According to the plan of the Johannesburg City Government, there will be no room for lazy people to survive in Johannesburg in the future.
Because of the cruel policies of the Expeditionary Force Command towards the Boers, a large number of Boers in Johannesburg were thrown into concentration camps, which gave the Johannesburg city government the opportunity to transform Johannesburg.
The transformation first started with the shanty towns. I still remember when Rock first arrived in Johannesburg. The feeling left to Rock at that time was that Johannesburg was a large and disorderly slum area. The whole city was full of randomly built houses. Those with money were better off.
Yes, the house you built is still passable. If you don’t have money, just build a shed, and then you can survive in Johannesburg.
At that time, Johannesburg did not even have a government agency. As a senior police official, Roque came to Johannesburg and actually had to stay in a hotel. Therefore, there was no plan for Johannesburg at that time.
Things are different now. The expeditionary force occupied Johannesburg, and Johannesburg became a city under the control of the British government.
Now that there is a city government and a police station, Johannesburg is about to get back on track. If it remains the same as before, how can it reflect the superiority of British rule over Boer rule?
What is superior is legal.
In the planning of the Johannesburg Municipal Government, most of these existing houses or shacks will be demolished and then unified planned residential areas will be built.
If you want to buy a house in a residential area, you need a certain amount of financial strength. People who have no strength, or people who are unemployed, will not be qualified to live in Johannesburg in the future.
After the transformation of the city is completed, it is wishful thinking for the newly arrived Boers or Zulu people to set up a shack on the outskirts of Johannesburg and settle down. For the sake of the overall image of the city, the Johannesburg city government will not allow this to happen. This is
The scope of work of the police station.
It just so happens that Roque is the police chief, so if there are no accidents in the future Johannesburg, there should be no problems with the Boers.
Of course, for those Boers with financial strength, Johannesburg will also welcome them to settle in Johannesburg, but the overall number will definitely not be too many. The war brought huge financial pressure to the British government, and the Boers also suffered heavy losses in the war.
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On this issue, Alfred Milner was negotiating with the Boers. The Boers proposed a huge compensation of 20 million pounds, demanding payment to the Boer farmers who suffered heavy losses in the war.
Alfred Milner agreed in principle to give the Boer farmers some compensation, but not in the name of compensation.
Moreover, on the amount, there were huge differences between Alfred Milner and Steyn and Beagle, who led the negotiations on the Boer side.
Steyn was the President of the Orange Free State. In the Transvaal Republic, after Paul Kruger went to Europe to seek support, the post of President was held by General Schalk Biegel.
These two presidents were representatives of the Boer negotiators. As for the more famous Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, and James Herzog in the future, they were still fighting on the front line of the battle and persisted in the Cape.
Guerrilla warfare continued to cause problems for the Cape Colonial Government and the expeditionary force headquarters.
Even if the trouble caused becomes smaller and smaller, it can still create pressure on the Cape Colonial Government and the Expeditionary Force Command to strive for better conditions for negotiations.
Rock doesn't like the Boers, not at all. In the original history, during the British colonial period in Johannesburg, the Chinese could still survive in Johannesburg. When the four colonies established a federation in the future and the extremely conservative and xenophobic Boers came to power, the federation would begin.
Implementing a segregation policy would be a disaster for all people of color, including Chinese.
Therefore, Rock will never sit back and watch the Boers control the Federation. At the very least, in the Transvaal, Rock will ensure that the British, or the British, control the Transvaal government. Everything Rock has done now
, all to prepare for the future transformation of the colonial government into an autonomous government.
Regarding the dominance of the government, it is not that Rock has not considered this issue. At this stage, if the Chinese want to spread their branches in Johannesburg, they can only rely on the power of the British. At least until the second generation of Chinese grows up, the Chinese will not
Possibly directly controlled the Transvaal government.
