Henry's call should not have been made to Roque, but to Mr. Mayor, after all, Louis Botha was suing the Johannesburg City Council, not the Johannesburg Police Department, so it was not Roque's turn to come out of the matter.

Mr. Mayor took the train to Pretoria that afternoon, and Roque returned to Ziwei Town from work early.

Ziwei Town has not found plague patients for five consecutive days, or suspected plague patients, there are still police and doctors on duty at the entrance to Ziwei Town, Ziwei Public School has not been canceled closed, during the entire plague period, no one in Ziwei Public School was infected with plague, and the Governor's Office recently praised Ziwei Public School.

This praise is more useful than any kind of advertisement, Ziwei College has been a blessing in disguise, and it is estimated that it will continue to expand its enrollment in the next academic year to meet the growing enrollment demand.

Phyllis is now free to enter and leave Purple School, so she can meet with Roque for a short time.

"We have now received more than 1,000 applications for admission, the existing school buildings and dormitories are not enough, to meet all the enrollment needs, at least double the size of the campus, Principal Sophia is a little worried, so many people, Principal Sophia is afraid that the quality of teaching will decline." Phyllis has been in Ziwei School lately, and she doesn't know what's going on outside.

In 1870, the United Kingdom promulgated the "Compulsory Education Act" and began to generally implement compulsory education, but limited to objective conditions, the teaching quality of public schools was poor, the management was not strict, and the students were uneven, so the rich people were still used to sending their children to aristocratic schools to receive elite education.

The number of places in aristocratic schools is very precious, and in order to reflect the value of aristocratic schools, sometimes aristocratic schools would rather idle a part of their educational resources than admit even one more student.

Although the level of software and hardware of Ziwei School has reached the first-class level, and it is not inferior to the local aristocratic schools in the United Kingdom, but Ziwei School has no special requirements for recruiting students, even if it is the farmer around Ziwei School, they can also send their children to Ziwei School to study, which is incredible in Sophia's opinion.

Education also has a cost, although Ziwei Public School can get the subsidy from the municipal government, but that subsidy is a drop in the bucket compared to the operation of Ziwei Public School, the reason why the number of students in the aristocratic school is small, and the high tuition fee also has a lot to do with it, a similar aristocratic school in the UK, the annual tuition fee is more than 50 pounds, and the fee standard of Ziwei Public School is five pounds per student, so the tuition fee, even the salary paid to the staff is not enough.

Of course, Roque will not explain how much it costs parents of students outside Johannesburg to send their children to Ziwei College for education, and the number of places in Ziwei College in Cape Town is 1,000 pounds each, and most of the income goes to Ziwei College.

"Tell Principal Sophia not to worry, a group of university students will come to Johannesburg soon, and let Principal Sophia pick first, as long as the teaching staff is built, the quality of teaching will be fine." Luo Ke is not worried about this problem, the so-called teaching quality, the evaluation criteria are not uniform, to put it bluntly, whether the teaching quality is good or not, not the parents of the students have the final say, in the next school year, the secondary school of Ziwei Public School will start enrolling, and the secondary school department will have the final say on whether the teaching quality is good or not, and the secondary school is also part of Ziwei Public School.

The secondary school is currently under construction, next to the current boys' school, which is larger than both boys' and girls' schools combined, and will be able to accommodate 5,000 students at the same time.

Such a large school is certainly not built in a day or two, but fortunately, there will not be too many students in the first year of the secondary school, it is estimated that there will not be more than 500 people, so the amount of work is greatly reduced, and it can be expanded with the increase of students in the future, and the time is still very sufficient.

It is precisely because of this that the standards of the Senior School are very high from the beginning.

Most of the buildings of the boys' and girls' schools are still wooden buildings, and the middle school generally uses marble permanent buildings, supplemented by steel and cement, so that once the school is built, it will not need to be renovated for more than 100 years.

"Recently, there was a suggestion that the school should add German, French, and Dutch courses, and Principal Sophia and I were a little concerned that it might contradict the requirements of the Doge's Office." Phyllis and Roque walked side by side on the grass outside Purple Town, the big man followed Phyllis, and a little later was Don in uniform and several armed policemen, who kept a distance of more than ten meters from Roque and Phyllis.

The environment of Ziwei Town is now well-known, all the purple trees planted around Ziwei Town are all purple trees, there is a lawn under the tree that is in charge of a special person, and now it is November again, the lilac purple flowers are hanging all over the branches, and there is a dense layer of petals falling under the tree, strolling in it, the faint fragrance of flowers permeates the surroundings, and a sea of flowers as far as the eye can see, which is really refreshing.

