When children grow up, adults will tell them that if they cannot change the world, they must learn to adapt to the world.

Most people have no way to change the world, so they can only learn to adapt.

Rock wanted to give it a try.

Maybe Rock can't change Britain, but in South Africa, Rock still has a chance.

Of course, the premise of change is that the British in South Africa are willing to accept Chinese and give Chinese people the same right to vote as Boers. If Boers want to change the world, they have to ask whether the Chinese agree or not.

Or, ask Rock if he agrees or not.

Henry is Rock's best friend. Henry and Rock have such a close relationship. If even Henry disagrees with accepting Chinese, then there is no need to mention other British people.

"Locke, I support you!" Phyllis expressed his attitude.

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

It seems like this is a dead end. The population ratio of South Africa is the absolute advantage. If there is no X factor, the British will definitely not be able to dominate during the election.

However, accepting Chinese people requires taking certain risks. Chinese can support British people and Boers. Although Rock says it well now, if the Chinese and Boers are in a suffocating relationship, they can kill South Africa's British people.

So the key to the problem is whether Chinese people are trustworthy or not.

Thinking of this, Henry looked at Rock, and there seemed to be no doubt about this.

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

"Give miners good treatment so that they can afford the land around Johannesburg, so that they will become farmers. After the war is over, they will naturally have the right to vote. I have bought 50,000 acres of land around Krugersdorp, enough to accommodate thousands of Chinese people. If you don't agree, when the next group of miners arrives in Johannesburg, I will arrange them directly to Krugersdorp." Rock did not rely entirely on Henry. If Henry disagreed, Rock would throw Henry away from him.

Fifty thousand acres sounded a lot, but Henry and Philis did not respond to this number. These days, the nobles treated land so casually, just tens of thousands of acres, and there were even aristocrats in the UK who owned millions of acres.

That's in the UK.

Not Transvaal.

"Voting Right!" Henry was completely shocked. If what Rock said could be realized, then in the future, not to mention all four Cape colonies, Transvaal would definitely be the world of Rock and Henry.

It is a very simple truth. Not to mention the four colonies, just talking about Transvaal, if enough Chinese people have the right to vote, then the British dominance in Transvaal can be guaranteed.

Henry knew that voting rights could determine the ruling party, so the choice of Chinese people would be very important at that time. Chinese people could support Alfred Milner and Philip Matilda.

if--

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

"Locke, don't be too optimistic. The Governor will not give all Chinese votes." Phyllis was still calm.

"No, he will give it, and he will not give it to you at that time." Rock handed a newspaper to Phyllis, the latest "Cape Town Daily". The front-page headline news was: the guerrillas led by Jan Smooth annihilated the 17th Changmao Cavalry Regiment.

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

Even so, the guerrillas have been annihilated colonial forces in an integral manner, which is shocking enough.

There are also reports in the newspaper that guerrillas were destroying railways in Cape. In the past, the Boers fantasized about defeating the British, so they only attacked the trains and did not attack the railways. Now the Boers have failed on the front battlefield, and the guerrillas have begun to do everything they can. The railway has become the main target of attacks by the Boers.

One thing to emphasize is that the main range of activities of the Boer guerrillas is now in the Cape territory.

The scorched earth policies of the Expeditionary Force against the Boers were only implemented in Transvaal and Orange, and it was impossible to implement them in Cape, because a large part of the current farmers in Cape were British.

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

"Actually, we are negotiating with the Boers now." Henry threw a big melon.

"Negotiation?" Even Rock didn't expect it.

"Yes, the negotiations have begun. The representatives of the Boer guerrillas stayed in the ancestors' hotel, and the Pretoria Police Department was responsible for security." Henry smiled bitterly, no wonder Henry knew so clearly.

Rock was a little confused. Rock knew that the British and the Boers would sign a peace agreement, but he didn't know when the peace negotiations began. It's less than half a year since Roberts announced the end of the war. If this news spread, other European countries would probably be able to laugh.

