It is only at this time that the benefits of prosperity are manifested.

Henry went to pick up Roque, Owen greeted him at the door, and Philip Matilda waited in the hall, with the exception of Arnold, who had some unpleasant experiences with Roque, everyone in the Matilda family was present.

Today's Philip Matilda has a lovely smile, completely less serious and demanding than in the past, as pleasant as facing an old friend, and Roque is quite flattered.

Phyllis appeared in the face of all the attention, wearing a long white dress and extremely holy, and the way she stood at the corner of the stairs and smiled at Roque was so pure and heartfelt that Roque will never forget what Phyllis looked like at that time.

Without much red tape, Roque gave Phyllis the ring and jewelry representing the proposal, and Phyllis accepted it shyly and timidly in the applause of everyone, and the proposal ceremony was completed, according to custom, from now on, Phyllis is Roque's fiancée, and then, the marriage can be discussed.

Compared with the Chinese, the marriage of the British is still relatively simple.

There is no yellow calendar in the UK, so it is generally a holiday to find a holiday, and then you can hold a wedding.

Roque is naturally taboo-free, and there is no yellow calendar in Johannesburg, so Roque didn't have to pick an auspicious day for the zodiac, and in the end, Philip Matilda decided to hold the wedding on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve is December 24th, less than four months away, time is tight, and Roque has to speed up.

The main thing is that the new house has not yet been settled.

In fact, there are many houses in Roque, in Johannesburg and Ziwei Town, and even in Pretoria, Roque has houses, but except for the house on Mill Street in Cape Town, basically every place is similar to the nature of temporary settlement, and it is actually not suitable for new houses.

Relatively speaking, Phyllis has no requirements for a new house, "Dream" has satisfied all Phyllis's fantasies, Lacey and Karina, who accompanied Phyllis, were also conquered by Roque's generosity, Henry and Owen are going to be unlucky, and the gems they get are estimated to be unable to satisfy the two women who have already seen "Dream".

In four months, it is impossible to build a new house from scratch, after all, the new house of Roque and Phyllis is not suitable for a wooden house, not to mention a palace like Olympus, at least a mansion like Mill Street in Cape Town.

In fact, there are ready-made ones, and the guild hall in Ziwei Town is quite suitable.

After the establishment of the RAND Bank, the guild hall became less and less significant, and is now used as the headquarters of the agricultural association.

This is not a problem, the occupation of the hall by the agricultural association is actually only temporary, and now that the new headquarters of the agricultural association has been built, the agricultural association can vacate the hall within a week as long as Roque needs it.

Then the new house was the guild hall, and after the agricultural association moved out, Roque had to renovate the guild hall and then use it as his residence in the Transvaal.

The day after the proposal, Roark sends Phyllis back to Purple Town.

"Is there an engagement ceremony before the wedding?" Roque still has questions, it seems that this is how he used to act on TV.

"Hehe, you are stupid, the nobles of Johannesburg will hold the engagement ceremony for our two families." Phyllis didn't sit in a carriage and rode with Roque.

"Hmph, you are now the Lady of Nyasaland, you must pay attention to your position when you speak!" Roque is vicious, marrying a chicken with a chicken and a dog with a dog, marrying a root and carrying it, since he has entered the door of the Baron of Nyasaland, he has to stand in the position of the Baron of Nyasaland.

"I heard that Qingguo is polygamous, will you marry many wives in the future?" Phyllis still did her homework.

"Hehe, it's not polygamy, it's polyandry and concubine-" Roque explained seriously, because he didn't know how to translate "concubine", so Roque used the word "lover".

"Oh-" Phyllis said "oh", and her eyes were full of "sure enough, you're a scumbag".

"Don't think crooked-" Roque also knew that he was powerless to explain, so he simply used his husband.

Phyllis looked triumphant, and didn't seem to pay much attention to it, just using this topic to laugh at Roque.

Roark is really powerless, and it's not fair to Phyllis or Ada.

But when has the world ever been fair?

The Boers of Orange thought so too.

This year's rainfall was much higher than usual, as if to make up for all the rain that had not fallen in the previous two years, and when it first rained, the Boers of Orange were also ecstatic, but as the rain became heavier, the joy turned into worry, then into trouble, and finally into disaster.

After entering September, Orange finally broke out into flooding, the water in the center of Bloemfontein was more than one meter deep, and in some areas the water depth was more than two meters, and the Boers finally tasted the pain of "eating and waiting", London was thousands of miles away from Bloemfontein, even if there was rescue, it would not come within three or two months.

Relatively speaking, because of the construction of water conservancy in the past two years, Johannesburg has been relatively less affected by the floods, because of the perfect drainage facilities, the city of Johannesburg has basically not been affected, and even if the farms around Johannesburg are partially affected, the farmers have also tried to save themselves, and the impact is not large.

These conditions were seen by the Boers of Orange, and the imbalance in their hearts became more and more serious.

A makeshift food distribution in the centre of Bloemfontein.

Because Orange is not self-sufficient in food, it relies on the transfer of food relief from the Cape and the Transvaal, and there are only three such food distribution points in Bloemfontein.

That's right, the Transvaal – to be exact, Johannesburg is now able to provide support to Orange, which means that Johannesburg is self-sufficient in food.

At noon, countless Boers gathered at makeshift food distribution points, each receiving two pounds of potatoes, an ounce of coffee, an ounce of sugar, half an ounce of salt, and very little meat per day.

This food supply was no better than that of the concentration camps during the Boer War.

This is also thanks to the great potato harvest in the Johannesburg area this year, and if it weren't for the large number of potatoes harvested in Johannesburg some time ago, the Boers would not even have to eat potatoes.