If you think about it, you can understand that most of the Chinese people today are miners who cannot read a word. They have never received education before, and many of them cannot even speak English. Therefore, the value of their existence is to vote and then use their hard work and sweat to
, create a better life for the second generation of Chinese Americans, and allow the second generation of Chinese Americans to receive as complete a modern education as possible. Only when the second generation of Chinese Americans grow up can the Chinese truly integrate into the Transvaal.
The Johannesburg officials present were more or less familiar with the ongoing negotiations, so negotiation was also one of the hot topics at the dinner.
To end the war, some concessions must be made to the Boers. This has become the consensus of everyone.
The question is how deep the concessions should be, and officials are deeply divided on this issue.
"If the Boers are willing to give up their country and swear allegiance to the king, then it is not a bad idea to give them the treatment they deserve. After all, our purpose is to develop the gold in Johannesburg, not to eliminate the Boer race." Blake Nelson glared.
He is also good at telling lies with his eyes closed.
To be honest, this is also a last resort. If possible, the British will never let the Boers go.
But there is no telling whether this kind of thing can be done or not. Even if the British want to eliminate the Boers, they can't directly shout to kill them. The British Empire also wants to face it, and the international impact needs to be considered, so it must enter the village quietly without shooting.
The problem now is that the expeditionary force is unable to solve the threat of Boer guerrillas. In the Cape territory, the Boer guerrillas are everywhere, attacking not only the regular army, but also the local government of the Cape. The expeditionary force is exhausted, but cannot find the Boer guerrillas.
Naturally, there is no way to solve this problem.
Although the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State have lost all their territory, the two governments are still in operation, and there is even a government-in-exile in Sorenso Marquez. As long as this problem cannot be solved, then negotiations will be the final step.
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"If you ask me, we should not have negotiated with the Boers at all. With hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of millions of pounds of military spending, we should not have gotten this result." Marcus Beaufort was really unwilling, but at the same time he was helpless.
"If the war does not end, it will not only continue to maintain the existence of hundreds of thousands of troops, but also waste more military expenditures, and it may not necessarily achieve a final, comprehensive victory." Blake Nelson did not want to see this result, but comprehensively
On balance, if the war can be ended in a short time and avoid greater waste, it seems to be a good choice.
"Actually, we have a third option, that is, we can negotiate and accept the Boers, but after peace comes, we can transform the Boers according to our wishes." Roque proposed the third possibility.
"It is impossible for the Boers to accept the transformation according to our wishes." Marcus did not want to give the Boers any chance.
"How to transform it?" Blake was very interested.
"After the signing of the peace agreement, the Military Control Commission will transition to a democratically elected government. The issue we are worried about now is that after future negotiations, the population of the Boers will affect the leadership of the government." Roque is not just talking nonsense. In fact,
The Provisional Government only existed for five years. After Alfred Milner's term ended, elections were held in the Transvaal and Orange. As expected, the Boers won and successfully obtained the leadership of the government.
In fact, the Boers came to power thanks to the Chinese workers.
Historically, during the period when the Conservative Party was in power, South Africa began to introduce Chinese workers from the Qing Dynasty.
This was originally intended to solve the problem of labor shortage in Johannesburg, but in the words of the Liberal Party, it became the Conservative Party's "resurrection of slavery."
As a result, the Conservative Party was defeated in the 1905 election, and the Liberal Party came to power to form a government.
At this time, Young Smuts went to visit the newly elected Prime Minister Campbell Bannerman and reminded Campbell Bannerman of the British promise to allow the Boers self-government during the peace negotiations.
Campbell Bannerman readily agreed to Yang Smuts' request because during the election, the Liberal Party used Chinese labor as an excuse to attack the Conservative Party. Now that the Liberal Party came to power, Campbell Bannerman began to worry about the counterattack of the Johannesburg gold mine owners.
After the Boers gained autonomy, the Liberal Party no longer had to worry about this problem.
The so-called autonomy means elections. In the Cape, although the Progressive Party once led by Cecil Rhodes won the victory, in the subsequent negotiations to establish the federation, the Cape was also unable to survive alone. In the end, it was the Boers who won the federation.
