Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 206 (Subscribe)

The Chinese are the best managed nation in the world.

Even the Chinese don't need management at all. In the Chinese-inhabited areas, those in power only need to create a relatively relaxed environment, and the Chinese can give full play to their subjective initiative, and use their ingenuity, diligence and frugality to create a better life.

This is what Roque did. To convert miners into farmers, mandatory requirements are useless and will only backfire.

Rock only created the conditions, and then set up Holly as a model, without waiting for Holly to succeed, the active Chinese had already heard the news.

As for those with conservative personalities, Roque does not force them. Everyone has their own destiny. There are hundreds of millions of Chinese in the Qing Dynasty. Roque can't afford to waste time for three or five conservative Chinese. If they miss something, they will still have a chance at that time, but if they want to obtain the current conditions, the difficulty will increase geometrically.

At least, it is estimated that they will not be able to buy farms around Johannesburg by then, and if they want to buy a house or land, I am afraid they can only go to Rhodesia.

Little Cecil Rhodes is quite a good guy. He said that he would give Rock a discount, and he would sell a thousand square miles of land in Rock Rhodesia at a discount of the Johannesburg farm.

One thousand square miles is about 64 acres. If a farm of 300 acres is used, at least 2000 Chinese households can be resettled.

Of course, this is only under ideal conditions. In fact, this number will shrink. After all, it is impossible for a thousand square miles to be fertile land that can be reclaimed. There must be mountains, forests, rivers, and even lakes and swamps. It is estimated that in the end, It is already very good to be able to house a thousand Chinese households.

Rock is not in a hurry. There are still enough farms around Johannesburg to house Chinese. Let’s occupy all the farms around Johannesburg first. Rock will not consider Rhodesia until Johannesburg can’t accommodate more Chinese.

As for Henry's fief, it is not within Rock's consideration at all. There will be many highly polluting basic industries in Henry's fief in the future. Under such conditions, Henry's fief is not suitable for agricultural development at all, or even for human survival. At that time, Rock would not let the Chinese go to work in the factory. Henry wanted to find workers, and there were Zulus in Basutoland.

In fact, there is no need for Rock to worry too much about building materials. Capital is the most sensitive. The price of building materials in Johannesburg has skyrocketed. Construction materials in China have experienced a brief period of expensive prices and have been slowly declining since June.

With sufficient building materials, the construction of Ziwei Town will be accelerated immediately.

In just two months, there are more than 200 households and 1000 residents in Big Via Town, which is already the largest residential area with the largest number of people outside Johannesburg in the entire Johannesburg area.

The increase in population directly brought about the prosperity of business. I don't know when, various shops, restaurants, hotels, tailors, clothing stores, and even a law firm appeared in Bigwig Town.

The Johannesburg City Hall responded quickly. At the end of June, the City Hall set up its first government agency, the Tax Office, in Bigwig Township.

Taxes, this is a fate that can never be escaped.

Established at the same time as the tax office, there is also a mini police station. The hospital security captain Dunn also serves as the police chief. This police station has only Dunn as the official staff. The rest of the hospital security team are all police stations. temporary workers.

According to regulations, all official residents of Bigwig Township must pay taxes in accordance with the regulations of the Johannesburg City Hall. The name of the tax officer is James Hosea. Came to the police station to visit Rock.

"I'm sorry, Sir Locke. Although Bigwig Town is your private property, according to regulations, Bigwig Town also pays taxes in accordance with the regulations." Polite, but with a rigid expression, dull eyes, and actually not much respect.

"I know, you can charge as much as you want, and if you need the cooperation of the police station, go to Sheriff Dunn." Rock didn't talk nonsense with James Hosea, even if Rock had a title, certain races The Christians still wouldn't give Roque real respect, and Roque didn't expect that much.

The current situation is actually what Roque wants. With the title, even if he is a racist, even if all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart drive people crazy, he still has to respect Roque on the surface.

Rock thinks this is good, so Rock decides that if he has time in the future, he will go to Bigwig Town for a while. For people like James Hosea, the more racist he is, the more trouble Rock will have. He, better drive him crazy.

Back in Bigwig Town, James Hosea started working immediately.

To collect taxes, the income of the residents of Bigwig Town must first be determined. At this moment, James Hocia finally felt deeply malicious.

