It took nearly a week for Rock to travel throughout Nyasaland.
Nyasaland is quite good. Many places in Blantyre, Lilongwe and Kasama have already undergone preliminary development and have the conditions to establish agricultural companies.
In terms of water resources alone, the conditions in Nyasaland are much better than those in Johannesburg. There is only one Limpopo River in Johannesburg, and it is a seasonal river that dies every dry season and is full of crocodiles.
There are more than ten rivers in Nyasaland that flow into Lake Nyasa. Compared with Johannesburg, it can be considered a dense network of rivers. These dense river networks ensure the hydraulic irrigation of fields in Nyasaland. Nyasa in the 21st century
Saran needs international assistance because Nyasaland uses more land to grow tobacco instead of growing food. If Nyasaland does not grow tobacco but grows rice, it will not only produce three crops a year, but two crops a year.
There is no problem if it is cooked, but do you need international assistance?
Stop it. If you really want to grow rice, maybe Nyasaland’s food can still be exported.
Of course, Douglas and his students still need to verify whether rice can be grown under the conditions in Nyasaland.
In the 21st century, Nyasaland covers an area of 113,000 square kilometers and has a population of 18 million. Today’s Nyasaland is larger than Malawi in the 21st century, with an area of 200,000 square kilometers, and the number of people it can support will also be larger.
More, Roque does not need 18 million people, even one tenth is enough for Roque to control the situation in Africa.
"Are you sure you want to sell all the Zulus in Nyasaland to the Portuguese?" Before Rock left Nyasaland, Stoudemire once again confirmed Rock's decision.
"Yes, sell them all. You need the Zulus to work, but I don't. Next month, more than 10,000 people will enter Nyasaland along the Shire River. Just help me prepare food for them.
For the specific quantity, Nyasaland Agricultural Company will take the initiative to contact Salisbury." Roque is determined that the Zulus are not needed and will never give the Zulus a chance to settle old scores.
In the future, the Zulu people will confidently make demands to the white people, and their confidence will come from the white people's oppression of the Zulu people during this period.
If Roque does not give the Zulu people a chance to make a comeback, and if he does not squeeze the Zulu people now, he will have enough confidence to reject the Zulu people in the future. By then, the Chinese in Nyasaland can confidently say that the construction and development of Nyasaland
The Zulu people have nothing to do with each other. Every plant and tree in Nyasaland is planted by the Chinese themselves. The Zulu people have no intention of morally kidnapping the Chinese in Nyasaland.
"Okay, I won't give you the money for selling people. How much food supply Nyasaland needs within two years, Salisbury will cover it all." Xiao Si knew that Rock didn't like the Zulus, and he didn't take advantage of Rock.
Cheap.
During the war, the development of Rhodesia by the South African Company was at a standstill. Cecil Rhodes was good at opening up the territory, but he was hardly interested in governing the place. So it has been several years. Rhodes
West Asia is barely self-sufficient in food.
"Haha, don't regret it when the time comes." Rock said solemnly. Xiao Si was afraid that he didn't know how many people Rock could send to Nyasaland in a year with all his efforts.
"Ha, if I regret it, I will give you another Nyasaland." Xiaosi was generous. Referring to the populations of Britain and Portugal, how many people could the Qing Dynasty have?
Xiao Si has no idea that the current Qing Dynasty has 450 million people at this time. Even if he knew, Xiao Si probably wouldn't care, because the British population at this time is 380 million, second only to the Qing Dynasty in the world.
The 380 million here includes the population of India. There is no such thing as a "colony" in the world at this time. The common saying around the world is that colonial territories are also considered the territory of the mother country, so India is also an integral part of the United Kingdom, and Indians are also part of the United Kingdom.
People.
There is nothing wrong with this logic.
What's more, the British occupied the Transvaal and faced a situation where no one was available, and the same was true for Rhodesia, so Stoudemire was looking forward to how many Chinese Roque could bring.
With Xiao Si's promise, Rock left Nyasaland in a very happy mood. Together, the two methods of Hoover and Liang Dingxin could transport 10,000 people to Nyasaland every month. In two years,
Time is enough for the Chinese in Nyasaland to be self-sufficient. In two years' time, including the family members who will arrive in Nyasaland later, there will be at least 300,000 Chinese in Nyasaland. By then, no one will be able to take Nyasaland away.
Lan.
