It took almost a week for Roque to travel all over Nyasaland.

Nyasaland is quite good, and many places in Blantyre, Lilongwe, and Casama have been initially developed and have the conditions for setting up agricultural companies.

In terms of water resources alone, conditions in Nyasaland are much better than in Johannesburg, where there is only one Limpopo River, which is still a seasonal river that stops flowing during the dry season and is full of crocodiles.

There are more than 10 rivers in Nyasaland that flow into Lake Nyasa, which can be regarded as a dense network of rivers compared to Johannesburg, and these dense river networks ensure the hydraulic irrigation of the fields in Nyasaland, and Nyasaland in the 21st century needs international assistance because Nyasaland uses more land to grow tobacco instead of food, if Nyasaland does not grow tobacco but rice, not to mention three crops a year, two crops a year is still no problem, and international assistance is still needed?

Don't do it, if you really want to grow rice, you can't make it possible for Nyasaland to export grain.

Of course, Nyasaland's conditions and whether rice can be grown still need to be verified by Douglas and his students.

In the 21st century, Nyasaland is 113,000 square kilometers and has a population of 18 million, and now Nyasaland is larger than Malawi in the 21st century, with an area of 200,000 square kilometers, and there will be more people to feed.

"Are you sure you want to sell all the Zulus of Nyasaland to the Portuguese?" Before Roque left Nyasaland, Xiao Si reaffirmed Roque's decision.

"Yes, sell them all, you need Zulus to work, I don't need to, more than 10,000 people will enter Nyasaland along the Shire River next month, you can help me prepare food for them, the specific amount, the Nyasaland Agricultural Company will take the initiative to contact Salisbury." Roch was sure that the Zulus were not needed, and would never give the Zulus a chance to settle old scores.

In the future, the Zulu people will confidently make demands on the whites, and the confidence comes from the oppression of the Zulus by the whites during this period.

Roque does not give the Zulus a chance to turn the tables, and if he does not squeeze the Zulus now, there will be enough confidence to reject the Zulus in the future, and the Chinese in Nyasaland can confidently say that the construction of Nyasaland has nothing to do with the Zulus, and every grass and tree in Nyasaland is planted by the Chinese themselves, and the Zulus want to morally kidnap the Chinese in Nyasaland.

"Okay, I won't give you the money from the sale, how much food supply Nyasaland needs in two years, Salisbury is all-inclusive." Xiao Si knew that Roque didn't like the Zulu people and didn't take advantage of Roque.

During the war, the development of Rhodesia by South African companies was also at a standstill, and Cecil Rhodes was used to expand the territory, but it was almost meaningless to govern the place, so it had been several years, and Rhodesia was only self-sufficient in food.

"Haha, don't regret it then." Roque was solemn, Xiao Si was afraid that he didn't know how many people Roque could send to Nyasaland in a year with all his strength.

"Ha, if I regret it, I'll give you another one Nyasaland." Xiao Si is generous, referring to the population of Britain and Portugal, how many people can there be in the Qing Kingdom?

Xiao Si didn't know that there were 450 million people in the current Qing Kingdom at this time, and even if he knew, it was estimated that Xiao Si would not care, because the population of Britain at this time was 380 million, second only to the Qing Kingdom in the world.

The 380 million here includes the population of India, and there is no such thing as a "colony" in the world at this time, and the common caliber in the world is that the colonial territory is also regarded as the territory of the suzerain, so India is also an inseparable part of the United Kingdom, and the Indians are also British.

There's nothing wrong with this logic.

What's more, the British occupy the Transvaal and are facing a situation where no one is available, and Rhodesia is the same, so Xiao Si is looking forward to how many Chinese Roque can bring.

With Xiao Si's promise, Roque is in a very happy mood to leave Nyasaland, Hoover and Liang Dingxin's two ways combined, can send 10,000 people to Nyasaland every month, two years, enough for the Chinese in Nyasaland to be self-sufficient, two years later, including the families who will arrive in Nyasaland in the future, there will be at least 300,000 Chinese in Nyasaland, and at that time, no one will be able to take away Nyasaland.

