Although compared with Bloemfontein, Johannesburg has reached a higher level in terms of infrastructure and economy, but Johannesburg still has a lot to lose, not to mention compared with big cities like London and Paris, even Cape Town can't be compared, so Johannesburg still has a lot of room for improvement.

Ade's previous partiality with the Boers was for the sake of the balanced development of the Transvaal and Orange under his rule, and the Boers are now also British, and the peace negotiations are still led by Ade, so if the Transvaal and Orange are heaven and hell on one side, Ade's face will not look good.

It's a pity that the Boers can't hold up the wall in the mud, and Ade is still exhausted.

Ade wanted Orange to be as economically prosperous as the Transvaal, where everyone could live and work in peace, so he favored the Boers.

But if Orange affects the development of the Transvaal, it will be more than worth the loss.

Roque wasn't in Ade's position, so he didn't know why Ade was struggling.

This kind of thing is actually easy to understand, and by replacing the Transvaal and Orange with Nyasaland and Johannesburg, Roque can immediately understand why Ade is swaying from side to side.

The palms of the hands and the backs of the hands are full of meat.

In the past, Roque was still worried about Orange, but now he doesn't need to, it is just right for an old oilman like Philip Matilda to deal with the Boers, and Roque still focuses on the security of Johannesburg and the town of Ziwei, which is the scope of Roque's work.

In the process of this plague outbreak, Ziwei Town was affected, perhaps the lowest in the Transvaal and Orange, the entire Ziwei Town, there were less than 50 infected patients and infected patients who were sent to the quarantine area, most of them were misdiagnosed, and after confirming that they were not infected with the plague, they were sent back to Ziwei Town, only 12 people were confirmed to be infected with the plague, after treatment, four more people recovered, and finally only eight people died of the plague.

For a huge "town" with a population of more than 5,000 people, this is a surprising achievement, don't forget that this is 1902, but the sanitary level of Ziwei is about the same as in 2012, and it is no wonder that Ade wants to give Ziwei all kinds of subsidies, if all the towns in the Transvaal and Orange are the same as Ziwei Town, then Ade must not go down in history.

After the plague, the health level of Ziwei Town has risen to a new level, because the plague Ziwei Town is also at the risk of everyone, everyone used to sweep the snow in front of the door, just take care of themselves, and now Ziwei Town, if someone affects others because they are not good enough in terms of hygiene, it is really everyone shouting and fighting.

In addition to hygiene, there are actually a lot of bad things, Ziwei Town is a town where Chinese and white people live together, and the cultural conflict between the East and the West is still huge, which is reflected in the individual, that is, various contradictions in life, such as the children of white families are relatively free, so the proportion of bear children is a bit more, and Chinese families are more strict in the management of children, and as a result, white people often report Chinese family abuse of children.

Mrs. Buck has been reported the most times, because Mrs. Buck is very strict with her children, and the children do not do well in Ziwei School.

The child is naughty at home and beats!

The child learned the violin for half a year and still couldn't play a complete tune, but the result was still playing!

This kind of education seems natural to the Chinese, and Mrs. Buck often exchanges experiences with neighbors about beating children, which is really unacceptable to whites.

So Mrs. Buck was reported twice in three days.

The funny thing is that because Buck is the mayor of the town, every time Mrs. Buck is reported, it is Buck who handles it, and as a result, a single single can easily become a double double.

Because of this, Buck has been seen as a joke a lot, and even Roque knows that there is a person in Buck's family (deleted)-

I don't dare to write this word, and I am afraid that I will be scolded if I write it.

Roque doesn't care about these trivial things, this is Buck's job, Roque is only responsible for the general direction of the development of Ziwei Town, it's not that Roque doesn't care about the residents of Ziwei Town, it's really Roque who can't be busy, if this kind of trivial things like this have to be dealt with by Roque, he can exhaust Roque to death.

What's more, if Luo Ke is close to everything, then it will not reflect the role of the Ziwei Town Management Committee.

The "Council" was established during the plague and was deliberately named to distinguish it from the Parliament.

In addition to Buck and Bobby Holt, the members of the "Management Committee" did not vote for the residents of Ziwei Town, but a quasi-official organization formed by Buck, including Tax Commissioner Brad Shelley, Sheriff Dunn, Vice President of the Agricultural Association, George, the future Executive Dean of the School of Medicine, Sophia and Tony, the two principals of the current Ziwei Public School, Dr. Colin Bellamy, the director of Ziwei Hospital, as well as Father Frank of the Catholic Church, and Arthur, a Protestant priest.

