After 27 months of brutal tug-of-war and guerrilla warfare, the Transvaal was almost in ruins, the old order was completely destroyed, and the new order had not yet had time to be established.

and, the Boers, who had suffered heavy losses in the war and had a bitter hatred for the British government.

It was determined in the Peace Agreement that the British government would pay £3 million to the Boers as compensation for their losses in the war.

Such a small amount of money will certainly not be able to make up for the losses of the Boers, let alone heal the psychological wounds of the Boers, but it can make the Boers settle down as quickly as possible, and there is no room for the Boers to settle in the Transvaal, only Orange is left to choose from, fortunately, Ade is not only the governor of the Transvaal, but also the governor of Orange, and there is no problem in coordination.

"It will take some time for the compensation to be paid to the Boers, and in this time the police will have to take over security as soon as possible, and at the same time take over the concentration camps, and the stability of the camps must be ensured until the compensation is paid." Philip had also realized that releasing the people from the camps now might cause serious social conflict.

In fact, the conflict is almost unavoidable, these Boer farms have been confiscated in the war, houses have been burned down by the expeditionary force, livestock have been looted, they are certainly not willing to accept this result, if they are allowed to leave, then the Chinese farms around Johannesburg will be in trouble, the Boers do not dare to find trouble with the city government and the governor's palace, so they can only vent their anger on the Chinese farmers.

As a white man, the Boers still have a bit of a psychological advantage when facing Chinese Americans.

"There are currently less than 500 police officers on staff, and we need to further expand the size of the police department to cope with the increasingly complex situation." Rokti demanded that now is a good opportunity to strengthen the police department.

"500 police officers are not enough? There are less than a thousand government employees in all of Johannesburg. "Philip has a headache, the police station is already very large.

"If we don't expand the number, then if we encounter an emergency, we will have to rely on the army." Roque is not too optimistic, after the expeditionary force is withdrawn, the garrison in Johannesburg will be replaced by a colonial servant army, that is, the kind of unit whose entire regiment is disarmed by the guerrillas, what kind of combat effectiveness can such a force have?

Anyway, Roque is not optimistic.

Philip also knew that the colonial servant army was unreliable, so he had to agree to Roque's request: "Then recruit some new policemen, but the number of them should not be too many, and the financial pressure will be high-"

Listening to Philip lament the financial pressure, Roque was also speechless, Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines, as long as the tax rights are recovered, there will be financial pressure?

Don't do it, if a city like Johannesburg is under financial pressure, then Pretoria is expected to eat dirt.

The day after the police took over the camp, the supplies sent by the city government were directly doubled on the basis of the period during which the expeditionary force managed the camp, and the refugees in the camp did not know that the "Peace Agreement" had been signed, so the police who took over the camp were simply grateful.

Roque also brought in doctors and nurses from Ziwei Town Hospital in due course to conduct physical examinations of the refugees in the camp.

The results of the examination were good, and the vast majority of refugees were only malnourished and did not have serious diseases.

In fact, this can also prove from another side how cruel the refugee camp under the management of the expeditionary force is, under normal circumstances, a refugee camp of this scale must be plagued and full of diseases, and the current situation can only show that those refugees suffering from diseases have unfortunately died.

The Boer partisans who laid down their arms and returned to Johannesburg were more dangerous than the relatively stable refugee camps.

Article 1 of the DPA stipulates that the Boer field forces and armed citizens must lay down their arms and surrender all guns and war materiel in their possession or control.

At the same time, Article 6 of the DPA also stipulates that the Boers are allowed to keep their firearms for self-defense, subject to a licence.

In the Johannesburg region, the police are responsible for the collection of weapons and the issuance of licences.

Roque set up checkpoints at all the junctions into Johannesburg, and all Boers returning to Johannesburg were allowed to leave only one pistol with them, and only six rounds of ammunition were allowed to remain, and the rest of the weapons had to be surrendered in full.

