Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 1035 Lincoln

The biggest change that the world war brought to women was the improvement of social status.

Because men are on the battlefield, the proportion of female workers in the rear factories is increasing. In Britain, which has relatively abundant human resources, the proportion of female workers has not increased much. In Germany and France, the number of female workers is increasing.

In Germany, about 500 million women joined the labor force after the outbreak of the World War, and the proportion of women workers in the labor force increased from 35% before the World War to as much as 55% now.

In Britain, about 150 million women workers work outside the home, of which about 75 women workers' jobs were held by men before the outbreak of the World War.

In addition to the 75 female workers who replaced men, there are 35 female workers engaged in war-related work. There are troops in the army that are all composed of women, such as professional nurses in field hospitals. This profession is all composed of women. In field hospitals Working male nurses are called "nurses" and they generally do the physical work.

Relatively speaking, most of the female workers in France exist in the agricultural field including the food industry. There are not many women in the arsenal, but the French railway system employs a large number of female workers. Before the World War, there were 6000 women workers in the French railway system. The number of female workers is now 5.7.

Like Britain, France, and Germany, women's social status is also improving in southern Africa.

Before the outbreak of the world war, women in southern Africa had already obtained many rights, including the right to vote. Now only women in southern Africa and Switzerland have the right to vote. Swiss women gained the right to vote in 1893, and now it has been 20 years It passed, and finally another country where women got the right to vote.

No, strictly speaking, Southern Africa is not yet a country.

However, in terms of women's rights, southern Africa came from behind. During the World War, the first female minister appeared in southern Africa, and she was a key finance minister. This made many European women regard southern Africa as the first place when they immigrated. option.

Ada has been a little depressed recently. After Southern Africa occupied Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, it began to sell the farms in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, which created an established fact and completely annexed Southwest Africa and Tanganyika.

Because Tanganyika has been developed by Germany for many years, the development of the farm is relatively mature, so it is sold quickly, and the land in Southwest Africa is rarely interested.

Southwest Africa is one of the driest regions south of the Sahara Desert, with an average annual rainfall of 270mm, with large differences between regions, ranging from less than 50mm in the coastal area to 350mm in the central region, to 700mm in the northeast .

There are about 6900 million hectares of arable land in Southwest Africa, which is about 17000 million in acres. According to the standards of the Federal Government of Southern Africa, if it is sold in units of 100 acres, about 170 million farms can be established.

Of course, this is an ideal situation, and there will be deviations in actual implementation. After all, some people buy hundreds or even thousands of acres, and there must not be so many farms established in the end.

Now less than 5000 million acres of land in Southwest Africa have been sold, all of which are concentrated in the Northeast where the water volume is relatively abundant and the land development is relatively mature, or the desolate areas in the central, southern and coastal areas are almost untouched.

In fact, it is not a desolate area in the true sense. There is no real desert in Southwest Africa. Even the so-called "desert area" is much better than the desert like the Sahara. It is more appropriate to describe it as Gobi.

Compared with underdeveloped agriculture, Southwest Africa's greater advantage lies in the fishing and mining industries. Southwest Africa is known as a "strategic metal reserve". The reserves of uranium and diamonds rank among the top in Africa, but the development is not yet mature. Now The output is relatively low.

The most potential industry in Southwest Africa is fishery, agriculture and animal husbandry. The purple lamb skin it produces is world-famous, and its fishery output ranks among the top ten in the world. It mainly produces cod, tuna, sardines, mackerel, lobster and crab.

"Climate changes are very closely related to the environment. The climate in southern Southwest Africa is very similar to the climate in the southwestern Cape. We started researching the desert area in the southwestern Cape five years ago and found that the problem of land desertification is not inevitable. Reversal, but the process of this reversal will be very long, requiring ten years or even decades of continuous investment, and requires firm belief and hard work." Professor Carlos of Nyasaland University is an expert on climate. Has been working to change the climate environment in the southwestern Cape, and now it seems that the prospects are not very optimistic.

The democratic system in southern Africa is better for short-term investment. Once the time is extended to more than ten or ten years, it is basically unnecessary to think about it.

If you think about it, you can understand that in a two-party system or a multi-party system, the term of a leader is generally only four to five years, so there is no long-term planning for more than five years, otherwise it is possible to make wedding clothes for others. After five years of hard work, the results will be accepted by the next government and become the achievements of the next government. This is unacceptable.

The same is true for desert control. Can the desert be controlled?

can!

However, democratic governments will not make such investments at all, and neither will large companies with capital and strength. Large and powerful companies in southern Africa, such as South Africa and Bechuanaland, invest in Tanganyika, Nigeria Aren’t the farms in Saran and Rhodesia delicious? Why go all the way to Southwest Africa to develop farms.

