The Chinese have a long history of favoring boys over girls. Until the 21st century, there are still many Chinese who cannot turn around. They insist that a boy is needed to carry on the family line and to be prepared when they are old.
In fact, raising children to provide for old age is no longer suitable for this era. The 21st century is about good men who aspire to the world. Young people in villages or third- and fourth-tier small towns should go to first- and second-tier cities to try their luck; in first-tier, second-tier cities,
Young people in second-tier cities want to go abroad to broaden their horizons. How many of them can really establish themselves in first- and second-tier cities or abroad and take their parents by their side to be filial?
Most of them are clay Bodhisattvas who cannot save themselves when crossing the river. They don’t even have a place to stay. How can they be filial to their parents?
I'm afraid I can only be filial on the phone.
If you look at it this way, it is true that men and women are the same. Those parents who let their daughters drop out of school early and go out to work are stupid. As a result, the daughters who have worked so hard to raise are often cheated away with a lollipop.
The correct way should be to raise your daughter to be beautiful. Even if she is not beautiful, she should at least be virtuous and kind-hearted, and then find a young man with good character not far from home to marry, so that when the daughter grows up, she can often come home to see her.
Look, give some pocket money every now and then, give some nutritional supplements, etc. If you have a child, you don’t need the parents to take care of it. If it’s not difficult for the daughter to be your son-in-law when she goes out, don’t give too heavy a gift. A son-in-law is more reliable than a biological son by being filial to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
, if we have three or five daughters like this, the old couple can laugh out of their dreams.
Therefore, a daughter is the caring little cotton-padded jacket of her parents.
Roque does not require all the Chinese in Johannesburg to raise their daughters as sons, but at least there must be no obvious discrimination. Roque must resolutely stop behavior like this, which is clearly about leaving their daughters to work at home and their sons to go to school.
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The farmer didn't quite understand, but he didn't dare to disobey Roque, so he could only mutter in a low voice: "Girls, what kind of school should they go to? They have to raise their husbands and raise their children at home——"
Rock immediately became furious and shouted: "Are you stupid? In the future, boys will have to go to school, and maybe they can go to university to make a difference. If you leave the girl at home, the boy who graduated from college can
Are you interested? Is it possible that you will marry those Boers or Zulu people in the future?"
Fortunately, Tony next to Rock is British, and he can't understand Chinese either.
"Then you can't marry a Zulu." The farmer immediately became smart.
If you can't marry a Zulu, does that mean you can marry a Boer?
Rock seemed to be even more angry. He nodded the farmer with his finger and immediately set the rules for Tony: "Investigate how many such cases there are. Among the students in our school, if there are girls in the family who have not enrolled in school, even the boys who have already enrolled in school will not be allowed to go to school."
All must be cleared."
Rock gave up reasoning. Sometimes reasoning just doesn't make sense, so he simply stopped talking nonsense and directly ensured girls' rights to education in the form of regulations.
In fact, there are differences in the teaching subjects between the boys’ and girls’ schools of Ziwei Public School.
The teaching subjects of the boys' school are as close as possible to the mainstream teaching subjects. The additional "language elective course" is added. This elective course must be put in quotation marks, because Ziwei Public School only has one elective course, which is Chinese. p>
And this so-called "elective" is actually chosen by the school for the students, and it is basically a required course.
The teaching subjects of girls’ schools also try to be closer to mainstream subjects, such as Brighton Roding Girls’ School, where Phyllis graduated.
Compared with boys' schools, the subjects in girls' schools are actually not simple. Things like flower arranging, cooking, sewing, and training maids are all behind. The courses in girls' schools are also very scientific, such as science, mathematics, modern and
Ancient languages, literature and art, etc., are all standard courses in girls' schools. At the same time, girls' schools also offer Chinese, astronomy, dialectical thinking, engineering, politics, and a series of science and technology courses, and even economics and psychology.
Education is all available. To put it simply, the graduates trained by Ziwei Public School for Girls are not only good at caring for their husbands and raising children. According to the philosophy of Ziwei Public School, housewives trained by Ziwei Public School should basically be proficient in family matters.
In all aspects, whether it is dealing with people or educating children, graduates of Ziwei Public School for Girls must be comprehensive in all aspects, so that graduates of Ziwei Public School for Girls will become the targets of marriageable men in the future.
