Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 119

On this issue, Rock and Henry have different views.

"Stop laughing, I'll go find Christian and let him free up his hands to repair the parliament building first." Rock can't sit still, the county magistrate is better off now, and Alfred Milner will only come to Pretoria at the end of the month , don’t worry about restoring the Palace of Justice, first take care of those officials and lords.

"Why? I still want to watch Kevin move stones in the afternoon." Henry is still not as shrewd as Rock.

"Are you stupid? The boss is not in Pretoria now. No matter how good the performance is, the boss can't see it. What's more, the boss doesn't care about these things at all. The important thing is those officials—" Rock thought for a while , decided that this good person should do it by himself: "Forget it, don't go to Christian, let's go, let's go together—"

Those who arrived in Pretoria earlier were not only the police and the staff of the Bureau of Mines, but also the staff of many government agencies such as finance, taxation, health, immigration, etc., and even the son of the director of the Bureau of Mines began to work. It can be seen that the government agencies are also short of manpower. At this time, if you don't use favors, when will you do so?

Henry's focus is obviously different from that of Roque: "Boss—this title is very new!"

Is it fresh?If the Cape Colonial Government is regarded as a subsidiary of a large enterprise, then Alfred Milner is undoubtedly the boss of the subsidiary, and Queen Victoria is the boss of the head office.

In the lounge on the third floor of the parliament building, the directors who are equivalent to the department managers of the branch are resting. They all came to Pretoria with ambitions and wanted to achieve a career in this golden capital, but the reality threw them A basin of cruel cold water, the current situation of Pretoria is too helpless.

"Gentlemen, the current situation is that we have sufficient funds, good prospects, and a wise and decisive governor, but we lack human resources, which are extremely lacking. There are less than 2 people left in Pretoria. They are still old and weak, women and children, and there is countless gold in the Rand Gold Mine, but no one mines it, so we need immigrants, as many immigrants as possible, so that we can turn the bright future into reality." Mines Director Swee Swift looked sad. There were mines in Pretoria, but there were no people. Swift wished he could go down the mine.

"Sorry, Mr. Director, I can't do anything about this matter. The Immigration Bureau has publicized it as much as possible in the country, but no one is willing to immigrate to Cape. Compared with Canada and Australia, Cape is not attractive to immigrants. This situation didn’t exist on the first day.” Immigration Director Jerome Wycliffe couldn’t help it, not to mention the lack of human resources in Pretoria, Cape Town is also short of manpower.

Since the British defeated the Boers and colonized Cape Town, the Cape colonial government wanted to attract more immigrants to the Cape.

In the past, it was somewhat effective. In the past century, more than [-] British immigrants have immigrated to Cape.

However, since the outbreak of the Second Boer War, for nearly a year, there have been fewer and fewer British people in the Cape. Not only did the new immigrants not increase, but many British immigrants who immigrated to the Cape before the war also left one after another.

So the shortage of manpower is not only a problem in Pretoria, not even in Cape, but in British colonies all over the world.

No way, there are too few British people and the colony is too large. Cape really has no advantage in attracting immigrants.

"This problem deserves our vigilance. If this situation does not improve fundamentally, then after the war, the Cape will still be the Cape of the Boers. We are here and we are always guests." Finance Secretary Bob Jarr Si is a smart guy, he can see the problem, but he still doesn't have the ability to solve it.

"It's not so dangerous. After the war is over, the mining area will return to normal, and people will come to pan for gold at that time." Neil McPherson, the head of the tax bureau, is more optimistic. It is still during the war, and it is normal for the population to decrease. Afterwards, the population will naturally recover slowly.

What's more, the Rand Gold Mine has countless gold. Johannesburg is a city that emerged with the gold rush. There are many such examples, such as San Francisco in the United States, and Australia 50 years ago. After the discovery of gold, the population of Australia tripled in ten years.

"Don't dream, even if the war stops, the mining areas are still controlled by those big companies, how many opportunities will ordinary people have?" Bob Giles doesn't like big companies. The emergence of those big companies will affect the government Revenue.

However, the existence of large enterprises is inevitable. Cecil Rhodes, the former prime minister who provoked the second Boer War, was the leading entrepreneur in Cape, and the "De Beer" founded by Cecil Rhodes "South Africa Mining Company" has almost monopolized 90.00% of the world's diamond production. It is precisely because the "South African Consolidated Gold Mining Company" operated by Cecil Rhodes controls the Rand Gold Mine, so it has a partnership with the Republic of Transvaal The contradictions intensified, eventually leading to the outbreak of war.

"Come on, gentlemen, this is a matter for the Governor to consider. Our task now is to restore the city to normal in the shortest possible time-starting with the parliament building." Justice Duke Cowper was very helpless , Other government agencies can share the office of the parliament building, but the court cannot. The court must have an independent office location, but in the current situation in Pretoria, Duke Cowper will find a suitable office location in the foreseeable future.

"Gentlemen, good news. Director Henry and Inspector Locke have come to help with a team of police officers. We have rescuers." Robin Fowler, deputy director of the Finance Bureau, came to announce the good news cheerfully. Because of the shortage of manpower, the dignified deputy director It's so disrespectful to have to clean up.

How embarrassing!

"This is really good news!"

"Director Henry is such a good man!"

"Robin, go and invite Director Henry to come over and have a rest."

The bureau chiefs have a bright heart. In fact, they are the bosses in their respective departments, and they are very busy. If it is not because there is no office space, they would not be willing to huddle in the lounge to chat.

Boss, you have to look like a boss, so the chiefs will not clean up by themselves. As the chief of police, Henry, of course, does not need to clean up by himself. Only Bob Giles, the treasurer, is a chicken thief. His eyes roll Turned around, and left the lounge calmly.

In fact, Rock doesn't need to work. More than 300 commandos work together, so the efficiency should not be too fast. Rock is also talking nonsense with a group of middle-level leaders in the lobby.

Seeing Bob Giles appear, a group of middle-level leaders immediately dispersed. Rock rubbed his nose and wanted to pretend to help.

"Inspector Locke, I have something to ask you—" Bob Giles stopped Rock.

please? !

Don't, you are everyone's God of Wealth, please speak up if you have something to do.

(End of this chapter)