Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 652

No matter how reluctant Ceci Wodehouse was, the conditions offered by Viscount Gladstone could not be changed. After all, it was the governor's will. This phrase sounds scary.

Ceci Wodehouse was indeed stubborn, insisting on not agreeing to Viscount Gladstone's request and not giving up any inch of the country.

After all, it is [-] square kilometers. If this agreement is signed, Ceci Wodehouse will become a traitor and his political career has come to an end.

Roque will definitely not give the Germans a chance to breathe. On February [-]st, "unidentified armed forces" appeared in the coastal areas of the northwest of Southwest Africa. This is a relatively mature area in Southwest Africa. Not only is agriculture developed, but also rich in mineral resources. Copper and iron ore are urgently needed in Germany, so Ceci Wodehouse can only return to the negotiating table again, and under the triumphant eyes of Viscount Gladstone, he signed the "Kando River Agreement" in pain and humiliation. Put your name on it.

This agreement also became the biggest achievement of Viscount Gladstone's tenure.

Of course, for the British Empire, such an achievement is insignificant. A mere [-] kilometers is not enough for the name of Viscount Gladstone to appear on the list of knighthood promotions.

Rock's name did not appear on the list of title promotions, but Rock didn't care. The title was already dispensable to Rock, and southern Africa was Rock's core interest.

On February 20th, Viscount Gladstone arrived at Port Edward by boat from Cape Town and began his inspection of Nyasaland. Roque, as the lord of Nyasaland, accompanied him throughout the journey.

The current Port Edward has become the largest port on the east coast of Africa. It is as busy as Cape Town. Every day, dozens of ocean-going ships enter and leave Port Edward, sending various industrial products from Nyasaland to The coast of the Indian Ocean and the Far East also bring a steady stream of fresh blood to southern Africa.

Specifically, the ships leaving the port are loaded with cars, cans, weapons and ammunition, and various meat products, while the ships entering the port are basically loaded with new immigrants and oil, and of course there are various ores from Madagascar. The ore is to be sent to Port Edward for primary processing before being sent to the interior of Southern Africa.

Therefore, in Port Edward, in addition to the port area, living area, and storage area, a new industrial area has emerged. The largest civilian automobile factory in southern Africa is in Nyasaland. The income of tens of millions of rands, of course, these incomes have nothing to do with the Southern African Federal Government and Nyasaland State Government, and most of the income belongs to Roque.

After the implementation of the "New Tax Law", Roque can definitely be called a "model taxpayer". There may be people who evade taxes in Cape Natal, but no one dares to do so in Nyasaland. Everyone knows that the head of the General Tax Administration is Roque. Ke's "second wife", no one is uncomfortable in this matter.

The port area is located on the side of the wharf, and the area around Locke Square is the most prosperous area in Port Edward. Nearly 2000 meters of streets here are all branches of major companies in Port Edward.

On the other side of the 150-meter-wide street is a breakwater that stretches for more than ten kilometers. Beside the breakwater, there are many iron chairs for people to rest. However, the utilization rate of these chairs is not high during the day. People who have worked hard all day will go to the beach for a walk and rest.

The most magnificent building on the entire street is not the Port Edward City Hall, but the branch of the Rand Bank in Port Edward. This building complex covers an area of ​​40 hectares. Although the main building has only five floors, it is astonishingly high. 20 meters, the whole body is made of white marble, and there are twelve [-]-meter-high colonnades in front of the door. The underground of this main building is said to be the largest vault on the east coast of Africa, with hundreds of tons of gold stored in it.

Someone once had the idea of ​​an underground vault, but they were all killed on the spot by the mercenaries of the umbrella company responsible for protecting the vault. The mercenaries hired by the Rand Bank were all composed of Chinese. Southern African regulars are on par.

On the other side of the pier next to Locke Square is the storage area. The storage area and the pier are connected by trams, which are also the most common means of transportation in Port Edward.

