On October 27, Jan Smuts quietly left Pretoria for London, Douglas took over as Minister of Education, and Owen landed at the University of Nyasaland and became the Chancellor of the University.

Unlike the vice-chancellor, the school supervisor is more of a symbolic position, not responsible for the actual management, most of the British school supervisors are respected politicians or members of the royal family, Winston once served as the school supervisor of the University of Bristol for 36 years.

Philip and Owen are still quite satisfied with this arrangement, after all, Owen can't leave his job in Pretoria and stay in Nyasaland for a long time, not to mention that Owen doesn't know much about the operation of the school, and he has no interest in understanding it, so this arrangement is a result that everyone can accept.

Douglas also faced many difficulties in taking over the Department of Education, the biggest difficulty was the department staff, although after the departure of Yang Smozi, two of the six directors of the Ministry of Education also left, but the Ministry of Education still has a large number of staff members, these people are not in Douglas's plan.

Some of the figures are worth mentioning that federal government officials are well paid, with annual salaries of about R5,000 for ministers, two thousand for deputy ministers, between 1,000 and 1,005 for directors, between 600 and 1,000 for deputy directors, 350 to 600 for division chiefs, about 150 for mid-level staff, and for the lowest-paid handywomen who earn more than 50,000 rand a year.

Corresponding to the salary, the cost of other aspects is higher, the Ministry of Education has 185 staff, and the annual expenditure is more than 500,000 rand, if the money can be seen the results of the work, it is not in vain, but the work of the Ministry of Education has been a mess in recent years, and the federal government has been established for almost three years, and there is no overall plan for the implementation of compulsory education in southern Africa, which makes Douglas, who is accustomed to the concise and efficient style of the University of Nyasaland, really unbearable.

Fortunately, Douglas still has Ade's support, and when Ade invited Douglas to be the Minister of Education, he promised to unconditionally support Douglas's reform of the Department of Education, so Douglas would accept Ade's invitation, including the three deputy ministers of the Ministry of Education, and Douglas would all be replaced.

Roque was still surprised when he learned about Glass's plan, the Chinese society is a humane society, and it is indeed not quite the same as the jungle society.

"Isn't that normal?" Douglas was even more surprised, Roque's image has always been decisive and decisive, and it seems that he will not be bound by other emotions: "We must have the spirit of the contract, leave the company normally according to the provisions of the contract, and the Ministry of Education will give them due compensation and thank them for their dedication to the Ministry of Education in recent years." ”

Douglas's last sentence was really a grit of teeth.

Roque just laughed and said nothing, the jungle society can still be reasonable, and the spirit of contract is forgotten.

The spirit of this contract, in fact, is to be said to other people, the potential meaning is that it is best for other people in the world and other countries to abide by the spirit of the contract, whether I abide by it or not depends on the situation, for example, the most popular "non-aggression treaty" between European countries, this kind of thing does not even believe in the person who signed it, it can be torn up at any time, the only role is to comfort the heart, after signing, it should be reorganized or reorganized, who wants to expect this kind of thing to protect national security is stupid.

The most realistic example is the Berlin Conference, the "General Resolution" formed after the Berlin Conference, which is also on the lips of small countries such as Portugal and Belgium, because they have to rely on this piece of paper to ensure their interests in Africa, and the powerful countries have not taken this "General Resolution" to heart, otherwise there would not be so many "Two Cs Plan", "Two S Plan", and "Teutonic Africa Plan".

So Roque really doesn't believe in the so-called "spirit of contract", the more people don't have anything, the more they emphasize something, so hanging the "spirit of contract" on the very edge, it just shows that it is likely to lack the "spirit of contract".

"I'd better give you a few security guards." Roque is worried about Douglas's safety, the Ministry of Education has lost its power and status, and they are counting on the work of the Ministry of Education to provide for the elderly, Douglas is now going to smash their jobs, and there are really people who break the jar if they can't keep it.

"Thank you so much." Douglas is not stupid, some people's thinking cannot be measured by the thinking of normal people.

"In fact, you can consider setting up a pension department, putting those people in for the elderly, and only getting a salary and doing nothing." Roque helped come up with the idea, the sixth division of the Ministry of Defense responsible for the placement of veterans is the department used for pensions, and the second department in charge of reserves is the one who really manages veterans.

"Is there such a department? I want to go too—" Douglas was jealous and hateful, still lacking work experience.

"Your Ministry of Education is supposed to be the federal government's pension department—" Roque accidentally said a bit of a heart-wrenching truth.

Douglas's face immediately turned ugly.

