Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 309 Diesel Engine ([-] Monthly Pass Plus Changes)

Population has always been the focus of contention in the colonial era. Why did the UK allow Canada and Australia to self-govern, but hold India firmly in its hands? It is because India’s huge population base can effectively provide enough labor for the British colonies all over the world. .

There are also many Indians in southern Africa. Otherwise, Gandhi would not be able to easily form a stretcher team of more than 1000 people. However, the status of Indians in southern Africa is not high. This has always been the goal of Gandhi's efforts.

About ten years ago, Gandhi, who failed to win a lawsuit in India, boarded the train from Durban to Pretoria. As an Indian elite and educated in England, Gandhi thought he was qualified to be the first class seat, so Bought a first class ticket.

Unexpectedly, after learning of Gandhi's Indian identity, the police officers on the train would not allow him to sit in the first-class seat and let Gandhi sit in the luggage compartment with those lower-class people.

Gandhi thought he was insulted and refused to obey, so he was roughly pushed off the train by the police, and stood on the platform at midnight for half the night.

After processing this story, it became that Gandhi once took a train and dropped a shoe beside the railroad track. Take it off too and throw it next to the first shoe.

People in the company asked Gandhi why he did this in puzzlement, and Gandhi said seriously: "In this way, poor people passing by the railway tracks can get a pair of shoes."

The person who made up this story probably didn't consider why Gandhi's shoes fell out of the compartment when Gandhi was in the compartment. Perhaps Gandhi's train was crowded, and people sitting in the compartment had to put their legs outside the compartment.

The British can hire Indians as a supplementary labor force, but Roque will never do so. Relying on the human resources of the Chinese, Roque can completely ignore the role of the Indians. There is no Indian, except for a small number of whites, all are Chinese.

Entering November, every three days an immigrant boat arrives in Nyasaland. Some people disembark at Port Edward and devote themselves to the construction of Port Edward. More people travel upstream along the Zambezi River to Little Rock, and then Assigned to various colonial settlements in Nyasaland.

Colonial development sites have blossomed everywhere in Nyasaland, and the development of Nyasaland revolves around Lake Nyasaland and the rivers in Nyasaland.

The Chinese are indeed industrious and capable, and the progress of colonization is very fast. It has been less than a year since Rock got Nyasaland, and Nyasaland is now basically self-sufficient, and basically does not need food from Stoudemire. For farm horses And the demand for agricultural tools is increasing rapidly.

It's no wonder that Stoudemire also began to give up his prejudice, hoping that Rock would allow some Chinese to enter Rhodesia and develop farms in Rhodesia.

Of course Roque agreed. Don’t forget that Roque still has a thousand square miles of land in Rhodesia. In the past, Roque was busy developing Nyasaland, and there was no manpower to take over the thousand square miles. Saran has gradually been on the right track, and Rock is finally able to develop the land in Rhodesia.

One thousand square miles, almost [-] square kilometers, cost Rock [-] pounds!

It stands to reason that at least three to 5000 people are needed to develop so much land.

Rock didn't have that many people in his hands, so he could only send 500 people.

"500 people, are you going to let them go to Rhodesia to herd cattle?" Stoudemire despises Rock's favoritism. The immigration boats that arrive in Nyasaland can transport at least 2000 people. 500 people are really unreasonable. Not enough teeth.

However, if it is cattle herding, 500 people are really about the same. Referring to the grazing efficiency of the Boers in the past, even if a thousand square miles are pastures, they can only raise [-] cattle.

This is just a matter of thinking. Half of a thousand square miles are qualified pastures. In fact, these pastures can be developed into arable land, so there is still potential, and it mainly depends on how to operate it.

"The agricultural model of the Boers is definitely not suitable, even the agricultural model of Johannesburg is not suitable. In the future, agriculture is about to enter the era of mechanization, so the large-scale farm model that uses agricultural machinery on a large scale is in line with the development trend of agriculture, but whether it works or not It needs to be practiced, and I am also trying now.” Rock wants to try different possibilities, Johannesburg is a private farm model, Nyasaland is a corporate business model, and Rhodesia is here, Rock intends to try the big farm in the United States. Farm mode, which mode is the best, let's talk about the final output.

"What is agricultural mechanization?" Stoudemire was at a loss.

It can’t be blamed for Stoudemire’s ignorance. Although tractors using internal combustion engines have been invented for ten years, the current tractors are not perfect enough, let alone popularized in time. Even European agriculture still relies on manpower and livestock, let alone Africa.

Before that, there was not a single tractor in the whole of Africa.

