In this incident, the royalists of Lourenço Marquez suffered heavy losses. Most of the royalists were either killed or forced into exile. There were very few royalists left in Lourenço Marquez.
Not much.
Prior to this, most of Lourenço Marquez's farms were in the hands of the royalists. The Labor Party was more concerned with emerging industry and commerce and was not very interested in traditional plantations.
This gave Rock and Stoudemire an opportunity to take action.
Just before the referendum started, when Lourenço Marquez was still under martial law, Roque and Stoudemire’s men went crazy buying land in Lourenço Marquez. In just a few days, they bought all the land in Lourenço Marquez.
Most of the farms around Renzo Marquis.
Some farms even belong to members of the Labor Party and do not belong to the royalists. Until everything is settled, the Labor Party cannot be sure whether its interests will be violated, so some people are willing to temporarily exchange the land that cannot be taken away for
In cash, in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, the price of an acre of farmland has reached more than one pound, but in Lourenço Marquez, the cheapest time for an acre of farmland is only ten pennies.
So after the referendum, most of Lorenzo Marquez's plantations have quietly belonged to Roque and Stoudemire. Roque only bought a few hundred thousand acres, while Stoudemire bought more than two million acres in one go.
Lourenço Marquez is currently the largest landowner.
With so many plantations, a lot of manpower will definitely be needed to operate them.
So next, Rock and Stoudemire will organize their personnel to go to Lorenzo Marquez.
There is no doubt that those who have the ability and spare time to go to Lourenço Marquez are Chinese. Although the immigration intensity in southern Africa is much lower than before, there are always three, five, five or six boats every month.
There must be thousands of people.
Roque doesn't even need to relocate too many people to Lourenço Marquez. He only needs to resettle ten or twenty thousand people, and the white people in Lourenço Marquez will become a minority.
If the Chinese are helpless in Africa, this numerical advantage will not have any effect, just like the Africans now. Although generally speaking, the largest ethnic group in southern Africa is still Africans, but the Africans do not
Political rights can only live at the bottom of the entire society and cannot play any role.
The Chinese in Lourenço Marquez are different. With Roque's support, once the total number of Chinese in Lourenço Marquez exceeds a hundred, quantitative changes can lead to qualitative changes. Lourenço Marquez joined Southern Africa through a referendum.
, then if something unexpected happens in the future, it would be logical to hold another referendum.
Only then will the fate of Lourenço Marquez truly be decided.
Sidney Milner was not surprised by Roque's arrangement. If Sidney Milner had not fully understood the value of population before, then through Lorenzo Marquez's referendum, Sidney Milner
It is now fully understood why Rock insisted on emigrating to southern Africa.
Even if some Chinese people don't seem worthy of Rock's doing.
Although most Chinese are hardworking and capable, there are always some black sheep.
Immigration ships traveling between Southern Africa and the Qing Dynasty, when they returned, not only brought farm products to be sold to the Qing Dynasty, they also brought with them Chinese nationals who had committed illegal crimes in southern Africa and were deported back to the Qing Dynasty.
Some of the Chinese who remain in southern Africa have gradually fallen to the bottom of society due to poor farm management or other reasons.
That is to say, there is now a huge demand for labor in southern Africa. These Chinese who have lost their farms can also find jobs to make ends meet, but it is absolutely impossible for them to live a comfortable life.
What really frightens Sidney Milner is that even these Chinese who have been reduced to the bottom of society have the right to vote according to the current laws in southern Africa. Considering that the total number of Chinese in southern Africa has exceeded that of British and American people,
Boers, Sidney Milner really shudders when he thinks about the previous referendum in Lorenzo Marquez.
Fortunately, Roque has no dissatisfaction with Southern Africa, so Lourenço Marquez's referendum will probably not happen in Southern Africa in the short term.
But what about the future?
Now Roque will still respect the federal government because of Ade and Philip. But in the future, if Ade steps down and Philip gets old, who in southern Africa can act as a check and balance to Roque?
Perhaps it is precisely because of this that Ade cultivated Rock as his successor.
Since there is no way to check and balance, then let Roque become the Prime Minister of Southern Africa. By then, whether it is Nyasaland, Transvaal, or Orange, it will all be Roque's territory, and Roque will favor one and the other.
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Understanding this, when Sidney Milner returned to Pretoria, he would rather make a big detour and pass through Nyasaland to meet Rock.
It doesn’t matter what we talk about, the key is to deepen the relationship and extend the relationship between Rock and Ade to Rock and Sidney Milner through another relationship. This pair of Rock and Sidney Milner
All have benefits.
There may even be benefits for the future federal government.
Of course Rock knew this, so he held a grand welcome dinner at Eagle Castle that night to welcome Sidney Milner.
