It’s not that the shop owner and the police officer are colluding to deceive people. Carlos, a standard Chinese, doesn’t know what the standards of “spicy” or “not spicy” are in Sichuan cuisine. After this meal, Louis Botta finally understood why.
Rock and Stoudemire have to take the chef with them wherever they go.
Walking out of the restaurant, the Sheriff followed Louis Botha ghostly, saying that he wanted to protect the minister's safety, but everyone knew the actual purpose.
Louis Botha did not chase anyone away. At this moment, Louis Botha finally understood that it was almost impossible to conduct a private visit in Nyasaland, and he would be treated as a criminal suspect in any minute.
Then just go back to the hotel and sleep to replenish your energy first.
Early the next morning, when Louis Botta came to the restaurant, he was not surprised to see Roque.
"Minister Botha, long time no see." Roque said calmly and calmly.
"Lord Locke, good morning -" Louis Botta's title is also nondescript.
Roque didn't care and asked the frightened shop owner to serve breakfast to Louis Botta.
At this time, the shop owner was very attentive. In sharp contrast to yesterday's evil behavior, breakfast finally became normal. Omelette, bacon, fried dough sticks, and soy milk were a rich combination of Chinese and Western.
"Eat a lighter breakfast, be careful about your blood pressure and cholesterol, and you still need to control your gastrointestinal problems when you are older -" Roque couldn't help but remind him when he saw Louis Botta devouring his food.
It’s really not a sarcasm!
Louis Botta ignored Roque. Forget about the bacon. The meat he ate yesterday left a trace. The roast duck eggs were pretty good, moderately salty and red in oil. Louis Botta gave up after trying one bite of the fried dough sticks. The soy milk was still there.
I drank three bowls.
"Lao Zhang, right? Look how badly you abused our minister -" Rock couldn't help but tease.
"Grandson, grandson of the monkey——" The shop owner was so happy to see his back molars. The shop that usually has few customers actually had two chefs come. This is also a once-in-a-lifetime series, the kind that can last a lifetime.
"Sir, you can't blame Lao Sun. We don't know that the minister can't eat chili -" Lao Liang bravely interjected.
Roque couldn't help but laugh. Louis Botta is actually not yet fifty. Considering the average life expectancy these days, fifty is indeed an old man, but he is still a young man in the political field.
Fortunately, both Roque and Lao Liang spoke in Chinese, which Louis Botta could not understand, but Louis Botta immediately looked at Carlos.
Carlos could only put down the fried dough sticks in his hand and start translating.
"Eat, eat, why do you all feel like you are on the run?" Rock was still making sarcastic remarks.
"Shut up, you Nyasaland are really unfriendly to strangers -" Louis Botha finally couldn't help but fight back.
"We in Nyasaland have always been like friends who come with fine wine, and enemies who come with shotguns." Roque was proud, but unfortunately Louis Botha didn't understand this trick, so he felt like playing the piano to others.
"Did you prepare fine wine or a shotgun for me?" Louis Botta was so angry that he threw away his chopsticks, and he probably didn't know how to use them.
"It depends on your choice." Roque's attitude was very casual. In fact, Louis Botta is also a very good person. It's a pity that Louis Botta also has responsibilities that Roque must bear. Roque is developing for the Chinese.
Living space, Louis Botha is expanding the living space for the Boers.
Louis Botha was definitely not as free and easy as Rock on this issue. In the final analysis, everyone underestimated the advantages of the Chinese in immigration. At the end of the Boer War, the total population of the Boers was 400,000, making them the largest in southern Africa.
At that time, the total population of the Chinese was less than 100,000. However, in the 1908 census, the total population of the Boers was 710,000, while the total population of the Chinese had reached 830,000.
Let’s not say whether the number 830,000 is accurate or not. There are definitely far more Chinese in southern Africa than 830,000. There are more than 830,000 Chinese in Nyasaland, plus the Transvaal, Rhodesia and Bechuanaland.
There are estimated to be more than two million Chinese in the country.
Now Nyasaland is still trying every means to immigrate crazily, even starting a war. The total number of Chinese in southern Africa is still increasing rapidly. Now whites have become a minority in southern Africa, but no one dares to do so at this time.
Let Nyasaland stop immigration.
The essence of democracy is that the minority obeys the majority.
Louis Botta suddenly felt that the roast duck eggs in his hands no longer smelled good.
Let’s focus on the national farms in Nyasaland.
Arriving at the National Farm, Louis Botha felt even heavier.
The mayor who went to Little Rock to pick them up came back. On paper, there were only two families, but each family had more than a dozen people, four or five underage children, plus two or three and a half grown-ups. His face was full of weather.
The middle-aged couple are still cautious about arriving in your country for the first time, but their eyes exude a desire for the future.
