Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 590

Once in southern Africa, Cecil Rhodes’ name could stop children from crying at night, and now Roque’s name is similar. At least Southwest Africa dare not ignore Roque’s note, so the situation Bechuana is facing now is really serious. The situation is not as serious as described in the southern African newspapers. Otherwise, Rock would not only station one regiment in Rhodes City. Compared with the land of nearly 60 square kilometers in Bechuanaland, a regiment of more than 2000 people is really not enough. , Even a reorganizer is not enough to maintain the security of the entire Bechuanaland State.

To put it bluntly, it is all routine. Southern African newspapers and magazines are hyping up the humanitarian crisis in Tanganyika every day, and at the same time they are also hyping up the severe situation facing Bechuanaland. In the final analysis, they still serve politics. Southern Africa creates a weak image that is controlled everywhere, further enhances internal cohesion, and cooperates with Adelaide to integrate southern Africa.

Of course, for these reasons, Roque will not tell Anton in too much detail, so as to avoid too much subversion of Anton's world view. There are many things that Roque does not need to explain to Anton. How Roque arranges and how Anton executes is enough up.

Therefore, Rock's attitude is very firm: "Don't worry too much about the Gurkhas in Bechuanaland, including the Chinese who immigrated to Nyasaland, the state government does not take care of everything, Nyasaland, or the south Africa is not a paradise. If you want to live in Nyasaland or southern Africa, you mainly rely on your own efforts. The state government only creates a suitable space for new immigrants. How to choose is mainly the new immigrants’ own efforts.”

Again, Rock is not a philanthropist. Every family of the Gurkhas who voluntarily went to Bechuanaland will receive ten acres of land for their livelihood. Considering the actual situation in Bechuanaland, ten acres of land is also It's just to make a living. If you want to live a better life, you still have to work hard to expand the farm, work hard, and buy livestock, so that you can barely maintain the operation of a farm.

For those Gurkhas who are unwilling to go to Bechuana State, if they are willing to stay in Nyasaland, they can of course maintain their lives. After all, the farms in Nyasaland need a lot of workers. As long as they work hard, they can live in Nyasaland It is not difficult for Saran to find a job, but it is very difficult to think about greater development. At least in the long run, staying in Nyasaland is far less promising than going to Bechuanaland voluntarily.

"Last month, the population of our Nyasaland has exceeded 80, 80.00% of which are concentrated around Lake Niassa, the Zambezi River Basin, including Port Edward, has less than 10 people, and the rest Scattered and resettled along the coast of East Lake and Beihai, it is becoming more and more difficult to obtain new immigrants from the Far East, I think it is very necessary for us to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty, at least the Qing Dynasty cannot restrict our immigration." Anton is also very worried now. Colonies in the world are short of people. In Anton's vision, there must be at least 200 million Chinese in Nyasaland to ensure the dominant position of Chinese in Nyasaland.

The 80 people here are only in Nyasaland. In the Transvaal, Rhodesia, and even Cape, there are now many Chinese settlers. Overall, the total number of Chinese in southern Africa should be about 150 million. This number can basically be equal to the number of whites in southern Africa.

Therefore, the current situation facing Rock and Anton is not only that the Qing Dynasty is restricting population outflow, but also some people in southern Africa are worried about this situation. In less than ten years, the Chinese will overtake the whites and become the largest ethnic group in southern Africa. At that time, whether southern Africa can maintain the rule of the whites is a very serious problem.

The most vehement voice in this regard was that of Colonial Secretary Jerome Wycliffe.

In fact, Rock and Jerome Wickliffe are also old acquaintances. When they were in Pretoria, Rock was the deputy police chief, and Jerome Wycliffe was the immigration director of the Transvaal at that time. Now that the federal government is established, Jerome Wycliffe will naturally become the Minister of Colonial Department of the federal government.

Speaking of which, Jerome Wickliffe is also Adelaide's confidant. As early as the Cape Town period, Jerome Wycliffe was deeply trusted by Adelaide, otherwise Jerome Wycliffe would not have dared to propose this problem.

"Don't think about it, how do you want to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty? Send the Beihai to intimidate the Qing Dynasty? Don't forget that we are also Chinese, so let's find another way—" Rock will not point his gun at the Chinese anyway, if Nyasaran really sent the Beihai to the Far East for "gunboat diplomacy". It is estimated that it will be more difficult for Rock to emigrate from the Qing Dynasty in the future.

Taking a step back, as a destroyer in the inner lake, it is still uncertain whether the Beihai can sail in the ocean, so it is better not to take risks at this time. Even if the Qing Dynasty restricts the immigration of Chinese from Nyasaland, Rock still has many ways.

