Louis Botha came to Roque not only to intercede for Laurent Barker, but also for the purpose of interceding with Louis Botha, and in October, the Ministry of Justice continued to act, and a number of senior Boer officials were reviewed by the Ministry of Justice, and as a result, more and more people were implicated, and several key departments of the federal government were in danger, and many people had submitted their resignations to Louis Botha, which had seriously affected the normal work.

To put it mildly, there are really few officials in these years who can stand up to investigation, not to mention that before the establishment of the federal government, most Boer officials were not in a very good financial situation, and they lost almost everything in the Boer War, both economically and politically, and they were very different from before the Boer War.

So after these people are in power, they are really ugly, how good the British officials are, they will be a little restrained, and the Boer officials are simply unscrupulous.

For example, the Legislative Council building in Bloemfontein, there are serious fictitious costs and cutting corners, and the Legislative Council Building, which originally only needed 400,000 yuan to build, finally had a total expenditure of 1.1 million yuan, and many structures marked with marble were secretly replaced with reinforced concrete, so that in the end, it is estimated that 400,000 yuan will not be used up.

This situation is actually a big blow to the image of the federal government.

Before the establishment of the federal government, most of the officials in southern Africa were appointed by the British, such as Ade, Philip, and the Earl of Selborn, who were all appointed by hand in London and parachuted into southern Africa to take charge of the administration of southern Africa.

During the British colonial period, the chaos in southern Africa was understandable, after all, southern Africa had no autonomy, and London had to be consulted on large and small affairs, and the communication situation at that time was extremely bad, so the management chaos was understandable.

Now that the federal government has been established, the officials are elected locally, and most of the officials are native-born Africans, in this case, if the federal government breaks out a large-scale scandal, the damage to the image of the federal government can be imagined.

Now there are people in Cape Town who are advocating the British colonial era, at least in the colonial era, the colonial government mainly relied on the financial support of the British mainland, and the current federal government is wasting the hard-earned money that southern Africans have worked hard to accumulate.

Louis Botha came to Roque in the hope that the Ministry of Justice would accept it if it was good, and even if it wanted to continue the investigation, it would be better to deal with it internally and not to make everything public.

"Luis, it is the duty of the Ministry of Justice to fight crime, and as long as there are still people who commit adultery, the Ministry of Justice will definitely investigate to the end, and it is indispensable to do so - as for the news media, they have the right to speak freely, in fact, in my opinion, the role of the media is not enough, they can fully exercise their right to supervise, then at least it is a deterrent to those criminals." Luo Ke resolutely refused, and in the troubled times, he used heavy codes, cut through the chaos with a quick knife, and blindly covered it up, which could not play its due role at all.

To put it mildly, if some officials are afraid of the Justice Department's scrutiny, then they can resign or simply go abroad for refuge, and there are many people waiting in line for their superiors in the back, and there are many three-legged toads and two-legged people.

In the current situation in southern Africa, Henry and Roque had talked about it over private dinner, and some positions, even with a dog on a leash in the office, actually served a similar purpose.

Sometimes it's even better.

"Locke, of course we have to crack down on all kinds of criminal acts, but the way is debatable, the Legislative Council is formulating relevant laws to regulate the behavior of government employees, I believe that after the relevant legal provisions are introduced, similar situations will be much better, now the main problem is that there are too many problems left over from the colonial era, and federal government officials also need a process of adaptation before they can really get into the working state-" Louis Botha certainly does not want Roque to bend the law for personal gain, Louis Botha still has a bottom line in this regard.

In another time and space, after Ade left Southern Africa, he never returned to Southern Africa, and the first Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Southern Africa was Louis Botha.

From the time of his tenure as Prime Minister of the Transvaal, Louis Botha of another time and space served as Prime Minister for thirteen years, until his death, and Louis Botha was the Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Southern Africa.

During this period, Louis Botha integrated southern Africa, participated in World War I, sent troops to occupy German South-West Africa at the request of the British, and also attended the Conference of Versailles.

In southern Africa in this time and space, because of the appearance of Roque, Louis Botha did not get the stage he deserved, but Louis Botha still has the ability, but compared with Ade, Louis Botha is still almost prestigious, so Louis Botha can only retreat to the second.

