There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand readers.

After listening to the same passage, Philip and Henry came to very different conclusions.

"Is it possible for us to hire more Chinese laborers?" Henry cares about profits.

"Humanized management! It's funny—"Philip cares more about new terms.

"We are trying to get in touch with the Qing and hire more Chinese workers, but it's not easy, the Chinese have a strong local feeling, and they generally don't leave their hometowns unless they have to." Sam was also helpless, and the gold mine owner who had hired Sam had tried to get the idea of Chinese laborers, but it didn't work out.

In fact, it is difficult for Europeans to understand the local complex of the Chinese.

Since the Age of Discovery, with the pace of European colonization of the world, immigration has been a very common thing for many white people, and many white people who cannot live in Europe are willing to try their luck in various "New Worlds".

Some people are lucky, such as Cecil Rhodes, the former prime minister of the Cape and the owner of the De Beers Unified Mining Company, who came to the Cape in 1870 with nothing, and just ten years later, Cecil Rhodes founded the "De Beers Mining Company" from scratch, and after another ten years, Cecil Rhodes's progressive party won the parliamentary elections in the Cape Colony, and Cecil Rhodes formed a cabinet and served as the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.

Even if they are unlucky, white Europeans, with their white skins, can easily buy a family business in colonies around the world, and then hire some local natives, so that they can live a life of unashamed slave owners.

This is much better than living at the bottom of society in Europe.

Unfortunately, there was almost no Chinese participation in the Age of Discovery, and the Qing Dynasty's isolation led to the disconnection between the Chinese and the whole world, and there was no opportunity to participate in the process of colonizing the world.

"I think I can explain this question-" Roque knew how severe the restrictions on the Chinese in the Qing State were, so Roque was not prepared to contact the upper echelons of the Qing State at all, but found another way: "-I think we have fallen into a misunderstanding on the issue of employing Chinese laborers, that is, why do we have to contact the Qing government, can't we bring the workers out of the Qing State through commercial operations?" ”

That's right, Luo Ke is not ready to solve this problem through the Qing high-level at all, and if he finds the Qing high-level high-level, this problem will never be solved.

It is an obvious fact that the Qing rulers did not want the Chinese to leave the country, they wanted the Chinese to stay in the Qing country forever, to be their slaves, to feed their so-called hardcore crops, to be enslaved by them for generations.

Therefore, through the high-level of the Qing State, this problem will never be solved.

Roque pinned his hopes on business operations, compared with politicians, businessmen have a keener sense of smell, a more proactive attitude to solve problems, and a more flexible way of solving problems, some problems if put in the court, it is estimated that the noise will never be solved, but if it is handed over to businessmen, it will be easy to solve.

For example, to solve the labor problem, businessmen have more advantages on this issue.

"No, no, no, commercial operations, it is estimated that only part of the problem can be solved, and if you want to hire a large number of workers from the Qing country, you must contact the Qing government." Philip is also a politician, so Philip's way of solving problems is also a politician's thinking.

"Mr. Mayor, we don't need a lot of workers, we only need fifteen hundred, or two thousand, to guarantee that the mine is running at full capacity." Sam threw the last straw.

Yes, for the whole of Johannesburg, it may take tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, to solve the labor problem.

But for the Matilda gold mine, it doesn't take too many workers to start working at full capacity, two or three thousand people are enough, which is not worth mentioning compared to the hundreds of millions of people in the Qing country, and there is no need for the Transvaal Provisional Government to communicate with the Qing government, to put it mildly, find one or two slave traders, and solve this problem smoothly.

Considering the demonstration effect, if the Chinese miners performed well in the Matilda gold mine, then the Johannesburg miners would take the initiative to hire Chinese workers through various channels without the intervention of the Transvaal government, and the government could sit back and enjoy the benefits.

"Well, you can, try it-" Philip wasn't stupid, and immediately understood the twists and turns.

Then give it a try –

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Hoover, as a slave trader, was still very efficient, and at the end of October, the first batch of 3,000 Chinese laborers arrived in Johannesburg.

"Damn Americans—" Aiden, general manager of the Johannesburg branch of De Beers Unified Mining Company, looked at the Chinese workers as they lined up to walk out of the train station.

About half of the Chinese workers belonged to the Matilda Gold Mine, and Sam, the general manager of the Matilda Gold Mine, was also at the train station at this time, dealing with inquiries from officials from the tax office and the immigration department.

