Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 312 Cultural Invasion

If someone else wants to produce diesel engines, knowing that there is a company willing to provide a production line, I am afraid that they will rush to pay for it.

After all, Rudolf Diesel was on Rock's side, and Rudolf Diesel knew everything about diesel engines very clearly, so the German Augsburg Machinery Manufacturing Plant had no money to cheat Rock. .

What's more, the diesel engine at this time is still in a relatively early stage, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Not to mention that the Augsburg Machinery Manufacturing Plant in Germany does not have a mature production line. They are still engineers and skilled workers. There are quite a few talents in this field in the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Plant in Germany, so Rock hired a few.

The reason why we don’t hire too many people is because Roque still needs to train talents himself, and Rudolf Diesel also has to lead students in Nyasaland. In order to let Rudolf Diesel do his best, Roque promised to wait for the engine After the factory is put into operation, Rudolf Diesel will give Rudolf Diesel a part of the tractor factory's shares, so Rock doesn't have to worry about Rudolf Diesel's cheating and cheating. In order for the engine factory to start production as soon as possible, Rudolf Diesel is eager for his students Become a teacher as soon as possible.

In the same way, the technical talents hired by Rock from the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Plant in Germany are also training talents for Nyasaland while working in Nyasaland.

Of course, these people don’t need to give shares, they just need to pay a higher salary. Their average salary at the Augsburg Machine Factory in Germany is less than one hundred pounds a year, which is not even up to the average level in the UK. Each of them offered an annual salary of at least 200 pounds, which was at least twice as high as their income at the Augsburg machine factory in Germany, and there was additional income for apprentices, so the engineers and technicians were very satisfied. Young people directly express their desire to settle in Nyasaland. Those who do not want to settle in Nyasaland can earn a few years in Nyasaland and return to Germany to live a good life.

To put it bluntly, money still touches people's hearts, who would have trouble with money!

With the diesel engine, the development of Nyasaland has entered a high-speed track.

Diesel engines can be used not only on tractors, but also on cars and fishing boats. If the diesel engine is made large enough, it can also be used on ships. It can be said that the diesel engine is the heart of the industry and solves this problem. Problems, many problems in the industry can be easily solved, and the industries derived from this are more than enough to support a Rhodesia, let alone a Nyasaland.

What Roque has to do is to complete the supporting facilities and create good conditions for industrial development, and Roque will wait for time to ferment the rest.

At the end of November, the iron and steel plant located in the Barony of Fawalt was finally put into production. This is also a pioneering work in the whole of Africa. Not only Rock and Henry, but Ade and Philip Matilda also attended the opening ceremony of the steel plant.

The steel plant is located on the banks of the Limpopo River, and is connected to the railway from Pretoria to Salisbury. Whether it is water or land, the transportation is very convenient.

After completion, the annual output of the steel plant will be 1902 tons, which seems relatively small, but don’t forget that this is 1000. In this year, the United States, which has the highest steel output in the world, has just exceeded 500 million tons. The output is only over [-] million tons, and the annual output of [-] tons has surpassed that of Japan and is similar to that of Italy, so this annual output is already very high.

Adelaide and Philip Matilda visited the office area and rest area of ​​the steel factory. The work area is fine. The working environment in the steel factory is also very bad these days. Many Zulu people are used in the steel factory, so for Adelaide Don't visit Philip Matilda's mental health, work area, and mines near the steel plant. Can't eat.

In fact, just the office area and the rest area already have a lot to see.

Thanks to the immigration of the Chinese, the office buildings of the iron and steel factory are all made of brick and tile structures. Compared with traditional stone buildings and wooden structure buildings, the production of brick and tile is simpler, and the raw materials are more convenient and cheaper. , so many new buildings in Nyasaland and Johannesburg now use brick and tile structures.

The promotion of brick-and-tile structures has also objectively improved the social status of the Chinese. Compared with building a wooden structure like building blocks, building a house with bricks and tiles is a technical job. This technology is only competent for the Chinese for the time being. The number of Chinese in Shanghai is increasing, and the Zulu people can only do some simple manual work. As long as the work has a little bit of technology, it is basically monopolized by the Chinese.

The reason why this happens is not because the Zulu people are not smart enough, but because the Zulu people have no sense of responsibility, are careless in doing things, and don’t like to criticize themselves, so they can only do some of the simplest jobs. The complex work is left to the Zulus.

