Don't think that only Chinese people will invest heavily in the education of the next generation, and the same is true for white people, especially when education is mixed with too many other factors, let alone 15,000, the principal of the affiliated primary school is willing to pay even if it is 150,000 Christian.

Now that he has seen through it, Pierce no longer hides it, and simply asks the assistant to call Steele directly.

After seeing Roque and Louis Botha smiling on the sofa, Steele wiped his eyes several times to make sure that he was not mistaken, and then a thousand rand directly became three thousand.

"Each of us is worth a thousand." Roque has nothing to say, with such a principal, he deserves to thrive in Sunset Primary School in the future.

"It's the first time I've known I'm so valuable." Louis Botha's expression was very complicated, Nyasaland was amazing, the viscount didn't look like a viscount, the headmaster didn't look like a headmaster, and even the merchants were different from the merchants in Pretoria.

"Your annual salary of five thousand rands is worth more than a thousand." Roque glared at a cheerful Pierce, and it was hard to imagine how many of these checks there were in his shabby desk.

In the blink of an eye, it was time for the end of class, and the quiet campus suddenly became noisy, and countless students in neat school uniforms rushed out of the classrooms to fill the corridors, playgrounds, and open spaces in the center of the teaching area.

Nyasaland's school uniform is still very distinctive, the boy is a Western-style suit, the kind with a small vest, and a bow tie can be worn as an evening dress, and the girl's school uniform is a small suit and a skirt as high as the knee, a red checkered skirt with Scottish characteristics, plus white stockings and black round-toed small leather shoes, it is really difficult not to make people feel happy.

The garments were made to order from the Johannesburg textile mill and cost R5.5 each, which is basically not a lot of money, and the same clothes sold for R12 in Itno, with exactly the same texture and style.

Roque didn't feel much when he saw such a scene, and Louis Botha thought of the children in Orange who were helping out on the farm, and his feelings were particularly complicated.

These children who have the opportunity to receive a complete education should grow up to be in a very different profession from those who help on the farms, and the children here may become lawyers, accountants, engineers, and even senior officials in the federal government, and the children of Orange, if they are the eldest son, Dehua, will most likely become farmers when they grow up, but the other children will have a worrying future, and most of them will become poor white people.

Hopefully, they will have the opportunity to immigrate to Canada or Australia, so that they will also have the opportunity to become farmers.

Damn primogeniture!

"Locke, how much does Nyasaland invest in education each year?" Louis Botha was determined that Orange must not be marginalized.

"It's hard to say, there are many ways to earn income from the Nyasaland Education Bureau, and you can also see that the state and municipal governments only account for a part of the allocation, social donations are the majority, private donations are not much, and there are more donations from enterprises in Nyasaland, Sunset Primary School is actually donated by the Nyasaland Military Industrial Group, the original purpose is to facilitate the children of the employees of the Military Industrial Group to go to school, and the Kings Road Primary School is also donated by the Military Industrial Group, and there are several kindergartens around here, as well as a secondary school under construction, all of which are donated by the Military Industrial Group." Roque is still proud that the education system in Nyasaland is forming a virtuous circle, and some of the graduates of the University of Nyasaland also donate, and this part will increase over time.

Compared with corporate donations, alumni donations have a broader prospect, but there is a premise here, at least during the student's time in school, the memories left by the school are good, so that there is an incentive to donate.

Of course, at this stage, corporate donations are still the main force, Nyasaland Military Industrial Group, or enterprises like the RAND Bank, the annual profit is in the millions, even if the standard of donating a school is high, it is more than 100,000 or 200,000, this kind of project is generally handed over to Christian's construction company, or the engineering corps in southern Africa, the cost is actually very low, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

"What does it all add up?" Louis Botha was determined.

"If all the investment is combined, the Orange state government can't afford it-" Rock told the truth, Nyasaland has also developed for nearly a decade to have the current economic strength, and the Orange state government has no chance, and forcibly looking at Nyasaland can only bring humiliation on itself.

"The education system in Nyasaland was not established overnight, in 1902 when Nyasaland first began compulsory education, the teachers in the school were also seriously understaffed, with an average of more than 100 students per class, and there were only a dozen teachers in a school, and now many teachers in Nyasaland were the first students in Nyasaland that year, and many of them actually had the opportunity to receive a higher level of education, to be eligible to return to their homeland, or to go to university in Europe, but they gave up these opportunities. Rather leave the opportunity to their younger siblings, the University of Nyasaland now offers adult education to compensate these teachers by allowing them to continue their education and obtain a formal University of Nyasaland diploma if they wish, even while working. Roque couldn't help but feel excited, Nyasaland's current situation is really not Roque's efforts alone.

