In the era of lack of entertainment, there are no mobile phones, no computers, no endless soap operas, couples can only focus on each other, there is nothing to do at night, so they have to do something to love and do to adjust their lives, and the fertility rate is naturally very high.

Connie is not the only one who is pregnant with her second child, at least more than half of the dozen women who have just given birth in May have become pregnant again, more than 80 Chinese couples who got married in April, and now more than 60 Chinese nurses are also pregnant, and the situation is so "serious" that it has even affected Dr. Kay Mallory's training of nurses.

The second generation of Chinese represents the future of the Chinese in Johannesburg, the larger the base and the more the number of people, the greater the influence of the Chinese in Johannesburg and even the entire Transvaal, and the higher the social status.

In order to encourage childbirth, Ziwei Town Hospital stipulates that nurses can enjoy half a year's paid vacation if they are pregnant, and if they give birth in Ziwei Town Hospital, the hospital will also reduce all fees.

It's pure welfare, not to mention in Johannesburg, it's unique in the whole world.

As a result, the hospital's profits, and even the nurses' decision, will be affected.

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

What's more, with the improvement of the service of Ziwei Town Hospital, the cost of Ziwei Town Hospital is also high, a common cold, in Cape Town may only be cured by one or two pounds, but in Ziwei Town Hospital, no three or five pounds can not be lowered, this part of the profit, enough to make up for the welfare expenditure.

After the "injury wave" subsided, Roque had consulted with Dr. Colin Bellamy about reducing the cost of the hospital.

The conclusion is that no, hospitals are not charities, and it is a matter of course to pay for medical treatment.

What's more, medical resources are already very tight now, when Colin Bellamy was in Cape Town, a private clinic only had three or five beds, and the cost was also high, even so, there were still many people who chose to receive treatment at home because the clinic did not have enough beds.

Johannesburg is the same, in the whole Johannesburg, Ziwei Town Hospital may be the hospital with the most beds, the most advanced medical facilities, the most beautiful environment, and the most beautiful nurses.

With high benefits as a backing, it is foreseeable that in the next few years, Ziwei Town will usher in a large wave of baby booms.

Just a month ago, Father Frank donated a batch of medicines and a batch of daily necessities to the Ziwei Township Hospital, in exchange for allowing Father Frank to preach in the hospital and baptize the newborn babies in the hospital.

The church wasn't even built yet!

Speaking of baptism, Catholicism and Protestantism have different habits in this regard, relatively speaking, Protestantism has less strict requirements, and sometimes, believers can even come to the church to be baptized until they reach adulthood.

Catholicism is different, Catholicism firmly believes that work must start with a baby, so babies from Catholic families can be baptized in the church eight days after birth.

This became an important reason for Protestants to attack Catholicism.

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

A few drops will do.

For adults, this amount of water is nothing, but for babies who are only eight days old, it is a very dangerous behavior, and if it is not done well, it will affect the baby's health.

Therefore, Roque himself was also opposed to baptism.

However, Father Frank was very smart, and he also knew that as a Catholic priest, he was not well received in Ziwei Town, which was supposed to be a Protestant territory, so Father Frank chose other ways to lure the parents of newborn babies to take their babies to church for baptism, and if they didn't go for eight days, eight months or even eight years old.

And every baby or child who chooses to be baptized in church receives a blessing from God—a gift from God worth ten pounds.

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

Catholic standards, of course.

And it was Frank, the archbishop, who personally opened the light.

For such a 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, it is the right thing to get the gift package.

Of course, Roque doesn't care, as long as he doesn't baptize the eight-day-old baby, although Philip Matilda asks Roque to restrain Frank, but Philip Matilda doesn't provide any effective support to Roque, and Roque can't do it.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice.

Wealth is moving.

There are many reasons for Roque.

Back in the office, Buck, who had just gone to a meeting of the Mining Alliance, had a new situation report.

"The Cape Town City Council is discussing the end of the subsidy for Asian immigrants, and if the discussion passes, then from next month, we will have to pay for the immigration again, because the number of immigrants is relatively large, and the average monthly cost we have to spend on immigration may be more than 5,000 pounds." Buck frowned, 5,000 pounds a month is not a small number, it doesn't matter if a month or two months is calculated, if it is calculated on an annual basis, the Locke gold mine will not be able to fill this hole by selling all the gold that can be sold every year and exchanging it for pounds.

"Aiden, what do they say?" Roque is not in a hurry, the sky is falling and there is a tall one, and the De Beers Unified Mining Company is a tall one.

"The De Beers Unified Mining Company is certainly adamantly against it, and I heard that Mr. Cecil Rhodes Jr. is operating in Cape Town, but the situation does not seem to be good." Buck was worried, if Cecil Rhodes Jr. couldn't handle it, then it would be useless for Roque to get out of the horse.

The issue of immigration costs has been the subject of controversy.

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

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

Before Roque and Aiden imported miners on a large scale, a large number of Indians immigrated to the Cape, and even formed a settlement of Indians in Natal, and Gandhi was the representative of these Indians.