Yes, the immigration and the tax office have to confirm the legitimacy of these laborers, and the De Beers Unified Mining Company and the Matilda Gold Mine hire these workers, and the immigration department has to charge a fee, and then after these workers earn money, the tax office also collects taxes, so Neil McPhalson, the director of the Pretoria tax office, and Jerome Wycliffe, the director of the immigration department, were on the scene.

Of course, Neil and Jerome were accompanied by Johannesburg Mayor Philip.

"Lord Matilda, is it possible to hire more workers from the Qing Kingdom?" Jerome, the director of the immigration bureau, has been having a headache in the past few months, although the Chinese are also colored people, but now Pretoria can not take care of so much, compared with the Zulus, it is obvious that the skin color of the Chinese is more acceptable.

During Roque's time in Johannesburg, there were many violent revolts in Pretoria, concentration camps and prisons were overcrowded, and there were already four concentration camps in Pretoria, but they still could not accommodate all the Boers.

With the Boers in concentration camps, Pretoria's population is getting smaller and smaller, and the city government counted last month that there are fewer than 100,000 people left in all of Pretoria, including miners and freedmen, much to the dismay of all Pretorian officials.

It's really a hurry, no one, nothing can be done, no one does business, no one pays taxes, no one grazes, no one even cleans the sanitation, the whole city of Pretoria, now the total population is less than 10,000 people, and they are all old and weak women and children, how can this make people embarrassed?

All the officials of Pretoria, including the Governor, came to the Transvaal, but they were ambitious to do something, so they could not tolerate this situation at all.

It was precisely under the impetus of this idea that the Transvaal began to bring in Chinese workers on a large scale from 1904, and now this has happened ahead of schedule.

"We're trying, and Director Locke offers another possibility." Philip still values Roque very much, and is not influenced by Arnold.

Just kidding, compared to his own political achievements, the little thing between Arnold and Roque is really nothing.

What's more, Arnold has been in the hospital all this time, and he hasn't had time to take Roque's eye medicine on Philip's side, so Philip's attitude towards Roque has not been affected.

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that on the one hand, there are subordinates who do excellent work, can work, can make money, can solve troubles, and are loyal, and on the other hand, there is a son who likes to work and hates work, eats and waits for death, eats and waits for death, eats nothing, and does not do anything, is a normal person who knows how to choose.

Is it because of the unhappiness of his son and his subordinates that he drove away his capable subordinates and coaxed his own son?

Don't be funny, drive away capable subordinates, who will go to work, counting on their own stupid son who is waiting for death?

Unreliable!

So a wise leader will push his son away, and then appease his subordinates, let them make money honestly, and then use the money to support his son-

This is what smart people do, and those fools who destroy the Great Wall for the sake of their stupid son have no chance of being in a high position.

Philip was certainly not stupid, so Philip decided to send Arnold back to England after Arnold's injury was healed, leaving his grandson with him.

Anyway, there is a mine at home now, and the tuba practice is scrapped, so keep the tuba and practice the tuba again.

"Oh, Director Locke is indeed very capable." Jerome and Roque are very familiar with each other, and the current office of the immigration bureau is what Roque helped to find.

It should be noted that the current office of the Immigration Department is the former residence of Paul Kruger, located next to the Church Square in Pretoria, and the new immigration office is under construction, and when the construction of the immigration office is completed, the Pretoria City Council will demolish the former residence of Paul Kruger.

This was certainly a loss for Pretoria, but it was necessary for the Provisional Government, which reminded him that it was impossible for the Provisional Government to leave Paul Kruger's house for posterity, and Alfred Milner even decided to demolish the Palace of Justice and completely destroy all traces of the Boers in Pretoria.

"You know?" Philip was curious about Roque's network.

"Of course I do, all the officials in Pretoria know Director Locke, and he has been a great help." Jerome happily admits that Philip suddenly has a new understanding of Roque's network.

can be called an "official" by Jerome, at least at the level of deputy director, an ordinary section chief, for Jerome is a small miscellaneous fish.

Philip knows that Roque can become the director by virtue of definitely not only Henry's relationship, if Roque and Henry have a good relationship, then Henry can take care of Roque at most as a sheriff, just like Lena said, at the level of the director, Henry can't do anything.

But Philip never imagined that Roque's network was so large, which was worthy of Philip's attention.

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