Scarlett's farm is on the verge of collapse, and a utopia of pure women and children cannot be sustained for long in this era.

Human nature is selfish, especially for women who have been devastated by war, and they feel this more acutely.

From the very beginning, there was a great hidden danger in Scarlett's farm, and Roque knew that there was no future at all in the big pot rice model, but Scarlett didn't know, and Roque didn't care to remind Scarlett at that time, so Scarlett plunged into this big pit.

Most of the women taken in by Scarlett were pregnant, so soon after the farm was founded, it won its first baby boom.

At the beginning, it was okay, but the mother was strong, and the woman would burst out with great energy for the sake of the child, so the situation on the farm was not bad.

But as more and more women gave birth, there were fewer and fewer people able to work, and by this time the farms around Johannesburg had begun to grow in stride, and Scarlett's farm was still struggling, living on potatoes and milk supported by agricultural associations.

That's right, not only did the Agricultural Association give away a lot of milk to Scarlett's farm, but even Ziwei College sent a lot of milk to Scarlett's farm.

Originally, if this situation continued, then the situation might be maintained.

But at this time, the situation changed again, many pregnant women after giving birth to their children, they chose to leave the farm to marry, or went to Orange to find their families, but the children were left on the farm, and these children became the last straw that broke the farm.

There is a great deal of disagreement on how to treat these children.

Some insist that the children should be handed over to the women who left the farms to take them away, which is clearly unrealistic, because the farms do not know where the children's mothers have gone after leaving the farms.

Others believe that the children should be placed in the custody of the Johannesburg City Council, which should at least bear part of the cost of child support.

This sounds like a good choice, but it is also not very feasible, and the current Johannesburg city government does not have a policy for orphans, these children do not even have a father, and now they have lost their mothers, which is difficult to take good care of even in the United Kingdom, let alone southern Africa.

For the sake of these children, there was a huge rift in the farm, which further affected the normal production of the farm, but by this time Scarlett's savings had been depleted, so the farm could not be maintained.

Fortunately, at this time, Ida returned to Johannesburg, and Scarlett was forced to be helpless, so she explained the situation of the farm to Ada, hoping that Ida could take over the farm.

Unlike Scarlett, a bad person, Ada's personality is more decisive, more independent, and more cold-blooded, so Ada's request is that it is okay to take over the farm, but Scarlett is required to transfer the ownership of the farm to Ada, and Scarlett will no longer interfere with the operation of the farm.

Scarlett was already physically and mentally exhausted, and even if she wanted to interfere, she was powerless, so she simply agreed to Ada's request.

The first thing Ada did when she took over the farm was to dissolve it.

Because Ida is now the owner of the farm, the women and children on the farm are actually employees of the farm, and Ida sent professional management and financial personnel to the farm, and hired some security personnel from the umbrella company to corporatize the farm.

The way of transformation is very rough, directly run the farm as a company, everyone on the farm becomes employees of the company, can accept the company's model, then the "employee" can continue to stay in the company, and if he can't accept the current change, then he has to leave the farm.

In order to thank those who are leaving, the farm will give some financial compensation, and given Ada's style, don't expect much money.

Most of the women chose to stay on the farm, and some chose to leave in frustration with the farm, Ida did not show up from beginning to end, everything was carried out by the management of the farm, and less than two months after taking over the farm, the situation on the farm was completely new.

In fact, the crux of the problem is the children who have become orphans.

After clearing the instability, Ida still invested in the farm, setting up nurseries and kindergartens one after another to take care of these children.

For the employees who choose to stay on the farm, the farm also signs a contract with them as a helper, assigning them detailed work tasks, some of them go to nurseries and kindergartens to take care of the children, and some of them are responsible for farm labor.

It was only then that Ida discovered how chaotic Scarlett's previous management was, the lack of labor on the farm, and the conditions for a huge area, did not develop a relatively labor-intensive animal husbandry, and a group of women and children lived with potatoes, Scarlett, the farmer, was indeed unqualified.

Scarlett is not a good decision-maker, but she is an excellent executor, so the form of the farm is transformed into a company model, and Ada appoints Scarlett as the manager of the company.

Nothing seems to have changed, but everything is completely different from before.

