Therefore, until Nyasaland has sufficient self-protection capacity, or in other words, before the implementation of autonomy in southern Africa, Nyasaland should keep a low profile, even if Nyasaland has an abundance of aquatic products, Roque will not sell them to the outside world.

Even if the Transvaal mines needed Nyasaland explosives, Roque would not sell them to the Transvaal.

The same is true for human resources, Roque has been immigrating in Johannesburg for more than a year, and the number of Chinese talents in Johannesburg has just exceeded 100,000.

In less than half a year after Nyasaland arrived in Roque's hands, the number of Chinese in Nyasaland has exceeded 150,000, and this information is the top secret of Nyasaland.

Also increasing rapidly are a variety of experts and professors, engineers, technicians, and even skilled workers, Roque collects talents through different channels, high-end talents have Douglas, low-end talents have Christian, Roque has even set up headhunting companies in London, Paris, Berlin, with high salaries and generous benefits to tempt all kinds of talents.

The flow of talent in this era is very normal, governments do not attach as much importance to talent as in the future, there are always people who do not meet talents, and in the customary sense, Nyasaland is also a British territory, so it is not unacceptable to work for a baron.

Especially since the baron is still very generous, then there is even more good reason.

The number of senior talents in Nyasaland is enough to support a comprehensive university, the reason why the university has not yet started, in addition to the lack of suitable students, the impact is the biggest problem, Roque does not want to be noticed now, and making a fortune is the king.

In November, the plague situation became more and more serious, the death toll in Johannesburg exceeded 100, and the number of patients and suspected patients in the quarantine area exceeded 1,000.

Relatively speaking, the situation in Johannesburg is still good, and the death toll of the plague in Pretoria is already close to a thousand, most of them Zulus employed by Christian.

Orange suffered a great toll from the plague, with at least 500 people dying a day in October, and by early November, Orange's death toll had exceeded 10,000.

At the beginning of the plague, Orange also hoped that Johannesburg could provide medical support to Bloemfontein, but after being resolutely rejected by Johannesburg, Bloemfontein could only try to save himself, but because of his poor organizational and mobilization skills, the effect of self-help was not great, and the plague was not effectively contained, but intensified.

Outside the municipality of Bloemfontein, the stretcher team led by Gandhi played an "important role".

The reason for putting quotation marks around "important role" is that the role of stretcher teams is difficult to evaluate.

After the outbreak of the plague, Gandhi keenly felt that this was an important opportunity to increase his prestige, so Gandhi led a stretcher team to immediately devote himself to the prevention and control of the plague.

The plague has been raging in Europe for nearly a thousand years, and European countries have accumulated rich experience in the process of fighting the plague, so Bloemfontein is mainly isolated and supplemented by treatment.

The meaning of this sentence is that if you get the plague, you can basically only wait for death, and whether you can survive it depends on whether God gives face.

In terms of isolation, Bloemfontein did not take more protective measures, so the stretcher team led by Gandhi, without any protection, shuttled through the streets of Bloemfontein every day, sending patients infected with plague and suspected patients into the quarantine area.

Yersinia pestis can be transmitted through indirect means such as breathing, talking, coughing, and direct means of skin-to-skin communication, so in early November, the Bloemfontein city government was surprised to find that a third of the members of the stretcher team led by Gandhi had been infected with plague.

Originally, the Bloemfontein city government also imposed martial law on Bloemfontein in order to fight the plague, but unexpectedly, these Indians who shuttled through the streets and alleys every day became the source of plague infection, so the stretcher team members infected with the plague were also imprisoned in the quarantine area, and the remaining stretcher team members were also restricted from moving.

Although the role of the stretcher team was mixed, Gandhi's actions earned Gandhi great prestige among the lower Boers.

When the plague broke out, Boer officials, including Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, hid in the high city hall and did not have to face the threat of the plague directly, and used daily meetings to fight the plague.

The Bloemfontein police station is still on patrol, but they will not be involved in the disaster relief, and even if someone dies in front of them, they will not dispose of the body, but will notify the Zulu corpse team to clean up the mess.

