While Roque campaigned for the militia, the Chinese farmers in Kronstad also tried to save themselves by all means.

The Chinese have never waited passively in this regard, and the experience left by thousands of years of feudal rule for the Chinese is: relying on the mountains and mountains, relying on everyone to run, and when it comes to the critical time, they are still the most reliable.

Although it is Roque that Chinese farmers can have their own property in Johannesburg, to say that Chinese farmers will rely on Roque for everything is to underestimate the independent spirit of the Chinese.

Most of the Chinese in Johannesburg are from humble backgrounds, they may not know this sentence, but they must understand this truth, so unless it is absolutely necessary, the Chinese will not go to Roque.

It's not that you don't rely on Roque, but that you don't make trouble for Roque, in the simple values of Chinese farmers, Roque is a person who wants to do big things, so if the farmers can solve the problems themselves, they will definitely not cause trouble for Roque.

So can the farmers solve the problem of law and order independently?

Yes or no.

It can't be said because of limited ability and conditions, there are not many Chinese farmers who can do it.

But not much can be done, it does not mean that nothing is done, it is the Boers who do nothing, the Chinese will not be like this, even if there is only one percent of the possibility, the Chinese farmers will give 100 percent effort.

After the tragedy of Liszt's farm, many Chinese began to take the initiative to huddle together to keep warm.

The easiest way is for three or five farmers who are not far away to start moving closer together, and they all built their houses in the center of the farm, but now they would rather tear down the houses in the center of the farm and gather together to form a village with only three or five farmers.

Don't underestimate only three or five households, in fact, every household has three or five adult men, plus women and a dozen or even dozens of large dogs, the power is still not to be underestimated.

Such villages, together with militia groups not far away, are enough to form a local area to echo each other, and if the Boers cross the border to commit crimes, it will not be so easy to get hold of.

Roque doesn't care about the militia and joint defense, although no one knows where the three Albert Simpson brothers went, but Roque will definitely not let them go, Albert Simpson and the three brothers are Boers, and the places they can go are very limited, Roque even estimates that they are still in Orange, so Roque went to Austin Pence, the chief of the Bloemfontein Police Department, and asked him to help find the Albert Simpson brothers.

Austin Pence was Roque's immediate boss when he was at the Cape Town Police Department.

It's been more than a year since Roque left the Cape Town Police Department, and Roque is now a member of the Baron, Senior Superintendent; Austin Pence was only promoted to superintendent on the basis of inspector, so Austin Pence couldn't help but be a little embarrassed when he met Roque.

Roque didn't care, he still had a lot of respect for Austin Pence, and he didn't have the grandeur of the nobility at all, which made Austin Pence have a good impression of Roque.

"—The city government and the Governor's Office are very concerned about this case, and it is my dereliction of duty that there is a serious violent case in the jurisdiction, or rather, our police force is not good-looking, in order to deter crime, we must bring the criminals to justice as quickly as possible, although the three Albert Simpson brothers are now nowhere to be found, but we can conclude that they must still be in Orange, so——" Roque did not make a request, hoping that Austin Pence would take the initiative to cooperate.

Since Roque is so face-giving, Austin Pence is not a wooden head, and Austin Pence will not turn a blind eye to the olive branch that Roque stretched out, so Austin Pence's reaction was timely: "No problem Sir Locke, if there is a place where the Bloemfontein police station can help, I will definitely not refuse-it's hard to believe, it's only been two years, I still remember the way you looked when you came out of the hospital, sorry Lock-"

"Don't be sorry Austin, I'm eternally grateful for your care of me, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have had a chance to be the captain of the commando, and Sharma-" Roque cleared Austin Pence in time.

"Ahahaha—Sharma's idiot, he's been sent back to India for mistreating prisoners." Austin Pence certainly remembers Sharma, who was a real fool compared to Roque.

