Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 379 Treacherous

Everyone in the 21st century knows the importance of hype, but few people understood this truth in 1903.

In other words, in 1903, some people realized the importance of hype, but they didn't know how to hype.

Heinrich realized it and had some ideas, but it was not perfect enough.

But it doesn't matter, Rock will supplement the imperfect part of Heinrich's plan, and the rest depends on Heinrich's performance.

"Then let's start, set up factories, buy equipment, and encourage farms to grow potatoes. It's best to sign a purchase agreement with the farmers first. Don't make too much at first, and gradually increase production." Rock is not worried at all about not being able to sell, I don't worry about losing money, even if I lose money, Roque doesn't care.

This is why the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Heinrich wanted to use potatoes to make wine. Several families barely started with some money, and were incorporated just after the start, so there was no chance of becoming bigger and stronger.

A rich man like Rock can rely on his abundant capital to keep trying and making mistakes. Even if he loses money, it doesn't matter. Investment is like a factory. As long as one of them makes money, it doesn't matter if the other nine investments are spent.

Those like Heinrich are not bad. There are more poor people who have earned some money through hard work, and dare not invest it at all, because if they fail, it means that the little savings they have will be lost. Well, not everyone has the guts to do the same. Xiang Yu really has the strength to do it. Ordinary people will do it again.

Oh, it seems wrong, the pot is already broken, so I can only pawn off my underpants.

"No problem." Buck smiled brightly. This time the business opportunity was found not by Rock's "golden finger", but by Buck himself.

Of course, Roque did not treat Buck badly. He gave Heinrich and Barda only 5.00% of their shares, and Roque directly gave [-]% to Buck.

In mid-October, good news finally came from the Nyasaran Arsenal. The high-manganese steel sent by the Fawalt Iron and Steel Plant to the Nyasala Arsenal fully met Rock's requirements and could be used as weapon steel.

Rock was very satisfied with this, and instructed Nyasaland Arsenal to quickly imitate Miss Seventy-Five.

A few days later, the arsenal sent Roque the newly developed general-purpose machine gun, which was another piece of good news.

The heavy machine gun used by the Rhodesian Northern Division and the new First Cavalry Division is the Maxim, and the light machine gun is an improved Madsen produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

These two machine guns are actually good, and both have the potential to develop into general-purpose machine guns.

The Madsen in another time and space did not carry out a similar modification because of the bomb supply method, but Maxim was modified. During the First World War, the Germans replaced Maxim's tripod with a bipod to reduce the After the weight, it can be used as a light machine gun.

This transformation was actually not successful. The tripod was replaced by a bipod. It seems that the weight has indeed been reduced, but the cooling method of the Maxim machine gun will still be limited. It is easy to use if there is water, but if there is no water, then the Mark Qin is not even as good as a fire stick.

The biggest improvement that Nyasaran Armory has made to the general-purpose machine gun this time is the cooling method.

Although at present, the effect of air cooling is indeed not as good as that of water cooling, but Nyasaland Arsenal creatively used barrel cooling fins on the barrel of the machine gun to solve this problem to the greatest extent.

In fact, even with the barrel heat sink, the cooling effect is still not as good as the water-cooled Maxim.

However, considering the intensity of firepower of the Rhodesian Northern Division and the newly formed First Cavalry Division, and the advantages of air-cooled machine guns over water-cooled machine guns, the continuous shooting capability of machine guns is really not that important, so the new general-purpose machine guns Both use air-cooled heat dissipation, and the diameter is all unified at 7.7 mm.

Doing so seems to reduce the power of the heavy machine gun.

In fact, it has not decreased much. The general caliber of the Maxim heavy machine gun is 11.43 mm, and the effective range is 800 to 1000 meters. If it is straddled, the bullet is still lethal at 5000 meters. This killing distance is actually seriously excessive. Let alone 5000 meters, if you don’t install a scope and only rely on tracer bullets to correct the trajectory, the distance exceeds 500 meters, which is basically blind. If the distance exceeds 800 meters, God knows where the bullet can fly.

Under normal circumstances, even heavy machine guns can shoot within 500 meters, so 7.7mm bullets are enough for general-purpose machine guns. If the enemy is farther away, Rhodesian Northern Division and the newly created [-]st Cavalry Division There are also Bang Pao and Miss Seventy-Five.

It is worth mentioning that Nyasaland Arsenal is also improving the "Bang Bang Cannon".

This improvement is mainly based on the progress of shells. The engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal have developed a 40mm grenade. This grenade does not rely on shrapnel to create damage, but relies on the steel balls in the grenade to create damage. The 37mm grenade When it explodes, it can only produce up to 200 fragments, and when the 40mm grenade explodes, it can produce up to 400 fragments plus steel balls.

