Chapter 35: Two Worlds

It would be more appropriate to hire more Chinese police officers from the Huayong camp and let Henry propose it.

In any case, Henry is a serious commando captain, Roque, the vice-captain, is soft-spoken and Chinese, and it is inappropriate to give an opinion on this issue, but Henry has no problem in this regard, Roque and these Chinese policemen have proved their loyalty with naturalization and proved their worth with their strength, and the entire Cape Colony is sparsely populated by Chinese, and more Chinese immigrants to Cape Town have to hug the thighs of the British if they want to live, I believe that the British can see this.

"I will make this suggestion to the inspector, but the result is not guaranteed, you should understand." Henry agreed to make a suggestion, but was not optimistic.

Even if there are many advantages of Chinese police, it is still the British who make the decision.

In fact, Roque can understand that when the British consider this issue, they will consider it more comprehensively, and will not all follow Roque's assumptions, for example, after Sharma was assigned to Robben Island, there was a vacancy in the position of sheriff, and the British did not promote the better-performing Chinese police officers to be sergeants, and the newly promoted sergeants are still of Indian origin.

This is the balance of power, and in order to ensure the loyalty of the Chinese police, the British will even appropriately suppress the Chinese police, and replace it with Roque, and Roque will do the same.

Killing Sharma did not usher in a more lenient living space for Roque, there are nearly twenty sergeants in the Cape Town Police Department, more than half of whom are of Indian origin, and killing a Sharma will not change this status quo, but because of the deterioration of the relationship with Sharma, Roque has become the target of public criticism, so Roque still has to be careful and cannot easily give people a handle.

Leaving Henry's office, Roque immediately went to Anton and told Anton the good news of the ticket reimbursement.

"Reimbursement? It's true? Anton couldn't believe it either.

"Really, hurry up and bring your family to Cape Town, God knows when the British will lift this policy." Roque is more anxious than Anton, this policy is temporary and will definitely be canceled in the future.

Regarding immigration, the British did have regulations in this regard in order to enrich the colonies all over the world, but the news that Henry told Rock was that Australia and Canada have now canceled this preferential policy to attract immigrants, and the Cape Colony will definitely be canceled in the future, so it is necessary to hurry.

Cape Town is far away from the Qing Kingdom, even if Anton sent a telegram to the Huayong Camp in Weihai, the Qing Kingdom as soon as possible, hoping to immigrate his family to Cape Town as soon as possible, from the Qing Kingdom to Cape Town, it will take almost a month to take the fastest merchant ship, not to mention that Anton and his family will not get on the ship immediately after receiving the telegram, there is always a process of decision, so it will take time for Anton to reunite with his family.

"I'll send a telegram right away." Anton made up his mind that the telegram was certainly not free, but Anton didn't care about that money now.

By the way, after bringing down Sharma, Roque also realized that the Chinese policemen's thirst for money is endless, so Roque decided to carry out the business of setting up a bureau, but the way must be improved, and the Chinese can no longer come forward, and after two days, when Luo Yi is in better health, Luo Yi will teach Di Rang relevant techniques, and when Di Rang comes forward to set up a game, Luo Yi and they assist, even if there is an Indian sheriff who repeats his old skills, it will not be able to rely on Roque.

"Let's go, by the way, I'll help you design a new look that will make you look more like a Cape Towner." Roque changed into a custom suit that the tailor had just delivered and looked new from head to toe.

Nearly ten pounds is indeed worth the money, the brand new tuxedo is straight and structured, the shiny leather shoes can shine the figure, the gold watch chain across the chest is blind, Roque still has a gun, hidden under the tuxedo is not obvious, put on a top hat and pick up a cane, from behind, Roque is an authentic English gentleman.

"You-" Anton looked at Roque's new line, "you" haven't been out of your way for a long time.

There is a saying that "people rely on clothes, Buddha depends on gold", a decent set of clothing can indeed change a person's overall image.

Roque's capital is still good, he is one meter eighty meters tall, and his appearance is angular, because he has practiced martial arts all year round, Roque's body is very strong, in the jargon it is a standard "clothes rack", plus Roque's standing posture is to raise his chest and raise his head and raise his abdomen and buttocks anytime and anywhere, even many British people can't do this, unless it is the descendants of those nobles who have received strict etiquette training since childhood, Anton has seen too much of Roque's appearance in a police uniform, at first glance, Roque is changing like this, and the most direct feeling is actually inappropriate.

Yes, it's not appropriate, in Anton's opinion, Roque's outfit is a bit overreaching, in Cape Town, only high-class people with a certain status will wear it like this, Roque is a policeman, it doesn't seem very appropriate to wear this kind of clothes.

"There's nothing inappropriate, Cape Town doesn't stipulate that Chinese can't wear dresses, or that sentence, if you want others to look up to you, you can't see yourself clearly in the first place, we Chinese are no worse than anyone else, and the police are also a serious profession, if we all think that we are inferior, why should we let foreigners look at us squarely?" Roque wants to subtly instill correct ideas in Anton anytime and anywhere, and let Anton understand himself, I'm afraid he won't be able to understand it for the rest of his life.

"So, we're all going to wear it like this in the future?" It's not that Anton doesn't like the clothes that look bad, but they are expensive, Roque ordered these clothes with Anton, and Anton knew how much Roque's outfit costed.

"You can also wear it like this, but if the clothing is inappropriate, don't want foreigners to look at you squarely." Roque is not forced, he wants to get ahead, of course, he has to spend some money, Roque is also short of capital now, and he can't afford to buy such a suit for all Chinese policemen, otherwise Roque would not be stingy.

As long as it can be solved with money, it is not a matter for Roque.

"Didn't you order two sets? Borrow a set and I'll try it. Anton didn't take Roque as an outsider, gritted his teeth and swallowed his saliva, deciding to follow Roque's rhythm.

If you don't keep up, you can't follow it, when you were in the Huayong battalion, Anton and Roque were both corporals, because Roque was silent, and Anton's prestige in Huayong was even higher, and it was only a few months since he came to Cape Town, and when he first arrived in Cape Town, everyone was the same as a patrol officer, but now the gap between Roque and Anton has obviously widened, which fully proves that Roque is right.

If you don't keep up with Roque's rhythm, I'm afraid the gap between Anton and Roque will get bigger and bigger, and they will completely become people from two worlds.