479 Don't be angry
By this era, Roque's view of Africans had changed a lot.
Africans in another time and space, lazy, unenterprising, selfish, and all kinds of diseases, everyone avoids them, and they have become a social cancer.
Africans in this time and space are silent, hardworking, selfish, and have various diseases, but they are not spoiled by high social welfare, and they are not social tumors.
Although Nyasaland also rejected the settlement of Africans, Roque also undeniably that Africans played a very important role in the development of Nyasaland.
In more virgin land colonization and development, Africans are the first to stand up, first complete the infrastructure construction, and then the Chinese move in batches, so many people do not understand why Roque excludes Africans, and some people in Nyasaland even suggest that Africans should be allowed to settle, which will be more conducive to the future of Nyasaland.
Such suggestions are made by white people, and they are not hypocritical, and the starting point is still because of free labor, so they make such suggestions.
But all the Chinese, including Roque, know that people who are not of our race will have different hearts, so Nyasaland is very persistent on this issue.
There are whites in Nyasaland, partly because of white technology, and partly because a certain number of whites are needed to balance the population of Nyasaland.
As for the blacks, even if it is black, Roque will not explain that in southern Africa, Africans do not have any privileges, on the contrary, they will be punished more severely after breaking the law, as a minority, they will not receive any care, not only do they not have any subsidies for having children, adults will have to pay a lot of poll taxes if they do not work, southern Africa is the southern Africa of whites and Chinese, and even the southern Africa of Gurkha mercenaries, but not Africans.
Since the beginning of this year, a considerable number of Gurkha and Chinese who have migrated to southern Africa have come to Bechuana and started a new life.
More than 60 percent of the land in the current state of Bechuana belongs to the Bechuana company.
In view of the fact that the business of Bechuana Agricultural Development Company is not limited to Bechuana, Roque simply split Bechuana Agricultural Development Company into several different parts, Bechuana Company was established in Bechuana, and Orange Company was established in Orange, and all business in Cape belonged to Cape Company, each performing its own duties, not interfering with each other, and forming effective competition.
Limited to the situation in Bechuana, cattle raising has become one of the few options on farms in Bechuana, and the Bechuana Agricultural Development Company owns more than half a million acres of pasture around Rhodes City, and more land is being developed, and the new immigrants to Bechuana are basically employees of the Bechuana Agricultural Development Company.
These newcomers are in Bechuana's state and are under the care of both the Bechuana state government and the Bechuana company, which will bear part of the cost of the newcomers' settlement, and the Bechuana company will provide the newcomers with job opportunities so that they can live in Bechuana.
While the Northern Rhodesian Division was training in the Okavango Marshes, a colonial pioneer team from Nyasaland finally arrived in the Kuando River basin on the border between northern Bechuana and German southwestern Africa after a long journey of more than half a month.
The Koudo River originates in Portuguese West Africa, with a total length of 800 kilometers, flowing through Southwest Africa, Bechuana, Rhodesia, and then flowing into the Zambezi River.
The colony team consisted of 120 men, almost the size of a standard company, with four whites and nearly 20 Chinese, all of whom were African workers.
"This is Area 1065?" Mike Kelly, the only English-American in the team, had no intention of admiring the pristine scenery around him, and was holding a map to confirm his location.
"Never mind if it's or not, do you still have the strength to move forward?" Captain Ryan jumped out of the ox cart, took off his bucket hat to fan the wind, then glanced at the sun overhead, shook his head and put his hat back on.
"Whatever, it's here, I'm going to take a good shower, Twelve, go get me some water" Jackson, the technician, also jumped out of the ox cart, he was sweating profusely, and he could smell the indescribable body odor from ten meters away.
A thin young black man did not speak, but ran to the river with a huge bucket, he was Twelve, many Africans in the colonial pioneer team did not have names, so they used numbers instead, and no one thought this was an insult to Africans, including Twelve himself.
"Then set up camp here, the security team picked up your rifles and set up a cordon, the technical team found a suitable place to set up the tent, and the support team prepared dinner, thirteen, did you see that herd of antelopes?" Find a way to get a few back, I'm going to eat roast lamb shank in the evening," Ryan ordered a succession of orders, and the whole team was immediately busy.
