This is the case in an era when entertainment is scarce. There are no mobile phones, no computers, and no endless soap operas. Couples can only focus on each other. They have nothing to do at night, so they have to do something they love to do to spice up their lives. Fertility rate
Naturally, it is very tall.
Connie is not the only one who is pregnant with her second child. At least half of the dozen or so women who just gave birth in May are already pregnant again. There are more than 80 Chinese couples who got married in April, and now there are more than 60 Chinese nurses.
She was also pregnant, and the situation was so "serious" that it even affected Dr. Kay Mallory's training of nurses.
Regarding this situation, Roque is happy to see it come to fruition. The Chinese are the number of people, and they are the basis for whether the Chinese can gain a firm foothold in Johannesburg in the future. The second generation of Chinese represents the future of the Chinese in Johannesburg. The larger the base, the greater the number of people.
The greater the number, the greater the influence and social status of the Chinese in Johannesburg and even the entire Transvaal will be in the future.
In order to encourage childbirth, Ziwei Town Hospital stipulates that nurses can enjoy half a year's paid leave if they become pregnant. If the baby is born in Ziwei Town Hospital, the hospital will also waive all fees.
This is pure welfare, not to mention in Johannesburg, it is the only one in the world.
As a result, the hospital's profits and even the nurses' decisions will be affected.
But Rock doesn't care. With Rock's gold mine as his backing, Rock is very confident.
What's more, with the improvement of Ziwei Town Hospital's services, the cost of Ziwei Town Hospital has also remained high. A common cold may be cured in Cape Town for only one or two pounds, but in Ziwei Town Hospital, there is no
Three to five pounds cannot be bought. This part of the profit is enough to make up for the expenditure on welfare.
After the "injury wave" receded, Rock discussed with Dr. Colin Bellamy whether to reduce hospital expenses.
The conclusion is that it is not necessary. The hospital is not a charity and paying for medical treatment is a matter of course.
What's more, today's medical resources are already very tight. When Colin Bellamy was in Cape Town, a private clinic only had three to five beds, and the cost was also high. Even so, many people still got sick.
Because there are not enough hospital beds in the clinic, I choose to receive treatment at home.
The same is true for Johannesburg. In the whole of Johannesburg, Ziwei Town Hospital may have the most beds, the most advanced medical facilities, the most beautiful environment, and the most beautiful nurses. Since there are so many advantages, the cost does not need to be adjusted. Anyway, if you are a police officer of the Johannesburg Police Department
, or when Chinese miners come to see a doctor, the police station and the mine will underwrite part of the cost, which will not have much impact on the police and miners.
With high welfare as the backing, it is foreseeable that Ziwei Town will usher in a large wave of baby boomers in the next few years.
Rock is not the only one who discovered this. Father Frank is also very shrewd. Just a month ago, Father Frank donated a batch of medicines and a batch of daily necessities to Ziwei Town Hospital. The price was that Ziwei Town Hospital had to allow
Father Frank preached in the hospital and baptized the newborn babies in the hospital.
The church had not yet been built at that time!
Speaking of baptism, Catholicism and Protestantism have different habits in this regard. Relatively speaking, Protestantism’s requirements are not strict. Sometimes, believers can even come to the church to be baptized until they reach adulthood.
Catholicism is different. Catholicism firmly believes that work must start from the baby, so babies from Catholic families can go to the church to be baptized as early as eight days after birth.
This has also become an important reason for Protestants to attack Catholicism.
Baptism is not a bath, but the priest or priest uses the so-called "holy water" to make the baptized person feel the glory of God.
Just a few drops will do.
For an adult, this amount of water is nothing, but for a baby who is only eight days old, this is a very dangerous behavior. If not, it may affect the baby's health.
Therefore, Rock himself was opposed to baptism.
However, Father Frank is very smart. He also knows that as a Catholic priest, he is not welcome in Ziwei Town, which was originally a Protestant territory. Therefore, Father Frank chose other ways to seduce the parents of newborns to take their babies to church for baptism. Moreover,
If you don’t go at eight days, it’s okay for eight months, or even eight years old.
