On the day of opening, Umbrella Company received 20 contracts with a total contract value of more than 30,000 pounds and required nearly 200 security personnel.
There were only a few dozen staff who followed Xia Jiu to India, and sending them all out was not enough. Therefore, Xia Jiu urgently needed to hire Gurkhas as security personnel immediately, so that there was no need to transfer people from Johannesburg.
This will further save costs.
"No matter how you calculate it, it is more cost-effective to use Gurkha mercenaries. We have calculated that the annual cost of hiring a Gurkha mercenary will not exceed 30 pounds, while if the security personnel are transferred from Johannesburg, the annual cost will be
The cost will be almost more than 200 pounds, so I hope to go to Nepal immediately, and it is best to establish a long-term cooperative relationship." Xia Jiu also has many issues to consider now. Most of the employees of the umbrella company are Chinese. It is not that
The Chinese are not good enough, but the treatment of the Chinese is relatively high, which makes Xia Jiu feel painful.
In fact, whether it is high or not is relative. In the past, Umbrella Company used Chinese because in Johannesburg, the cost of hiring Chinese was lower than the cost of hiring white people.
Now that the Gurkha mercenaries have joined, the cost of the Chinese has become more expensive. Xia Jiu hopes to hire more Gurkhas, which will effectively reduce the cost of the umbrella company.
"Okay, Geng Biao is in Nepal now. You can go find him." Roque then remembered that it seems that Geng Biao has been in Nepal for more than half a month. This is a bit abnormal. Under normal circumstances, Geng Biao should have gone to Nepal early.
Have returned to Dhaka.
What Roque didn't expect was that Geng Biao was indeed in trouble.
However, this trouble is not a trouble in the ordinary sense. Rama's family did put Rama under house arrest, but the reason was not what Roque imagined. Rama's tribe did not object to Rama's family immigrating to Johannesburg. On the contrary, there were too many
Many ethnic groups hope that Rama's family can take their children with them when they immigrate, so Rama's family has been unable to make the trip.
Geng Biao led a platoon of soldiers to Rama's village with murderous intent. What he saw was another scene. The whole village had about 500 people. It was considered a large-scale village in Nepal. The population structure of the village was very small.
It's unreasonable. The oldest villager is only about forty years old, and most of the villagers are under thirty years old. The harsh and harsh living conditions mean that people here rarely live past the age of forty. So Geng Biao can understand.
Why do Rama's people hope that Rama can take away their children?
In fact, in the current Qing Dynasty, there are too many such situations, and Geng Biao's own family is also in the same situation.
The reason why the news has not been sent back for a long time has a lot to do with the fact that Rama's village is located in the vast mountains. Communications are not developed these days. Only Kathmandu in Nepal has telegraph, so Geng Biao did not send the news in time.
return.
If it were Guan Jing, then Guan Jing might use other methods to deal with it, but for Geng Biao, there are not many options to choose from. There are almost a hundred children in Rama's family, and everyone said the same thing.
In short, these children are all Rama's and are eligible to immigrate to Johannesburg with Rama.
Rama was completely ashamed of this statement, but he did not deny it. Geng Biao could understand this feeling.
So Geng Biao took over everything and asked Rama to compile a list of people and immigrate them all to Johannesburg.
This decision was obviously not appropriate, because in the following period, Rama's children increased from nearly a hundred to more than three hundred. This situation finally frightened Geng Biao. At this time, Xia
Jiu finally appeared in front of Geng Biao.
Xia Jiu and Geng Biao used to be police officers in the Cape Town Police Department. They were old friends. Although they are no longer in the same system, their previous relationship is still there, so Xia Jiu unscrupulously laughed at Geng Biao without a bottom line.
"Bottom line, hehe, stop talking nonsense. You haven't seen that kind of situation, so you can stand and talk without pain. Do you know that during the time we were here, we ate all the cattle in other people's villages? In order to save their own
The children were sent to Johannesburg and they almost did everything they could to entertain us and keep us well fed and well fed. Do you think I can just leave?" Geng Biao is an absolute sweet-tempered person, and any kindness he receives from others will be treated like a spring.
The kind of person who repays kindness. If someone treats him well, he would like to dig out his heart.
"Then what are you going to do? Bring all these hundreds of people to Johannesburg?" Xia Jiu simply couldn't imagine that a half-grown boy would kill me. Child abuse is not allowed in Johannesburg. All children must go to school when they reach the appropriate age. This is another problem.
It’s a huge expense, so immigration is not just about getting people to Johannesburg. There will be a lot of trouble in the future.
"I have already thought about it. If it doesn't work out, I will ask Sir Alex for mercy. I have a farm of more than a thousand acres in Johannesburg. It will not be a problem to feed hundreds of children." Geng Biao thought more simply.