The vast majority of Boer partisans would submit to the police, and some were dissatisfied, but they could only give in to the heavily armed commandos.

The signing of the Peace Agreement seemed to have broken the backbone of the Boers, whose courage had been exhausted in the brutal guerrilla warfare, and who now wanted nothing more than to return home and live the rest of their lives in peace.

The problem is that their home is gone.

Conflict is inevitable.

"Get out, this isn't some damn Krugersdorp, this is Ziwei Town, you don't belong here, get where you need to go." The only entrance to Purple Town, Sheriff Dunn brandished the pistol in his hand and roared at the large group of Boers in front of him.

There were about thirty or forty Boers, all partisans who had just returned to Johannesburg, and who had been residents of Krugsdorp before joining the Boer coalition, and who were now homeless.

"Damn, this isn't Ziwei Town at all, this is Krugersdorp, you damn thieves, you stole our home while we were gone." A Boer man in his forties, with a bandage on his arm, appears to have been wounded in the war and has not yet recovered.

"Yes, it's you guys who should get the fuck off!"

"This is our home!"

"You hateful thieves—" the guerrillas shouted, and in a fit of rage they began to urge their horses to break through the line of police and gold mine security.

Roque had anticipated this situation, so in recent days, Rock Gold Mine has sent some of its security guards to Ziwei Town just to deal with these Boers who are "returning home".

"Don't be impulsive, I'm the sheriff of Ziwei Town, if anyone dares to offend the majesty of my sheriff, then he will definitely regret it." Dunn didn't give in, smirking and pulling the hammer away.

Accompanied by the sound of "bang, bang" bolts from the police and security guards.

It was only then that the partisans remembered that their long weapons had been confiscated, and for a time they cursed the insidious Provisional Government and the Bul Fool Pig who had participated in the negotiations.

"Don't be impulsive—" Buck belated.

"Hello, I'm Buck, the mayor of Ziwei Town, and you have something to say to me." Buck was also very tired from running wildly, and the horse under his crotch snorted vigorously.

"Even the mayor of the town has it!"

"Who appointed your mayor?"

"You Englishmen doglegs—"

There was another shouting and scolding.

Buck was not in a hurry, and quietly looked at the Boer with an injured arm.

"We're former residents here, my name is Barnard." The Boers, who had been wounded in the arm, were calm.

"Hello Barnard, I'm Buck, the mayor of Purple Town, is your arm okay?" Buck tried to get closer, and it wasn't that far from the hospital.

Barnard didn't answer, and looked at Buck with a chilling gaze.

"You should know, after the outbreak of the war, the farms around here were confiscated by the government, and all the previous houses were burned down, Sir Locke bought this place from the city government and rebuilt Purple Town, you should have seen it, the current Purple Town, and the former Krugsdorp, so I'm sorry, you are welcome to visit Purple Town, but this is no longer Krugsdorp." Buck's voice was not high, but there was a calming magic, and with Buck's statement, the guerrillas who had been menacing just now gradually fell silent.

"That's how light you say, this is no longer Krugersdorp, and then we lost our home, and our families—" Barnard's voice grew lower, feeling like he was on the verge of exploding.

"Your family should be fine, they're all in the concentration camps, you can go and see." Buck diverts the guerrillas' attention and allows Barnard to continue, and a scuffle is inevitable.

Hearing that their families were in concentration camps, although this news has not yet been verified, it also calmed down most of the guerrillas, who actually knew how the expeditionary force treated the Boers in the "occupied areas", and it was in order to protect the Boers in the occupied areas that the guerrillas had to fight deep into the Cape.

However, their switch to war did not allow the expeditionary force to spare the Boers in the occupied areas, but because of the increasing attacks of the guerrillas, the expeditionary force in turn intensified its revenge on the Boers in the concentration camps.

Who can blame?

Blame the unprovoked tax hike before the war, deliberately targeting the British-American Transvaal Republic?

Or is it to blame the salivating, greedy capitalists?

