When a child grows up, adults will tell him that if he can't change the world, then he must learn to adapt to the world.

Most people can't change the world, so they just learn to adapt.

Roque wanted to give it a try.

Maybe Roque can't change the UK, but in South Africa, Roque still has a chance.

Of course, the premise of the change is that the British in South Africa are willing to accept the Chinese and give the Chinese the same suffrage rights as the Boers.

Or rather, ask Roque if he agrees or not.

Henry is Roque's best friend, and Henry and Roque have such a close relationship that if even Henry does not agree to accept the Chinese, then there is no need to mention other Britons.

"Locke, I've got your back!" Phyllis showed her attitude.

Instead of scolding as before, Henry fell into deep thought.

It seems that this is a dead end, the proportion of the population of South Africa, the Boers have an absolute advantage, and if there is no X factor, the British will certainly not have the advantage in the election.

But there is a certain risk to admit the Chinese, the Chinese can support the British, and they can also support the Boers, don't look at what Roque said now, if the Chinese and the Boers collude, they can pit the British in South Africa to death.

So the crux of the matter is whether the Chinese are trustworthy or not.

Thinking of this, Henry looked at Roque, and it seemed that there was no need to doubt this.

"What are we going to do now?" Henry had already made a decision.

"Give the miners good treatment, so that they can afford to buy the land around Johannesburg, then they will become farmers, and when the war is over, they will naturally have the right to vote, I have bought 50,000 acres of land around Krugersdorp, enough to house thousands of Chinese, if you don't agree, when the next miners come to Johannesburg, I will arrange them directly to Krugsdorp." Roque didn't rely entirely on Henry either, and if Henry didn't agree, Roque would throw Henry off and do it himself.

Fifty thousand acres sounds like a lot, but Henry and Phyllis have no reaction to this number, the aristocracy's attitude towards land is so casual these days, only tens of thousands of acres, and there are even nobles in England who own millions of acres of land.

That's on British soil.

Not the Transvaal.

"Voting rights!" Henry was completely shocked at this time, if what Roque said could be realized, then in the future, not to mention all four Cape colonies, the Transvaal would definitely be the world of Roque and Henry.

A very simple reason, not to mention the four colonies, just the Transvaal, if enough Chinese have the right to vote, then the dominance of the British in the Transvaal can be guaranteed.

Henry knew that voting power could determine the ruling party, so the choice of the Chinese would be very important, and the Chinese could support Alfred Milner and Philippe Matilda.

If—

That means that Baron Matilda may even become the Prime Minister of the Transvaal in the future!

"Locke, don't be too optimistic, the Governor won't give all Chinese people the right to vote." Phyllis is still relatively calm.

"No, he will give it, and he can't help it when the time comes." Roque handed Phyllis a copy of the newspaper, the latest Cape Town Daily, with the headline on the front page: A guerrilla force led by Jan Smorzi annihilated the 17th Cheung Mao Cavalry Regiment.

The 17th Changmao Cavalry Regiment was a British colonial force formed in the Cape, and most of its members were Boers, and it is estimated that they did not have a strong will to resist when attacked.

Even so, the formation of the guerrillas to annihilate the colonial forces was shocking enough.

At the same time, there were reports in the newspapers that the partisans were wreaking havoc on the railways in the Cape, and that the Boers had fantasized about defeating the British, so they only attacked the trains, and would not attack the railways, but now that the Boers had lost in the frontal battle, the guerrillas began to do everything they could, and the railways became the main targets of the Boer guerrillas.

It should be emphasized that now the main sphere of activity of the Boer partisans is within the territory of the Cape.

The scorched-earth policy of the expeditionary forces against the Boers was carried out only in the Transvaal and Orange, and could not be carried out in the Cape, where a large part of the present farmers were British.

"Locke, can we win the war?" Phyllis was worried.

"Actually, we're negotiating with the Boers right now." Henry throws a big melon.

"Negotiations?" Even Roque didn't expect that.

"Yes, negotiations have begun, representatives of the Boer guerrillas are staying at the Pioneer Hotel, and the Pretoria Police Department is in charge of security." Henry smiled bitterly, no wonder Henry knew so clearly.

Roque was a little confused, Roque knew that the British and the Boers would sign a peace agreement, but he didn't know when the peace talks began, and now it was less than half a year before Roberts announced the end of the war.

