If he could, Louis Botha would definitely not come to Roque at this time period.

But if you don't look for it, you can't do it, in the past two days, Louis Botha went to Ziwei Town, to Oak Town, and even to Crocodile Bay Company, everything in Johannesburg left a deep impression on Louis Botha.

Whether Louis Botha admits it or not, Orange is now rebuilt far behind Johannesburg.

Even in the foreseeable future, this gap of "backwardness" will widen, and perhaps one day, the Boers of Orange will be attracted by Johannesburg, which has a more developed economy, a better environment, and a more stable society, and would rather abandon the farms in Orange and go to Johannesburg in search of a stable job.

It was an absolutely devastating blow to the Boers.

Louis Botha could not sit idly by and watch this happen, so Louis Botha came to Roque, partly for Roque's last proposal, and partly for the Boers of Orange.

"It's very simple to rebuild, you need a strong team, you need hard-working and capable farmers, you need enough money - this last point doesn't seem to be a problem now, but it's also a big problem, 12 million pounds is a lot of money, but Orange now has 200,000 Boers, and it's only 60 pounds for everyone, if you don't do anything, then the money will be spent very quickly, what will happen when it's gone? Do you want to go ahead and apply for a loan? Impossible, the Reich Bank will not lend us any more until this loan is paid off. "Roque is not optimistic about the current way Orange is rebuilding.

Orange's biggest problem was the lack of cooperation between the Boers and the Orange government.

The Orange government was formed by the British government, and Ade was also the governor of Orange, and before the Peace Accords, the employees of the Orange government were basically British, or Boers assimilated by the British.

Most of the civilians in Orange were Boers, many of them guerrillas who had just returned from the front, and they were strongly resistant to British rule, and although the Orange government now recruited some guerrilla leaders in an attempt to ease the antagonism between the Boers and the government, the effect was not obvious.

The most immediate response is that many Boers are now living in tents and waiting for government assistance without working, rebuilding farms, or even building houses.

The point is, even if they get compensation or loans from the government, they are not grateful.

"No, this time it won't be evenly distributed, the loan will all be in the hands of the government and used to invest in infrastructure, just like the Transvaal is doing now." Louis Botha was not stupid, and the current situation in Orange has proven that the previous model is not viable, and if the way is not changed, no amount of loans will change.

It's not easy to admit that.

As governor of the Transvaal and Orange, Ade did not differ in his attitude towards the Transvaal and Orange in any way.

After the signing of the Peace Agreement, Ade focused on reconstruction, working hard to achieve the Anglometrication of the Transvaal and Orange, and he knew that this would lead to the resentment of the Boers, so Ade also carried out large-scale engineering construction to win hearts and minds.

In order to ensure that these policies were not misinterpreted, Ade hired a large number of university graduates from the United Kingdom to work in the Transvaal and Orange, who were popular in the Transvaal, who worked hard, were conscientious and more capable than their former officials.

But in Orange, these students were ostracized, and the Boers did not trust them, believing that they had been sent by the Governor's Office to enslave them, so they called them "Milner kindergartens", and ridiculed, ridiculed, and ridiculed these students unscrupulously.

Ordinary Boers laughed at them because they didn't understand the value of these university students, and Louis Botha and the elite of these Boers would certainly not be so superficial.

After being ostracized by the Boers, many of them left Orange for the Transvaal, and some even returned directly to the British mainland, and Ade was very disappointed in Orange.

This "disappointment" has the potential to lead to serious consequences, so Louis Botha has to find a way to change the status quo.

"It's the right choice, and what I'm going to say may make you angry, but Luis, the government can never be coerced by public opinion, especially the Boers in Orange, many of whom are very resistant to the government, and if this situation is not resolved, it may lead to serious consequences." Roque solemnly reminded Louis Botha that Ade's patience also had a limit, and if the Boers remained in such a state of uncooperation, no one could predict what Ade would do next.

Of course, Ade was not an appeaser, and it was Ade's impetus that led the British government to agree to declare war on the Boer Republic.

Therefore, if the Boers still show non-cooperation after the 30 million is in place, then Ade may have to use other ways to solve this problem.

That was certainly the way Louis Botha didn't want to see it.

"I know that many of those who are disgruntled have gone to German South-West Africa, and in the past month or two, at least 10,000 people have chosen to leave." Louis Botha smiled wryly that while other regions are trying to attract immigrants in any way they can, Orange's population is dwindling.

After the signing of the Peace Agreement, Boers began to migrate to German South-West Africa, and the Governor of German South-West Africa, Leutvig, was overjoyed and distributed the farms of the Herero people to the Boers who had emigrated to German South-West Africa free of charge, and helped the Boers build their farms.

When the news reached Orange, it prompted more Boers to emigrate to German Southwestern Africa.

But most people still chose to stay in Orange, after all, there are now more than 200,000 Boers in Orange, and there are as many as 600,000 Boers in the four regions of the Cape combined, and it is no longer realistic to have another "great migration", and there is not enough land to accommodate all the Boers in German South-West Africa.

In the Boer War, the position of German South-West Africa was very clear, remember the "Teutonic Africa Plan" proposed by Germany after the Berlin Conference?

The most important part of this is to unite the Transvaal and Orange in order to complete the Teutonic Africa Plan.

After the British conquest of the Transvaal and Orange, Germany's "Teutonic Africa Plan" had completely failed, but Britain's "Two Cs" had taken a big step forward, and if Britain could open up the situation from the Congo Free State or Tanganyika, then the British "Two Cs" would be victorious.

