When you are born in the United States, the only things you cannot avoid are death and taxes.
This sentence also applies to the UK.
In the 21st century, the UK has a population of 65 million, and the British Internal Revenue Service has 66,000 employees, while the British Royal Navy, which once dominated the world, only has 44,500 people. A comparison shows how much the British government attaches importance to tax work.
The same is true for the Pretoria Revenue Department. During the Transvaal Republic, tax evasion was common among the owners of the Rand gold mines, and the Cape Colonial Government condoned it to a certain extent.
Now that the Cape Colonial Government has annexed the Transvaal, its former allies immediately turned against them, and the first blow of the Inland Revenue Department was directed at the owners of the Rand gold mines.
As the chief of the Johannesburg police, Roque is obliged to cooperate with the work of the tax bureau, so the current police station is regarded as an "accomplice" of the tax bureau.
"Director McPherson, if I want to buy a farm around Johannesburg, what should I do?" Rock has to spend the money. Buying a farm is a good idea. There are not too many abandoned farms around Johannesburg now.
Because the Expeditionary Force Headquarters stipulates that if a Boer farmer is found helping the guerrillas, all farms and houses within 10 miles of the surrounding area will be burned down. Therefore, there are a large number of abandoned farms around Johannesburg. If these abandoned farms are not restored to operation, they will be destroyed.
There is no possibility of taxation, so Pretoria will not allow this situation to continue.
The final result is that these farms abandoned due to the war are likely to be auctioned together like those gold mines some time ago.
What surprised Rock was that the UK did not have a unified land management agency at the central level. There was only a Land Registration Bureau established in 1862. The original function of this Land Registration Bureau was not management, but only management on the basis of resources.
Register.
In 1896, the United Kingdom stipulated that all land sales must be registered. The Registration Bureau is the only government department engaged in the review, confirmation, registration, certification and transfer of land ownership certificates.
If you think about it, you can understand that the land area of the United Kingdom is really too large. There are no colonies in the United Kingdom. All colonies are British territories. According to British law, all territories belong to the Queen, individuals, companies and various entities.
This institutional group only has the right to use the land, so the British government has no right to establish an agency to manage the property belonging to the Queen.
That's an offense to the Queen.
So Neil MacPherson's answer is very simple: "You want to buy a farm? Just go and buy it directly. Farms should be very cheap now. I heard that the Governor is considering encouraging farm restoration. It is estimated that even the money will be lost."
No need to spend money, just go to the Internal Affairs Office to file a case."
Farms are not gold mines, so the Transvaal government will not focus on farms. Roquedu suspects that the Transvaal may not have regulations in this regard yet.
Of course, not paying attention to it does not mean that you don't care. Abandoned farms are worthless, but if the farm is re-cultivated, it will start to generate profits, and then taxes will naturally be generated. Therefore, sooner or later, the Governor will encourage re-cultivation. After all, although mosquito leg meat is
Small, but still meaty.
The crux of the problem is that the Transvaal is now sparsely populated, and even the most important gold mines are in urgent need of miners, let alone farms. That's why the former Transvaal Republic allowed the Zulu to purchase land.
.
Anyway, idle is idle.
The Boers in the past, and the British now, have not yet realized what kind of trouble those seemingly harmless Zulus will cause South Africa in the future.
Only Rock has a clear understanding of this.
In fact, sooner or later, the Governor's Office will start to pay attention to this issue.
Unlike the sparsely populated Boers, the total British population is vastly different from the Boer population. Therefore, the British government will not be so open-minded to the Boer government in some aspects, such as the purchase of farms. During the Transvaal Republic, the ancestors
The Lu people could buy farms within the Transvaal.
This policy was quickly canceled after the end of the Second Boer War. In 1913, the then Union of South Africa passed the Aboriginal Land Act, which prohibited Africans from occupying or purchasing land outside the "Aboriginal Reserves".
The British treated the Zulu people, or all people of color, extremely harshly. Even the Indians, who prided themselves as "the most loyal dogs of the British Empire", were still considered an inferior ethnic group in the Cape.
The war is not over yet. Before the peace agreement was signed, the Boers were the colonial government's biggest enemies. The colonial government has not yet spared its time to target the colored races. It will be difficult to say after the peace agreement is signed.
So during this period, Rock still had the opportunity to buy a farm. After the war, the Chinese would definitely be among the people of color.
Of course, what is more likely to happen then is that because of Roque's existence, Alfred Milner will definitely take Roque into consideration when formulating policies. After all, Roque is now the chief of the Johannesburg Police Department and is a senior official.
After the war, they may be commended by the Queen and may even receive a knighthood, so it is inappropriate to lump Chinese with other people of color.
