In the North Sea, fishing boats are the standard for coastal households, and almost every household has one.

Of course, the fishing boats here are not the kind of motorized iron-hulled fishing boats produced by the Nyasaland shipyards, and a few of those fishing boats are too expensive, and large enterprises with deep pockets like the Nyasaland Fisheries Company can afford to buy them.

With fishing boats and fruit trees everywhere along the coast, basic survival is assured, and countless new immigrants have settled down on the North Sea coast.

"There used to be a lot of wildlife in this area, crocodiles, pythons, rhinos, hippos, and even elephants, which were a great threat to humans, so the Marine Police and nearby troops organized several large-scale killings, and now the situation is much better, at least people here don't have to worry about wild animals anymore." Roque is also helpless, in the 21st century, wild animals are to be protected, but in this era of Africa, wild animals need to be hunted organized to control their numbers.

"To increase the number of immigrants here—from here it used to be the Congo Free State—" Viscount Gladstone looked leisurely in the direction of the Congo Free State.

"Yes, about twenty kilometers or so." Roque was also a little embarrassed, when Nyasaland and the Congo Free State determined the border, it was stipulated that the 20-kilometer area of the North Sea coast belonged to Nyasaland, and now this provision has become a dead letter, and the colonial pioneers of Nyasaland have explored nearly 100 kilometers from Ulysses along the Lukuga River to the hinterland of the Congo Free State, and the colonial government of the Congo Free State seems to know nothing.

For Belgium, which has a mainland area of only 30,000 square kilometers, the Congo Free State, with a total area of more than 2.3 million square kilometers, is so large that Belgium simply does not have enough manpower to effectively control the Congo Free State, so it has to lease land to foreign companies to operate.

The contradiction between the Belgian royal family and the government also had a serious impact on the Belgian government's management of the Congo Free State, when Leopold II was forced by international public opinion to hand over the Congo Free State to the Belgian government for management, but before the transfer of rights, Leopold II leased a large amount of land in the Congo Free State to those foreign companies, and the Belgian government did not get much actual benefit, but wanted to increase more expenses for the management of the Congo Free State, which also led to the Belgian government becoming less and less concerned about the Congo Free State.

"Take your chance—" Viscount Gladstone didn't say it explicitly, but that didn't prevent Roark from understanding what Viscount Gladstone meant.

Viscount Gladstone was more pragmatic, and in a small town not far from Ulysses, he boarded a makeshift pier to see for himself the family life of the inhabitants of the North Sea coast.

The town is indeed a bit small, with only a dozen or so families scattered around, that is, a very ordinary settlement.

However, the settlement has a lot of things, with a mayor-elected mayor and a sheriff appointed by the Ulysses city government.

The mayor and sheriff are both Chinese, and they are the first Chinese to immigrate to Nyasaland, and they are all members of the colonial pioneer team.

When Viscount Gladstone and Roque boarded the dock, the mayor and the sheriff were waiting on the dock, and with the help of the mayor and sheriff introducing themselves, dozens of guards went to the town to make sure it was safe, and only after getting Zack's affirmative look did Roque and Viscount Gladstone leave the dock.

"We have twenty-six families here, and the total population is exactly two hundred, and there are only fourteen here, and there are twelve families further away from here, and they have all recently moved here, and the land around here has been divided, so they went to the other side of the river—" The mayor estimated that he had never seen such a big official in his life, so he was a little nervous.

Two hundred people, twenty-six households, an average of more than seven people per household, which is normal in southern Africa.

"Are all school-age children in school?" Roque casually asked that Nyasaland has a compulsory education system, and the requirements are very strict, and if there are school-age children who do not attend school, the mayor will be held accountable.

"Yes, all of them went, the school is in Ulysses, a little far away, five days off for two days, the water police pick up and drop off back and forth, the lord's grace exempts the children from the shackles, who dares not to let the children go to school, then they will be scolded to the point that they can't raise their heads." The mayor of the town is very grateful, and good things that he could not have dreamed of before have come to Southern Africa one after another.

"Compulsory education in Nyasaland is very good, and the Cape now has a public education system, but many farmers would rather let their children go to herd cattle than go to school." Viscount Gladstone lamented that not all parents are willing to send their children to school.

In this regard, there is still a difference between whites and Chinese.

In the vast majority of Chinese families, parents would rather endure more hardships and let their children receive education in school.

White families are not good, some white people are reluctant to let their children receive education, and the most obvious manifestation in southern Africa is the Boers, because schools in southern Africa enforce the use of English, so many Boers strongly resist public education in southern Africa.