"The war can no longer be sustained, Locke, you may have noticed that the railway line between Johannesburg and Cape Town has been interrupted for more than half a month, General Kitchener sent troops to repair the railway, but the speed of repair is not as fast as the guerrillas destroy, the war has lasted for two years, more than 150 million pounds of military spending has been wasted, hundreds of thousands of troops are trapped in Cape, there is no real end to the war, London cannot let this situation continue." Henry was helpless, and at least half of what Roque said was about to come true.

If it could, Britain really wanted to completely wipe out the Boers and end the war as soon as possible.

But now it seems that it is becoming more and more impossible to achieve this goal, and the whole world is looking at the British, France, Germany, the United States, and so on, many countries have sent military observers to the Cape, and the British cannot go too far, and now those military observers are now in Cape Town, and they have repeatedly asked to go to the Transvaal and Orange, but they have been rejected by the Expeditionary Force Command on the grounds that the war has not yet been completely over.

As for the current situation in the Transvaal and Orange, there are either barbed wire, fortresses, execution grounds and concentration camps, and if this gets out, where will the face of the British Empire go?

Therefore, negotiation is the only way to end the war as soon as possible.

"I'm going to Johannesburg to find my father." Henry no longer hesitated, in Roque's words just now, he already had the intention of getting rid of Henry and doing it alone, Henry believed in Roque's execution, as long as Roque wanted to do it, Roque would definitely be able to do it.

Then let's go back to Johannesburg together, Henry and Phyllis go home together, and Roark goes back to the police station by himself, and before his ass is firmly in the chair, Sam calls the phone, and Arnold is restless again.

Knowing that Arnold had implemented a competitive system at the Matilda gold mine, Roque did not go to Arnold to communicate, but informed Sam that the miners who were punished every day would be transferred from the gold mine, and Roque would make other arrangements.

So, about 200 miners who lagged behind in the competition yesterday received an order to move out of the gold mine today.

Arnold is definitely not satisfied with this, he has just found a way not to directly confront Roque, but also to disgust Roque, he is having a lot of fun, and he will definitely not let Roque transfer people away.

Roque really didn't want to deal with Arnold, but after thinking about it, Roque decided to take a look.

See how arrogant Arnold can be.

In the open space in the camp, nearly 200 miners had already packed their belongings, and they had only been notified after breakfast today, and they were panicked for a while.

"Don't worry, brothers, Director Locke has found a good place for everyone, I am here to inform the brothers for Director Locke, and then the brothers will go to help Director Locke clear the wasteland, for every acre of land, the brothers can get the wages of one acre of land, this is a golden opportunity-" Buck was hoarsely trying to calm the miners' emotions.

"I'm not going to work as a long-term worker yet—"

"Why don't you get paid?"

"Open an acre of land, get an acre of land?"

The miners immediately got into the talk.

"Shut up!" The iron hook is full of energy.

The miners were immediately silent.

"Come with me, take your own things, don't speak—" Iron Hook won't talk nonsense with the miners, it's useless to reason with these people, when you pay your salary, you can pick whatever you want, you can pick one pound with one hand and the other on the wasteland, and the fool knows what to pick.

Buck looked at the hook with admiration.

"Hehe, Mr. Buck, they are all coarse people who are not sensible, and they don't need to talk nonsense, and if they are disobedient, they can be whipped with a whip—" The words of the iron hook make people speechless, and they can be whipped at every turn, what is the difference between them and the British?

The British didn't whip people, and when the iron hook was about to take the workers away, Arnold jumped out at once.

"No, you can't let him take the workers away!" Arnold was quite clever and didn't go straight to the hook, but to Sam.

"Why?" Sam plays dumb.

"The workers are gone, who is going to mine?" Arnold's reasons are strong.

"Oh, it's okay, Mr. Christian will send a bunch of Zulus over tomorrow." Sam understated.

"And who is Christian?" Arnold went crazy.

"Mr. Christian is the largest builder in the Transvaal, with tens of thousands of workers under his command." Sam is serious.

"No, don't want those Zulus, these yellows must not go." Arnold doesn't want the Zulus, bullying the Zulus doesn't give Arnold any pleasure.

Roark certainly wouldn't care about the Zulus.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Arnold, but this is Mr. Locke's order." Sam's tone was humble, but he didn't back down.

"Is the gold mine the yellow man's, or is it the Matilda family?" Arnold was speechless.

"Not yours anyway." Roque's face was covered in frost and he tried to pull Arnold out, then kicked Arnold out of the solar system with a hard kick in Arnold's ass.

It's okay to kick into the sun.