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A week later, Rock returned to Johannesburg. It was already March 1902. Colonial Minister Joseph Chamberlain had arrived in Orange a week ago to inspect the settlement of the Boers in Orange. In a few days,
Joseph Chamberlain will leave Orange and inspect the Transvaal.
Johannesburg was Joseph Chamberlain's first stop in the Transvaal.
"You bought 77,000 square miles in Nyasaland?" After Roark returned to Johannesburg, Owen immediately asked Roark for coffee.
"Yes, I plan to immigrate 300,000 people to Nyasaland within two years. How about this plan?" Rock's generosity made Owen stunned.
After the war, the British who fled Johannesburg before the war returned to Johannesburg one after another. The Transvaal government tried its best to publicize in the British mainland, but very few British people came to settle in Johannesburg. In addition to the British and Chinese who had already settled in Johannesburg, Johannesburg is now
The total population has just exceeded 10,000, and Rock now said 300,000. You can imagine how shocked Owen was.
Settlement here refers to natural persons who own certain industries in Johannesburg and can generate fixed taxes. Miners in gold mines are not included, nor are Zulu workers on Chinese farms.
"Are you really crazy? Is it so easy to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty?" Owen was really envious of Roque's human resources.
"The Qing Dynasty also just lost the war. In order to punish the Qing Dynasty, the coalition forces demanded compensation of one tael of silver from everyone in the Qing Dynasty. The total compensation was 450 million taels of silver. Do you know what this concept is?" Rock really didn't want to mention it.
It breaks my heart to think about this period of history.
"One tael of silver is not much, just about five shillings." Owen knew the exchange ratio between pounds and silver, but he didn't know what one tael of silver meant to the Chinese in the Qing Dynasty.
"Many families in the Qing Dynasty could not get even one tael of silver by selling iron, so the Qing Dynasty is now in a severe famine. They sold their heads and exchanged their children for food. Anyway, it was easy to get people from the Qing Dynasty. In the past, workers from the Qing Dynasty were paid back.
You need to sign a contract and clarify your treatment. You don’t have to go to such trouble now. As long as you give someone who stutters, someone will be willing to follow you wherever you go." Roque looked cold and tried his best to hide the anger in his heart.
In every year of great disaster, the Chinese always go through hardships. This year was a natural and man-made disaster for the Qing Dynasty. Not only did they lose the war, but they also suffered a severe drought in the north and severe floods in the south. So it was really difficult for Roque to immigrate.
It’s easy. In the past, when hiring people from the Qing Dynasty, only adult men were willing to go abroad to work. Now it’s much easier. Many families have immigrated, and even entire villages have been relocated.
"That is indeed very difficult -" Owen said it without realizing how cruel Rock's words were: "-Also, why did you send all the people to Nyasaland instead of to Nyasaland?"
Coming from Johannesburg?"
Rock didn't know if Irving was asking this question on behalf of Philip. If it was Irving, he probably wouldn't care about this.
"Cecil promised to support the lives of those immigrants, so I sent them to Nyasaland and Johannesburg. Who cares about what they eat, drink, and sleep, the city government?" Rock had no scruples and ignored this issue.
Irving was asked by Philip to ask, and Rock had to give Irving an answer.
"Why should you ask the city government to help you support the people you hired?" Irving immediately turned black. The city government would not help Roque raise people. Although the city government has started to collect taxes and the finances have been greatly relieved, but
There are many places where you can't afford to spend money. Joseph Chamberlain will come to Johannesburg in a few days, and Philip also plans to find Joseph Chamberlain and see if he can get some benefits.
Although Joseph Chamberlain had only been in Orange for a week, rumors had already spread. After Joseph Chamberlain inspected the resettlement work of the Boers on the spot, he realized that 3 million pounds was simply not enough to resettle the Boers who suffered heavy losses in the war.
, so Joseph Chamberlain promised to apply for a loan from London. The total loan amount is estimated to reach tens of millions of pounds. In addition, Joseph Chamberlain will also push Congress to allocate relief funds as soon as possible.
Let’s not talk about loans or anything else. If you spend it happily now, you will definitely have to pay it back in the future. Relief allocation——
Everyone wants it!
Johannesburg was also severely damaged during the war. The entire city was almost demolished and rebuilt. Doesn’t it need relief?
