Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 730 National Dish

Although Luis Botha is willing to make changes, there are some things that cannot be made up with hard work.

The farms in the Transvaal are getting better and better, which is inseparable from the efforts of the Chinese farmers. The inherent advantages of the Transvaal are more related. These advantages include the government's policy preference, the financial support of the Rand Bank, and the team of experts. In the end, it is the efforts of Chinese farmers.

Orange does not have these advantages, so it is very difficult to replicate the success of the Transvaal in Orange, and enthusiasm is not enough.

In other words, it is not enough that only Luis Botha is willing to change.

Obviously Louis Botha was also aware of this problem, so Louis Botha was extraordinarily silent for the rest of the trip.

Rock doesn't care about Louis Botha's attitude. It's not so easy to make a fortune. When the Johannesburg farm just started, Rock specially invited experts from Europe to solve technical problems, and bought breeding cattle from all over the world to improve livestock breeds. Sheep, in order to increase farm income, simply invest in textile factories and wineries in Johannesburg. All this is due to the strong financing capabilities of the Rand Bank and the underground black gold of the Johannesburg Mining Union. There is now Johannesburg.

Now that the farm in Orange wants to make money, the first thing to solve is the problem of capital. Without start-up capital, no matter how good the plan is, it cannot be implemented.

The Rand Bank could have provided funds for Orange, but there were many bad incidents in Orange where farmers disappeared directly after loans, and then the Rand Bank stopped its business in Orange.

The Boers in Orange are different from the Chinese in southern Africa. Chinese farmers in southern Africa have no choice but to operate their farms honestly.

There are too many choices for Boers. Don’t forget that we are still in the era of world immigration. Canada, Australia, and the United States are welcoming new immigrants everywhere. New immigrants from southern Africa come here and directly reimburse their boat tickets for houses and land. Canada, Australia Also, this gives a lot of "smart people" opportunities.

The most common operation is to get a sum of money from the Rand Bank with the farm as collateral, and then go to a new country to start all over again, and the money is a net profit.

In this process, the Rand Bank got the farm, the farmer got the money, and the Orange government, which suffered the most, was really empty of people and money.

"That's why the Ministry of Agriculture wants to promote the national farm. All the land is nationalized and distributed by the state. Private resale is not allowed. The farmer is equivalent to working on the national farm, completing the daily work, and getting the corresponding remuneration ’” Luis Botha confessed at lunch to why he founded the State Farm.

"It's even more unacceptable!" Rock vetoed it. Louis Botha thought it was good, but he was afraid that Louis Botha didn't know the big pot.

"Why?" Louis Botha really didn't know.

"Not necessarily, you can try it." Rock suddenly realized that he had also made an empirical mistake.

The policy really depends on the national conditions. If there are more people and less land, the food grown is not enough to eat, and if you do more or less, everyone will definitely have nothing to eat in the end.

But if there are fewer people and more land, and the food grown in the fields can't be eaten up, then the national farm is not out of the question.

The situation in southern Africa is that the standard is that there are fewer people and more land, one mu of land, without modern fertilizers, the output of growing grain is limited even if it is intensively cultivated. In the north of the Qing Dynasty, the yield per mu of wheat per mu is only [-] catties In a good year, it is only about [-] catties. In this case, no matter how intensive cultivation is, it is really not enough to eat.

A family in southern Africa starts with at least [-] acres, and [-] acres is [-] acres. If they are all planted with wheat, even if they are planted and left alone, the yield per mu is only [-] catties and the total is [-] catties.

If you grow potatoes instead of wheat, then you can eat them for a lifetime if you grow them for one year.

The consumption of the key food is flexible. An adult can eat three bowls of noodles in one meal without adding anything. If you add an egg and some meat, you will be full with one bowl.

The food in the Qing Dynasty was not enough to feed even people, so naturally there was no surplus food to feed poultry and livestock. There was so much food in southern Africa that every household had hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese, and hundreds of chickens and eggs. Meat is plentiful, which in turn reduces food consumption.

Therefore, the state farm has no future in the Qing Dynasty, and it may not necessarily be in southern Africa. It mainly depends on execution.

"Your country farm in Nyasaland is good." Louis Botha would be nice when he begged for help.