"Lorenço Marquez's conditions are indeed unique. In the past, the Portuguese were engaged in the slave trade and sold Africans to all over the world. After that, the slave trade was gradually banned by various countries. The Portuguese still earned a lot of money from the plantations, cashew nuts,
Cotton, sugar and sisal have been successfully sold to Europe, and fishery resources also have great potential-" Sidney Milner is still very optimistic about Lorenzo Marquez, which means that the Portuguese are seeking their own death, so Lorenzo Marquez
Guisi has only gotten to where he is today.
Most of the people attending the banquet were officials at all levels in Nyasaland, and they didn't know much about Lorenzo Marquez, so when they heard Sidney Milner's introduction, they were amazed from time to time.
In fact, they don't envy Lorenzo Marquez much. Although Lorenzo Marquez is rich in products, Nyasaland is not bad at all. In terms of agricultural scale and unit efficiency, Nyasaland completely surpasses Los Angeles.
Lenzo Marquez.
The most outstanding industry in Nyasaland is that before Nyasaland, southern Africa was an industrial desert. There was not even a single primary processing company in the entire southern Africa. All kinds of minerals mined in southern Africa were sold to European businessmen on the spot.
, and then those merchants transport it to Europe for processing and selling, so the mines in southern Africa can only earn scraps, and more profits are made by middlemen.
The appearance of Rock changed everything.
To be more precise, it should be starting from Henry's Favalte Steel Works that southern Africa finally began to develop its own industry.
Up to now, motorcycles produced in Johannesburg, cars and agricultural machinery produced in Nyasaland have been sold all over the world, and are very popular in Europe and the United States. In order to seize the market, Rock even set up factories in Europe and the United States.
, produces locally to meet local needs, so now even Phyllis doesn't know how many assets are in Roque's name. I'm afraid only Rand Bank knows.
The core business of Rand Bank under Ada's leadership is to serve the industry of Nyasaland wholeheartedly. Wherever Rock opens the factory, Rand Bank will open branches. Nyasaland's products are very popular.
, which in turn also strongly supported the expansion of Rand Bank.
All business activities with Nyasaland enterprises, if they involve fund transfers, must be conducted through Rand Bank. Therefore, Rand Bank's business volume is not a problem. The problem is that the speed of cultivating talents cannot fully meet Rand Bank's expansion needs.
need.
"Locke, when will you get Southwest Africa? Southern Africa will completely become our Southern Africa -" Stoudemire had to look forward to Shu. In this incident, Lorenzo Marquez gained more than Locke.
, so there was great interest in colonial expansion.
"Don't even think about it now, just wait a little longer -" Roque was not in a hurry. It was already 1909 and a world war was imminent. The Ministry of National Defense had decided to double the size of the National Defense Forces from the current size of four divisions to eight.
divisions, and then eight reserve divisions. Once war breaks out, these reserves can be reorganized into regular troops at any time.
The implementation of the "New Tax Law" has brought huge changes to southern Africa. Don't underestimate the mere 3%. If you consider the entire country, that is millions of rands of net income every year. In the end, this part of the money will have
Nearly half of them were invested by Adelaide in the Ministry of National Defense, so the Ministry of National Defense is now under great pressure.
At the end of last year, the Third Division and the Fourth Division stationed in Cape and Nantal had just been reorganized. These two divisions are slightly smaller in size than the Northern Rhodesian Division and the First Cavalry Division. Each division has
The number of people is about fifteen thousand.
However, the amazing thing is that due to the implementation of the compulsory military service system, although the size of the army is expanding, the financial pressure it brings is not great. On the contrary, because the third and fourth divisions have eliminated the waste and retained the best, the funds for these two divisions have been reduced.
There has been a decrease, so Adelaide made up his mind to expand his military and prepare for war.
Of course, this is probably also related to the requirements of the British government. After all, through the conflict in Tanganyika, the southern African troops have fully demonstrated their strong combat effectiveness, and the British government cannot turn a blind eye.
This also brought a new problem to Rock.
If southern Africa expands its army, then when the world war breaks out, the British government will definitely dispatch troops from southern Africa to Europe to participate in the war. By then, Rock will probably be in a difficult position.
If you agree to the British government's request and send troops to fight in Europe, it will be equivalent to asking the Chinese in southern Africa to work for the British.
This in itself is not a problem, but considering the command system of the British army, Rock immediately rejected this idea completely.
Therefore, command authority is the main issue. If those British generals are allowed to command the Southern African troops, then the Southern African troops will definitely be used as cannon fodder.
So when the time comes, there is no doubt that Rock will also go to Europe and personally participate in the world war that determines the fate of all mankind.