This kind of behavior will not show any serious consequences for a while, but when this generation of children grows up, the gap will be obvious, and then there will be a large number of "poor whites" among the Boers, which is also an important reason for the emergence of "poor whites" in southern Africa in another time and space.

Roque does not explain the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization and the various subtle influences brought to the Chinese, as long as the Chinese are given a chance, Roque can build a completely different southern Africa.

Walking into the town, this feeling is more obvious, more than a dozen families are scattered on both sides of the road in an orderly manner, the buildings in the town are common wooden buildings in southern Africa, compared with white families, there are many vegetable fields and fruit trees in front of and behind the house, and there are a lot of chickens, ducks and geese in the yard, but it is amazing that there is not much uncomfortable smell in the air, and there is not much sewage on the ground, and the whole town is very clean.

Walk into a family at will, the honest and honest male hostess, the nervous hostess, the eldest son who matures early in the family farming, the eldest daughter who hides upstairs and doesn't dare to come down, and the standard Chinese family.

"Lao Zhang is a native of Beizhili, ten years ago he came to Nyasaland after a military disaster in his hometown, although the family's money was robbed and the house was burned down, finally the family was fine, and when it came to our Beihai, Lao Zhang's family has added a son and two daughters in recent years, and now the younger ones are going to school in Ulysses, and the older ones are helping at home-" The mayor took the initiative to introduce, and Lao Zhang's face smiled like a flower.

Viscount Gladstone didn't understand, but he could see from the smile on Lao Zhang's face that Lao Zhang's life was not bad.

The days are really good, probably reminded by the guards, there are three South African mastiffs bolted under the fruit trees next to Lao Zhang's house, all of them are fat and strong, and their bodies are fierce, from this point it can be seen that the living standard of Lao Zhang's family is good, if people can't eat, dogs probably can't eat so fat.

When Roque and Viscount Gladstone came, Lao Zhang's son was scrubbing a brand-new motorcycle, which is the new favorite of the farm family in southern Africa in recent years, after all, even if the price of the car is cheap, not every family can afford it, the key is not willing to buy, the quality of the motorcycle produced in Johannesburg is not bad, the production has been gradually increasing in recent years, and it finally has the opportunity to enter the ordinary family.

When motorcycles first appeared, they could not even meet the needs of the troops, and later the police system also began to order motorcycles in bulk, so motorcycles have always been in demand.

Motorcycles are significantly simpler to produce than cars, and now there are motorcycle factories in Port Edward, Salisbury, and Cape Town, so the price of motorcycles can be reduced to an acceptable level for farmers.

"How much does such a motorcycle cost in the market?" Viscount Gladstone was also interested in motorcycles, but was clearly not well informed.

"Almost a hundred rand." Roque knows a little, but not much.

One hundred rand is not a small amount in southern Africa, and it is almost the entire annual income of a middle-class family.

"That's still quite expensive for a farm, isn't it?" Viscount Gladstone asked.

"I can still get it out-" Lao Zhang's expression was obviously not very good, and he didn't know how to make it up.

"The eldest son of the old Zhang family has taken a fancy to a girl from Ulysses, and the girl from the other family works at the school—" the mayor took the initiative to explain.

"White people?"

"Chinese—"

Roque nodded, a family that had emigrated to southern Africa ten years ago, it was normal to take out a hundred rand.

What's more, even if you can't take it out, there is still a RAND Bank that can take out a loan, and for farmers who have farms at home, RAND Bank is still quite generous.

The Chinese would save money, which was notoriously common in southern Africa.

White farmers only know how to raise cattle and sheep, and even with the guidance of agricultural experts, few people try to change.

Chinese farmers are much more flexible, first plant some potatoes, fruit trees, vegetables or something to ensure rations, and then start to raise all kinds of poultry when there is more surplus grain, and each farm to say that there are no hundreds of chickens, ducks and geese, it is simply sorry for the identity of the farmer.

Once these things are on the scale, the profits generated are also very considerable, especially around the North Sea, where the water resources are very developed, ducks and geese do not need to be raised at all, they go to the lake to eat some small fish and shrimp or something, and the eggs laid are all red-hearted, and they are the most popular in the market.

The old Zhang's motorcycle may have been exchanged for the agricultural and sideline products that these white farmers looked down on.

At least as far as Roque knows, very few white farmers raise chickens, ducks, geese, and other poultry, not because they are dirty, nor because they are noisy, but because they are troublesome.