To put it bluntly, there is still no money, to develop animal husbandry, whether it is to breed cattle or sheep, it costs money, Scarlett bought the farm with a loan, and there is no money to continue to invest, so the farm is destined to be unsustainable from the beginning.

Compared to when Scarlett bought the farm, the situation is much better now.

At that time, farms in Johannesburg had to buy breeding cattle and sheep, and even had to go to Canada, but now this problem can be solved in Johannesburg, and local farms in Johannesburg have been able to provide breeding cattle and sheep to the outside world, and the price is much cheaper than at the beginning.

As for the labor force, it is not difficult to solve it, Nyasaland is now able to produce tractors, Ida called Roque, and Roque directly gave Ada five vehicles, which completely solved the labor problem of the farm.

It's not thorough, a farm with an area of 20,000 acres, only women can't do it, so Ida hired some Chinese Americans to come to the farm and further change the human resources structure of the farm.

This decision sparked opposition from Scarlett and the company's employees.

But Ida is resolute, if she can accept it, she will stay, and if she can't accept it, she will leave, and there is no third option, and Johannesburg's democratic representative system will not work here in Ida.

No one left!

Those who are willing to leave have been eliminated twice, and those who have already left, and those who remain are those who have nowhere to go, or people who have a deep affection for the farm, and Ida will not leave even if it is a little more excessive.

Once the farm was on track, good things followed, and the tractor discovered a gold mine in the northwest of the farm when it began to reclaim the land.

It is normal for gold mines to be discovered in the Johannesburg area, and in addition to the rock gold mine in Roque's hands, there are two other gold mines that have been discovered that have not been mined at all, including the gold mine found on Scarlett-Ida's farm, and at least one-tenth of the gold mines in the Johannesburg area are controlled by Roque.

This is not comparable to the De Beers Unified Mining Company, but like Xiaosi, Roque is actually another mining giant in the Johannesburg area.

"How big is the gold mine?" After Ida discovers the gold mine, she goes directly to Roque and wants to hand it over to Roque to deal with.

"I don't know, I didn't go to Christian, you know, the farm is full of women, it is impossible to count on them to mine, and the gold mine is probably not in my hands, so it is better to leave it to you-" Ada was lying in her villa at this moment, comfortably leaning on Roque and eating fruit.

Arthur was babbling around on the carpet beside Ada and Roque.

Ida is also very lazy, every time Arthur is about to climb out of Ada's control, Ida uses her toes to hold Arthur's clothes and pull Arthur back, who is trying to escape from the clutches.

Arthur is indomitable, and after being pulled back, he will try to set off into the distance, and he will not cry when he suffers.

So Roque immediately digressed: "Isn't this kid going to cry?" I never heard him cry. ”

"Because his father would not show up in time to soothe him even if he cried, so the boy rarely cried." Ida pun intended.

Roctor was clever and immediately sent a kiss full of apology and love.

Ada smiled contentedly.

"You can keep the gold mine for yourself, I will help you find it if there are no miners, don't worry about the rest." Roque is indeed confident now, if other women own the gold mine, then maybe it really can't be saved, Ida has no problem in this regard, even if Roque doesn't come forward, there are few people in Johannesburg who can bully Ida.

"Let me keep it—will the lady of Nyasaland be unhappy?" Ida still has a grudge after all, and it's impossible to say that she doesn't mind: "Forget it, just when I didn't say it, it's actually not bad now, when you don't come, I'll treat you as a business trip-"

Such a woman really makes Roque love it, so Roque willingly carries the burden.

Running a gold mine and replacing it with someone else may not be too simple for a capitalist like Roque.

Qian Roque has mining equipment, Johannesburg also has it, the only problem is the miners, Roque still has a lot of Zulu prisoners of war in his hands, two or three thousand transferred, it will not affect the construction of Nyasaland.

As for whether the arrival of these Zulu miners in Johannesburg will affect the proportion of the population of Johannesburg.

There is no need to worry about this problem, all the gold mines in Johannesburg are now militarized, which is completely different from the previous free-range farming, all the miners in Johannesburg only work in Johannesburg, not live in Johannesburg, and Roque can drive these Zulus back to Basutoland at any time.

It's not "rushing", it's sending!