Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 394 Efficiency (1700 Monthly Pass Plus Update)

The reason for the inability to start was not that there was a malfunction of the truck, but that the truck driver accidentally injured his jaw when starting the engine and needed to be sent to the hospital for treatment.

When the engine of a car is started, the crankshaft needs to reach a certain speed in order to start the engine smoothly.

The engine of this period has a rotatable interface on the outside. When starting, the driver needs to use the external crank to shake the crankshaft to make it reach the running speed.

Therefore, the drivers in this period were physical labor. This was not because women were actually women, but because women were too weak to start the engine at all. Even if they were men, it usually took two people to cooperate to start the engine smoothly.

Rock hadn't driven a car yet, so he didn't know that the starting method of the car was so primitive, so Rock immediately arranged a task for Rudolf Diesel to change the starting method of the engine and replace manpower with electricity. The motor drives the engine to start.

In this way, the driver only needs to sit in the cab and twist the key, and the engine will start smoothly.

"I'm afraid it will be very difficult. The current motor is too large and it is difficult to apply it to the engine." Rudolf Diesel was very embarrassed. He studied the diesel engine, not the electric motor. Now it is very complicated to study the whole vehicle. There is really no ability to go to a new field and start from scratch.

"I didn't say to ask you to study it by yourself. If you don't know it, you can go to someone who will." Rock was not worried that no one would, and if it didn't work, Rock sent someone to find Nikola Tesla. A master at playing electricity.

Adding an electric motor to a car will definitely increase the cost of the car. In the eyes of many people, it may not be necessary, but Rock knows the value of electric motors, so even if it will increase the cost, Rock has to pile it up, not just for truck drivers, But for the technology in this area, and the concept of never being satisfied.

Those who can afford a car don't care about the cost of the car.

"My lord, we don't need to study everything by ourselves." Rudolf Diesel had a different opinion. Perhaps in Rudolf Diesel's view, Nyasaland could do it mechanically to the current level. It is almost the ultimate, and it is impossible to ask for more.

"Rudolph, only do what you should do." Rock didn't want to explain these things to Rudolf Diesel, and it was difficult to explain these things clearly to him, a technical fanatic, just like the Chinese in Nyasaland, Rock never Don't tell them why they have to queue up for dinner. Queuing has nothing to do with morality or quality. Rock is using mandatory regulations to gradually regulate the behavior of Chinese people.

This is not a generalization. For the grown-up Chinese, Rock is really too lazy to explain. For those Chinese who are receiving education in school, Rock is still very patient.

Of course, Roque will not overemphasize the role of morality and quality. The school in Nyasaland is not aimed at cultivating polite and polite gentlemen. Moralists are at a disadvantage these days. Roque hopes that the next generation of Chinese will have a strong pioneering spirit , so that Nyasaland can be competitive internationally.

Looking back, Rock went to the shipyard on the shore of Lake Niassa.

While shipyards are now producing police boats, they are also starting to copy freighters.

Last month, the shipyard tried to produce a 3000-ton inland waterway freighter. When Rock came to the shipyard, the shipyard was imitating a 5000-ton ocean-going freighter.

"Our current demand for cargo ships is not too large, and the existing immigration ships are sufficient. We are trying to use diesel engines on ocean-going ships. If we can succeed, then we can accept orders from foreign countries. In fact, the Germans have already cooperated with We contacted and hoped to buy a marine police boat with marine police equipment, but we did not agree, if the marine police boat is sold to the Germans, it may have an impact on our interests in the North Sea." Duncan's expression is extremely proud, if you want, Shipyards can now earn foreign currency.

Well, in fact, foreign exchange has no allure for Nyasaland at all. The currency with the strongest purchasing power in the world is the British pound. Compared with the British pound, the Deutsche Mark is lower in terms of purchasing power and stability. Orders are basically uninteresting.

"It's right not to sell. We are not short of money now. The shipyard must first meet our own needs." Rock also disagreed with the sale of police boats. Beihai is now owned by Nyasaland and Tanganyika. However, the Germans purchased marine police boats and could only use them in Tanganyika, so Rock would not make trouble for himself.

Although it seems that the fishery resources in the North Sea are still rich, and Nyasaland fishermen are not guilty of cross-border fishing, but no one can say what will happen in the future. With the increase in the population of Nyasaland, the scale of the North Sea fishery will definitely increase. Da and Xiaosi set up a canning factory on the North Sea, specializing in the production of canned fish for sale. If Rock sold the water police boat to the Germans, I am afraid that Xiaosi would not agree.

