Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 204

In just one week, the tide of injuries receded like a flood, and more than half of the hospital beds were cleared. Several miners who needed medical treatment due to illness, but because there were no beds in the hospital, they could only stay in the gold mine clinic. Finally, they could live in spacious and bright wards. .

No wonder those "wounded soldiers" didn't want to leave. Each ward of Ziwei Town Hospital has only two beds, and the dedicated nurse cleans the wards every day. Those "wounded soldiers" don't need to spend their own money when they are hospitalized. , the expenses are all paid by the Expeditionary Army Headquarters. You don’t need to train, patrol, or face those dirty and rude Boers and Zulus, and you don’t have to face guerrilla attacks when you stay in the hospital. The hot lady nurse chatted about life, this is a day that gods don't change.

Don't say that these British soldiers are despicable, in fact, the Chinese are the same. When they were in the Huayong camp, some Huayong preferred to be locked up because he didn't want to train.

In addition to the lack of nurses in the "cells" of the British, three meals a day are enough, and the rooms are also spacious and bright. Such conditions can make some Huayong who are not motivated to think about leaving. Needless to say, the situation in the Ziwei Town Hospital up.

Rock will never overestimate human nature, so the miners working in the Rock Gold Mine and the police in the police station need to be hospitalized due to illness. The mine and the police station will not reimburse all the expenses, and some of them must be borne by themselves. It will not prevent people from intentionally using "being sick" as an excuse to stay lazy in the hospital.

After most of the wards were emptied, Aunt Bull, who had played a huge role, was not dismissed. Instead, she retired to the second line to do some cleaning work.

In addition to the Boer nurses, there are more than 100 Chinese nurses in the Big Via Town Hospital.

These Chinese nurses were protected by Rock, and they did not come into contact with the British soldiers, so as to avoid unnecessary troubles.

Rock underestimated the popularity of these Chinese nurses. In April, the marriages between Chinese police officers and Chinese nurses increased sharply. Within a week, more than 80 couples went to the Interior Office to register their marriage.

Rock prepared a big red envelope of [-] pounds for each couple. This [-] pounds was enough for the couple to buy a house in Johannesburg or Bigwig Town.

The houses in Bigwig Township and Johannesburg are both built by Christian Construction Company. Police officers who work in the Johannesburg Police Department can enjoy a discount of about [-]% if they choose to buy a house in Bigwig Township or Johannesburg. This discount is almost equal to the cost The price is about the same.

Relatively speaking, houses in Johannesburg are still more expensive than houses in Bigwig Town.

The reason is not the high cost, but that Rock deliberately increased the cost of buying a property in Johannesburg.

As for Bigwig Town, in Rock’s plan, Bigwig Town only accepts Johannesburg’s Chinese police officers and people working near Bigwig Town, whether they are Chinese or not, except for the Chinese police officers of the Johannesburg Police Department, as long as they are not in Bigwig Town Whether they are Zulus, Indians, Boers, or even British, as long as they are willing to spend enough money, they can settle down in Johannesburg to work in related industries in the vicinity, so don’t even think about Big Via Town. Rock has the power Reject anyone, because Bigwig Town is Rock's private property.

To Rock's relief, all the newly married Chinese policemen chose to settle down in Bigwig Township. For a while, the supply of existing houses in Bigwig Town was in short supply, and Padbeck sent fifteen construction teams to Bigwig Town at one time. , making every effort to ensure the housing supply in Bigwig Township, even if it affects the municipal construction of Johannesburg.

Fifteen construction teams sound like a lot. In fact, a construction team only has about ten people, and the total number of people is only more than 100. Compared with municipal projects with thousands of people, this number of people will not affect the progress at all.

The only constraints on progress are building materials.

A smart woman can't live without rice, Rock has money, and Christian has people, but because of the interruption of the railway, construction materials in Johannesburg are in short supply, and the price is so expensive that even if Rock's family has a mine, it is unaffordable.

There is no way around this now, and it will continue until the guerrillas stop attacking the railway line and traffic is restored between Johannesburg and Cape Town.

In mid-April, Connie was admitted to the hospital to give birth. This is Cape's first real second-generation Chinese. Rock invited the most experienced obstetrician from Lorenzo Marquez, not only to Delivering Connie while also training the nurses at Bigwig Township Hospital.

Speaking of obstetricians, this may be the only job that women can do in this era that is not criticized.

Unlike the 21st century, when women held up half the sky, most jobs in this era were monopolized by men. Before Nightingale, even nurses were mostly men.

It was after Nightingale that people gradually discovered the advantages of women in the profession of nurses, but there are still many people who cannot accept women as nurses.

