Born in the United States, only death and taxes cannot be avoided.

The same applies in the UK.

In the 21st century, the UK has a population of 65 million, and the British Internal Revenue Service has 66,000 employees, while the British Royal Navy, which once dominated the world, has only 44,500 people.

The same is true of the Pretoria Revenue Authority, which was tolerated to some extent by the owners of the Rand Gold Mines during the Transvaal Republic, and to some extent by the Cape colonial government.

Now that the Cape colonial government has annexed the Transvaal, the former allies have immediately turned their backs, and the first slash from the tax office has been to the owners of the Rand gold mines.

As the chief of the Johannesburg Police, Roque is obliged to cooperate with the work of the Inland Revenue Department, so the current police department is considered an "accomplice" of the Inland Revenue Department.

"Director McPearson, if I want to buy farms around Johannesburg, then what should I do?" Roque has money to spend, and it's a good idea to buy a farm, and there aren't too many abandoned farms around Johannesburg right now.

Because the Expeditionary Force Command stipulated that all farms and houses within 10 miles of Boer farmers found to be helping the guerrillas would be burned down, there are a large number of abandoned farms around Johannesburg, and if these abandoned farms are not restored, it is impossible to generate taxes, so Pretoria will not let this situation continue.

The end result is that these farms, which were abandoned by the war, are likely to be auctioned off in the same way as the gold mines some time ago.

To Roque's surprise, there was no unified land administration at the central level in the UK, only a land registry established in 1862, which was not originally responsible for management, but only on a resource-based basis.

In 1896, Britain stipulated that all land sales must be registered, and the registration office is the only government department engaged in the examination, confirmation, registration, issuance of certificates and the transfer and renewal of land ownership.

If you think about it, you can understand that the land area of the United Kingdom is too large, there is no such thing as colonies in the United Kingdom, all colonies are British territory, and according to British law, all the land belongs to the Queen, and individuals, enterprises and various institutions and groups only have the right to use the land, so the British government has no right to set up an agency to manage the property belonging to the Queen.

That was an affront to the Queen.

So Neil McPherson's answer is simple: "You want to buy a farm?" Then just go and buy it, the farm should be very cheap now, I heard that His Excellency the Governor is considering encouraging the farm to be replanted, it is estimated that there is no need to spend money, just go to the internal affairs department to prepare a case. ”

The farm is not a gold mine, so the Transvaal government will not have its sights set on the farm, and Roque suspects that the Transvaal may not have such regulations yet.

Of course, not paying attention to it does not mean that it does not care, abandoned farms are worthless, but if the farm is replanted, it will start to generate profits, then there will naturally be taxes, so sooner or later the governor will encourage the recultivation, after all, the mosquito leg meat is small, but it is also meat.

The crux of the matter is that the Transvaal is now sparsely populated, and even the most important gold mines are in dire need of miners, let alone farms, so the former Transvaal Republic would allow the Zulus to buy land.

Idle is idle anyway.

Neither the former Boers, nor the present British, were aware of the problems that the seemingly harmless Zulus would cause to South Africa in the future.

Only Roque has a clear understanding of this.

In fact, sooner or later, the Governor's Office will begin to pay attention to this issue as well.

Unlike the sparsely populated Boers, the total population of Britain is very different from the Boer population, so the British government will not be as liberal as the Boer government in some aspects, such as buying farms, and during the Transvaal Republic, the Zulus could buy farms in the Transvaal.

This policy was abolished shortly after the end of the Second Boer War, and in 1913, the then Union of South Africa passed the Aboriginal Lands Act, which prohibited Africans from occupying or buying land outside of "Aboriginal reservations".

The British were extremely harsh on the Zulus, or all coloured people, and even the Indians, who boasted of being the "first loyal dog of the British Empire", were still an inferior people in the Cape.

The war is not over yet, and before the peace agreement was signed, the Boers were the biggest enemies of the colonial government, and the colonial government was not free to target the colored races now, and it is difficult to say after the peace agreement was signed.

So during this time, Roque still had the opportunity to buy farms, and when the war was over, the Chinese would definitely belong to the ranks of colored people.

Of course, it is more likely that because of Roque's existence, Alfred Milner will definitely take Roque's factor into account when formulating policy, after all, Roque is now the chief of the Johannesburg Police, belongs to the ranks of high-ranking officials, and may be rewarded by the queen after the war, and maybe even knighted, so it is inappropriate to confuse Chinese with other people of color.