Now because of Roque and Aiden's involvement, the number of Chinese from the Qing Kingdom is growing rapidly, and the scale is much larger than that of the Indians, and in the past six months, at least 20,000 Chinese have arrived in Johannesburg and the Kimberley via Cape Town, a situation that greatly annoys the Cape colonial government.

After all, the current Cape and the Transvaal are two different things, the governments of these two regions account independently and operate independently, and the Chinese are naturalized through Cape Town and then work in the Transvaal, which is equivalent to the Cape colonial government paying money to help the Transvaal colonial government immigrate.

The money is spent, but the political achievements belong to Alfred Milner, no one is reconciled!

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

"Send a telegram to Hoover and Liang Dingxin, asking them to hurry up and send as many people as possible to the ship, and tell the brothers in the mine that if they want their families to immigrate to Cape, then they must hurry up, and if they have to charge in the future, then even if the mine will bear part of it, I will have to bear part of it." Roque is not afraid of spending money, but wants to use this news to force the hesitant miners to seize this last opportunity.

Sometimes, even if you do a good deed, you have to use some relatively despicable means.

This is inevitable, the truth is often in the hands of a few, in other words, these Chinese workers in Johannesburg are ordinary people who can't read a single word before they go abroad, maybe their life radius is not more than ten kilometers long, in this case, how much knowledge can you ask them?

Therefore, when some hesitant miners can't take the initiative to make the right decision, as a sign of the Chinese, Roque should play the role of a guide, even if it is not fair to those hesitant miners, but in a few years, those miners who are hesitant today will be grateful to Roque.

From the adoption of a policy to its implementation, it generally has to go through a process, which can be long or short, sometimes one or two years, sometimes only a few months.

It's the same with restricting immigration, and even if Cecil Rhodes Jr. can't change the final outcome, he should be able to buy more time.

In the original history, two years after the end of the Boer War negotiations, the Cape completely stopped importing immigrants from Asia, it should have been 1904, although it is only 1901, but God knows whether this time and space will develop according to the course of the original history, so hurry up.

"Well, I've already sent a telegram to Liang Dingxin, Hoover hasn't sent it yet, we have more than a thousand people coming over this month, even if the average person is five pounds, this is not a small number." Barker also knows how important it is, and in recent months, although miners have not been able to enter the Transvaal, the families of miners who have arrived in Johannesburg have been able to enter the Transvaal in a steady stream.

After all, compared with the war-torn Qing Dynasty, although the Transvaal was also in a period of war, the guerrilla attacks only took place in the Cape, and now the Transvaal can be regarded as a pure land in the troubled times.

In order to encourage Chinese workers to bring their families to Johannesburg, the Rock Gold Mine has made a special provision that every child under the age of 10 who arrives in Johannesburg can go to the Rock Gold Mine to receive a settling-in allowance of one pound.

The Chinese are very talented in exploiting loopholes, so the proportion of children among the families of miners arriving in Johannesburg is very large, sometimes even a dozen children in a family.

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

But who cares?

Roque wants people, as long as there are people, as for where people come from, Roque doesn't care, Hoover is a human trafficker, Roque can cooperate with him, and this kind of normal imported population is even more fine.

Although the mine knows this fact, it also pretends not to know, as long as someone comes to receive the settling-in fee, the mine will pay in full, and these children are now scattered on the farms around Ziwei Town, and they will definitely have to go to school and receive education in the future, so the pressure on the school will be very great, and George and Simon alone will not be able to keep it busy.

"How much settling-in money have we paid out so far?" Roque wants to find out, and the reason why he gives a settling-in allowance is to count the total population.

"Last month it was £350, and this month it has been over £200 so far, a total of £1,100." Buck is still more worried, 1,100 pounds, which means 1,100 school-age children, Ziwei Town School 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, and the language barrier must be solved first in order to enter school.

"Teacher, what news does Liang Dingxin have?" Roque can only hope for Liang Dingxin, in fact, when it comes to English proficiency, many Chinese police officers are also good now, but Chinese police officers can only speak and can't read, so they can't teach children.

Liang Dingxin used to work in the customs, although there are not many Chinese who know English in this era, but in the customs, the absolute number is definitely a lot, Roque lured those customs workers to work in Johannesburg with a high salary, and after coming, he wanted a house and a house, a farm and a farm, and even if he didn't have a daughter-in-law, he could help find one here.

Daughter-in-law!

Sounds a bit, right?

In fact, it is the accumulation of virtue.

Around Johannesburg, there were four Boer camps, which housed tens of thousands of Boers, at least a few thousand of whom were unmarried girls.

The living conditions in the camps were very poor, a large number of people died unnaturally every month, although negotiations were ongoing, but the attitude of the expeditionary force towards the Boers did not change, the conditions in the camps did not improve, there was still a steady stream of people thrown into the concentration camps, in order not to be thrown into the concentration camps, many Boers chose to form families with the Chinese, so that their situation would be fundamentally improved.

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