In this way, Roque and Austin Pence also had a dirty relationship together, so the next thing is very easy to say, Austin Pence promised to send police officers to assist the Johannesburg Police Department in the investigation, Roque also invited Austin Pence to Johannesburg as a guest at the appropriate time, of course, Roque did not forget to bring Austin Pence a "suvenir" from Johannesburg, and both of them were very satisfied.

After all, they were colleagues before, and they had a dirty relationship together, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein border, today it is Roque who has asked Austin Pence, and another day it may be that the Bloemfontein Police Department needs the cooperation of the Johannesburg Police Department, who wants to offend a baron -

Indeed, no one wanted to offend a baron, and Roque had just returned to Johannesburg from Bloemfontein when Louis Botha came forward and backward.

"Welcome Luis, I guess you must have good news for me." Roxpi didn't smile, the little goodwill he had accumulated for Louis Botha had disappeared because of the distribution of loans.

The total loan of 30 million pounds, after the arguments from all over Johannesburg, finally remained in Johannesburg only 7.5 million.

Doesn't that seem like a little more than 4.5 million?

But it certainly can't satisfy Johannesburg, according to Johannesburg's requirements, the 30 million pound loan must be left in Johannesburg at least a third before Johannesburg agrees to help repay the loan.

Otherwise, Johannesburg would rather not have a penny at all, and would not agree to repay the loan with revenues.

Pretoria and Bloemfontein will certainly not agree to Johannesburg's "unreasonable" demands.

According to Bloemfontein's requirements, the loan should be split in two, with Orange and the Transvaal divided equally, so as to ensure that the loan is distributed fairly.

Some of Pretoria's demands are the same as those of Johannesburg, and if they are divided equally, then the Transvaal and Orange will be loaned separately, and whoever pays back will not interfere with each other.

If a joint loan is to be made, then the Transvaal will have to get at least two-thirds of it according to the repayment ratio.

In the above sections, the requirements for Pretoria are basically the same as those for Johannesburg.

But there was a huge disagreement between Pretoria and Johannesburg in the distribution within the Transvaal, with Johannesburg insisting on an equal split, and Pretoria offering Johannesburg a maximum of £5 million, referring to the extent of damage and recovery suffered by the two places in the war.

As for the distribution options in Johannesburg and Pretoria, Bloemfontein strongly disagreed.

Over the £3,000 loan, officials from Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Bloemfontein fought over each other at the Palace of Justice.

In the end, it was Ade who came out and diluted the mud, and Ade divided the loan into three parts, Orange took 12 million pounds, Pretoria took 10 million pounds, Johannesburg took 7.5 million pounds, and the last 500,000 pounds went to the Governor's Palace.

All three parties are dissatisfied.

But under the current conditions, this is also the only option that can be reluctantly accepted by the three parties.

Louis Botha was one of the delegates who represented Orange on his way to Pretoria.

By the way, Ade has fulfilled the promises of the Peace Agreement, and Louis Botha is now the deputy mayor of Bloemfontein, specializing in the resettlement of the Boers.

After becoming deputy mayor, Louis Botha fought for every inch of land for his interests, and even did not hesitate to take the lawsuit to London in order to get more loans, so the officials in the Transvaal did not like Louis Botha very much, and Roque was no exception.

"I'm sorry, Sir Locke, but maybe my message won't please you." Louis Botha's expression was serious as if he had been on the execution ground, and he had lost a lot of weight compared to the last time he saw Roque.

Roque could feel the pressure on Louis Botha during this time.

Louis Botha was under a lot of pressure, especially as the Chinese farmers in Johannesburg were building their farms in full swing, which seemed to prove that the Boers were a lazy, stubborn, and unenterprising group, and Louis Botha didn't like this feeling, but Louis Botha didn't know how to change.

After returning to Orange, there was a time when Louis Botha was confident that Orange would be built on a par with Johannesburg.