It is for this reason that before the peace agreement is signed, Roque should bring in as many Chinese workers as possible, or promote more Chinese workers to become freemen, preferably freedmen with the right to vote, so that the Governor's Office will fully take into account the interests of the Chinese when formulating policies in the future.

Obviously, Neil McFillson's vision is not so long-term, and what worries Neil McPherson the most now is that there are not enough tax sources, so as long as Roque's proposal can increase tax sources, Neil MacPhaelson will not care about the proportion of the population of the Transvaal, which is a problem for the Governor to worry about, and Neil MacPhaerson only cares about tax matters.

As for the other problems that arise from this, they are the concerns of the future Commissioner of Taxation and the future Governor.

Back at the police station, Roque immediately sent a telegram to Liang Dingxin that there were no women in the north of the Qing Kingdom who met Roque's requirements, but there were too many men, and Roque could not pin all his hopes on Hoover.

In fact, Liang Dingxin is not without effect, after Luo Ke learned that the vast majority of women in the north of the Qing Dynasty are generally bound to their feet, he asked Liang Dingxin to shift the focus of his work to assist the families of Chinese police officers to immigrate, and in recent times, more and more Chinese police families have immigrated to Cape, and even family members have come directly to Johannesburg.

Roque wanted to buy the farm, and it was for the families of these Chinese police officers.

Well, farmers in this era actually don't need to work on their own.

In 1894, the colonial government of the Cape enacted the Glen Gray Act, which legislated that an adult African man must pay a labour tax of 10 shillings unless he had worked outside his settlement for three months within 12 months of the previous year.

At the heart of this law is the obligation of blacks to work for whites.

At the end of the 19th century, there were 75,000 white people in Johannesburg, of whom 12,000 worked in the mines, and there were 100,000 Zulu miners during the same period.

Noticed?

At the end of the nineteenth century, there were only 75,000 white people in the whole of Johannesburg -

In 1904, more than 50,000 Chinese came to Johannesburg that year.

So—

It's not impossible to be naïve, all it takes is an X-factor.

Roque is this X-factor.

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Going back to the Glen Gray Law, whites used legal forms to force Zulus to work, many Zulus became miners, and many more Zulus worked for Boer ranchers, who were usually paid for the tenure of one or two acres of land, which was not worth mentioning to Boer ranchers who usually owned hundreds of acres of farms.

Therefore, after the families of the Chinese policemen came to Johannesburg, even if the hostess was not good at walking because of her foot binding, she would not delay the hostess in running the farm, and the work would naturally be done by those Zulu people, and the farmer could sit back and enjoy the success.

After learning about the process of buying a farm, Roque went directly to Owen, who was Philip's secretary.

"What do you want to do on the farm? Would it be more efficient to raise only one sheep on one acre of pasture and five acres of pasture for a cow than a gold mine? Owen ridiculed the Boers with impunity, and the Boer farming techniques had become a joke in Johannesburg.

"That's for the Boers, the Chinese are an agrarian people, and they have been cultivating the land for thousands of years, so how much land is there in the Netherlands?" Roque also doesn't look down on the Boers' farming skills, if the Chinese's skill points in farming are at the full level of 100, then the Boers' farming skills are at most ten to fifteen.

"How much are you going to buy?" Owen is no longer entangled in this issue, compared with the farming technology of the Chinese, the farming technology of the British is also scum.

"How many?" Roque has a big appetite.

"God knows!" Owen was dumbfounded, after Philip came to Johannesburg, he focused all his work on the gold mines, and did not count how many farms there were around Johannesburg.

There are no remote sensing satellites or enough manpower in these years, and even if all the police officers in the police station are counted, it will take an estimated one or two decades to complete this work.

Wouldn't it be good to have this energy to find a few more gold mines?

"So, after the attack on the Summerfield gold mine some time ago, all the farms within ten miles of the Summerfield gold mine were burned down, and the farmers were thrown into concentration camps, and those farms are now abandoned, right?" Roque has a way, and it is better without specific data.

"Yes." Owen told the truth, he was not the same as Arnold, and he had a good relationship with Roque.

"Well, how much is it on the farms around the Summerfield gold mine?" Roque clapped, seemingly unaware of the magnitude of the ten-mile range.

Ten miles here is a circle ten miles in diameter, so the area is 5×5×3.14--

The total area is about 78.5 square miles!

Converted into kilometers, it is about 204 square kilometers!!

Johannesburg in the XXI century, with a total area of about 269 square kilometres.

In other words, this circle encloses most of Johannesburg.

In other words, Kitchener's policy was to exterminate the Boers.