Lara lived up to Roque's expectations and did capture Lubumbashi within 24 hours.

To everyone's surprise, the Yao people controlled themselves well, and although there were some Belgian casualties during the capture of Lubumbashi, there was no widespread humiliation of women, which is very different from what is known about Africans.

"Africans are not completely incorrigible, as long as they find a way, Africans can actually manage." Roque explained to Phyllis that as for how to manage it, there is no need to go into too much detail.

Roque and Phyllis were returning to Johannesburg on a steam-powered train, and although the internal combustion engine had already appeared, it would take a while to apply it to the train.

Another important issue is that neither the Transvaal nor Nyasaland is short of coal, and it can even be said that there are abundant reserves, but the reserves of oil are very low, which is a constraint on the future development of the Transvaal and Nyasaland.

Of course, the reserves are low, there is oil in Lake Niasa, but it is not easy to exploit it, and it is still difficult by current technical standards.

Fortunately, the demand for oil in Nyasaland is not high at the moment, and in the British Empire, it is easy for Nyasaland to buy oil, so the problem is not serious now.

"I really want to live in Nyasaland permanently." If it weren't for Roque's return to Johannesburg for work, Phyllis wouldn't want to leave.

During her stay in Nyasaland, Phyllis was not idle, she was the principal of a girls' school for a while, and during this time, she was familiar with Sophia, and she made great progress.

Nyasaland now also has a school, which is similar to Ziwei College, the biggest difference is that there is an additional preparatory class, which is set up to solve language problems.

Although Roque would love to introduce Chinese language teaching in Nyasaland, it does not seem possible at the moment, and the British know the importance of culture, otherwise Ade would not be committed to teaching English in schools.

Most of the school-age students in Nyasaland are Chinese, so although the official language of Nyasaland is English, the common language is Chinese, which brings a lot of trouble to teaching.

Although there are many Chinese in Johannesburg, the lingua franca of Johannesburg is English, so that Chinese students in Johannesburg have a context to learn English, so the learning speed is quite fast, and there is no need to set up preparatory classes, and Chinese students in Johannesburg can keep up with the teaching progress.

Nyasaland is still a bit of a big problem in this regard, because the lingua franca of Nyasaland is Chinese, so Nyasaland Public School needs to set up preparatory classes to solve students' language problems.

Generally, students in Nyasaland are enrolled in the preparatory course for a year before they can start their regular studies.

However, this is not fixed and will be adjusted over time.

When Phyllis came to Nyasaland, she naturally took over Niassa College and learned more about Chinese students.

"In the future, you will have time to live in Nyasaland." Roque and Phyllis now get along very easily, and after the relationship with Phyllis is confirmed, Phyllis begins to enter the mode of a good wife and mother, and gradually begins to transition to a qualified housewife, which makes Roque feel very comfortable.

That's right, Roque doesn't need a quirky lover, but a woman who can take care of the family for Roque, and now it seems that Phyllis is not bad, although sometimes Phyllis can be stupid, but Phyllis is trying.

How to be a qualified hostess, this is part of Phyllis's curriculum at Brighton Rodin Girls' School, the British are also very good at education, the crown of the British Empire in the 21st century has fallen into the Pacific Ocean, and British education is still very good.

In fact, the education of the Chinese is not bad, but considering the background of the times, the education of the Chinese is actually far behind the world.

It's not too late, Roque is catching up.

The train sped all the way through Salisbury without stopping and continued towards Johannesburg.

The scenery along the way is still good, Xiao Si is also making every effort to develop Rhodesia, in the past, Xiao Si still had a reason to be lazy, but now there is a comparison of Nyasaland, Xiao Si has no reason to be lazy.

It was early in the morning when they arrived in Johannesburg, and Roque and Phyllis slept on the train all night, refreshed.

Don't think about it, it must be sleeping separately, Roque and Phyllis are not married yet, Phyllis believes in Protestantism that clearly opposes premarital sex, so Roque wants to kiss Fang Ze and wait.

Calculate that Roque has been to Nyasaland for almost three months this time, this police chief is indeed unqualified, Joe Russell has now been transferred to Orange as the police chief of the Orange Police Department, fortunately, the telegraph is very convenient now, Roque can command remotely in Nyasaland, and the backlog of official duties is not much.