And it doesn't necessarily work out.

Now South African companies and Beina companies are buying a large amount of land in Portuguese West Africa, the Kingdom of Congo, and the Republic of Congo, and using the cheap human resources in these areas to develop large-scale plantations. In the above-mentioned areas, many plantations are Owned by the South African Company and the Beina Company, several large enterprises that originally occupied a monopoly position in Portuguese West Africa were losing ground. They had to sell the plantation to the South Africa Company and the Beina Company, otherwise they would lose everything.

Portugal is actually a member of the Allied Powers. After the outbreak of the World War, Portugal sent two divisions symbolically to France to participate in the World War. These two divisions were outdated in equipment, low in morale, and weak in combat will. They had never played any role in any battlefield. positive effect.

With such a performance, you still want to keep your colony in Africa?

Go dream!

"It doesn't matter, the federal government treasury will invest in desertification in southern South West Africa and South West Cape, workers and migrants will be recruited from Africans in Basutoland and Swaziland, as long as they are Africans who are willing to go to South West Africa , each family can receive a financial subsidy of [-] rand, and from now on no poll tax and war tax will be levied.” Ada was decisive, and after the outbreak of the world war, the financial situation of the southern African federal government completely turned around The previous heavy debts have become the current rich and powerful, and many important decisions that were not on the agenda because of lack of money have also begun to be implemented.

"That's amazing!" Professor Carlos was overjoyed. As long as the federal government has the determination, even if the desert areas in Southwest Africa will not become oases in a short period of time, they will definitely not continue to deteriorate.

"Parliament won't agree—" Deputy Finance Minister Wilcox smiled wryly. The federal government is indeed undergoing a financial turnaround. The deserts in Southwest Africa are indeed going to be governed, but when to start, how to start, and how much money to invest are not finances. The Ministry has the final say, but the Nima Council has the final say.

This is where democracy fucks up, white people shouting that the truth will always be in the hands of the few, so the few rule the many.

But among the "minority", "the minority obeys the majority" is tossed out, so in whose hands is the truth?

The same is true for the southern African parliament. The parliament is composed of members who won elections from different states. These members will definitely vote in favor of the states they represent. This is the so-called "responsibility to voters". In this way, will it A majority of MPs agree to invest their hard-earned tax dollars in South West Africa?

It's impossible to think about it with your toes.

"I will communicate with the Prime Minister—" Ada refuses to admit defeat, it is man-made, and now may be the best time for the federal government's finances. If the deserts in Southwest Africa are not invested now, then the deserts in Southwest Africa will never get governance.

"The prime minister can't control the parliament—" Wilcox was also very helpless. Not all members of parliament had the same view of the overall situation as Ada. In other words, the members of parliament also knew that the deserts in Southwest Africa needed to be governed, but they were useful. Reasons to vote with your feet.

Those who can be elected as members of parliament, regardless of whether they are members of Congress or local councilors, basically none of them are stupid.

Perhaps it is precisely because these people are so smart that they are clever and misunderstood by their cleverness. To control the deserts in Southwest Africa, it really takes some "fools" to complete this task.

The smile on Carlos' face froze. Although Ada was working hard to promote the governance of the Southwest African desert, Carlos knew that Ada's efforts were meaningless. Just like Wilcox said, the parliament would not agree. The Prime Minister would not agree either, Ada's efforts alone are limited after all.

Unless someone from far away in Europe comes forward, it may be possible to get the parliament to agree——

It's a pity that Roque is far away, and defeating the Allies is Roque's most important task now.

In the evening, Carlos returned to the hotel where he lived. As a professor of Nyasaland University, Carlos can enjoy a high discount at the Rhodesia Hotel, and the cost of living in the hotel is fully paid by Nyasaland University. to reimburse.

"Please wait a moment, Professor Carlos—" A young man in a black suit called Carlos in the hotel lobby.

Carlos stopped in his tracks, his face was a little ugly, he just wanted to go back to his room to have a good sleep and forget about what happened today.

Carlos's mood today is like riding a roller coaster. The feeling from ecstasy to despair really makes Carlos very uncomfortable.

"Professor Carlos, I'm Lincoln from Nyasaland Corporation, nice to meet you—" Carlos was surprised by the young man's name, which is rarely called by anyone now.

Only then did Carlos notice that the young man who called himself "Lincoln" had black hair and dark eyes, and a sincere smile on his face.

ps: Wow, hahahaha, seeing this name, many brothers should be desperate for my ability to choose a name—whether it is a chapter name or a person’s name, they are equally desperate——

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