The Chinese are the best managed people in the world.

Even the Chinese do not need to be managed at all, in the Chinese-populated areas, the people in power only need to create a relatively relaxed environment, and the Chinese can give full play to their subjective initiative, use their wisdom, diligence and thrift, and create a better life.

Roque did just that, to turn a miner into a farmer, mandatory requirements were useless and counterproductive.

Roque only created the conditions, and then took Hawley as a model and erected it as a model, without waiting for Hawley to succeed, the active-minded Chinese had already heard the wind.

As for those with conservative personalities, Luo Ke is not forced, everyone has their own fate, there are still hundreds of millions of Chinese in the Qing Kingdom, Luo Ke can't afford to waste time for three or five conservative Chinese, and after a few years, they will naturally know what they have missed, and they will have a chance at that time, but if they want to obtain such conditions as they are now, the difficulty will increase geometrically.

At least, it is estimated that they will not be able to buy farms around Johannesburg, and if they want to buy a house and land, I am afraid that they will have to go to Rhodesia.

Cecil Rhodes Jr. was still quite good, and said that if he gave Roque a discount, he would sell a thousand square miles of land in Roqueroderia at a discount on the Johannesburg farm.

1,000 square miles, about 640,000 acres, if you follow a 300-acre farm, at least 2,000 Chinese families can be housed.

Of course, this is only under ideal circumstances, in fact, this number will shrink, after all, a thousand square miles cannot be cultivated fertile land, there will definitely be mountains, forests, rivers, and even lakes and swamps, and it is estimated that in the end, it is already very good to be able to settle 1,000 Chinese families.

Roque is not in a hurry, there are still enough farms around Johannesburg to accommodate the Chinese, first occupy all the farms around Johannesburg, and wait until Johannesburg can not accommodate more Chinese, Roque will consider Rhodesia.

As for Henry's fief, it is not within Roque's consideration at all, there will be a lot of highly polluting basic industries in Henry's fief in the future, under these conditions, Henry's fief is not suitable for agricultural development at all, and even for human survival, and Roque will not let the Chinese go to work in the factory at that time, Henry will find workers, and some of Basutolan are Zulu.

In fact, building materials do not need to worry too much about Roque, capital is the most sensitive, the price of building materials in Johannesburg has risen wildly, many businessmen have heard the wind, from Cape Town to Johannesburg this line can not go, you can take the route from Durban to Johannesburg, so Johannesburg's building materials have experienced a short period of expensive, since June has been slowly declining.

With sufficient building materials, the construction of Ziwei Town was immediately accelerated.

In just two months, Ziwei Town has more than 200 households and 1,000 people, which is the largest and largest residential area outside Johannesburg in the entire Johannesburg area.

The increase in population led directly to the prosperity of commerce, and I don't know when a variety of shops, restaurants, inns, tailors, ready-to-wear shops, and even a law firm appeared in Ziwei Town.

The response from Johannesburg City Hall was swift, and at the end of June, the town hall opened its first government agency, the Tax Office, in the town of Ziwei.

Taxes, this is a fate that can never be escaped.

At the same time as the tax office, there is also a mini police station, and the hospital security captain Dunn is also the police station sergeant, and this police station is only officially established by Dunn, and the rest of the hospital security team members are all temporary workers of the police station.

According to the regulations, all official residents of Ziwei Town are required to pay taxes according to the regulations of Johannesburg City Hall, and the tax collector's name is James Hozia, and the day after he officially took office, James Hozia came to visit Roque at the police station.

"I'm sorry, Sir Locke, although Purple Town is your private property, according to the regulations, Purple Town also has to pay taxes according to the regulations." James Hozia is British, and although he is polite enough to Roque, the "slave baron", he has a rigid expression and dull eyes, and he actually has little respect.

"I know, you can collect as much as you want, and if you need the cooperation of the police station, go to Sheriff Dunn." Roque didn't talk nonsense to James Hozia either, and even if Roque had a knighthood, some racists still wouldn't give Roque real respect, and Roque didn't expect that much.

The current situation is actually what Roque wants, with a knighthood, even if he is a racist, even if all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred in his heart make people crazy, he still has to be respectful to Roque on the surface.

Roque thinks this is good, so Roque decides that if he has time in the future, he will go to Ziwei Town more often, as for people like James Hozia, the more racist he is, the more Roque will toss him, and it is better to drive him crazy.

Back in Ziwei Town, James Hozia immediately got to work.

