481 Due diligence
After dinner, Zora made tea, fruit and snacks, and the family went to the corridor in front of the door to cool off.
The only recliner was given to the old man Liu, Liu Zhenge sat on the steps in front of the door, a few children led two South African mastiffs to run crazy on the lawn in front of the door, a few little South African mastiffs that had just been full moon stumbled and chased desperately, two swaying geese wanted to come over to join in the fun, but were quickly driven away by the two South African mastiffs, and the comfort that had never been overflowing in everyone's hearts was like before, this is what life should be.
However, such a scene was painful in the eyes of Old Man Liu, and he couldn't lie down on the comfortable recliner, so he simply walked to the edge of the grass and habitually grabbed the soil and smelled it.
"Good land, why don't you plant crops, plant grass and don't give it to the sheep, it's really a waste of things-" Old man Liu has planted the land all his life, and the most unsightly thing is to waste the land.
"Dad, our farm has 900 acres, if we all plant the land, we will be tired of the work that Zhuo La and I can't finish." Liu Zhen replied casually, not seeming to think too much.
"We have people now, there are still cows in the cowshed, and tomorrow we will open up the wasteland and farm, even if we are tired to death, we must open up all the land." Boss Liu has ambition, he has pulled a plow rake for a lifetime, and finally has a big animal to call, and Boss Liu can't wait.
"Don't worry, you've just arrived in Johannesburg, take a break for a while, recuperate, and talk about it later." Liu Zhen is really not in a hurry, the farm is there, and he will not run with long legs, as long as Liu Zhen does not transfer and sell, it will always be Liu Zhen.
"Second brother, do you know how to ride a horse?" The fifth child has not yet started a family, and he is not interested in farming, and he is most interested in the two mixed-breed horses in the stable.
"Definitely, in Johannesburg, everyone has to be able to ride horses, and they have to go to the town for regular training every year, and if they don't shoot up to standard, they will be fined." Yoo Jin inadvertently revealed more news.
"Second brother, do you have a musket?"
"Yes, who doesn't have two or three at home-" Liu Zhen remembered Qing Guo's attitude towards civilian weapons, and simply went back to the house and directly took out a Type 05 pump-action shotgun and a cowboy revolver.
This frightened the old man Liu: "Second brother, hiding a musket is going to kill your head-"
"Dad, we can't help weapons in Johannesburg, it's been better in the past two years, there are lions here a few years ago, our reservoir is called the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, there used to be crocodiles everywhere, no gun crocodiles will eat people, there are gun crocodiles are silver, if it weren't for the crocodiles in the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, I wouldn't be able to pay off the loan of the Rand Bank so quickly." Liu Zhen laughed, the crocodiles of the Limbober River disappeared so quickly, and the farmers in Johannesburg contributed a lot.
"The government here is not afraid that the common people will rebel with guns?" Boss Liu was worried.
"It's a good day, but whoever rebels - if there is really a rebellion, there is no need for the government to come forward, and our militia groups can destroy the rebels." Liu Zhen is full of confidence, and the annual training is not given in vain.
"It's to live a good life, let's be together as a family, work hard in the future, and buy such a family business for the eldest and third in a few years." Old man Liu half encouraged and half reminded.
Wealth is charming, when there was nothing in the past, the family could still work together, with money it is not necessarily, such an example of old man Liu has also seen a lot, poor and remote, the little things in the field can be desperate, not to mention the hundreds of acres of farms, plus those big animals in the livestock shed.
"That's for sure!" Boss Liu leads by example.
"Hehe, Dad, big brother, if a few years ago, it was not difficult to buy a family business in Johannesburg, don't think about it in the past two years, the price of land is getting more and more expensive, and I can't afford to buy it, I used to buy this farm for only a hundred pounds, and now even if it is sold for five hundred pounds, someone will buy it." Liu Zhen knows the situation, if he misses this village, he will lose this shop, and those who did not buy a farm before, now I don't know how many people are sad.
In the past two years, several gold mines have been discovered around Johannesburg, and someone bought a farm for 200 pounds and sold it for 10,000 pounds, so the price of land around Johannesburg has skyrocketed, but no one wants to sell it the more it rises.
"That's itβ" Boss Liu's face was full of loss.
"Big brother, now all states are fighting for immigration, as long as someone in Bechuana Prefecture is willing to settle down, you can immediately get a hundred acres of land, which is converted to 600 acres, this is a great thing, you and your sister-in-law are considered a family, the third is a family, the fifth is not married, and your father and mother are considered a family, and you can get 1,800 acres of land when you get to Bechuana, don't worry about the money, use my farm to go to the RAND Bank as a mortgage, and lend money to buy cattle and seeds, it won't take two years, and our brothers will be able to save a family business." Liu Zhen has already planned, ready-made cheap, not to take advantage of nothing.
"Really?" Boss Liu's mood is like riding a roller coaster.
"Really!" Yoo Zhen is categorical.
