Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 397 Profitable

The trains currently used by Nyasaland are still powered by steam, and it may take some time before internal combustion engines are used.

The speed of the steam train is very slow. The 500 kilometers from Little Rock to Port Edward, the train ran for a whole day, and it was just early in the morning when it arrived in Port Edward.

Port Edward in the early morning is shrouded in a thin morning mist. The scale of the railway station is not large. There are only two platforms. The buildings are made of masonry or reinforced concrete. Port Edward has relatively high requirements for buildings. All The facades of the buildings had to be painted, so the whole train station looked beautiful and unique in this era.

The ground of the train station has been completely hardened, and the sanitation is very clean. These cleaners are all Africans. They are all hired workers and are not permanent residents of Port Edward. The train station will provide collective dormitories for African hired workers. Port Edward does not have the right to live in Port Edward, and of course it is impossible for them to bring their families to Port Edward. Rock's control over this aspect will not be relaxed. With the increase of Chinese in the future, Chinese will gradually replace these Africans. Rock will not even have the opportunity to work. None will be left to Africans.

The chief executive of Port Edward is Gao De’s younger brother, Gordon. This position was not appointed by the British government, but by the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Company. Port Edward is nominally the land that Rock leased from the Yao people. The British government No jurisdiction.

Therefore, Port Edward has a lot of freedom. Basically, Rock can do whatever he wants. Rock also intends to move the tractor factory and truck factory to Port Edward, which is more conducive to foreign sales.

"We got access to the sea almost at the same time. The foundation of Beira is better than that of Port Edward, but now the construction progress of Beira has been left behind by a large part of Port Edward. Sometimes I really doubt that the same Africans, why The gap is so big." After seeing the train station in front of him, Stoudemire was somewhat bleak.

Nyasaland and Rhodesia obtained the sea outlets at the same time. When Rock took over the Zambezi River Basin, Port Edward was still a wasteland. Then Rock spent more than a year to build Port Edward from scratch.

Although the current Port Edward covers a small area, it has shown good prospects. In the future, Rock will increase investment in Port Edward and make Port Edward an external business card of Nyasaland.

When Stoudemire took over Bella, Bella was already a port with a better foundation than Port Edward.

Therefore, Stoudemire did not completely transform Bella at the beginning, but tinkered on the original basis.

This seems to save money, but when Port Edward is completed, Bella will be dwarfed immediately. Stoudemire must be a little stimulated, so completely rebuilding Bella will waste more money.

It can only be said that he is still rich and self-willed.

"It's not just Africans who built Port Edward. Since October last year, at least half of the Chinese who immigrated to Nyasaland have stayed in the Zambezi River Basin. There are now more than [-] Chinese in Port Edward. Without them, there would be no The current Port Edward." Rock is not relying on Africans. In the process of building Port Edward, Africans can only undertake the heavy physical work, and Africans cannot do slightly more delicate work.

This is not an exaggeration. The work of Africans is really hard to describe. Take the simplest house building as an example. Africans can only move bricks. Even Africans are not competent for the work of building walls. There is also a high probability that people will build a wall crookedly. This has nothing to do with technology. It is completely caused by lack of responsibility.

In Port Edward, many Africans can only undertake jobs that do not have the slightest technical content, such as simple digging a ditch, cleaning, etc. Even so, Port Edward has to use a lot of supervisors, otherwise Africans will not even be able to do this. I can't do a good job.

Gordon has now summed up the experience of using Africans, such as cleaning. Gordon contracted sanitation to Christian's company as a business, and then Christian's company will arrange staff to clean the entire city. And to maintain it, Gordon will organize staff to inspect the sanitation work from time to time. If any unqualified, Gordon will directly deduct the money according to the contract.

As for how Christian's company guarantees urban sanitation, Gordon doesn't care about that. As long as the result is reached, even if Christian throws those sneaky Africans into the sea, it has nothing to do with Gordon. Those African employees are not Nyasaland People, Gordon didn't care whether they lived or died.

Walking out of the train station, there is a road leading directly to the pier in the square in front of the station. The road surface is made of asphalt, which is purchased directly from the Americas. When Port Edward was first built, there was no construction machinery, and the roadbed was made of stones used by Africans. Smash it out little by little, and then pave asphalt mixed with small stones. This kind of road standard is not much worse than that of the 21st century.