"I'm not belittling the role of the Ministry of Education, but the Ministry of Education is not really playing its role." Douglas sighed that the Department of Education is indeed a big hole and there is still a long way to go to turn the situation around.

Compared with the Department of Education, the Department of Defense has many problems, and the funding problem can be solved with Roque's intervention, and the other problems left by Hopkins are equally serious.

It seems that it cannot be said that it is a legacy, after all, Hopkins is only hospitalized and is now the Minister of Defense.

On November 5, the newly established 101st Division reported that some of the materials issued by the Ministry of Defense were of seriously unsatisfactory quality, mainly focusing on blankets, backpacks and other materials purchased from the Johannesburg Textile Company.

Clothing, tents, blankets, backpacks and other textile-related materials used by the southern African military are purchased from the Johannesburg Textile Company, all the time, the products provided by the Johannesburg Textile Company have never had problems, the soldiers of the newly established 101st Division are Africans, and the officers are white and Chinese, although this force is the same as the newly established 102nd Division, and it will be sent to Europe as cannon fodder in the future, but the Ministry of Defense will definitely not treat it differently in terms of material supply, The salaries of those African soldiers are indeed a little lower, and the treatment is no different from that of professional soldiers in other aspects.

Even if you are a condemned prisoner, you still have to eat a full meal before going to the guillotine.

If it is other enterprises, then Roque may not know, Johannesburg textile factory Roque must know, this enterprise was founded by Roque, but now under the name of Phyllis, the main business is wool textile and textile processing, most of the textile-related materials needed by the southern African military are purchased from the Johannesburg Textile Company.

Although the Johannesburg Textile Company was involved, Roque still ordered a thorough investigation, in fact, it was not troublesome to investigate, the Ministry of Defense sent military representatives to the Johannesburg Textile Company, all the products purchased by the Ministry of Defense, the production process is supervised by the military representatives, and the staff of the Ministry of Defense should also check when the delivery is made, and the warehouse management personnel must sign for the receipt when there is a problem in any link. Matthew takes the blame.

Looking back, Roque first asked Phyllis about the Johannesburg Textile Company.

"The company is working well, it's just not making a lot of money," Phyllis said of Johannesburg Textiles.

The Johannesburg Textile Company is indeed doing well, with a variety of cheap raw materials from the Transvaal and Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and a large number of purchase orders from the Ministry of Defence, and Johannesburg Textiles is not short of profits.

The problem was that the Johannesburg Textile Company paid too much to its workers, and the average salary of the average worker in southern Africa was about 50 rand, while the average salary of the workers in the Johannesburg Textile Company was more than 100 rand, and most of the workers in the textile company were women, which led to the fact that the company was not very profitable.

Fortunately, Roque doesn't care about money, and Phyllis doesn't have much concept of money, anyway, most of the female workers in the Johannesburg Textile Company are Chinese, so Roque just tosses Phyllis and doesn't lose money.

"The Ministry of Defence has a problem with a batch of products purchased from the Johannesburg Textile Company, and the quality of the blankets and backpacks is seriously substandard—" Roque told the truth, and if it was really a problem with the Johannesburg Textile Company, then Roque would definitely be held responsible.

This kind of thing is not impossible, because of the relationship between Roque and Phyllis, even if there is a small problem with the products provided by the Johannesburg Textile Company, it is estimated that it will not be reflected by Roque, so now it means that the problem is very serious, and it has affected the training work of the troops, so it is reported level by level.

"No, it's impossible for our products to have quality problems." Phyllis flatly denied it.

Roque didn't speak, but looked at Phyllis quietly.

"You can't doubt me—" Phyllis's eyes turned red.

"It's not that I suspect you, we've been in Nyasaland for the past few years, and it is estimated that you don't have time to manage the company, and it's normal for problems to occur." Roque trusts Phyllis absolutely, but not the others.

"I'll go back to Johannesburg right away." Phyllis is decisive, the Johannesburg Textile Company is one of the few industries under Phyllis's name, and Phyllis's mentality of running the company is similar to doing charity, so Phyllis will never allow this to happen.

"No way!" Roque refused more decisively, jokingly, Phyllis went to Johannesburg, Gavin and Alvin who took it.

"What then?" Phyllis is still soft and cute even if she is angry, and after living with Roque for so long, Phyllis is also habitually not using her brain.

"Call Dulles over and ask him what's going on." Roque is not unimportant, there are really priorities, and it is not to the extent that human lives are at stake.

Dulles is the Managing Director of Johannesburg Textiles.