Well, for those people, women should stay at home and take care of their husbands and children, and it is best not to leave the house. No matter what kind of work women do, they will firmly oppose it.

Rock is not so pedantic. In Rock’s opinion, many jobs such as doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. are very suitable for women. Compared with men, women’s disadvantages are physical strength and family factors, but their advantages are also obvious, such as seriousness and meticulousness. , such as affinity, and another example-low salary.

Yes, it is low salary. For a qualified capitalist, the last point is very important.

For the same job, such as a doctor, Rock hired Colin Bellamy. The annual salary was about 300 pounds, and there was a bonus at the end of the year. It would cost four to five hundred pounds a year.

And Dr. Kay Mallory, whom Roque invited from Lorenzo Marquez, after Lorenzo Marquez's annual salary was only 150 pounds, Roque offered the same annual salary of 300 pounds as Colin Bellamy Kay Mallory happily accepted Rock's job, and said that he would move to Bigwig Town as quickly as possible.

Of course, giving Kay Mallory the same salary as Colin Bellamy will definitely cause Colin Bellamy's dissatisfaction. Different pay for equal work is the norm these days. Colin Bellamy and Colin Bellamy Kay Mallory is also both Boers, if they were British then the pay gap would be bigger.

Fortunately, Kay Mallory did not receive a year-end dividend, which somewhat calmed the emotions of Colin Bellamy and several other male doctors.

On April NO.20, Connie successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Hawley asked Rock for advice and named the baby Charles, which means "strong and noble male". From now on, the full name of little Charles will be : Charles Hawley.

In May, more and more pregnant women were admitted to the Bigwi Town Hospital. Throughout May, a total of 14 newborn babies were born. All of them were of mixed Chinese and Boer blood. According to the regulations of the Cape Colony, these children were growing up. After they become adults, they will have all the rights of Cape citizens, including the right to vote. After they become adults, they can go to any local British institution of higher learning to study, instead of choosing London, which has no restrictions on the number of students, like Buck and Gandhi. college.

At the end of May, the first church in Ziwei Township was completed.

Rock's contribution to this church was only the initial one hundred pounds.

Pastor Frank received assistance from the Governor's Office of German Southwest Africa, and the Germans in Johannesburg and Pretoria also donated generously. Because of the expensive building materials, Rock slowed down the pace of building Bigwig Town. The construction has never slowed down. On the day of the completion of the church, the governor of German Southwest Africa, Leutwein, also sent a representative to congratulate him. This made Philip Matilda, who also attended the inauguration ceremony of the church, feel very bad.

The church built by Pastor Frank was the first newly built church in the entire Transvaal area after the British occupation of the Transvaal, so Philip Matilda attended the inauguration ceremony.

It is also Philip Matilda who has just arrived in the colony and has no experience. It is estimated that Philip Matilda did not investigate the background of the church in detail, and he does not know which idiot invited Philip Matilda. This is a Catholic church, or The Catholic church built by a German priest, and it is on the territory of the United Kingdom, which makes Philip Matilda, who believes in Protestantism, really lose face.

"Sir Locke, you should restrict the activities of the Germans in Johannesburg." After the ceremony, Philip Matilda returned to the official residence and made a straightforward request.

Rock is now a baron of the British Empire. As a member of the imperial aristocracy, Rock should serve the interests of the empire wholeheartedly, so Philip Matilda doesn't need to go around.

"It's because I didn't think carefully, and I will restrict Father Frank's activities next." Rock honestly admitted that there were some things he couldn't tell Philip Matilda.

The reason why Rock agreed with Frank to build a church in Bigwig Town was mainly because of the school that Frank promised. If it wasn't for the school, Rock would never have agreed to this matter.

Frank has indeed fulfilled his promise. While building the church, the school and Abu Yao’s laboratory are under intensive construction. The reason why the church was built first is that the construction of the church is relatively simple, and the school that Rock requested is comparable to the church. It is much more complicated. In addition to classrooms and office buildings, it also includes student dormitories and auxiliary facilities. The cost of building a school is enough for Frank to build ten churches.

This is the power of religion.

Regardless of the extravagance and waste of the Expeditionary Army, religion spends more money than the Expeditionary Army. The paintings used by Frank when he built the church were all professional painters invited by Frank from Italy. If it was replaced by Rock, it would definitely not be so wasteful. Compared with the painters in Cape and Italy, that is, the difference between 80 points and 90 points, Rock will not spend ten times more money for this [-] points.

But for Frank, these are all drizzles. The church is a place to communicate with God, and this is the real cost.

(End of this chapter)