In just one week, the tide of injuries and illnesses receded like a flood, more than half of the hospital beds were cleared, and several of them needed treatment for their illnesses, but because there were no beds in the hospital, the miners who could only stay in the gold mine clinic were finally able to live in spacious and bright wards.

It's no wonder that those "wounded soldiers" don't want to leave, each ward of Ziwei Town Hospital has only two beds, and the dedicated nurse cleans the wards every day, and those "wounded soldiers" don't need to spend their own money when they are hospitalized, and the expenses are all paid by the expeditionary force headquarters.

Don't say that these British GIs are despicable, in fact, the Chinese are the same, when they were in the Huayong camp, there were Huayong who preferred to be locked up because they didn't want to train.

In addition to the absence of a nurse in the "cell" of the British, three meals a day are enough, and the room is as spacious and bright.

Roque would never overestimate human nature, so the miners working in the Rock Gold Mine and the police officers at the police station who need to be hospitalized due to illness will not be reimbursed by the mine and the police department for all expenses, and some of them must be borne by themselves, so as not to prevent people from deliberately staying in the hospital under the pretext of "illness".

After emptying most of the wards, Aunt Boer, who had played a huge role, was not dismissed, but took a back seat to do some washing and scrubbing work, the uniform goddess returned to work, and the ward was filled with happy air again.

In addition to Boer nurses, there are more than 100 Chinese nurses at Ziwei Town Hospital.

These Chinese nurses were protected by Roque from contact with British GIs to avoid some unnecessary trouble.

Roque underestimated the popularity of these Chinese nurses, and in April, there was a sharp increase in the number of marriages between Chinese police officers and Chinese nurses, with more than 80 couples going to the Home Office to register their marriages within a week.

Roque prepared a big red envelope of 100 pounds for each couple, which was enough for the newlyweds to buy a house in Johannesburg or Ziwei Town.

The houses in Ziwei Town and Johannesburg are built by Christian Construction Company, and if the police officers working in the Johannesburg Police Department choose to buy a property in Ziwei Town or Johannesburg, they can enjoy a discount of almost 5%, which is almost the same as the cost price.

Relatively speaking, a house in Johannesburg is still a bit more expensive than a house in Cape Town.

The reason is not that the cost is high, but that Roque has deliberately raised the cost of buying a property in Johannesburg.

As for Ziwei Town, in Roque's planning, Ziwei Town only accepts Chinese police officers in Johannesburg and people who work near Ziwei Town, whether they are Chinese or not, except for the Chinese police officers in the Johannesburg Police Department, as long as they do not work in related industries near Ziwei Town, whether they are Zulu, Indians, Boers, or even British, as long as they are willing to come up with enough money to settle down in Johannesburg, Ziwei Town will not think about it, Roque has the right to refuse anyone, because Ziwei Town is Roque's private property.

For a time, the existing housing supply in Ziwei Town was in short supply, and Padbeck sent fifteen construction teams to Ziwei Town at one time to ensure the housing supply of Ziwei Town, even if it affected the municipal construction of Johannesburg.

Fifteen construction teams sound like a lot, but in fact, there are only about ten people in a construction team, and the total number of people is only more than 100 people.

The only thing that restricts progress is the building materials.

Roque has money and Christian has people, but because of the railway break, Johannesburg's building materials are scarce, and the price is so high that even Roque's family has a mine.

There is no way to resolve this now, and this situation will continue until the guerrillas stop attacking the railway line and the flow of traffic between Johannesburg and Cape Town is restored.

In mid-April, Connie was admitted to the hospital to give birth, the first true second-generation Chinese in Cape, and Roque brought in the most experienced obstetrician from Lorenzo Marques to not only deliver Connie's birth, but also train the nurses at Ziwei Township.

Speaking of obstetricians, this may be the only position that women can do in this era that is not criticized.

Unlike the 21st century, where women can hold up half the sky, most of the work in this era is monopolized by men, and before Nightingale, even the job of nurse was mostly men.

It was only after Nightingale that people gradually discovered the advantages of women in the profession of nurses, but there were still many people who could not accept women as nurses.

Well, for those people, women should stay at home and raise their husbands and children, and it is better not to go out of the door, no matter what work women do, they will resolutely oppose it.