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A week later, Roque returned to Johannesburg, in March 1902, and the Colonial Minister Joseph Chamberlain had arrived in Orange a week earlier to inspect the Boer settlement in Orange, and in a few days Joseph Chamberlain would leave Orange for an expedition to the Transvaal.

Johannesburg, Joseph Chamberlain's first stop in the Transvaal.

"You bought 77,000 square miles in Nyasaland?" After Roque returned to Johannesburg, Owen asked Roque for coffee as soon as possible.

"Yes, I'm going to send 300,000 people to Nyasaland in two years, what about that plan?" Roque was so big that Owen was dumbfounded.

After the war, the British who fled Johannesburg before the war have returned to Johannesburg, the Transvaal government has tried its best to publicize in the British mainland, but there are very few British people who have settled in Johannesburg, plus the British and Chinese who have settled in Johannesburg, the total population of Johannesburg has just exceeded 10,000, and Roque is now 300,000.

Settlement here refers to a natural person who owns a certain property in Johannesburg and can incur a fixed tax, not miners in gold mines, nor Zulu workers in Chinese farms.

"Are you really crazy, is it so easy to immigrate from the Qing Kingdom?" Owen is really very envious of the human resources that Roque has.

"The Qing State has just lost the war, and in order to punish the Qing State, the coalition forces demanded an indemnity of one tael of silver from everyone in the Qing State, with a total indemnity of 450 million taels of silver, do you know what this concept is?" Roque really didn't want to mention this history, and it hurt to think about it.

"One tael of silver, not much, almost five shillings." Owen knew the exchange rate between the pound and the silver, but he didn't know what a tael of silver meant to the Chinese in the Qing Kingdom.

"Many families in the Qing Kingdom may not be able to make up this tael of silver by smashing the pot and selling iron, so the Qing State is now in a serious famine, inserting the bid and selling the head, and the child is easy to eat - anyway, it is easy to get the population from the Qing State, and in the past, the hired workers from the Qing State had to sign a contract and clarify the treatment, but now there is no need to be so troublesome, as long as you give a stutter, someone will be willing to go with you, you can go anywhere." Roque's expression was indifferent, and he tried his best to hide the anger in his heart.

Every year of catastrophe, the Chinese always go through hardships, the Qing country this year is a natural and man-made disaster, not only lost the war, but also the north suffered a great drought that is rare in a century, but there were serious floods in the south, so it is really easy for Roque to emigrate, in the past, it was only adult men who were willing to go abroad to work, but now it is much easier, many families are all immigrants, and even the entire village is relocated as a whole.

"That's really difficult—" Owen said, not at all appreciating the cruelty of Roque's words: "—and, why did you send everyone to Nyasaland instead of Johannesburg?" ”

Roque didn't know if Owen was asking this question on behalf of Philip, and if it was, he probably wouldn't care about that.

"Cecil promised to take care of the lives of the immigrants, so I sent people to Nyasaland, to Johannesburg, who cares if they eat, drink, sleep, municipal?" Roque had no scruples, regardless of whether Philip asked Owen to ask the question or not, Roque had to give Owen an answer.

"Why should the people you hire ask the city government to help you raise them?" Owen immediately blackened his face, the city government will not help Roque raise people, although the city government has begun to collect taxes, the finances have been greatly eased, but there are many places to spend money, Joseph Chamberlain will come to Johannesburg in a few days, and Philip also plans to find Joseph Chamberlain to cry poor and see if he can get some benefits.

Although Joseph Chamberlain has only been in Orange for a week, there has been gossip that Joseph Chamberlain has inspected the resettlement of the Boers on the spot, and deeply realized that 3 million pounds could not be used to resettle the Boers who suffered heavy losses in the war, so Joseph Chamberlain promised to apply for a loan from London, and the total amount of the loan is estimated to reach the level of 10 million pounds.

Let's not talk about the loan or anything, it's a pleasure to spend now, and it will definitely have to be repaid in the future, and the relief appropriation-

Everybody wants it!

Johannesburg was also badly damaged by the war, and the entire city was almost torn down to rebuild, so didn't it need relief?

