On the first day of the new year, Henry came to Johannesburg to have a drink with Roque.

"What's wrong with you?" Roque was surprised to see Henry, who was also very busy as the chief of the Pretoria Police Department.

"Hahahaha, it's okay, I just want to drink with you." Henry was glad to see the back molars, and laughed and patted Roque the shoulder.

Roque was helpless and looked at Keppel with inquiring eyes.

Keppel is Henry's assistant, and his status is similar to that of Leede, who is next to Roque.

By the way, after returning to Johannesburg from Kimberley, Li De, Martin and Gao De were promoted to inspectors at the same time, Li De is now an assistant to the chief of police, and Martin and Gao De are both senior commandos of the commando.

Keppel did not dare to speak, and said "Lacey" with an exaggerated lip shape.

Oh!

It dawned on Roque.

Sure enough, as soon as he sat down in Roque's office, Henry couldn't wait to share: "Locke, I'm getting married!" ”

Tie the knot?

Shouldn't you get engaged first?

"Before Christmas, I went to Cape Town to visit General Hopkins, and General Hopkins agreed to my marriage to Lacey, and next month I will be married to Lacey in Pretoria, remember, you are not allowed to go anywhere, you are my best man." Henry is here to assign work, the best man has a lot of responsibility, and Roque, as Henry's best friend, has an unshirkable responsibility.

In fact, at the level of Henry and Roque, it is very difficult to find a groomsman, after all, those who are similar to Henry and Roque are almost all married and have children after becoming famous, and there are few bachelors like Henry and Roque.

In other words, it can also be understood that in the Transvaal, Henry and Roque are both hot diamond kings, and no one cares about Roque's skin color at this time.

Joking, Roque is now a serious aristocrat, in a high position in Johannesburg, and has many assets under his name, any of which is enough to make people ignore Roque's skin color.

Don't think that white people are not snobbish, the aristocracy among white people is precisely the most snobbish, and Lacey's father, General Hopkins, is the best example.

When Henry was penniless, General Hopkins did not hesitate to drive Henry out of the army in order to sever the connection between Henry and Lacey.

Now Henry is also in a high position, with many assets under his name, and his title is higher than that of Roque, General Hopkins immediately rushed to find Henry, don't listen to what Henry said, he went to Cape Town to find Hopkins in name, in fact, General Hopkins moved his family to Pretoria three months ago.

Although General Hopkins' station was in Ladysmith.

"What kind of gift am I going to give you? Is it okay to make you a set of furniture out of gold? "Roque is very vulgar at this time.

"Did I send you that bit of gold? I also have a gold mine, okay! "Henry doesn't like Roque's money—

Well, anyway, Roque is still selfish in this regard, and Henry definitely doesn't know how much gold Roque has hidden in the basement of the Rock Gold Mine, otherwise Henry is estimated to vomit blood.

"Then why don't I just give you a car-" Roque wanted to be different, cars are very cheap these days, Xiao Si just bought one a few days ago.

It's a bit sad to say, the four colonies of the Cape, so far, there is only one Daelam, Xiao Si.

The car was bought by Small, and in order to serve the car, Smalls hired a driver, a maintenance engineer, and two maintenance workers from Daimham.

It is only a wealthy guy like Xiao Si who is willing to invest so costlessly.

In fact, the car itself is still good in this era, with a 30 horsepower engine, headlights, wind deflectors, and a two-door 5-seat shape, Xiao Si can't put it down, but Roque scoffs.

What the hell!

There is no industrial beauty, there is no personality at all, the vehicle is ugly, and you have to hire a maintenance team to buy a car, how fragile it must be!

Oh, and the Daim company is the future Daim-Benz, and in 1926, Mercedes-Benz and Daim merged, relying on Deutsche Bank to establish a unified automobile industry in Germany.

"Pull it down, you might as well give me a BMW!" Henry's words were astonishing.

Roque almost stared out of his eyes, and it took him a long time to react, Henry was talking about horses, the kind of horses that eat grass.

