Ade has been very annoyed in the past few days, the continuous heavy rain is enough to make people upset, and the Boers in Orange have come to make matters worse, and when they received the report, for a moment, Ade really regretted the peace talks with the Boers, knowing that the result of the peace talks was like this, even if Ade smashed the pot and sold iron, he would drive all the Boers out of southern Africa.

It's a pity that there is no if in reality, so Ade can only do everything possible to deal with the aftermath and strive not to cause a worse impact.

In fact, the impact is bad enough.

"Locke, London has asked us to get to the bottom as soon as possible, you only have a week, and then I may have to go to London and be questioned by Parliament." Ade's expression was haggard, even a little decadent, as the governor of the Transvaal and Orange, the pressure on Ade can be imagined when this kind of thing happens in his own jurisdiction.

"Yes, I'll do my best." Roque didn't dare to say anything, it was not easy to investigate the truth in a week, and under normal circumstances, it would take a year or two to come to a conclusion about this kind of thing.

And it's not necessarily the right conclusion.

"No, it's not an effort, it's a must." Ade stressed that Roque would not be given the slightest retreat.

"Yes, it must." Roque does not refuse, and it is not impossible to reach a conclusion within a week, but Roque cannot guarantee that the conclusion must be true.

Ade doesn't care about this, he just wants the result.

Roque didn't have time to waste and went to Louis Botha as soon as possible.

"A week? Don't be funny, it would be nice if we could put together a list of casualties in a week. "Louis Botha clearly doesn't have the confidence that Roque has.

"The list of casualties can be put aside for a while, and the key issue now is to investigate the cause of what happened." Roque patiently persuaded that if he wanted to reach a conclusion within a week, Roque needed the cooperation of Louis Botha.

"Impossible, impossible to draw conclusions for a week." Jan Smozi's expression was solemn, and the look in his eyes at Roque was obscure.

Yang Shi Mozi's eye sockets are already relatively deep, and he has a big long face, so when he looks at people, he habitually narrows his eyes into a slit, giving people the feeling of being a cold poisonous snake.

And Louis Botha feels like a bull in his prime, fearless, energetic, and takes everything very seriously.

"The impossible is also possible, I am not here to ask for your cooperation, but to ask for your cooperation, if you do not cooperate, then I will use my own way to investigate." Luo Ke is welcome, he has long been unaccustomed to Yang Shi Mozi's yin and yang weirdness.

To be honest, Roque didn't like this kind of intrigue very much.

Some may think it's part of politics, but for Roque, wasting his good time on intrigue is a waste of time.

Louis Botha is better, although he is also cunning, compared with Jan Smoth, Louis Botha is a bit honest and acceptable.

Yang Shi Mozi is not good, this guy who was born as a lawyer is very keen on playing word games, and is good at using language to unconsciously dig holes for people, Roque has already learned how powerful Yang Shi Mozi is, so he really has no patience with Yang Shi Mozi.

To put it mildly, there is a lot of effort to go around in circles with people like Jan Smozi, and Roque would rather go to see the calf delivered, which may make more sense.

"Director Locke, what is your attitude?" Jan Smutz turned his face faster than Roque.

"Hmph, Mr. Minister, please call me Lord Nyasaland." Roque didn't talk nonsense with Jan Smozi, he simply talked about his status as a baron.

This is the reason why Roque hates the Boers, the Boers can die, just don't pull the Chinese, so Roque hopes that the Chinese and the Boers will be separated, don't mix everything together, since the Boers love to play word games so much, then you can play by yourself, the Chinese like to farm, let's all play our own games.

"Locke, don't do that." Louis Botha came out to sing white face, Jan Smoltz has never played against Roque, I don't know Roque's character, Louis Botha knows.

"Louie, this is not a matter for any of us, I must remind you that the Boers are also British now, so this is our British internal affair, and there should be no external forces involved, maybe you already know, or you may not know, the German Emperor Wilhelm II has sent a telegram expressing serious concern about this matter, what do you think this means?" Roque doesn't think about who is behind it now, there are too many suspects.

Speaking of suspicions, there are suspicions of Boer leaders in Orange who are reluctant to be left in power, vested interests in Johannesburg, the Progressive Party in Cape Town, and even William II in Europe.

It is impossible for Roque to arrest all of these people and investigate them one by one, so Roque can only use the stupidest and most effective way at the moment.

If Louis Botha and Jan Smuts do not cooperate, Roque will order all those involved in the conflict yesterday to be arrested and investigated.

It may seem clumsy, time-consuming, and not necessarily the right conclusion, but Roque only has a week, so it's impossible to think about it in the long run.

"Locke, what kind of outcome do you want?" Louis Botha asked very skillfully.

"An outcome that is acceptable to all – in a few moments, the Governor may have to go to London for a parliamentary question, at least that outcome will be acceptable to the members of Parliament." Roque replied with great skill.

It is difficult to investigate the result that is acceptable to everyone, but it is easy to draw conclusions.

It's up to Louis Botha to do that.

"Okay, give me three days." Louis Botha finally backed down.

"Louie!" Jan Smozi wanted to speak.

Louis Botha stopped him with a resolute gesture.

Yang Shi Mozi's face turned pale, but he still didn't insist after all.

"Well, I'll wait for your good news." Roque got the results he wanted, so he didn't waste time here.

Even with Louis Botha's promise, Roque's investigation will not stop, which is a responsibility to Ade and a spur to Louis Botha.

As soon as Roque left, Jan Smozi couldn't help but jump up and roar: "Why? Why should we give him this promise, should we arrest those compatriots and send them to the Johannesburg Police Station? ”

"Calm down Jenny, I don't want to do that either, but if that butcher is left to his own devices, he'll kill him." If Roque had heard Louis Botha say that about him, he would have been proud.

