Free trade means more choices. It is also a bullet production line. Even if the Royal Small Arms Manufacturing Factory does not sell it to Rock, Rock will not sit back and die. If the Royal Small Arms Manufacturing Factory does not work, Rock can still go to Belgium's Hercules.
Starr National Arsenal, Springfield in the United States, or even Krupp in Germany. However, if Rock did this, London would definitely be unhappy, so Rock went to the Royal Small Arms Factory first.
Fortunately, Britain at this time was not conservative.
In addition to weapons production lines and hydroelectric power generation equipment, Rock is also frantically collecting talents from all over the world. Rock will definitely not be able to recruit the top talents of this era, but no matter in any era, there are people with unappreciated talents. When Rock opens
There are still people who are willing to come and work in Johannesburg and Nyasaland even if they are offered high salaries.
It's just a job, and it doesn't require them to settle down. Wouldn't it be better to work in Johannesburg or Nyasaland for three to five years, bring out a group of apprentices, and then return to Europe with a generous salary to enjoy life?
Not everyone is as precious about their brooms as the old craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why the old craftsmen are so precious about their brooms is because they are afraid that the apprentices will starve to death. Those who have skills and strength but do not get corresponding rewards will be afraid of this?
Don’t be ridiculous, South Africa, the United States, and Europe are thousands of miles apart. Will South Africa’s technological advancements affect companies in the United States and Europe?
Even if it does, those who earn high salaries to teach apprentices will not care. For example, Dr. Kay Mallory of Ziwei Hospital. She is not worried about teaching apprentices to starve to death. She only hopes to teach more students as soon as possible and relieve her pain.
If the work tasks continue like this, Dr. Kay Mallory feels that he is about to be exhausted to death.
It's really tiring. There are too many pregnant women in Ziwei Hospital, not only the Boers in Scarlett Farm, but also the policemen and farm owners' families who got married in recent months. The beds in Ziwei Hospital are now full, and even the wards are full.
The corridors were filled with hospital beds, and Colin Bellamy had to occupy a large lawn and build new wards to meet the needs of patients.
"We must split Ziwei Hospital and build a new hospital specifically to provide medical services for women and children. There are too many patients now, or we must use the current hospital exclusively for women and children.
To provide services to children, we will build a new hospital to provide treatment for other people." Colin Bellamy approached Rock to apply for a new hospital, and by the way, he hoped that Rock could hire more doctors.
No need for nurses. There are enough nurses in Ziwei Hospital. Although many nurses are now pregnant women, the training speed of nurses is very fast. According to the current nursing standards, training a qualified nurse is no more difficult than training a qualified waiter.
How many.
"Then build it. The current Ziwei Hospital can be called Ziwei Women's and Children's Hospital." Luo Ke really didn't expect that people in this era have such a high demand for medical care.
In fact, it is normal. Although there are not many people in Johannesburg, there are not enough hospitals. There are only a few sporadic private hospitals in Johannesburg. Each private hospital only has three or five beds. Even if it is fully guaranteed, how many patients can it be admitted?
After the war, the population will soon enter a period of explosion, which is expected to last for about ten years. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a maternal and child hospital, and even one maternal and child hospital may not be enough.
Let's set up one first. It's easy to build a hospital. Just build a house non-stop. But it's hard to find a doctor. Douglas hired more than a dozen doctors from Europe during this period. There are no female doctors. Abu's students are very high-level, but only
Limited to the theoretical level, the actual operation is not even as good as the nurses at Ziwei Hospital, so you still have to train yourself.
"How is the situation in the hospital? How many intern doctors can enter the clinic?" Rock still cares about people. Don't worry about money, never worry. In addition to gold mines, Rock can also apply for government support.
The funding promised by Joseph Chamberlain to Ziwei School has been received. The total amount is 20,000 pounds, which may not sound like much, but it is enough to build two more Ziwei Schools.
It is impossible to build a new school. Roque does not plan to expand Ziwei Public School, so just keep it at its current scale. In a few years, when the current newborns have reached the enrollment period, it will not be too late to expand the school.
Roque plans to use the 20,000 pounds to improve the soft power of Ziwei Public School, on the one hand to improve the infrastructure, and on the other hand to hire higher-level teachers from Europe to prepare for the universalization of compulsory education in Nyasaland.