After a few months, Johannesburg still has changes, the streets from the railway station to the police station have been completed, the green belt and trees on the side of the road are growing very luxuriantly, Roque does not know whether there are professional sanitation workers in big cities such as London and Paris, Johannesburg must have, and even Johannesburg even has the Environmental Protection Bureau, but the Environmental Protection Bureau in Johannesburg is not an independent unit, but a subordinate unit of the police department.

Compared with the police station of the future, the current police station is actually a hodgepodge, urban security, household registration management, anti-terrorism and explosive disposal, handling accidents, and the police station is even in charge of fire protection, as long as the city government does not want to take care of it, it is troublesome to the police station.

Roque had no say in the matter, and it was Philip who was testing himself.

Luckily, Roque knows more or less how some 21st-century cities work, so for now, Roque's work hasn't gone awry.

The only thing that embarrassed Roque was that for some unexplained reason, the Johannesburg Police Department still hired a lot of Africans, and there was only one reason, Africans were cheaper.

Back in Johannesburg, Roque sent Phyllis home and reported to Philip by the way.

It can be seen that Philip still has some opinions on Roque's postponement of the marriage, and Philip's performance is not obvious, because Philip also knows that this is an uncontrollable factor.

Out of habit, Philip was still concerned about the progress of Nyasaland and the Congo Free State.

"It's talking, I don't know if we can talk about the results, it depends on what the Belgians mean, if the conditions offered by the Belgians are not satisfactory, then it will be so consumed." Roque was not in a hurry, and after Lara captured Lubumbashi, he believed that Leopold II would recognize the situation.

"Don't go too far, it's almost enough, this matter has made London very passive, and some people have a lot of opinions about you." Philip reminded Roque.

There is certainly a big argument that the conflict between Nyasaland and the Congo Free State – or now escalating into war – will certainly affect the interests of some vested interests, as Dennis Weld has reminded Roque.

"I know, I'm going to let Duncan have a good talk with the Belgians." Roque agreed very happily, and what to do depends on God's will.

"You have to know that Leopold II is still a king no matter what, and the majesty of royal power is not to be offended, so Locke, stop in moderation." Philip could see that Roque was not willing.

Roque suddenly woke up, as if he had indeed ignored something.

Although Roque has come to this world, Roque's knowledge structure, experience, and understanding of the world are still from the 21st century.

And the 21st century is an era when royal power has gradually declined, so for a long time, in fact, Roque did not have a clear understanding of this issue.

Specific to the Congo Free State, that is, some people in Britain really hope that Leopold II will be unlucky, but they can't be too unlucky, so as not to affect the authority of the royal family, and then have an impact on Britain.

This relationship is a bit winding, compared to the royal family in the 21st century, the royal power in this era is still very large, so Roque needs to give Leopold II more respect, instead of sweeping Leopold II into the garbage heap like sweeping the garbage.

Thinking about this relationship, Roque sent a telegram to Duncan and Anton when he returned to the police station, as long as the conditions of the Belgians were not excessive, then he would agree to the Belgians as soon as possible.

All of them have been beaten to the hinterland in Nyasaland, and even the mercenaries have been annihilated, and Leopold II really has no tough capital.

Roque was willing to make concessions, Duncan and Anton had a lot of easy talks, and Leopold II was now anxious about internal and external troubles, and he really wanted to end the war as soon as possible, so the negotiations went smoothly.

The key issue is still the reparations, Leopold II was indeed greedy, as long as Nyasaland did not ask for reparations, then it was easy to say anything.

As a result, Nyasaland received all of Lake Tanganyika, which originally belonged to the Congo Free State, and all of the land within 50 kilometres of Lake Tanganyika.

Roque voluntarily abandoned Lubumbashi, as well as the southern Congo Free State salient around Lubumbashi.

In order to ransom the mercenaries and Belgians captured by Nyasaland, the Congo Free State had to pay 100,000 pounds to Nyasaland, a figure that Leopold II was acceptable.

"So, your Nyasaland continues to expand—" Owen was jealous and jealous of Roque when he learned of this result.

"It's not an expansion, a small Lake Tanganyika, the Congo Free State, Nyasaland, and Tanganyika, it's a bit annoying—" Roque wanted to monopolize Lake Tanganyika, but unfortunately the Germans didn't agree.

"Tiny!" Owen was angry and viciously gave Roquebi a middle finger.

It is indeed small for Roque, that is, Nyasaland is now subject to the control of the British government, otherwise, Roque can turn the Congo Free State upside down this time.

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