"Okay, I'll give you the best BMW." Roque couldn't cry or laugh, the horse Henry said was a racing horse, which was different from the "BMW" in Roque's impression.

Horse racing is a traditional sport in the UK, because horse racing has spawned a series of races and a large number of horse colors, Johannesburg's gold mine owners like horse racing, in fact, they use horse racing to gamble, a good horse is worth tens of thousands of pounds, much more expensive than a car.

In the evening, Roque feasted Henry at home, and Owen also came to eat, and Roque was not inferior to one enemy and two enemies, and knocked down Henry and Owen at the wine table.

Early the next morning, Henry and Roque went to the town of Purple to see what Philip Matilda called a "model of a residential area".

After Philippe Matilda visited Ziwei Town, he was full of praise for Ziwei Town, and he was also ambitious, saying that he would develop at least 20 towns like Ziwei Town around Johannesburg, and plant Ziwei trees all over Johannesburg, and name Ziwei trees as the city flower of Johannesburg.

Mr. Mayor probably didn't expect that the reason why Ziwei Town is what it is today is that Roque's reckless investment is the key, and outsiders probably think that Roque is a fool, and he is sending farms and houses, and he can't wait to give those professors and farmers as ancestors.

In fact, these professors are much more difficult to serve than their ancestors, and now Johannesburg is a cultural desert, so that a city has a heritage and the possibility of sustainable development, it is necessary to improve the cultural level of residents.

As for the farmer, it was actually a good business, and Roque never gave away the farm for nothing, an acre of land, which Roque bought from the Johannesburg City Council, probably for a shilling, and then gave the farm as a low wage to the workers, and a farm was sold for about a pound or so.

One pound is equal to 20 shillings, and you can see how much profit there is in it.

Of course, this business is only done by Roque, Henry is now hoarding land around Pretoria, but he can't give it away when he buys it, even if it is used as a salary for the workers of the Matilda gold mine, and the workers also ask for the rock gold mine as a guarantee, so Henry is very sad, Roque sells an acre for a pound, and Henry can't sell it for ten shillings an acre.

"Most of the residents of Ziwei Town are police officers from the Johannesburg Police Department, as well as employees of Ziwei Hospital and Ziwei Public School, which ensures the basic quality level of Ziwei Town residents, at least no one defecates in the open and throws garbage or anything, every night, Ziwei Town residents will put their garbage at a fixed garbage transfer station, and the town government hires cleaning staff to directly transport the garbage to the abandoned mine pit in the distance for deep burial, which alone, Johannesburg and Pretoria can't do." Roque is still very proud, in terms of hygiene, Roque is very demanding, and the effect is of course very good, everyone who comes to Ziwei Town will quickly fall in love with this place.

Regarding hygiene, it was an absolute tragedy for most cities at this time, and even London, the capital of the British Empire, was known as the "fog capital".

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it, it's ethereal and a bit fairy.

In fact, this is not the case at all, the industrial power of these years is still the steam engine, heating and cooking are either coal or firewood, and the smoke produced is directly emitted into the atmosphere without treatment, that is, there is no PM2.5 measurement in these years, otherwise cities like London will be labeled as "unsuitable for human habitation".

The sanitary conditions of Ziwei Town are good, in fact, the side also proves that the industrial level of Ziwei Town is low, and there is no industry in the whole town, not even a railway station, and there is no pollution.

Henry obviously didn't expect this layer, and only saw the bright side of Ziwei Town, so he nodded again and again.

"This will be our vote base in the future, if the Transvaal is not elected, forget it, if the election is held, the people here will definitely not vote for the Boers, their current life has nothing to do with the Boers." Roque is still confident in this.

"It's not bad here, there are still a bit of a lot of Boers in Pretoria." Henry was a little embarrassed, but this was not Henry's problem: "You are in Johannesburg, you can stop the Boers outside of Johannesburg, not Pretoria, it is a sensitive time, and the Boers are still demanding that those responsible for the mutilation of the Boers during the war be held accountable, although it is impossible to investigate, but now it is necessary to rein in." ”

This is wishful thinking, who was "mutilating" the Boers during the war?