Now each family settling in Nyasaland can only rent ten acres of land from the state farm.
This figure seemed unreasonable to Louis Botha. Ten acres was indeed a little less, and it was completely insufficient for the Boers.
"Less? If there are more, I'm afraid these people will be exhausted to death. Even if the people are exhausted, the animals will be exhausted." Roque did not explain that the Chinese use the land completely differently from the Boers.
Specifically, the Chinese are really "cultivating" when farming, while the Boers are completely free-range. I can't say which of the two methods is better. Farming is indeed tiring, but free-range is very easy, but there is a huge difference in the final results.
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What impressed Louis Botta deeply was the vegetable plots around Fenghuang Town. These vegetable plots are private plots owned by the residents of Fenghuang Town. Every household has one. No matter what kind of farm you plant, they all end up being vegetable plots.
"Why should we establish a national farm? There is no need at all." Roque also really didn't understand why Louis Botta insisted on establishing a national farm. There is no motivation problem for Chinese farming.
"It's not necessary for you." Louis Botha didn't want to discuss this issue.
There is no harm if there is no comparison. If you don’t know how the Chinese farmed, Louis Botha doesn’t think there is anything wrong with the way the Boers managed their farms in the past.
But when comparing farms run by Chinese people, the problem immediately emerged.
A farm of the same area cannot even support a cow in Orange, but it can support a family in Nyasaland. Considering the area of Nyasaland and Orange——
This gap simply made Louis Botha despair.
"Locke, Orange needs your help." If possible, Louis Botta really didn't want to say this.
"How to help? Help Orange get a loan from the Rand Bank?" Roque is welcome. The entire southern Africa, even the state of Bechuanaland, can now achieve financial balance. Only Orange State still needs the federal government's finances.
Support.
The federal government is also very dissatisfied with this, but the financial situation of the Orange State is indeed very difficult. The Cape has Kimberley diamonds, the Transvaal has the gold mines of Johannesburg, and even Bechuanaland has the Rand Bank.
financial support, but Orange has none.
The biggest source of income for the Orange State government is financial assistance from the federal government. Taxes are almost negligible in Orange. It is difficult for farmers to support themselves with the little income they earn from selling cattle and sheep. Big names like Rock and Stoudemire
Capitalists don’t invest in Orange State. The farms bought by Bechuanaland Agricultural Company would rather be left alone than developed. There is not even a decent enterprise in Orange, and Rand Bank will not lend money to it.<
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"Loans cannot solve the problem. Orange farmers need to learn how you Chinese run your farms." Louis Botha finally admitted that the Boers were indeed inferior to the Chinese in terms of agriculture.
"Louis, it's difficult. The Chinese way of running a farm is very hard. Are you sure the farmers in Orange are willing to learn?" Rock really wasn't mocking. If the Boers were willing to be more diligent, they could also run the farm well, but in the "diligence"
"On this issue, people's understanding is different.
The diligence of the Chinese means that they work all day long, all year round, so they have endless vegetables and eggs, so they have enough money to buy a motorcycle.
The diligence of the Boers probably means opening the door of the barn every morning, letting the sheepdog drive the cattle and sheep to the grass, and then the day's work is done.
These are two completely different lifestyles, which is why Orange State’s finances will always be difficult.
"There will always be people who are willing to learn -" Louis Botha admitted that the attitude of most Boers towards work is indeed problematic, but this matter can be guided. Not all Chinese work all year round. Among the Boers, there is definitely
There are also motivated people.
"Louis, the farms in Johannesburg have been growing alfalfa ten years ago, and I haven't seen any farms in Orange learn to grow alfalfa until now." Rock is not polite. Some Chinese-run farms have gone bankrupt, and some have been in poor condition, but with
Compared with the Boers, most of the farms run by the Chinese are running well, but the farms run by the Boers have too many problems.
Starting about ten years ago, Rock purchased a large amount of land in Johannesburg and sold it to Chinese miners in Johannesburg, thus starting the Chinese immigration to southern Africa.
The first batch of miners to buy farms basically called their families, relatives and even neighbors to come to southern Africa. Most of the current students at Nyasaland University are from the Transvaal, and most of them are from the Transvaal.
The children of farmers are the first beneficiaries of immigration.
The Transvaal is right next to Orange, and there is only a river between Kronstad and Wilkham. It can be said that the Boers watched helplessly how the Chinese farmers on the other side of the river managed their farms step by step.
If you really want to get up, you don’t need to take the initiative to guide you. Whatever the Chinese farmers on the other side of the river do, the Boer farmers can just follow.
The river between Kronstad and Wilkom now has two different worlds on both sides. On one side of the river, there are streets and chickens and dogs chatting with each other, while on the other side of the river, there is poverty and people's livelihoods are declining.