It is for this reason that before the peace agreement is signed, Roque should try to introduce Chinese workers as much as possible, or promote more Chinese workers to become free citizens, preferably free citizens with the right to vote, so that the Governor-General will be able to formulate policies in the future.
The interests of the Chinese people will be fully taken into consideration.
Obviously, Neil MacPherson does not have such a long-term vision. What worries Neil MacPherson most now is that there are not enough tax sources. Therefore, as long as Rock's proposal can increase tax sources, Neil MacPherson will
Philson didn't care about the population ratio of the Transvaal, that was the Governor's concern. Neil MacPherson only cared about taxation.
As for other issues arising from this, those are issues that future tax commissioners and future governors will have to worry about.
Back at the police station, Luo Ke immediately sent a telegram to Liang Dingxin. There were no women in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty who met Luo Ke's requirements, but there were plenty of men. Luo Ke could not place all his hopes on Hoover.
In fact, Liang Dingxin was not useless. After Luo Ke learned that footbinding was common among most women in the northern Qing Dynasty, he asked Liang Dingxin to shift the focus of his work to assisting the immigration of the family members of the Chinese policemen. In recent times, the number of Chinese immigrants to Cape Town has increased.
There are more and more police family members, and some even come directly to Johannesburg.
Rock wants to buy a farm just for the families of these Chinese police officers.
Well, farmers in this era actually don’t need to work by themselves.
The Cape Colonial Government promulgated the "Glengre Law" in 1894, which stipulated in legislation that adult African men, unless they had worked for more than three months outside their settlement within 12 months of the previous year,
month, otherwise a labor tax of 10 shillings must be paid.
The core of this law is to force black people to work for white people.
At the end of the 19th century, there were 75,000 white people in Johannesburg, 12,000 of whom worked in the mines. During the same period, there were as many as 100,000 Zulu miners.
Noticed?
At the end of the 19th century, there were only 75,000 white people in Johannesburg.
In 1904, more than 50,000 Chinese came to Johannesburg that year.
so
It's not impossible to become naive, it just requires an x factor.
Rock is the x factor.
Back to the "Glengre Law", the white people used legal forms to force the Zulus to work. Many Zulus became miners, and more Zulus worked for Boer farmers. Their compensation was usually the use of one or two acres of land.
rights, which is not worth mentioning to Boer farmers who often own farms of hundreds of acres.
Therefore, when the family members of the Chinese police officers came to Johannesburg, even if the hostess was unable to work due to foot binding, it would not stop the hostess from running the farm. The work would naturally be done by the Zulu people, and the farmer could sit back and enjoy the benefits.
After learning about the procedures for purchasing a farm, Rock went directly to Owen, who served as Philip's secretary.
"Why do you want a farm? One acre of pasture can only raise one sheep, and five acres of pasture is needed to raise one cow. Is this more efficient than a gold mine?" Owen mocked the Boers unscrupulously, about the Boers.
Farming technology has become a joke in Johannesburg.
"That's for the Boers. The Chinese are a farming people. They have been farming for thousands of years. How much land is there in the Netherlands?" Rock also looked down upon the Boers' farming technology. If the Chinese's farming skills are
At the full level of 100, the Boers' farming skills are at most ten to fifteen.
"How much do you want to buy?" Owen no longer dwells on this issue. Compared with the Chinese farming technology, the British farming technology is scum.
"How many?" Rock said with a big appetite.
"God knows!" Owen was dumbfounded. After Philip came to Johannesburg, he focused all his work on the gold mines and did not even count how many farms there were around Johannesburg.
There is no way to calculate it. There are no remote sensing satellites these days, and there are not enough manpower. With the current number of people in the Johannesburg city government, even if all the police officers in the police station are included, it is estimated that it will take ten or twenty years to complete this work.
If you have this energy, why not use it to find more gold mines?
"In this way, after the Summerfield Gold Mine was attacked some time ago, all the farms within ten miles of the Summerfield Gold Mine were burned down, and the farm owners were thrown into concentration camps. Are those farms now abandoned?" Rock said
The method is better without specific data.
"Yes." Owen told the truth. Unlike Arnold, he had a good relationship with Rock.
"Okay then, how much is the farm around the Summerfield gold mine?" Rock agreed, seemingly not noticing how big the ten-mile range was.
The ten miles here are a circle with a diameter of ten miles, so the area is 5x5x3.14
The total area is approximately 78.5 square miles!
Converted into kilometers, it’s about 204 square kilometers!!!
Johannesburg in the 21st century has a total area of approximately 269 square kilometers.
In other words, this circle encompasses most of Johannesburg.
In other words, Kitchener's policy is actually to exterminate the Boers.