"This is not a bad thing, since those people don't want to stay in Orange, forcing them to stay will also cause serious hidden dangers, it is better for them to be willing to go to German Southwestern Africa, German Southwestern Africa is not a paradise for whites, the Germans are massacring the Herero people in German Southwestern Africa, and distributing the Herero farms to those Boers who immigrated to German Southwestern Africa, this is actually to blame others, if the Herero people make a comeback, think about the fate of those Boers." Roque sneered, the Germans unscrupulously supported the Boer Republic in the Boer War, and Britain was really easy to provoke?

It must not be easy to provoke, so the Herero people in German South-West Africa rebelled.

Considering the causal relationship between the two, Roque had good reason to believe that the Herero people and the rebellion must have something to do with Walvis Bay.

"Locke, if you want Orange to also form a militia and work with the vigilante in Johannesburg to maintain law and order in Johannesburg and Orange, then your Johannesburg Police Department will be responsible for a part of the cost of forming a militia in Orange, I know this request is a bit presumptuous, but Locke, you should know the current situation in Orange." Louis Botha is still more sincere, he knows that if he waits passively, Roque will definitely not take the initiative to bring it up, so Louis Botha has to take the initiative to fight for it.

"Luis, you just got 12 million pounds, and Johannesburg only got 7.5 million-" Roque looked surprised, most of it was pretending.

"Yes, Orange got 12 million pounds, but Orange has 200,000 people, you Johannesburg and Pretoria combined take 18 million pounds, and Johannesburg and Pretoria combined have 200,000 people?" Louis Botha was also full of complaints when he mentioned it.

The loan was made back in the name of the Transvaal and Orange, and in principle, Johannesburg, as a region of the Transvaal, was not eligible to participate in the distribution of the loan.

But because the main force of repayment is Johannesburg, Johannesburg insisted on taking 7.5 million, Louis Botha was very dissatisfied with this matter, and now Roque is shouting grievances again, Louis Botha definitely disagrees.

Regardless of whether Louis Botha agrees or not, Roque will try to fight for the interests of Johannesburg, so Roque's attitude is also very resolute: "Of course there is, there is no need to add it up with Pretoria, Johannesburg alone has more than 200,000 people now." ”

"200,000?" Louis Botha was deeply skeptical.

"Definitely!" Roque was convincing.

Indeed, unconsciously, the total number of Chinese workers and farmers in Johannesburg has exceeded 50,000, and including the families of subsequent immigrants, there are now more than 100,000 Chinese in Johannesburg alone.

After the signing of the Peace Accords, many British people were attracted by Johannesburg's gold and took the initiative to immigrate to Johannesburg.

However, these people are only willing to stay in the city and are not willing to run farms, so the presence of these people is not strong.

In addition to the British, a number of persecuted Russian Jews also came to the Transvaal, most of them in Pretoria, and only a few came to Johannesburg, which was also quite numerous.

In short, the Transvaal's current population has properly exceeded 200,000, a figure that is basically on par with the Boers of Orange, enough to make Louis Botha vigilant.

"Then we will each be responsible for the costs of forming a vigilante and jointly maintaining law and order in Bloemfontein and Johannesburg." Louis Botha happily agreed.

Roque didn't know why, and suddenly felt as if he had been fooled.

As a result, the next day, Ade called Roque to the Palace of Justice and scolded him.

"Stupid! Stupid! You think you're taking advantage, don't you? You think Louis Botha is a fool, don't you? I don't even know if I've been used, is it stupid to dig for gold-" Ade sprayed Roque for ten minutes.

Roque, of course, is a self-spitting, upright posture, and a few sheep with no distractions.

Ade is a politician after all, and after scolding for less than ten minutes, he was out of breath, and seeing Roque's sincerity, Ade's anger disappeared a little.

What if it doesn't disappear?

Roque is not an ordinary person now, and he is also a "subordinate baron" with status, even if he does something wrong, it is not something that Ade can punish casually, so Ade breathed a sigh of relief, and he still has to talk to Roque.

"Don't take the Boers for fools, while using the Boers, we also have to guard against being used by the Boers, we spent a full 220 million to get the Boers to lay down their arms, and you want the Boers to pick up their weapons for the sake of law and order in Johannesburg, is it stupid?" Ade's eyes when he looked at Roque were hatred of iron and steel.

That's when Roque realized what he had done wrong.

Ade is right, the establishment of a vigilante can certainly protect the territory and the people, but at the same time, it also allows the Boers to have a "paramilitary organization", so that the previous efforts of the British government and the expeditionary force are all in vain, can Ade not be angry?

The scolding is already a light hair, after all, Roque was picked up by Ade, and now he is a "baron", if someone else makes this kind of mistake, not to mention the dismissal, maybe he will be judged.

"It's stupid." Roque honestly admits his mistakes, and if he does something wrong, he has to admit it, and compared with old oilmen like Ade and Louis Botha, Roque still has to hone his skills.

If you think about it, you can understand that Luo Ke was just a foreign trade dog before he crossed over, and there was a huge gap between him and the elites of that era.

Traveling to this era, Roque can mix the wind and water, not because Roque's ability has been greatly improved, compared with the elites of this era, Roque is still a huge gap, and he can mix up all by grasping the overall situation, which is the so-called "standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly".

Roque is the pig that was blown up by the wind, and when the tide is high, the big guys swim happily, and only when the tide goes out will you know who has been swimming naked.

Roque is not a naked swimmer, but it is similar to a naked swim, and this time has been smooth, and Roque has lost his vigilance.

"—Don't forget at all times that you're just a policeman, and the police should only do your own thing, and things like this are beyond your power and should be handed over to your superiors to coordinate and solve them - go to General Hopkins, and he will give you the help you deserve." Ade is sincere and seductive, this is really educating Roque as his own son.

I almost forgot, Ade has no children, so, if this is replaced in the Qing Kingdom-

Not in the Qing Kingdom, Ade is white, Roque is Chinese, at most Roque will respect Ade as much as he respects his predecessors, and the rest is impossible.