The comparison is obvious, the power of the 40mm grenade is much greater than that of the 37mm grenade.

And the more critical issue is that the bang bang gun currently used by the 37th Rhodesian Northern Division is an enlarged version of the Maxim heavy machine gun, so even the water tank of the Maxim heavy machine gun was also copied.

This design is redundant, the rate of fire of the bang cannon is much slower than that of the Maxim heavy machine gun, so there is no need to install a water tank for cooling, so although the redesigned bang cannon has a higher caliber than the previous bang cannon, but The weight has been reduced by 25 kg.

This is a gratifying progress, also because Rock did not play a role in improving the bang gun, which was independently improved by the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal.

"Awards, heavy rewards, all the personnel involved in the improvement will be rewarded with a hundred pounds each, and the main personnel will be doubled." Rock was never stingy at this time, it was only a few thousand pounds, but it brought a huge increase in the combat effectiveness of the troops. As well as reducing the logistical burden, the latter point is particularly important.

Speaking of logistics, Rock couldn't help but want to call Rudolf Diesel. The monster tractor has been finalized and started to supply Nyasaland Agricultural Company. Rudolf Diesel only needs to do some work on the basis of the monster Improvements can be made to convert monsters into trucks. Now the conditions are quite sufficient, and many things do not need to be developed from scratch. After all, the engine, chassis, tires, etc. are all ready-made, and it is only necessary to combine these things.

"Then next, shall we replace the equipment for the Northern Division of Rhodesia?" Stoudemire's eyes were a little distracted, and he probably saw a lot of pounds growing wings and about to fly away.

"Of course it needs to be replaced, not only the northern division of Rhodesia, but also the equipment of the new First Cavalry Division." Rock is bold.

"The equipment of the new [-]st Cavalry Division is not all in place yet. You are going to replace it right now. What a lunatic. Where did you get the money?" In Stoudemire's view, many of Rock's actions are prodigal.

"It doesn't matter. If you run out of money, you can go to the Rand Bank to borrow it. What's more, the equipment that we eliminated can be sent back to the arsenal for repairs and can be sold again. If you can't accompany the money." Rock's calculations are very smart. The equipment is not a loss for Stoudemire and Rock, and Stoudemire also has shares in Nyasaland Arsenal.

Otherwise, Stoudemire would not have worked so hard for the Rhodesia Northern Division.

As for finding a loan from the Rand Bank, the meat is still in the pot. Rock needs to be prepared now, or someone will jump out to pick peaches at some point.

After all, the new First Cavalry Division is not Rock's private soldier. Although Rock is now appointed as the commander of the new First Cavalry Division, God knows when Ade's mind is not normal, and a new division commander will be sent. Then Rock would be dumbfounded.

In order to prevent this from happening, Rock has to find a way to turn the new First Cavalry Division into a hot potato. Except for Rock, no matter who sits as the commander of the new First Cavalry Division, he can't do it. , so that the teacher, Rock, can be as stable as Mount Tai.

What a simple fact, the fact that Rock is in such a hurry to replace the equipment now is to make the new First Cavalry Division bear a huge debt, because the creditor is the Rand Bank, so it doesn't matter how much Rock is in the position of division commander, if the division commander If it is changed, the Rand Bank will have to collect debts.

As I said before, Rock only raised 2 pounds for military expenses, which are actually only enough to maintain the size of the new First Cavalry Division. The new First Cavalry Division needs to build camps and purchase equipment from The Rand Bank loan, so now the new First Cavalry Division has a debt of 15000 pounds. After the equipment is replaced this time, the debt is estimated to increase to more than 25000 pounds. This figure will discourage many people.

"I have to say, you are really a profiteer. Why didn't I find out before that the queen was really blind to make you a baron." Stoudemire shook his head and sighed. In terms of treachery, Stoudemire can't catch up with Rock.

"First of all, the baron was given to me by the current king, and the queen only made me a baron; secondly, as a citizen of the British Empire, I don't think you should slander the queen." Rock didn't worry about who was more treacherous, and it was meaningless to win .

"Hehe—" Stoudemire sneered, looking at Rock with contempt.

Rock didn't care, he lit a cigar and looked at the balcony outside the window.

Not far from the window is the residence of the New First Division.

The location of the new First Division was chosen by Rock. Of course, Rock placed the station between Bigwig Town and Johannesburg. Now that the road from Bigwig Town to Johannesburg has been completed, the workers who just completed the road just entered the site The construction of the resident of the new First Division began.

Rock's requirements for the resident are still very strict. All the buildings in the resident are permanent buildings, and a large amount of reinforced concrete is used, which will not break down for 100 years.

(End of this chapter)