Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

In just one week, the tide of injuries and illnesses receded like a flood, and more than half of the hospital beds were cleared. Several miners who needed treatment due to illness, but had to stay in the gold mine clinic because there were no beds in the hospital, were finally able to move into a spacious and bright hospital.

Ward.

It’s no wonder those “wounded soldiers” don’t want to leave. Each ward in Ziwei Town Hospital only has two beds. The dedicated nurses clean the wards every day. Those “wounded soldiers” don’t need to spend their own money to be hospitalized.

, all the expenses are paid by the expeditionary force headquarters. When you stay in the hospital, you don’t need to train, patrol, or face those dirty and rude Boers or Zulus, or face guerrilla attacks. You can still be with pretty girls when you have nothing to do.

The hot nurse lady chats about life, this is a day that no god would ever change.

Don't say these British soldiers are despicable. In fact, the Chinese are the same. When they were in Huayong Camp, there was Huayong who preferred to be detained because he didn't want to train.

In addition to the fact that there are no nurses in the British "cells", the British have enough meals three times a day and the rooms are spacious and bright. Such conditions can still make some unmotivated Hua Yong feel happy and forget about their studies. Needless to say, this is the case in Ziwei Town Hospital.

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Rock will never overestimate human nature, so the miners working in the Rock gold mine and the police officers in the police station need to be hospitalized due to illness. The mine and the police station will not reimburse all the expenses, and part of them must be borne by themselves, so that only

We will not prevent people from deliberately using "sickness" as an excuse to stay lazy in the hospital.

After clearing out most of the wards, Aunt Boer, who had played a huge role, was not fired. Instead, she took a back seat and did some cleaning work. The uniform goddess returned to her post, and the ward was filled with a happy atmosphere again.

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

These Chinese nurses were protected by Rock and did not have contact with the British soldiers to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Rock underestimated the popularity of these Chinese nurses. In April, the number of marriages between Chinese policemen and Chinese nurses increased dramatically. Within a week, more than 80 couples went to the Department of the Interior to register their marriages.

Rock prepared a big red envelope of one hundred pounds for each newlywed couple. This one hundred pounds is enough for the couple to buy a house in Johannesburg or Ziwei Town.

The houses in Ziwei Town and Johannesburg are both built by Christian Construction Company. If police officers working in the Johannesburg Police Department choose to buy a house in Ziwei Town or Johannesburg, they can enjoy a discount of almost 50%. This discount is almost as much as the cost.

The price is about the same.

Relatively speaking, houses in Johannesburg are still more expensive than houses in Cape Town.

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

As for Ziwei Town, in Rock’s plan, Ziwei Town will only accept Chinese police officers from Johannesburg and people working near Ziwei Town, regardless of whether they are Chinese or not, except for Chinese police officers from the Johannesburg Police Department, as long as they are not in Ziwei Town

The related industries working nearby, whether they are Zulu, Indian, Boer or even British, as long as they are willing to spend enough money to settle down and buy property in Johannesburg, forget about Ziwei Town. Rock has the power

Reject anyone because Ziwei Town is Roque's private property.

What pleased Rock was that all the newly married Chinese police officers chose to settle down in Ziwei Town. For a time, the existing housing supply in Ziwei Town exceeded demand, and Padbeck sent fifteen construction teams to Ziwei Town at one time.

, making every effort to ensure the housing supply in Ziwei Town, even if it affects the municipal construction of Johannesburg.

Fifteen construction teams may 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 over a hundred. Compared with a municipal project involving thousands of people, this small number of people will not affect the progress at all.

The only thing limiting progress is the construction materials.

A good woman can't make a living without rice. Roque has money and Christian has people. However, due to the interruption of railways, Johannesburg's construction materials are in short supply and are so expensive that even Roque's family has a mine and cannot afford them.

There is no way to solve this problem now, and unless the guerrillas stop attacking the railway lines and the traffic between Johannesburg and Cape Town is restored, this situation will continue.

In mid-April, Connie was admitted to the hospital to give birth. She was the first truly second-generation Chinese in the Cape. Roque invited the most experienced obstetrician from Lourenço Marquez to not only give birth.

Deliver Connie's baby, and also provide training for the nurses at Ziwei Town Hospital.

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

Unlike the 21st century, where women hold up half the sky, most jobs in this era are monopolized by men. Before Nightingale, even the job of nurse was mostly held by men.

It was only after Nightingale that people gradually discovered the advantages of women in the nursing profession, but there are still many people who cannot accept women working as nurses.