As the tax collector of Bigvest Township, as a pure Englishman, James Hosea received a salary of about 150 pounds a year from the Johannesburg tax office.

Compared with the British mainland, this salary can satisfy James Hosea.

Of course, the satisfaction here was before James Hosea fully understood the income of the residents of Bigwig Town.

In Bigwig Town, a professor who doesn’t do anything earns an annual salary of 400 pounds, a general doctor’s annual salary is about 300 pounds, an ordinary nurse’s annual salary is about 150 pounds, and a hospital security guard’s annual salary is also 150 pounds. She is an Aunt Boole who specializes in washing clothes in the hospital, and her annual salary can be 120 pounds.

If James Hosea could barely accept these, then James Hosea was completely out of balance after learning about the salary of the Rock Gold Mine management.

In this era, the management of the Locke Gold Mine is definitely highly paid. Buck, as the general manager of the gold mine, has an astonishing annual salary of 1000 pounds. , are basically of noble origin, so although Buck, a yellow man, has a lower social status than a nobleman, his annual salary is already equal to that of a nobleman who is a high-ranking government official.

If Buck, as the general manager, can barely accept a high salary, then the annual salary of department managers below Buck can generally reach around 700 pounds, which makes James Hozia very envious and jealous.

The management of the Rock Gold Mine, except for a few financial personnel, are all yellow people, and even those financial personnel are all Boers at the bottom of society.

This situation drove James Hosea crazy. After getting the income data of all residents in Bigwig Town, James Hosea was speechless and asked the heavens why the salary of the yellow man was higher than his salary. Pure Brits taller?

Why are the Boers, who have suffered a crushing defeat on the frontal battlefield, still hold high positions in Johannesburg?

And those hospital nurses, James Hosea felt like he was going to see a doctor.

As a colonial officer, James Hosea's family was on the British mainland.

That night, James Hosea returned to Johannesburg, reported the situation in Bigwig Town to his superiors, and demanded that the tax standards of the residents of Bigwig Town be raised.

"Is there any basis?" The Commissioner of Revenue in Johannesburg is called Marcus Beaufort, the former Deputy Commissioner of the Pretoria Revenue Department.

What James didn't know was that as early as in Pretoria, Rock had formed a deep relationship with Marcus, and Marcus's residence in Johannesburg was gifted by Rock——

It's not a gift either, it's a half sale and half give away, a house worth at least 200 pounds, Rock only charged 50 pounds, the reason is that the house was damaged to a certain extent during the war.

Only Marcus knew that the so-called "certain degree of damage" was just a broken piece of glass. After living in a "broken house" that still smelled of paint, Marcus replaced the glass for only 6 pence.

"The income of the residents of Bigwig Town is significantly higher than the normal income. If the tax is collected according to the previous standard, then we will lose a large part of the tax." James felt that he had a good reason.

"So what do you want to charge?" Marcus couldn't see any joy or anger on his face.

"I think the standard should be doubled, no, twice, twice is appropriate." In fact, James wanted to raise it tenfold, but unfortunately, Marcus would definitely not agree.

"Is your head full of poop? What does someone's high income have to do with you? If you are greedy, resign and ask Sir Locke to give you a job? It's a pity that Sir Locke may not see it. Fuck you idiot! What the hell is the tax rate set by the Governor's Palace and the City Hall, you can change it at will? Do you think you are smarter than Lord Alfred and Lord Matilda? You are a fucking Ignorant idiot, who is so sensitive to numbers, get the hell out of me tomorrow in the damn file room, and deal with numbers properly!" Marcus finally couldn't bear it anymore, and there was a gust of wind and rain on his head and face.

Raising the tax rate is no small matter, Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines, and behind each gold mine is a powerful backer, maybe a high-ranking government official, maybe a duke with a long history, maybe even a member of the royal family, Alf Red Milner and Philip Matilda racked their brains to determine a tax standard that can be barely accepted by all parties. When it came to James, they actually raised it as soon as they said it would be raised. If you want to die, there is no need to be so urgent. .

So the next day, the new tax officer of Bigwig Town visited Roque again.

This time, the attitude of the new tax officer was much more sincere. When verifying the income of the miners in the Locke Gold Mine, it was all up to Scarlett's mouth, and she didn't ask the workers to verify at all.

This is the correct working attitude.

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