"The inevitable result of almost every world war is the redivision of the colonies!"

"Modern and Modern History of the World", 42 years of Jiayu Commercial Book Company

Sitting in the hallway in front of his house, staring at the fields in the early morning, Herkins had made a mistake in building the house as a first-generation immigrant - this was the southern hemisphere, and he built it according to the custom of his old English family, only to have the sun facing the corridor at sunset, and not to feel the sun here in the morning, but over the years he had become accustomed to it and used to it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the sunlight, you can see in the distance a flag fluttering on the flagpole at the town hall, not the British flag, but a five-color flag, and whether it seems strange or not, for Herkins and the people here, they are adapting to the change.

It was a change of ruler, the Chinese army that had crossed the heart of Africa from the north had conquered Cape Town two weeks earlier, and for the European diaspora in the Cape Colony had to accept the fact that they had to accept Chinese rule, whether they liked it or not.

On one side of the corridor lay three hunting dogs, napping there, if it was usual, Herkins might have mounted his horse on the weekend, invited a few friends with the hunting dogs, and went hunting with him, but now, he would never do that, although the Chinese did not confiscate his weapons, but he knew that hunting at this time was likely to bring a consequence - being killed by the Chinese as a resistant!

The three hounds lay there listlessly, seemingly bored because they could not chase their prey, and occasionally they just raised their eyelids and looked at their masters, wondering why they didn't take them to hunt, even if it was better to take them around on horseback.

Herkins was not an ordinary farmer, he was the town's postmaster, so the people in this small town called him "lord", in fact, this title has nothing to do with this position, but it is just a British habit, all decent citizens have a noble title, so people will call him "lord", but just to show a kind of respect. Although the town is on the edge of Cape Town, mail only comes once a month, so Herkins, as postmaster, is usually very quiet.

As usual, Herkins sat in the hallway and watched the scenery around him, the scent of flowers brought by the breeze, and he sat like this, as if enjoying such a summer morning, but he was waiting for the letter, waiting for the letter from the postman.

After a while, I saw a man on horseback come to the town with a parcel from the Cape Town colony, and the only letter in his parcel was addressed to the town, and this letter was from the postmaster, which was a notice from the colonial authorities, or the occupying authorities.

"How's Cape Town doing?"

Because there was nothing else to do, Herkins would talk to the postman.

"What else? There were Chinese everywhere, and on the pier, Chinese troops arrived there almost every day......"

The postman couldn't help but complain.

"Chinese have almost overwhelmed the entire colony, and their army is even more numerous than the whites of the entire colony......"

While they were talking, the men of the village gathered here to join in the fun, eager for information from outside, and they wore thick striped trousers, a sturdy fabric that was most suitable for the farmer, and here it was almost a symbol of the farmer.

“…… Now, there are not only Chinese troops, but also Chinese merchants, and many street signs, in addition to English, have more Chinese...... that no one can understand."

As the postman spoke, all the men of the village listened thoughtfully, and stood for a moment, as if they were feeling a little tired, when one of them asked.

"Hey, Lord Herkins, what is this letter about?"

The letter was a proclamation, a tax proclamation issued by the colonial government, and the colony's taxes were still the same as last year's, and at the same time the proclamation told people that the laws here would follow the English laws to which they were accustomed, and that there did not seem to be much change.

Adaptation, for these European expatriates in the colonies, they were trying to adapt to these changes, and finally, after reading the proclamation, Herkins sat there dumbfounded, talking to himself.

"Well, it seems a lot better than we thought at first, at least, we don't need to worry as much as we did at first......"

In the beginning, Herkins and many diasporas were worried that the Chinese were barbarians and would rule here, but now it seems that everything is fine.

"It seems that these Chinese are also civilized people!"

"Master, those Chinese are not a good thing!"

The postman immediately retorted.

"Sir, you don't know, in Cape Town, those Chinese are mixed with Irish pigs, they even supply weapons to Irish pigs, if my guess is correct, they want to use those Irish pigs as police, and let Irish pigs run over us......"

The discrimination of the English against the Irish is in the bones, and the postman is obviously the representative of it, and when he said this, Herkins immediately said nervously.

"My God, if that's the case, we'll be miserable, and the Irish will surely take revenge! No, we're going to say ......"

As soon as the words came to his mouth, Herkins found that it was impossible for him to write a letter of protest to the colonial government, as he had done in the past, because the current colonial government was no longer the colonial government of Britain, but the colonial government of the Chinese, and they used the Irish and perhaps the Boers as policemen.

While Herkins and the townspeople were worried that the Irish would bully them, in the newly established Governor's House of the Cape Colony, the newly promoted Governor of the Cape Colony was flipping through the recruitment reports of the Colonial Police.

"In the Cape Colony, the largest number of white immigrants was not British, but Boers, and even in the British diaspora, Irish made up 35 per cent, which means that we can implement a policy of partition here, and by supporting the Irish, we can manage the British here, and as for the Boers, they have always been discriminated against by the British......"

