In this world, if Roark has friends, then Henry must be one of them.
Rock has always thought so.
If Henry's family had not come to Johannesburg, then Roark and Phyllis would indeed have become lovers. Roark could feel that Phyllis liked Roark, and Roark also knew that he also liked Phyllis.
Rock enjoyed the relaxation and joy when he was with Phyllis.
But all this is now gradually becoming unclear.
First of all, Arnold would never approve of Rock's relationship with Phyllis.
Then there is Owen. Although Roark and Owen have a good relationship, but that is without involving Phyllis. Although Roark is now the chief of the Johannesburg Police Department, which can be considered a high position, Owen is really
I don't necessarily agree with Rock and Phyllis dating.
The reason is very simple, the Matilda family is a noble, and Roque is Chinese. If the daughter of Baron Matilda marries a Chinese, the Matilda family will become a joke in the aristocratic circle.
In this regard, the British are definitely traditional and conservative.
The representative in this regard is Winston's father, Randolph Churchill.
Randolph Churchill's father was the 7th Duke of Marlborough. The Duke did not agree with his son's choice at first because he was not from the right family. Marrying the daughter of an American commoner as his daughter-in-law was not in line with the traditions and status of the aristocracy, and aristocrats were intermarrying.
Most of the time, the target can only be a noble.
However, due to Randolph Churchill's insistence, the Duke finally agreed to the marriage, but at the same time he put forward a condition that Randolph must enter Parliament before the wedding could be held.
Winston's mother was white and the daughter of a millionaire, and was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" at the time.
Just because Winston's mother was an American and married Randolph Churchill, who was from a poor family, was plain-looking, and even a little ugly, Winston's mother had to face such huge resistance. If Rock wanted to marry Philly
Silk, you can imagine the resistance you have to face.
For the same reason, Baron Matilda may not agree to Phyllis and Roque being together.
Even for the same reason, Ada can be with Roque, but Ada does not want to make her relationship with Roque public.
Rock also knows these objective facts, so Rock will not force Ada
On the train, Roark did not take the initiative to make Phyllis happy as usual.
Rock thought that Henry should understand Rock.
So Rock didn't expect that Henry's reaction would be so strong after Phyllis said those words just now.
Moreover, Henry's anger seemed not only because of what Phyllis just said.
"the same as you!"
After Rock finished scolding, Henry became even more angry, turning his head and looking for things everywhere.
Rock took out the baton and handed it to Henry.
Henry grabbed the baton and hit Rock on the shoulder.
Fortunately, I know the severity.
For a guy like Henry, Rock can beat three of them with one hand.
Facing the baton mixed with the sound of wind, Rock stepped sideways, tripped and captured Henry in one go, and easily threw Henry to the ground.
"Asshole!" Henry didn't give up, he got up and continued.
"Enough!" Phyllis screamed.
"Why didn't you say stop when he hit me?" Henry was dissatisfied, and Phyllis was obviously trying to push the envelope.
"Come on, come on, I'll let you punch me." Luo Kechong said.
"Don't run!"
"Don't run!"
"Don't fight back!"
"not return!"
"you swear!"
"Whoever runs away is a puppy!"
Phyllis was in a state of collapse
Henry threw away his baton and walked up to Rock with a grin.
"Can you guys be more serious?" Phyllis felt a severe headache.
Henry punched Rock hard in the stomach.
Rock knelt down with his arms around his belly.
"You're crazy!" Phyllis was startled and ran over holding up her skirt.
"He deserves it!" Henry put his hands on his hips and looked up to the sky with a proud smile.
Phyllis didn't waste any time and kicked Henry hard in the calf.
Henry immediately hugged his calves and howled.
Phyllis is wearing leather shoes.
After a few minutes, the three of them were finally able to sit down and communicate normally.
"When I was very young, I knew that the title belonged to Arnold, the property in my family also belonged to Arnold, and even the dog I raised belonged to Arnold. So after graduating from university, I came to Cape Town to look for my own
"Life" Although Henry looks cheerful all day long, in fact there are also tears of bitterness behind his back.
"I don't care what you think, I will never marry that idiot. If you don't let me marry Locke, then I will become a nun!" Phyllis was determined.
"In fact, even if we give up the Matilda Gold Mine," Rock really doesn't care. After buying the farms around Krugersdorp, the Far West Rand Gold Mine is already ready. If the Matilda Gold Mine can be exchanged for the Far West Rand Gold Mine,
West Rand Gold Mines, Rock would be happy to.
"Why?"
“What a beautiful thought!”
Henry and Phyllis said in unison.
