszt's family was a case in Johannesburg, and it was common in Orange, and in the week before Liszt's family was wiped out, there were three violent cases in Orange where more than four people died.

Therefore, Roque wanted to hold a public trial, and not only Austin Pence agreed, but even Louis Botha agreed.

The head of Orange in charge of liaison with Johannesburg is Jan Christian Smuts.

In Orange, Jan Smoltz held the position of attorney general.

Jan Smoltz was born in the Cape Colony, so he was born British, his ancestors were Huguenots who moved from France to the Netherlands, and his father was a Boer farmer and a member of the colonial parliament, so Jan Smotz's background is complicated.

In 1891, Jan Smoltz went to Cambridge University in England to study law, and then won the first place in the London Bar Society, and after returning to Cape Town, Jan Smoltz and Cecil Rhodes were close, but in 1898, at the age of 28, Jan Smoltz accepted the invitation of Paul Krüger, President of the Transvaal Republic, to become Minister of Justice of the Transvaal Republic.

After the outbreak of war, Jan Smoltz became an excellent soldier, and after the guerrilla war began, Jan Smoltz commanded his troops to annihilate the 17th Spear Cavalry Regiment in Cape.

Until the day of the armistice, Jan Smoltz was still on the battlefield, and then Jan Smoltz participated in the peace negotiations, in which Jan Smoltz advocated cooperation with Britain and played an important role.

Article 12 of the DPA stipulates that the main commanders of the Boer army shall be deprived of their civil rights, but they shall not be sentenced to death.

This was apparently not seriously enforced, and Jan Smuts and Louis Botha were both Boer army commanders, but both now held key positions in the Orange government.

Because of his relationship with Cecil Rhodes, Roque met Jan Smozi at a dinner party held for Jan Smotz by Smelt Jr.

There weren't many people at the dinner, except for Xiao Si and Jan Smozi, only Roque and Henry.

Jan Smoltz is emaciated and capable, with sharp eyes and a peach heart-shaped goatee, he is a rare high-level intellectual among the Boers, because he has studied in London, so Jan Smoltz is very good at dealing with London politicians, the last time Joseph Chamberlain visited South Africa, Jan Smoltz was invited.

The future British government agreed to the autonomy of South Africa, also promoted by Jan Smolts.

After the establishment of the Union of South Africa, Louis Botha served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa until his death in 1919, when Jan Smoths took over as Prime Minister until 1924, and later became Prime Minister of South Africa again in 1939.

Roque thought that Jan Smotz would communicate with Roque about the public trial, but he didn't expect that Jan Smotz had no intention of discussing the public trial at all, so he sat down and began to talk about the "People's Party" that he and Louis Botha had just founded.

Partisanship has been a very popular topic in the Transvaal and Orange lately, with Jan Smuts and Louis Botha, former Transformer President Schalke Beagle forming the People's Party, and Herzog and DeWitt forming a Orange Unity Party, all of whom decided to contest the elections to be held in the Cape the following year.

The current ruling party in Cape is still Cecil Rhodes's Progressive Party, and after Cecil Rhodes's death, Dr. Starr Jameson became the leader of the Progressive Party, and this Dr. Starr Jameson was the same Starr Jameson who led the Rhodesian police into the Transvaal to try to meet the riots and was later captured by the Transvaal Republic.

In 1896, Dr. Starr Jameson escaped trial on the grounds of serious illness, and it was rumored that Dr. Starr Jameson was dying, but he was now "healed" and still had the energy to participate in the 1904 election for Prime Minister in Cape.

"In the long run, democratic representation in the Transvaal and Orange is inevitable, and we can even be a little more optimistic that there will be opportunities for autonomy in southern Africa in the future, and now that Canada and Australia have been granted autonomous status, and New Zealand is also seeking self-government, we have reason to believe that a democratic representative system, or autonomous South Africa, is more in the interests of the British Empire, just as we are now in a severe drought, but the London government knows nothing, and London is too far away from us, It is impossible for Congress to respond correctly in a timely manner to everything that is happening in southern Africa. "Jan Smotz's reasons are very good, and Roque thinks so, but Jan Smoz's starting point is definitely different from Roque's.

Last year's rainy season didn't drop a drop of rain, so this year's drought in the Transvaal and Orange is really severe, the Limpopo River has been completely cut off, and the Transvaal and other rivers in Orange are also running out of water.

In Johannesburg, the government and farmers are trying to save themselves, with government funding, agricultural associations leading the way and farmers contributing to the large-scale drilling of wells and water conservancy in Johannesburg.

Bloemfontein is not good, although Bloemfontein also got a loan, but the organizational ability of the Orange government is far from the Transvaal government, and the Boers do not cooperate, so Orange can only respond passively, passively wait, if the rainy season is still insufficient this year, then by next year, the Boers in Orange will have a problem drinking water.

At present, the Transvaal and Orange are still in the dry season, and it is normal for it not to rain, and when the rainy season arrives in November, if the rainfall does not increase significantly, then the Transvaal and Orange will have to prepare for a more severe drought next year.

"Democratic representation is still possible, but autonomy is not realistic—" Henry certainly did not want the Transvaal and Orange to be autonomous, and if the Transvaal and Orange were autonomous, then Henry and Roque, the nobles, would be subject to many restrictions.

Roque did not speak on this issue, and whether Henry wanted it or not, Roque knew that autonomy was inevitable.

