118 Commencement
In fact, it's not a calculation, Christian comes forward to take the job, and his share of making money is definitely indispensable, Henry and Roque are police chiefs and senior inspectors, as long as Christian hugs Henry and Roque's thighs, in the future, there will be a chance to make a fortune.
The reason why Christian followed Roque to Pretoria was to hug Roque's thighs, after listening to Roque's instructions, Christian's eyes were shining, in the past few months, Christian has accumulated enough experience in architecture, although Christian has not undertaken large-scale construction, but Christian has enough workers in his hands, this is Christian's biggest capital, as for talents, as long as Christian is willing to pay, Cambridge University professors can be invited.
Early the next morning, Roque and Henry went their separate ways, Henry was going to the Doge's Palace to inquire about the news, Roque went to the police station to start work, and as for Christian, he also had to complete the maintenance of the castle, although Roque and Henry could not live in the castle, but they could sell the castle, and there were not too many rich people in Pretoria.
Contrary to Roque's vision, the Pretoria Police Service, although new, is larger than the Cape Town Police Service.
In terms of law and order alone, the situation in Pretoria is more serious than that in Cape Town, and Pretoria has to delegate a part of the police force, so there are now less than 800 police officers in the Cape Town Police Department, while the Pretoria Police Department is now more than 1,200 people.
In addition to more than 300 officers of Chinese descent, the Pretoria Police Service has more than 500 Boer officers, as well as more than 100 British-born officers and more than 100 officers of Indian origin.
Yes, the Pretoria Police Department also has a "big turban", and although Roque doesn't like the big turban, Roque can't refuse the presence of the big turban either-
In fact, this is not bad, the turbans are "pig teammates" for police officers of other races, but they are "god teammates" for Chinese police officers.
Roque's promotion to a senior inspector has brought the most direct impact is that the number of Chinese police officers has exploded, the Pretoria Police Department has been newly established, and there are many vacant positions, and the position of sergeant is too low, and the appointment of a sergeant does not need to be submitted to the Governor's Office for approval, so Henry waved his pen, and more than a dozen outstanding Chinese police officers such as Li De, Gao De, Gordon, Martin, and Tang En were all appointed as police officers, which made all the Chinese police officers excited.
Who doesn't want to be promoted and get rich!
It is a pity that the police department has no appointment power for the position of inspector and above, and the appointment power is in the governor's palace, so the inspector and above officers of the Pretoria police department, except for Roque, are all British.
In fact, this is not bad, according to the practice of the Cape Town Police Department, the police station is divided into two parts: patrol officers and commandos, compared to the commandos, the working environment of the patrol officers seems to be safer, so the Boer police officers and Indian police officers are responsible for patrolling, the Chinese police officers form the commando team, and the British police officers are delicate and expensive, and they are mainly responsible for clerical work.
Of course, the degree of danger in the working environment is actually just what it seems, the commandos are mainly responsible for dealing with emergencies and do not participate in daily patrols, in fact, those patrols who have to patrol the streets work in a more dangerous working environment, they have to be on guard against Boer attacks at all times, and only after the attack occurs, the commandos will come forward to deal with it.
For the whole morning, Roque was dealing with trivial matters, but fortunately Roque didn't have to be in charge of the assignment of patrol officers, otherwise Roque would be anxious.
Relatively speaking, the work of the commando team is much simpler, as long as the training work is arranged, although the commando team does not need to patrol, but if the patrol encounters an emergency, or a violent incident occurs in any corner of Pretoria, the commando team needs to arrive at the scene as quickly as possible, so Roque also has to arrange for his sheriff to familiarize himself with the streets and alleys of Pretoria, this work can not be completed in a day or two, when in Cape Town, it took several months for Chinese police officers to become familiar with the environment of Cape Town.
At noon, Henry finally returned to the police station.
"Phyllis, please close the door." Henry was unhappy with Phyllis's work.
Phyllis is now Henry's assistant, this assistant is not appointed by the police department, it is more similar to Henry's secretary, the police department in the United Kingdom has the position of assistant police chief, and the rank is not low, the position is above the chief superintendent, and Roque is still several levels behind.
Of course, that's only in the UK, the Pretoria Police Department has just been established, not to mention the Assistant Chief of Police, the entire police department, there is not even a superintendent.
Pretoria is different from Cape Town, where Henry can feel comfortable leaving Phyllis at home while working.
Not in Pretoria, the current Pretoria is not safe enough, so Henry simply took Phyllis with him, fortunately, there are also female officers in the police station, and Phyllis is not conspicuous.
Of course, it's okay to take Phyllis with you for safety, but don't expect Phyllis to be so serious and responsible in her work, such as "closing the door casually", Phyllis really doesn't have this awareness.
Fortunately, Phyllis has just started working, and she is full of freshness about everything, so Phyllis is quite obedient, which makes Henry feel relieved.
"It's done!" As soon as Roque sat down, Henry winced his eyebrows.
"What has it become?" Roque was a bit slow to react.
"Maintenance of the Palace of Justice - When the expeditionary force attacked Pretoria, there was also an exchange of fire at the Palace of Justice, Christian got the job, do you know how much it costs? A whole ten thousand pounds. Henry was triumphant, and this was the business opportunity that Henry had discovered.
Ten thousand!
This is not a small number, according to Roque's understanding of prices, it is enough to rebuild a palace of justice.
"Of course it can't be rebuilt, His Excellency the Governor will come to Pretoria at the end of the month, and it will definitely not be possible to rebuild a palace of justice, there is not enough time, so it can only be repaired - of course, there is some sanitation work." Henry was very happy, it was so easy to make money.
"Is it just to restore the Palace of Justice? The parliament building should also be repaired-" Roque thought a lot, when the expeditionary force attacked Pretoria, there was an exchange of fire in the Palace of Justice, and the parliament building must not be able to escape, Roque had already seen it yesterday, and the damage to the parliament building was more serious than that of the Palace of Justice.
"Hmph, of course the parliament building needs to be repaired, but Christian is also understaffed, so the restoration of the parliament building has to be done by the government staff themselves - do you know what I just saw? Even that bastard Kevin is moving rocks! Henry gloated, looking at this, even if Christian had enough men, Henry would not let Christian take over the restoration of the parliament building.
Really, why can't you get along with money!