During the war, the Expeditionary Force and the Boer coalition fought a brutal tug-of-war in Pretoria. Pretoria lost four-fifths of its population. Doesn’t it need relief?
After the signing of the Peace Agreement, the Boers became British, and the British government was responsible for the resettlement of the Boers. However, the British who lived in the Transvaal before the war also suffered heavy losses. Don't they need relief?<
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Therefore, the whole of Johannesburg is eagerly waiting for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.
In order to welcome Joseph Chamberlain, Philip even stopped some ongoing municipal projects, creating the illusion that they had to stop work due to lack of funds.
Well, everyone is very talented in meeting inspections from superiors.
"If the city government doesn't help, why should I send people to Johannesburg?" Rock doesn't want to cause trouble. Although immigrants enter through Cape or Durban, the Immigration Bureau can reimburse immigration fees, but after all, immigrants with tens of thousands of people will still be reimbursed.
It is completely different from the immigration of thousands of people. If Cape and Durban knew that Roque finally sent people to Nyasaland, the immigration directors of these two places would probably go crazy.
Some advantages can be taken advantage of, and some advantages cannot be taken advantage of. Just like immigration, with thousands of immigrants, with Stoudemire at the front to support it, Rock can still fish in troubled waters.
Even Xiao Si can't handle the immigration of tens of thousands of people. The total number of white people in the four colonies in the Cape is less than one million. If Rock asks for hundreds of thousands, the colonial authorities will doubt Rock's true intentions, so really
It's not a crime. If you don't immigrate through Cape Town and Durban, the cost is indeed a bit high, but Rock doesn't care. There is plenty of gold in Rock Gold Mine. If it doesn't work, just let Buck run at full capacity. Let alone one hundred thousand or five hundred thousand Romanes a year.
Kedu can afford to move.
"Sending people here is beneficial." Owen said vaguely, and Rock suddenly became curious.
"What's the benefit?" Rock asked.
"Don't ask me, you'll know in a few days." Owen didn't say anything, and Rock was so angry that his teeth itched, but there was nothing he could do about Owen.
At the city government work meeting the next day, Rock finally understood the benefits Irving was talking about.
The war compensation promised by the British government is in place.
This 3 million pounds is compensation to Boer farmers who were damaged in the war.
However, during the war, it was not only the Boer farmers who suffered losses, but also the British farmers in the Cape and the British mine owners in the Transvaal.
Let’s not discuss it for now. The mine owners are very wealthy and don’t appreciate the money. Even if they do, the British government won’t compensate them and they can only consider themselves unlucky.
The British farmers in the Cape also suffered heavy losses during the war due to attacks by Boer guerrillas. Now that the war is over, the British government has even given cash compensation to the Boer farmers, so it can compensate for the losses of these British farmers.
Turn a blind eye?
Impossible. In order to attract British immigrants to the Transvaal, Adelaide has done everything possible, and even offered preferential conditions for "horse racing and enclosure" like Australia, which means that within one day, the new immigrants will ride on the
Horses can run freely in the Transvaal, and they can make as many circles as they want. The horses are their own. The government does not charge a penny, and will even provide free farm tools, seeds and other production materials to help new immigrants set up farms.<
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Even so, there are still not many British people willing to come to the Transvaal.
Now if the colonial authorities compensate the Boers but not the British, then the British in the Transvaal and Cape will probably rebel.
Therefore, under the strong request of Adelaide and Cape Governor Walter Henry Hutchinson, the British government finally agreed to also provide certain cash compensation to the British farmers in the Cape and Transvaal, and the compensation standard was higher than that given to the Boers.
Much more, a full 5 million pounds.
Fortunately for the farmers in the Cape, the Cape Colonial Government has detailed information, so there is no need to worry about insufficient compensation. However, it is hard to say for the farmers in the Transvaal. All this information is held by the former Transvaal Republic, but
All the information was lost during the war, so compensation in the Transvaal was mainly based on existing farms.
Available!
Farmers around Johannesburg are now basically Chinese, and a few Zulu farms are definitely not within the scope of compensation.
This is what Irving said.
"In principle, each farm is compensated one shilling per acre according to its area. The farms around Johannesburg are about 1.8 million acres, so the estimated expenditure is about 90,000 pounds." Interior Minister Blake Nelson first explained the situation, in the conference room.
The atmosphere is a bit weird.
With a total of 5 million pounds, Johannesburg can only leave 90,000 pounds——