On this issue, Roque and Henry have different views.

"Don't be happy, I'll go to Christian and let him free up his hands to repair the council building first." Roque can't sit still, the county officials might as well be in charge now, Alfred Milner will only come to Pretoria at the end of the month, and there is no hurry to repair the Palace of Justice, so he will serve those officials first.

"Why? I'd like to watch Kevin move rocks in the afternoon. "Henry is still not as shrewd as Roque.

"Are you stupid? The boss is not in Pretoria now, no matter how good he behaves, the boss can't see it, what's more, the boss doesn't care about these things at all, what matters is those officials-" Roque thought about it and decided that the good man would do it himself: "Forget it, don't go to Christian, let's go together-"

Those who arrived in Pretoria in advance were not only the police and mining bureau staff, but also the financial, tax, health, immigration and many other government agency working members, and even the son of the director of the mining bureau began to work.

Henry's focus is clearly different from Roque's: "Boss - that's a new title!" ”

Is it fresh? If the Cape colonial government is seen as a subsidiary of a large enterprise, then Alfred Milner is undoubtedly the owner of the subsidiary, and Queen Victoria is the big boss of the head office.

In the lounge on the third floor of the Parliament Building, the directors of the branch department managers are resting, they are all ambitious to come to Pretoria, wanting to achieve a career in this golden capital, but the reality has poured a basin of cruel cold water on them, and the current situation in Pretoria is too helpless.

"Gentlemen, the current situation is that we have ample funds, we have a bright prospect, we have a wise and decisive governor, but we lack human resources, we are desperately lacking, there are less than 20,000 people left in the whole of Pretoria, and they are all old and weak, women and children, and the Rand gold mines have countless gold, but no one mines it, so we need to emigrate, as many immigrants as possible, so that we can turn the good prospects into reality." The head of the mine, Swift, was full of sadness, there were mines in Pretoria, but there were no people, and Swift was eager to go down the mine by himself.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Director, I can't help about this matter, the immigration bureau has publicized it as much as possible in the country, but no one wants to immigrate to the Cape, compared with Canada and Australia, the Cape is not attractive enough for immigrants, and this situation is not the first day it exists." The head of the immigration bureau, Jerome Wycliffe, can't help it, not to mention the lack of human resources in Pretoria, and Cape Town is also short of manpower.

Ever since the British defeated the Boers and colonized Cape Town, the Cape colonial government wanted to attract more immigrants to Cape.

In the past 100 years, more than 100,000 Britons have immigrated to the Cape.

But since the outbreak of the Second Boer War, nearly a year later, the number of Britons in the Cape has become less and less, not only have there been no increase in new immigrants, but many of the Britons who had immigrated to the Cape before the war have also left.

So the lack of manpower is not just a problem in Pretoria, or even just the Cape, it is a problem in British colonies all over the world.

No way, there are too few British, the colonies are too big, and the Cape really doesn't have any advantage in attracting immigrants.

"This is a question that deserves our vigilance, and if the situation is not fundamentally improved, then after the war, the Cape will remain the Cape of the Boers, and here we are, always guests." Treasury Secretary Bob Giles is a smart guy who can find problems, but he still doesn't have the ability to solve them.

"It's not so dangerous, after the war is over, the mining area will return to normal, and then someone will come to pan for gold." The tax commissioner, Neil McPearson, was more optimistic, and it was still a time of war, and the population would decline normally, and the population would naturally recover slowly after the war.

What's more, the Rand gold mine has countless amounts of gold, and Johannesburg is the city that accompanied the gold rush, and there are many such examples, such as San Francisco in the United States, and Australia fifty years ago, after the discovery of gold, Australia's population tripled in ten years.

"Don't dream, even if the war stops, the mining area is still controlled by those big enterprises, how many opportunities can ordinary people have?" Bob Giles doesn't like big business, and the emergence of big business will affect the government's revenue.

But the existence of big business is inevitable, the former prime minister Cecil Rhodes, who single-handedly provoked the Second Boer War, is the Cape's leading entrepreneur, Cecil Rhodes founded the "De Beers Mining Company", almost monopolized 90 percent of the world's diamond production, it is precisely because Cecil Rhodes invested in the "South African Unified Gold Mining Company" controls the Rand gold mine, so the contradiction with the Transvaal Republic intensified, and eventually led to the outbreak of war.

"Come on, gentlemen, this is a matter for His Excellency the Governor to consider, and our task now is to restore the city to normalcy in the shortest possible time – starting with the parliament building." Justice Duke Cowper was helpless, other government agencies could share the parliament building, but the court could not, the court should have an independent office location, but in the current situation in Pretoria, Duke Cowper has no time to find a suitable office location.

"Good news, gentlemen, Chief Henry and Inspector Locke have come to help with a squad of officers, we have rescuers." Robin Fowler, the deputy director of the Finance Bureau, came to report the good news, because of the lack of manpower, the dignified deputy director had to clean up, which was too undignified.

It's embarrassing!

"That's great news!"

"Director Henry is such a good man!"

"Robin, go and get Director Henry over and take a break."

The directors are very open-minded, in fact, in their respective departments, they are all bosses, very busy, if it is not for the lack of office space, they are not willing to squeeze in the lounge and idle nonsense.

Boss, you have to look like a boss, so the directors don't clean up by themselves, Henry, as the police chief, of course, doesn't have to clean up by himself, only the finance director Bob Giles is more of a chicken thief, he rolled his eyes and left the lounge quietly.

In fact, Roque doesn't have to work, more than three hundred commandos work together, the efficiency is not too fast, and Roque is also talking nonsense with a group of middle-level leaders in the hall.

Seeing Bob Giles appear, a group of middle-level leaders suddenly dispersed, and Roque rubbed his nose and wanted to pretend to help.

"Inspector Locke, I have something to ask you—" Bob Giles called out to Roque.

Come on?!

Don't, you're everyone's God of Wealth, you have something to say.