A slap never sounds.

"Go to the concentration camp and see your family, and then go to the city government to receive your compensation, your resettlement is in Orange, the sooner you go to Orange, you can buy a farm at a low price a day earlier, if you go late, the price of the farm will definitely rise, continue to pester here, you will not get anything." Buck's multi-pronged approach, which was agreed upon by Roque and Philip, was to divide the Boers as much as possible from within, and to lure them to Orange.

Before the outbreak of the war, the total number of Boers in the Transvaal and Orange was 440,000, and the total number of Boers in the Boer coalition was 77,000, including 43,000 in the Transvaal and 30,000 in Orange.

Over the course of the war, 3,700 Boers were killed on the battlefield, 31,000 were taken prisoner, more than 10,000 were exiled, and fewer than 20,000 Boers surrendered.

If the 20,000 people share the 3 million pounds in compensation, then everyone will receive more compensation.

It's a pity that the 3,000,000 pounds were compensated to all the Boers, so if the 300,000 people were divided together, each person could only get about ten pounds.

Yes, the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange are now about 300,000 people combined, and Orange is completely acceptable to such a small number of people.

Hearing that his family was "fine" and that he could receive compensation at the city government, several of the anxious partisans could no longer bear it and wanted to turn around and go to Johannesburg.

"What about our old house?" Barnard still won't give up.

"Burned by the expeditionary force." Buck told the truth.

"And what about the livestock on the farm?" Barnard asked.

"Snatched by the expeditionary force." Buck's expression was sincere.

"And what about the Expeditionary Force?" Barnard was furious, and this time without waiting for Buck to answer, Barnard asked himself, "The expeditionary force has been withdrawn, right?" ”

"Not yet, the Expeditionary Force Headquarters is still in Pretoria, and the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment is based in Johannesburg, if you go to the black market in Johannesburg, you may still be able to find what your family used to be." Buck replied in more detail, the expeditionary force really didn't leave, and he had the ability to find it!

The expeditionary force, the guerrillas must not be provoked, in fact, the police and gold mine security guards in Ziwei Town, this little bit of sporadic guerrillas can not be provoked, Barnard and they only have more than 30 people, but there are hundreds of police and gold mine security guards around Dunn, and there are civilians with guns gathering in the distance, there are more people there, even women and children.

Barnard certainly couldn't imagine the determination of the Chinese to protect their property and their families.

To put it mildly, if you replace the Boers in the Boer War with the Chinese, the Chinese will definitely not give in, the Boer War has only been fought for 27 months, and the Boers are exhausted and have to surrender in humiliation, and the Chinese War of Resistance has been fought for 14 years, and it has not broken the backbone of the Chinese.

"Mr. Barker, your quibbles are meaningless, our things are ours, they are always ours, and no one can take them." Barnard didn't go to the expeditionary force, and he fought Buck in Purple Town.

"Hehe, Mr. Barnard, don't be so categorical, before you came to the Transvaal, the Transvaal belonged to the Matabele." Buck did not finish speaking, since the Boers could take the Transvaal from the Matabelles, the British could certainly also take the Transvaal from the Boers.

It should be noted that by this time, the Matabelle people had disappeared.

"Bastard, you robbed us of Cape Town, and now you are coming to rob our Transvaal, the land that our fathers took with their blood." Barnard was furious, Buck was legally depriving the Boers of the legitimacy of possessing the Transvaal, with Barnard's cultural level, he couldn't tell what kind of harm this would cause, but Barnard knew very well that if they didn't fight, then the Transvaal would have nothing to do with the Boers from now on.

"We have also paid with blood and lives for the Transvaal!" Buck did not budge, and in the Boer War, the expeditionary force lost 1,072 officers and 20,870 soldiers, a figure that was much higher than the price paid by the Boers when they defeated the Zulus.

Oh, by the way, there are more than 20 Chinese police officers who died in the war, and they should not be forgotten.