At the end of the day, no one knows how long Ade will be prime minister, Philip is ready to run for the prime minister after Ade leaves office, and Louis Botha certainly has his own political ambitions.

So compared to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture is not a big problem, and Louis Botha also came to Roque for the sake of the overall image of the Boer officials.

Compared with Philip, Louis Botha obviously does not have enough weight in Roque's heart, so Roque will not care about the image of Boer officials, if he can crack down on more and more Boer officials through the Ministry of Justice, and then affect Louis Botha's reputation, Roque likes to hear it.

However, the development of events was obviously beyond Roque's expectations.

At the end of October, the Ministry of Justice sent a group of officials, including Laurent Barker, to Cape Town for trial, only to be attacked by bandits on the train transporting them, who wantonly sabotaged the railway, forced the train to stop, and then fired at the train with heavy machine guns and set it on fire.

Nearly 20 police officers escorting the officials were killed on the spot, some of the officials on trial were taken away, and Laurent Buckle was summarily executed, leaving behind a note with the word "traitor" written on it.

When the news reached Pretoria, Ade was furious and immediately called Henry and Roque to the Palace of Justice for a reprimand, and demanded that Henry and Roque solve the case within a certain time.

The case was too bad, and Henry and Roque didn't expect that the bandits actually had heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns, which was beyond the scope of ordinary bandits, so it was not difficult to investigate.

The difficulty was how to bring the bandits to justice, the train attack was in West Victoria, in the Cape, more than 750 kilometers in a straight line from Johannesburg, and it was not easy to investigate, and when Pretoria got the news, it was already three days after the crime, and the bandits had enough time to escape.

"Look, that's the bad thing about the three capitals, the criminals committed crimes in Bloemfontein, then they were investigated in Pretoria, and then they had to be sent to Cape Town for trial, and maybe in the end they would be sent back to Pretoria to serve their sentences, what good is it to toss and toss around?" Henry is also very worried, not to mention the waste of resources in such a toss, the key is that there is no efficiency.

"There's no point in talking about this now, we only have a month, let's act right away." Roque doesn't complain, that's the situation, complaining won't solve anything, it's better to solve the case as soon as possible, Ade only gave Henry and Roque a month.

This is already considering that the territory of southern Africa is too large, so it was only given a month, otherwise Yiade's character, coupled with the severity of the case, would have given three days a great favor.

"How do you check?" Henry was indeed suffering from Roque dependence.

"How else can you check, the bandits used heavy machine guns, so they started from this aspect." Roque already has a belly case, but he can't go into too much detail about Henry.

To investigate this kind of thing, it is definitely necessary to call on the power of the umbrella and Brad, but the umbrella and Brad are secrets belonging to Nyasaland and cannot be told directly to Henry, so it is enough to only tell Henry the result.

"Why do bandits get a heavy weapon like a heavy machine gun?" Henry also has a big head, and the bandits have heavy machine guns, which will bring greater danger to the military police, and the average police station probably can't deal with this kind of bandits.

After the establishment of the federal government, the military and police in southern Africa also tried to do everything possible to reduce the number of guns owned by the people, and now in southern Africa, ordinary people cannot even have high-powered weapons such as rifles, even farmers in remote areas can only have conventional weapons such as hunting rifles, shotguns, and pistols.

So Henry really couldn't figure it out.

"It's normal, during the Boer War, there were too many guns left by the people, although after the war, guns were collected and registered, but there were inevitably omissions, but this is also a good opportunity, we can take the opportunity to conduct another large-scale investigation, this time to completely eliminate these hidden dangers, anyone who wants to keep these heavy weapons, must be treated as a crime." Roque is ruthless, and it is indeed impossible not to be ruthless.

Southern Africa is a vast and sparsely populated area of more than 3 million square kilometers with just over 2 million people, so many farmers in remote areas face a very complex situation, threatening not only malicious bandits, but also wild animals everywhere.

Therefore, it is a common behavior for ordinary people in southern Africa to hold guns, and it is not easy to confiscate guns and weapons, after all, compared with the huge land area, the military and police are still not capable, and if something really happens, it is unreliable to expect the military and police, and it is still necessary for farmers to take up arms to protect their own interests.

It is precisely for this reason that the registration of guns in southern Africa has not been going well, and Roque is also ruthless this time, and he must solve this problem no matter what.

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