"The soil is not bad, it should be suitable for cultivation," Jackson had already begun to get to work while he waited for a shower.
"It's definitely good, since it can grow grass, then it should be able to grow crops, look at the trees here, you can't see the edge at a glance, if you change them to fruit trees, tsk, it's no problem to feed a million people." Ryan is not surprised that Africa is indeed too rich, and the result is that unmotivated Africans are created.
It's understandable to think about it, you can live comfortably by picking fruits and hunting, but who would work hard to grow food
Thirteen and a dozen Africans encircled a piece of land around a few trees with rope nets, and then used only one apple to lure a herd of antelopes into the nets, and in the next few days, this group of antelopes would become a delicacy on the table of the pioneers.
"This is also for you Chinese, you have to know that before you Chinese came to southern Africa, such conditions had no development value in the eyes of white farmers" Jackson has now been conquered by the talent of the Chinese in agriculture, no matter what kind of land it is, it will shine in the hands of the Chinese.
In fact, the conditions in the Kuando River basin are not good, there is the world's largest Okavango swamp nearby, there is also the world's largest Makatikadi salt marsh, but the Kalahari Desert, which occupies 80% of the area, is still very small, most of it is in the western region bordering southwest Africa.
The vegetation in the Kuando River basin does look good, but the ground is full of large and small gravel, and whites and Africans are probably not in the mood to clear the rubble, so the land has no development value.
For the Chinese, not to mention a little rubble, even if it is a stone mountain, if necessary, it can be removed little by little, so this problem is not a problem at all for Ryan.
Just kick away a few pieces of rubble from the ground, and you will be greeted by sandy soil that exudes the fragrance of earth, and such soil has no problem growing crops.
The rubble will not be wasted, and with the arrival of the colonial pioneers, the construction of settlements in Area 1065, and the construction of roads and railways, these gravel can be fully utilized.
The 100 people worked together, and before dark, a makeshift camp of more than a dozen tents had been set up.
At night, bonfires are lit around the camp, which can effectively prevent the attack of wild animals, and the dozen or so bonfires on the African savannah at night are still very conspicuous, and there is endless darkness outside the campfires, and there are dark blue or dark yellow eyes flickering everywhere.
On the campfire in the center of the camp, two fat antelopes have been roasted to a golden brown, and bean-sized grease drips on the roaring bonfire, and people around the campfire are talking and laughing.
On nights like these, in Bechuana, in Rhodesia, in Nyasaland, throughout Southern Africa, there are hundreds of such colonial pioneers busy,
"How many people can we fit here? Looking at this, 10,000 people should be fine. "Ryan is writing a report, 10,000 people are definitely impossible, there are not so many people coming, and in the end a basically complete colonial development point will only house twenty or thirty families, and the population will only be about one or two hundred people.
"100,000 people are fine, do you know how big it is around here? Even if you don't consider the Okavango swamp and then remove the Makatikadi salt marsh, there are more than 30,000 square kilometers of developable land in the vicinity, and even if two families are housed in one square kilometer, how many people do you say can be accommodated? Jackson laughed, and liked to see Ryan scratch his ears and cheeks as he wrote his report.
Two families per square kilometer may sound like a bit of luxury, but one square kilometer is only 247 acres, and Bechuana now allocates 100 acres of land for every immigrant family admitted, so it is not too much to accommodate two families per square kilometer.
At this time, families were not a family of three, and it was normal for a family of four generations to have dozens of people, but in Bechuana, the situation of such large families improved, and in order to get as much land as possible, many families would declare according to the actual situation after coming to Bechuana, and the result was that it was common for a family to get four or five hundred acres of land.
Of course, Bechuana also has requirements for this situation, and all the land obtained by immigrant families will be taken back by the state government if it is not developed within five years.
In fact, this point has almost no effect in actual implementation, and the so-called development does not require all of it to be developed into arable land, but also to develop it into pasture.
"These newcomers are really lucky," Ryan couldn't help but sigh, and if this situation is not good, then he can only blame himself for not being angry.