It is indeed something to be proud of to be able to fear the enemy.

"No, he doesn't dare, this is Orange, and he can't be allowed to do whatever he wants." Jan Smozi has a tough attitude and does not believe that Roque has this right.

"He dares, look at what this guy did during the war, you know how ruthless this guy is, if he didn't dare, then he wouldn't have bought almost all the farms around Johannesburg and divided the farms among the yellow men, when we were fighting the expeditionary force in the Cape, this guy was wantonly embezzling the dividends of the war in Johannesburg, before the war broke out this guy was just a patrolman, after the war, this guy was already Lord Nyasaland, isn't that enough proof of this guy's ambition?" Louis Botha did know Roque very well, no wonder someone said: the person who knows you best is your enemy.

"Especially we are fighting bloodily on the front line, but I didn't expect to be cheaper than these moths." Jan Smozi was indignant, but he forgot his identity.

"Jenny, we're the one who loses." Louis Botha was still relatively sober.

Yang Shi Mozi was silent, and an expression appeared on his face that had never appeared on Yang Shi Mozi's face - loneliness.

Within three days, Louis Botha gave Roque a report on the investigation.

"Hehe—because of the flooding caused by the weather, the city government was unable to provide timely and effective relief, and then the victims spontaneously gathered and prepared to go to the Johannesburg area to escape the flooding, and as a result, they clashed with the military and police on the way to Johannesburg, which eventually led to the disaster - Alas, Louie, do you think, can Congress accept this reason?" Roque turned directly to the last page to read the conclusion, and as Roque expected, Louis Botha did put the blame on the city government.

If this report is submitted to Ade like this, then Roque will definitely be scolded by Ade for being bloody.

Think about it, if the responsibility lies with the city government, then the city government is responsible.

At that point, perhaps the Boers will demand a change of government on the grounds that the city government is incompetent, and then democratic representation.

"Whether it's acceptable or not, this is the best explanation we can find, it is true that there are people who take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, and our findings show that in fact, before that, there were people who spread some inappropriate statements among the Boers, and on the day of the conflict, it was because of the instigation of these people that the Boers went to Johannesburg - it is a pity that all of these people were killed in the conflict, so we prove whether there was someone behind them, the scene on the day of the conflict was very chaotic, and there may have been some fish that slipped through the net, But to find them, we need more time. Louis Botha also knew that this conclusion was sloppy and even a little absurd, but the ability of politicians to tell nonsense with their eyes open was very high, and they could accept such a statement if the members of parliament wanted to.

"It doesn't take much time, I've got some of the list here, do I want to show it to you?" Roque has not been idle these days, Louis Botha is investigating, and Roque is also on the move.

Before, Roque thought that it would be difficult to investigate this kind of thing, but after the investigation began, Roque unexpectedly found that it was not too simple to enforce the law by violent agencies in recent years, so it was really not difficult to investigate.

For a very simple reason, at the moment in 1902, neither the Transvaal, nor Orange, nor even London, England, had any provisions to protect the "rights of the individual".

In other words, in Orange, if the police suspect that a Boer is in trouble, they can directly arrest him and bring him back to the police station for interrogation, without any reason, no formalities, and no need for a judge, and even if the investigation results show that the arrested Boer is innocent, the police department does not need to apologize for it, let alone compensate for it.

Roque simply loved the 1902 law.

On the day of the conflict, there were tens of thousands of Boers trying to go to Johannesburg, and Roque could not have taken everyone to the police station, and the prison in Bloemfontein could not hold tens of thousands.

With the list in hand, Roque immediately ordered the Bloemfontein police station to start arresting people.

At this time, criminals also have no personal rights, and it is not uncommon for suspects to be beaten to death during interrogation, and Roque has a tight time, heavy tasks, and no time to grind slowly, so many suspects come up with a three-piece set of whips, soldering irons, and axes, and there are only three suspects who are caught, one is to confess as soon as possible, and then walk out of the interrogation room alive.

and stubbornness, beaten to death; Or they are forced to confess, but the body is left with a disability that can never be recovered.

In this case, few people could hold on, and the captured Boers could not withstand the torture of the police station, and as the interrogation progressed, more and more evidence pointed to the "Orange Unionist Party" founded by Herzog and DeWitt.

"Herzog and DeWitt – how is that possible." Louis Botha couldn't believe Roque's conclusion, but when he thought about it, it was quite possible.

Article 12 of the DPA stipulates that the main commanders of the Boer army shall be deprived of citizenship, but they shall not be sentenced to death.

This was not seriously enforced, and leading Boer commanders such as Louis Botha and Jan Smotz had now entered the Orange government to assist the Governor's House and the city government in pacifying the Boers.

The Governor's Office and the city government were also treated differently between the main commanders of the Boer army, such as Louis Botha and Jan Smoltz, who were inclined to cooperate with the British in peace negotiations, and were absorbed by the Governor's Office.

Herzog and DeWitt, who tended to fight to the end in peace talks, were excluded from the government.

Although Louis Botha didn't know if Roque's conclusion was correct, Louis Botha knew that Herzog and DeWitt were indeed very unwilling, and they had always wanted to make a comeback, but they didn't have a chance, so Herzog and DeWitt established the "Orange Unity Party", even before Louis Botha and Jan Smoltz founded the People's Party.

"Why can't it be? These guys who are not willing to be lonely have lost all their rights, they are not willing to lose, and they try to make a comeback, so they incite the Boers in Orange to create chaos in a vain attempt to gain benefits from the chaos, but they did not expect that the level of resentment of the Boers is beyond their control, so the conflict broke out - "Roque calmly analyzed, and wanted to sit down on the charges of Herzog and DeWitt and sit to death.