On the opening day, the umbrella company was awarded 20 contracts with a total value of more than 30,000 pounds, and nearly 200 security personnel needed to be dispatched.

There were only a few dozen staff members who followed Xia Jiu to India, and it was not enough to send them all, so Xia Jiu urgently needed to hire Gurkha people as security personnel immediately, so that there was no need to transfer people from Johannesburg, which would further save costs.

"In any case, it is more cost-effective to use Gurkha mercenaries, we have already calculated that it will not cost more than 30 pounds a year to hire a Gurkha mercenary, and if you transfer security personnel from Johannesburg, it will cost more than 200 pounds a year, so I hope to go to Nepal immediately, preferably to establish a long-term relationship." Xia Jiu now has a lot of problems to consider, the vast majority of the employees of the umbrella company are now Chinese, not that the Chinese are not good enough, but the treatment of the Chinese is relatively high, which makes Xia Jiu also feel painful.

In fact, whether it is high or not is relative, in the past, umbrella companies used Chinese, because in Johannesburg, the cost of using Chinese is lower than the cost of hiring white people.

Now that the Gurkha mercenaries have joined, the cost of the Chinese has become more expensive, and Xia Jiu hopes to hire more Gurkhas, which will effectively reduce the cost of the umbrella company.

"Yes, Geng Biao is in Nepal now, you can go to him-" Luo Ke then remembered, it seems that Geng Biao has been in Nepal for more than half a month, which is a bit abnormal, under normal circumstances, Geng Biao should have returned to Dhaka early.

What Luo Ke didn't expect was that Geng Biao was indeed in trouble.

However, this trouble is not a trouble in the ordinary sense, Rama's family did put Rama under house arrest, but the reason is not as Roque imagined, Rama's people did not object to Rama's family immigrating to Johannesburg, on the contrary, too many tribesmen hoped that Rama's family could take their children by the way when they immigrated, so Rama's family was delayed.

Geng Biao came to Rama's village with a platoon of soldiers murderously, and what he saw was another scene, the whole village was about 500 people, which was a relatively large village in Nepal, and the population structure of the village was very unreasonable, the oldest villager was only about 40 years old, and most of the villagers were under 30 years old.

is really the current Qing Kingdom, and there are countless such situations, and Geng Biao's own family is also in this situation.

The reason why there is no news back for a long time has a lot to do with the fact that Rama's village is located in the vast mountains, and communication is not developed in these years, and only Kathmandu has a telegraph in the whole of Nepal, so Geng Biao did not send the news back in time.

If it is replaced by Guan Jing, then Guan Jing may deal with it in other ways, but for Geng Biao, there are not many options to choose from, Rama's family has almost a hundred children, and everyone has the same abbreviation, these children are Rama's, and they are all eligible to immigrate to Johannesburg with Rama.

Rama was simply ashamed of this statement, but he did not deny it, and Geng Biao could understand this feeling.

So Geng Biao took a big package and asked Rama to count the list and immigrate to Johannesburg.

This decision was obviously not appropriate, because in the next period of time, Rama had more and more children, from nearly a hundred to more than three hundred, this situation finally made Geng Biao feel frightened, and at this moment, Xia Jiu finally appeared in front of Geng Biao.

Xia Jiu and Geng Biao used to be police officers at the Cape Town Police Department, and the two were old friends, although they are no longer a system, but the previous relationship is still there, so Xia Jiu unscrupulously ridiculed Geng Biao for having no bottom line.

"The bottom line - hehe, don't talk nonsense, you haven't seen that kind of situation, so standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, you know, during our time here, we ate all the cattle in the village, and they did everything they could to entertain us in order to send their children to Johannesburg, so that we could eat and drink well, do you think I can just leave?" Geng Biao is an absolute temperament, the kind of person who receives the grace of dripping water, and will be reciprocated by a spring, if a person is good to him, he can't wait to dig out his heart with someone.

"So what are you going to do? Bring all these hundreds of people to Johannesburg? "Xia Jiu is unimaginable, half of the children eat Lao Tzu, Johannesburg does not allow child abuse, all children must go to school when they reach the appropriate age, this is a big expense, so immigration is not simply to get people to Johannesburg to finish, there will be more troubles in the future.

"I've already thought about it, if I really can't do it, I'll ask the lord for a favor, I also have more than a thousand acres of farms in Johannesburg, and it's not a problem to feed a few hundred children-" Geng Biao thought relatively simply, but simply feeding is not a problem, more than a thousand acres of farms, if all potatoes are planted, several times more people can feed them.

