The entire territory of the Transvaal, about 284,000 square kilometers, converted into acres, is about 70 million points, specific to Johannesburg, the specific area is not clearly demarcated, only counting the farms around Johannesburg, about 1.8 million acres.

This is farms that have already been developed, more remote areas that have not yet been developed and are not counted.

Johannesburg's newcomers want to "stake their land" in remote areas, not in the suburbs, where farms are owned by Roque and other Chinese farmers.

A farm of 1,800,000 acres sounds like a lot, but if you compensate for it at the rate of one shilling per acre, it is only 90,000 pounds, which is too small compared to the total of 5 million pounds, and at least a fifth of the 5 million should be left in Johannesburg's size, to be worthy of Johannesburg's status.

"£90,000 is too little, and all the farms around Johannesburg should be developed, and the funds should be kept in Johannesburg as much as possible." Roque spoke everyone's mind.

"That's right, we can't be cheaper!" Marcus Beaufort immediately agreed, and while it was not quite right, no one objected to it at this time.

"With the size of our economy, at least a third of the money should be kept in Johannesburg." The Treasury had a big appetite for Louis Barnard, who was eager to keep all his money in Johannesburg.

"If we were to develop all the farms around Johannesburg, we would have more than 12 million acres of farmland." Blake has detailed information, some time ago, during the military administration, people from the Home Office traveled all over Johannesburg, and finally gathered first-hand information.

"The problem is that we don't have enough people to develop these farms," said Ulysses Noel, the immigration director, who is under a lot of pressure as Johannesburg's population has not been able to go up.

This problem is indeed very serious, how many farms are around Johannesburg, it is not the Johannesburg city government that has the final say, Cape Town and Pretoria will definitely verify, the matter is concerned about personal interests, no one will be sloppy, Johannesburg knows how greedy and more occupied, Cape Town and Pretoria certainly know.

Ulysses' words were like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of the high-spirited bureau chiefs.

The big guys are scratching their heads a little, but no one can do anything, no one, they can't always conjure it up alive.

"It's okay, the scope of the farm is determined first, and then it can be developed slowly, and the lack of development means that there is no money-" said Roque, who is now the largest landowner in Johannesburg and has absolutely a say on this issue.

Enclosure first, then development——

It doesn't seem impossible.

The point is, if this is really done, then the opportunity has come, Roque can buy the farm, and the other directors and directors will definitely be able to buy it, Sir Locke, this is for the benefit of everyone.

"I'll see it!"

"That's how it should be."

The directors and directors talked a lot, and everyone had a little ninety-nine in their hearts.

"No matter how much he is, let's keep the money first, our tax office is still renting a hotel to work, and Johannesburg needs a new tax office." Beaufort's words are not rough, you can spend whatever you want if you have money, and you can't do anything without money.

The city was completely demolished and rebuilt, and there were many places to spend money, and more than a dozen municipal departments of the Johannesburg City Government had independent offices in the police department until now, which still took advantage of the fact that the police station started construction earlier, and other municipal departments worked in hotels.

Philip also wanted to build a new office space for each municipal department, but unfortunately there was a lot of vacant land in Johannesburg, but the city government had no money, so the directors had a lot of opinions.

"The Finance Bureau needs an independent office space even more." Barnard is the God of Wealth, and even the Finance Bureau has to stay in the hotel, not to mention the tax office.

"The immigration bureau also needs it, and when the new immigrants arrive in Johannesburg, they can't keep people when they see that the immigration bureau is so poor that they can't keep people." Noel also had a valid reason that no one wanted to stay in a hotel.

"Enough!" Philip was so angry that the directors and directors were more stingy than the aunts in the vegetable market: "Open all the land around Johannesburg that can be turned into farms, within three days, you can sell as much as you can, the compensation for this part of the farm will be halved, and the excess money will be used to build the office space of the municipal body, and the minister may arrive in Johannesburg in three days, so it must be completed within three days." ”

Roque didn't speak at this time, and exchanged tacit glances with Beaufort, in the next "enclosure movement", Roque would not interfere, he had bought enough farms some time ago.

