Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 337

Johannesburg has already used electric lights, and of course Rock will not treat Nyasaland badly.

Although Nyasaland does not have a river with a wide basin and a wide range like the Limpopo River, the water resources of Nyasaland are better than those of Johannesburg. The Limpopo River is only a seasonal river. Although the rivers in Nyasaland The small distance is short, but the drop is large and the number is large, which is very conducive to the development of small reservoir hydropower stations.

Rock does not need a model project like the Alligator Bay Reservoir in Nyasaland. Although the installed capacity of a single hydropower station is not as good as that of the Alligator Bay Reservoir, it cannot support the large number of hydropower stations in Nyasaland. The Crocodile Bay Reservoir is only high but not low.

What's more, because the scale of a single hydropower station is small, the construction period is also shorter, so the time for Nyasaland to use electric lights is not much later than that of Johannesburg.

Speaking of which, although electricity has just appeared in the world, Su Xian is no stranger to electric lights.

More than ten years ago, Su Xian, as his father's assistant, was already qualified to enter and leave the palace, and the palace had already used electric lights in 1888, but because all the electric lights at that time were powered by generators, and Su Xian did not I heard the roar of the generator, so there was a deviation in understanding.

The moment he saw the electric light, to be honest, Su Xian had mixed feelings. In the Qing Dynasty, only the nobles in the palace were eligible to use electric lights. The imperial hospital where Su Xian’s father worked was not qualified to install them. For a moment, Su Xian thought Back to three years ago.

In just three years, people have really changed, and the sea has changed.

Compared with Su Xian, his family’s eyesight is not enough. Although electric lights have appeared in the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, for ordinary Chinese, electric lights are legendary existences, and ordinary people have no chance to see them, so even electric lights It was a bit dazzling, but the children still stared at the light without blinking.

Fortunately, Su Xian had very strict requirements on the children. Although they were curious, the children did not lose their composure and just watched quietly. Without Su Xian's permission, the children did not even enter the door.

"Mr. Su, you will be staying here for the first few days. If you have any inconvenience, you can directly contact me, or the staff at the transfer station. I, Liang Kuan, is the deputy director of the transfer station. If you need anything, just say hello." Liang Kuan With a respectful attitude, he turned around and wanted to leave after he finished speaking.

"Liang—Director Liang, may I ask if our family is the only one living here?" Su Xian called Liang Kuan to stop him in time.

"Yes, as far as your family is concerned, there are eight rooms upstairs and downstairs. The living room, kitchen and guest room are downstairs. There are three bedrooms and a study room upstairs. There is also a shared bathroom. If it is still not enough, Then you have to live in the attic, but there is no bed in the attic, and if you want to live in it, you have to make a bed on the floor—the futons are all prepared in the room, and they are in the cabinet next to the bed—yes, I’ll go up with you.” Liang I don't know how many times I have to repeat these words every day, so I just took Su Xian upstairs.

The smooth and shiny wooden floor has a slight rebound when you step on it. Going up the stairs, Liang Kuan turns on another electric light at the corner. This makes Su Xian secretly startled. Electric lights, so it seems that Nyasaland is indeed as rich as the legend says.

Before agreeing to go to Nyasaland, Su Xian had heard that many Chinese immigrated to Africa in the past two years. At that time, in Su Xian's view, both Africa and Nyasaland were wild places. After going there, they can only be used as livestock by foreigners. It is absolutely impossible for everyone to live and work in peace and contentment without being bullied by foreigners as in the legend.

The reason why Su Xian agreed to come to Nyasaland was that he was desperate. At that time, Su Xian was even willing to come to Nyasaland alone so that his wife and children could stay in the Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, Su Xian's wife was sensible and would rather die than separate her family, so Su Xian's family entered the camp of Nyasaland Human Resources Company together.

In the camp, Su Xian’s family was well taken care of. After the staff in the camp knew Su Xian’s occupation, they did not force Su Xian’s family to shave their hair and change clothes like others, nor did they separate Su Xian’s family. It was arranged in two separate rooms, which was a bit crowded, but compared with those who had to separate men and women, this was much luckier.

After entering the camp, Su Xian finally realized how rich the Nyasalan people were.

At this time, in the north of the Qing Dynasty, due to continuous wars, natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are already in dire straits. The high-ranking officials and nobles are better off. Although their lives are greatly affected, they can still guarantee their food and clothing; He used to be an imperial doctor, and his family was ruined. One can imagine the situation of ordinary people. Although Su Xian didn't see Yi Zi and died of starvation, more and more people voluntarily sold themselves into slavery.

Five years ago, it only cost 80 oceans to buy a daughter-in-law, but now you don’t need money at all, you can get a real big girl for two catties of millet.

The situation in the camp is different. Not to mention eating well and dressing well, at least there is food to eat and clothes to wear, and the key is to keep enough food. This has already calmed down many new immigrants.

