Although Louis Botha was willing to make changes, there are some things that really can't be remedied by hard work.

Transvaal's farms are getting better and better, and the efforts of Chinese farmers are inseparable, and Transvaal's innate advantages are more related, including the government's policy inclination, the financial support of the RAND Bank, the technical guidance of the expert team, and finally the efforts of Chinese farmers.

Orange doesn't have any of these advantages, so it's difficult to replicate the success of the Transvaal in Orange, and enthusiasm is not enough.

Or rather, it wasn't enough for Louis Botha to be willing to change.

Obviously, Louis Botha was also aware of this problem, so for the rest of the trip, Louis Botha was extremely silent.

Roque doesn't care about Louis Botha's attitude, how can it be so easy to make a fortune, when the farm in Johannesburg was just starting, Roque specially invited experts from Europe in order to solve technical problems, in order to improve livestock breeds, buy breeding cattle and sheep all over the world, and simply invest in textile mills and wineries in Johannesburg in order to increase farm income, all thanks to the strong financing ability of the RAND Bank, and the underground black gold of the Johannesburg Mining Union, and to catch up with the once-in-a-century change of power, Then there was what is now Johannesburg.

Now the farm in Orange wants to make money, the first thing to solve is the problem of funding, without start-up capital, no matter how good the plan can be implemented.

The RAND Bank could have financed Orange, but after a number of egregious incidents in Orange where farmers had taken out loans and then disappeared, the RAND Bank ceased operations in Orange.

Unlike the Boers in Orange and the Chinese in southern Africa, Chinese farmers have no choice but to run their farms honestly.

The Boers have too many options, don't forget that it is still in the great era of world immigration, Canada, Australia, and the United States are welcoming new immigrants everywhere, and there are new immigrants in southern Africa who come to directly reimburse the house and land for the ferry ticket, and Canada and Australia are the same, which gives a lot of "smart people" opportunities.

The most common operation is to use the farm as collateral to get a sum of money from the RAND Bank, and then go to a new country to start all over again, and this money is a net profit.

In the process, the RAND Bank got the farms, the farmers got the money, and the Orange government, which suffered the most, was really empty of both people and money.

"That's why the Ministry of Agriculture wants to promote state farms, nationalize all land, distribute it by the state, and do not allow private individuals to resell, and farmers are equivalent to working on state farms, completing their daily work and getting corresponding remuneration." It was only at lunch that Louis Botha confessed his intention to set up the National Farm.

"It's even worse!" Roque vetoed it, and Louis Botha thought it was good, but I'm afraid that Louis Botha didn't know the big pot of rice.

"Why?" Louis Botha really didn't know.

"Not necessarily, you can try it." Roque suddenly realizes that he has also made the mistake of empiricism.

If there are more people and less land, and the food grown is not enough to eat, and if you do more and do less, in the end, everyone will definitely have nothing to eat.

However, if there are few people and more land, and the grain grown in the fields cannot be eaten, then the national farms are not impossible.

The situation in southern Africa is that the standard people are less and more land, one acre of land, under the premise of no modern fertilizer, even if you grow food, even if you cultivate it intensively, the output is limited, and the yield of one mu of wheat in the north of the Qing Dynasty is now two hundred catties, and the harvest year is only about three hundred catties.

In southern Africa, a family starts with at least 100 acres, and 100 acres is 600 acres, and if they are planted with wheat, even if they don't care after planting, the yield per mu is only 100 catties, and the total amount is 60,000 catties.

If you plant potatoes instead of wheat, you can really grow them for a year and eat them for a lifetime.

The consumption of this thing is elastic, and an adult can eat three bowls of noodles without putting anything, and if you add an egg and some meat, that bowl can be full.

The grain in southern Africa is too much to eat, and every household has 100 chickens, ducks and geese, and there are hundreds of them, and the supply of all kinds of poultry, eggs, and meat is very sufficient, which in turn will reduce the consumption of grain.

Therefore, the national farm has no future in the Qing Dynasty, and it may not be possible in southern Africa, mainly depending on the execution.

"Your national farm in Nyasaland is good." Louis Botha would also be obedient when he begged for help.