Dominance.
From then on, the Boers went further and further on the road to death.
"On the surface, this issue seems to be a dead end, because the total population of British people in the four parts of the Cape is far less than that of the Boers. Therefore, as long as democratic elections are held, the Boers will inevitably come to power. So now we have to
What we do is to at least ensure the leadership of the Cape and the Transvaal. The importance of the Cape does not need to be emphasized. The Transvaal does not look very good now, but the Transvaal has Lanzhou.
German gold mine, so in the future, the importance of the Transvaal will even exceed that of the Cape. What we need to ensure is the order of the Transvaal." Rock once again emphasized the importance of population in popular elections. This issue is very realistic.
, everyone’s breathing became a little heavier.
"Sir Locke, after the war is over, there will be no difference between the British and the Boers." Black kindly reminded Locke that what Locke said was actually politically incorrect.
Regarding the issue of "political correctness", Rock didn't want to talk nonsense. If Blake was a Boer and asked for better treatment under the banner of "political correctness", Rock would understand.
However, Blake, an Englishman, emphasized "political correctness" on this issue. Rock had to suspect that Blake was living like a dog at his age.
So Rock was very rude: "I hope those Boers think so too. What we have to consider is that if those Boers think so too, that's great, but what if they don't?"
Rock's question was fatal. Black opened his mouth but couldn't find an angle to refute Rock.
"Those Boers certainly don't think so. Even if they swear allegiance to the king, they cannot be trusted. They have done so before." Marcus also did not trust those Boers.
Marcus was referring to the fact that after the British army captured the Transvaal and Orange, there was a period of time when they relaxed their attack on the Boers. At that time, as long as the Boer guerrillas laid down their weapons and declared their allegiance to the Queen who was still alive at the time, then
You can return home without any liquidation.
After the guerrillas entered the Cape, General DeWitt of Orange remobilized those former guerrillas who had laid down their arms and declared allegiance to the Queen in order to obtain sufficient manpower.
DeWitt quickly mobilized 3,000 people, but the consequences were also very serious. From then on, the expeditionary force no longer accepted the oath of the guerrillas. As long as they caught guerrilla members, they would all be shot directly.
"It doesn't matter whether they will swear allegiance to the king or whether they will keep their promises after taking the oath. What we have to do is to ensure that the Transvaal is under our control even in the worst possible situation.
Instead of considering too many political interests like the members of Congress, the Transvaal is closely related to our interests, but for the members of Congress, the Transvaal is just a tool for them." Rock said very realistically.
, it does not matter to the members of Congress whether the Transvaal is controlled by the British or the Boers, because by then, both the British and the Boers will be British.
But for the British in the Transvaal, the difference is huge. The war has lasted for so long, and both the Boers and the British have suffered heavy losses. After the war, the Boers and the British will immediately abandon
Shame on hatred and join hands to build a happy and beautiful new South Africa?
Stop it, if someone really thinks this way, then don't blame them for being stubborn when they are being played to death.
"That's right, so it's better to kill all the Boers!" Marcus' hatred of the Boers was undisguised.
In fact, this is the mainstream thinking of this era. For any disobedient group, physical elimination is the simplest and most effective way.
In the United States, white people treat Indians this way.
This is how the British treated the Boers in the Cape.
Until World War II, the Germans treated the Jews this way.
Therefore, no one really objected to Marcus's declaration of violence, and several officials nodded in agreement.
"It is impossible to kill them all. The best result is to keep them away from the Transvaal. In that case, it will be useless no matter how large the Boer population base is." Rock is not so violent. The two Boer gathering areas,
The Transvaal did not accept the Boers, but the Boers could still go to Orange.
This is Rock's real purpose. The future South Africa will probably be the Cape, Orange, Transvaal, and Natal.
In the Cape and Transvaal, Rock hoped that the British would have an absolute advantage, and Orange would definitely be dominated by the Boers. As for Natal, it would be left to the Zulus.
