In the 19th century, Cape Town may not have been as good as some towns in the remote mountainous areas of the Republic in the 21st century, with dilapidated and dirty buildings lining the streets, almost no signage in the shops, and almost no buildings over three floors as far as the eye can see.

It is said that Cape Town, as the capital of the Cape Colony, should be quite prosperous, in fact, when Roque walked out of the hospital gate, it was just ten o'clock in the morning, but there were almost no businesses open on both sides of the street, and there were very few pedestrians on the street, most of them were in rags, and Roque even saw some white people without shoes, so barefoot in the sludge mixed with horse manure.

Looking at the tall leather boots issued by the police department on his feet, Roque finally had the first impression of the nineteenth century, the world was not friendly to Roque, but it was not bad either.

The police station where Roque works is not far from Jonathan Jackson's hospital, not far along the street, turn left two streets, and you can already see the vermilion iron gate of the police station in the distance, this is the government street in the center of Cape Town, most of the city government agencies are on this street, there is the oldest church in Cape Town next to the police station, and the government street public park is opposite, the environment of the street is not bad, there are street lamps that use fuel on the side of the road, and someone will light it up every night, and the ground of the entire street is paved with cyan stones, It was probably raining in the past two days, and the bluestone slab was wet, looking like a landscape painting with light ink, which finally made Roque look forward to his future life.

Roque didn't want to work all day in a sloppy, muddy environment.

Although Roque's military rank in the Huayong battalion is corporal, when he comes to Cape, Roque has to start from scratch, so the current Roque is just an ordinary police officer.

Of course, the entry of ordinary police officers will not alarm the police chief, in fact, Roque only needs to report to the inspector directly under him to re-enter the company, and the inspector in charge of managing Roque is called Austin Pence, who is also a white British, who has served in the colonial army, and is said to be somewhat related to police chief August Russell.

Austin Pence has been in trouble lately, taking charge of policing in the port district, which was once a rich place but also has the most complicated security situation.

The rout of the British army at the front line led to a sharp deterioration in the law and order situation in Cape Town, and in the past week, there have been a number of attacks on patrol officers in Cape Town, and Austin Pence's men have suffered heavy losses, killing six patrol officers throughout the Cape Town Police Department, four of whom were Austin Pence's men.

In order to strengthen the ability of the patrol to fight back in the event of an attack, the police chief August Russell decided to equip all the patrol officers with weapons, but this problem arises again, because before this, most police officers have no experience in using weapons at all, so the patrol officers also need to be trained in the use of relevant weapons, otherwise the patrol officers carry guns to patrol the streets, which is equivalent to sending weapons to the rioters, which will cause more chaos.

"Sir, Luo, who was hospitalized some time ago, has returned, and he asks to return to the team." Austin Pence's aide Bilbohm reports.

"Yes, you can do it." Austin Pence wasn't in the mood to deal with these things, not even to meet Roque.

"Yes sir." Bilbohm had already known that this was the kind of expression on his face.

"Wait, Luo? He seems to have served in the Huayong Battalion? Austin Pence suddenly remembered Roque's resume.

"Yes sir, Luo once served in the Huayong Battalion, and the rank is corporal, and the corporal is also the highest military rank that a Chinese can get in the Huayong Battalion." Bilbeam knows Roque's resume well, and in this regard, he is more competent than Austin Pence.

"Bring him to me." Thinking of the batch of Webley revolvers in the warehouse that were about to be equipped with patrolmen, Austin Pence suddenly became interested in Roque.

Soon, Roque was standing in front of Austin Pence.

I have to say that in terms of police appearance alone, Roque is almost impeccable, after all, the height of one meter eight is outstanding even if it is placed in a white person, and Roque will not be like most Chinese police officers and Indian police officers, cowering in front of his superiors, not daring to show himself, at least standing upright, Roque dares to look into Austin Pence's eyes, which makes Austin Pence feel Roque's confidence, but he will not feel provoked. This is a very good grasp of Roque.

"Relax Corporal, you have served in the Huayong Battalion, I want to know what you will do, do you have any experience with a revolver." Although Austin Pence has a little appreciation for Roque, Roque is far from the level of making Austin Pence look at him differently, so Austin Pence is straightforward.

This question is too broad to answer, and Austin Pence seems to ignore the fact that there are more than 30 Chinese police officers in the Cape Town Police Department, all of them are from the Huayong Battalion, but their English is not very good, although they have all received simple English training, but the English level is not high enough, under normal circumstances, a Chinese police officer is probably unable to answer Austin Pence's question in English completely.

Of course, there is no problem with Roque: "Sir, I have received full infantry training in the Huayong Battalion, and I have excellent marksmanship, but I have no pistol training, and we are all armed with Martini Henry rifles. ”

Roque told the truth and did not exaggerate his experience, Austin Pence had served in the colonial army, and the equipment of the colonial army was no secret to Austin Pence.

"Alright, go back to work, corporal." Unable to get what he wanted, Austin Pence immediately became unhappy.

Roque didn't care, this year's boss has an attitude towards his subordinates, don't expect to get much humanistic care from his superiors, not to mention that Roque is still Chinese, and his status in the police station is not as good as that of Indians, at least most Indians are fluent in English and can pat the chief very fluently.

Back in the patrol room, Roque didn't remember to ask the sheriff to assign a job, but first went to his former partner Kunal, and Roque and he still had an account to settle.

A week ago, Roque and Kunal went on patrol on the streets together, but when they were attacked, Kunal fled as soon as possible, causing Roque to face six or seven people on the other side alone, and Roque was beaten up tragically.

It is said that with Roque's skills, he may not have the strength to fight, but the previous Roque is not the current Roque, and he did not dare to kill the killer when facing the white man, but Roque almost lost his life.

Now that Roque has recovered, those attackers will talk about it later, and Kunal's account must be settled first.