Both Roque and Louis Botha wanted the war to end as soon as possible.

As long as the war continues, the Transvaal will remain under military control, the Provisional Government will not be able to really play its role, and the police will naturally be a decoration.

Roque hopes to end the war as soon as possible, not only because of the law enforcement power of the police department, after the end of the war, the provisional government will begin to rebuild, and then Roque can unscrupulously increase the intensity of Chinese immigration from the Qing State, give Roque a year or two, Roque can immigrate 300,000 to Johannesburg, and at that time, whether the British are on the stage or the Boers are on power, they cannot ignore the power of the Chinese.

300,000 is already a lot, the four colonies of the Cape, the British add up to about 200,000, the Boers suffered heavy casualties in the war, and now there are more than 600,000, so 300,000 is not much, if he can, Roque hopes to immigrate 500,000, so as to ensure the interests of the Chinese in the Cape.

If you say 500,000, it's not impossible to work hard.

In another time and space, without Roque's participation, the mine owners in Johannesburg made a joint effort, and within a year, 60,000 immigrants from the Qing Dynasty were immigrated.

In this time and space, with Roque's deep participation and the full cooperation of Xiao Si and Henry, Roque is simply incompetent if he can't move 100,000 people a year.

Louis Botha also wanted the war to end as soon as possible.

Although the Boers resisted stubbornly at the negotiating table, in fact the intelligent Boers knew that the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State were finished, and the British could not allow the Boers to become independent, so all the "tenacity" was only for the sake of a more dignified surrender.

As long as the war continued, the guerrillas had to eat and sleep, starve, and face the combined strangulation of the expeditionary force and the Provisional Government.

As long as the war continues, women and children in the camps will continue to die.

The concentration camps were extremely densely populated, with a shortage of tents, blankets, clothing, and medicine, plague, malnutrition, and a very high mortality rate, which was as high as 40.1 per cent in October 1901.

During the entire war, the Boers lost less than 5,000 people on the battlefield, but inside the concentration camps, more than 30,000 people had already died.

Children make up the majority of the 30,000 people.

Children are the future of the Boers, and if it weren't for the rising mortality rate of children, Louis Botha would never have accepted surrender, and the expeditionary force knew this, so they threatened the Boer guerrillas with the women and children in the concentration camps.

If there were no children, what would be the case if the Boers won the war?

There is no future for the whole nation!

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After receiving Roque's telegram, the Johannesburg Police Department sprang into action.

In fact, as soon as Cliff walked out of the train station, he was under the surveillance of the Johannesburg Police Department.

Rock had played an important role in the reorganization of the hotel industry, and Cliff did not know that the hotels in Johannesburg were now the eyes of the police department, so after Cliff checked into the hotel, his information was reported to the police department by the hotel owner.

In charge of the operation was a commando team led by Martin.

The old-fashioned and effective course of action, the hotel waiter calls the door, and then the commandos arrest him, which was very effective before television became widespread, and Cliff was not a very cautious person, otherwise he would not have checked into the hotel with a big grin.

Originally, the plan was good, but there was still a problem in the implementation.

"No, gentlemen, I don't dare, he'll kill me—" The hotel waiter shuddered, and said that he didn't dare to call the door.

"Why is it that he killed you when there are so many of us here?" Martin is angry and helpless, you can't expect a person without special training to have the same courage as a commando.

"That man has a gun, more than one, I saw it when I checked in, he's going to kill me, please-" The hotel waiter burst into tears, and almost collapsed to the ground, even if he mustered up his courage at this time, he would probably be exposed.

"What the hell—" Martin turned his head to look around and saw that he was surrounded by Chinese commandos.

"Inspector, do you want to do it another way—" One of Martin's sergeants was clever.

"What's the solution?" Martin fell ill and rushed to the hospital.

"Wait a minute—" The sheriff hurried away with two commandos, bringing back a Boer woman in the blink of an eye.

The clothes on this Boer woman's body are a little exposed, and the makeup on her face is a little heavy, it is already early in the morning, and she is still in good spirits, so she doesn't need to ask to know that she must be a special worker.

