In southern Africa, there are not 100 to 80 people killed by horse strikes every year, more than cars hit and killed.

When Roque was deputy minister of justice, he tried to push for legislation to ban large animals such as mules and horses from entering the city, but even the police could not do it, after all, many cities in southern Africa now have mounted police, although more and more mounted police now no longer ride horses but motorcycles.

So the city of this period is a wonder, not only can you see the old horse-drawn carriages, but also the motorcycles, cars, trucks that have just appeared in the city, but the popularity of bicycles is not high, and there are often trams on the streets with crisp bells jingling and whistling, these trams are part of the urban public transportation system, and since their appearance in 1840, they are common in many cities.

Public transport is well developed in southern Africa, with railways and roads and river links between major cities, horse-drawn carriages and trams in cities, and Cape Town's underground has already begun to be laid, although this is almost fifty years later than London's metropolitan underground, but it is the first metro in the whole of Africa.

Pretoria is the transportation hub of southern Africa, north to Nyasaland, south to Cape Town, east to Durban are unimpeded, and now the railway between Pretoria and Walvis Bay is being laid, once completed, Southern Africa will realize the Grand Cross Railway that Ade has been thinking about for ten years,

"This is the case in the Congo Free State, where the Congo Party has occupied Leopoldville and Boma, and has taken control of the Congo Free State's access to the sea, and the interior is still in a state of chaos, with more than a dozen rebel forces in the territory, and it is estimated that at least a million Congolese have died during this time, and some of our companies are in contact with the Congolese Party and the rebels to try to fill the void left by the departure of Belgian companies, and it is estimated that the chaos in the Congo Free State will continue for some time." Ade didn't ask Simon Kennan about Roque, but about the situation in the Congo Free State.

"This is the lesson, the Belgians are self-inflicted, Leopold II's brutality and the brutality of Belgian enterprises have caused this catastrophe in the Congo Free State, and we have millions of Africans in our territory, how can we avoid a similar tragedy in our southern Africa?" Compared to this, Simon Kennan is indeed insignificant.

After the outbreak of war in the Congo Free State, French Equatorial Africa, Southern Africa, Portuguese West Africa, Tanganyika and South-West Africa all raised their alert levels in order to prevent the riots in the Congo Free State from spreading to their respective territories.

Roque is fearless, the Congo Free State is 30,000 whites ruling 10 million Africans, so as long as Africans rise up to resist, the whites of the Congo Free State will have no power to fight back.

The total number of Chinese and whites in southern Africa is about the same as that of Africans, so even if Africans riot in southern Africa, the army can calmly deal with it with stronger organization and more advanced weapons, just like the previous Natal rebellion.

"There is an essential difference between our enterprises and Belgian enterprises, for Belgian enterprises, Africans belong to part of the means of production, so they cut off their hands, shoot them, and even slaughter villages at every turn; And Africans are cheap labor for our business, although cheap, but also have to pay, and this aspect is still very strict, so the relationship between our business and Africans is much more relaxed than in the Congo Free State, and this will not happen. "Roque has a say in this, and the copper miners in Nyasaland and most of the members of the colonial pioneer group are Africans.

"You have to be careful, the Ministry of Defense has all African troops, these troops are dangerous." This is the first time that Ade has intervened in the work of the Ministry of Defense, and it cannot be regarded as meddling, but it is just an inquiry.

"It's not all Africans, the officers are still our own people, the soldiers' weapons are not usually dispensed with ammunition, only rationed during training, they are not in the mood to make trouble, the daily work schedule is very tight, and there is not enough time to rest." Roque has a way, those African soldiers are as tired as dead dogs every day, let alone making trouble, and they can fall asleep after eating.

The work of African soldiers includes not only training, but also manual labor near the station, building roads, digging ditches, cutting down trees, etc., and finding something to do when they have nothing to do, just like the engineering troops formed by those conscripts, which are cheap to almost free labor.

It is precisely because of these engineering units in southern Africa that it has the capital to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction.

This is a useful experiment in southern Africa, where neighboring countries, such as Southwest Africa and the Congo Free State, rely on private capital to build railways like the United States, and in order to attract private investment, the land on both sides of the railway will be owned by the railway company, which has received more than 1 million hectares of land for the construction of the railway between Matadi and Leopoldville.