And every baby or child who chooses to be baptized in the church will receive a blessing from God - a gift from God worth ten pounds.
Don't doubt that it is a real gift. The gifts include baby and children's clothes, some food and toys, and some parenting books. The most expensive one should be: a sterling silver cross.
Of course it is in line with Catholic standards.
Moreover, it was Archbishop Frank who personally consecrated it.
Many people cannot refuse such a big gift package, especially those Chinese who do not have firm beliefs. For them, it does not matter what they believe in, as long as they get the big gift package.
Of course, Roque doesn't care, as long as he doesn't baptize eight-day-old babies. Although Philip Matilda asked Roque to restrict Frank, Philip Matilda did not provide any effective support to Roque, and Roque did not
Method.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.
Money moves people's hearts.
Rock has many reasons.
Back in the office, Buck, who had just gone to the Mining Alliance for a meeting, had a new report.
"The Cape Town City Council is discussing the end of subsidies for Asian immigrants. If the discussion is passed, then starting from next month, we will have to pay for immigration ourselves. Because the number of immigrants is relatively large, we will spend an average of
The cost of immigration may be more than 5,000 pounds." Buck frowned. 5,000 pounds a month is not a small number. It doesn't matter if it's two months a month. If calculated on an annual basis, Locke Gold Mine sells all the gold it can sell every year.
Even converting it into British pounds would not be able to make up for this hole.
"What did Aiden and the others say?" Rock was not in a hurry. If the sky falls, there will be a tall person to hold it up, and De Beers Unified Mining Company will be the tall person.
"De Beers Consolidated Mining Company must be firmly opposed. I heard that Mr. Cecil Rhodes Jr. is working in Cape Town, but the situation does not seem to be good." Buck worried, if it is Mr. Cecil Rhodes Jr.
If Sidu can't handle it, it's useless for Rock to take action.
The issue of immigration fees has been controversial.
In the past, in order to attract new immigrants, Cape Town would pay immigration fees for all new immigrants entering Cape Town.
The original intention of the Cape Colonial Government was to attract more British immigrants to Cape Town, but what the Cape Colonial Government did not expect was that this policy did not attract British people, but Asians came.
Before Rock and Eden imported miners on a large scale, a large number of Indians immigrated to the Cape, and even formed a gathering area of Indians in Natal. Gandhi was the representative of these Indians.
Now because of Rock and Aiden's involvement, the number of Chinese from the Qing Dynasty is increasing rapidly, and the scale is larger than that of Indians. In the past six months, at least 20,000 Chinese have arrived in Johannesburg and Kimberley through Cape Town. This situation
This made the Cape Colonial Government very angry.
After all, the current Cape and Transvaal are two different things. The governments of these two regions have independent accounting and independent operations. The Chinese naturalized through Cape Town and then went to work in the Transvaal. This is equivalent to paying for the Cape colonial government.
Money helped the Transvaal colonial government with immigration.
The money was spent, but the political achievements belonged to Alfred Milner. No one would be willing to accept this!
What's more, even if these miners stayed in the Cape, this part of the immigration costs should have been paid by the mines, but the mine owners took advantage of policy loopholes to pass this money on to the colonial government.
, the colonial government was definitely not willing to do so.
"Send a telegram to Hoover and Liang Dingxin, asking them to hurry up and put as many people on the ship as possible, and tell the brothers in the mine that if you want your family to immigrate to Cape, you must hurry up. If there is a fee in the future,
Then even if the mine will bear part of it, I have to bear part of it." Rock is not afraid of spending money, but wants to use this news to force the hesitant miners to seize this last opportunity.
Sometimes even if you want to do good things, you have to use some relatively despicable means.
This is inevitable. The truth is often in the hands of a few people. In other words, these Chinese workers in Johannesburg were ordinary people who didn’t know a single word before going abroad. Perhaps their life radius is so large that they don’t have
More than ten kilometers, in this case, how much knowledge can you ask them to have?