Oh oh oh, this aristocratic family is so disharmonious.
"The gold mine belongs to the three of us. No one can take it away. You don't have to worry about this, Locke." Henry is no longer the same Sheriff Henry as before. It is really common for aristocratic families to have conflicts between brothers.
"I'm not worried about gold mines. This is Rand. Gold mines are everywhere. What I'm worried about are the workers in the gold mines." Rock is not worried about gold mines. For Rock, there are really many gold mines.
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"What happened to the workers?" Henry didn't understand.
"Henry, have you ever thought about what the Transvaal will be like in the future after the war is over?" Rock did not dwell on the issue of gold mines.
"What else can I do? That's it." Henry's reaction was a bit slow.
"Locke, you mean, those Boers?" Phyllis responded quickly, but unfortunately the angle was still wrong.
"After the war, there will be no more Boers." Rock had to admit that the British were indeed cruel, and compared with them, the Chinese were indeed too kind.
When talking about the British, the first thing that comes to most people's minds may be "shit stirrers", or "gentlemen", or they may be: conservative, stubborn, without a sense of humor, because they once dominated the world and were pretentious, and because of the two
After World War II, it was unwilling to become a second-rate country, and so on.
In Rock's impression, few people associate Britain with the word "cruel". It was only after Rock came to this world that he realized how cruel the British were.
When he first came to this world, Rock still dreamed of establishing a good relationship with the Boers and building a "harmonious and beautiful" New Cape together.
With Rock's understanding of the Second Boer War, Rock now discovered that the British had no intention of letting the Boers go. The current methods of the Expeditionary Force Headquarters were to drive the Boers to death and annihilation.
It is best to eliminate all the Boers, so that Cape can have long-term peace and stability.
This is the true face of the British.
In fact, Rock was not surprised. The British had a history in this regard. When they first arrived in the precious land, they would exchange glass balls for the native gold, and then they would sell opium if they couldn't do business. If the opium was not allowed to be sold, they would use open fire to rob it.
, after robbing everything, they used the money they robbed to buy the scalps of the natives.
Rock had never heard of the "concentration camps," "barbed wire fences," and "scorched earth policies" that the expeditionary force now had.
In Rock's impression, it seems that only Germany and Japan did this during World War II, and the United Kingdom has never had anything to do with these things.
This is the winner's right to speak, if the Germans won World War II
Then I'm afraid the British will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
"How is it possible?" Henry muttered to himself, but he had to admit that what Rock said was the truth.
"It is very possible that now the Boer men are either shot or exiled, and the Boer women are thrown into concentration camps. When the war ends in two years, how many Boers will be left?" Rock added another blow, inadvertently revealing the secret,
Only Rock in the world knew that the war would last two years before it would end.
"Then what should we do?" Henry was horrified and did not notice Roark's mistake.
If this "we" is used well, Rock must have a solution.
"Don't worry, although the Boers have disappeared, new Afrikaners will appear," Rock said sadly.
In the original history, the Second Boer War promoted the cohesion of the Boers. The war greatly promoted the formation of the psychological state of national identity. After a long process of evolution and identification, they finally formed a nation, the Afrikaners.
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Only Afrikaners know how much blood and tears are contained in this short sentence.
"Who are the Afrikaners?" Henry had not heard of the term.
"You, me, Phyllis, and other British people in South Africa, the Boers in the concentration camps, the Chinese miners in the gold mines, etc., etc., we are all Afrikaners." Rock didn't know that Afrikaners
How did the Lika people come into being? Now it seems that ethnic integration is the only possibility.
Of course, it was the integration of the Boers by the British, and the Boers were definitely not very happy about it, but the Boers were powerless to resist.
"Those Chinese miners" Henry finally returned to the original question.
"Yes, those miners, compared to the gold mines, I value the Chinese miners more. After the war is over, peace will return, the Transvaal will end martial law, and the provisional government will transition to a democratic government. At that time, the votes will be cast
Determines everything, so do you think, based on the current ratio of British and Boers in the Transvaal, if an election is held, can the British in the Cape defeat the Boers?" Rock pointed to the core of the problem.
Yes, votes, for democratically elected systems, votes are everything.
Although the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange are gradually declining, there are still a large number of Boers in Cape and Natal. The number of Boers in the four colonies of South Africa combined still exceeds 600,000.
In the same four colonies combined, there are less than 200,000 British people. If they really want to vote, the Boers can regain the leadership of the government with their feet.
If that happens, then what's the point of Britain spending more than 200 million pounds and mobilizing 440,000 people to launch a war?
After figuring out this joint, Henry was sweating profusely.
