Southern Africa needs immigrants, but also cheap labor.

Therefore, when the human resources companies in southern Africa send immigrants to southern Africa, they also have to hire a large number of cheap labor from all over the world, and the Filipinos on the migration ship are sent to southern Africa as cheap labor.

There is nothing wrong with this, and when the human resources companies in southern Africa import labor, they will sign a formal labor contract with me, which is also an official way, and the US colonial government in the Philippines also recognizes it.

The problem is in the migrant boats.

The treatment of immigrants and labor force by human resources companies is certainly different, the immigration ship is actually a passenger ship, the cabins are graded, the real passengers and immigrants take the high-class cabins, the labor force has to be crowded and dirty in the low-class cabins, the environment here is very bad, the original small room for four people, usually squeezed into six to eight people, there are many people, the sanitary conditions are naturally not very good, and it is normal to be sick.

The Americans found more than a dozen Filipino workers infected with the disease on the migrant ship, so they had an excuse to impound the migrant ship directly on the pretext that the human resources company was abusing the Filipino workers.

"Tom, you can detain the ship, but the passengers and more than 600 immigrants on board are innocent, and you have no right to detain them." As soon as the Americans arrested the ship, Luke Silva, the southern African ambassador to the Philippines, went directly to Tom Strauss, the director of Philippine customs, to ask for his release.

There were more than 600 migrants on board, and nearly 400 children were on board, and the Federal Government of Southern Africa and the Government of Nyasaland have always attached great importance to children.

Although the new immigrants had been living in the camp of the human resources company for nearly a month before boarding the ship, they were still unable to adapt to the conditions of the temporary camp.

"No, no, Luke, those immigrants are all witnesses to the mistreatment of Filipino workers by your Southern African human resources company, and none of them can leave the Philippines until the truth is investigated." Tom Strauss refused outright, believing that he had seized on the weakness of southern Africa and that arresting the ship would not solve the problem.

"Come on Tom, compared to your American immigration company, the human resources company in southern Africa is humane enough, and there is no abuse occurring, isn't it normal to have some diseases on ocean voyages? What's more, there are doctors on board, and those patients will also be well taken care of, after signing an agreement with the human resources company, they are already the property of the human resources company, and the human resources company will not ignore those workers for their own profits. Luke Silva is anxious, the sanitation situation in Quezon has been terrible in recent days, and the situation in the makeshift camp is certainly worse.

Southern Africa has always had a high standard of hygiene, including the camps of the human resources company, which are implemented according to the highest standards, and the new immigrants in the human resources company camps must develop good hygiene habits in addition to supplementing nutrition, which is certainly not available in the camps of Americans.

Diseases are already rampant in the tropics, and the term "unadaptable" will not have serious consequences in the 21st century, but in the early 20th century, it can be fatal.

In this era, it is no exaggeration to say that a single common influenza can take away more than 100,000 people at one time, and the United States and Japan are the hardest hit areas.

"Ha, Luke, I heard you right, what did you just say? Property? I really didn't expect that you would treat living people as assets, and this is your humanity in southern Africa? Tom seized on the loophole in Luke's words and taunted.

In fact, the United States is more excessive than Southern Africa in this regard.

It's just that some things can be done but not said, and some things can be said but not done, and assets belong to the scope of things that can be done and cannot be said.

"Tom, I'm not debating with you, I'm trying to solve the problem, you know how much we in southern Africa take migrants, don't let the conflict escalate further." There was a faint threat in Luke's words, burning some building materials and detaining a boat or something was a routine operation, as long as there were no dead people, it was easy to say anything.

It is difficult to say that although the nutrition of those children has been supplemented, their physical fitness has not really improved, and their resistance is still relatively low.

In the event of mass deaths, relations between Southern Africa and the United States would certainly deteriorate further.

"No one wants to deliberately create conflicts, and we're not targeting the poor immigrants, just asking them to stay in Quezon for a while to assist in the investigation." Tom insisted that Southern Africa was not afraid of the United States, and the United States was not afraid of Southern Africa.

Since Tom won't let people go, Luke doesn't have a good way for a while.

Luke, however, asked Tom to allow southern African staff to enter the makeshift camp to accommodate migrants and assist the camp managers.

"No, the camp management will take care of the newcomers, and you southern African staff can't enter the makeshift camp." Tom flatly refused, and there were some situations in the makeshift camp that were indeed not suitable for public.