, if all the farms of more than a thousand acres were planted with potatoes, several times more people could be fed.
"Old Geng, that's awesome. If you really get people to Johannesburg, when these children grow up, they will be your most loyal servants." Xia Jiu's thinking is still a bit old-fashioned, and it is completely different from what Geng Biao thinks.
In fact, Xia Jiu is right. People in this era have relatively simple feelings. After all, there are not so many temptations and not many choices. The reason why Luo Ke immigrated from the Qing Dynasty on a large scale was also due to this consideration.
, if Rock traveled back to 1999 instead of 1899, then Rock would not do this at all. People in 1999 are too narrow-minded compared to people in 1899.
"What nonsense are you talking about? We are all subordinates of the Duke. There are not so many twists and turns. I have seen all these children. When boys grow up, it is best to become soldiers. When girls grow up, they are more popular. There is no need to do anything.
There are only a few hundred people in the worry marriage, and it is very simple to simply support them. There are thousands of orphans in the second wife's farm, and they are still doing well now." Geng Biao was so careless that Ada couldn't hear it, otherwise Ada would probably have to
Crazy.
Not necessarily, maybe Ada will be very happy.
The "second wife" definitely refers to Ada. Although the relationship between Rock and Ada is not made clear, everyone in Johannesburg knows that Arthur is Rock's son.
As for the "Second Wife's" farm, it was the farm that Scarlett originally bought to house those Boer women.
Now this farm is in Ada's name. The farm has a total area of more than 20,000 acres, which can be counted in the whole of Johannesburg. Scarlett can't run it, so the farm is in a mess. In Ada's hands, the farm is now on track. Now
Less than one-tenth of the farm's land has just been developed, and it is already self-sufficient. With time, the farm will be profitable.
As the situation gradually stabilized, many homeless women who had just ended the war left the farm, but their children stayed on the farm. Therefore, the number of orphans on Ada's farm now exceeds 3,000.
In fact, these children are almost half British. With the withdrawal of the expeditionary force, their fathers have nowhere to be found. However, the Transvaal Government House and the Johannesburg City Government cannot shirk it, so every year, Ada Farm gets
The subsidy is just over 30,000 pounds. Even if the farm does not produce any output, this amount of money is enough to support these children.
"Then you'd better report to the lord. The children on the second wife's farm have no parents. Children like yours have parents. What if the children grow up and their parents come to your door? Be careful with the bamboo basket.
Fetching water is all in vain." Xia Jiu always starts from the worst perspective when evaluating people's hearts, and this is not impossible.
"That's what I'm worried about now, so I don't dare to tell Sir Alex." Geng Biao frowned. Now these children are like hot potatoes. He can't bear to throw them away, and there will be hidden dangers if they are taken away. That's why Geng Biao didn't dare to return to Da Da for so long.
Card.
"Sir, dinner is ready." At this time, Rama appeared at the door of the room with a low eyebrow. His Chinese was a bit stuttered, but he could still speak clearly.
"What's for dinner tonight?" Geng Biao immediately put those troubles behind him.
"Today my father brought back some wine from the city, as well as rabbits and pheasants just caught from the mountains. They are all very fresh." Rama obviously didn't feel confident in front of Geng Biao, and he also knew that he had brought them to Geng Biao.
Big trouble.
"Let's go and have a taste together, otherwise a large group of people will come to invite me later. They are really considerate. They are so poor that they don't even have shoes, but they change their tricks every day to give me a drink. I pay them back."
No, when the words are serious, a group of big men start crying and crying, they really can't stand it." Geng Biao was also helpless. This is the case for people who are soft-hearted and not strong-willed. As long as they grasp their weaknesses, they can be easily dealt with.
"I bought you off with just one glass of wine." Xia Jiu looked down on Geng Biao's kindness as a woman.
Unexpectedly, he would be slapped in the face next. At the banquet, Xia Jiu realized that Rama's family had really gone to great lengths to entertain Geng Biao and Xia Jiu.
In fact, the best house in the village is the thatched house that was just built. All the materials of this thatched house are locally sourced, and the walls are made of clay embryos. Although they have not been fired,
But because the clay is mixed with straw, the stability is quite good.
Geng Biao and Xia Jiu must be sitting at the head of the table, followed by Geng Biao and Xia Jiu's subordinates. Rama and his tribesmen have no seats. They hold pots and are ready to add tea and water to Geng Biao and Xia Jiu at any time.
"This is not okay, this is inappropriate." Xia Jiu was not used to it, and she had never experienced this kind of treatment.
"Don't let down other people's good intentions." Geng Biao was not just watching the fun, he was really feeling sorry for him.