"The war can no longer last, Locke, you may have noticed that the railway line between Johannesburg and Cape Town has been interrupted for more than half a month. General Kitchennam sent troops to repair the railway, but the speed of the repair was not as fast as the guerrillas destroyed. The war has lasted for two years, and more than 150 million pounds of military expenditure was consumed in vain. Hundreds of thousands of troops were trapped in the Cape, and it is far from the end of the war. London cannot allow this situation to continue." Henry was helpless. At least half of what Rock said was about to become a fact.

If possible, Britain really wanted to completely destroy the Boers and end the war as soon as possible.

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

就现在德兰士瓦和奥兰治的情况,不是铁丝网,堡垒,就是刑场和集中营,这要是传出去,让大英帝国的面子往哪搁?

所以谈判,是尽快结束战争的唯一出路.

"I'm going to find my father in Johannesburg." Henry stopped hesitating. Rock had already said that he was going to get rid of Henry and do it alone. Henry believed in Rock's execution ability. As long as Rock wanted to do it, Rock would definitely do it.

那就一起回约翰内斯堡,亨利和菲丽丝一起回家,罗克自己回警察局,屁股还没有在椅子上坐稳,山姆就把电话打过来,阿诺德又不安分了.

知道阿诺德在马蒂尔达金矿实行竞争制度后,罗克没有去找阿诺德沟通,而是通知山姆,把每天接受惩罚的那些矿工调离金矿,罗克会另行安排.

所以,昨天在竞争中落后的大约二百名左右的矿工,今天就接到了调离金矿的命令.

对此,阿诺德肯定不满意,他刚刚找到了个不和罗克直接对抗,还能恶心罗克的办法,正玩得乐不可支呢,肯定不会任由罗克把人调走.

罗克是真不想搭理阿诺德,但是想了想,罗克还是决定去看看.

看看阿诺德能嚣张到什么程度.

营地内的空地上,将近二百名矿工已经收拾好行李,他们今天在早饭后才得到通知,一时人心惶惶.

"Brothers, don't worry. Director Locke has found a good place for everyone. I will inform the brothers for Director Locke that next brothers will help Director Locke clear the land. Every acre of land is opened, brothers can get a wage of one acre of land. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity-" Buck was hoarsely appeaseing the miners' emotions.

“还不是要去当长工——”

“为啥不给工钱?”

“开一亩地,得一亩地?”

矿工们马上就议论纷纷.

“都特么闭嘴!”铁钩中气十足.

矿工们马上就鸦雀无声.

"Follow me, get my own things, don't talk—" Tiehook won't talk nonsense to the miners. It's useless to talk about facts and reason with these people. When paying the salary, you can pick pounds and wastelands at the same time. Fools know what to choose.

巴克看着铁钩一脸敬佩.

“嘿嘿,巴克先生,都是些粗人不懂事,跟他们不用废话,不听话拿鞭子抽就是了——”铁钩的话让人无语,动不动就拿鞭子抽,跟英国人有什么区别?

英国人才不拿鞭子抽人呢,看铁钩要把工人带走,阿诺德马上就跳出来.

“不行,不能让他把工人带走!”阿诺德还算聪明,没有直接去找铁钩,而是找山姆.

“为啥?”山姆装傻.

“工人都走了,谁去挖矿?”阿诺德的理由很充分.

"Oh, it's okay, Mr. Christian will send a group of Zulus to come tomorrow." Sam downplayed.

"Who is Christian?" Arnold went crazy.

"Mr. Christian is the largest builder in the Transvaal region, and he has tens of thousands of workers." Sam was serious.

"No, don't want those Zulu people, these yellow people must not leave." Arnold did not want Zulu people, bullying Zulu people would not bring any pleasure to Arnold.

Rock certainly doesn't care about the Zulus.

"Sorry, Mr. Arnold, this is Mr. Locke's order." Sam said humble, but did not give in at all.

"Is the gold mine from that yellow man, or from the Matilda family?" Arnold said unspeakably.

"It's not yours anyway." Rock's face was covered in frost, trying to pull Arnold out of his hand, then kicked Arnold hard on Arnold's butt, kicking Arnold out of the solar system.

It's okay to kick it into the sun.
Chapter completed!