Well, for those people, women should stay at home, take care of their husbands and raise children, and it is best not to leave the house or leave the house. No matter what kind of work women do, they will firmly oppose it.

Rock is not so pedantic. In Rock's view, many jobs such as doctors, nurses, teachers, etc. are suitable for women. Compared with men, women's disadvantages are physical strength and family factors, but the advantages are equally obvious, such as being conscientious and meticulous.

, such as affinity, and low salary.

Yes, it is low salary. For a qualified capitalist, the last point is very important.

For the same job, such as a doctor, Rock hired Colin Bellamy, and the annual salary was about 300 pounds. There was also a bonus at the end of the year, so it would cost four to five hundred pounds a year.

And Dr. Kay Mallory, whom Roque hired from Lorenzo Marquez, had an annual salary of only 150 pounds, and Roque offered the same annual salary of 300 pounds as Colin Bellamy.

, Kay Mallory happily accepted Rock's job and said he would move to Ziwei Town as quickly as possible.

Of course, offering Kay Mallory the same salary as Colin Bellamy will definitely arouse Colin Bellamy's dissatisfaction. Unequal pay for equal work is the norm these days. Colin Bellamy and

Kay Mallory is also a Boer. If they were British, the difference in salary would be even greater.

Fortunately, Kay Mallory did not pay a year-end dividend, which somewhat appeased Colin Bellamy and several other male doctors.

On April 20, Connie successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Holly asked Rock for advice and named the baby Charles, which means "strong, noble male". From now on, little Charles' full name is

:Charles Hawley.

Entering May, more and more mothers were admitted to Ziwei Town Hospital. Throughout May, a total of 14 newborn babies were born. All of them were of mixed Chinese and Boer descent. According to the regulations of the Cape Colony, these children were growing up.

After they reach adulthood, they will have all the rights of Cape citizens, including the right to vote. After they reach adulthood, they can go to any British higher education institution to study, instead of being like Buck and Gandhi, who can only choose London, which has no restrictions on the number of students.

college.

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

Rock's contribution to the church was only the initial £100.

Pastor Frank received assistance from the German Governor-General of South-West Africa, and the Germans in Johannesburg and Pretoria also donated generously. Because of the high cost of building materials, Rockdu slowed down the pace of building Ziwei Town, and the church

The construction never slowed down. On the day the church was completed, Leutwein, the German Governor-General of South-West Africa, also sent a representative to congratulate him. This made Philippe Matilda, who also attended the church's inauguration ceremony, in a very bad mood.

The church built by Pastor Frank was the first newly built church in the entire Transvaal region after the British occupied the Transvaal, so Philip Matilda would attend the inauguration ceremony.

It is also because Philip Matilda has just arrived in the colony and has no experience. It is estimated that Philip Matilda has not investigated the background of the church in detail, and I don’t know who the fool invited Philip Matilda. Is this a Catholic church?

The Catholic church built by a German priest was on British soil, which really made Philip Matilda, a Protestant, lose face.

"Sir Locke, you should restrict the activities of the Germans in Johannesburg." After the ceremony, returning to the official residence, Philip Matilda made a straightforward request.

Roque is now a baronet of the British Empire. As a member of the imperial nobility, Roque should serve the interests of the empire wholeheartedly, so Philip Matilda does not need to beat around the bush.

"It was my lack of consideration. I will restrict Father Frank's activities next." Roque admitted his mistake honestly. There were some things that he could not tell Philip Matilda.

The reason why Rock agreed to Frank building a church in Ziwei Town was mainly because of the school that Frank promised. If it weren't for the school, Rock would not have agreed to this at all.

Frank did fulfill his promise. While building the church, the school and Abu's laboratory were under construction in full swing. The church was built first because the construction of the church was relatively simple. The school required by Rock was comparable to the church.

It is much more complex. In addition to classrooms and office buildings, it also includes student dormitories and ancillary facilities. The cost of building a school is enough for Frank to build ten churches.

This is the power of religion.

Regardless of the extravagance and waste of the expeditionary force, the money spent on religion is even more excessive than that of the expeditionary force. The paintings used by Frank when building the church were all professional painters hired by Frank from Italy. If it were Roark, he would definitely not be so wasteful.

The difference between Cape painters and Italian painters is 80 points and 90 points. Roque will not spend ten times more money just for these ten points.

But for Frank, these are just drizzle. The church is a place for spiritual communication with God, and this is what people really do regardless of the cost.