Yes, Roque planned to make education compulsory in Nyasaland in 1902.
It sounds a bit ridiculous, right? In fact, it is not. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, Japan began to implement free compulsory education with the indemnity received from the Qing Dynasty. By 1907, the enrollment rate of school-age children in Japan had increased to 97.3%.
So, when should Nyasaland start universal compulsory education?
The sooner the better, and what Rock wants is not the four-year compulsory education in Japan. What Rock really wants is the nine-year compulsory education. However, considering the current education level in Nyasaland, it is difficult to achieve this.
This was very difficult, so Rock referred to the British education system and implemented a six-year compulsory education in Nyasaland.
Compared with the level of science and technology at this time, six years is almost enough. If students start to enter school at the age of six and receive six-year compulsory education, then after six years, the age of 12 years old will be almost enough in the Qing Dynasty.
After getting married, it is normal to start working in a factory at the age of 12 in the UK. There is no such thing as adulthood at 18 these days, and children from poor families are not qualified to wait until 18 to become adults.
Life will force people to grow up quickly.
"We now have more than 40 intern doctors, and they have all entered clinical practice as assistants to the attending doctor. Some of them have made rapid progress and are already qualified to perform surgeries on their own." Colin Bellamy looked pleased when he mentioned this.
If many Chinese nurses had not started to take maternity leave, the number of intern doctors would be even greater. Training doctors these days is not as complicated as it would be in later generations. There is no need for consultation, diagnosis, and experience. A broken arm can be reattached. Pregnant women are here.
As long as you can deliver babies, as for high blood pressure and cancer, I'm sorry, these diseases do exist, but the pathology has not been understood yet, and there is no treatment method, let alone symptomatic drugs. These diseases are so-called "terminal diseases". If you get the disease, you can only return home.
Home is waiting for death.
The sphygmomanometer used by doctors was invented by Italian scientist Scipione Rivarocchi in 1896. Due to the speed of knowledge dissemination at this time, there was not even a sphygmomanometer in the entire South Africa, so this is really not an exaggeration.
"Continue to hire high-level doctors, and at the same time increase the training of intern doctors. Don't worry about the money that should be spent. All the money earned by the hospital must be spent." Luo Ke does not expect the hospital to make money, which is why Ziwei Hospital develops so fast.
The reason is that it would be impossible for other hospitals to make such an investment regardless of the cost.
Ziwei Hospital is really profitable. Originally, the charging standard of Ziwei Hospital was relatively high. Now that the city government is supporting it, it is even more merciless in collecting the money. Therefore, in the past two months, the money earned by Ziwei Hospital will not be used to build the hospital again.
One Ziwei hospital is enough.
After Joseph Chamberlain inspected Ziwei Hospital, he handed over all the production costs of the Boer women in Scarlett Farm to the Johannesburg City Government. In other words, when the Boer women in Scarlett Farm gave birth to children, the City of Johannesburg
The government has to reimburse all expenses, which is considered as the Johannesburg city government paying off the debt of the expeditionary force.
Joseph Chamberlain did not make things difficult for Philip. Now that the city government's financial resources were insufficient and could not afford this part of the cost, Joseph Chamberlain created a new relief appropriation project specifically to pay for this part of the cost.
After all, the British government is footing the bill.
Specifically, when it comes to Ziwei Hospital, it is very satisfying to collect money. The bed fee in Ziwei Hospital is about one pound per day. Even if a patient does not incur other expenses, it costs 30 pounds to stay in the hospital for a month. Ziwei Hospital
Now there are nearly 200 hospital beds, but the supply still exceeds demand. You can imagine how high the hospital's monthly income is.
Rock didn't take any of this part of the income. In addition to using it to ensure the normal operation of the hospital, Rock invested all the excess in Abu's laboratory, so Abu has been very happy recently, doing experiments like crazy while
Wrote letters to colleagues and students in Europe, trying to attract more people to Johannesburg.
For every person called, Roark will give Abu a hundred pounds bonus. During this period, Abu has already taken more than a thousand pounds from Roark, so Abu is not worried that others will rob Abu.
jobs, being a "human trafficker" can make more money than being a professor.
In early May, weapons production lines and hydroelectric generators were transported to Nyasaland via the Shire River at the same time.