In the North Sea, the Germans now have only one patrol boat of less than 100 tons, equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns, which is not enough in front of a 300-ton marine police ship. To put it bluntly, it is to deal with the Germans, and selling the ship to the Germans is tantamount to capitalizing on the enemy.

Now Germany is not the enemy of Nyasaland, even in the Congo Free State - Belgian Congo, Nyasaland and Tanganyika are still cooperating, the future is hard to say, others don't know, Rock is very worried Clearly, there are only about ten years left until the outbreak of World War I.

"Our research on marine police ships has basically stopped. At present, there are basically no rivals for marine police ships of this level in Africa, so the shipyard will put all its resources on ocean-going freighters. I hope our Ocean-going freighters can be sold to Europe, and only then will we be able to take a breather." Duncan's pressure is also very great, and Rock is like a tyrant, waving his whip and urging Duncan and other officials to keep their feet on the ground. .

Of course, the effect is obvious. The development of Nyasaland is obvious to all. It has only been less than two years. If Nyasaland is given 20 years, what kind of development can Nyasaland become?

Rock is looking forward to it.

"Our immigration has now reached a bottleneck period. Recently, the Qing Dynasty has increased its control over immigration. Fewer and fewer immigrants can successfully arrive in Nyasaland. Most of the immigration boats that arrived in Nyasaland last month If there is no full capacity, there may be fewer and fewer immigrants in the future, and we have to find other ways to obtain more human resources.” Duncan is the person in charge of the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, and he is facing many difficulties now .

A population of 30 sounds like a lot, but it is still very inconspicuous spread across the entire territory of Nyasaland. After obtaining the Zambezi River Basin and the North Sea coast, the area of ​​Nyasaland has exceeded 40 square kilometers. Kilometers can't even get along with one person, and there is still a long way to go from Rock's request.

In Rock's vision, Nyasaland must have at least 2000 million people to ensure the future development of Nyasaland.

The 2000 million people here must be a long-term plan. Before the First World War, according to Roque's vision, at least 500 million people had to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty. Compared with the 4.5 million people in the Qing Dynasty, this requirement is actually not enough. considered high.

In fact, it is not a lot. Compared with 4.5 million, 450 million is one percent. No country will just watch so many people lose.

But what Rock didn't expect was that the total population of Nyasaland was just 30, and the Qing Dynasty had already noticed this problem.

The response of the Qing Dynasty was much faster than Rock had imagined.

"Think of a way, let Liang Dingxin think of a way, and cooperate with the smugglers and pirates in East Asia. In any case, within the next two years, the population of Nyasaland must reach at least 100 million people, otherwise neither industry nor agriculture can be done. Get up." Rock also has no choice, whether it is to develop industry or agriculture, a huge population is needed, just look at the current Rhodesia to know the importance of population.

Stoudemire proposed to Roque before that he hoped that Roque could let some Chinese go to Rhodesia.

Of course, Rock would not refuse such a request, so although Nyasaland's own human resources were not enough, Rock still sent more than 5000 people to Rhodesia, and most of these people were concentrated in Rhodesia. In the Luangwa River Basin, they have built five large-scale colonial settlements near the Luangwa River Basin. Nearly 50 acres of land have been reclaimed, and nearly [-] acres of mountains and grasslands have been transformed into pastures suitable for grazing.

This efficiency is far superior to that of the whites and Africans in Rhodesia. Compared with the Chinese, the farming techniques of the whites and Africans are really not good. When Stoudemire was developing Rhodesia, the swamp in the territory And mountains and hills are generally abandoned, and only those lands suitable for pastures are developed.

The Chinese are not so picky. Whether it is mountains, hills or swamps, they can basically be developed into good fields in the hands of the Chinese. This is not obvious enough now, because there are too many lands suitable for reclamation, and the Chinese do not need to gnaw on those hard bones. , When the land suitable for development is exhausted, the Chinese will move to mountains, hills and swamps, just like the current situation around Little Rock.

When Rock first acquired Nyasaland, there was basically no trace of development in Little Rock, only a few primitive tribes composed of African aborigines were living a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming near Little Rock.

When the agricultural company first developed Little Rock, it also focused on the easy-to-reclaim land first. After the easy-to-reclaim land was exhausted, the agricultural company began to organize its personnel to march into the mountains and hills.

It has only been two years now, and the surroundings of Little Rock City are all fertile fields, and those mountains and hills that were originally considered unsuitable for development are now vast plains as far as the eye can see.

This kind of efficiency, whites and Africans don't even have to think about it.

　I didn’t notice that I owed 13 chapters. I guess it’s not finished this month, and I’ll pay it back next month. Don’t worry, I won’t renege on my debts.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)