The British government's attitude on the issue of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange is extremely ambivalent.

London's financial markets were badly damaged during the world wars and are not recovering from their trauma, and capital has not found a suitable investment channel.

Only for the British government, it is certainly unwilling to see the establishment of a stock exchange in Los Angeles, but British capital is happy to see it, capital is profit-seeking, Roque has a large number of high-quality assets, there is no shortage of funds at all, and it has never been listed on the London Stock Exchange, and now in order to prosper the financial market in southern Africa, Roque's company began to gradually go public, and British capital outside the financial market is like a shark that smells blood. This situation has a direct impact on the attitude of the British government towards the Los Angeles Stock Exchange.

Unlike Los Angeles, Cape Town in 1918 was not much changed from 20 years earlier, and as more and more young people left Cape Town for the central states, Cape Town was being forgotten by southern Africans.

Roque still has a certain affection for Cape Town, after all, Cape Town is the starting point of Roque's career, Roque's house on Mill Street is still preserved, Oak Town is still the largest Chinese area in Cape State, many Cape farmers have had to sell their farms and leave southern Africa because of poor management over the years, and there are more and more Chinese farmers in Cape.

Rocker firmly embraced the idea that the countryside surrounded the city, buying the farms as companies and selling them to new immigrants to southern Africa, and the white-run farms in Cape were often thousands of acres and turned into small farms of one or two hundred acres in Chinese hands.

Small is a little smaller, but as long as you manage it carefully, it is no problem to feed a family, and in the remote areas of Cape State, Chinese-run farms have accounted for more than half of the total number of farms.

Winterton, which is only thirty kilometers from Ladysmith, has been in a bad mood for Sheriff Gilbert lately.

During the Second Boer War, the Boer Coalition and the British Expeditionary Force engaged in fierce fighting at Shadesmith, and the Boer Coalition surrounded Lieutenant General George White at Shadesmith for five months.

The Boer War wreaked havoc on the area around Ladysmith, and after the war, the area around Ladysmith was empty and ruined.

It was not until 1910 that some Boers returned to Ladysmith, and with the arrival of some new Chinese immigrants, Ladysmith and the surrounding area gradually came back to life.

Winterton is a town of less than 1,000 people, more than half of the inhabitants are Chinese, and about a third of the remaining half are Gurkhas, a third are Boers, and the remaining third are white immigrants from Europe.

Like most small towns in southern Africa, Winterton is built along the river, with a seasonal river called Tugra running through the middle of the town, and Chinese and Gurkha mostly live on the left side of the Tugla River, while Boers and white people from Europe live on the right bank of the Tugla River.

The rainy and dry seasons in Southern Africa are distinct, with the summer season in Southern Africa from October to March, which is also the rainy season in Southern Africa.

During the rainy season, the Tugla River floods, often causing seasonal floods, while during the dry season it dries up completely and the river flows off, which is the best time to strengthen the embankment and clear the river.

This year is the same, during the dry season, the Chinese and Gurkha people living on the left bank of the Tugla River used the gravel and cement from the bottom of the river to build a strong embankment, and planted a lot of golden silk red sandalwood on the embankment, and the entire left bank is under the protection of the embankment, and there is not much damage when the rainy season comes.

The white people who live on the right bank of the Tugla River are unlucky, and this year there has been a lot of rain, and the rainy season has just begun and it has rained for half a month, and the right bank of the Tugla River is a sea of heavy losses.

When the rainy season came, the Chinese and Gurkha on the left bank of the Tugla River were almost unaffected, but the whites on the right bank suffered heavy losses, which made many whites very dissatisfied, and they not only did not reflect, but asked the Chinese and Gurkha on the right bank to move out of their houses and let them live in.

The Chinese and Gurkha on the right bank did not accept this demand, and clashes broke out frequently, starting in October, and in just one month, three skirmishes broke out in Winterton, with both Chinese and white people hurting.

"Who can you blame? It's not that I didn't warn you during the dry season, but you were indifferent, and it seemed that you were laughing at those who used the dry season to trim the river, and now you can still make such an unreasonable demand, and if it was you, can you accept it? Gilbert also lives on the left bank of the Tugla River, and during the dry season, Gilbert is also involved in river improvement.

