Although on the whole, the number of Chinese in Ziwei Town is small, but when it comes to children, Chinese Americans occupy an absolute advantage, and there are now more than 100 children in the entire Ziwei Town, except for only a dozen Boers, the rest are all Chinese.

Don't doubt it, as long as there are no restrictions, the stomach can be full, and there is no threat to survival, the Chinese, like other races, are really capable of giving birth.

Under normal circumstances, if a Chinese family has only two children, it is a thin person who is sorry for the ancestors.

Three children barely passed, but it wasn't enough.

Five children can be considered good, and the task of passing on the family is basically completed.

It takes seven or eight children to be considered to be scattered, and even if they die, they can laugh at Jiuquan.

Most of the children in Ziwei Town are the descendants of Chinese policemen, and Chinese policemen are absolutely persistent in having children, after all, before they joined the Huayong Battalion, their family situation was not good, otherwise they would not join the Huayong Battalion to work for the British.

It can be said that before joining the Huayong Battalion, Chinese police officers had brothers and sisters who died for various reasons, and they all experienced displacement during the famine, and even saw the tragic situation of changing children and eating.

So when they arrived in Johannesburg, the Chinese police officers completely released their nature.

As police officers, Chinese Americans don't have to worry about safety.

With a good salary, you don't have to worry about lack of food and clothing.

It's really not good, there are still hundreds of acres of farms to run outside the police station, and it's really not too comfortable to be a laid-back farmer.

Therefore, the Chinese children in Ziwei Town will show a straight upward trend in the next few years, and in a few years, the existing schools will have to expand in scale, or even expand enough, and they must be newly built.

Roque is responsible for these children, and even without Mr. Mayor's request, Roque cannot let the children be influenced too much by religion before they form the correct three views.

Roque explained this to Douglas in a way.

Fortunately, Roque doesn't need to explain to Douglas, Douglas, a professor, sounds very bluffing, but in fact, his social status is definitely not as high as Roque's "from the baron", so the only thing Douglas can do for Roque's words is to execute.

Of course, the school is going to open, and it is not said that it will be open, and Roque went to Philip Matilda for this.

"The school is not in a hurry, we don't count what we say now, we have to wait for the final result of the Governor's Palace." Philip was a cluebreaker, and if it weren't for Roque's knowledge that Governor Alfred Milner had joined the negotiations, Roque wouldn't even know what Philip meant.

Alfred Milner, as a politician, is indeed better suited to negotiate such a thing than Kitchener.

In order to end the war as soon as possible, Kitchener's negotiations repeatedly backed down in the face of the Boer representatives, who were strong and middle-class, and even offered the condition of allowing Boer autonomy in the future.

This is certainly not in the interests of the British, although the British government launched the war for gold, but the conquest of the country established by the Boers is also one of the important purposes, now that the expeditionary force has occupied the Transvaal and Orange, the negotiations must be on this basis, if the Boer autonomy is still allowed in the future, then what is the gain of the British government in waging war?

Only gold in Johannesburg?

That is not to be explained to the king and the parliament.

General Kitsina's repeated concessions also seemed to give the Boers the illusion that if they held out, then they could get what they didn't get on the battlefield.

This is actually a fantasy, and what you can't get on the battlefield will most likely not get from the negotiating table.

Although the Boer guerrillas are still gaining momentum, it is clear to those who know the situation that the Boer guerrillas are in fact on the verge of collapse, because the expeditionary force is guarding the border, and the guerrillas are now unable to obtain outside support.

In order to persist in the war, the guerrillas even had to fight with the help of materials seized from attacks on small units of the regular army.

Suffice it to say that even without negotiations, at most a year, the partisans will collapse on their own.

The problem is that the British government has been overwhelmed by the increasing military spending, so although the situation of the guerrillas is difficult, the situation of the British government is also difficult, and it is now the consensus of everyone to end the war as soon as possible.

