146 Surface Brothers
Zach probably didn't expect that Roque would treat those Chinese workers like this.
But on closer thought, Zach understood Roque's intentions.
Most of these Chinese workers have no education, so it is unrealistic to ask them to have a long-term vision.
In this case, we can only tempt them with tangible benefits, and when they see the benefits, their attitude will naturally become positive.
There will definitely be people who are stubborn, and there is no need to waste time on them, there are few Chinese in Johannesburg, and there are many Chinese in the Qing Dynasty, so a few black sheep can be repatriated, so as to save the reputation of the Chinese in Johannesburg.
In the final analysis, Zack's current mode of thinking is still stuck in his student days, and he has not changed to a colonial mindset in time, and he only needs to think from the perspective of colonialism, and these problems are easily solved.
At the end of the month, Nelson Holt completed his work and Roque also returned to Pretoria to prepare for the inauguration of the new governor, Alfred Milner.
As a senior inspector, Roque is not in charge of the security of the ceremony this time, but as a representative of the Pretoria Police Department, he can enter the house in a grand manner.
This was progress, and when Alfred Milner welcomed Roberts, commander-in-chief of the expeditionary forces, and Kitchener, chief of staff, a few months earlier, Rock was not even eligible to enter the governor's estate.
Now, Roque was a guest of honor at the Governor's inauguration, a significant improvement.
After the inauguration, the Johannesburg Police Department will be established, Roque is the appointed police chief, Henry has reported to the Governor's Office, Alfred Milner has also approved, and after Alfred Milner's inauguration, Roque will go to Johannesburg to take up his post.
In order to match the status of police chief, Henry also applied to the governor's palace to promote Roque to the rank of superintendent, this application has not yet been approved, but if there is no accident, the application will be approved after Alfred Milner becomes governor.
This is also a common practice, the emperor will also give amnesty to the world when he ascends the throne, and the governor will definitely give his subordinates some benefits when he takes office, otherwise why should he give you his life?
"Although the level of the Johannesburg Police Department is below the Pretoria Police Department, the scale is actually similar to that of the Pretoria Police Department, and even because of the gold mines in Johannesburg, it is more important than the General Directorate in terms of police allocation, you can take some commandos to Johannesburg, but you can't take them all, I will equip you with a group of Zulu police officers, all of whom are scouts who have just retired from the battlefield, which are much easier to use than those Indians." Henry was triumphant, and this was Henry's achievement again.
Lack of police presence is an old problem, not just in Pretoria Police, but in all police stations throughout Cape.
Chinese police officers have proven that they are better than Indian and Boer police officers, so now both the Cape and the Transvaal are making requests to the Hua Yong Battalion in the Qing Dynasty to hire more Chinese police to maintain social stability.
It should be noted here that the Cape Colony is a general term, and in fact after the annexation of the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State, the Cape Colony was divided into four parts, which were administered by two governors, the current governor of the Transvaal and Orange was Alfred Milner, and the current governor of Cape and Natal was Walter Henry Hutchinson.
The crux of the matter is that the limited size of the Huayong battalion makes it impossible to provide a large number of police officers for the Cape.
Therefore, Roque and Henry proposed to apply to the Governor's Palace to hire some Zulu scouts to enrich the police force.
That purpose has now been achieved.
"No problem, Johannesburg will leave it to me." Roque was in charge and handed over Johannesburg to anyone but Roque, and neither Henry nor Roque was at ease.
"Of course I'm relieved to hand it over to you, but there seems to be a bit of a problem with the funding, I applied to the Finance Bureau for 20,000 pounds, but the Finance Bureau only approved 10,000 pounds, and you have to solve the difference yourself, and the Finance Bureau has no money now." Henry felt guilty and didn't give Roque enough support.
In fact, it was enough, the Transvaal Provisional Government had just been formed, there were many places to spend money, the Governor's Palace had to rely on the auction of gold mines to increase its revenue, and the Treasury Bureau could give 10,000 pounds, which was already for the sake of Roque once looking for office space for the Treasury Bureau.
That's where good karma comes in.
Of course, for Roque, it is not difficult to make up the difference between the construction of the police station, and it is even very simple.
Johannesburg is full of gold mines, plus there are thirty or forty to resume production after the auction, so many mines, each mine will cost a thousand, and the construction of a police station will be more than enough.
This should be regarded as an apportionment, but it is an apportionment that the mine owners can't ask for, and the establishment of the police station is ultimately to provide services for those mines, so the police station goes to the mine to "turn the fate", if the mine does not give it, then good, if the "workers" in the mine run away in the future, don't expect the police station to send police to help arrest people.
Don't think about catching it yourself, in the mine, it doesn't matter how many security guards and thugs the mine owner hires, but outside the mine, it is the territory of the police station, and the mine owner dares to use those security guards and thugs outside the mine without greeting the police station, and what awaits them will be a ruthless blow from the police station.
And this kind of thing, don't expect the big people behind the mine to support you, the support may not have results, the police station is not without a backstage, to say small, the backstage of the police station is Governor Alfred Milner, to say bigger, the backstage of the police station is Her Majesty the Queen.
The backstage of the mine is big, and it can be bigger than Her Majesty?
"You don't have to worry about money, I'll take care of this part, you can keep the money you want to come, there are many places to spend money here in the General Administration." Roque was single-mindedly for Henry's sake.
Actually, no, if Henry gives enough money in one go, Roque will not want it, such a thing as funding, so it is enough, or it is not a penny, so that if there is a controversy in the future, Roque will have something to say.
You see, the establishment of the Johannesburg Police Department, the General Directorate did not give a penny, and the Johannesburg Police Department raised its own money to build the police station, there will definitely be many shortcomings, so it is inevitable that there will be some mistakes in the work.
Do you want the police department to do their job?
Okay, let's make up for the funds for me first, I can't do anything without money, the police have to eat, drink, and sleep, and the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers-
So as long as Henry's side is served, Roque will sit back and relax, the sky will fall, and Henry will be on top.
"Locke, good brother!" Henry's face was indeed full of emotion.
Surface brothers!