The commercial atmosphere of Port Edward is not strong. There are no shops on both sides of the station square and the road leading to the port. Large areas of reserved open space are now covered by green belts. Scattered residential areas are far away from the road, and most of them are temporary constructions. Only permanent residents of Port Edward are eligible for residential land.

Compared with when Rock and the others were in Cape Town, the price of houses is much lower now. It only costs 30 pounds to build a two-story wooden house with an attic in Port Edward. The cost is all for materials. Merchants who sell materials will build houses for customers free of charge. Unlike Europe in the 21st century, the cheapest thing in Port Edward now is labor.

As far as Gordon knows, in Christian's hands, there are many African hired laborers bought from the Yao people. The status of these hired workers is actually similar to that of slaves. Selling these workers is also the most important income of the Yao people.

Although Rock has never been to Port Edward, there is also Rock's official residence in Port Edward. The official residence is on a peninsula not far from the Port Edward Police Station. It is said that it used to be a military camp built by the Portuguese. Gordon came to Port Edward Afterwards, the general barracks was renovated and prepared to be used as an official residence by Rock.

Rock is traveling now, and there are hundreds of entourages, servants, security personnel and so on. The empty barracks soon became lively. Rock and Stoudemire slept on the train overnight, and now they are very energetic. Gordon went to the balcony to chat together.

"Zhazha is very arrogant now. He used to hope to restore the kingdom of Mweni Matapa, but now he doesn't mention it. He became the emperor in Marupa. It is said that Zhazha now has more than 100 wives and children. Sixty or seventy, and I don’t know how many there will be in the future.” Gordon mentioned the slag with disdain and envy, this is the rhythm of a person creating a nation.

Of course, what Gordon admires is definitely not the wives who are scumbags. Gordon's aesthetics of scumbags is really unacceptable.

Rock doesn't know how to describe the behavior of the slag. The current Yao people still live the same primitive tribal life as together, without any change, so that the Yao people are actually independent now, but in the Transvaal When referring to the territory of the Yao people, it is still referred to as Portuguese East Africa, because the territory of the Yao people is not a country at all.

It is estimated that Zha Zha doesn't know how to build a country. Maybe in Zha Zha's understanding, a country is similar to an enlarged version of a tribe.

"Hehe, Africans—" Stoudemire laughed, feeling superior.

Rock also hehe, it's not a problem if the slag continues like this, Rock still finds a way to help.

It's not to help Zhaza establish a sound country, but to help Zhaza have stronger strength, so that we can better serve Roque. After all, Zhaza and his Yao people are still very important in Rock's plan , Roque needs a loyal subordinate to help Roque deal with the Africans after the establishment of the South African Union.

"Send a telegram to Zha Zha later, asking him to come over, I think this guy is itchy—" Rock was very dissatisfied with Zha Zha's reluctance to make progress.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to make progress, Rock is the whip that promotes progress.

"Be careful of raising tigers. You've heard the story of the farmer and the snake." Xiaosi reminded Rock.

Rock still thought about it carefully before he remembered that the story of the farmer and the snake came from "Aesop's Fables". This story is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

"It doesn't matter, no matter how powerful the Yao people are, they can't get out of my palm." Luo Ke controls the lifeblood of the Yao people. gram work.

Stoudemire probably didn't understand why the Yao tribe would dig out Rock's palm——

In other words, why can the Yao people stand in the palm of Rock's hand——

So I was dumbfounded.

Gordon understood what Roque meant, and raised his hand to ask someone to send a telegram, and continued to report to Roque on the situation in Madagascar.

Austin Burns—not Austin Burns now, but Robert, Robert Polly—

After Robert Polley went to Madagascar, Port Edward was responsible for providing logistical support for Robert Polley and the others.

Robert Polley and the others are progressing very well. They formed a mercenary force of about 1500 in Madagascar and fought several battles with the locals in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. Head to the high ground.

This matter is not without profit for Roque. The ore mined by the former Mr. President’s mine will be handed over to Nyasaland Agricultural Company for processing and sales. The profit is still very large. Roque and The mining company jointly invested by Stoudemire and Henry is preparing to set up an ore refinery in Madagascar, which will process the ore and then sell it to the outside world to obtain higher profits.

(End of this chapter)