"Those new immigrants are already citizens of the British Empire after they are waiting to be on board, and we have the right to provide protection to overseas citizens of the British Empire." Luke pulls the tiger's skin and sings a big show, this is the advantage of southern Africa staying in the British Commonwealth, and you can talk about the British Empire at every turn.

"Come on, your southern Africa is already an independent country, don't get involved in London at every turn." Tom looked at Luke with disdain in his eyes.

This is also no way, the Americans do have the right to despise southern Africa.

I think that at the beginning, the United States was also a colony of the British Empire, and because the British collected too heavy taxes, the Americans rose up to resist, and then there was the United States.

Southern Africa now has in fact the qualifications and conditions for secession from the British Empire, but not only has Southern Africa not taken the initiative to secede from the British Empire, but is doing its best to safeguard the integrity of the British Empire.

This makes the Americans, who have always talked about "freedom, equality, and democracy", really look down on southern Africa.

Especially when Southern Africa remained within the Commonwealth, enjoying the benefits of the Commonwealth countries, and industrial goods were unimpeded in all the Commonwealth countries.

The Commonwealth market has always been coveted by American companies.

In order to open up the Commonwealth market, some American politicians have even proposed that the United States also join the Commonwealth.

Don't doubt it, American politicians have no bottom line.

"Tom, I am now communicating with you in my capacity as the ambassador of Southern Africa to the Philippines, and every word I say represents Southern Africa, and you have to think clearly about the consequences of rejecting me." In the face of Tom Strauss's lack of oil and salt, Luke Silva's patience has finally run out.

Tom didn't speak, looking at Luke with fierce eyes.

Luke didn't speak, leaned back in his chair slightly, and looked at Tom without giving in.

"Okay, you can enter the makeshift camp, but you can't interfere with the work of the makeshift camp administrators." Tom finally chose to give in, Southern Africa is not a semi-colony that can be bullied, there is no need for Southern Africa, if the relationship is really stiff, the East Indies plus British Malaya is enough for the Philippines to drink a pot.

What's more, there is also the French East Indies next to the Philippines, and once a conflict breaks out between the United States and southern Africa, there is little doubt about the position of the French, and they will definitely stand on the same side as southern Africa.

Don't look at the fact that there are also some discord between southern Africa and France, it is all normal operation, and on major issues, the position of Britain and France is still the same.

Especially in the attitude towards Americans.

The makeshift camp is on a hillside on the outskirts of Quezon City, next to Quezon's largest prison.

From a distance, there were not many tents in the makeshift camp, and it was disorganized, and there was no fence around the makeshift camp, but there was a river surrounding the makeshift camp.

Recently, there has been a lot of rain in Quezon, the camp is muddy, sewage is overflowing, and the air is filled with an unbearable smell, Luke asked the doctor who came to the temporary camp with the immigrants, and learned that this temporary camp, which holds nearly 1,000 people, does not even have a toilet.

"It's terrible, there's only one tortilla a day for each person, there's a soup that shows people, and the human resources company is required to pay a dollar per person a day for this makeshift camp, the sanitation here is terrible, more than a dozen children have been infected with malaria, and if it doesn't improve, the situation will deteriorate quickly, we don't have enough medicine, we don't have enough food, and the managers of the makeshift camps are terrible, they take all the belongings of the migrants, and they don't even spare my watch." Mike Berdych, a doctor at the makeshift camp, graduated from the Johannesburg Medical School, and when the Americans put the migrants in the makeshift camp, he insisted on being with the newcomers.

"You didn't tell them you were British?" Luke asked nonsense, Mike Bedditch was white.

"Do you think Filipinos would care about an Englishman? Even if Britain and the United States go to war, it will not stop the Filipinos from making a fortune. "Mike Berdic is full of grief and indignation, this is also Hades's good to see the little ghost, in exchange for Tom Strauss, more or less to take care of some face, those Filipino guards forget it, they are really stupid, and they are really bad.

Just then, a cry was heard in the corner of the camp, and Luke Silva and Mike Bedditch rushed to it.

In front of a tent in the corner of the makeshift camp, a Filipino was trying to drag a Chinese girl away, and two Filipino soldiers were giggling and watching without stopping him.

Luke Silva's face changed color instantly.