In the 21st century, there are often various media outlets that preach the integrity and impartiality of Western officials.

In fact, it's all nonsense, there are indeed officials who are fair and honest, but not all, at least the Cape in the early twentieth century, most of them are not, with Roque's understanding of the Cape colonial government, if you investigate the officials of the Cape colonial government from top to bottom, then there will be a lot of "nest cases" like the Cape police station.

By the same token, the generals in the headquarters of the expeditionary force would not be very clean, otherwise the Boers, with a total number of only 440,000 people, would need to mobilize 450,000 regular troops to defeat them?

Those regular armies are probably all papier-mâché.

"I'm sorry Locke, I don't know what's going on with all those military supplies on the market." Henry's eyes widened and he told nonsense, lest he himself not believe it.

"Okay, I'll think of another way." Roque doesn't force it, the way in the bureau doesn't work, and Roque has other ways.

Night, Table Mountain Lodge.

"The first batch of lighters has been delivered to the Expeditionary Force Command, the cost of this batch is a bit high, and we will lose money, but the situation will improve next, and the Expeditionary Force Command has added an order for 10,000 lighters." Ida is definitely a good hand at doing business, and the first batch of lighters delivered to the Expeditionary Force Command are all made of silver, and some of the lighters are even inlaid with diamonds, which are exclusively for the generals in the Expeditionary Force Command, regardless of the cost, which can be called luxury.

"Ada, can you get a batch of military tents from the expeditionary force headquarters?" Roque's backhand is Ada, who has more ways than Henry.

"Yes, why do you want a military tent?" Ida really has a way, not to mention the military tent, Roque's "sun" was brought by Ada.

The Sun is a thoroughbred, this horse is recognized in the world as the most suitable riding horse breed for cavalry, a thoroughbred can be sold for 50 million dollars in the 21st century, Ida got the Sun out of the Expeditionary Force Command, it only cost less than 100 pounds, in the records of the Expeditionary Force Command, the Sun was disabled due to injury, no longer suitable for use as a war horse, so it was sold at a low price.

Even the most important war horses of the expeditionary force can be made, let alone military tents, in fact, if Roque wants, Roque can also buy them in the Cape Town market, but Roque can't buy them himself, Roque needs to change an excuse to use those military tents in the refugee camp.

"Donate? Is this necessary? Ada didn't understand why Roque was in such trouble.

"It's necessary, think about it, the Cape is the Cape of the Boers after all, so if we want to live better in the Cape, we have to have a good relationship with the Boers, this is the most appropriate opportunity, to take care of the women and children who were imprisoned in the camps because of the war, and when the war is over, all the Boers will be grateful to you." Ten years later, the Cape will merge with the Transvaal, Natal, and Orange Free State to form the Union of South Africa, and begin to govern itself.

"Well, if you say it's necessary, it's necessary—" Ada was tired and wanted to sleep—

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Early in the morning, before Ida got up, Roark returned to Oaktown.

Christian was already waiting in Oak Town, and last night, knowing that Roque was going to see him, Christian came to Oak Town overnight and slept in the carriage for half the night.

Well, it seems that Christian has also made a lot of money during this time, and he has already started to use the carriage.

"Build a house – all right, no problem, tear down all these existing houses and plan the whole town on that basis, widen roads, build sewers, reserve space for squares, parks and green spaces, and take care to protect the oak trees in the town – oh oh, and vineyards, all right, I'll do my best to buy as many vineyards as possible at the lowest price – coercion? No, no, no, I'm honest Christian, and I'm definitely not going to do that-" As Roque's demands grew, so did the cold sweat on Christian's head, Roque wasn't simply going to build a house, Roque was going to rebuild Oaktown.

Rather than building a house, rebuilding Oaktown is beyond Christian's power.

However, Roque didn't expect Christian to become a master planner overnight, Roque described his understanding of the city to Christian in detail, and let Christian play freely for the rest, if Christian thinks he is incompetent, then Christian will naturally find a way to solve it.

"Head, are we going to stay in Oak Town? Do you want a house in Cape Town? Li De didn't understand why Roque did this.

"Absolutely! There are more and more of our brothers, it is impossible for them all to live in Cape Town, how good Oak Town is here, there are mountains, rivers and vineyards, far away from Pooltown is clean enough, there are no gold mines and diamond mines here, the British will not notice Oak Town, ordinary people will not take the initiative to settle down when they hear the name Stellenbosch, and when we buy all the vineyards around, this is our world. "Although Roque is very demanding, Oak Town fits all of Roque's requirements perfectly.

"What do you mean by Stellenbosch?" Anton's English is not good enough.

"City of Cowards!" Roque doesn't hide.

"Holy!" Anton was taken aback, the name was really-

Isn't this swearing?!

"Cut, it's better to call it Hell City." Roque is not enough, it is better to have a name that stinks to the extent that the wind stinks three miles.

"No, the city of cowards is good." Anton is really afraid of Roque's toss, compared to the city of hell, the name of the city of cowards is still alive.

Christian moved quickly, and the day after returning to Cape Town, Christian arrived in Oaktown with a construction team of fifty people.

The construction team is made up entirely of blacks.

"The Boer workers are cheap enough, these Zulu workers are even cheaper, and it only costs two pence a day to hire a Zulu, or even pay no salary at all - they eat very little, they only need a loaf of bread and half a fish, and they can work all day, and they don't have to worry about them being lazy, Kaka and Yaya are overseers, and they will serve you wholeheartedly." Christian explains why he hired the Zulus.

These Zulus were indeed capable, and when they arrived in Oaktown, they didn't even take a break and went straight to work.

Kaka and Yaya are also Zulus, Christian's hand is very vicious, and he has the essence of colonialists, there are Kaka and Yaya overseers, these Zulus dare not be lazy, and they are all very diligent.

This is really not the black person that Roque remembers.