Therefore, Rock requires all second-generation Chinese girls to go to school. They must go to school without any room for compromise.
"Okay, we'll start investigating later." Tony recorded it immediately, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen.
"Come here, come here." Rock waved to the girl driving the cattle cart and the two boys in the cart.
The two boys jumped over immediately, but the girl was a little hesitant.
Rock didn't say anything and glared at the farmer with stern eyes.
"Hurry up, ancestor, the lord is calling you." The farmer is also anxious. In fact, the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat. If possible, the farmer also hopes that his daughter will have a future, but he must make choices when life is difficult.
, it is not easy for poor families to support scholars, so it has become a habit to sacrifice girls in favor of boys.
The girl hesitantly put down the reins in her hands and looked at the shining signboard of Ziwei Public School in disbelief, her eyes dim.
"You all stay, you drive back by yourself." Luo Ke was actually not too angry. Traditional habits can also be changed. The ladies in the Grand View Garden are also good at calligraphy and painting. Children from poor families are better than children from rich families.
Get up, what is missing is opportunity.
In fact, leaving girls to work at home won't help much.
In the past, in the Qing Dynasty, the family was short of labor, so any help would be helpful.
Now in Johannesburg, any farmer's home probably has more than a dozen cows, three to five draft horses, one or two South African mastiffs, and maybe a dozen Zulu workers. How much help can a girl help? p>
In fact, my thinking has not changed.
"Sir, you are so kind and generous——" The farmer has already turned the corner, and this time he really wants to kowtow and thank you.
"Get out!" Rock was impatient and kicked the farmer lightly.
The farmer rolled on the ground. When he stood up, he was not angry at all, but he did not kowtow. He bowed respectfully to Roque: "Sir, the cows at home have begun to produce milk. Starting tomorrow, I will
Send a bucket of milk to school as a gift for the children."
Hmm!!!
Be aware!
"Okay, give it away, Tony, give it as much as you want." Rock doesn't take advantage of this. A bucket of milk is not worth much to Rock, but it is of great significance to the Chinese who have just arrived in Johannesburg.<
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"Sir Locke, if you can't finish the drink, stop sending it. Many farmers are sending milk, and some are sending eggs and mutton. The students have three meals a day with milk, and some of them are sick from drinking it-" Tony's face looked ugly, and I guess he
I also felt sick after drinking.
Rock didn't expect this. He followed Tony to the school kitchen, only to find that the walls of the kitchen were piled with milk.
There are dozens of barrels.
"Our school does not charge fees, but many students' parents feel sorry for them, so they come to deliver milk every now and then. If this is three to five barrels a day, let's talk about it. There are more than 600 students in the school, and each student's parent delivers one barrel a week. In fact, there are more than 100 barrels every day.
It was because they couldn't finish the milk and they refused to pay for it, so they forced it on them. As a result, more was delivered the next day. If it weren't for the fact that many people refused to pay for the milk, I would have suspected that they deliberately delivered it because they couldn't sell it.
"Tony is very resentful. He is British and does not understand the national feelings of the Chinese.
The Chinese are definitely the most humane nation in the world. Although it is undeniable that there are everyone in the world, and there will always be tens of thousands of scum among hundreds of millions of people, but most Chinese are very kind and happy.
Those who help others are willing to share.
It's like delivering milk. If the capitalists can't sell all the milk, they would rather dump it into the river instead of giving it to those who really need it.
Whenever there is a natural disaster among the Chinese, there will always be wealthy households who take the initiative to donate porridge and do good deeds. This is the difference. The forest society will not understand the interpersonal relationships in the farming society.
In other words, they are unwilling to understand.
Because that would have an impact on the core of their culture that they are proud of.
"Tony, you don't understand that in the Qing Dynasty, even the Chinese at the lowest level of society would do their best to give teachers in private schools a copy of the education in order for their children to receive education. This is the Chinese respect for teachers.
" Rock tried his best to explain, not wanting Tony to misinterpret this kindness.
The Chinese farmers around Johannesburg have just arrived in Johannesburg. Many of them have just established themselves, and some have not even established their feet yet. Milk is probably the best gift they can get.
To put it bluntly, many farmers have never drank milk before coming to Johannesburg, so milk is what they think is the best thing.
