Back in Johannesburg, Roque's way of thinking about people and things is very different from what it used to be.

From the standpoint of the British government, the former Roque was capable, but at the same time selfish, Roque would not serve the British government wholeheartedly, and Alfred Milner must have found out about this, so he warned Roque.

In the past, Roque was confident that even if he couldn't get ahead in Cape, he could thrive in other places.

Not now, it's not that Roque has no self-confidence, but there are more and more Chinese in Johannesburg, and in this time and space, the reason why Chinese miners came to Johannesburg has a lot to do with Roque, and Roque is responsible for them.

So, Roque now has to fight for a stronger position, at least Roque can't lose Alfred Milner's trust.

Back at the police station, Roque first brought Joe Russell in.

"How's the inventory going?" During this time, Joe Russell has been leading people to cooperate with the city government to check the true production of the Johannesburg gold mine in preparation for the next step of tax collection.

Roque had never taken care of this before, and even because of the Rock Gold Mine and the Matilda Gold Mine, Roque deliberately dragged his feet to create conditions for tax evasion in the future.

Now Roque is not entangled in these little things, taxes are the main income of the Transvaal government in the future, and in any case, the Transvaal government will not relax, so there is no need to drag its feet on this issue, and there is no need to evade taxes, how much to pay, and compared to the profits of the gold mines, that tax is actually not much.

Of course, there is still legal tax avoidance, which is the main content of Scarlett's work.

"It's terrible, don't expect that gang of traitors to cooperate-" Joe Russell realized that something was wrong, this blow was too wide, in this case, Roque and the mayor are profiteers, and even Joe Russell's uncle is also a profiteer.

Yes, Cape Town Police Chief August Russell also bought a gold mine some time ago when the Pretoria Mines Bureau held a gold mine auction.

The gold mine is not big, and it is not remarkable in Johannesburg, but it is also a gold mine after all.

So, what Henry said was the truth, and in the Transvaal, officials and officials were accused.

"Start with the Rock Gold Mine—" Roque led by example.

"Director, the production of the Rock Gold Mine has been determined." Joe Russell's answer surprised Roque, who had no idea that people from the city and police had been to the Rock Gold Mine.

"What is the production of the Rocke gold mine?" Roque was curious, he didn't even know the production of the Rock Gold Mine.

This mine owner is really incompetent.

"5,000 ounces a month." Joe Russell doesn't even have to go back to the records, his memory is so good.

5,000 ounces is 155.5 kilograms, Johannesburg has more than 30 gold mines, large and small, before the outbreak of the war, the annual gold production was about 100 tons, so the average to each gold mine, about 3 tons.

Considering that gold mines are large and small, it is normal for the Rock Gold Mine to produce 155.5 kilograms of gold per month.

The crux of the matter is that after two replenishments, there are already nearly 5,000 workers in the Rock Gold Mine, and a gold mine of this size is a properly large mine in Johannesburg, so 155.5 kilograms of gold is certainly not suitable.

"What is the production of the Matilda gold mine?" Roque was curious, not knowing how this yield was determined.

"3,000 ounces—" Joe Russell still didn't have to go back and look through the records.

Matilda Gold Mine employs about 3,000 people, so that means that this production is based on heads, one ounce a month per person.

It's also too casual.

"Who set this standard?" Roque asked directly.

There is no doubt that this criterion must have been decided by someone patting his head, and although Roque did not know the production of the Rock gold mine, he knew the production of the Matilda gold mine.

By the time Arnold left the Matilda mine, the mine was producing more than 10,000 ounces a month.

Just kidding, in the entire Rand mining area, the ore grade can reach 150 grams per tonne of gold, only the Matilda gold mine, the "pure gold" ore layer of the Rogue gold mine is an accident, normally speaking, the ore grade of the Roc gold mine is about 20 grams per ton.

Only!

This grade, compared to the average gold mine, is actually very high.

"Mr. Blake Nelson." Joe Russell is frank.

Blake Nelson is the head of the Home Office of the City of Johannesburg, and he is the only one who has the right to "pat his head".

Well, to this extent, there is nothing that can be done about Roque, after all, it is not Roque who is digging the corners of the British Empire, everyone is digging, Roque alone, it is impossible to fight against all the gold mine owners in Johannesburg.

Let's do our own thing, Roque went straight to the De Beers Unified Mining Company.

As the largest mining company in the Cape, the Johannesburg branch of De Beers Unified Mining Company, is located in a former Johannesburg city centre location.

In fact, it is not a city, in the past, Johannesburg did not even have a government agency, it was a large area of chaotic shantytowns.