"Is there a doorway?" Martin went straight in.

"Officer, what's the name—" The special worker was quite humorous.

"Don't wave, steady—" Martin didn't talk nonsense, tiptoeing upstairs with special workers and a large group of commandos.

Arriving at the door of Cliff's room, the special worker first took a pose, then knocked lightly.

No response.

I guess I slept too hard and kept knocking.

"Who?" Okay, finally woke up.

"Sir, do you need room service?" The voice of a special worker can be sweet, and if you don't do this business, it's not bad to be an operator.

"No—" Cliff was a little grumpy.

"The service is very considerate—" The voice of the special worker was melodious.

"Wait!"

Those who can drink can't stand it!

"Let Lao Tzu inspect the goods first—" Cliff grunted as he opened the door.

Then he was crushed to death by a group of wolf-like men.

"the gods, the gods—" Cliff's voice changed.

"Shut up!" Cliff was answered with a hard fist.

"Well done!" Martin appreciated the performance of the special worker just now and could consider adding this position to the police department.

"Thanks for the praise, but it would be more realistic if you could get paid." Special workers are very realistic.

The little favor that had just appeared in Martin's heart was immediately wiped out.

Martin didn't talk nonsense, went in and searched Cliff's luggage, and found a handful of gold jewelry in the pocket that Cliff was carrying.

Some of the jewelry still had blood on it.

"!" Martin kicked Cliff in the face as he passed by.

Receiving the bloody gold ring, the special worker looked at Cliff with a look that almost burned Cliff.

"Officer, I don't want to be paid, can you help me beat this beast again, just like the kick you just made, kick a few more kicks, kick harder, it's better." Special workers are quite just.

"it, get out, get out of here." Martin turned his face and didn't recognize people, and he wanted to call the police, which was inflated.

Bring Cliff back to the police station, the interrogation is not Martin's business, and now the Johannesburg Police Department, Martin has a lot of apprentices and grandchildren, especially those detectives, who are simply better than blue.

When Roque received the telegram, Louis Botha had not yet left.

"Caught?" Louis Botha was unbelievable.

"Well, I got it." Roque understated, and it is entirely possible to imagine how turbulent Louis Botha was in his heart.

It's 1902, when wireless telegraphy had just been invented and had not yet had time to become widespread, and it took no more than an hour from Roque sending a telegram to the Johannesburg Police Station to arresting someone.

What kind of efficiency is this?

If the expeditionary force had this efficiency, the guerrillas would have been wiped out by the expeditionary force long ago.

Louis Botha would have been glad that the British did not trust the Chinese and did not let Roque go to war.

In fact, Roque has been on it, but it can only be regarded as a cameo, and even so, it still caused great harm to the Boers.

"How did you do that?" Louis Botha was puzzled.

"Just like you see." Roque doesn't explain that something that can be solved by a telegram is nothing to brag about.

Whether it's worth it or not is not Roque's decision, after dawn, the miracles of the Johannesburg Police Department spread throughout Pretoria.

Then Henry was called to the Palace of Justice by Ade to reprimand him, and after returning to the police station, Henry's eyes were full of resentment when he looked at Roque.

"Please, next time you do something like this, can you notify me in advance, and I will cooperate with you to pretend to do that." Henry asked himself if he didn't have the same control over the Pretoria Police Department as Roque.

That's for sure, when leading the commando team in Cape Town, although Henry was the captain, Roque was in charge of the specific work, and Henry was only a nominal front.

It was the same in Pretoria, where Henry was in charge of the superstructure and Roque was in charge of the economic base, but as a result, Roque went to Johannesburg, and Henry had less than half of his control over the police department.

In fact, it is no wonder that Henry, Johannesburg does not have so many Boers in Pretoria, before the war, Johannesburg was the traditional sphere of influence of Britain, so what kind of "Reform Committee" dared to launch a riot, but it is a pity that even in that case, the riot of the "Reform Committee" was suppressed by the Boers.