"Nyasaland is not a state farm at all, the land is mine, the farmers are all leased land, the key is that I don't collect taxes, the money earned by the farmers is their own, of course there is enthusiasm, in the past, every family could rent a hundred acres, some people worked tirelessly to cultivate the land, they ate in the fields, people were tired and the animals were exhausted, now each family only has ten acres, and you can apply again after all the development is completed, so we have to keep expanding, otherwise there will not be enough land to settle the new immigrants." Roque finally found a suitable reason for his behavior, he couldn't do it without expansion, time was running out.

Southern Africa is 3.24 million square kilometers, arable land is about 200 million or 300 million acres, a family of 100 acres, in fact, there are not many people, and now all states are beginning to pay attention to this problem, Roque has resettled more and more immigrants to Bechuana and Rhodesia in the past two years, in fact, there is no way.

If you want to continue to immigrate in the current situation, you must keep expanding externally, Tanganyika and Southwest Africa are definitely annexed by Roque, Portuguese East Africa and the Congo Free State are also in Roque's plan, Roque is waiting for the outbreak of world war now, and then the eyes of the whole world will be focused on Europe, even if Roque turns Africa upside down, Britain and France have no mind to care.

"There are enough people in southern Africa—" Louis Botha did not hide his emotions.

"It's still early enough for Orange, but there is a big gap in Nyasaland's population resources, we now not only need enough agricultural population, but also need more skilled workers, Nyasaland only new immigrants under the age of ten can go to school, new immigrants over the age of ten have to help on the farm, fourteen years old can enter the factory, we have to use one or two generations to make up for the gap with Europe." Roque has great ambitions, but his ideals also need to be paid for by reality.

The reality is always cruel, not to mention southern Africa, Europe is now full of sweatshops, eleven-year-old children in France have to go to work in factories, almost all factories in Britain have child labor, they have to work more than eleven hours a day like adults.

So even if southern Africa wants to provide better welfare for its citizens, there is no basis for this reality, the advantage of southern African industry is the low cost price, but this low cost is not squeezed from the workers, but the low cost of raw materials, Henry will not pay high wages to the miners in Favart, African miners in Johannesburg can only earn one rand per person per month on average, and the enterprises in Nyasaland can pay high wages to the workers, that is because the goods produced by the companies in Nyasaland have high added value, The unit profit is high, and Roque naturally doesn't care.

As for the age of admission, Roque does not have a very good way, it can only be such a simple and crude one-size-fits-all, the gap between southern Africa and Europe is not to the extent that it cannot be bridged, Japan can successfully turn over through the world war, and southern Africa has a greater chance.

"Bridging the gap?" Louis Botha finally had a look of surprise on his face.

The question that Louis Botha is thinking about most now is how to improve the level of operation of the Orange farmers, but Roque has already begun to think about the competition in southern Africa and Europe, which Louis Botha has never considered before.

Not to mention Louis Botha, I'm afraid that in the whole of southern Africa, only Roque is trying to bridge the gap with Europe, and even Xiao Si has not considered this problem.

"Yes, in fact, the gap between us and Europe is not as big as imagined, Europe has indeed completed the industrial revolution, hundreds of years of colonial expansion, and has completed a good primitive accumulation, but now Europe is on the verge of war, once the war breaks out, the European economy will stagnate, and even regress, then it will be an opportunity for us in southern Africa, at least there is no force around us that can threaten us." Roque is confident that Europe is indeed relatively strong in traditional fields, but there are still opportunities for overtaking in corners in emerging fields, as evidenced by the success of the "Strong Wind" fighter and the Lord car.

There are more opportunities for overtaking in corners in southern Africa, but until then, southern Africa will need more workforce and more high-end talent.

"It's difficult, the gap between us and Europe is all-round, the economy, education, people's livelihood-" Louis Botha shut up halfway through the sentence, the economy is indeed poor, which Roque also admits, but other aspects are not necessarily.

At least compulsory education has not yet begun to be compulsory in the UK, and there are indeed fewer college students in southern Africa, but as time goes on, as more and more colleges and universities begin to recruit students, the gap in this area will become smaller and smaller.

As for the disparity in people's livelihood, it is even smaller, and the land annexation situation in Britain is also very serious, most of the land is concentrated in the hands of a few big nobles, and the standard of living of the common people is not much better than that of the commoners in southern Africa.

At least the chicken, duck and goose eggs that are often found on the tables of civilians in southern Africa are rarely found on the tables of British civilians, whose most common foods are fried fish and potato sticks, which are not yet the national dishes of the United Kingdom, and are only eaten by the poor.