During the plague, Gandhi's stretcher team was the only group that provided services to the low-level Boers, and the Boers actually had a kind of quality that was not afraid of heaven and earth, even if Gandhi's stretcher team eventually became the source of infection, those low-level Boers still believed that only Gandhi's stretcher team was wholeheartedly for the Boers.

This dramatic result was probably not even expected by Gandhi.

In the days when the plague was raging, there were people in Johannesburg who were running around.

After several bargains, Roque and the former president finally reached an agreement that Roque would send mercenaries to assist the former president's Casimir Perrier company in extracting Madagascar's mineral resources.

Roque still relented, did not insist on a fifty percent share, and finally only got thirty percent, but in this way, the mercenaries sent by Roque were no longer gratuitous, but needed to be paid by Casimir Perrier.

In the end, Roque was to send a force of 60 mercenaries to Madagascar, who were fighters and instructors, and upon arrival in Madagascar, Casimir Perrier would organize a security team of Malagasy men, who would be responsible for managing and training the security guards.

The person in charge who led the team to Madagascar was called the chief, which was not a nickname, the chief was really the son of a certain chief in Zululan, but his name structure was also very complicated, so when the chief registered, the name used was the chief.

The chieftain had no inheritance rights in his tribe, so he chose to work as a police officer in Johannesburg.

"After you go to Madagascar, you have to have a long mind, the security team of the mine, all the officers must be our people, and the French are not allowed to meddle in any affairs of the security team, during your trip to Madagascar, the salary is still paid by the Johannesburg Police Department, the original salary plus the foreign allowance, each person's salary is about ten pounds a month, I will send a newspaper staff to Madagascar with you, no matter what, you must first report to the bureau, do not make decisions privately." Roque told him that if it weren't for the fact that the Chinese were too conspicuous, Roque would not let the chief go to Madagascar.

"Yes! Be! Be! Every time Roque said a word, the chief yelled "yes", which made Roque a little unaccustomed.

What kind of people bring out what kind of soldiers, Roque himself does not follow the rules, his thoughts are even more imaginative, and even the atmosphere in the Johannesburg Police Department is very active, during non-working periods, the officers and police officers get along very well, and the police officers on the football field also get off when they defend the sheriff, and there are no strict class boundaries.

The officers of the Johannesburg Police Department all know that when Roque orders to work, he does not need the officer to show determination, does not need to have a proper attitude, and in the end, he just needs to do his job well, as long as he sits upright, even if there is a small flaw in the work, Roque will stand up for his subordinates, and he does not have to worry about the impact.

So in the Johannesburg Police Department, there are really not many people with such a good attitude as the chief.

"After arriving in Madagascar, if there is difficulty, you must send a telegram in time to apply for support, the foundation of French rule in Madagascar is not solid, if you encounter a serious incident, save yourself as the main, don't let the French give some benefits and get dizzy." Roque was still worried about the chief's conduct, and if the French lured him to his advantage and moved him with "affection", it was really difficult to say the ethics of the Africans.

In this regard, Roque still did some precautions, such as the chief, whose salary is paid by the Johannesburg police department, so that at least the chief knows who they are working for.

As for the chief's conduct, in fact, Roque is not too worried, after all, the chief's family is in Johannesburg, and the clansmen are all in Zululand, if the chief does something to be sorry for Roque, Roque has to punish the chief very simply, unless the chief's heart can be ruthless to the point of recklessness.

However, the former president should not be able to give the chief this temptation, after all, if the chief commits a crime, Roque will not let the former president go.

This seems to be a bit exaggerated, but in fact there is no problem, the chaos of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is unimaginable to people in the twenty-first century, in a few years, the king of the Kingdom of Portugal, Carlos I, and the crown prince will be assassinated in the street, and the Archduke Ferdinand, who caused the First World War, will also be assassinated in the street, and compared with the twenty-first century, the world in this era is bloodier, more violent, and more direct.

"Don't worry, Lord, eat the candy, as you said, and then shoot the cannonball back—" Speaking of benefits, the chief's head immediately brightened.

Roque did say the allusion to "sugar-coated cannonballs" before, and it was hard for the chief to remember it.

"Very well, remember this, as long as you do well, I can guarantee that you don't need to go home to fight for that chief of your family, I will give you a bigger tribe to make you a real chief." Roque will also tempt and emotional, and he is much more powerful than the French.

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