In 1900, Britain was at the peak of its national power, and it is not surprising that Britain did anything during this period, but to put it mildly, the wealth of the world during this period was at the mercy of Britain, and the British government did not care at all about these hundreds of thousands of military horses, let alone the Expeditionary Force Command.

For the Second Boer War, the British government paid a total of 220 million pounds before and after, so much money was spent on dealing with the Boers?

Don't be funny, I dare not say that most of them, at least a considerable part, were wasted by the command of the expeditionary force with deep pockets.

It's like the lighter that Ida is trying to promote, and now the order from the Expeditionary Force Command has been more than 100,000 pounds, and this is just a small lighter, what about other military supplies?

As far as Roque knew, all the beef eaten by the expeditionary force was Angus beef that had been transported all the way from Scotland, and the expeditionary force command did not purchase local Cape beef at all.

Let's not forget that the expeditionary force in Cape has more than 400,000 people, how much supplies do so many people consume every day?

And how much of this is unnecessary?

It is impossible to count at all.

In Johannesburg, there is also a so-called "black market" that has formed spontaneously.

In the black market, almost all military supplies can be bought, from heavy machine guns and artillery to canned flour, which can be described as everything, and there is a complete chain of interests behind this, Roque knows, but Roque has no right to manage, and even the governor can't control it.

Roque didn't care, it was still convenient to have a black market, and Martin only spent two pounds to find a set of sterling silver cutlery in the black market.

"What do you want this thing for? It's very useful, and in the future, we will set up our home in Oak Town, and I'll give this thing back to my wife when I turn around, this is silver, and only the emperor can afford it in our Great Qing Kingdom, do you know what silver is for? I can argue against poison, I'll use this thing for dinner in the future, this can be used as a family heirloom. Martin was so happy that he took a brush and scrubbed in the yard of the police station.

No, no, the tableware is a little dirty, black I don't know what it is, the water after brushing the tableware is a little red, Martin looked at the water, his face gradually became difficult to see.

Needless to say, this is again snatched by British soldiers from the Boers, and the pale red is bloodstained.

"You can pull it down, and you still argue for poison, are you the emperor? Who poisoned you? You're not worth a pack of poison money. Gao De scoffed mercilessly.

"That's not for sure, maybe my sister-in-law put something in the cooking that shouldn't be put in—" Gordon's mouth was also broken.

"Shut the fuck up—" Martin was furious, and smashed the silver plate in his hand at Gordon.

"Uncle Xie's reward-" Gordon picked up the silver plate from the ground and ran away.

Do meat buns beat dogs?!

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Roque was not in the mood to care about the black market, and Alfred Milner handed over the task of chasing down the guerrillas to Roque, and Roque had to make some achievements, which was not only about Alfred Milner's face, but also about the conflict of interests between the Provisional Government and the Expeditionary Force Command.

Supposedly, General Roberts had declared the end of the war, and the Transvaal should end its military administration and begin to rebuild.

But there were still guerrilla activities in the Transvaal, and the war was far from over, so the military administration was still going on, and the Provisional Government was dispensable, much to Alfred Milner's displeasure.

Like the Pretoria Police Service, the Johannesburg Police Service is now divided into three sections.

The largest and most powerful commando team is still composed of Chinese police.

The smaller patrol is made up of Boer police.

Finally, there are the retired Zulu Scouts, and in order to maximize their role, Roque has set up a detective team dedicated to tracking down the whereabouts of the Boer guerrillas.

The role of the detective team is very large, and even after the war, the detective team can still play a role.

Don't forget that Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines, and one of the Johannesburg Police's main tasks is to cooperate with the tax authorities to combat smuggling.

Therefore, Roque plans to continue to expand the size of the detective team, and when the time comes, each gold mine will send a few little blacks, and Roque can easily extend his tentacles to any corner of Johannesburg.

"We evaluated all the retired scouts who applied for the job, not for the undisciplined, not for the bad riding, not for the unscrupulous, not for the inaccurate shooting - even so, there were still thousands of people who met our requirements, so we screened again, and in the end only 150 people were retained." Yaya was appointed by Roque as the captain of the detective team, a position that did not require consulting the Governor's Office, and there was no "detective team" in the Johannesburg Police Department, so in other words, the detective team was a temporary worker.

Yes, the Johannesburg Police also has "temporary workers", and now Johannesburg is still in the period of military control, and the role of temporary workers is not yet obvious.

Once Johannesburg is out of military control and begins to rebuild, the temporary workers will begin to be useful.

By then, for all the mistakes made by the Johannesburg Police Department, Roque could put the blame on the temporary workers, as for the number of temporary workers?

About 10,000 Zulus worked for the British government during the Second Boer War, and these people have now been repatriated in batches, and the British government has not fulfilled the promise it made to the Zulus when they were recruited.

Roque wanted to make use of this part of the resource, and although the Zulu people of the 21st century were notorious, the Zulu people of this period were really useful.

Compared to the Chinese and Boer police officers, the Zulu police are paid less than two pounds a month, and the average person is about one shilling a day, which is not as much as the miners in the gold mines.

Of course, as a police officer in Johannesburg, the degree of danger and heavy work cannot be compared with the miners, the mines in the 21st century are still accident-prone areas, and the mines in this era are simply more dangerous than the battlefield.

"Those who have been brushed off, also have to keep their information, maybe at some point in the future, they will get a job." Roque asked Yaya to do a good job of archiving and be prepared.

"It's being done, and a lot of them haven't left Johannesburg, and they want to get a job in Johannesburg, even if they can't join the detective team." Yaya said it easily, but Roque immediately became vigilant.

The fact that so many unemployed Zulus remain in Johannesburg will certainly increase the pressure on law and order in Johannesburg, and others do not know the dangers of Zulus, and Roque knows it.