When Viscount Gladstone disembarked, Port Edward was still as busy as ever. Two huge freighters were loading, but there were no sweaty dock workers on the docks of Port Edward, and the workers who appeared on the docks were all neatly dressed. They are skillfully sending huge boxes one by one to the freighter through the gantry crane.

"This kind of box is called a container. It is definitely an epoch-making invention of ocean transportation. In the past, in order to increase the carrying capacity of our ocean-going freighters, we usually had to work hard on the hull. Sometimes there was still power left, but because of the lack of space, It is impossible to load more goods. With containers, we can make full use of the power of each horse to transport more goods. This is an invention of one of our dock workers. It is said that this dock worker made a fortune with this invention, and gets The patent fee is as high as hundreds of thousands of pounds." Rock proudly introduced.

In fact, this is all the effect of propaganda. In fact, the container was invented by Rock, but Rock doesn't care about this honor, so in Nyasaland's propaganda, the inventor of the container became an ordinary dock worker. The legendary dock workers also relied on this invention to make a fortune, which has become strong evidence of Nyasaland's dream.

Speaking of the "Nyasaran Dream", it is also inspired by the "American Dream". For hundreds of years, the United States has tried its best to promote the "American Dream" to attract European immigrants.

Now Nyasaland is also promoting the "Nyasaland Dream". No matter whether the dock worker mentioned above exists or not, no one cares about this at all. People care about the opportunities and dreams reflected in this story.

"That's really amazing!" Viscount Gladstone was also moved by this simple little story. In Viscount Gladstone's memory, this kind of thing could only happen in Nyasaland, even if he desperately promoted the "American Dream" "In the United States, the chances of such a thing happening are not high.

No matter in any industry, as long as there is an opportunity to make money, once it shows signs, it will be divided up by various big nobles, big businessmen, or officials. It is difficult for ordinary people to make money. Even if it is indeed an epoch-making invention, ordinary people want to make a fortune. It is also difficult to get rich. At most, you can get a low patent transfer fee, and more profits will still be made by investors.

Compared with Cape Town, which Viscount Gladstone was more familiar with, Port Edward gave Viscount Gladstone the deepest impression of being clean and tidy.

In addition to the rude sailors and workers on the docks of Cape Town, there are all kinds of homeless people, beggars, practitioners of special occupations, and countless thieves and wanderers.

Except for workers, well-dressed businessmen, and a few police officers, there are no homeless or beggars at Port Edward Wharf. Nyasaland has strict regulations in this regard. Once a homeless or beggar is found in Nyasaland If you want to be deported, if you can't tell your hometown, the Nyasaland State Government will find a job for the homeless or beggar.

Of course, there are definitely not many options for this "job". Miners are the most common type of work, and only those who perform well have the opportunity to become state farm workers.

There are also workers in charge of sanitation and cleaning on the wharf of Port Edward. Most of these workers are Africans. Of course, they are also neatly dressed, but their temperament is quite different from other people.

"Didn't Nyasaland not welcome Africans?" Viscount Gladstone was quite curious. Roque's rejection of Africans was well known among high-level officials in southern Africa.

"It is indeed not welcome. These workers are not from Nyasaland. They are all from the Kingdom of Mozambique, or Natal, or Madagascar. They are only working in Nyasaland. They are not allowed to settle down in Nyasaland, nor are they They are allowed to buy real estate, and they only have one opportunity to visit relatives every year, and they will be expelled if they exceed the specified time. Over the years, Africans have secretly entered Nyasaland and tried to settle in Nyasaland. Those people are basically working in the mines now. The mine only needs healthy adult men." Rock is not soft-hearted in this regard, the welfare of Nyasaland only belongs to the residents of Nyasaland, and it is very difficult for foreigners to obtain the right to settle in Nyasaland.

Even the new immigrants introduced by Nyasaland on their own initiative have a five-year inspection period in Nyasaland. During the inspection period, if they fail to pass the inspection or commit a crime, they will also be repatriated. The Nyasaland State Government will In this regard, like Rock, he is never soft.

