Toss when you don't have money, and toss when you have money, guarding a gold mine with reserves of 349 million ounces, gold doesn't mean much to Roque, if he can weave a huge network of relationships with gold, Roque will be very happy.

The role of networks does not need to be emphasized, and it is important at all times, especially for overseas colonies like the Transvaal, where colonial officials are often foreign and have no sense of belonging locally, so they tend to focus more on practical interests than about the future.

In the Transvaal, no relationship is really hard to do, so many times, money is better than relationship.

In early December, Anton suddenly came to Johannesburg from Cape Town.

Because Anton did not send a telegram in advance, Anton found Roque from the Johannesburg Police Station all the way to the Rock Gold Mine.

Seeing Anton, Roque was surprised and happy.

"Head, I'll see if you're doing—" Anton's eyes were a little red, and he hugged Roque's arm very hard.

"Hahahaha, of course I'm very good, in Cape Town we are free, in Johannesburg, what can I do with our masters?" Roque was very happy, and patted Anton on the shoulder vigorously and introduced: "See, Locke Gold Mine, this gold mine will be ours in the future!" ”

"Gold Mine ?!!" Anton was amazed that when he was in Cape Town, Roque was still pouring vineyards, and it was only a few months before the grape clerk switched to a gold mine?!!!

Of course, Anton is not arrogant, Roque said it was "ours", and Anton thought it was "ours", which should be made clear.

"Yes, come on, come in and sit, my office is right here." Roque asks Anton to the office, and Anton is still in disbelief.

"Head, it's work time—" Anton reminded vaguely.

"What class? Johannesburg is still under military control, and the task of the police department is to assist the army in maintaining public order. I don't even have the right to handle cases, what kind of class do I have? "Roque is really not a pon, and the Mounties are under the mayor's nose every day.

"It's a good thing—" Anton didn't think there was anything to complain about.

Well, people and people pursue differently.

For Anton, taking money and not doing anything is the ultimate pursuit of life.

But for Roque, if you don't do things, you have no rights, and if you don't have rights, you don't have pursuits-

And without pursuit, what is the difference between it and a certain Buddhist salted fish?

After going upstairs, Roque realized that Anton had not come alone, not only with several policemen, but also a Boer woman and a Boer girl.

Boer woman with a big belly.

"What's going on?" Roque wondered, could it be-

"No, no, no, it's not mine—" Anton noticed Roque's ambiguous eyes, and immediately skimmed it out: "Hawley, you come and say it yourself." ”

Hawley was a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Chinese policeman who had not been married before coming to Cape Town, and was a standard older youth by Qing standards.

In fact, Hawley's personal conditions are still good, tall, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but he was a little thin when he first arrived in Cape Town.

The current Hawley is not thin, although the food standard provided by the Cape Town Police Department for the police is not as good as that of the Johannesburg Police Department, but it is also made with milk and meat at will, and it has only been a little more than a year, and Hawley's body may also develop in the direction of the door panel.

In fact, no matter what era it is, most of the singles are poor.

Standing in front of Roque, Holly was a little shy, which made Roque have a great impression of Holly.

"Here, point it." Roque tossed a cigar in his hand.

"Eh, thank you—" Hawley was so busy that he didn't forget to give Roque an order first.

"Sit down and talk slowly-" Roque is not in a hurry, contact the big-bellied Boer woman, in fact, Hawley does not say, Roque has already guessed.

"I-I want to marry Connie-" Hawley stammered.

Really!

"—The Cape Town City Council on Dog Day wouldn't let me marry, saying that people of color can't start families with white people—the city government dogs were going to send Connie and Little Annie to Natal and had Commissioner Russell fire me—" Hawley was a little agitated, and Roque noticed that Hawley was not wearing a police uniform.

"Director Russell is still a good person, let me send Hawley back to Qingguo, and take Connie and little Anne to the concentration camp in Natal - when the train arrived in West Victoria, the guerrillas blew up the railroad, and it seemed that it could not be repaired in ten days and half a month, so I found a carriage - no, passing through Johannesburg, I thought that I would finally come here, and why should I come to see the director and his brothers-" Anton, who has been promoted to inspector, is also very ghostly.

The so-called "passing through" is nonsense, Natal is southeast of Johannesburg, Cape Town is southwest of Natal, these three places are a triangle, from Cape Town to Natal will not pass through Johannesburg at all, Anton is here to find Roque to get ideas.

August Russell was also smart.

Prior to this, Roque did not receive a telegram from Auguste Russell, this was Auguste Russell courting Roque, otherwise, Auguste Russell would not have put Anton in charge of this matter.

