When they came to southern Africa, Old Man Liu's family hardly felt any discomfort.

The police on the streets are Chinese, the officials of the immigration bureau are Chinese, the conductors on the train are Chinese, and even the officials who distributed farms to Old Man Liu's family in Bechuana are Chinese.

Before, Old Man Liu was worried that this kind of blatant behavior of taking advantage of the "official family" would not be punished by the government.

As a result, the officials in charge of resettling the new immigrants did not care at all, and after verifying the specific number, they placed the Liu family in New Chang'an, which is less than 100 kilometers away from Rhodes City.

As for why the new Chang'an?

The United States can have a new York, why can't Southern Africa have a new Chang'an?

Not to mention the new Chang'an, there have been many new place names in southern Africa in the past two years, all of which have oriental characteristics, such as Gusu, Wuling, Huizhou, and so on.

Compared to the rest of the Bechuana region, conditions in the vicinity of New Chang'an were quite good, and immigration officials allocated the Liu family's farms together for 100 acres each.

1,800 acres of land, which happens to be distributed in a zigzag shape, and the three families can live next to each other, in fact, it is the same as not separating families.

There is also a pond with an area of about 100 acres in Boss Liu's farm, but the officials of the Immigration Bureau directly gave this pond to Boss Liu as an add-on, which made Boss Liu overjoyed.

An ordinary pond, if given to a white farmer, or to an African, probably does not produce any profit.

But in the hands of the Chinese, a pond to feed a family is easy, a pond of 100 acres in size, just raise a few fish to eat, not to mention that the pond can also raise ducks and geese, compared with the potatoes in the field, is the duck eggs not fragrant, or the fish is not delicious?

"We are estimated to sleep in the carriage today, tomorrow the state government will come back to build a house, we don't need to pay money to build a house, the state government is fully responsible, within five years our farm does not have to pay taxes, how much money we earn is our own, and after five years we will only pay ten percent, if someone in the family joins the army and becomes a professional soldier, then there is no need to pay a penny of tax, but it is difficult to become a professional soldier, in addition to this, there is military service, but we adults over the age of 18 do not need to serve in the military, after the immigration reaches the age of five years, If you reach the age of eighteen, you must perform military service in accordance with the regulations, and if you do not do military service, the farm will be recovered. Liu Zhen reminded Boss Liu not to be happy too early.

Although Southern Africa has a variety of benefits for newcomers, the penalties for those who break the law are also very severe.

Roque believes in the use of heavy codes in troubled times, and the federal government has just been established, and it is necessary to use strict laws to make all citizens have a clear understanding of the federal government, and the federal government protects law-abiding citizens, and if anyone violates the law, then everything will be lost.

"What is a professional soldier?" Before Boss Liu could ask questions, the fifth child couldn't wait.

"The requirements for professional soldiers are very strict, you have no hope now, and your physical fitness is not qualified - but once you become a professional soldier, there are many benefits, not paying taxes is just one of them, professional soldiers take the highest salary of the federal government, enjoy meticulous benefits, but once a war breaks out, professional soldiers will shed blood and sacrifice, so run your farm well, even if you want to become a professional soldier, wait until a few years to start a family." Liu Zhen mentioned that it was still a little regrettable for professional soldiers, once Liu Zhen also wanted to become a professional soldier, but his comprehensive quality was not good, and in the end he did not enter the second round of screening at all.

The fifth elder of the Liu family didn't speak, but looking at his thoughtful expression, he obviously had a plan.

"What kind of professional soldier is it, farming well is serious!" Boss Liu didn't want to be a soldier, and he could see fire in his eyes when he looked at the farm in front of him.

The family couldn't wait for tomorrow at all, so they chose a relatively high open space and began to plan for the future.

"Since the land is all together, then let's live together, and the three families can take care of each other-" Old man Liu decided to live together, in fact, it is no different from not separating families.

"Second brother, how much loan does the bank give us?" Boss Liu is concerned about how much capital there is.

"I use my own farm as collateral, a total of five hundred rand, plus I still have some savings here, more than six hundred." Liu Zhen also spared no effort for the sake of his family.

"Then it will be counted as six hundred, you brothers remember, each person owes two or two hundred, and the interest must be calculated." Old man Liu didn't let Liu Zhen suffer, and the bowl of water was very flat.

"What kind of interest does the family want—" Liu Zhen still wanted to excuse himself.

"Second brother, you can think about taking our family out, it's already a great love, and the interest still has to be paid." Boss Liu didn't want to make it difficult for Liu Zhen.

It's easy to say that your own brother is good, the key is that Liu Zhen has become a family now, her daughter-in-law is still a foreign mother-in-law, and her brother is still good at settling accounts.

"Second brother, you are familiar here, you can buy what you should buy-" Old man Liu gave the right to Liu Zhen.