In order to collect taxes, the income of the residents of Ziwei Town must first be determined, and at this time, James Hozia finally felt a deep malice.

As a tax collector in Ziwei Town, and as a pure Englishman, James Hozia received a salary from the Johannesburg Revenue Department, which was about £150 a year.

Relative to the British mainland, this salary is enough to satisfy James Hozia.

Of course, the satisfaction here was before James Hozia fully understood the income of the residents of Ziwei Town.

In Ziwei Town, a professor who doesn't do anything earns £400 a year, a general doctor earns about £300 a year, an ordinary nurse earns about £150, a hospital security guard earns £150 a year, and even a Bul aunt who does laundry in the hospital gets £120 a year.

If this was still something that James Hozia could barely accept, then after learning about the salary of the management of the Rock Gold Mine, James Hozia was completely psychologically unbalanced.

In this era, the management of the Rock Gold Mine is definitely a high salary, Buck, as the general manager of the gold mine, has an annual salary of an astonishing 1000 pounds, which is about the same salary level as the director of the British Treasury, and those who are qualified to serve as the director of the Treasury are basically from aristocratic backgrounds, so Buck, a yellow man, although his social status is not as good as that of the aristocracy, but in terms of annual salary, he has been on par with a nobleman who serves as a senior government official.

If Buck, as the general manager, can barely accept a high salary, then the annual salary of department managers below Buck can generally reach about 700 pounds, which makes James Hozia the envy and jealousy of Hongguoguo.

The management of the Rock Gold Mine, with the exception of a few financial personnel, were all yellow people, and even those financial personnel were all Boers at the lowest level of society.

This situation simply made James Hozia crazy, and after getting the income data of all the residents of Ziwei Town, James Hozia was speechless and asked the sky, why does the yellow man get a higher salary than he, a pure Englishman?

Why should a Boer, who had been defeated on a frontal battlefield, still hold a senior position in Johannesburg?

And the nurses in those hospitals, James Hozia felt like he was going to the doctor.

As a colonial official, James Hozia's family was on British soil.

That evening, James Hozia returned to Johannesburg and reported the situation in Ziwei to his superiors, demanding that the tax payment for the residents of Ziwei be raised.

"Is there any basis for this?" Johannesburg's tax commissioner is Markus Beaufort, the former Deputy Commissioner of Pretoria Revenue.

What James didn't know was that as early as Pretoria, Roque had formed a deep relationship with Marcus, and Marcus's residence in Johannesburg was given by Roque -

It was not a gift, it was half sold and half given, and for a house worth at least £200, Roque only received £50, on the grounds that the house had been damaged to a certain extent during the war.

Only Marcus knew that the so-called "certain amount of damage" was just a broken piece of glass, and after living in a "broken house" that still smelled of paint, Marcus replaced the glass for only 6 pence.

"The income of the residents of Ziwei Town is significantly higher than the normal income, and if the tax is collected according to the previous standard, then we will lose a large part of the tax revenue." James felt he had a good reason.

"So what do you want to collect?" There was no joy on Marcus' face.

"I think it's appropriate to raise the bar twice, no, twice, twice." In fact, James wanted to improve tenfold, but unfortunately, Marcus would definitely not agree.

"Why do you have poop in your head? What does it have to do with people's high income? If you are greedy, resign and beg Sir Locke to give you a job? It's a pity that Sir Locke doesn't like you as an idiot! Is the tax rate set by the Governor's Palace and the City Hall that you can change at will? Do you think you're smarter than Lord Alfred and Lord Matilda? You're such an ignorant idiot who is so sensitive to numbers, and you're going to get the fucking does out of the archives tomorrow and get to work with numbers! Marcus finally couldn't bear it anymore, and it was a gust of wind and rain that slashed his head and face.

Raising the tax rate is not a trivial matter, Johannesburg is surrounded by gold mines, and behind every gold mine there is a powerful backstage, maybe it is a high-ranking government official, maybe it is a historic duke, maybe even a member of the royal family, Alfred Milner and Philippe Matilda racked their brains to determine a tax standard that can be reluctantly accepted by all parties, and when it comes to James, he actually said that if he raises it, he will raise it, and if he wants to die, he doesn't have to be so urgent.

So the next day, the new tax collector of Ziwei Town visited Roque again.

This time, the attitude of the new tax officer was much more sincere, and when it came to verifying the income of the miners in the Rock Gold Mine, it was all up to Scarlett's mouth, and there was no verification with the workers at all.

That's the right attitude.