The Chinese are the best managed nation in the world.
Even the Chinese do not need management at all. In the Chinese-gathering areas, those in power only need to create a relatively relaxed environment, and the Chinese can give full play to their subjective initiative and use their intelligence, hard work and frugality to create a better life.
This is what Rock did. To transform miners into farmers, mandatory requirements are useless and will only be counterproductive.
Rock only created the conditions and then used Holly as a model. Without waiting for Holly to succeed, the quick-thinking Chinese people had already caught wind of it.
As for those who have conservative personalities, Roque does not force them. Everyone has their own destiny. There are still hundreds of millions of Chinese in the Qing Dynasty. Roque cannot afford to waste his time on three or five conservative Chinese. After a few years, they will naturally know who they are.
Whatever they missed, they will still have a chance when the time comes, but if they want to obtain the conditions they have now, the difficulty will increase exponentially.
At least, it is estimated that they will not be able to buy the farms around Johannesburg by then. If they want to buy houses and land, they may have to go to Rhodesia.
Little Cecil Rhodes was quite a nice person. He offered Rock a 10% discount and sold Rock a thousand square miles of land in Rhodesia at a 10% discount on the Johannesburg farm.
One thousand square miles is about 640,000 acres. If a farm is 300 acres, it can house at least 2,000 Chinese families.
Of course, this is only under ideal circumstances. In reality, this number will shrink. After all, a thousand square miles cannot be cultivated fertile land. There will definitely be mountains, forests, rivers, and even lakes and swamps. It is estimated that in the end,
Being able to house a thousand Chinese households is already pretty good.
Rock is not in a hurry. There are still enough farms around Johannesburg to accommodate Chinese people. He will first occupy all the farms around Johannesburg. Rock will not consider Rhodesia until Johannesburg can no longer accommodate more Chinese.
As for Henry's fiefdom, it is not within Rock's consideration at all. In the future, there will be many highly polluting basic industries in Henry's fiefdom. Under these conditions, Henry's fiefdom is not suitable for agricultural development at all, or even for human survival.
At that time, Rock would not let Chinese people work in factories. Henry was looking for workers, and there were many Zulu people in Basutoland.
In fact, Rock doesn't need to worry too much about building materials. Capital is the most sensitive. The prices of building materials in Johannesburg have skyrocketed. Many businessmen have already taken notice. The line from Cape Town to Johannesburg is unavailable. You can take the route from Durban to Johannesburg, so Johannesburg
Building materials experienced a brief expensive period and have slowly declined since June.
With sufficient building materials, the construction of Ziwei Town will speed up immediately.
In just two months, the number of residents in Ziwei Town has exceeded 200 households and 1,000 people. This is the largest and most populous residential area outside of Johannesburg in the entire Johannesburg area.
The increase in population directly brought about the prosperity of business. I don’t know since when, various shops, restaurants, hotels, tailor shops, clothing stores, and even a law firm appeared in Ziwei Town. p>
The Johannesburg City Hall responded quickly. At the end of June, the City Hall set up its first government agency, the Tax Office, in Ziwei Town.
Tax, this is a fate that can never be escaped.
There is also a mini police station established at the same time as the tax office. Dunn, the hospital security captain, also serves as the police station sergeant. This police station only has Dunn as its official staff. The remaining hospital security team members are all police station officers.
temporary workers.
According to regulations, all official residents of Ziwei Town must pay taxes in accordance with the regulations of the Johannesburg City Hall. The tax officer's name is James Hosea. The day after he officially took office, James Hosea
Come to the police station to visit Rock.
"Sorry, Sir Locke, although Ziwei Town is your private property, according to regulations, Ziwei Town must also pay taxes according to regulations." James Hosea is an Englishman. Although it is enough for Locke as a "sub-baron"
Polite, but with a rigid expression and dull eyes, there is actually not much respect.
"I know, just collect the amount you need. If you need cooperation from the police station, just go to Chief Dunn." Rock didn't talk nonsense to James Hosea. Even if Rock had a knighthood, certain races
Communists still won't give Roque real respect, and Roque doesn't have such extravagant hopes.
The current situation is actually what Rock wants. With the title, even if he is a racist, even if the envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart drive people crazy, on the surface he still has to be respectful to Rock.
Rock thought this was good, so Rock decided to go to Ziwei Town more often if he had time in the future. For people like James Hosea, the more racist he was, the more Rock would have to deal with it.
He, it's better to drive him crazy alive.
Back in Ziwei Town, James Hosea started working immediately.
