Chapter 50 Churchill
Winston's father, Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the famous seventh Duke of Marlborough. According to British law, the title and territory of the Duke of Marlborough should be inherited by the Duke's eldest son, and other sons could only seek a way out in politics, the military, colonial administration or religion.
Randolph was lucky in that he met Jenny Jerome, the daughter of Leonard Jerome, the king of Wall Street, at a banquet. One was a nobleman whose family was declining, and the other was a nouveau riche who was eager to integrate into the upper class. The two hit it off and got married eight months later.
In November of the wedding year, Jenny Jerome suffered from abdominal pain due to an accident and later gave birth to Winston Churchill. This was only seven months before Randolph and Jenny's wedding, so Winston was a premature baby. Even though he was born more than two months prematurely, Winston still grew up healthily under such extremely backward medical conditions.
This vitality is comparable to that of cockroaches.
The reason for introducing such background is not to prove that Randolph and Jenny had sexual relations before marriage, which was against social ethics at the time. The purpose of introducing Winston's background is only to illustrate that Winston has been ridiculed and maliciously slandered by many people in the environment in which he grew up.
Well, that also includes a certain shameless fish head.
Before coming to the Cape, Winston had participated in the Cuban and Indian Wars as a war correspondent. At that time, Winston still had a military position, but before going to the Cape, Winston resigned from the military position. This time he was purely covering the Second Boer War as a reporter for the Morning Post.
Bostwick, the editor of the Morning Post, spent a lot of money to hire Winston. Winston's salary at Cape was 250 pounds per month, which was higher than the salary of the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury of the United Kingdom. The annual salary of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was only 5,000 pounds.
So, Winston may not really be a premature baby, but the Boers are really blind!
It is obvious that although Rock and Ada only met for one night, the two of them have a tacit understanding. Rock did not get on Ada's carriage. Although Ada 's carriage was four-wheeled, Rock still took a two-wheeled carriage with Winston back to Cape Town.
Well, Rock didn't say hello to Ada, and even Rock didn't see Ada. Ada's carriage followed behind Rock's carriage.
When they arrived at the Table Mountain Bar, Winston was already fast asleep. Rock first settled Winston down, and then found Ada in the familiar room.
They were not very familiar with each other, but Rock had a good memory. Ada was impressed by Rock, and Rock was also impressed by Ada.
"Your injury?" Ada looked at Rock with worried eyes. If the last time Rock helped Ada out of trouble left a deep impression on Ada, then Rock's performance tonight deepened this impression to an unforgettable level.
"It's okay now. A man's scars are like medals of honor he carries with him." Rock said calmly.
Ada smiled like a rose blooming in the morning.
In fact, Rock was not pretending. His injury was really healed. Just now in the carriage, Rock felt that the wound was a little itchy, but now it doesn't even itch, just a little bit of discomfort, and that was caused by the bandage.
"Your clothes are torn, try this one?" There was a white shirt on the sofa next to Ada. Rock didn't know why it was there. Maybe it belonged to Ada's unlucky ex-husband?
Let's give it a try. Rock took off his torn tuxedo and then his torn shirt. Suddenly, he heard Ada swallowing.
Try your ass!
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(Two thousand words are omitted here, brothers can use their imaginations——)
It was the next day when Rock saw Winston again. Although it was not yet opening time for the Table Mountain Bar at noon , Winston and Henry had already finished a bottle of Veuve Clicquot each in the bar.
"Henry, you should stay in the army. You will become a general. Losing you will be a loss for the entire army." Winston obviously understood Henry's views on linear tactics.
"No, you should stay in the army, and the Queen should appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy." Henry can drink a lot, but he still speaks clearly.
Look, even the British people brag about business when they are drunk.
In fact, it is better not to mention the military talents of both of them. Henry was kicked out of the army because of picking up girls, and Winston commanded the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. As a result, the British army lost 20,000 people in that war at one time.
But this does not affect their future achievements——
Look, it's them!
"Good morning, gentlemen." Rock had changed into a new set of clothes, which were amazing and fit him perfectly.
"Please allow me to introduce Rock from the mysterious East, the backbone of the Cape Town Police Department. It was he who saved all of us last night." Henry stood up, put his arm around Rock's shoulders enthusiastically.
"Locke, an Indian?" Winston had served in India and knew quite a bit about the country, but he knew nothing about the Qing Dynasty.
"No, Chinese." Rock can change his nationality, but he will always be proud of being Chinese.
"Oh, Qing Dynasty, a magical country." Winston immediately lost interest in Rock.
"Don't be like that, Winston. Those drawbacks of the 'linear tactics' that I just mentioned were actually all discovered by Locke. Let me tell you, he is the real genius." Henry had infinite respect for Rock, especially after what happened last night.
Rock didn't know how much benefit his contribution last night would bring to Henry. He would definitely be promoted in the police station, and his position would not be small. He might even be promoted to a high position overnight, which was exactly what Rock wanted. In that way, Rock could also benefit from it.
The police station has not yet announced the reward for Henry, but it is obvious that Henry has already received some benefits. It seems that Henry met a lot of people at the banquet yesterday.
It can be seen that Winston did not quite believe what Henry said, but after Henry's explanation, Winston looked at Rock with obviously more interest.
"No one is a genius. Many people know that the 'linear tactics' will be eliminated sooner or later, but no one will take the initiative to eliminate the 'linear tactics' before suffering heavy losses. This is our sadness. We know that something is bound to happen, but we have no way to stop it." Rock is not proud. Reality will teach the arrogant British a lesson.
Reality will also teach the arrogant Winston a lesson.