Pretoria is the capital of the Transvaal Republic, and unlike Johannesburg, where there are many British miners, even Roque has to face more difficulties when he works in Pretoria.

"It's an emergency, and I didn't know it would end so soon." Roque told the truth, this time the Johannesburg Police Department's performance was indeed amazing to Roque.

"It's just because it's a damn emergency, that's why I, the police chief, are so incompetent." Henry lamented that he really had nothing to say this time, Roque was in Pretoria and was not in Johannesburg at all, so Roque and the Johannesburg Police Department were in the limelight this time.

This limelight was reflected at the negotiating table, and when Roque appeared, the Boer delegates looked at Roque with very complicated eyes.

All along, it was Steyn and Beagle who negotiated on behalf of the Boers, and some time ago Steyn was seriously ill and could not participate in the negotiations, so he sent General DeWitt to participate in the negotiations in place of Steyn.

DeWitt was the Orange general who mobilized the Boers who had laid down their arms to go back to war.

Once, on the blacklist within the expeditionary force, DeWitt was more important than Louis Botha at one time.

Since the outcome of the negotiations was to be agreed by all the Boers, in early January Boer representatives representing the two Boer republics, 32 local militias and 165 guerrilla groups met in Frenikhin to discuss whether to accept the terms of peace proposed by the British Government.

On January 15, Roque accompanied Ade to Frinishin, where he met with the Boer representative, Jan Smuts.

Ade proposed twelve conditions for peace talks to Jan Smotz, the first of which was the following: the Boer field troops and armed citizens laid down their arms, surrendered all guns and war materiel in their possession or control, put an end to any further attempts of resistance to His Majesty King Edward VII, and recognized His Majesty as their legitimate sovereign.

On 25 January, 60 Boer delegates voted on whether to renounce the maintenance of independence, and by 54 votes to 6 they decided to accept Article 1.

On 31 January, Ade and General De Witt representing Orange and President Beagle representing the Transvaal formally signed the peace treaty in Frenikhin, ending the 27-month Anglo-Boer War.

"It's finally over—" After signing, Ade gave the pen he signed to Roque as a souvenir.

"Congratulations, Your Excellency the Governor, and now you're about to do your job." Roque's mood did not lighten because of the end of the war, but became heavier.

For the Provisional Government, the Transvaal Government, the end of the war meant that the work had just begun, and there was still something to do, and the expeditionary force would then withdraw from the Transvaal in batches, which did not mean that the Transvaal would not have a garrison, and the Cape government sent General Hopkins to the Transvaal with a colonial servant army to be stationed in the Transvaal in case of possible unrest.

Yes, although the expeditionary force had declared the end of the war a year earlier, and although the handwriting on the Peace Agreement had not yet dried, the Transvaal was still in a dangerous whirlpool.

After the signing of the Peace Agreement, the guerrillas who fought in the Cape will lay down their arms and return to the Transvaal, the camps will be gradually dismantled, and the women and children in the camps will gradually return to their homes -

The crux of the matter is that their home is gone.

Although Ade agreed to give the Boer farmers 3 million pounds in compensation, the 3 million pounds obviously could not compensate the Boers for the losses suffered in the war, so the lawsuit was still fought.

After the signing of the Peace Agreement, Roque returned to Johannesburg as fast as he could, arriving at camp No. 35, the largest refugee in Johannesburg, that same evening.

Camp 35 contained nearly 6,000 Boers, the largest of the three camps in Johannesburg, and the three camps in Johannesburg combined, totaling 11,000 refugees, all of whom were native Johannesburg before the war, some of them citizens of Johannesburg, and many more of them farmers around Johannesburg.

"Sir Locke, how's it going?" Philip was there too.

"It's basically normal, the Peace Agreement has been signed, and after a while this camp will be demolished, and we have to do some preventive work first." Roque came back so quickly just to prevent trouble.

"yes, this mess is ours now." Philip looked at the dilapidated refugee camp with a sad expression.

What a mess indeed!