What I want to explain here is that after the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the Qing government's control over the Qing Dynasty has been greatly reduced.

During the Eight-Power Allied Forces’ invasion of China, Liu Kunyi, governor of Liangjiang, Li Zhongtang, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, reached an agreement with Britain, the United States and other countries in order to protect themselves, and refused to implement the order of the Qing government. It was known as "Southeast mutual protection" in history. .

The reasons and results of Dongnan Mutual Insurance will not be discussed here, but the influence of Dongnan Mutual Insurance has had a great impact on the rule of the Qing government. In fact, after the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the Qing government had lost control over Liangjiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Huguang. Therefore, the Qing government's ban on Nyasaland may still have a certain influence in the northern part of the Qing state, but it cannot be implemented in the southern part of the Qing state.

Nyasaland's immigration in the past two years has also gradually moved from the north of the Qing Dynasty to the south and inland of the Qing Dynasty. Liang Dingxin used to live in the Qing Dynasty's capital, but now he has moved from the capital to Songjiang. Hoover has also left the Qing Dynasty and returned to the United States, so Although the total number of immigrants received by Nyasaland from the Qing Dynasty has been decreasing in the past two years, the quality has been continuously improved. For example, the proportion of Chinese immigrants to Nyasaland in the past two years has gradually shrunk. personnel, as well as the number of educated traditional intellectuals have increased significantly.

Especially for handicraftsmen, the Qing Dynasty was still emphasizing "scholars, farmers, industry, and merchants", but Nyasaland did not discriminate against handicraftsmen at all. Even handicraftsmen who wanted to start a business in Nyasaland were more likely to get a loan from the Rand Bank. It is easier for farmers to take loans to expand their farms, so there have been a lot of handicraftsmen immigrating to Nyasaland in the past two years. In the past, one or two immigrants out of a hundred were good enough. In the past two years, the proportion has gradually climbed to about 15.00%.

"We are now cooperating with the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River and immigrating from the Qing Dynasty with the help of the local gentry. The effect is actually not bad, but I am afraid that it will take five to ten years to see the effect—" Anton is also very helpless, the world is not going well, Ten is often eight or nine.

It must be explained that in recent years, due to the large-scale immigration of Nyasaland, the number of homeless children in the big cities of the Qing Dynasty has decreased significantly.

In other countries, the demand for adult labor is far greater than the demand for women and children.This is not the case in Nyasaland. Normally, Nyasaland cooperates with the gentry of the Qing Dynasty. For each adult labor force obtained, Nyasaland pays about ten yuan, and women and children pay five yuan. ocean.

It sounds like it is twice as bad, and there is no comparison at all. In fact, women and children are easier to obtain than adult labor. Therefore, for a while, the migrant ships in Nyasaland were all women and children. For a time, Anton's head was as big as a bucket.

But for Rock, this situation is very good.

In fact, Rock doesn't pay much attention to adult labor. If it is purely for labor, there are actually better choices in southern Africa. The working ability of those adult Africans is actually not much worse than that of Chinese adult labor.

But the point is that the cost of local adult labor in Africa is almost zero, so this makes a huge difference.

Relatively speaking, Rock prefers children with infinite possibilities in the future. As long as education is strengthened for these children and they are exposed to new ideas and new technologies, it is possible that among these children, countless Rudolph Diesel will be born in the future. Or the countless John Moses Brownings.

As for women, although Roque doesn't mind the combination of Chinese and Western families, there are still a lot of bachelors in Nyasaland. Hitting the Gurkhas who had just immigrated to southern Africa.

Not to mention, there are really many Gurkha women who are willing to start families with Chinese, even age is not a problem. Compared with the impoverished Gurkhas, at least the Chinese who can stay in Nyasaland are more or less Savings, which is not easy in this day and age.

"It doesn't matter, let alone five to ten years, even if it is 20 or 30 years, we can afford to wait—" Rock is not in a hurry, he will not be able to catch up with the First World War and the Second World War, anyway, these two or 30 years Over the years, Roque had to seize the opportunity no matter what.

Objectively speaking, the overall education level of Nyasaland has far surpassed that of Transvaal and Cape Town. It is not just that Nyasaland has the only university in southern Africa. Everyone knows that Nyasaland has the most advanced primary and secondary education. In this regard, almost all the primary and secondary schools in Nyasaland are comparable to the Big Via Public School.

You know, the standard of Bigwig Public School can be ranked high even in the UK, so one can imagine how terrifying the primary and secondary education in Nyasaland is.

This is where Rock's confidence lies.

(End of this chapter)