Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 210

This is the case in the era of lack of entertainment. There are no mobile phones, no computers, and no endless soap operas. Couples can only focus on each other. There is nothing to do at night, so they have to do something they love to adjust their lives. The birth rate is natural. It's very high.

Connie is not the only one who is pregnant with her second child. At least half of the dozen or so women who gave birth in May have already conceived again. More than 80 couples of Chinese descent married in April, and now more than 60 Chinese nurses have also been pregnant. With pregnancy, the situation was so "serious" that it even affected Dr. Kay Mallory's training of nurses.

For this situation, Rock is happy to see the results. The Chinese are the number of people, and it is the basic situation for whether the Chinese can gain a firm foothold in Johannesburg in the future. The second-generation Chinese represent the future of the Chinese in Johannesburg. The larger the base, the greater the number of people. more, the greater the influence and social status of the Chinese in Johannesburg and even the entire Transvaal in the future.

In order to encourage childbearing, the Ziwei Town Hospital has stipulated that nurses can enjoy half a year of paid leave if they become pregnant. If they give birth in the Ziwei Town Hospital, the hospital will also reduce all expenses.

This is a pure benefit, let alone in Johannesburg, it is the only one in the whole world.

In this way, the profit of the hospital and even the decision of the nurses will be affected.

But Rock doesn't care, with the Rock Gold Mine as the backing, Rock is very confident.

What's more, with the improvement of the services of the Bigwig Town Hospital, the cost of the Bigwig Town Hospital is also high. A common cold can be cured in Cape Town for only one or two pounds, but in the Bigwig Town Hospital, there is no Three to five pounds is not enough, and this part of the profit is enough to make up for the welfare expenses.

After the "injury wave" receded, Rock once discussed with Dr. Colin Bellamy whether to reduce the hospital's expenses.

The conclusion is that it is not necessary, the hospital is not a charity, and paying for medical treatment is a matter of course.

What's more, the current medical resources are already very tight. When Colin Bellamy was in Cape Town, a private clinic had only three or five beds, and the cost was also high. Even so, many people still fell ill. Because the clinic did not have enough beds, he chose to receive treatment at home.

The same is true for Johannesburg. In the whole of Johannesburg, Bigvea Town Hospital may have the most beds, the most advanced medical facilities, the most beautiful environment, and the most beautiful nurses. Since there are so many advantages, the cost does not need to be adjusted. Anyway, if it is a police officer from the Johannesburg Police Department , or Chinese miners come to see a doctor, the police station and the mine will underwrite part of the expenses, which will not have much impact on the police and miners.

With the backing of Gao Welfare, it is foreseeable that in the next few years, Bigwig Town will usher in a big baby boom.

Rock was not the only one who discovered this. Father Frank was very shrewd. Just a month ago, Father Frank donated a batch of medicines and a batch of daily necessities to the Big Via Town Hospital. The price was that the Big Via Town Hospital would allow Father Frank preached in the hospital and baptized the newborn babies in the hospital by the way.

The church hadn't even been built yet!

Speaking of baptism, Catholicism and Protestantism have different habits in this regard. Relatively speaking, Protestantism has less strict requirements. Sometimes, believers may not come to the church for baptism until they are adults.

Catholicism is different. Catholicism firmly believes that work begins with babies, so babies in Catholic families can go to church to be baptized as soon as they are eight days old.

This has also become an important reason for Protestants to attack Catholicism.

Baptism is not a bath, but a priest or pastor uses the so-called "holy water" to make the baptized person feel the glory of God.

A few drops will do.

For adults, this amount of water is nothing, but for babies who have just been born for eight days, this is a very dangerous behavior. If it is not done well, it will affect the health of the baby.

Therefore, Rock himself is also opposed to baptism.

But Father Frank is very smart, and he also knows that as a Catholic priest, he is not welcome in Bigwig Town, which should have been a Protestant territory, so Father Frank chose other ways to lure the parents of the newborn to take the baby to the church for baptism, and, If you don't go for eight days, it's okay for eight months, or even eight years old.

