The preference for sons over daughters among the Chinese has also been around for a long time, and until the 21st century, there are still many Chinese who can't turn this corner.

In fact, "raising children to prevent old age" is a false proposition, the 21st century pays attention to good men in the world, villages, or young people in third- and fourth-tier small cities, to go to first-tier and second-tier cities to fight; Young people in first- and second-tier cities want to go abroad to open their eyes, and how many of them can really gain a foothold in first- and second-tier cities, or abroad, and take their parents to their side to be filial?

Most of them are mud bodhisattvas who cross the river and are difficult to protect, and they don't even have a place to stay, how can they be filial to their parents?

I'm afraid I can only be filial on the phone.

In fact, it is still reliable to raise a daughter, and those parents who let their daughters leave school early and go out to work are stupid, and as a result, their daughters who have worked hard to raise them are often deceived by someone with a lollipop.

The right way should be to raise the daughter beautifully, not beautiful, at least virtuous, kind-hearted, and then find a young man not far from home with a good character to marry, so that the girl can often go home to see when she grows up, give some pocket money every three or five days, send some nutritional products or something, and have a child and don't have to take care of the old couple, if the girl is not difficult to be a son-in-law when she goes out, don't be too heavy a bride price, the son-in-law is filial to his father-in-law and mother-in-law is much more reliable than his son, if such a daughter has three or five, the old couple can wake up with a smile in their dreams.

Therefore, the daughter is the intimate little padded jacket of her parents.

Roque does not require the Chinese in Johannesburg to raise their daughters as sons, but at least there can be no obvious discrimination, like this, it is clear that he wants to leave his daughter to work at home and let his son go to school, Roque must resolutely stop it.

The farmer didn't quite understand, but he didn't dare to disobey Roque's meaning, so he could only mutter: "The girl's family, what kind of school do you go to, you have to teach your husband and children at home-"

Roque immediately became angry, and sprayed on his head and face: "Are you stupid?" In the future, boys will have to go to school, maybe they can go to college and get ahead, you leave the girl at home, and the boy who graduated from college can take a fancy to it? Is it possible to marry those Boers or Zulus in the future? ”

Fortunately, Tony next to Roque is British, and he can't understand Chinese.

"That can't marry a Zulu." The farmer will be clever in no time.

It's not okay to marry a Zulu, that means you can marry a Boer?

Roque seemed to be even more angry, nodded at the farmer with his finger, and immediately set a rule for Tony: "Investigate how many cases there are, the students in our school, if there are still girls in the family who are not enrolled, even if the boys who have already enrolled, they must all be dismissed." ”

Roque gave up reasoning, and sometimes reasoning didn't make sense at all, so he simply didn't talk nonsense, and directly ensured girls' right to education in the form of regulations.

In fact, there is a difference between the boys' and girls' schools of Ziwei Public School in terms of teaching subjects.

The teaching subjects of the boys' school are as close as possible to the mainstream teaching subjects, and the additional ones are "language electives", which must be put in quotation marks, because Ziwei Public School only has one elective course, which is Chinese.

And this so-called "elective" is actually selected by the school for students, and it is basically a compulsory course.

The teaching subjects in girls' schools are also as close as possible to mainstream subjects, such as Brighton Rodding Girls' School, where Phyllis graduated.

Compared with the boys' school, the subjects of the girls' school are actually not simple, what flower arrangement, cooking, sewing and repairing, and training maids have fallen behind, and the curriculum of the girls' school is also very scientific, such as science, mathematics, modern and ancient languages, literature and art, etc., are the standard courses of girls' schools, and girls' schools will also provide Chinese, astronomy, dialectical thinking, engineering, politics, and a series of science and technology courses, and even economics and psychology, education are involved, in short, According to the concept of Ziwei School, the housewives cultivated by the schoolwomen should basically be proficient in all aspects of the family, whether it is to treat people or educate children, the graduates of Ziwei School Girls' School must be comprehensive, so that the future graduates of Ziwei School will become the sought after objects of marriageable men.

So, Roque demanded that all second-generation Chinese girls go to school, must go to school, and there is no room for compromise.