This was also the case in Southern Africa, where the railway between Nyasaland and Pretoria was built by Roque and Small, and when the railway was completed, the land on both sides of the railway was jointly owned by the South African Company and the Nyasaland Agricultural Company.

Although this method can greatly promote the construction of railways, but there are also great hidden dangers, in the past, southern Africa was vast and sparsely populated and could also implement such a policy, but now it is not possible, as more and more land is privately owned, land acquisition is a very serious problem, another time and space India in 2016 to build high-speed rail, originally planned to start construction in 2018, completed in 2022, but in 2019, the construction of high-speed rail needs 1400 hectares of land, The Indian government only expropriated 0.9 hectares, which translates to a little more than two acres of subather.

This is really in stark contrast to the tens of thousands of hectares of railways built in Africa.

The United States is even more excessive, when the Pacific Railroad was built, the railway company obtained tens of thousands of square kilometers of land at every turn, so this is really a lucrative deal.

The railways in southern Africa are built quickly, mainly because Roque and Xiaosi are the largest landowners in southern Africa, the railway passes through Nyasaland and Rhodesia, and there is no problem of land acquisition at all, all the land in Nyasaland is Roque's, all the land in Rhodesia is Xiaosi's, and most of the land in the Transvaal and Bechuana is also owned by Roque and Xiaosi, so the railways in the northern states of southern Africa are developing rapidly, and the progress of Cape and Natal is a bit slow, and the only few railways are built in the last century.

"Rest time is still to be guaranteed." Ade has finally started to eat minced meat, and Sidney Milner, who knows better, is also quite embarrassed.

Roque didn't know how to explain it, probably Ade wanted to build a society in which the cultivators had their fields and the dwellers had their houses, but in real life, it had not been realized until the twenty-first century, and there was no need to think about it at the beginning of the twentieth century.

"At least we didn't abuse them, the food supply was sufficient, the wages we should have never been in arrears, and the punishment for mistakes was more humane—" Roque said nicely, and being able to do this can be called humane management in any era.

"How do you punish those who make mistakes?" After sitting in the office for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be out of touch with society and not understand the situation at the grassroots level.

"Depending on the degree of the mistake, a slight reduction in the food supply, or confinement, or a serious case, will be dealt with by a military court, and it will be dealt with as it should be." Roque said that this is the role of military tribunals.

Ade didn't know what confinement meant, but he still trusted Roque's management level, and there were now nearly 200,000 troops in southern Africa, and there had never been a serious incident such as mutiny and riots, which was worthy of Roque's pride.

Throughout, Ade didn't ask about Simon Kenan, a trust that made Roque feel so mixed that he simply asked Sidney Milner out for drinks in the evening.

"I've reminded Irving that competition is okay and must be within the rules, and I've warned Brant and Fox that newspaper content must be vetted in advance and no content with obvious directions is allowed." Still, Roark did some remedy, with Brandt Butler as editor-in-chief of the Free Press and Lauren Fox as editor-in-chief of the Southern African edition of The Times, both of which sold equally well in southern Africa.

"Locke, I now understand why you hate elections." Sidney Milner was drunk, he never pretended to be in front of Roque.

Roque had previously made his opposition to elections clear in front of Sidney Milner, and that southern Africa was still democratic and representative, not the kind of universal suffrage that would really drive people crazy.

Even in the democratic representative system, the weight of elections is obviously excessive, the prime minister is not elected by universal suffrage, parliamentarians are always elected by universal suffrage, and the whole of southern Africa is relatively easy to elect in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, and other regions, including the Transvaal, have to be tossed every two or three years.

"Now that your uncle is the prime minister, of course you would say so." Roque laughed, even if there was no election, Ade would not be prime minister for life.

"It doesn't matter if you do, of course I do." Sidney Milner also laughed, whether Ade was prime minister or Philip was prime minister, Roque was the winner.

Of course, even if Philip is replaced as prime minister, Sidney Milner is not a loser, a person like Ade, even if he does not serve as prime minister, he is also in a prominent position in southern Africa, and naturally there are other positions waiting for Ade, and when the time comes, if he is not the prime minister, he will not receive so much attention, and the work will not be so hard, as long as Ade's body does not have problems, Sidney Milner will be safe and worry-free.

Unfortunately, it didn't go as planned, and Ade fell ill that night and was sent to Ziwei Hospital.

(End of chapter)