"Nyasaland is not a state farm at all. The land is all mine. The farmer leases the land. The key is that I don't collect taxes. The money earned by the farmer is his own. Of course, there is enthusiasm. Before every A family can lease [-] acres. Some people cultivate the land without sleep, eat in the fields, and the animals will die if they are exhausted. Now each family only has [-] acres, and they can apply again after all development is completed. We have to keep expanding, otherwise there won’t be enough land to accommodate new immigrants.” Rock finally found a suitable reason for his behavior, it’s impossible not to expand, time is running out.

Southern Africa is 324 million square kilometers, and the arable land is about [-] to [-] million acres. A family of [-] acres, in fact, can't accommodate many people. Now all states have begun to pay attention to this problem. Rock has been putting more and more people in the past two years. The resettlement of immigrants to Bechuanaland Rhodesia is actually no way.

In the current situation, if you want to continue to emigrate, you must continue to expand externally. Tanganyika and Southwest Africa are definitely annexed by Roque. Portuguese East Africa and the Congo Free State are also in Roque's plan. Roque is now When the world war breaks out, the eyes of the whole world will be on Europe. Even if Roque turns Africa upside down, Britain and France won't care about it.

"There's enough population in southern Africa—" Louis Botha didn't hide his emotion.

"It's still too early to be enough. It's enough for Orange, but Nyasaland's population resource gap is huge. We now need not only enough agricultural population, but also more skilled workers. In Asaland, only new immigrants under the age of ten can go to school, new immigrants over the age of ten must help on the farm, and they can enter the factory at the age of 14. We need to use one or two generations to bridge the gap with Europe. "Rock has lofty ambitions, but ideals also need to be paid for by reality.

The reality is always cruel, not to mention southern Africa, Europe is now full of sweatshops, 11-year-old children in France have to go to the factory to work, almost all factories in the UK have child labor, they have to work eleven every day just like adults hours or more.

Therefore, even if southern Africa wants to provide better welfare to its citizens, there is no realistic basis for it. The advantage of southern African industry lies in its low cost, but the low cost is not squeezed from the workers, but the low cost of raw materials. Henry The miners in Fawalt will not be paid high salaries. The average African miner in Johannesburg can only earn one rand per person per month. The companies in Nyasaland can pay their workers high salaries because of the products produced by Nyasaland companies. They all have high added value, so Rock naturally doesn't care if the unit profit is high.

As for the school age, Roque has no good solution. He can only make a simple and rude one-size-fits-all. The gap between southern Africa and Europe is not so irreparable. Japan can successfully turn around through the world war, and southern Africa has a greater chance.

"Fill the gap?" Louis Botha finally showed a surprised expression on his face.

It’s still a matter of structure. The issue that Louis Botha is thinking about most now is how to improve the management level of Orange farmers. However, Rock has already begun to consider the competition between southern Africa and Europe. Louis Botha has never considered this before. question.

Not to mention Louis Botha, I am afraid that in the entire southern Africa, only Roque is trying to bridge the gap with Europe, and even Stoudemire has not considered this issue.

"Yes, in fact, the gap between us and Europe is not as big as imagined. Europe has indeed completed the industrial revolution, and the colonial expansion of hundreds of years has also completed relatively good primitive accumulation, but now Europe is on the brink of war. , once the war breaks out, the European economy will stagnate, or even go backwards, and then we will have an opportunity in southern Africa, at least there will be no forces around us that can threaten us." Rock is confident that Europe is indeed relatively strong in the traditional field, but Southern Africa still has opportunities for overtaking in corners in emerging areas, as evidenced by the success of the Gale fighter jets and Lord cars.

Next, there will be more opportunities for overtaking in corners in Southern Africa, but before that, Southern Africa needs more labor and more high-end talents.

"It's hard. The gap between us and Europe is all-round, including economy, education, and people's livelihood—" Louis Botha shut up halfway through his speech. The economy is indeed poor, which Roque admits, but other aspects are not necessarily true. .

At least the United Kingdom has not yet started to enforce compulsory education. There are indeed fewer college students in southern Africa, but as time goes by, as more and more colleges and universities begin to enroll students, the gap in this regard will become smaller and smaller .

As for the gap in people's livelihood, it is even smaller. The land annexation in the British mainland is also very serious. Most of the land is concentrated in the hands of a few big nobles. The living standards of the common people are not much better than those in southern Africa.

At least the chicken, duck and goose eggs that often appear on the table of common people in southern Africa rarely appear on the table of common people in the United Kingdom. The most common food for British common people is fried fish and potato chips. These two things are not yet the national dish of the United Kingdom. , only poor people eat.

(End of this chapter)