"Why is it unrealistic, if this situation persists at the moment, then I think London's patience will not last long." Jan Smozi is full of confidence.

Roque exchanged glances with Henry and Smalls, as if to understand why the Boers in Orange were resistant to the help of the British government.

It is indeed resistance, don't the Boers know that the sooner the farms are rebuilt, their lives will be regularized as soon as possible?

Surely they knew, and even if ordinary Boers didn't know, elites like Jan Smuts and Louis Botha certainly knew.

So why did the Boers do nothing?

Probably this is the reason that Jan Smozi just said, if the Boers do nothing, depend on London for everything, in addition to compensation and appropriations, they also apply for financial aid and loans every year, and these loans may not be able to be repaid.

Then in a few years, London will definitely get tired of it, and if the Boers ask for autonomy, London will indeed agree to it.

This is a righteous conspiracy.

It is estimated that if Jan Smozi and Gandhi go to talk, they should have a common language.

"The crux of the matter is what is the benefit of autonomy for Orange." Roque finally couldn't help it, and now the attitude of Jan Smuts and Louis Botha is obvious, no matter what it is, they must be tied to the Transvaal, and Roque is resolutely against this bondage.

Without the Transvaal's cooperation, Orange could not have done anything.

After all, Orange has no gold mines, and there are no diamond mines, so Orange has no economic independence at all, and the reason why Orange has to pull the Transvaal in everything is because the Transvaal has gold mines, and if Orange and the Transvaal are tied together, then the Transvaal can subsidize Orange economically.

As a Transvaal, Roque certainly disagrees with this approach, and if the Oranges really want autonomy, then the Transvaal might as well be closer to Rhodesia, at least Rhodesia doesn't need the help of the Transvaal.

"Freedom, all along, what we want is freedom!" Jan Smozi was categorical, and this reason was almost unassailable: "Because of the British invasion, we moved from the Cape to the Transvaal and Orange, after the discovery of the Rand gold mine, the Cape once again provoked trouble, in order to end the war, we were even willing to give up the Rand gold mine, and only retain the independent state, but even this humble request, London still did not agree, so the current Transvaal and Orange are not the Transvaal and Orange we want, but the British government imposed on us." ”

Jan Smuts was right, Britain was indeed the culprit in all this, and the expeditionary force was incapable of destroying the Boers, and in the end the British government had no choice but to negotiate with the Boers.

If the expeditionary force had been a little more powerful and the British government had been a little tougher, then perhaps there would have been no trouble now.

"Your Excellency, you are also British, and now all Boers are British." Henry's reminder that it doesn't hurt or itch.

"Yes, Lord Favart, I am indeed English, I was born in the Cape, I studied at Cambridge University, and I have the impression that when I was born, the British Empire was aggressive, courageous, and civilisationally progressive – but what now? The British Empire is no longer what it used to be, and as an Englishman, I am ashamed of some people in the British Empire. Yang Shi Mozi probably didn't notice that when he said this, Xiao Si's face was very ugly.

If you want to say that the culprit who provoked the war, Cecil Rhodes is responsible, and from the perspective of Jan Smozi, he can indeed blame Cecil Rhodes because they are friends.

But from Xiao Si's point of view -

I'm sorry, in this world, whoever says Cecil Rhodes is not good, Xiao Si is afraid that he will kill someone.

"Okay, Your Excellency, I hope your People's Party wins the general election, and we are now here to talk about the issue of public trial." Roque doesn't dwell on this topic, and after being pitted a few times by Louis Botha's old fox, Roque is now wary of dealing with Louis Botha and Jan Smoth.

"Ah, the public trial, that's nothing to talk about, those who make mistakes must pay the price, and we also have a reason to warn those with bad intentions through the trial of these people." Regardless of Jan Smoths's views on the British government, Jan Smoltz certainly does not contradict the public trial, after all, Jan Smoltz does not want Orange to become a paradise for criminals.

"Then it's decided, if it's convenient tomorrow, I hope you can come to the police station, and we can have a good talk about this issue." Roque decided to end the dinner, he was very unhappy for dinner today, and Roque was going to have some supper with Henry later.

On the way back to the city, Henry was still angry.

"These Boers are really insatiable, even if they give them more money, they will not have the slightest gratitude to the Empire, they should let the expeditionary force destroy them, look at that guy just now, he is still a graduate of Cambridge University, he studied this at Cambridge University?" Henry was still very angry when he remembered Jan Smotz's face just now.

"Henry, be careful, that guy is digging a hole for us." Roque can now confirm that Jan Smoltz is deliberately provoking Roque and Henry.

Sadly, the entire Transvaal, including Mayor Philip Matilda, found no outstanding talent in Roque other than Ade.

So it is no wonder that in the original history, when Ade left office and returned to the British mainland, the Boers took the lead in the four colonies of the Cape, first Louis Botha, then Jan Smuts and Herzog, and the British never became the leaders of the South African Federation.

In the current Transvaal, in addition to Ade, the most outstanding young people should be Roque, Xiaosi, and Henry.

Not to mention Roque and Henry, Xiao Si, as the owner of the South African company, rules the whole of Rhodesia, and he is outside of southern Africa, and the establishment of the historical South African Federation does not include Rhodesia.

Then the young people who deserve the attention of Jan Smotz and Louis Botha are Roque and Henry, especially Roque, there are now more than 100,000 Chinese in Johannesburg, Roque is the undisputed core of the Chinese, whether it is the British or the Boers, they will not ignore the power of the Chinese.