Buck's second slash was directed at the Nyasaland Agricultural Company and the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Company, two giants in Nyasaland that controlled most of the industrial and mining enterprises in Nyasaland and all the farms in Nyasaland, and even all the new immigrants in Nyasaland were employees of the Nyasaland Agricultural Company.

The Nyasaland Agricultural Development Corporation owns the land in the Zambezi River Basin, including Port Edward, which was originally established to cover the public, and now that the Agricultural Development Corporation has fulfilled its mission, it is time to change that.

"Our experience in Johannesburg proves that farm ownership has a direct relationship with the motivation of farmers, and that Scarlett's big farm model is now close to bankruptcy, which shows that the farm model has too many limitations compared to private farms, and if we want the agricultural company and the agricultural development company to achieve financial balance in a short period of time, then we need to cut off this part of the farm, sell the land to the farmer to pay for their own profits, and the agricultural company can save a large part of the expenditure and focus all its energy on developing the industry." Buck is becoming more mature and ready to adjust to agricultural companies.

At the beginning, Scarlett bought more than 20,000 acres of farm in Johannesburg in order to take in Boer women, and took all the homeless Boer women to the farm.

After the initial difficult stage, Scarlett's farm actually developed quite well, but the degree of development and the speed of development compared to those private farms are obviously different.

The gap between women and men in labor is still obvious, and most of the women on the farm still have children, and most of their energy is involved in children, and they spend less time on labor.

Since the second half of last year, the number of people on Scarlett's farm has been rapidly decreasing, from more than 5,000 people at the beginning to less than 3,000 now, many post-war homeless women have restarted their families, and there is a significant shortage of labor on the farm, and now less than half of the more than 20,000 acres of land on the farm have been developed, and most of them are pastures, which is incompatible with other private farms in Johannesburg.

The Nyasaland Agricultural Company is also in the big pot rice model now, and Roque of course knows that this model is not good, so the big pot rice will have to be broken sooner or later.

The main reason for such a delay in action is that Roque is not in Nyasaland most of the time, and has no time to deal with the affairs of Nyasaland, and now that Buck has become the administrator of Nyasaland, that Roque fully supports Buck's work.

"It's been more than a year and a half since the first batch of new immigrants came to Nyasaland, and they have now paid off their immigration fees, and if the agricultural company continues to hire them, then they will have to be paid, and the minimum annual salary for the employees of the agricultural company is 36 pounds, not counting the Zambezi River Valley, and now the total population of Nyasaland is more than 300,000 people, even if you have to pay a tenth of the people, it is a heavy burden, so we have to gradually turn these employees into yeoman farmers from now on, Otherwise, over time, the burden on agricultural companies will become heavier and heavier, and they will eventually be overwhelmed. "Buck is not exaggerating, if this continues, the agricultural company will be dragged to death sooner or later.

Roque immigrated to the Transvaal, and the Transvaal government reimbursed the cost.

Immigrated to Nyasaland, but no one reimbursed Roque for the expenses, and this part of the expenses was borne by himself.

Fortunately, Nyasaland set up a labor dispatch company from the beginning, so Roque brought hundreds of thousands of Chinese from the Qing Kingdom to Nyasaland without spending too much money.

Of course, this part of the fee is not free, all the Chinese who immigrated to Nyasaland have to work for Nyasaland for a period of time to repay the immigration fee, and now, the first Chinese who immigrated to Nyasaland have basically paid off the immigration fee, and then if they continue to work for the agricultural company, the agricultural company will pay them salaries.

Barker's intention is obvious, to turn these Chinese who can receive wages immediately into homesteaders, let them go to the Rand Bank for loans, and then buy land from the Nyasaland Agricultural Company to run their own business, so that the agricultural company will get rid of the burden, the RAND Bank will increase its business, and those Chinese who own their own land can also explode with greater enthusiasm.

It's a good thing no matter how you look at it.

"Yes, when redeeming the land, you still have to pay attention to the qualifications, the family members are in Nyasaland have the right of first refusal, this qualification should be clear, only the right to use, not the ownership, and after the purchase of the right to use, you can't transfer the land privately, if you want to sell, you can only sell the land to the agricultural company." Roque wants to avoid future troubles, private ownership of land can indeed stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers, but in the long run, the disadvantages are greater.