Reality dealt a heavy blow to Louis Botha, the Boers were no longer the industrious and simple Boers they were before the outbreak of the war, even if Bloemfontein distributed their farms, livestock, and seeds to the Boers free of charge, many Boers were not willing to honestly reclaim their farms, in the words of those Boers: they are now British, so the British government should contract their clothing, food, housing, and transportation.

Louis Botha knew that this was impossible, the British government was not a charity, they could compensate the Boers, they could give the Boers relief, and they could even help the Boers with loans, but the British government would not back down unconditionally, and if the Boers continued to eat and take so much, then it would not be long before the Boers would become as annoying as the Zulus.

For the vast majority of Boers, the Chinese are actually very annoying, but the "hate" of the Boers for the Chinese is completely different from the "hate" for the Zulus.

To the Zulus, the Boers were pure, extreme, undisguised hate.

For the Chinese, the Boer "hate" seems to be more envy, jealousy, and - hate!

Roque could sense Louis Botha's haggardness, so Roque waited for Louis Botha to show his intentions.

"Sir Locke, remember Cliff?" Louis Botha rubbed his head, as if to get these troubles out of his head.

"Cliff—" Roque thought hard, but he couldn't remember.

"A few months ago, before the Peace Agreement was signed, you Johannesburg Police arrested a guerrilla who had returned to Johannesburg without permission—" Louis Botha smiled wryly, and Roque did not remember.

There is no need for Roque to lie about this kind of thing, remembering is remembering, not remembering is not remembering, Roque doesn't need to disguise.

"Reed—" Roque asked Reed, Roque had so many things to do every day, and he really couldn't remember a small character like Cliff.

"It seems that there is such a person, we seem to be in Pretoria at the time, and you commanded an arrest by telegram—" Li Demo was vaguely impressed.

"Oh-" Roque finally remembered that there was indeed such a person, and the efficiency of the Johannesburg Police Department that time surprised everyone: "What happened to Cliff?" ”

That arrest was just a small episode for Roque, so Roque didn't pay attention to it at all.

After returning to Johannesburg, Roque did not ask about Cliff, and did not even know whether Cliff was alive or dead.

"Am I not looking for the Albert Simpson brothers, someone found Cliff and the Albert Simpson brothers together." Louis Botha had come to report the news.

"Where are they?" When Roque was convicted, the police stations in Johannesburg and Bloemfontein almost dug the Transvaal and Orange into the ground, and the Albert Simpson brothers were not found, or even the Albert Simpson brothers at all, as if they had disappeared.

"They went to Cape Town some time ago, heard that some weapons had been purchased, and are now preparing to return to Johannesburg—" Louis Botha had pain in his eyes, and Louis Botha was absolutely unwilling to tell Roque the news if he could.

But Louis Botha knew very well that if the three brothers, Cliff and Albert Simpson, continued to commit crimes, it would seriously affect the relationship between the Boers and the Chinese, and the situation would collapse out of control.

Therefore, Louis Botha had to tell Roque the news of the Albert Simpson brothers before the gaffe was still under control.

"Thank you, Luis, for the best news I've ever had, and I owe you once." Roque solemnly thanked Louis Botha, the news came at a timely time, and Louis Botha also took a big risk, and Roque must be grateful.

Louis Botha's behavior is actually strictly speaking a betrayal of the Boer community, and if it is not spread, it will be a serious blow to Louis Botha's prestige among the Boers, so Louis Botha took a great risk to tell Roque the news.

In fact, there is not much risk, Roque's side will definitely not take the initiative to spread the news, Louis Botha's behavior is different from Herbert Hoover, although this is also a handle, but Roque will never threaten Louis Botha with this matter.

"Sir Locke, promise me not to be angry with innocent people." Louis Botha also had a request.

Perhaps this is the real reason why Louis Botha took the initiative to tell Roque the news.

If Roque finds out by himself, then no matter how many people are related to this matter, Roque will kill them all.

Also an excellent soldier, Louis Botha did not doubt Roque's resolve.