On this issue, Rock and Henry have different views.
"Don't be happy, I'll go find Christian and ask him to free up his hands to repair the parliament building first." Roque couldn't sit still. The county magistrate might as well be in charge now. Alfred Milner didn't come to Pretoria until the end of the month.
, don’t be in a hurry to repair the Palace of Justice, just take care of those officials first.
"Why? I also want to watch Kevin move rocks in the afternoon." Henry is still not as smart as Rock.
"Are you stupid? The boss is not in Pretoria now. No matter how well you perform, the boss can't see it. What's more, the boss doesn't care about these things at all. What matters is those officials-" Roque thought for a moment
, decided that this good man should do it himself: "Forget it, don't go find Christian, let's go for a walk, let's go together——"
Those who arrived in Pretoria early were not only the police and Bureau of Mines staff, but also members of many government agencies such as finance, taxation, health, immigration, etc. Even the son of the director of the Bureau of Mines started working.
It can be seen that government agencies are also short of manpower. If you don’t increase your favorability now, when will you increase your favorability?
Henry's focus is obviously different from Rock: "Boss - this title is quite new!"
Is it new? If the Cape Colonial Government is regarded as a subsidiary of a large company, then Alfred Milner is undoubtedly the boss of the subsidiary, and Queen Victoria is the big boss of the main company.
In the lounge on the third floor of the Parliament Building, the directors, who are equivalent to the department managers of the branch, are taking a rest. They all came to Pretoria with great ambitions and wanted to achieve a career in this golden city, but reality threw a dampener on them.
A basin of cruel cold water, the current situation in Pretoria is so helpless.
"Gentlemen, the current situation is that we have sufficient funds, good prospects, and a wise and decisive governor, but we lack human resources, extremely short of them. There are less than 20,000 people left in Pretoria.
They are all old, weak, women and children. There is countless gold in the Rand Gold Mine, but no one is mining it, so we need immigrants, as many immigrants as possible, so that we can turn the good prospects into reality." Mining Director Swee
Swift looked sad. There were many mines in Pretoria, but there were no people. Swift wished he could go into the mines himself.
"Sorry, Mr. Director, there is nothing I can do about this matter. The Immigration Bureau has tried its best to publicize it in the country, but no one is willing to immigrate to Cape. Compared with Canada and Australia, Cape is not attractive to immigrants. This
This situation has not existed for the first time.” Immigration Director Jerome Wycliffe has no choice. Not to mention the lack of human resources in Pretoria, Cape Town also has a shortage of manpower.
Since the British defeated the Boers and colonized Cape Town, the Cape colonial government wanted to attract more immigrants to Cape.
It was somewhat effective in the past. In the past hundred years, more than 100,000 British people have immigrated to the Cape.
However, nearly a year after the outbreak of the Second Boer War, there have been fewer and fewer British people in the Cape. Not only has there been no increase in new immigrants, but many British people who immigrated to the Cape before the war have also left.
So the shortage of manpower is not just a problem in Pretoria, or even just in the Cape, it is a problem in British colonies all over the world.
There is no way, there are too few British people and the colony is too large. Cape really has no advantage in attracting immigrants.
"This problem deserves our vigilance. If this situation is not fundamentally improved, then after the war is over, the Cape will still be the Cape of the Boers, and we will always be guests here." Finance Director Bob Jarl
Si is a smart man, he can identify problems, but he still has no ability to solve them.
"It's not so dangerous. After the war, the mining areas will return to normal, and people will come to dig for gold." Neil MacPherson, the tax director, is more optimistic. It is still during the war, and the population decrease is normal.
The population will naturally recover slowly later.
What's more, there is countless gold in the Rand Gold Mine. Johannesburg is a city that emerged with the gold rush. There are many such examples, such as San Francisco in the United States, and Australia fifty years ago. After the discovery of gold, Australia's population
It has tripled in ten years.
"Stop dreaming. Even if the war stops, the mining areas will still be controlled by those big companies. How many opportunities will ordinary people have?" Bob Giles doesn't like big companies. The emergence of those big companies will affect the government.
Fiscal revenue.
However, the existence of large enterprises is inevitable. Cecil Rhodes, the former Prime Minister who single-handedly provoked the Second Boer War, was the Cape's leading entrepreneur. Cecil Rhodes founded "De Beers"
"The South African Mining Company" has almost a monopoly on 90% of the world's diamond production. It is precisely because the "South African Consolidated Gold Mines Company" owned by Cecil Rhodes controls the Rand gold mine that it and the Deland
Conflicts in the Swarovski Republic intensified, eventually leading to the outbreak of war.
"Come on, gentlemen, this is an issue for the Governor to consider. Our task now is to return the city to normal in the shortest possible time - starting with the Parliament Building." Justice Duke Cowper was helpless.
, other government agencies can share the office of the parliament building, but the courts cannot. The courts must have independent office locations. However, in the current situation in Pretoria, Duke Cowper has no hope of finding a suitable office location.
"Gentlemen, some good news. Director Henry and Inspector Locke are here with a team of police officers to help. We have reinforcements." Robin Fowler, deputy director of the Finance Bureau, happily came to announce the good news. Because of the shortage of manpower, the dignified deputy director
They have to clean up, this is too shameful.
How embarrassing!
"This is really good news!"
"Chief Henry is such a good man!"
"Robin, go and invite Director Henry to come over and take a rest."
The directors are generous. In fact, they are the bosses in their respective departments and are very busy. If it were not for the lack of office space, they would not be willing to crowd in the lounge and chat.
The boss must look like a boss, so the chiefs will not clean the house themselves. As the police chief, Henry certainly does not have to clean the house himself. Only the finance chief Bob Giles is a thief. He has a rolling eye.
He turned around and left the lounge quietly.
In fact, Rock doesn't have to work. More than 300 commandos work together, and the efficiency is not too fast. Rock is also talking nonsense with a group of middle-level leaders in the hall.
Seeing Bob Giles appear, a group of middle-level leaders immediately dispersed. Rock rubbed his nose and wanted to pretend to help.
"Inspector Locke, I have something to ask you -" Bob Giles stopped Locke.
Please?!
No, you are everyone’s God of Wealth. If you have anything to say, please speak.