One of the simplest reasons is that there are railways in Nyasaland, but the railways are not developed enough to form a network, and there is only one day of the railway connecting Port Edward-Little Rock-Salisbury in the whole of Nyasaland.

This is certainly far from enough, and in the future, the railway will be extended to Beihai, East Lake, and Lubumbashi, which involves a problem of land acquisition.

This problem is very troublesome, and if it is not handled well, it will cause many social problems, so Roque has to take precautions now, Nyasaland will not adopt the land redemption system, but can only use the contract responsibility system, which can also stimulate the enthusiasm of Chinese Americans, and the effect is similar to that of private ownership.

No, it should be said that the effect is better than private ownership.

If it is private ownership of land, then there will definitely be farmers who will not make full use of the land after they get it, and the contract responsibility system is different, which is the truth that "books cannot be read unless they are borrowed".

Of course, if Nyasaland expropriates the farmer's land in the future, it will definitely give appropriate compensation, but this compensation must be within a reasonable range, Roque's will not give less, but he will not give more, less is not fair to the farmer, more-

Roque is not stupid.

"Usufruction—that's not appropriate—" Buck hesitated.

"Why isn't it appropriate? Nyasaland belongs to the king, not mine, and I have no right to sell the land to anyone else. Roque was right.

In theory, all territories in England belong to the British king, and the nobles have the territory, but they only manage it on behalf of the king, and sometimes they don't even have the right to administer it, but can only enjoy the benefits of the territory.

In practice, there is still a big deviation in this point, just like the current Nyasaland, nominally Nyasaland is also owned by the king, in fact, Nyasaland is Roque's private property, even if the king wants to manage, so many colonies in the world, the king can't manage it.

"But in Johannesburg—" Buck did not understand why what worked in Johannesburg would have to change in Nyasaland.

"Johannesburg and Nyasaland are not the same, Johannesburg is nominally a white world after all, and if the ownership of the land is not clear, then the situation may change in the future; Nyasaland is all Chinese, and no matter how bad the situation is in the future, it will not be much worse, so the specific situation still needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. "Roque will not make the mistake of empiricism and dogmatism, and what works in Johannesburg may not work in Nyasaland.

"Okay!" Buck is also not stubborn, and since Roque is so insistent, then Buck can only choose to obey.

"There can't be a big farm like Johannesburg in Nyasaland, the area of the general farm should not exceed 100 acres, which is enough for the family, the first batch of farms for sale, you can choose the farms that have now been developed, and the policy should also be supported as much as possible, so that others can see the benefits, and this policy can be carried out in the future." Roque is still tempting to take advantage, although the Chinese in this era are relatively simple, but Roque still can't pin his hopes on the personal morality of the Chinese, this thing is the most unreliable.

"Okay, I'll discuss this at a meeting of the Management Committee and fully solicit the opinions of the other members." Buck wanted to make the most of all the available conditions, and since the Management Committee had been established, it was important for the Management Committee to be fully functional.

The land redemption system is certainly a big deal in Nyasaland, and it will take a lot of cooperation to do it well, at least the support of the RAND Bank is essential.

The fact that Mrs. Capet of the Rand Bank had a son, which is now known to many people, is absolutely despicable in the East, but in Nyasaland and Johannesburg, no one dares to discuss this matter, and even if it does, it will not be concerned with whether it is moral, but about how much property Mrs. Capet has, and whether Mrs. Capet's son will inherit the title in the future.

Yes, almost everyone knows that the kid named Arthur must be Roque's, and even Phyllis knows it.

Of course, Phyllis didn't explicitly dislike Arthur, but Roque had a hard time during this time.

"Very well, let's get started, I may be back to Johannesburg in a while, and I'll leave it to you." Roque can't stay in Nyasaland for too long, Jan Smuts has now returned to Orange, Ade has decided to use Johannesburg as a pilot for the implementation of a democratic representative system, half a year later, that is, in August, Johannesburg will try out the democratic representative system, hold universal suffrage, Roque must return to Johannesburg as soon as possible to fight for the right to vote for the Chinese, otherwise everything Roque did before will lose all meaning.

"I understand-" Buck didn't say much, his expression was still very solemn, Nyasaland was in a good situation right now, and Buck was also under a lot of pressure.

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