"Respect the teacher--" Tony looked confused, he really didn't understand.
"Yes, it means respecting teachers and teachings. The reason why Chinese civilization has been spread for thousands of years is because of respect for culture. Even if many people are not literate at all, they will regard anything with printed words as a treasure, just like you treat "
The attitude of the Bible is the same, so let’s not say that the Chinese have no faith. Our ancestors, our culture, and our traditions are our faith.” Rock raised milk to the height of faith, and it should be easier to understand Tony’s description. p>
Sure enough, once he reached the level of faith, Tony nodded his head in sudden enlightenment.
"Leave this problem to me, you don't have to worry about it. If someone else gives it to you, just keep it safely." Roque also realized that this problem is urgent.
Just now when Tony said, "I suspect that the farmer sent the milk on purpose because he couldn't sell it," Rock suddenly realized a problem.
Now in Johannesburg, there is actually not a complete consumer market.
There are only more than 5,000 officially registered residents in Johannesburg. Even if there are more than 1,000 Chinese in the past few months, the number is less than 7,000.
Among these seven thousand people, there are government employees, permanent residents like the residents of Ziwei Town, and farmers around Johannesburg. These people actually do not consume many consumer goods. Most of the people who need these consumer goods are mines, but the materials of the mines
It’s all about unified purchasing and marketing, and the mine owners don’t go to the farms to buy milk. So the problem before Rock now is not only to incubate more farmers, but also to help these farmers to produce more on the farms.
of agricultural products are sold.
Only in this way can these farmers stay with peace of mind.
Rock went to find Aiden first.
"Buying milk from Johannesburg - of course you can, but we have signed an agreement with the Cape Agricultural Association. Even if we want to purchase milk locally in Johannesburg, we have to wait until the current contract period ends." Aiden also has difficulties in negotiating business.
, Businessmen must pay attention to the spirit of contract. Without the spirit of contract, no one will dare to do business with you.
"When does the current contract period end?" Rock doesn't want to force Aiden, although if Rock insists, Aiden may change his mind, but that will also have an impact on Rock's credibility.
"The end of December, there is still one month." Aiden is the general manager and knows this information well.
"Then we should start negotiating for the next contract period." Rock wants to find a way to bypass this contract.
"It's time to start. In fact, previous negotiations were led by Kimberly. We directly use the contract price determined by Kimberly to purchase the food we need." Aiden told the truth.
"No, Kimberley is in the Cape, and we are now in the Transvaal, so we have to talk to the Cape Agricultural Society ourselves, and I suggest that the Johannesburg Mining Federation form a group to talk to the Cape Agricultural Society, so that we can get a better price
." Rock's ambition is huge. One hundred thousand local miners in Johannesburg need massive amounts of agricultural products every day. If we all form a group to negotiate together, we will definitely get the best price.
"Okay, let's talk about it together." Aiden didn't care. He didn't care about Rock's purpose at all. He had to spend money to buy it anyway, and he would buy whatever he bought. It would be best if he could spend less money.
The next day, Aiden brought the matter to the Mining Alliance meeting for discussion.
There was actually nothing to discuss about this issue. Everyone agreed that we should strive for the greatest discount for the Mining Alliance, so the Mining Alliance immediately formed a negotiating team. Aiden was the leader, and Adam Stephen and Sam Buck were members. Officially
Issue a request for negotiation to the Cape Agricultural Society.
The Cape Agricultural Association responded quickly to the request of the Johannesburg Mining Union. After all, the Mining Union represents a large market of 100,000 people, and no one dares to treat it lightly. Three days later, a group led by the Minister of Agriculture in Cape Town
Negotiation team arrives in Johannesburg.
The Cape side is led by ministers, and the Johannesburg side also needs to have a balanced hierarchy, so Neil MacPherson, the Pretoria tax commissioner, rushed to Johannesburg to join the negotiations. For a while, an impromptu negotiation attracted
It caught the attention of many people.
"Locke, what are you doing?" Owen's expression was broken.
"You idiot, what am I doing? I'm fighting for the interests of Johannesburg, and I didn't see that your father is here too?" Rock looked contemptuous.
This tone was not very respectful. Lord Philip Matilda seemed to have heard it and turned around to glare at Roque.
Rock's expression was serious, as if he was meeting a king.