"Okay, we'll start investigating later." Tony recorded it right away, and a good memory is better than a bad pen.

"Come here, come here." Roque waved to the girl driving the ox cart and the two boys in the cart.

The two boys immediately jumped over, but the girl hesitated.

Roque didn't speak, glaring at the farmer with stern eyes.

"Hurry up, ancestor, the lord called you." The farmer is also anxious, in fact, the palms and backs of his hands are meat, if possible, the farmer also hopes that his daughter will have a good life, but when life is difficult, he must have a choice, poor families, it is not easy to support scholars, and it has become a habit to sacrifice girls in favor of boys.

The girl hesitantly put down the reins in her hand, and looked at the shiny signboard of Ziwei School in disbelief, her eyes were hazy.

"You all stay, and you drive back by yourself." Luo Ke is actually not very angry, traditional habits can also be changed, the ladies in the Grand View Garden are not also good at writing and painting, compared with the children of poor families, what they lack is opportunities.

In fact, leaving the girl to work at home won't help much.

In the past, in the Qing Kingdom, there was a shortage of labor at home, and it was a little bit to be able to help.

Now in Johannesburg, any farmer's house probably has a dozen cows, three or five horses, one or two South African mastiffs, maybe a dozen Zulu workers, how much can a girl help?

In fact, the thinking has not turned a corner.

"Sir, great kindness—" The farmer had already turned a corner, and this time he really wanted to kowtow and thank him.

"Get out!" Impatient, Roque kicked the farmer in the heel.

The farmer rolled on the ground, and when he stood up, he was not angry at all, but he did not kowtow anymore, and bowed respectfully to Roque: "Sir, the cows in the family have begun to produce milk, and from tomorrow onwards, I will send a bucket of milk to school every day as a bundle for several children." ”

Well!!!

Be enlightened!

"Okay, send it, Tony, give as much as you want." Roque does not take advantage of this, a bucket of milk is not worth much to Roque, but it means a lot to the Chinese who have just arrived in Johannesburg.

"Sir, I can't finish drinking, don't give it away, a lot of farmers bring milk, and some people send eggs, and mutton, and the students eat milk three times a day, and some of them are disgusted—" Tony's face was ugly, and he probably drank disgustingly.

This Roque didn't expect that when he followed Tony to the school kitchen, he found that the kitchen wall was full of milk.

Dozens of barrels.

"Our school does not charge fees, many parents of students don't want to go, they send milk every three or five times, if it is three or five barrels a day, it is good to say, more than 600 students in the school, a student's parents send a bucket a week, there are more than 100 barrels a day, it is really impossible to drink, they don't want to give money, they stuff it to them, and the next day it sends more, if it is not for many people to give money and don't want it, I suspect that they are because the milk cannot be sold, so they deliberately sent it." Tony has a lot of resentment, he is British, and he doesn't understand this kind of national feelings of the Chinese.

To say that the Chinese are definitely the most humane nation in the world, although it is undeniable that there are everyone in the forest, and there will always be tens of thousands of scum in hundreds of millions of people, but most of the Chinese are very kind, helpful, and willing to share.

It's like giving milk, and the capitalists would rather dump it in the river than give it to those who really need it.

Whenever the Chinese have a natural disaster, there will always be a large family who will take the initiative to give porridge and do good, this is the difference, and the forest society will not understand the interpersonal relationship of the farming society.

Or rather, they don't want to understand.

Because that would strike at the core of their proud culture.

"Tony, you don't understand, in the Qing Kingdom, even the Chinese at the bottom of the society, in order to let their children receive education, they will do their best to send a bundle to the teachers of the private school, this is the Chinese respect for teachers." Roque did his best to explain, unwilling to let Tony misinterpret the kindness.

The Chinese farmers around Johannesburg are all new to Johannesburg, many of them have just established themselves, and some of them have not even established their feet, and milk is probably the best gift they can get.

To put it mildly, many farmers had never drunk milk before they came to Johannesburg, so milk was what they thought was the best.