Moreover, listening to the mayor's meaning, the farms that already existed before will not reduce the compensation, which means that the Chinese farmers around Johannesburg can get the full compensation.

After the meeting was dismissed, Roque quickly returned to Ziwei Town and called Buck, Iron Hook, and Holly all over.

"How many farms do we have now?" Roque doesn't know how much land he owns now, and when he heard Blake Nelson say that there are 1.8 million acres of farms around Johannesburg, Roque feels that at least a third of them should be in Chinese hands.

Maybe that's not all, there are more than 300,000 acres of farms that Roque put under the names of Hawley, Iron Hook, and Buck alone.

"I still have about 150,000 here—" The reason why Hawley has so many under his name is because Roque needs a demonstration effect.

"One hundred and twenty thousand—" There are also many farms with iron hooks.

"Two hundred and seventy thousand—" Buck actually has the most farms in his name, which is far more than the number of farms that Roque has placed in Buck's name.

"I bought the farms around the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, and now the land over there is very cheap, no one wants it at all, and when the reservoir is built, the wasteland over there will definitely be fertile land, so it's right to buy it first." Buck struck first, and he couldn't build a reservoir by Roque, and the benefits were all taken away by others.

"How many farms are sold in the mine?" Roque wants to find out the bottom of his family, although the prospects of Nyasaland are good, but Johannesburg is the basic market.

"About 155,000 acres, which is actually probably a little bit more than that." Buck has a specific number, but it's not exact.

In the era when there were no precise measurements by remote sensing satellites, it was a very general thing to determine the land area, and no one could accurately measure every square meter, and it was almost over.

Under normal circumstances, because miners can get loans, they can buy land around 300 acres, 300 acres, which is almost equivalent to 1821 acres, and it is normal to give 1825 or 1830, and it is normal for the mine to give more, or even more than a dozen acres.

155,000 acres, an average of 300 acres of farms, in fact, there are only more than 500 farms, and the total number of Chinese workers in Johannesburg now exceeds 30,000, which is still too low.

"Let's go back and say, in a few days the farm may be subsidized, and if you plan to settle down in Johannesburg in the future, you should start quickly, and after this village, there will be no such shop." Roque still has more than 200,000 acres under his own name, if he doesn't sell it, will Roque plant it himself?

Impossible.

Nyasaland's 200,000 square kilometers are still waiting for Roque to develop, that is, Nyasaland is not a war zone, otherwise Roque will try his best to fight for compensation for Nyasaland.

"What subsidy?" Buck didn't know the news yet.

Roque introduced the situation, and Buck, Iron Hook, and Hawley exchanged tacit glances with each other, and they all had Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.

Obviously, the farmer is much more promising than the miners, and the security team under Iron Hook has only a few dozen people who have purchased the farm, and most of them are still in a wait-and-see state, and Iron Hook decided to hold a meeting when he goes back in the evening, announce the news, and strive to make the brothers settle down as soon as possible.

The same is true of Buck and Hawley, other gold mines in the Johannesburg area do not allow colored people to work in technical positions, and the rock gold mine does not have this restriction, and the team leaders and technicians in other gold mines are either British or Boers, or Germans, French, or others, and the Chinese in the rock gold mine are not low-paid, and they can basically afford to buy farms after saving for two or three years.

Many managers just because they don't want to take out loans, so they haven't bought the farm for a long time, this situation must be unavoidable, if it is an ordinary miner, it doesn't matter if you buy it or not, the mine will not be forced, the management personnel can't, for the managers, the purchase of the farm, in a sense, is a "vote", buy the farm will stay in Johannesburg with Roque, do not buy the farm, that is, do not listen to Roque's words, such a person does not kill the sacrifice to the heavens and stay for the New Year?

After the meeting was dismissed, Buck returned to the Rock Gold Mine, Hawley went to the Crocodile Bay Reservoir, and Iron Hook went to Dunn nearby.

Dunn was the happiest on his side, and after Iron Hook finished talking about the situation, Dunn and the police and security guards combined to guarantee each other's loans from the Rock Gold Mine, and quickly carved up the 120,000 acres of farm in Iron Hook's name.