It's a very frustrating reality to say, in Nyasaland, it is not uncommon to return to teach the first grade after graduating from the sixth grade of primary school, and Roque also wants to set high standards and strict requirements, but the resources of teachers are really not something that can be solved by throwing money at them.

"Give me a few graduates of the University of Nyasaland, I promise, they can all work in the Orange State Department of Education, and the personal treatment is absolutely fine." Louis Botha was silent for a long time, and in 1902, before the Peace Agreement was signed, Louis Botha was still fighting guerrillas in the mountains.

One step at a time, step by step, the federal government really began to implement compulsory education in 1907, when the first batch of students in Nyasaland to receive compulsory education were about to graduate from primary school, even if the state of Orange actively cooperated at that time, then it would not be too far away now, unfortunately compulsory education has been implemented for three years, and the enrollment rate of school-age students in Orange is only a pitiful 35 percent.

If Louis Botha remembers correctly, 99 per cent of Nyasaland-born school-age children are enrolled in school, and the remaining 1 per cent are barely eligible for school.

"No problem." Roque agreed very happily, Louis Botha had already run out of the olive branch, and Roque had to show more or less something.

This is not a bad thing, it is undeniable that there are some Boers who are extremely xenophobic, but this part accounts for a very small proportion, most of the extremely xenophobic Boers were killed in the Boer War, and most of the Boers are still in peace.

By lunchtime, Roque and Louis Botha were also eating in the dining hall at Sunset Elementary.

This gave Louis Botha a new experience, and Louis Botha knew that Nyasaland was rich and knew that Roque would not be stingy in this regard, but he did not expect that an ordinary lunch could be so rich.

Beef, milk with eggs, fruits, absolutely nutritious and full of portions, the staple food is a food that Louis Botha has never seen, and after Roque introduced it, Louis Botha knew that this kind of food was called dumplings.

"Taste, it's a wonderful food, it's very complicated to make, it's so varied, it's nutritious and easy to digest, and the Chinese only eat it on the biggest festivals—" Roque didn't eat beef and eggs, but asked for a large plate full of dumplings with garlic and dipping sauce.

"Can you stop eating garlic, it tastes too much—" Louis Botha disagreed.

Roque didn't answer, and casually pointed to a plate of peanuts next to the plate.

"What do you mean?" Louis Botha didn't get it yet.

"After eating garlic and eating a few peanuts, it will be tasteless in my mouth." Roque despises simple life common sense, don't be so good at seeing it.

Louis Botha was skeptical, but tried Roque's way of eating it anyway.

Then I immediately regretted it, Roque's taste was a bit heavy, the dipping sauce was chili oil with soy sauce and vinegar, and then with garlic, who would eat it and who knows, anyway, Louis Botha was in tears.

Roque was not in the mood to laugh at Louis Botha, the lunch at Sunset Elementary School was still good, it could be seen that the school was really attentive in logistics, the lunch was prepared very richly, the students continued to be orderly, and they ate honestly under the leadership of the teacher, basically there was no waste, and they knew to take the initiative to flush the plate before sending it back after eating.

It doesn't matter if it's clean or not, you must brush it again when you get to the back kitchen, the key is to cultivate this habit, do your own things, and benefit from starting a young life.

"Would you like to go to a class later?" After Roque finished eating, there was a suggestion that he didn't need to brush the dishes, and Zach was very diligent and didn't need Roque to do it.

"Forget it, I don't understand-" Louis Botha said bluntly, the primary schools in Nyasaland are bilingual, Chinese and English are the official languages, and the two languages are mixed when teaching, English is fine, and Louis Botha really can't understand Chinese.

In other words, if the primary school teachers in Nyasaland return to the Qing Dynasty, then they are at least qualified to become translators, and no matter how bad the English level is, the level of the teacher is much better than that of Liang Dingxin at the beginning.

So people are really confident to earn this current salary.

ps: It's the New Year, Yutou wishes all my brothers and sisters a happy family and a smooth career, and you have money-