The process of negotiations accelerated dramatically after Alfred Milner joined the negotiations, and three months ago, the Boers were trying to fight for national independence, but now the Boers have abandoned this idea and are fighting for better terms.

For example, the Dutch language is identified as an official language, or at least one of the official languages; And to give the specific time of Boer autonomy.

Alfred Milner did not back down on the issue, even reversing Kitchener's promise that the Dutch language could be used in schools and in the courts.

So now that the school is in session, Roque and Philip don't count, everything has to wait for the results of the negotiations.

Alfred Milner's purpose in launching the Boer War was not only to overthrow the two Boer republics, but also to completely eliminate the Boers culturally and even physically.

"Can we teach in English first, and then we can adjust when the results of the negotiations come." Roque is very helpless, Philip is the kind of official who is very traditional, never proactive, in order not to make mistakes, or even to do things, although he does not make mistakes, but he does not want to achieve much.

In the case of Johannesburg at the moment, there is no need to follow the rules, and Roque prefers Alfred Milner as a pioneering official.

"Sir Locke, be cautious in this matter, the situation in Johannesburg is complicated, and we cannot afford to take risks." Philip is really "old-fashioned".

This makes Roque very depressed, Philip hopes that Roque can restrict Frank, but Philip doesn't provide any support to Roque, which is not good, so don't let Roque do it, how can Roque restrict?

Is it to send someone to lock up Frank?

The consequences of being locked up seem to be more dangerous, considering that Frank has been in the police station for more than a month, and there are more than a dozen Catholics in the police station, if Frank is allowed to stay in the police station for a while longer, even Roque, the police chief, may be brainwashed by Frank.

Back at the mine, Buck was not there and went to Johannesburg early in the morning to attend a regular meeting of the Mining Union.

During his time in Johannesburg, Cecil Rhodes Jr. not only fooled the investigation team, but also founded the Johannesburg Mining Alliance.

Roque originally felt that it was inconvenient for him to join the Mining Alliance as an official, so he did not agree to Aiden's request last time.

Unexpectedly, Cecil Rhodes Jr. established a mining alliance, and Matilda Gold Mine actually became one of the initiators of the Johannesburg Mining Alliance.

Then Roque did not hesitate, since there was Lord Philip in front of him, Sir Roque had nothing to fear, so now Roque Gold Mine is also a member of the Johannesburg Mining Alliance.

One of the first things the Mining Consortium did was to control the gold production of all the gold mines in Johannesburg.

To put it simply, in order to stabilize the market gold price, the Johannesburg Mining Union decided to set the 1901 production of all gold mines in the Johannesburg area at 120 tonnes, taking into account the previous year's production.

This meant that even if the Johannesburg mines mined more than 120 tonnes of gold in 1901, no more than 120 tonnes could be put on the market.

Now that the total production has been determined, there is a quota problem, Johannesburg has more than 30 gold mines, large and small, and it is impossible to divide the 120 tons equally, but the distribution cannot be according to the standard determined by the City Hall some time ago, in that case, the Matilda gold mine with a monthly output of 3,000 ounces of gold can only be allocated more than a ton of quota.

So, as a result of the discussions in the mining alliance, De Beers Unified Mining took the lion's share, and the rest of the mines were divided, with Matilda Gold Mine, like Rock Gold Mine, each receiving a 5-ton quota.

Five tonnes of gold, worth about £68,300, is enough, and if it is not enough, Roque can also buy shares, or even trade directly in gold, and several gold mines in Johannesburg are happy to trade in this regard.

Yes, there are several gold mines in Johannesburg that are only accessible but not available.

It is estimated that the top nobles behind these gold mines are even members of the royal family, so these gold mines only mine gold for "collection", not to sell at all, and it is useless for them to ask for quotas, they just keep them for "trading".

Hawley is counting the gold he has dug up today in the fresh-keeping warehouse in the basement.

Although Roque used gold to pay for large sums of money, nearly 15 tons of gold were piled up in the basement of the Rock Gold Mine.