During the war, the expeditionary force and the Boer coalition army fought a brutal tug-of-war in Pretoria, and the population of Pretoria lost four-fifths, so didn't there be any need for relief?

After the signing of the Peace Agreement, the Boers became British, and the British government was responsible for the resettlement of the Boers, but the British who lived in the Transvaal before the war also suffered heavy losses, so did they not need relief?

That is why the whole of Johannesburg is waiting eagerly for Mr. Joseph Chamberlain.

In order to welcome Joseph Chamberlain, Philip even halted some of the municipal works that were being carried out in advance, creating the illusion that the work had to be stopped due to lack of funds.

Well, everyone is very talented in meeting the inspection of their superiors.

"Why should I send people to Johannesburg if the city government doesn't help?" Roque doesn't want to make trouble, although immigrants enter through the Cape or Durban, and the immigration bureau can reimburse immigration expenses, but tens of thousands of immigrants are completely different from immigrants of thousands after all, if Cape and Durban know that Roque will eventually send people to Nyasaland, it is estimated that the immigration directors of these two places can go crazy.

Some are cheap and some can't, just like immigration, a thousand-person immigration, with Xiao Si in front of him, Roque can still fish in troubled waters.

10,000-level immigration, Xiao Si can't hold it, the total number of whites in the four colonies of the Cape is less than a million, and Roque is hundreds of thousands, and the colonial authorities will suspect Roque's true intentions, so it really can't be done, without immigration through Cape Town and Durban, the cost is indeed a little higher, but Roque doesn't care, the Rock Gold Mine has gold, and if it doesn't work, let Buck drive at full speed, not to mention 100,000 a year, 500,000 Roque can afford to move.

"It's good to send people over." Owen was vague, and Roque was suddenly curious.

"What's the benefit?" Roque asked.

"Don't ask me, you'll find out in a few days." Owen didn't say it, Roque's teeth were itchy, but he couldn't do anything about Owen.

At the city government work meeting the next day, Roque finally knew what benefits Owen was talking about.

The war reparations promised by the British government were in place.

The £3 million was compensation for Boer farmers who had been damaged in the war.

But during the war, it was not only the Boer farmers who suffered, but also the British farmers in the Cape and the English mine owners in the Transvaal.

The mine owner didn't discuss it first, because people couldn't afford this money, and even if they did, the British government would not compensate them, so they could only consider themselves unlucky.

The British farmers in the Cape also suffered heavy losses during the war because of the attacks of the Boer guerrillas, and now that the war is over, and the British government has even given cash compensation to the Boer farmers, can they turn a blind eye to the losses of these British farmers?

Impossible, in order to attract British immigrants to the Transvaal, Ade has done everything, and even like Australia, he has offered preferential conditions for "horse racing", which means that within one day, new immigrants will run freely in the Transvaal on horseback, and they will be circled as much as they want, and they will not need a penny, and even provide free agricultural tools, seeds and other means of production to help new immigrants set up farms.

That's it, there are still not many British people willing to come to the Transvaal.

Now if the colonial authorities compensated the Boers but not the British, then the British in the Transvaal and the Cape would probably revolt.

At the urging of Walter Henry Hutchinson, the governor of Ade and the Cape, the British government finally agreed to give the British farmers in the Cape and the Transvaal a certain amount of cash compensation of £5 million.

Farmers in the Transvaal are not easy to say, this part of the information is all in the possession of the former Transvaal Republic, but all the information was lost during the war, so the compensation in the Transvaal is mainly based on the existing farms.

Existing!

The farmers around Johannesburg are now basically Chinese, and a few Zulu farms are certainly not covered by compensation.

That's what Owen was talking about.

"In principle, each farm is compensated for one shilling per acre according to the size of the farm, and the farms around Johannesburg are about 1.8 million acres, so the estimated expenditure is about £90,000." Home Secretary Blake Nelson explained the situation first, and the atmosphere in the conference room was a little eerie.

Of the total £5 million, Johannesburg can only leave £90,000 -

It's a loss!

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