To collect taxes, the income of the residents of Ziwei Town must first be determined. At this time, James Hosea finally felt deeply malicious.
As the tax collector of Ziwei Town, and as a pure Englishman, James Hosea receives a salary from the Johannesburg Taxation Bureau, which is about 150 pounds per year.
Compared with the British mainland, this salary can satisfy James Hosea.
Of course, the satisfaction here was before James Hosea fully understood the income of the residents of Ziwei Town.
In Ziwei Town, the annual salary of a professor who does nothing is 400 pounds, the annual salary of an ordinary doctor is about 300 pounds, the annual salary of an ordinary nurse is about 150 pounds, and the annual salary of a hospital security guard is also 150 pounds, even if
She is a Boer aunt who specializes in washing clothes in the hospital and earns an annual salary of 120 pounds.
If James Hosea could barely accept these, then after learning about the salary of the management of Rock Gold Mine, James Hosea's psychology was completely unbalanced.
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In this era, the management of Locke Gold Mine is definitely highly paid. As the general manager of the gold mine, Buck's annual salary is an astonishing 1,000 pounds. This salary level is roughly equivalent to the director of the British Treasury, and those who are qualified to serve as the director of the Treasury
, basically all come from aristocrats, so even though Buck, a yellow man, has a lower social status than aristocrats, his annual salary is the same as that of a nobleman who serves as a senior government official.
If Buck, as the general manager, can barely accept the high salary, then the annual salary of department managers below Buck can generally reach about 700 pounds, which makes James Hosea the envy of Hong Guoguo.<
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The management of Locke Gold Mine, except for a few financial staff, are all yellow people, and even those financial staff are all Boers who are at the bottom of society.
This situation simply drove James Hosea crazy. After getting the income data of all the residents of Ziwei Town, James Hosea was speechless and asked the sky why the yellow people were getting paid better than him.
Are pure British people taller?
Why can the Boers, who suffered a complete defeat on the frontal battlefield, still hold high-level positions in Johannesburg?
And those hospital nurses, James Hosea felt like he was going to see a doctor.
As a colonial official, James Hosea's family members are all in the British mainland.
That night, James Hosea returned to Johannesburg, reported the situation in Ziwei Town to his superiors, and requested that the tax standards for Ziwei Town residents be raised.
"Is there any basis for this?" The tax director of Johannesburg is Marcus Beaufort, the former deputy director of the Pretoria tax office.
What James didn't know was that Roark had developed a deep relationship with Marcus as early as Pretoria. Marcus's house in Johannesburg was given to him by Roark——
It's not a gift, it's a half-sale, half-gift. For a house worth at least 200 pounds, Rock only received 50 pounds on the grounds that the house was damaged to a certain extent during the war.
Only Marcus knew that the so-called "certain degree of damage" was just a broken piece of glass. After living in a "broken house" that still smelled of paint, Marcus replaced the glass for only 6 pence. "The income of the residents of Ziwei Town is significantly higher than the normal income. If we collect taxes according to the previous standards, then we will lose a large part of the tax revenue." James feels that his reasons are very good.
"Then how do you want to deal with it?" Marcus' face showed no emotion or anger.
"I think the standard should be doubled, no, twice, twice as appropriate." In fact, James wanted to raise it ten times, but unfortunately, Marcus would definitely not agree.
"Is your head full of shit? What does someone else's high income have to do with you? If you are greedy, resign and ask Sir Locke to give you a job? It's a pity that Sir Locke probably can't see it.
Fuck you idiot! Can you change the tax rates set by the Governor's Palace and the City Hall at will? Do you think you are smarter than Lord Alfred and Lord Matilda? You are just a fucking idiot
You ignorant idiot who is so sensitive to numbers, go to the damn archives tomorrow and start working with numbers!" Marcus finally couldn't hold it in any longer, and a gust of wind hit his face.
Raising tax rates is not a trivial matter. Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines. Behind each gold mine is a powerful backend. It may be a senior government official, a Duke with a long history, or even a member of the royal family. Alf
Red Milner and Philip Matilda racked their brains to determine a tax standard that can be reluctantly accepted by all parties. When it comes to James, they actually raise it as they say. If you want to die, there is no need to be so anxious.
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So the next day, the new tax officer of Ziwei Town visited Luo Ke again.
This time, the new tax officer's attitude was much more sincere. When verifying the income of the miners in the Rock Gold Mine, he relied solely on Scarlett's words and did not ask the workers for verification at all.