And every baby or child who chooses to be baptized in the church will receive a blessing from God-a gift from God worth ten pounds.

Don't doubt, it's a real gift. The gift includes baby and children's clothes, some food and toys, and some parenting books. The most expensive one should be: a cross made of sterling silver.

Of course it meets Catholic standards.

And it was Archbishop Frank who opened the light himself.

For such a big gift package, many people can't refuse, especially those Chinese who are not firm in their beliefs. For them, it doesn't matter what they believe, and it is serious to get the big gift package.

Of course, Rock doesn't care, as long as it doesn't allow an eight-day-old baby to be baptized. Although Philip Matilda asked Rock to restrict Frank, Philip Matilda did not provide Rock with any effective support, and Rock didn't Method.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Money is touching.

Rock has many reasons.

Back in the office, Buck, who just went to the meeting of the Mining Union, has a new report.

"The Cape Town City Council is discussing the end of subsidies for Asian immigrants. If the discussion is passed, then starting next month, we will have to pay for immigration by ourselves, because the number of immigrants is relatively large, and we have to use it every month on average. The cost of immigration may be more than 5000 pounds." Buck looked sad, 5000 pounds a month is not a small number, it doesn't matter a month or two, if calculated on an annual basis, Locke Gold Mine sells all the gold that can be sold every year Even if it is exchanged into pounds, it will not be able to make up for this hole.

"What do Aiden and the others say?" Rock was not in a hurry, the sky was falling and there was a tall man supporting him, and De Beers Consolidated Mining Company was the tall man.

"De Beers Consolidated Mining Company must be firmly opposed to it. I heard that Mr. Cecil Rhodes Jr. is active in Cape Town, but the situation doesn't seem to be very good." Buck worried, if it was Cecil Rhodes Jr. Stu can't handle it, and it's useless for Roque to go out.

Controversy continues on the issue of immigration fees.

In the past, in order to attract new immigrants, Cape Town would pay immigration fees for all new immigrants entering Cape Town.

The original intention of the Cape Town colonial government was to attract more British immigrants to Cape, but what the Cape colonial government did not expect was that this policy did not attract the British, but the Asians came.

Before Rock and Aiden imported miners on a large scale, a large number of Indians immigrated to Cape, and even formed an Indian gathering area in Natal. Gandhi is the representative of these Indians.

Now because of the involvement of Rock and Aiden, the number of Chinese from the Qing Dynasty is increasing rapidly, and the scale is much larger than that of Indians. In the past six months, at least [-] Chinese have arrived in Johannesburg and Kimberley through Cape Town. This situation Much to the annoyance of the Cape Colonial Government.

After all, the current Cape and the Transvaal are two different things. The governments of these two regions have independent accounting and independent operations. The Chinese are naturalized through Cape Town and then work in the Transvaal. Money helped settle the Transvaal colonial government.

The money was spent, but the political achievements belonged to Alfred Milner, no one would be reconciled!

What's more, even if these miners stayed in the Cape, the cost of this part of the immigration should have been paid by the mine, but the owner of the mine took advantage of the loopholes in the policy to pass the money on to the colonial government , the colonial government must be even more unwilling.

"Telegram to Hoover and Liang Dingxin, telling them to hurry up and send as many people as possible on board, and tell the brothers in the mine that if you want your family to immigrate to the Cape, then you must hurry up, and if there is a fee in the future, Then even if the mine will bear part of it, I have to bear part of it." Rock was not afraid of spending money, but wanted to use this news to force those hesitant miners to seize this last chance.

Sometimes even if it is to do good deeds, it has to adopt some relatively despicable means.

This is unavoidable, the truth is often in the hands of a few people, in other words, these Chinese workers in Johannesburg were ordinary people who did not know a single word before going abroad, maybe their living radius is so long that there is no More than ten kilometers, in this case, how much insight can you ask them to have?

Therefore, when some hesitant miners cannot take the initiative to make the correct decision, Rock, as a sign of the Chinese, should play the role of a guide, even if it is unfair to those hesitant miners, but In a few years, those miners who hesitated today will be grateful to Rock.