Every Monday morning, it is the regular meeting time of the "Management Committee", as long as two-thirds of the people are present, the "Management Committee" can decide the affairs of Ziwei Town, big and small, and the power is amazing.

"The management committee is still very effective, some time ago the city government asked for a tax increase on Ziwei Town, but the management committee directly refused, Director Beaufort also wanted to order Brad, but Professor Douglas went directly to Lord Matilda and suppressed the matter." Buck was very proud, and in Buck's view, the "management committee" was definitely a big initiative, which was more conducive to safeguarding the interests of Ziwei Town.

Roque regretted it, some time ago Roque was busy dealing with the plague and neglected the management of Ziwei Town, but he didn't expect such a thing to go wrong.

"Isn't it good?" Buck finally notices that Roque's expression is wrong.

"It looks good now, but after a long time, there are many problems, for example, if it is very beneficial to the long-term development of Ziwei Town, but in the short term, it seems to have a negative effect, and the result is that the management committee has a huge difference, what should I do then?" Roque knows the disadvantages of democratic resolution, so he has always opposed similar institutions, and the management method of "management committee" seems to be fair and effective in the short term, but in the long run, it will become a burden to fight each other and kick the ball.

"The minority obeys the majority, and when the management committee makes a decision, as long as two-thirds of the people agree, it must be implemented, and the management committee is not elected, so that situation will be avoided to the greatest extent." Buck had thought about it before making a decision, which reassured Roque a little.

Roque's biggest trouble right now is that he doesn't have enough talent on hand.

Johannesburg will develop on its side, Nyasaland will also develop on its side, the land that has just been "leased" will be stable, Roque will also be ready to open up the Congo Free State in the future, and now there are more mercenaries from Madagascar, and there are thousands of things

It's complicated, and Roque is really lacking in skills alone, so Roque can only slowly pick people from his side to cultivate.

At present, it seems that Buck may become Roque's biggest helper, so Roque still has great hopes for Buck, he is not afraid of making mistakes, experience is to accumulate in mistakes, and he is afraid that he will not be able to learn from his mistakes, so that he will go further and further on the wrong road, and it will be difficult to return at that time.

"If you think it's appropriate, then let it go." So Roque let Buck try, and even if the establishment of the "council" was a mistake, Roque wanted the mistake to be worthwhile.

"It should be fine, I have a back door, if two-thirds of the residents of Ziwei Town think that the management committee cannot protect their interests, then the management committee will be dissolved." Buck is also a ghost now, and he has a killer weapon against the management committee.

Although Ziwei Town is a mixture of whites and Chinese, the number of Chinese must be more than two-thirds, and if necessary, Buck can vote to dissolve the management committee and restore Ziwei town to the model before the establishment of the management committee.

For Buck's confidence, Roque just smiled and didn't speak, whether this model of the management committee is good or not, it's useless to say anything now, and it will be left to time to test.

At the end of November, Roque's mercenaries sent to Madagascar finally encountered their first challenge.

Although Madagascar has become a French colony, the hatred of Malagasy people for the French has not disappeared, so the relationship between the French and Malagasy people is very tense.

The reason why Jean Casimir Perrière came to Roque was really because he was desperate, Casimir Perrière's company obtained the mining rights in northern Madagascar, but because of the resistance of the Malagasy people to the French, Casimir Perrière's company could not even "hire" workers, so Perrier could only ask Roque for help.

Of course, the "employment" here is certainly not the kind of employment relationship under normal circumstances, Madagascar does not have such rich mineral reserves as Johannesburg, if the Casimir Perrière Company follows the way the Johannesburg gold mine operates, it will not be able to survive at all in this era, so the existence of mercenaries is very necessary, they not only want to bring enough miners to the Casimir Perrière Company, but also to prevent the miners from escaping and defend against the possible impact of the Malagasy people on the mine.

Roque still underestimated the situation in Madagascar, and the first mercenaries who followed the chief to Madagascar were only sixty men, and although these sixty were all experienced Zulu scouts, they were not enough for the task.

The Malagasy people have a strong personality and strong combat effectiveness, otherwise they would not have been able to withstand the French colonial invasion for decades, and the mercenaries sent by Roque to Madagascar were used to deal with the indigenous people of the coastal areas of Madagascar.

Austin Pence, who had changed his name to Robert, discovered the problem when he arrived in Madagascar.

So Roque sent another 200 mercenaries to Madagascar, which was enough to meet Austin Pence's request.

At the end of November, at the behest of Casimir Perrier, the mercenaries were to begin sweeping all the villages around the mine.

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