"Respect the teacher—" Tony looked confused, he really didn't understand.

"Yes, it is to respect teachers, the reason why Chinese civilization has been passed down for thousands of years is because of the respect for culture, many people even if they are illiterate at all, they will treat anything printed with words as a treasure, just like your attitude towards the Bible, so don't say that the Chinese have no faith, our ancestors, our culture, our traditions, is our faith." Roque elevates milk to the level of faith, which should be a little more understandable to describe Tony in this way.

Sure enough, when it came to faith, Tony nodded again and again in a sudden understanding.

"Leave this question to me, you don't have to worry about it, someone else will send it, just keep it with peace of mind." Roque also realized that the problem could not be delayed.

Just now, when Tony said that "he suspected that the farmer sent the milk on purpose because he couldn't sell it", Roque suddenly realized a problem.

Now in Johannesburg, in fact, there is no perfect consumer market.

There are only about 5,000 officially registered residents in Johannesburg, and even if there are more than 1,000 Chinese in recent months, there are only 6 or 7,000 people.

Among these thousands of people, there are government employees, permanent residents like the residents of Ziwei Town, and farmers around Johannesburg, these people actually can't consume much consumer goods, and the bulk of these consumer goods are needed by the mines, but the materials in the mines are purchased and sold, and the mine owners will not go to the farms to buy milk, so the problem in front of Roque now is not only to hatch more farmers, but also to help these farmers sell the agricultural products produced on the farm.

In this way, these farmers can stay with peace of mind.

Roque went to find Aiden first.

"Buying milk from Johannesburg – that's certainly possible, but we have an agreement with the Cape Agricultural Society that even if we want to buy milk locally in Johannesburg, we will have to wait until the end of the current contract period." Aiden also has difficulties, in business, businessmen must pay attention to the spirit of contract, without the spirit of contract, no one will dare to do business with you.

"When will the current contract period end?" Roque didn't want to force Aiden, and while Aiden might change his mind if Roque insisted, that would also affect Roque's credibility.

"At the end of December, there is still a month." Aiden is the general manager and knows this information inside and out.

"Then we should start negotiations for the next contract period." Roque has to find a way around this contract.

"It's time to start, in fact, the previous negotiations were led by the Kimberley side, and our side directly used the contract price determined by the Kimberley side to buy the food we need." Aiden told the truth.

"No, the Kimberley is in the Cape and we are in the Transvaal now, so we have to talk to the Cape Agribusiness ourselves, and I suggest that the Johannesburg Mining Union form a group and talk to the Cape Agro so that we can negotiate a better price." Roque's ambition is big, 100,000 local miners in Johannesburg need a huge amount of agricultural products every day, and everyone will definitely get the best price when they negotiate together.

"Okay, let's talk about it together." Aiden doesn't care, he doesn't care what Roque's purpose is, he has to spend money to buy it anyway, whoever he buys is bought, and it's best to spend less.

The next day, Aiden took the matter to a meeting of the Mining Alliance to discuss it.

There was really nothing to discuss on this issue, and everyone agreed that the mining alliance should be fought for the greatest favor, so the mining alliance immediately formed a negotiating group, with Aiden as the leader, and Adam Stephen and Sam and Buck as members, and formally issued a negotiation request to the Cape Agricultural Association.

The Cape Agricultural Association reacted quickly to the request of the Johannesburg Mining Union, after all, the Mining Union represents a large market of 100,000 people, and no one dares to take it lightly, and three days later, a negotiating delegation led by the Cape Town Minister of Agriculture arrived in Johannesburg.

The Cape side is led by ministers, and Johannesburg's side also needs to be balanced in ranks, so Pretoria's tax commissioner, Neil McPherson, rushed to Johannesburg to join the negotiations.

"Locke, what are you up to?" Owen's expression was devastated.

"You idiot, what am I doing? I'm fighting for Johannesburg, didn't I see your dad there? Roque looked disdainful.

The tone was not very respectful, and Lord Philip Matilda seemed to hear it, and turned his head and glared fiercely at Roque.

Roque's expression was as serious as if he had met the king.