In this world, if Roque has friends, then Henry is certainly one of them.

Roque has always thought so.

If Henry's family hadn't come to Johannesburg, then it was indeed possible for Roque and Phyllis to develop into lovers, and Roque could feel that Phyllis liked Roque, and Roque also knew that he also liked Phyllis, and Roque liked the lightness and happiness when he was with Phyllis.

But all this is now gradually becoming unclear.

First of all, Arnold would never approve of Roque and Phyllis dating.

And then there's Owen, don't look at the relationship between Roque and Owen is not bad, but that's on the premise that it doesn't involve Phyllis, don't look at Roque is now the chief of the Johannesburg Police, and he is also considered a high authority, but Owen really doesn't necessarily approve of Roque and Phyllis dating.

The reason is simple, the Matilda family is noble, and Roque is Chinese, if the daughter of Baron Matilda marries a Chinese, then the Matilda family will become a joke in the aristocratic circle.

The British are decidedly traditionally conservative in this regard.

The representative of this was Winston's father, Randolph Churchill.

Randolph Churchill's father was the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and the duke did not agree with his son's choice at first, because the family was not in the right household, and marrying the daughter of an American commoner as a wife did not conform to the traditions and status of the nobility, and the object of aristocratic marriage could only be a nobleman most of the time.

However, thanks to Randolph Churchill's insistence, the Duke finally agreed to the marriage, but at the same time he made a condition that Randolph must enter Parliament before the marriage could take place.

Winston's mother, who was still white and the daughter of a millionaire, was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" at the time.

Just because Winston's mother is an American and marries Randolph Churchill, who is middle-of-the-road, mediocre-looking, and even a little ugly, Winston's mother has to face such huge resistance, and if Roark wants to marry Phyllis, the resistance he will face can be imagined.

For the same reason, Baron Matilda probably wouldn't have agreed to Phyllis and Roque together.

Even for this reason, Ada can be with Roque, but Ada does not want to disclose her relationship with Roque.

Roque also knows these objective facts, so Roque will not force Ada-

While on the train, Roque didn't take the initiative to make Phyllis happy as usual.

Roque thought that Henry should understand Roque.

So Roque didn't expect that when Phyllis said those words just now, Henry's reaction would be so strong.

Moreover, Henry's anger seemed to be more than just because of what Phyllis had just said.

"The same goes for you!"

After Roque finished scolding, Henry became even more angry and twisted his head to look around.

Roque pulled out his baton and handed it to Henry.

Henry snatched the baton and slammed it into Roque's shoulder.

Fortunately, I know the severity.

Henry's kind of goodness, Roque can fight with one hand.

Faced with the baton mixed with the sound of the wind, Roque stepped sideways and stumbled and grabbed in one go, and easily threw Henry to the ground.

"Bastard!" Henry didn't give up, and he got up and continued.

"Enough!" Phyllis screamed.

"Why didn't you say stop when he hit me?" Henry was dissatisfied, and Phyllis was clearly pulling the shelf.

"Come on, come on, I'll give you a punch." Roque is a good man.

"Don't run!"

"Don't run!"

"Don't fight back!"

"Don't pay it back!"

"You swear!"

"Whoever runs who puppies!"

Phyllis was devastated—

Henry threw away the baton and walked over to Roque with a sinister smile—

"Can you be serious?" Phyllis felt a terrible headache.

Henry punched Roarke in the stomach.

Roque fell to his knees with his stomach in his arms.

"You're crazy!" Phyllis was startled and ran over with the corner of her skirt.

"He deserves it!" Henry put his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky and smiled triumphantly.

Phyllis didn't talk nonsense and kicked Henry hard in the calf.

Henry immediately wailed with his shin around his legs.

Phyllis wears leather shoes.

After a few minutes, the three of them were finally able to sit down and communicate normally.

"—I knew at a very young age that the title belonged to Arnold, that the family's fortune belonged to Arnold, and even that my dog belonged to Arnold, so after graduating from university, I came to Cape Town to find my own life—"Don't look at Henry's joy all day long, in fact, there are a handful of bitter tears behind it."

"I don't care what you think, I will never marry that idiot, and if you don't let me marry Locke, then I will become a nun!" Phyllis is determined.

"Actually, even if you give up the Matilda gold mine-" Roque really didn't care, after buying the farms around Krugersdorp, the Far West Land gold mine was already on the horizon, and if the Matilda gold mine could be exchanged for the Far West Land gold mine, Roque would be happy.

"Why?"

"Think beautifully!"

Henry and Phyllis spoke in unison.