When Rock returned to Nyasaland, the small stone town by Lake Nyasa had turned into a busy construction site.
Why is it called Xiaoshi Town?
Because Rock's English name is "Lock", so
Roque will cancel the names of all current towns in Nyasaland and name them all after new cities, completely erasing the traces of Zulu and European colonists, so that the Chinese can thrive in Nyasaland with peace of mind.
Well, including the name Nyasaland, Rock will also change it when the time is right.
Little Rock Town used to be a wasteland with no human habitation. Rock hired Christian Exploration Company to survey the terrain around Nyasaland, and finally decided to build a port in Little Rock Town to facilitate the acceptance of cargo sent to Nyasaland through the Shire River.
supplies, and new immigrants.
Compared with before, it is too easy to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty. Last month alone, 13,000 people arrived in Nyasaland. Not all of these 13,000 people were adult men. More than half were children and women. Almost all of them were
The whole family immigrated to Nyasaland, and even three villages were relocated collectively. Duncan, who had studied shipbuilding in England, was appointed by Rock as the mayor of Little Rock Town. Iron Hook was sent by Rock to serve as the chief of police. From the beginning, Little Rock Town
It has entered a period of rapid development.
Rock asked Henry to transport all the newly produced cement to Nyasaland half a month ago. Nyasaland has now stored 10,000 tons of cement, which has strongly supported the construction of Little Rock Town and the port.
The ones who built the houses in Little Rock Town were the construction workers under Christian. These construction workers are now half-Chinese and half-Zulu. After the Chinese are familiar with the steps of building houses, Rock will withdraw all the Zulu people and form a full-scale team of Zulu people.
A construction company composed of Chinese people.
In just one month, the port will definitely not be fully completed. Now the port has only one berth, which can accommodate ships of less than 5,000 tons. When Rock came to Xiaoshi Town, a South African company's ship was unloading at the berth.
"Locke, do you know how much I spent on purchasing food this month?" Xiao Si looked resentful. Now he finally understood why Rock agreed so happily.
Rock looked at the buckets of milk and wheat being sent to the shore via pulleys, feeling no guilt in his heart: "Cecil, there is no need to buy milk and beef, just those who have a stutter will be fine."
"Beef! You still want beef? There will be no wheat next month." Xiaosi accidentally fell into Rock's trick, and now he is filled with regret.
"You said, two years." Rock doesn't feel sorry for Stoudemire. There is no inheritance tax in the UK these days. Stoudemire inherited all the property of Cecil Rhodes, so Stoudemire is much richer than Rock.
Roque's net worth is nothing compared to the great nobles in Britain.
"I want to regret it. You can't catch me alone." Stoudemire is a miser at heart. No wonder in the original history, after the death of Cecil Rhodes, the South African company failed to recover.
In 1888, Cecil Rhodes could earn a net profit of 5 million pounds per year through the "De Beers Consolidated Mining Company" and the "South African Consolidated Gold Mining Company", and his current profits will only be higher.
What is the concept of 5 million pounds? Before the Boer War, the Transvaal Republic could not earn that much in a year.
After the war, the British government's compensation to the Boers was only 3 million pounds.
In 1890, the share capital of Barings Bank in London was only 2.9 million pounds.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Cecil Rhodes was the richest man in the world during this period.
So how much is the food provided to Nyasaland worth?
Compared with what Stoudemire can harvest from Nyasaland in the future, it is simply insignificant.
"Are you sure?" Rock confirmed that if Stoudemire really regretted it, Rock would not force him.
Xiaosi immediately became confused.
"Hahahaha, let's go take a look at the production line and the hydraulic generator." Rock didn't continue on this topic, because discussing this issue too much would hurt feelings.
Xiao Si's face was still reluctant, but he followed Rock honestly.
In a camp next to Xiaoshi Port, machines that had just been delivered were piled up like mountains. Outside the camp, there were heavily armed militiamen guarding the camp with guns.
Yes, it is the militia. It is a local force in Nyasaland. It has not yet been recognized by the British government, so it can only be a militia.
In terms of combat effectiveness, the militia formed with gold mine security guards and police as its backbone is definitely more powerful than the militia during the Transvaal Republic.
In fact, the difference between the militia and the army is just a title. Only with the army in hand can Rock have the confidence to fight against anyone...