"Old Geng, it's amazing, if you really get people to Johannesburg, when these children grow up, they will be your most loyal family members-" Xia Jiu's thinking was still a little old, and Geng Biao was thinking about two different things.

In fact, Xia Jiu is right, the people of this era are still relatively simple, after all, there are not so many temptations, and there are not too many choices, the reason why Luo Ke immigrated from the Qing Dynasty on a large scale is also out of this consideration, if Luo Ke crossed over not in 1899, but in 1999, then Luo Ke would not do this at all, the people in 1999, compared with the people in the 1899s, there are too many hearts.

"What nonsense, we are all under the lord, there are not so many twists and turns, I have seen these children, it is best for boys to become soldiers when they grow up, girls are more popular when they grow up, no matter how they don't worry about getting married, just a few hundred people, it is very simple to feed, there are thousands of orphans in the second wife's farm, and it is still very good now-" Geng Biao grinned, that is, Ida couldn't hear it, otherwise Ida would probably go crazy.

Not necessarily, maybe Ada will be happy.

"Second wife" must refer to Ada, although the relationship between Roque and Ada is not clear, but everyone in Johannesburg knows that Arthur is Roque's son.

As for the farm of the "second wife", it was the farm that Scarlett bought to house the Boer women.

Now this farm is under Ida's name, the farm has a total area of more than 20,000 acres, which can be counted in the whole of Johannesburg, Scarlett will not operate, so the farm is a mess, in the hands of Ida, the farm is now on the right track, and now the farm has just been developed less than one-tenth of the land, and it can already be self-sufficient, and in time, the farm will be profitable.

As the situation gradually stabilized, many homeless women left the farms just after the war, and their children remained on the farms, so that the number of orphans on Ada's farm now exceeds 3,000.

In fact, almost half of these children are of British ancestry, and with the withdrawal of the expeditionary force, their father is nowhere to be found, but the Transvaal Governor's Office and the City of Johannesburg cannot shirk it, so every year, Ida Farm receives a subsidy of more than 30,000 pounds, even if the farm does not produce anything, this money is enough to raise these children.

"Then you'd better make a report to the lord, the children on the second wife's farm have no parents, but you have parents for these children, what if the children grow up in the future and other parents come to the door? Be careful that the bamboo basket is empty. "Xia Jiu has always measured people's hearts from the worst point of view, and it is not impossible.

"That's what I'm worried about now, so I don't dare to tell the lord-" Geng Biao frowned, now these children are hot potatoes, they are reluctant to throw them away, and there will be hidden dangers if they are taken away, so Geng Biao didn't dare to go back to Dhaka for so long.

"Sir, dinner is ready—" Rama appeared at the door of the room with a low brow, stammering a little in Chinese, but still able to speak clearly.

"What's going to eat tonight?" The world is the biggest eater, and Geng Biao immediately left those troubles behind.

"Today my father came back from the city in exchange for some wine, and the rabbits and pheasants he just caught from the mountains, they are all very fresh—" Rama was obviously unconfident in front of Geng Biao, and he also knew that he had caused Geng Biao a lot of trouble.

"Let's go, let's try it together, otherwise a large group of people will come to invite later, they can be regarded as having a heart, the poor don't even have shoes, but they change their tricks every day to change my wine and drink, I give money they don't want, the words are heavy, a group of old men began to cry and cry, I really can't stand it." Geng Biao is also helpless, people who eat soft and not hard are like this, as long as they grasp their weaknesses, they are easy to deal with.

"A glass of wine will buy you—" Xia Jiu looked down on Geng Biao's kindness.

didn't expect to be slapped in the face next, and when it came to the banquet, Xia Jiu realized that Rama's family had really worked hard to entertain Geng Biao and Xia Jiu.

In fact, the best house in the village, that is, the thatched house that has just been built not long ago, all the materials of this thatched house are made of local materials, and the walls are made of clay, although it has not been fired, but because the clay is mixed with straw, the stability is still quite good.

Geng Biao and Xia Jiu must be the leader, followed by Geng Biao and Xia Jiu's subordinates, Rama and his people have no seats, they are holding pots, ready to add tea and water to Geng Biao and Xia Jiu at any time.

"It's not okay, it's not appropriate." Xia Jiu is still not used to it, he really has never felt this kind of treatment.

"Don't live up to the kindness of others-" Geng Biao is not watching the excitement, he is really related.

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