"I'll ask early tomorrow morning." Boss Liu is definitely going to lose sleep tonight.
"Don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, let's take a few days to regulate my body." Liu Zhen is still worried, after all, the conditions in Bechuana are not good.
"Conditioning what? I don't do anything all day, I don't panic when I eat big fish and meat every day, I go late, and I can't eat hot even if I eat anything. "Old man Liu's attitude is the same as that of Boss Liu.
Then go early, so as not to eat anything hot, the next morning, Liu Zhen put on the carriage and went to Ziwei Town with a few men from the Liu family.
The current Ziwei Town is more and more large compared with the previous Ziwei Town, along the Ziwei Avenue to the direction of Johannesburg has been extended, the former Ziwei School is on the edge of Ziwei Town, now Ziwei School has been surrounded by residential areas, near the direction of Johannesburg and has built Johannesburg Medical School and Johannesburg Pharmaceutical Company, the size of the whole town is more than twice as large as before.
The immigration office is always the most lively, in the Johannesburg area, every day there are immigrants from the Qing country to join relatives and friends, most of these immigrants go to Rhodesia or Bechuana, but they usually leave their children in Johannesburg, even if they can't enter the miners' children's school, they have to try to get into Ziwei Public School.
The local public schools in Johannesburg are much better than those in Rhodesia and Bechuana.
Anyway, it's a train to and fro, and the traffic is very convenient.
"Going to Bechuana? Very good, there is a train to Rhodes tomorrow, can you go? "The immigration staff is like the conductor at the train station.
"Let's go!" Before Liu Zhen could speak, Old Man Liu made a decision.
"Okay, how many families are there?" The staff is used to seeing it.
Old man Liu had been entangled all night, and when he spoke, he gritted his teeth: "Three!" β
In fact, if it is possible, Old Man Liu is very much like breaking up his family, so that the Liu family will get more land.
"It is strictly forbidden to make false reports and conceal reports, and the land must be developed within five years after it is obtained, and it is not allowed to be transferred or abandoned, otherwise it will be recovered in full, and the corresponding compensation will be paid." Kindly reminded by the staff.
"Know, know-" Old man Liu was submissive, and he was still full of fear of the "official family" in his bones.
After receiving three forms and filling them out carefully, strictly speaking, Old Man Liu's family has now become Bezhuna.
"That's it?" After getting the train ticket, Old Man Liu felt unbelievable, and couldn't believe that his family had become landlords.
No, Liu Zhen's days are much more comfortable than Liu Laocai's days.
The landlords of the Qing State are not so easy to be, they have to deal with all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and they have to deal with all kinds of apportionments, compared to the bandits and robbers everywhere, the government poses a greater threat to Liu Laocai, the bandits and robbers are just asking for money, and the Yin of the Broken County Order is not a joke.
In the past few years, the Qing Dynasty has also been plagued by famines, and the landlord's family really has no surplus grain.
Old man Liu has also fed chickens all his life, speaking of which, he only knew what eggs taste like last night, and the women in the family can only taste the taste of eggs when they are confined.
"Okay, it's just that the time is too tight, or it's okay to catch the next train-" Liu Zhen felt sour in his heart, it was really the family that had just been reunited, and he didn't want to be separated tomorrow.
"Second brother, you are familiar with the place here, if you can't go with us to have a look, you will come back after you settle down." Boss Liu also wants to get together with Liu Zhen more, and the brothers talked for a night yesterday, and they can't finish talking about it.
"Okay, wait until I go buy tickets, and I'll buy a few bottles of vodka later, and we'll have a good drink today." In fact, Rhodes City is not far from Johannesburg, only less than 300 kilometers, and Rhodes Farm's farm is located in the middle of Johannesburg and Rhodes City, less than 150 kilometers away from Rhodes City, and it is actually very convenient to travel to and from Rhodes.
The dinner in the evening was more sumptuous than yesterday, although Old Man Liu did not let Liu Zhen kill the sheep, but he could not stop Liu Zhen from buying mutton, and as a result, the price of buying sheep was more expensive than killing the sheep himself, which made Old Man Liu still talk about Liu Zhen being a loser until he was eating.
Mrs. Liu quietly reminded Old Man Liu, although Zhuo La obviously didn't mind.
Zora's family was killed in the Boer War, and after the war was left homeless, she went to Yoojin to find work on her farm, and then became the owner of the farm.
For the Liu family, Zhuo La is still very welcome, the arrival of a large family, so that Zhuo La re-experienced the warmth of the family, this kind of family atmosphere of the Chinese is not the same as the family atmosphere of the Boer people, relatively speaking, Zhuo La still prefers the family atmosphere of the Chinese.
At the table, the men's favorite vodka made from potatoes was the favorite, and the women drank some wine from Cape Town's Oak Town, and even Mrs. Liu made an exception for a drink.
Everyone was unsurprisingly drunk, except for the two South African mastiffs, who were in good spirits and lying in the corridor doing their duty.