Aiden certainly wouldn't have worked in a shed, in fact, the Johannesburg branch of the De Beers Unified Mining Company was in a white marble building, and the whole building was imposing and large, not far more than the Palace of Justice where Alfred Milner lived, and Cecil Rhodes Jr. gave the building a very atmospheric name: Olympos.

In Greek mythology, Olympos is the mountain of the gods, and the original meaning of "Olympus" comes from the meaning of "place of light".

In Greek mythology, Olympos had the status equivalent of heaven, where gods, demigods, and their servants lived.

When Roque arrived in Olympos, Aiden was already waiting at the gates of Olympus.

"Director Locke, welcome to your presence, in fact, you don't need to come in person, just a phone call, Aiden is always willing to serve you." Aiden is very good at talking, and the people who can be general managers are not simple.

"Don't pretend Aiden, if I don't come to you, you'll never come to me." Roque was familiar with the road, and his casual tone immediately brought the relationship between the two people closer.

"I don't dare to go to you, it's too expensive to meet you." Aiden immediately reciprocated with a small complaint, which not only shortened the distance between the two, but also showed respect for Roque.

It is indeed a high cost, and Aiden first went to Roque for Hoover that idiot, and Aiden spent thousands of pounds.

The second time Aiden saw Roque, it was Roque who went to find Aiden's fate, and Aiden spent several thousand.

This cost is indeed too high for even the De Beers Unified Mining Company to afford.

It's a pity that Aiden will definitely be disappointed, Roque has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and this time he came to Aiden, it is still not a good thing.

Sitting down in Aiden's parlor, Roque couldn't help but sigh that the life of a capitalist is indeed rotten.

If this is an ordinary enterprise decoration, where gold is to be used, the most is gold leaf, and it is more likely to be gold dust.

The interior of Olympos, when gold can be used, is all pure gold, and at least a quarter of an inch thick gold plates.

The inch is the shortest unit of length in the imperial system, and in the beginning, an inch was the width of an average person's thumb at the base of a fingernail.

This criterion is a bit ridiculous, because the width of people's thumbs is not the same, so this length is controversial.

So in the 14th century, King Edward II of England promulgated the "standard legal inch", which was the so-called "standard": the length of the three largest grains of wheat from the middle of the ears of barley and arranging them in a row is one inch.

It sounds more, ears of barley, how big is big?

Is the largest grain the longest, the thickest, or the heaviest?

Well, the British are so weird, they tell jokes with weird jokes.

In short, De Beers Unified Mining Company is really rich, and compared to De Beers Unified Mining Company, Roque is poor.

"Aiden, it is possible to hire Chinese laborers from the Qing Kingdom, and it will be suspended for a while." Roque doesn't talk nonsense.

"Why?" Aiden immediately looked like a fried lion, and his gaze at Roque was as sharp as a falcon.

That's right, this is the true face of Aiden, a good old man who is happy all day long, there is no way to dominate a large enterprise.

"I went to see His Excellency the Governor yesterday, and this is what His Excellency the Governor meant." Roque doesn't care about Aiden's gaze, he has the ability, go to the governor-

"How could the Governor care about such a thing?" Aiden is also pretending to be confused.

Want to know the answer? Go ask the Governor. Roque pushed cleanly.

"Locke, don't do this, think of a way, no workers no gold, no workers no taxes, no workers, we all have to drink the northwest wind—" Aiden immediately began to complain.

Well, Aiden's original words are not like this, and the approximate meaning is this-

Fortunately, it is not to eat soil.

"I can't help it, you De Beers Unified Mining Company needs workers, I need workers even more, I just bought a Falke farm-" Roque scolded the Governor with Aiden, who couldn't hear it anyway.

Aiden must have been restrained in front of Roque, and he didn't dare to scold with Roque, but his expression was ugly.

For capitalists, the color of the workers' skin is really not a problem.

By the time the Union of South Africa was formed, Chinese miners had already left Johannesburg, so the owners of the mines in Johannesburg hired Zulus to mine in large numbers.

This situation continued until the eighties of the 20th century, when the relationship between the whites and the Zulus was incompatible, the country was on the verge of civil war, and the wise people in the white government proposed a separate Zulu state, separating the whites and Zulus, without interfering with each other.

But this proposal was wiped out by the capitalists in South Africa at that time.

Establish a country that does not include the Zulus, so who will go down the mine and mine?

Do you want to hire whites who have never been in a mine and who are paid more than ten times as much as the Zulus?

Don't be funny!

This is the truth behind Mandela's rise to power.