But the Boers did not think so, they only saw that Johannesburg was not affected by the floods, but they did not think for themselves why this was happening.

They only saw that Johannesburg was now able to provide support to Orange, but they wondered why no one was developing the farms in Orange.

They only see the Chinese farmers in Johannesburg living in warm, dry houses, but they do not reflect on why they are still living in tents after the war has been over for several months, and they have received enough compensation and loans.

In times of catastrophe, there are always some people who are not willing to be lonely to jump up and down, and Orange is no exception.

"It's all to blame for the Chinese in Johannesburg who robbed us of our homeland, if it weren't for those damn Chinese, we could now live in warm and dry houses, and there would be abundant farms, the Chinese in Johannesburg can drink fresh milk every day, they can't eat all their eggs, and they would rather put them in jars and stink them than give us alms to eat, look at what they gave us, potatoes that don't even eat cows, such things, there are tens of thousands of catties in every farm in Johannesburg, We absolutely cannot accept this result - "Someone is inciting with impunity."

"Yes, we're going to the city hall, we're going back to Johannesburg, Johannesburg is our home—"

"That's right, we go to the city hall, we are also British now, and London cannot leave us alone."

"Go to the city hall!"

There are still many people who respond, some are instigated, some are blindly followed, and some are singing double reeds.

"It's useless to go to the city government, the city officials have betrayed us, they live in marble houses high up on the top, they don't realize how damp and cold the tents are, we go straight to Johannesburg and take our homes back!" Someone is bringing the rhythm.

"That's right, we're on our own!"

"Let's go and get back what we deserve—"

"To Johannesburg—"

More people agreed, and now they finally thought about relying on themselves, but they didn't want to think about what they were doing before.

"There's a garrison on the border, if we go like this, we'll be driven back by the garrison—"

"Don't worry, we have tens of thousands of people now, and the garrison on the border is so small, they can't stop us."

"We want to regain the spirit of the Great Migration, and we will never accept London's arrangements for us."

Occasionally, there was a rational voice, and it was immediately drowned out by more roars, and only then did it have the ambition not to accept London's arrangement, and when London gave money, I didn't see anyone who didn't want it.

Most people are blindly obedient, and at the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, more and more people are leaving Bloemfontein and moving towards Johannesburg.

The municipality of Bloemfontein was soon informed of the situation.

"I'm going to gather all the police and garrison—" Austin Pence was quietly sorting out his gear, a situation that must not be indulged, or it would have unmanageable consequences.

"Wait, Director, don't be reckless, this is tens of thousands of victims, and violence can't solve the problem." Jan Smoltz disapproves of the use of violence.

"So what do you think you should do? Let them go to Johannesburg? Do you think the garrison at the border will allow them to pass, and do you think the Johannesburg City Council, and the Johannesburg Police Department will accept them? Austin Pence fired again and again, because of the existence of Jan Smuts and Louis Botha, Austin Pence's work did not go well, and Austin Pence was very dissatisfied for a long time.

A month ago, Austin Pence visited the Johannesburg Police Station.

After the visit, Austin Pence had to admit that the city of Bloemfontein and the city of Johannesburg were not at the same level in terms of organizational skills and work efficiency.

After returning to Bloemfontein, Austin Pence became increasingly impatient, preferring to go to Johannesburg to be a police sergeant rather than a police chief in Bloemfontein.

"Director, that's why we're here, and now we're going to contact the Johannesburg City Council to find a solution to the problem." Louis Botha was also in a state of flux, and the mayor of Bloemfontein went to Cape Town to try to get another loan for Bloemfontein, and now Louis Botha acts as mayor.

"Okay, you guys discuss it slowly, and don't forget to let me know if there is a result." Austin Pence didn't talk nonsense with Louis Botha, picked up his hat and rushed out of the door.

Louis Botha and Jan Smozi glanced at each other, and there was something indescribable in both of their eyes.

Don't be funny, this kind of thing is not negotiable, if the Boers were reasonable, then they would have started rebuilding the farm long ago.

The Bloemfontein police station has more than 400 police officers, plus six companies of local Bloemfontein, for a total strength of more than 1,000 troops.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, some of the garrisons stationed outside Bloemfontein did not have time to return, so the emergency gathering of men was only about 700 people.

"We are now going to the border between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg to stop those who try to enter Johannesburg, I know the attitude of Johannesburg towards the Boers, they will never allow the Boers to enter Johannesburg, so the police and garrison in Johannesburg must be on standby now, we must go immediately and drive all the Boers back to Bloemfontein before they make contact." Austin Pence and two captains of the garrison had an urgent exchange.

"How?"

"How?"

Both captains were at a loss, let them go to the battlefield to fight, maybe they still have the courage to let them deal with this kind of thing, they are really not good at it.

"I'm sorry, I don't know, let's talk about it then-" Austin Pence didn't have a complete plan, and this was the first time Austin Pence had experienced this kind of thing.

Then let's go, thanks to the appropriations and loans from some time ago, the Bloemfontein police station and the garrison are also equipped with a large number of passenger horses, Austin Pence noticed that the garrison was carrying heavy machine guns, although the corners of his mouth twitched, but Austin Pence did not speak.

Running wildly, the police and garrison finally stopped the Boers in Orange before they could enter Johannesburg.

It's actually less than 300 yards from the border between Bloemfontein and Johannesburg, which is about 270 meters in metric terms, and from this position, you can actually see that just ahead of the border, the garrison and police of Johannesburg, as well as the farmers of Clonstad, are already in full fight.

It has to be said that Johannesburg is indeed wealthy, and even those farmers who are not organized have enough raincoats and weapons.

The Orangeburers here were much worse, with no raincoats and no weapons, so they could only beg the soldiers and police to let them go.

Let them live.

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