"Hahahaha, you are becoming more and more like a pure Englishman. That's it. We must make full use of every human resource, and we must not waste it." Viscount Gladstone thought he gave Rock the highest evaluation, although Rock doesn't think so, but Rock won't deny it either.

Even if the British Empire is in decline, it is still the most powerful country in the world. Rock's code of conduct has always been to lean against a big tree to enjoy the shade, and pragmatism is most in line with Rock's current interests.

"I heard that the federal government is going to repatriate Indians in batches. Who made this proposal?" Although Roque is in a high position, civil affairs issues are not within Roque's responsibility. As long as the federal government does not repatriate Chinese, Roque will not care about the federal government's repatriation who.

It would be better to deport everyone except Chinese.

"Who else suggested it, of course it was our clever Uncle Jenny—" Viscount Gladstone's words were not without ridicule.

The clever Uncle Jenny is Jan Smudge, and Rock doesn't know why Jan Smudge has this nickname. In Rock's view, it seems that it should be "Stupid Jan Smudge".

Of course, the "stupid" here is from Rock's point of view. From the point of view of the Boers, Yang Smother is indeed very smart. The Ministry of Education successfully pulled out of the investigation, and the two Boer deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education were thrown out. Although Yang Smozi once submitted a resignation report to Adelaide, Adelaide still refused to approve it in order to appease the Boers.

In the current federal government, the full-time ministers are only Yang Smozi and Louis Botha. If Yang Smozi resigns, then the Boers will not care whether Yang Smozi is dereliction of duty , but will think that the federal government is deliberately suppressing the Boers.

The most serious "racial discrimination" in southern Africa is also the Boers. Before the Second Boer War broke out, the Boers even dared to discriminate against the British. You can imagine how arrogant the Boers are.

During the Orange Plague, Gandhi, who had no news for a long time, led the stretcher team and made great contributions to quelling the Orange Plague. Therefore, many Indians settled in Orange, and now it is outside Natal. In the second largest Indian gathering area in Africa, Yang Smozi is now killing donkeys. Since the Indians are useless, the Indians will be repatriated in batches.

From this point of view, Yang Smolts is the standard British.

"This suggestion is not smart—" Rock put on a face, anyway, there are no Indians in Nyasaland, and Rock was happy to watch.

"Now the Indians in Orange have started to make noise. It is said that some people are organizing a strike against this proposal of Jan Smoltz, and some people have burned the portrait of Jan Smolzy at the rally in Bloemfontein, as if Bloemfontein dispatched the police, and there were casualties, you don’t know the specific information?” Viscount Gladstone was more than happy to watch the excitement, the police system is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and Roque is also serving as the Deputy Minister of Justice .

Considering Henry, who is loose, free, casual, absent-minded, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, and not going to work all day long, Roque, the deputy minister, is more like a minister.

"I don't know. There is no need to report similar incidents within the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Justice will not wipe the buttocks of the police stations in various states, and deal with the troubles caused by itself." Rock doesn't care about this kind of thing at all. If this kind of thing needs to be reported, Then we have to leave documents and records. God knows, whether these documents and records will become evidence of Rock's "doing evil" in southern Africa.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. The newspapers in southern Africa often report the atrocities committed by the Germans in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. This is the strongest evidence of the happy life of the people in southern Africa. You don't pay too much attention to the bad things around you.

Especially for Africans in southern Africa, compared with Africans in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika, Africans in southern Africa are considered happy. At least the federal government of southern Africa has not organized massacres of Africans in southern Africa.

Of course, planned reductions are also essential.

This is also the news that Southwest Africa and Tanganyika newspapers are most willing to report, but unfortunately, Africans in southern Africa have no chance to see newspapers published in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika.

Even if you read it, you can’t understand it. The newspapers in Southwest Africa and Tanganyika are all in German, and few Africans in Southern Africa know English, let alone German.

　Sorry, it's still a chapter——

　　

　

(End of this chapter)