Chapter Ninety-Three: The Ruffian

Sticks, it's definitely impossible.

The British are much richer than the Japanese, the Japanese hire Koreans as policemen, and they don't even have the money to buy batons for the Koreans, so they can only issue a wooden stick per person.

What's more, the Chinese police also have a "pig teammate", that is, those who are more numerous "turbans", and they have a better chance of becoming the target of the Boer hatred.

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The statistics are surprising, and Roque did underestimate the quality of the refugees, who were not only doctors and brewers, but also teachers, accountants, translators, bank clerks, stage actors, painters, and so on.

After reading Jeffrey's statistical results, although Roque did not know what kind of education level the British people are now, the comprehensive quality of the refugees must have exceeded the comprehensive quality of most nationals at this time.

"This Kate, this Eve, and Scarlett, I want these guys—" Ida had a vision, picking up all the accountants in the camp.

"Leave me some." Roque is in a hurry, Ada needs an accountant, and Roque needs it too.

"That's for Kate, she's the youngest—" Ida leaned against the bar, smiling with her mouth covered, and Roque suddenly felt a fever in her lower abdomen.

What a witch!

"No, I want this Scarlett, she's the oldest and should be the most experienced." Roque doesn't want a little girl, Kate is only 19 years old, what will she do?

It should be said that for the profession of accountant, the older you are, the more experienced you are, and Roque needs experience, not a vase.

In fact, Scarlett's age is not very old, 23 years old, in the 21st century, that is, just graduated from college, but this year, 23-year-old Scarlett has 11 years of work experience and started working at the age of 12!

It's normal, Roque doesn't know what kind of misery the white people live in these years, it's normal to start working at the age of 12, some sweatshops, and even child laborers under the age of ten, those child laborers, who are engaged in the same high-intensity work as adults, generally do not live to adulthood.

"Maybe you can set up a school, and these teachers, translators, and painters can all be brought to the school to become teachers, and those grape workers, if you can provide education for their children, I believe they will work harder." Ida has a lot of ideas, so it's no wonder that a widow is at home in Cape Town.

"Yes, you can do it." Roque gave up power, and it can be seen that Ada doesn't like Cape Town, and in Oak Town, Ada is really like a fish in water.

A day later, Roque hired 120 Boer women to work in his vineyards, all of whom had children, and they were still living in the camp, leaving the camp during the day to work in Roque's vineyards and returning to the camp at night to be reunited with their children.

The 120 Boer women, along with their children, first lived in military tents "donated" by Ida, which were very spacious and had several windows on them, which were lifted during the day to allow ventilation and light, and at night the curtains were lowered to keep them warm.

A military tent to accommodate four refugee families, and Ida also brought a camp bed, which was small but a world away from the previous nest.

In the past, there were no beds in the camps, and the refugees were lying on the floor, and they could work like this in the summer, but not in the winter.

After another week, the school in the refugee camp officially opened, the classroom was also a military tent, the curriculum only had simple English, mathematics, physical education, music, art, all school-age children could go to study, when the sound of reading sounded, everyone who passed by the classroom couldn't help but slow down, the women's eyes were finally full of vitality, their lives were already colorless, but now, although the future is still bleak, but at least they see hope.

With Ada's help, Roque's job is much easier, and every afternoon, Roque's favorite thing is to sit on the second-floor balcony of the Oak Bar with Ada, looking at the endless vineyards and the changing Oak Town, Roque is satisfied.

Leisure times are always hard to come by, and in early April, a squad of British troops of about 50 men arrived in Oak Town, unarmed, dejected, undisciplined, and dressed in crooked uniforms, like a group of defeated deserters.

Roque almost forgot that this is the "City of Cowards", no need to ask, this is another group of cowards who have been thrown over to reflect, there are many such cowards, they all live in the barracks next to Simmonsburg, and they rarely appear in Oak Town.

The so-called "cowards" are just relative to the Boer coalition forces on the battlefield, leaving the battlefield, these "cowards" are very horizontal, the two Zulus carrying building materials did not notice them, just passed in front of them, and were surrounded and knocked to the ground by them, Kaka and Yaya, who were in charge of overseer, did not dare to stop them, they just watched from a distance, and did not even dare to show their faces.

"Look, this is the regular army of the British Empire, they are all deserters on the battlefield, they are sent here to reflect, but when it comes to civilians, they are not bad." Ida is sarcastic, no wonder the 250,000 regular army can't beat the tens of thousands of Boers—

No, now the regular army in the Cape has more than 300,000 people, and the British government is still increasing its troops, and it seems that even if it is a heap of people, the British government will heap the Boers to death.

"The Boers are actually quite powerful, and their performance on the battlefield is no worse than that of the regular army." Roque had fought against the guerrillas and the regular army of the Boer coalition at the same time, and was definitely qualified.

Beating people who didn't dare to resist didn't bring much pleasure, and the "cowards" quickly lost interest in the two Zulus who were lying on the ground with their heads on their hands, and they found the Oak Bar, so it was like discovering the New World, and although it was not yet the bar's opening hours, they still gathered around the door of the bar and shouted that the bar should be open now.

"Go, go, open the door, these ruffians, if they don't promise them, they won't stop." Ida has seen a lot of this kind of thing, so she will start business.

Luckily, Ada has brought in experienced bartenders from the Table Mountain Bar and hired a few bar girls from the camp, so she has no problem dealing with these GIs.

Still, Roque and Ida underestimated how bastards these GIs were.