Iron Hook himself bought 8,000 acres, Dunn bought 5,000 acres, and the two security captains who led the team out on patrol did not catch up, and when they came back to learn the news, they beat their chests and forced Iron Hook to go to Roque to apply, and divided up more than 40,000 acres of land under Roque's name.

In fact, it is really open to sale, it is really simple to digest hundreds of thousands of acres of farms, and the Rock Gold Mine even has more than 1,000 police and security guards, and 300 acres per person can digest 300,000 acres.

Buck's farm is also very simple, Buck returned to the Rock Gold Mine to hold a meeting of team leaders and technicians, after the news was announced, Buck said on the spot that he bought 10,000 acres, and before the other team leaders responded, Scarlett took out a loan of 15,000 pounds from the Rock Gold Mine as the treasurer and directly purchased 15,000 acres.

What are you hesitating about?

There are a total of 270,000 acres on Buck's side, and more than 20,000 acres have been lost in two or three sentences, and most of the team leaders and technicians are simply coaxing, and only three or five people have not moved.

Buck doesn't talk nonsense, he will let these people go when he turns around, it's not a question of whether the investment vision is good or not, not responding to the call of the mine, not cooperating with Buck's work, this is a matter of attitude.

Rebellion?

The team leader and technician of the rock gold mine have a much higher income than ordinary miners, in fact, they can be the team leader and technician, not that their management is good, how good the technology is, there are more people with excellent management and good technology, there are many Boers looking for jobs outside, but there are no ones in the rock gold mine.

In the final analysis, it is still the lifting of the mine, and it has little to do with personal ability, out of the door of the Rock Gold Mine, these team leaders and technicians think that there is no work door in other gold mines, because Roque, now the mine owners in Johannesburg do not dare to abuse the Chinese workers, but no one cares about the abuse of Zulu and Boers, so except for the Rock Gold Mine and the Matilda Gold Mine, basically no one wants to use Chinese laborers, these team leaders and technicians, leaving the Rock Gold Mine, no one wants them to mine.

Comparatively speaking, the most troublesome is Hawley.

The Chinese workers of Crocodile Bay have just arrived in Johannesburg, and some of them have not even received their salaries, and according to the rules of the Rock Gold Mine, they cannot get loans, so they are powerless even if they want to buy farms.

When Roque learned about this situation, he directly divided the farms in Hawley's name with Buck and Iron Hook, and within a day, all the farms were snapped up.

After summarizing all the news, Roque was surprised to find that Scarlett had purchased the most farms, and the farm under her name now had about 20,000 acres.

"What are you buying so many farms for?" Roke calls Scarlett over and asks her about her purpose.

Scarlett lowered her head and picked at the pencil in her hand, but nothing responded.

"What do you ask?" Roque is not angry, and Roque never does this to others, but as long as he sees Scarlett, Roque can't help but get angry.

Scarlett was startled, and her pencil fell to the ground with a shudder.

Scarlett bends down to pick up the pencil, but accidentally knocks down the quill and inkwell on the table.

Roque felt the muscles on his head jump.

Scarlett sat back on the appointment, not picking up pencils or tidying up the table, and snorted with drooping eyelids: "I want to take all the women who have been bullied by the expeditionary force to the farm, they can't go home now, and if they do, their husbands and families will kill them-"

It seems like a good thing, but why is Roque not happy at all?

"Hmm-" Roque didn't want to interfere, he couldn't just watch those women die.

Although the Johannesburg City Government will give some help to those women, those women who stay in the city of Johannesburg will eventually have to endure the strange eyes of others, and their children will be subject to pervasive discrimination after they are born.

It's best to stay on the farm, if you want to, the environment on the farm is basically isolated, no one knows their story, and naturally there is no discrimination.

"Hmm, what?" Scarlett was so cute that she didn't understand what Roque meant.

"Well, it means clean up the table and get out!" Roque still couldn't help but get angry, obviously it was a good thing, but it made Scarlett a mess.