Oh oh oh, this aristocratic family is really not harmonious.

"The gold mine belongs to the three of us, and no one can take it away, so you don't have to worry about this." Henry is no longer the sheriff Henry he used to be, and this kind of thing is really common for aristocratic families.

"I'm not worried about the gold mines, it's Rand, the gold mines are everywhere, I'm worried about the workers in the gold mines." Roque won't worry about gold mines, for Roque, there are really a lot of gold mines.

"What's wrong with the workers?" Henry didn't understand.

"Henry, have you ever wondered what the future Transvaal will look like after the war?" Roque doesn't dwell on the gold mine.

"What else, that's all—" Henry's reaction was a little slow.

"Locke, you mean, the Boers?" Phyllis reacted quite quickly, but unfortunately the angle was still wrong.

"After the war, there were no Boers—" Roque had to admit that the British were indeed cruel, and that the Chinese were indeed too kind compared to them.

When it comes to the British, the first reaction that comes to most people's minds may be "-stirring sticks", or "gentlemen", or: conservative, stubborn, without a sense of humor, because they once dominated the world, and because they were reduced to a second-rate country in two world wars, etc., etc.

In Roque's impression, few people associate Britain with the word "cruelty", and Roque only knew how cruel the British were after he came to this world.

When he first came to this world, Roque fantasized about building a good relationship with the Boers and building a "harmonious and beautiful" new Cape together.

With Roque's understanding of the Second Boer War, Roque now found that the British had no intention of sparing the Boers at all, and the current practices of the Expeditionary Force Command were to put the Boers to death and extermination, and it was best to eliminate all the Boers, so that the Cape could have long-term peace and stability.

This is the true face of the British.

In fact, Roque is not surprised, the British have a history in this regard, when they first arrived in the precious land, they would exchange glass balls for the gold of the natives, and then they would start selling opium if they couldn't do business, and if they didn't let the opium dealers, they would fight with open fire to rob them, and after they finished robbing things, they would use the robbed money to buy the scalps of the natives-

The expeditionary forces now engaged in "concentration camps", "barbed wire", "scorched earth policies", which Roque had never heard of before.

In Roque's impression, it seems that only Germany and Japan in World War II have done this, and Britain has never been involved in these things.

This is the right of the victors to speak, if the Germans won World War II -

Then I am afraid that the British will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

"How is that possible—" Henry muttered to himself, but had to admit that Roque was telling the truth.

"It is very likely that now the Boer men are either shot or exiled, the Boer women are thrown into concentration camps, and in two years, when the war is over, how many Boers will be left?" Roque made up for it again, inadvertently revealing the secret of heaven, and only Roque in the world knew that the war would last for two more years before it ended.

"So what do we do?" Henry was horrified and did not notice Roque's mistake.

This "we" is well used, and Roque must have a way.

"Don't worry, the Boers are gone, but the new Afrikans will appear—" Roque was saddened.

In the original history, the Second Boer War promoted the cohesion of the Boers, and the war greatly contributed to the formation of the psychological state of national identity, which finally took shape into a nation, that is, the Afrikaners, after a long process of evolution and identity.

How much blood and tears are contained in this short sentence, only the Afrikans know.

"Who are the Afrikans?" Henry hadn't heard of the term yet.

"You, me, Phyllis, and the rest of the South African British, the Boers in the concentration camps, the Chinese miners in the gold mines, blah, we're all Afrikans—" Roch didn't know exactly how the Afrikaners came to be, and now it seemed that national integration was the only possibility.

Of course, it was the British who merged with the Boers, and the Boers were certainly not very happy, but the Boers were powerless to resist.

"Those Chinese miners—" Henry finally returned to the original question.

"Yes, those miners, I value those Chinese miners more than the gold mines—when the war is over, peace will come again, the Transvaal will end its military rule, the provisional government will transition to a democratic government, and then the votes will decide everything, so do you think, with the current ratio of Anglo-Boers in the Transvaal, if there is an election, will the British-Americans in the Cape be able to defeat the Boers?" Roque gets to the heart of the matter.

Yes, the ballot, for a democratically elected system, the ballot is everything.

Although the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange were in decline, there were still large numbers of Boers in the Cape and Natal, and the four colonies of South Africa combined still numbered more than 600,000 Boers.

And in the same four colonies combined, there are less than 200,000 British, and if they really want to vote, the Boers can regain the leadership of the government with their feet.

If that happens, then what's the point of a war in which Britain spent more than 200 million pounds and mobilized 440,000 people?

Figured out this joint, Henry immediately sweated profusely.