Expeditionary force!

It's not even a "mutilation", the war behavior during the war, all kinds of bottomless lines are very normal, the current combat methods of the Boers are actually infinitely close to "unrestricted warfare", so of course the Expeditionary Force Command can also use "unrestricted warfare" to counterattack, so it is impossible to talk about who is right and who is wrong, each is its own master, and if you can't fight, don't complain.

"How many Boers are there in Pretoria now?" Roque has a heavy heart, and in recent times, Roque has rarely been to Pretoria and does not know much about Pretoria.

"Two, three thousand—" Henry gave a vague number, the real number should be much higher than that.

"Isn't Pretoria rebuilding?" Roque is a little curious, inspired by Johannesburg, in fact, Pretoria has almost demolished the entire city and rebuilt it, even the most famous church has been demolished, and I heard that the next step is to demolish the Palace of Justice where Ade lives, which is not insignificant.

"There is also a process to rebuild, and the Boers who returned to Pretoria were farmers before the war broke out, and they came back to fight for reparations." Henry was a little depressed, the farms around Pretoria were now either bought by Henry or by Xiao Si, so these two were the main "culprits".

"The Boers demanded 10 million pounds in war reparations, and the Governor's Office promised only 1 million, and it was not compensation, but compensation." Henry was a little relieved, looking at how Ade bargained, a cut was ninety percent.

"Hehe, ten million, I'm not afraid of the wind flashing my tongue." Roque laughed, as far as the Boers had their property before the war, it was not worth 10 million to smash the pot and sell iron.

In fact, it cannot be said that although most of the Boer property before the war was on the farm, the farm itself was also worth a lot of money, referring to the farms run by the Chinese now, the land on the farm, as well as those cattle, sheep and livestock, did add up to a lot.

It's a pity that this is a bad debt now, and if you want to compensate for the loss, you have to come up with evidence of the loss, and the Boer farmers can't prove how much property they lost in the war, and the expeditionary force command will certainly not admit that there was looting in the war, so the final result must be that both sides are not satisfied.

But even if they were not satisfied, the negotiations would have to be difficult to move forward, and it was the consensus of everyone to end the war as soon as possible, not only the British government, but also the Boers.

After the outbreak of the war, many Boers fled to nearby German South-West Africa and Portuguese East Africa.

The local Herero people in German South-West Africa were in rebellion, and the Germans themselves were so anxious that they could not care about the Boers at all.

As for the Portuguese, all they could do was provide a shelter for the Boers, or for the little money they had in their pockets, the Boers could not sit idly by, otherwise they would definitely be swept away by the Portuguese in the end, so the Boers desperately wanted to return home as soon as possible.

"You have to be careful, if the Boers knew that Ziwei Town was so beautiful now, what do you think they would do? What was it called before? Henry reminded Roque.

"It seems to be called Krugersdorp, no one knows the name now, this place is now called Ziwei Town, and it will always be called Ziwei Town in the future." Roque is not afraid of those Boers, and now the Boers can't even enter Johannesburg, and Ziwei Town can't even think about it.

Roque has made a lot of efforts to protect Ziwei Town, including the Rock Gold Mine and the Crocodile Bay Company's escorts, the combined escort of these two places has thousands of people, and the Boers have no formed armed forces at all, so the soft and hard Roque are not afraid.

Chatting all the way into Ziwei Town, the first thing you pass by is Ziwei Public School.

Police officers with police dogs are on duty outside the iron fence of the public school as usual, and their task is not only to protect the order of the school from being affected, but also to check all strangers who try to enter Ziwei Town, where the police have the right to check passers-by at any time, and if they do not know the purpose and have no proper identity, then they will be taken back to the police station for further interrogation.

That's right, it's an interrogation, it sounds like a bit of a violation of rights, right?

In these days, no one talks to you about rights, power and violence are the mainstream of society, the Boers don't talk about rights to the Zulus, and the British don't talk about rights to the Boers.

If you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.