The Indians are as lazy as the Zulus, and there are many Indians in the Transvaal. They can only undertake the simplest jobs, and the Indians are worse than the Zulus. Indians work best One person is assigned one supervisor. As long as the supervisor is not around, the Indians will release their nature. There are also some Indians in the Transvaal who undertake projects. The most common scene is that one Indian is working, and then there are three or four Indians beside him. On the whole, the Chinese often use "the oil bottle will not help you when it is down" to describe those who are extremely lazy. If you follow this standard, the vast majority of Indians can be classified as "extremely lazy", a unique caste in India System, people of high caste will not hold up the oil bottle, because that is what the lower caste should do, and people of low caste will not take the initiative to hold the oil bottle, unless a high caste orders him to lift the oil bottle.

As a result of the large number of Chinese involved in architecture, Chinese-style architecture has gradually become popular in the Transvaal. For example, the Fawalt Iron and Steel Factory. It is a remarkable standard of Chinese architecture.

"The biggest advantage of using brick and tile structure is the low cost. If this row of office buildings is made of wood, the service life will not be long enough. If it is made of stone structure, the cost will be too high, so the brick and tile structure is the most suitable , such a row of office buildings cost just over one hundred pounds, and if it is a stone structure, this money is not enough to buy stones." Rock still wants to explain, mainly because he is worried about Ade and Philip Marty Erda realized that this was actually a kind of cultural invasion.

The problem is that Adelaide and Philip Matilda did not have this awareness at all. When they learned that it took less than half a year to build such a factory, Adelaide and Philipe Matilda were a little surprised.

"It's a beautiful office building, and it looks very solid. If the construction cost is really low, it will be very valuable for promotion." Ade is still concerned about whether there is any promotion value. In fact, wooden structures have great hidden dangers, especially fire hazards, bricks and tiles. There is almost no such hidden danger in the structure.

"It is indeed valuable. Now there are many houses like this in Johannesburg, and the price of stone and wood is still a bit high." Philip echoed. Stone is a non-renewable raw material, so it is expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.

Although wood is a renewable raw material, the growth cycle of wood is also very long. It takes more than ten years for a tree to reach the level where it can be used to build a house. There are no virgin forests within [-] kilometers around Johannesburg. , All the trees have been cut down for the urban construction of Johannesburg. Like stone, it is becoming more and more difficult for Johannesburg to obtain wood, which is about to become a bottleneck restricting the development of Johannesburg.

Now that the problem has been completely solved, there are more than ten brick factories in the outer suburbs of Johannesburg, producing bricks and tiles around the clock for the urban construction of Johannesburg. The headquarters of the Liberal Party that Christian promised to build is a three-story building with a brick and tile structure. .

Compared with stone buildings and wooden buildings, the biggest advantage of brick and tile structures is that they can evolve into reinforced concrete buildings. After the city has undergone brutal development, it will develop in a three-dimensional direction. At this time, the advantages of reinforced concrete are undoubtedly revealed. Pure stone Buildings and wooden buildings will be eliminated sooner or later.

Also because of the popularity of brick factories, the floor of the office area of ​​Fawalt Iron and Steel Factory has been completely hardened without using cement. The bricks used for the hardened floor are different from those used for building houses. It was a blue brick, and there were engraved patterns and patterns on the blue brick, which amazed Ade and Philip even more.

After learning about the price of this kind of custom-made blue bricks, Ade and Philip both had ideas. It is estimated that the ground in Johannesburg and Pretoria will gradually harden in a short time.

In addition to the hardened ground, there are gardens and green areas in the office area, and there are even towering giant trees transplanted from nearby. If it weren't for the towering chimneys in the steel factory, no one would believe that this place is actually a factory with an annual output of [-] tons of steel. Steel Plant.

Rock is actually very dissatisfied with this output. In Rock's concept, if there is no annual output of 800 million tons, he is ashamed to say that he is a steel factory with an annual output of [-] tons. It sounds like a handcraft workshop.

Fortunately, there is still room for expansion of the steel plant, and there is no shortage of iron ore in the nearby mines. As long as Rock maintains the current hunger and thirst, sooner or later in the future, the scale of the Fawalt Steel Plant can also reach [-] million tons class.

By then, perhaps the steel plant will already be a steel conglomerate.

Unlike the ambitious Rock, neither Ade nor Philip has such ambitions. In their concept, it is already a miracle that Africa can produce steel.

(End of this chapter)