"The state government will build the house, and the state government may have welfare, cattle, sheep, seeds, etc., these six hundred rand I think I have to buy a few horses, and then buy some cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and whatever, and finally it is indispensable to buy weapons, although there are troops patrolling here, but it is still a little desolate, and weapons must be there." Liu Zhen is most worried about safety, the operation of the farm is no problem, Old Man Liu, Boss Liu, they have all planted the land all their lives, and there is expert guidance from the Agricultural Committee, as long as they are not lazy, the vast majority of Chinese farms have no management problems.

The contrast is stark in Johannesburg, where there is a group of people who specialize in the business of newcomers, and many white people just get their farms and lose them overnight, and then they have to wander again.

If you want to say that the biggest bad thing in southern Africa may be the prohibition of gambling, in Cape Town and Johannesburg, there are specially operated casinos, business is quite good, Johannesburg's mine owners are frequent customers of casinos, legend has it that there are several casinos in Johannesburg are related to the Matilda family.

"Then go and buy it, the eldest and the third you go with you, and the second one, you have to teach the eldest and the third how to use it, don't spend a lot of money to buy things into burning sticks." Old man Liu is as good as a stream, since Liu Zhen has repeatedly emphasized the issue of security, it means that this problem does exist.

At noon the next day, the construction team sent by the state government came to the Liu family's farm.

Old man Liu thought that it would take more than ten days to build a house, but the construction team of the state government was very fast, more than a dozen staff members worked together, and with the help of the Liu family, in just one day, the three most common wooden houses in southern Africa were built together.

The area of this kind of wooden house is not large, that is, forty or fifty square meters, ordinary two-bedroom, one-living room, one-kitchen and one-bathroom structure, if there are more people in the family, the children can only sleep in the attic.

Even so, it was enough to surprise the Liu family.

During the Qing Dynasty, the house where the Liu family lived was a crumbling thatched house, leaking wind in winter and rain in summer, and the house was broken and did not even have the ability to repair it.

Although the house built by the state government is a little smaller, the wood used is all good wood in the opinion of Old Man Liu, and in the Qing Dynasty, only rich people can use it as a large material for beams, and in southern Africa, it is only suitable for making flooring.

"We don't have anything in southern Africa, it's just that there is more land, more trees, more gold, it doesn't matter if the house is smaller, it's not enough to live and build it yourself, in fact, the price is also very cheap, in Johannesburg, the farms are used as the dividing line, the price of the saplings is very cheap, if you are not tired, you can go to the surrounding mountains and move casually, remember to say hello to the sheriff, the tax must be paid, or you will go to jail." Liu Zhen seized every opportunity to popularize legal knowledge, and many new immigrants in southern Africa were forced to serve their labor in prisons because they were not familiar with the laws of southern Africa.

In southern Africa, unless it is a death row prisoner who has committed the most heinous crimes, imprisonment is basically equivalent to hard labor, and the sentence in southern Africa is generally at least half a year, and it cannot be replaced by a fine, so the cost of breaking the law is very high.

"Do I have to pay taxes on the trees I plant?" Boss Liu didn't know how much to pay, and according to the experience of the Qing Kingdom, sometimes he had to go bankrupt.

"If you don't sell it, you don't have to pay taxes, and if you sell it, ten percent—" Liu Zhen finished speaking, and explained how much ten percent was.

"That's not much." Boss Liu put his mind at ease, it sounds a bit much to pay ten oceans for a hundred oceans, but people who can earn a hundred oceans don't care about ten oceans at all.

There are also those guys who get into the eyes of money, and they don't want to pay a penny, but such people basically end up miserable, the most powerful department of the federal government is not the Ministry of Defense, nor the Ministry of Justice, but the General Administration of Taxation, when necessary, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice must cooperate with the General Administration of Taxation to enforce the law, in southern Africa, where there are people, there may not be a police station, but there will be a tax officer.

The severity of the State Administration of Taxation lies in the fact that if someone evades taxes, then not to mention paying back taxes, they will have to pay more punitive fines, and the amount of fines is about ten times the amount involved.

In other words, if the amount of tax evasion is around one hundred rand, then in addition to making up the tax of one hundred rand, there is a punitive fine of about one thousand rand, so no one in southern Africa dares to challenge the majesty of the Directorate General of Tax.

Another day later, the Bechuana state government sent six Angus cattle, thirty Merino sheep, and three mixed-breed horses to the Liujia farm.

The breeding cattle and other supplies that Liu Zhen bought from Johannesburg also arrived at the Liujia farm a week later, and that night, the four fathers and sons of the Liu family sat in front of the bullpen with the shotgun that Liu Zhen bought, and did not sleep for a night, and then the next day the old man Liu went to Xinchang'an to buy four adult South African mastiffs.

I really can't wait for the South African mastiff sent by Liu Zhen to grow up.

It's so hard every day, and the iron-beaten man can't stand it.

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