When referring to the Boers, it is natural to think of the two so-called republics established by the Boers - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Although the Boers, who had been at odds with the British for decades, had given much help to the military in the conquest of the Cape colony, and were allies of China in the conquest of the Cape colony, for China they were an obstacle to the realization of China's plan for the passage of North and South Africa, and it was certainly to be conquered in the future, although that conquest was different from the conquest of the Cape colony.

"My lord, we all know very well that both the Orange Free State and the so-called Transvaal Republic are obstacles to our control of South Africa, so why do we support them now, and give them so much power, and even agree with them to restore slavery?"

As an officer, Huang Jianping was the de facto commander of the garrison in the Cape Colony, and as a military man, it was difficult for him to understand the operation of the newly established Colonial Department over the Cape Colony.

"You can't accept slavery?"

When he picked up the teacup, he looked at the colonel in front of him, there is only one brigade of the Standing Army of less than 10,000 people in the Cape Colony, and the brigade he commands is the fundamental support of the Cape Colony, of course, the Colonial Defense Force will be established in the future.

"My lord, slavery is always evil, and I am more in favor of indentured labor in other colonies......"

It is well known that indentured labourers are a form of slavery in disguise, most of which are indigenous people captured by the Defence Forces in the course of purging rebellious tribes, and after being tried by special courts, they are sentenced to 10 to 30 years of hard labour as rebels, who are then handed over to concessionaires, who are then auctioned off as "indentured labourers" and sold to expatriates for their use, who often do not directly manage these "indentured labourers" on their own farms. Instead, they were handed over to the Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese colonial overseers who were regarded as "honorary Chinese", and under the management of those overseers, the "indentured laborers" had a heavy workload and long hours, but the salaries were meager, and after deducting the cost of food, they hardly had to pay salaries. It is not uncommon to be abused and beaten by overseers during labor. If it weren't for the fact that they were the "property" of the diaspora, I am afraid that no one would have treated those indentured laborers well at all.

Still, in Wong's view, this was a kind of progress, because they were not slaves, but in negotiations with the Boers, it was agreed that they would restore slavery, so much so that in the conquest of the Cape colony, it was always the army that charged ahead, while the Boers conquered tribe by tribe there, and then plundered their young and strong as slaves - 30 years ago, the British abolished slavery, which caused the Boers to suffer terrible losses, and they did it only to make up for the losses. It is precisely because of this that Huang Jianlin is dissatisfied with those "peasants".

"It's politics, after all, when it comes to conquering the Cape colony, we need the support of the Boers, we respect their way of life, this is our biggest difference from the hypocritical British, just as we respect the Tibetan way of life......"

The corners of his lips twitched slightly when he mentioned Tibet, which is an alternative in the country, and although some journalists have accused it of serfdom, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has always expressed its "understanding of its customs", and the same is true here. This understanding, of course, is based on politics.

"And we treat the League of America and Brazil, we all express our understanding of slavery, why should we be like the British, hypocritically intervene in all this, when in fact we never see the natives as human beings? Of course, this is only based on political necessity, and when we need the support of the Boers, their restoration of slavery is naturally understandable and acceptable, and when we need to support the American Union, in the mouth of our diplomats, of course, they will agree that "the states have the right to choose their own way of life" ......

As a politician, I can understand the "pragmatic spirit" pursued in many fields in Japan, and I will never play any "hypocrisy", just like the naked pragmatism in dealing with feudal states and indigenous people.

"Your Excellency, do you mean that we will not need it in the future?"

Huang Jianping heard the meaning of his words from the other party's words.

"Colonel, do you know how many whites there are in the Cape Colony? Not less than 150,000, how many Boers? More than 100,000, if we didn't have the support of the Boers, then where would we be in now? One thing is for sure, we will not control the Cape Colony as easily as we do now, and the cooperation of the Boers has made it impossible for the British to organize effective resistance, and now that the Irish have also fallen to us, how many are left of the British? With less than 30,000 people, it can be said that the strength is weak, and it is certain that in the next twenty years, we will not need to think about the problem of resistance here! ”

As a colonial official, I know very well that what China needs now is the stability of the colonies, and only when the colonies are stable can it attract more immigrants.

"If the Boers do not cooperate with us, or if we harm their interests like the British, then it will inevitably lead them to rebel against us with the British, and then the whole colony will fall into war, even if we can quell the war, but it will require a lot of military spending, and it will also affect the resettlement of the diaspora, but the current stability will help us to settle the diaspora, 150,000, which is the number of Europeans, and now, There are only 15,000 Chinese here, of which 10,000 are soldiers, and there are a large number of officials and businessmen. When the number of Chinese here exceeded a million, the Boers ......"

He sneered, with a mocking look on his face.

"What else are they worth? When the time comes, slavery will naturally need to be discussed, opposed, and will eventually become our reason and excuse, and the Colonel, the Boers' restoration of slavery is indeed an immediate wealth for them, but for us it is a long-term excuse......"

Then, he clicked on the report in his hand and sneered.

"As for the Irish, what we use against them now is only to use their hands to manage the British, to make the British tame, you know, they hate the British more than we do!"

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