Roque is not so pedantic, in Roque's view, doctors, nurses, teachers and many other jobs are suitable for women, compared with men, women's disadvantages are physical strength, as well as family factors, but the advantages are also obvious, such as seriousness and meticulousness, such as affinity, and such as low salary.

Yes, it is a low salary, and for a qualified capitalist, this last point is important.

For the same job, such as a doctor, Roque hires Colin Bellamy, with an annual salary of about 300 pounds, and a dividend at the end of the year, which will cost four or five hundred pounds a year.

And Dr. Kay Mallory, whom Roque hired from Lorenço Marques, after Lorenço Marques's annual salary was only 150 pounds, and Roque offered the same annual salary of 300 pounds as Colin Bellamy, Kay Mallory happily accepted Roque's job and said that he would move to Ziwei Town as soon as possible.

Of course, offering Kay Mallory the same salary as Colin Bellamy would certainly cause Colin Bellamy's displeasure, as unequal pay for equal work was the norm these days, and Colin Bellamy and Kay Mallory were both Boers, and if they were British, the gap between the salaries would be even greater.

Fortunately, Kai Mallory did not pay a year-end dividend, which somewhat calmed the emotions of Colin Bellamy and several other male doctors.

On April 20, Connie successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy, and Hawley asked Roque for advice and named the child Charles, which means "strong and noble man", and in the future, the full name of little Charles is: Charles Hawley.

In May, more and more mothers were admitted to Ziwei Town Hospital, and throughout May, a total of 14 newborn babies were born, all of them were of mixed Chinese and Boer descent, according to the rules of the Cape Colony, these children will have all the rights of Cape citizens when they grow up, including the right to vote, and they can go to any British university of higher learning when they reach adulthood, instead of choosing University College London, which has no restrictions on students, as Buck and Gandhi did.

At the end of May, the first church in Ziwei Town was completed.

Roque's contribution to the church was only the first £100.

Pastor Frank received the aid of the Governorate of German Southwest Africa, and the Germans in Johannesburg and Pretoria also donated generously, because of the high cost of building materials, Roque slowed down the pace of building Ziwei Town, but the construction of the church never slowed down, on the day of the completion of the church, the Governor of German Southwest Africa, Leut Wein, also sent a representative to congratulate, which made Philip Matilda, who also attended the inauguration of the church, feel very bad.

The church built by Reverend Frank was the first new church built in the Transvaal after the British occupation of the Transvaal, which is why Philip Matilda attended the inauguration ceremony.

It is also Philip Matilda who has just arrived in the colony and has no experience, it is estimated that Philip Matilda did not investigate the background of the church in detail, and I don't know which fool invited Philip Matilda, this is a Catholic church, or a Catholic church built by a German priest, and it is on the territory of the United Kingdom, which makes the Protestant Philip Matilda really lose face.

"Sir Locke, you should limit the activities of the Germans in Johannesburg." After the ceremony, back at the residence, Philippe Matilda made a straightforward request.

Roque is now a baron of the British Empire, and as a member of the imperial aristocracy, Roque should serve the interests of the empire wholeheartedly, so Philip Matilda does not need to beat around the bush.

"It's my lack of thought that I'm going to limit Father Frank's activities." Roque honestly admits his mistakes, there are some things that he can't tell Philippe Matilda.

The reason why Roque agreed to Frank to build a church in Ziwei Town was mainly because of the school that Frank had promised, and if it weren't for the school, Roque wouldn't have agreed to this matter at all.

Frank did fulfill his promise, while building the church, the school and Abu Yao's laboratory were in full swing, the reason why the church was built first was because the construction of the church was relatively simple, and the school that Roque asked for was much more complex than the church, in addition to classrooms, office buildings, including student dormitories and ancillary facilities, the cost of building a school was enough for Frank to build ten churches.

This is the power of religion.

Don't look at the extravagance and waste of the expeditionary force, religion spends money, more than the expeditionary force, the paintings used by Frank when building the church are all professional painters invited by Frank from Italy, if it is replaced by Roque, it will definitely not be so wasteful, compared with the painters of Cape and Italy, that is, the difference between 80 points and 90 points, Roque will not spend ten times more money for this ten.

But for Frank, it's all drizzle, and the church is a place to communicate with God's heart, and that's what really costs it.