In fact, it is impossible to offend both sides, Ade and Philip are not so shallow, Roque's own strength, and the Chinese represented by Roque are forces that cannot be ignored, so Roque's neutrality is the most ideal state for Philip and Ade.

Regardless of the election, Roque's attention is still focused on the Congo Free State.

The current Congo Free State has opened its arms to southern Africa, and while the Northern Rhodesian Division occupied Bukavu, the colonial pioneers in Nyasaland also crossed the border line and marched into the heart of the Congo Free State.

Most of the members of these colonial pioneer missions are Africans, and their skin color is no different from that of Africans in the Congo Free State, but the members of these colonial colonies have long been under the militarized management of the colonial pioneer groups, and they are still immediately distinguishable from the Africans in the Congo Free State.

is mainly temperament, upright from the inside out, and the looseness of the hanger, which looks really different.

What's more, the colonial pioneer group has uniform clothing, because of heavy labor, the clothes may indeed be a little worn, but everyone has shoes to wear, and the clothes are clean and even have traces of sewing and repair, which is too different from Africans in the general sense.

In the general sense, Africans don't talk about shoes, there are no clothes, many people only make a strip of cloth under the crotch to cover it, and the role is no different from the uncovered, even if there are clothes, most of them will not wash if they are dirty, and they will never sew if they are broken.

As for hygiene, not to mention, Africans are almost the same as whites, and their body odor is relatively heavy, but whites can be covered with perfume, and Africans definitely don't have this condition, let alone perfume, and even baths are rarely washed.

The hygiene habits of the members of the Colonial Pioneer Corps are still very good, and no matter how late they work every day, they must take a shower before going to bed.

This habit must be ridiculed among other Africans, but after everyone in the Colonial Pioneer Corps has developed good hygiene habits, they have become the public enemy of the whole people if they do not pay attention to hygiene, so in the Rusi River next to Bukavu, there are a large number of members of the Colonial Pioneer Corps bathing every evening, which is simply a spectacle among Africans.

"It's just amazing, I thought Africans would never take a bath once in their lives, these people bathe more diligently than a lot of white people, are they trying to wash their skin color off?" Luisa made no secret of her hatred for Africans, even if the Africans in these colonial colonies had nothing to do with the rebellion in the Congo Free State.

"Luisa, calm down, they're here to help you rebuild your home." Feng Xun is now the person in charge of Bukavu, which is nothing unaccustomed to Feng Xun, just manage Bukavu as a refugee camp.

"Can you let them go? We don't want to see these people now, and I won't live in the houses they built. "Luisa has ambitions, and it is not difficult for these women to live in Bukavu, the key is to rely on men to change their minds.

As she deepened her contact with the Nyasaland people, Luisa was indeed very envious of the women of Nyasaland.

In Nyasaland, women can go to school, they can work, and even have the right to vote next year, most families in Nyasaland are male and female, half of the naïve is not a joke, most of the jobs that men can do, women can do the same, and even women account for the vast majority in many fields, such as medical care, and education.

Luisa had never been to the University of Nyasaland, but according to Feng Xun, the ratio of female students at the University of Nyasaland was about the same as that of male students, and that most of the students in some colleges were women.

It is not possible for women to get the same salary as men after working, at the same intensity of work, which is not possible in Europe, where women do the same work as men in many factories, but the salary is much lower than that of men.

From the contact with Feng Xun, Luisa can also clearly feel Feng Xun's respect for Luisa, this respect is not felt by Luisa at all in the vast majority of white men.

In the vast majority of white males that Luisa came into contact with, Luisa felt the most in the greedy desire of the red fruit, which made Luisa very uncomfortable, but Luisa could not escape it before.

Now Luisa knows that she can have more choices in her life.

"No, it's your business to build a house, their task is to build roads and railways, to strengthen rivers, to build a dam on the shores of Lake Kivu, and to lay power and telephone lines in the future, and our standards for building a city in Nyasaland are different from those of your Congo Free State." Feng Xun is extremely proud that Southern Africa has Africa's first-class urban planning, and Nyasaland has the strongest construction capacity in Southern Africa, and in terms of infrastructure, the cities of Nyasaland are second to none in this era.

"How much do wires and phone lines cost?" Luisa's heart is heavy, in Luisa's concept, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and the more Nyasaland invests in Bukavu, the higher the return that Nyasaland demands.