However, there is no contact in advance, which also shows that August Russell does not want to get involved in this matter, no matter how Roque and Anton deal with Holly and Connie, they have nothing to do with August Russell, and no matter who asks in the future, August Russell can push it all away.

This is what makes a person old.

If you don't send a telegram, Roque has to admit it.

"Head-" Hawley's expression was apprehensive, this matter can be big or small, and even if Roark doesn't care, there is enough reason.

Hawley can only hope now, Roque has never let his brothers down.

"Don't worry-" Roque smiled gently, the dignified Johannesburg police chief, Cape Town is beyond the reach of the whip, in Johannesburg, this is not a matter: "Stay in Johannesburg with peace of mind, I have the final say." ”

Sure enough, Roque never let down his brothers!

"Head-" Hawley's eyes turned red instantly, and God knows how much pressure he had been under during this time.

Roque could understand this feeling, when Roque left Oak Town, many of the brothers had unclear relationships with the Boer women in the refugee camp, and Roque never asked, after all, the brothers were adults, and physical problems always had to be solved.

If Connie hadn't been pregnant, it is estimated that Hawley would not have married Connie and given Connie a name, which caused follow-up questions.

The City of Cape Town can tolerate underground romances between the police and the Boers, but the City of Cape Town — or the white world, certainly won't accept Chinese and white people forming families —

At least not yet.

The Boers at the bottom are still like this, so if a woman with an aristocratic background in the upper class wants to be with the Chinese, how much pressure does it need to bear?

Roark suddenly misses Ada.

I want Phyllis more-

"You stay here first, and I'll take care of the rest." Roque did not give a promise immediately, because Roque knew very well that the current Roque could not change the situation of the Transvaal Chinese.

But Roque can guarantee that Hawley and Connie will be safe and sound in Johannesburg.

"Head, Connie and I don't plan to have a wedding, and we don't plan to let the city government admit it, as long as we can be together safely." Hawley is also not very demanding, and perhaps when they were in Cape Town, Hawley and Connie still had illusions.

After going through so much, Holly and Connie have come to terms with reality.

"Okay, I can guarantee that." Roque can promise this.

Holly and Connie were put to rest first, and Roque and Anton had a long talk.

"- Director Russell has hired more than 200 policemen from the Huayong camp, and now the Cape Town Police Department, half of us are men, and a few Indians are not satisfied, and I make excuses to all of them to Robben Island and the concentration camp - we already have five or six hundred people in Oak Town, and we open up the wasteland every day to make wine and grow grapes, and the brothers are very high-spirited—there are also those who do not succeed, obviously have a family and a room, and make people's stomachs bigger, and after they get bigger, they don't admit it, I have a low-key treatment, the money is enough, and we will raise the child after it is born, The culprit was thrown to Robben Island to fight whack-a-mole, and now all of them are honest—" Anton gushed as he thought of it.

"It's normal that there are all kinds of birds when the forest is big, but similar things must be absolutely prohibited, and if you find them and deal with them together, you can't let these rat feces ruin our reputation." Luo Ke has long been mentally prepared for human nature, and it is impossible for all Chinese to be saints, and it is normal for some to be unsuccessful.

"The Cape are now in a state of panic, saying that the war is over, but the guerrillas bomb the railroad twice in three days, or attack the patrols, and last month, a guerrilla group attacked a patrol less than fifty miles from Cape Town, and as a result, some people said that the Boers were going to storm Cape Town—" Anton must have learned more than ordinary people, but not much, at least not as much as Roque.

"It is impossible to capture Capton, and the expeditionary force is negotiating with the Boers, but there is no progress in the negotiations because the conditions cannot be negotiated." Roque shared the information and did not forget to tell Anton: "This is a secret negotiation, don't say it." ”

Anton knew the seriousness of the news, and nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

With regard to negotiations, the disagreement between the Expeditionary Force Command and the Boers was whether to recognize the independence of the Transvaal and Orange, and the Boers were now willing to give up large swaths of the country, including the Rand gold mines, and transfer those "cancerous" gold mines to Britain in exchange for the independence of the Transvaal and Orange.

The British government, which had spent hundreds of millions of pounds and mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops, would certainly not accept this result, but the British also made concessions, such as agreeing that the Dutch language could be used in schools and courts, and promising to grant the Transvaal and Orange autonomous status in the future.

The Boers were clearly not satisfied with these conditions, because they believed that they had not yet reached the point of exhaustion.

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