Johannesburg City Hall has set a production rate of 5,000 ounces per month, which is about 155 kilograms, which greatly underestimates the production of the Rock Gold Mine, which normally produces about 100 kilograms per day, and can dig up nearly three tons of gold per month on average.

The basement of the mine is located fifteen meters underground, the entrance is guarded 24 hours a day, and the basement gate weighs 10 tons, and even with explosives, it is impossible to blast the gate.

In these years, there is no TNT, and the power of black powder is not enough, and if the amount of gunpowder is increased, I am afraid that the entire passage will be blown up without blowing up the gate.

When Roque came to the basement, the hook was there.

Seeing Roque, the hook stopped talking.

"What's the matter?" Roque asked casually.

"Hehe, sir, there are brothers in the security team who ask me to ask you, isn't it possible to buy farms now, can our brothers in the security team buy them?" The iron hook was a little apprehensive.

Up and down the Locke gold mine, everyone knows how much Roque attaches importance to the security team, there is a steady stream of gold support, Roque equips the security team with the best military horses, the best weapons, the most complete logistics, the security team members receive 1.5 times the salary relative to the miners, no need to go down the mine every day to mine, no need to face guerrilla attacks, no need to supervise the miners with a conscience, it can be said that Roque has done almost everything he can.

In this case, there are also security guards who want to buy the farm, which in the eyes of Iron Hook, is tantamount to treachery.

But as the captain of the security team, Iron Hook has to work hard for the welfare of his brothers, everyone can see the prospect of the farm, and the security team members are willing to buy the farm, and Iron Hook is inconvenient to stop him.

"Yes, you can buy it if you want, but first say okay, you can't leave it there if you buy a farm, whether it's taking your family over or hiring Zulu people to farm, it's not allowed to be idle anyway." Roque must not care, the security guards are also Chinese, selling the farm to the miners is selling, and selling to the security guards is also selling.

Compared to the miners, the security guards have undergone rigorous military training and are better able to protect their property.

"Okay, I'll go tell my brothers." Iron Hook can't wait, it is estimated that not only the security team members have this mind, but also he, the security captain.

15 tons of gold piled together, it is indeed very shocking, Rock gold mine has smelting equipment, the mined gold sand is refined, all melted into ten kilograms of gold ingots, 15 tons is 1500 pieces, if stacked up one by one, almost can build a wall.

Hawley is busy working in the basement, the shelves against the wall are placed on the gold ornaments that Roque used to pull the relationship, there is now a workshop in the Rock gold mine, two skilled goldsmiths, with a dozen apprentices working day and night all kinds of gold ornaments, in Johannesburg, there is basically no market for gold ornaments, people here are not short of gold, but in Cape Town, the sales of gold ornaments are very good, selling gold ornaments, than simply selling gold, the profit is more than double.

This is the industrial added value.

"Are Charles and Connie okay?" Roque cares a lot about the first true second-generation Chinese in Ziwei Town.

"It's good, the little guy can eat and sleep, he has a loud voice when he cries, Connie took Charles to check his body in 100 days, he weighed more than 20 pounds, and the doctor said that the nutrition was a bit excessive." When Hawley first heard the news, he felt a little confused.

I've only heard of people dying of hunger, what is overnutrition?

20 pounds is about 18 pounds, and for a three-month-old child, 18 pounds is indeed a little fat.

However, this also shows that the living standard of the Chinese in the Rock Gold Mine is good, as long as there is adequate nutrition, the children's physical conditions will be very good in the future.

"Then you'll have to be careful, what about Connie?" Roque still didn't forget to remind Holly that raising children can't just be fat.

"Connie, Connie is pregnant again—" Hawley was proud and embarrassed.

"Hahahaha, good, very good." Roque is very happy, having a child is such a thing, you have to hurry up, one child is raised, two children are also raised, have a few more, and take care of each other when they grow up.

How nice!

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