"The wires are laid free of charge by the power company, and the telephone lines are the responsibility of the communication company, and the electricity is definitely paid for the telephone, but these basic costs are not included." Feng Xun understands the situation, if this is not the case, it is estimated that it will take many years for remote areas of Nyasaland to use electricity.

It should be noted here that in most countries today, electricity and telecommunications are not run by state-owned enterprises, but by private enterprises.

Not only electricity and communications, but also public facilities such as roads, railways, museums and libraries, which are nominally privately operated, are in fact overwhelmingly privately operated.

This is where the problem arises, for example, in large cities such as the Congo Free State, Boma and Leopoldville, where power and telecommunications companies take the initiative to lay lines and serve customers because of the large number of basic users.

And those small towns in remote areas, because there are not many users and the cost is high, private companies will definitely not take the initiative to lay lines, as for when those people can use electricity, it can only depend on God's will.

This is the case with Bukavu, whether it was during the reign of Leopold II or the Belgian government, there was no electricity at all in a town like Bukavu, and there was no need to think about the telephone, there was only one radio in the whole of Bukavu, or all the residents around Bukavu raised their own funds and just bought it last year.

Relatively speaking, Nyasaland has a huge advantage in this regard.

Knowing the role of electricity and telecommunications in economic development, Roque really spared no effort in promoting electricity and telecommunications, and the first major project launched by Roque in Johannesburg was the Crocodile Bay Hydropower Station, and then Southern Africa began to enter the electricity age.

Compared with Johannesburg, Nyasaland has many rivers and abundant water resources, it is more suitable for the construction of hydropower stations of various sizes, in the past ten years, with the economic development of Nyasaland, the construction of hydropower stations has been insufficient to meet the actual electricity demand, in Port Edward and Xuanwu City, there are thermal power stations have been put into construction, these investments can not recover the cost in a short time, when Johannesburg started the Crocodile Bay Hydropower Station, countless people rushed to hope for a piece of the pie, and now with more and more investment in all aspects, the shareholders of the power company have become fewer and fewer, and only two people remain, Roque and Xiao Si.

The reason why Xiao Si is willing to continue to invest is because Rhodesia also needs more electricity, and on the other hand, because Xiao Si has long trusted Roque, don't look at the power company now continues to lose money, but when Roque has done a loss-making business, those short-sighted shareholders will regret it sooner or later.

Despite the fact that Luisa is white, Luisa had never used electricity before the Congo Free State, but in Nyasaland, even the most remote refugee camps had electricity, and although the electricity supply was only a measly four hours a day, it still made Luisa feel precious.

So Luisa was very excited when she learned that the power company would lay the lines for free.

There are some things that can be done that Bukavu is still nominally part of the Congo Free State, but the more Nyasaland invests in Bukavu, it means that the less likely it is that Nyasaland will give up Bukavu in the future, and even Nyasaland will directly annex Bukavu in the future.

Luisa was not surprised by the result, and was indeed happy to see it happen.

Don't think that Luisa is Belgian and will oppose Nyasaland's annexation of Bukavu, this rebellion will change many people's minds, especially Luisa and her who were abandoned by the Belgian government after the rebellion, if she can, Luisa is now willing to join the southern African nationality and become a southern African who can be effectively protected in the event of a rebellion, for which Luisa would rather give up the privileges that she has as a white person in the Congo Free State.

The so-called privileges sound very attractive, but in fact only those who have been to Nyasaland know that the white privileges in the Congo Free State are not a big deal, and in the Congo Free State, white people are just as tough as Africans when they are sick, and there is no doctor to provide them with.

Their children have no school to go to, and the rich can send their children back to Europe for education, and the children of ordinary white people can only herd sheep, so that when the next generation grows up, it will be a world of difference compared to those who have been educated, and it will affect them for the rest of their lives.

More importantly, the so-called privileges of the white people of the Congo Free State will seriously affect the relationship between the whites and Africans, and this rebellion is the result of the accumulation of contradictions for a long time.

While the colonial pioneer group was building roads and bridges, Bukavu, which had been burned by the rebels, was also being restored little by little, of course, the rebuilt Bukavu was definitely better than the previous Bukavu, and Luisa was confident in this.