Rock couldn't answer Stoudemire's question. He raised his hand to see that it was almost time to get off work. Rock simply took Stoudemire to Bigwig Town.

Three months ago, Rock asked Christian to buy ten tractors from Chaddar Engine Company in Chicago, USA, and transport them back to Nyasaland for research. The tractors in this period were still very primitive, mainly because the tire problem had not been solved. , so the popularization of tractors still has a long way to go.

Tractors in this period used solid tires and pneumatic tires for automobiles. These two tires are actually not suitable for use on tractors. After reviewing the research results of Nyasaland, Rock immediately made a decision Using crawlers on the tractor quickly solved the tractor tire problem.

Tracks are the easiest way to research a tire suitable for use on a tractor.

Tractor tires are different from car tires. Rock knows that the tires suitable for tractors are high-pattern low-pressure pneumatic rubber tires, but he doesn't know how to make them. After all, a qualified tire, in addition to high-pattern and low-pressure inflation, also has Other key technologies are needed, none of which Roque has, and Roque will not know, so Roque can only use crawlers as a substitute.

Fortunately, the track is also a very good alternative. In the future, the UK will refer to the tracked tractor, so it successfully developed the world's first tank. Rock is now starting to develop the tracked tractor. The experience in this area will be richer in the future. When the UK needs tanks Rock can come up with better products.

Back in Bigwig Town, the technicians who came to Bigwig Town with the crawler tractors are ready. Buck and George, the vice president of the Agricultural Association, are also on the scene. Everyone can't wait to see this kind of crawler that Rock has placed high hopes How powerful is the tractor?

"Are there any problems?" Rock asked Rudolf Diesel, who was in charge of improving the tractor.

If it wasn't for the diesel engine in the business scope of Rock's previous life as a trading dog, Rock wouldn't even know the name Rudolf Diesel.

Like Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel was a tragedy of our time.

In 1897, Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine. This engine has high power, low fuel consumption, and can use low-quality fuel, showing brilliant development prospects.

It is precisely because of the bright future of the diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel was criticized and excluded by his opponents. Due to his lack of business acumen, Rudolf Diesel lost a lot of money playing stocks and gradually fell into financial difficulties. In 1898, Due to severe nervous breakdown, Diesel was admitted to a sanatorium near Munich.

When Rock's headhunting company found Rudolph Diesel, Rudolph Diesel was already on the verge of bankruptcy. Rock promised to help Rudolph Diesel pay off the arrears and let Rudolph Diesel pay off the debt. The advanced diesel engine flourished in Nyasaland, so Rudolf Diesel came to Nyasaland without hesitation.

"There is no problem. I have tested it many times in Nyasaland. The efficiency of the 'monster' is 60 times that of a heavy draft horse. Four draft horses can do a day's work, and the monster can complete it in two hours." Rudolf Diesel is full of confidence. The advantage of tractors is that they don’t need to rest. As long as the machine is not damaged, it can work continuously. This is an advantage that livestock cannot match.

"Then let's get started!" Rock was also confident. Perhaps in Rudolf Diesel's view, tractors could only be used to cultivate land, but in Rock's view, the biggest treasure of this tractor was the diesel engine.

Diesel engines are used in a wide range of applications, not only in tractors, diesel engines can also be used in automobiles, ships, and the entire industrial field.

What Roque values ​​most is the future tanks. The First World War will break out 12 years later. The time left for Roque is more or less. If Roque wants to get the most money in the World War Benefits, then from now on, every day counts.

With a roar of "crack, blah, blah, blah," the tractor started to work, and Stoudemire, Buck, and George came over immediately.

Rudolf Diesel is right. Tractors are indeed "incomparably powerful". Compared with draft horses, tractors can plow faster and deeper. The plows used by ordinary four-drawn horses are at most only Four plowshares belonged to the category of heavy agricultural machinery, while the plows used by tractors had six plowshares, which could not be pulled by ordinary four horses.

Rock didn't move forward, because Rock knew that the efficiency of tractors must be much higher than that of draft horses.

Rudolf Diesel did not move forward either, because Rudolf Diesel had confidence in the tractor.

"Rudolph, next, we need to study how to use diesel engines on ships. We need diesel engines with higher power and more stable operation. At the same time, we also need diesel engines with smaller volume and less consumption." Rock told Lu The two extremes corresponded to two different directions in the tasks assigned by Dolph Diesel. If Rudolf Diesel can come up with more designs, Nyasaland will have a brighter future.

Just like today's diesel engines.

(End of this chapter)