"I'll be cautious about this, or I'll wait until I get to know the tone of the 'Board of Education', and maybe we can make German, French, and Dutch a course of interest." Roque is also cautious, although in principle, Roque does not want to open German, French and Dutch courses at Ziwei College, but now Ziwei College even has Chinese courses, offering German, French and Dutch, which can dilute the presence of Chinese.

In the long run, it was necessary to introduce these small language courses, as Ade had imposed on all schools in the Transvaal and Orange by not using Dutch and only English, in order to eradicate Boer culture, in order to emphasize Britain's suzerainty.

After the end of the Boer War, with the demise of the Transvaal and Orange states, the Boers all became British subjects, after the Boer War, the national cohesion of the Boers was further strengthened, and the number of Boers living in the four colonies of the Cape has 600,000, far more than the number of Anglo-white people, they have the same culture, religion and language, the Anglo-Boer War greatly promoted the formation of its national identity, and the current Boers are not purely Dutch descendants, there are Germans, French, There were even Jews from Russia, who were now a completely new people, the Afrikaners.

After the Boer War, the so-called "African Language Society" appeared in the Transvaal and Orange, and at this time the status of the Dutch language was declining and a new language appeared, so it was no longer necessary to suppress the Dutch language.

"Henry and Owen said the same thing, the number of Boer students in the school is very small, and the number of Chinese students is too much, and if anyone notices this, there will still be trouble." Phyllis reminded softly that Ziwei School has now become the business card of Ziwei Town and even Johannesburg, so you should be careful.

Although Roque never said it, Phyllis, Henry, and Owen were all human spirits, and everyone knew what Roque was thinking.

After all, Roark has long emphasized the significance of the existence of Chinese Americans to consolidate British rule, and it seems that this point was not obvious before, after the signing of the "Peace Agreement", the influence of the Boers is becoming more and more obvious, and Roque's prophecy is becoming a reality step by step, and it is impossible for Phyllis to not cooperate with Henry and Owen.

"It doesn't matter, in the future, Ziwei Public School will also become an aristocratic school like Eton Public School, with an annual enrollment quota of no more than 300 people, and it is not so easy to enter Ziwei Public School to study, I have built a new school on the gold mine, and when the time comes, all the Chinese students will be transferred to the new campus on the gold mine, and Ziwei Public School will be separated." Roque had already taken a countermeasure, and before the Chinese at Ziwei School were noticed, Roque would transfer the Chinese students away.

In fact, the construction of the new school building has been basically completed, and the hardware facilities are on a higher level than that of Ziwei Public School, because of the large use of reinforced concrete, the quality of the new school building is very guaranteed, and Chinese students can move in at any time.

Unlike Ziwei Public School, the new school building will not face social enrollment, and even Roque does not plan to let the outside world know about the existence of the school, and the Roque Gold Mine is surrounded by Roque's private property, because some of the circumstances of the gold mine need to be kept secret, and now the Roque Gold Mine is surrounded by a forbidden area, and even Chinese people cannot enter and exit at will, so the safety is still guaranteed.

"Transfer all the Chinese students? Do you need to transfer teachers from Ziwei Public School? Phyllis was surprised, even Phyllis didn't know this information.

"No, there are teachers at the new school." Roque smiled happily, it was indeed an unexpected surprise.

Roque once thought that at this stage in 1902, very few Chinese received higher education, so with the strength of the Chinese, it was probably impossible to support the teachers needed by a school.

The fact that Roque was very surprised was that since the middle of the last century, there have been Chinese who have gone to Europe, the United States, and Japan to study, and now decades have passed, and there are still many Chinese who have received new Western education.

The crux of the matter is that many Chinese returned to the Qing Dynasty after receiving a new Western education, and found that the knowledge they had learned was useless, and some Yale graduates went to work as newspaper operators after returning to China, and Cambridge graduates could only go to the customs as the lowest level of customs brokers after returning to China, so there were senior talents led by Xia Zuo, Duncan, and George to Johannesburg.

At present, there are dozens of Chinese in Johannesburg who have received new Western education, and they are enough to support a new school to provide education for the next generation of Chinese in Johannesburg.

After the new school is established, it will not be many years before the second generation of Chinese talent will appear like a blowout, and ten years later, there will be Chinese at all levels of government in the Transvaal, and then Roque will no longer be alone.

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