When he came to Nyasaland, Su Xian's cognition was refreshed again, and the electric light was just the beginning.

Although the room is not big, it is clean and tidy. There are also electric lights in the room, but Su Xian has begun to feel numb now. It seems that in the Qing Dynasty, only high-ranking officials can enjoy electric lights, but in Nyasaland it is just common.

That’s right, electric lights were brought to the Qing by foreigners, so they are not uncommon in the land of foreigners, just like porcelain and tea in the Qing Dynasty, which are cheap in Qing, but when they reach the land of foreigners, they have to pay more than ten times. Doing business, but these situations are also known.

Liang Kuan opened the closet next to the door, and did not reach out rashly, but just stretched out his hand to indicate: "The bedding is in the closet, and every room is the same. The climate in Nyasaland is very different from that in Qing Dynasty. Part of it is summer, but the weather here is not too hot. As long as you don’t bask in the sun, you still need to prevent mosquitoes at night, but we don’t need wormwood. There are mosquito coils on the window sill. If you dare to approach, someone will deliver something later, please wait a moment, Mr. Su."

After Liang Kuan finished speaking, he bowed his hands, and went downstairs without waiting for Su Xian to return the gift. This time, Su Xian didn't stop Liang Kuan again. It could be seen that Liang Kuan, the "director", was also very busy.

When Su Xian and his wife returned upstairs after seeing Liang Kuan off, the concubine and the children still couldn't believe it.

"Father, shall we live here from now on?" It was Su Xian's eldest son Su Wei who spoke. Su Wei has just grown up this year and has been learning medicine from Su Xian since he was a child. It has been more than ten years now. A few years later, Su Wei also had the qualification to open a clinic, but now all this has come to naught.

Not necessarily, since the Nyasaland people paid such a price to bring Su Xian's family from the Qing Dynasty to Nyasaland, they definitely didn't want to use Su Xian's family as livestock. It's just that Su Xian is still not sure whether there are herbs in Nyasaland. If there is no herbal medicine, then Su Xian has nowhere to display his abilities.

According to what Liang Kuan said just now, the climate in Nyasaland is very different from that in Qing Dynasty, so even if Nyasaland has herbs, the medicine and Qing Dynasty must be different.

"Staying here for the time being, I don't know how they will arrange it yet. Be safe and don't be impatient. You will live in a room with your second and fourth children, and you will live in a room with your third and fifth children. Go and make up the bed. It will definitely be tonight. Live here." Since Su Xian came here, he is at peace, and at this point, he can only resign himself to fate.

Send the children to make up the beds, close the door, and only Su Xian and his wife are left in the room——

In this environment, the concubine was obviously uncomfortable, so she found an excuse to go to the kitchen to have a look, and Su Xian's wife finally spoke.

"Looking at these Nyasaland people, they don't seem to be vicious. I thought that Nyasaland people were all foreigners, and it seems that the rumors are not necessarily true." Su Xian's wife is also from a wealthy family, so her vision is naturally different.

"I heard that Baron Nyasaland is a Chinese. He made great contributions to foreigners a few years ago, so he was made a baron by the Queen of England—" Su Xian told Niasaland in the camp of Nyasaland Human Resources Company. Saran knew a lot about it, and the Qing Dynasty should also know this information, but Su Xian didn't know why, and the Qing Dynasty kept silent about Nyasaland.

"But foreigners invaded our Qing Dynasty a few years ago?" Su Xian's wife's face turned pale.

"No, it's helping foreigners fight foreigners—" Su Xian shook his head. If Baron Nyasaland helped foreigners fight the Qing Dynasty, Su Xian would rather die than come to Nyasaland.

If you work for a tiger and help a tyrant, you won't be able to enter the ancestral grave even after you die!

"That's really rare." Su Xian's wife let out a sigh of relief, and subconsciously felt a little more identification with Nyasaland.

"This Baron Nyasaland is still very rare. I heard that in the war of foreigners, he helped the British Empire to kill the commander-in-chief of the other side, and then kept the other side safe. Even among foreigners, he is outstanding." Su When Xian first heard about Baron Nyasaland, he couldn't believe it. It had been so many years. He had only seen foreigners bullying Qing people, but he had never heard of Qing people beating foreigners.

Su Xian's wife was about to speak when the doorbell suddenly rang downstairs.

Su Xian and his wife went downstairs together, and there was a neatly dressed white man at the door.

Su Xian and his wife's hearts suddenly lifted.

Opening the door, the white man is not very proficient in Chinese, and his stuttering is funny, but the words are not funny: "Mr. Su, this is your family's dinner tonight—"

It turned out to be food delivery——

Wait, delivering food, this is the job of serving people. Could it be that in Nyasaland, the Chinese can dominate the white people?

Su Xian really couldn't believe it, but the facts were in front of him, so what if he didn't believe it? !

(End of this chapter)