"We're not taking their house, we're just hoping that we'll be able to live there for a while, and we all live in Winterton, shouldn't we be watching and helping each other? They don't deserve to die. Halifax, who lives on the Right Bank, has a lot of words.

Halifax was a Boer, he originally had a large farm, but due to poor management, the farm was bought by the Cape Company and sold to the Chinese who later migrated to Winterton.

"Less nonsense, you lazy fellow, don't think I don't know what the hell you're up to - and you, don't think about relying on others when you're in trouble, you should reflect on what you're doing when they're working hard." Gilbert knew very well that Halifax was a scoundrel and not worth pitiing.

The disaster has exposed the darkest side of people's hearts, and many people living on the Right Bank share the same thoughts as Halifax.

"Even if we want to fix the river, it will have to wait until next year's dry season, so what are we going to do during this time?" It's not the first time Halifax has been rhetorical, and it's not the first time this has happened.

"That's right, we're going to live!"

"We're all from Winterton, so can't you help us?"

"It's all these damn outsiders who have robbed us of the life that was supposed to be ours!"

The people who had come to make trouble with Halifax suddenly made an uproar, and there were probably dozens of them, all of them young adults.

"Dream! We will never give up our homeland. ”

"You should be held accountable for your actions, this is the result of your laziness!"

"That's what you said last year—"

The Chinese and the Gurkha do not show weakness, and southern Africa is no longer what it used to be.

"Shut up!" The mayor of Winterton is called Winter, which is also a custom in southern Africa, and many towns are named after the first person to settle: "Everyone should pay for their mistakes, you are in the difficult situation you are in today because of your own mistakes, you can go to the school for a while, but you must not infringe on other people's property, this is the rule of Winterton, it is better for the unruly to leave." ”

The mayor also lives on the left bank of the Tugla River and moved here just at the beginning of the year.

While Southern Africa is bringing in a large number of new immigrants, it is also forcing those who are not suitable to stay in Southern Africa to leave, and almost every month people leave Southern Africa for Australia or Canada, and of course there are people who do not want to leave, such as Halifax, even if they go to Australia and Canada.

By the way, Halifax, after selling the farm, his wife had already left Winterton with the children and was nowhere to be found.

That's how it is in this day and age, sometimes leaving is goodbye.

"What do we eat at school?"

"What about our home?"

"There can't be enough of us in the school—"

Halifax is still dissatisfied with the mayor's arrangement, Winterton has an elementary school, but it is not large, only a dozen classrooms, and it is actually possible to live in a squeeze.

"School is not your home, your home must be saved by yourself, don't always pin your hopes on others." Gilbert's attitude was resolute, the Chinese and Gurkha people really did not see death and could not be saved, and they were still willing to provide basic food, but unfortunately the hearts of the people were insufficient.

"We can't save it now, even if we want to fix it now." Halifax doesn't give up.

"And who can you blame?" Gilbert snapped.

Halifax and the others were finally speechless, and Gilbert was right, they had no right to blame anyone else.

With the mediation of Gilbert and Winter, the whites of Winterton finally crossed the river to settle down at the school on the left bank.

The Chinese and the Gurkha sent food and clean water, and Halifax, as hateful as it was, was not responsible for the women and children.

The situation in the school is actually not good, there are no warm and dry beds, so you can only lie on the floor.

The number of rooms is not enough, two or three families are crammed into a classroom, adults are upset, children are crying, some people have learned from the pain and decided that the river must be repaired after the rainy season, and some people are not willing to be lonely and still have bad intentions.

"The mayor and Gilbert are in the same group as those Chinese, completely on the position of the Chinese, without considering our interests, we must use the knife in our hands to snatch back everything that belongs to us." Halifax is a standard white man with a bandit mentality that doesn't know how to be grateful even if he goes to church every day.

"But there are too many of them, and there are few of us, so we can't beat—"

"If it gets big, we're in trouble."

"Hold on, and when the rainy season passes, we'll have to repair the river too."

There are also sane people among white people.

"Even if the river is repaired, it will be a few months away, what are we going to do now?" Halifax's face was gloomy, the clothes he was wearing now had just been sent by Gilbert, and although they were a little old, they were cleanly washed.