Therefore, when some hesitant miners cannot take the initiative to make the right decision, as a Chinese sign, Rock should play the role of guide, even if this is unfair to those hesitant miners, but
In a few years, those miners who are hesitant today will be grateful to Rock.
From adoption to implementation, a policy usually goes through a process. This process can be long or short, sometimes one or two years, sometimes only a few months.
The same goes for restricting immigration. Even if Cecil Rhodes Jr. cannot change the final result, he should be able to buy more time.
Rock wants to seize this time difference. Now he is only restricting immigration and has not completely stopped the introduction of immigrants. Historically, two years after the Boer War negotiations ended, the Cape completely stopped introducing immigrants from Asia. That should be 1904.
Although it is only 1901, God knows whether this time and space will develop according to the original historical process, so hurry up.
"Hmm, I've already sent a telegram to Liang Dingxin, but Hoover hasn't sent it yet. We have more than a thousand people coming this month. Even if the average person is five pounds, this is not a small number." Buck also knew the importance.
, although miners have not been able to enter the Transvaal in recent months, the families of miners who have arrived in Johannesburg can enter the Transvaal continuously.
Especially those Chinese workers who have already bought farms, most of them choose to bring their families to Johannesburg. After all, compared with the war-torn Qing Dynasty, although the Transvaal is also in a war period, guerrilla attacks only occur in
Within the Cape, the Transvaal can now be regarded as a piece of pure land in troubled times.
In order to encourage Chinese workers to bring their families to Johannesburg, Locke Gold Mine made special regulations that every child under the age of ten who arrives in Johannesburg can receive a settling-in allowance of one pound from Locke Gold Mine.
The Chinese are very talented at exploiting loopholes, so among the families of miners arriving in Johannesburg, there are a particularly large proportion of children. Sometimes a family even has more than a dozen children.
With so many children, it is likely that not all of them are direct relatives of miners.
But who cares?
What Rock wants is people, as long as there are people. As for where the people come from, Rock doesn't care. Rock can cooperate with Hoover even if he is a human trafficker, so there is no problem with this kind of normally imported population. p>
Although the mine knows this fact, it pretends not to know. As long as someone comes to collect the settlement allowance, the mine will pay the full amount. These children are now scattered on the farms around Ziwei Town, and they will definitely have to pay in the future.
Enrollment requires education, so the pressure on the school will be great, and George and Simon alone can't handle it.
"How much resettlement allowance have we paid so far?" Roque wanted to find out. The reason why we paid resettlement allowance is to count the total population.
"Last month it was 350 pounds, and this month it has exceeded 200 pounds so far. The total is 1,100 pounds." Buck is still worried. 1,100 pounds represents 1,100 school-age children. Ziwei Town School cannot accommodate so many people now. And the key point is that these children don’t know English yet. They and George and Simon don’t understand the language. If they want to enter school, the language barrier must be solved first.
"Teacher, what's the news about Liang Dingxin?" Roque can only place his hope on Liang Dingxin. In fact, in terms of English proficiency, many Chinese police officers are now pretty good, but the Chinese police can only speak and cannot read, so
There is no way to teach the children.
Liang Dingxin used to work in the customs. Although there are not many Chinese who understand English in this era, there are definitely a lot of them in the customs. Roque used high salary to lure those customs workers to work in Johannesburg. After they came, they wanted a house.
If you need a farm, there is a farm. Even if you don’t have a wife, we can help you find one.
Get a wife!
Sounds a bit ridiculous, right?
In fact, it is a virtue.
There are four Boer concentration camps around Johannesburg. Tens of thousands of Boers are imprisoned in the concentration camps, at least thousands of them are unmarried girls of school age.
The living conditions in the concentration camp were very poor, and a large number of people died abnormally every month. Although negotiations were ongoing, the expeditionary force's attitude towards the Boers did not change. The conditions in the concentration camp did not improve, and there was still a steady stream of people.
Being thrown into concentration camps, many Boers chose to form families with Chinese people in order to avoid being thrown into concentration camps. In this way, their situation would be fundamentally improved.
At least in the Johannesburg area, the safety of the Chinese is still guaranteed.