Chapter 50: Churchill

Winston's father, Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the famous 7th Duke of Marlborough, whose title and domain were to be inherited by the eldest son of the Duke under English law, and the other sons had to seek a career in politics, the military, the colonial administration, or religion.

Randolph's luck is that he meets Jenny Jerome, the daughter of the king of Wall Street Leonard Jerome, at a banquet, one is the son of an aristocrat whose family is in decline, and the other is an upstart who desperately wants to integrate into high society, and the two hit it off and got married eight months later.

In November of the wedding year, Jenny Jerome gave birth to Winston Churchill because of abdominal pain caused by an accident, which was only more than seven months before the wedding of Randolph and Jenny, so Winston was a premature baby, even if it was born more than two months prematurely, under the conditions of extremely backward medical conditions, Winston still grew up healthy.

This vitality is comparable to Xiaoqiang.

The reason for introducing this background is not to prove that Randolph and Jenny had sex before marriage, which was against social ethics and morals at the time, but the purpose of introducing Winston's background is only to show that Winston has always been ridiculed by people and maliciously slandered by many people in the environment in which he grew up.

Well, that includes a certain undisciplined fish head.

Before coming to the Cape, Winston had served as a military correspondent in the wars between Cuba and India, and at that time Winston still had a military position, but before leaving for the Cape, Winston resigned from the military and this time purely as a reporter for the Morning Post to cover the Second Boer War.

Perswick, the editor of the Morning Post, paid a fortune to hire Winston, who was paid £250 a month in Cape, which was higher than the salary of the British deputy finance minister, and the chancellor of the exchequer was only £5,000 a year.

So, Winston may not really be a premature baby, but the Boers are really blind!

Obviously, although Roque and Ida only had an overnight relationship, the two of them had a very tacit understanding, and Roque did not get into Ada's carriage, although Ada's carriage was four-wheeled, Roque and Winston returned to Cape Town in a two-wheeled carriage.

Well, Roque didn't greet Ida either, and even Roque didn't see Ada, Ada's carriage followed Roque's carriage.

When they arrive at the Table Mountain Bar, Winston is already asleep, and Roque sets Winston in before finding Ida in the familiar room.

It's not familiar, but Roque's memory is not bad, and Ada is impressed with Roque, and Roque is also impressed with Ada.

"Your injuries?" Ada's gaze at Roque was full of worry, if the last time Roque helped Ada break the siege, he made a deep impression on Ada, then Roque's performance tonight deepened this impression to the extent that it was unforgettable.

"It's okay anymore, a man's scar is a medal of merit that he carries with him." Roque pretended to be that lightly.

Ida smiled, like a rose blooming in the morning.

In fact, Roque really didn't pretend to be that, Roque's injury was really fine, just now in the carriage, Roque felt that the wound was still a little itchy, and it wasn't even itchy at this time, only a little uncomfortable, and it was still caused by bandages.

"Your clothes are torn, try to change into this?" There was a white shirt on the sofa next to Ada, and Roque didn't know why it was, perhaps, it was Ada's unlucky ex-husband?

Try it, try it, Roque takes off his torn tuxedo and then his torn shirt, and suddenly hears Ida swallow.

Try a fart!

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(Two thousand words are omitted here, brothers can use their imagination on their own-)

(Sisters, don't get me wrong, Ada just helped Roque change his dressing-)

(I suddenly found out that this chapter turned out to be 4,000 words, which is really a fish head of conscience-)

Bright moonlight in front of the bed, two pairs of shoes on the ground——

It's still the same recipe, but not the same taste, Roque didn't miss it this time, everything was impressive.

Well, impressive.

When Roque saw Winston again, it was already the next day, and although noon was not yet the opening hours of the Table Mountain Bar, Winston had already drained a bottle of Lady Veuve Clicquot each at the bar and Henry.

"Henry, you should stay in the army, you will become a general, and losing you is a loss to the entire army." Winston had clearly learned Henry's view of linear tactics.

"No, you should stay in the army, and the queen should appoint you commander of the Royal Navy." Henry was a big drinker and still spoke clearly.

Look, the British drink too much is also a commercial blow.

In fact, the military talents of both men are not mentioned, Henry was kicked out of the army because of pickling girls, and Winston commanded the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I, as a result, the British army lost 20,000 men at one time in that war.

But this does not affect their future achievements -

Attention, it's them!

"Good morning, gentlemen." Roque has changed into a new outfit that is magical and fits perfectly.

"Allow me to introduce Locke from the Mysterious East, the mainstay of the Cape Town Police Department, who saved us all last night." Henry stood up and threw his arm around Roque's shoulders with enthusiasm.

"Locke, Indian?" Winston had served in India and knew a lot about India, but he had a bad eye for the Qing Dynasty.

"No, Chinese." Roque can change his nationality, but he will always be proud to be Chinese.

"Oh, Qingguo, a magical country." Winston immediately lost interest in Roque.

"Don't be like that, Winston, all the shortcomings of the 'linear tactics' I just mentioned were actually discovered by Locke, and I tell you, he is the real genius." Henry has infinite admiration for Roque, especially after last night.

Roque doesn't know how much benefit last night's credit will bring to Henry, the police department will definitely be promoted, and the official position will not be small, maybe it will be one step to the sky, this is exactly what Roque wants, so that Roque can follow the light.

The police department has not yet announced the reward for Henry, but it is clear that Henry has already reaped some of the benefits, and it seems that Henry met a lot of people at the banquet yesterday.

It can be seen that Winston didn't believe Henry's words very much, but after Henry's explanation, Winston looked at Roque's eyes again, and was obviously a little more interested.

"No one is a genius, many people know that sooner or later 'linear tactics' will be eliminated, but no one will take the initiative to eliminate 'linear tactics' until they suffer major losses, this is our sadness, we know that something will happen, but there is nothing we can do to stop it." Roarke is not proud, reality will teach arrogant Englishmen a lesson.

Reality will also teach the arrogant Winston a lesson.