Generally speaking, a policy needs to go through a process from its adoption to its implementation. This process can be long or short, sometimes one or two years, sometimes only a few months.

The same is true for restricting immigration. Even if Cecil Rhodes Jr. can't change the final result, he should be able to buy more time.

Rock wants to seize this time difference, and now only restricts immigration, but has not completely stopped the introduction of immigrants. In the original history, two years after the conclusion of the Boer War negotiations, Cape completely stopped the introduction of immigrants from Asia. That should be 1904. Although it is only 1901, God knows whether this time and space will develop according to the original historical process, so hurry up.

"Yeah, I've already sent a telegram to Liang Dingxin, but Hoover hasn't sent it yet. We have more than 1000 people coming this month. Even if the average person is five pounds, this is not a small number." Buck also knew the importance, In recent months, although miners cannot enter the Transvaal, the family members of the miners who have arrived in Johannesburg can enter the Transvaal continuously.

Especially for those Chinese laborers who have already owned farms, most of them choose to bring their families to Johannesburg. After all, compared with the war-torn Qing Dynasty, although the Transvaal was also in a war period, guerrilla attacks only occurred in the In the Cape, the Transvaal can now be regarded as a piece of pure land in troubled times.

In order to encourage Chinese workers to bring their families to Johannesburg, the Rock Gold Mine specially stipulated that every child under the age of ten who arrived in Johannesburg could go to the Rock Gold Mine to receive a settling allowance of one pound.

The talent of the Chinese in taking advantage of loopholes is very good, so among the families of the miners who arrived in Johannesburg, the proportion of children is particularly large, and sometimes there are even more than a dozen children in a family.

With so many children, it is likely that not all of them are immediate relatives of the miners.

But who cares?

What Roque wants is people, as long as there are people. As for where the people come from, Roque doesn't care. Hoover is a human trafficker, and Roque can cooperate with him. This kind of normal imported population is no problem.

Although the mine knows this fact, it pretends not to know. As long as someone comes to collect the settlement allowance, the mine will pay the full amount. These children are now scattered in the farms around Ziwei Town. In the future, they will definitely have to pay. Enrollment requires education, so the school will be under a lot of pressure, and George and Simon alone can't handle it.

"How much resettlement allowance have we sent out so far?" Rock wanted to find out. The reason for the resettlement allowance was to count the total population.

"Last month it was 350 pounds, and from this month to now it has exceeded 200 pounds. The total is 1100 pounds." Buck was still worried. 1100 pounds represented 1100 school-age children, and the school in Big Via Town can't accommodate so many people now.

And the key point is that these children don't know English yet, and they don't understand the language with George and Simon. If they want to enroll, the language barrier must be solved first.

"Teacher, what news do you have for Liang Dingxin?" Rock can only hope for Liang Dingxin. In fact, when it comes to English proficiency, many Chinese policemen are also good at it, but Chinese policemen can only speak and can't read, so There is no way to teach the children.

Liang Dingxin used to work in the customs. Although there are not many Chinese who understand English in this era, there must be a lot of Chinese in the customs. Rock lures those customs staff to work in Johannesburg with high salaries. After coming, they want a house. If you want a farm with a farm, even if you don't have a wife, here can help you find one.

Send a daughter-in-law!

Sounds a little silly, doesn't it?

In fact, it is good deeds.

Around Johannesburg, there are a total of four Boer concentration camps, where tens of thousands of Boers are imprisoned, at least thousands of them are unmarried girls of school age.

The living conditions in the concentration camp are very poor, and a large number of people die abnormally every month. Although the negotiations are ongoing, the attitude of the expeditionary force towards the Boers has not changed. The conditions in the concentration camp have not improved, and there are still a steady stream of people Being thrown into a concentration camp, in order not to be thrown into a concentration camp, many Boers choose to form families with Chinese, so that their situation will be fundamentally improved.

At least in the Johannesburg area, the safety of the Chinese is still guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)