154 Cultural Invasion (300 monthly tickets for additional updates)
If someone else wants to produce diesel engines, knowing that there is a company willing to provide a production line, I am afraid they will be too busy to pay for it.
After all, Roque has Rudolf Diesel here. Rudolf Diesel knows everything about diesel engines, so the German Augsburg Machinery Manufacturing Factory has no money to cheat Roque.
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What's more, the diesel engine at this time is still in its infancy, and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Not to mention that the Augsburg Machinery Manufacturing Factory in Germany does not have a mature production line. Even if it does, it will not be of much use, so the most critical thing is
They were engineers and skilled workers. There were quite a few talents in this field at the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Factory in Germany, so Rock hired a few of them.
The reason why he didn't hire too many people was because Rock still had to train talents himself, and Rudolf Diesel also had to take care of students in Nyasaland. In order for Rudolf Diesel to do his best, Rock promised to wait for the engine.
After the factory is put into operation, Rudolf Diesel will be given a share of the tractor factory, so Rock does not have to worry about Rudolf Diesel cheating. In order for the engine factory to be put into production as soon as possible, Rudolf Diesel is eager for his students.
Complete your studies as soon as possible.
In the same way, while the technical talents Rock hired from the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Factory in Germany were working in Nyasaland, they were also cultivating talents for Nyasaland.
Of course, these people do not need to be given shares, just a higher salary. Their average salary at the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Factory in Germany is less than one hundred pounds per year, which is not even up to the British average. Rock gives
Each of them was offered an annual salary of at least 200 pounds, which was at least twice as much as their income at the Augsburg Machine Manufacturing Factory in Germany. They also had additional income from being apprentices, so the engineers and technicians were very satisfied. Several
Young people directly stated that they wanted to settle in Nyasaland. Those who did not want to settle in Nyasaland could earn a few years of money in Nyasaland and return to Germany to live a good life.
To put it bluntly, money is the most attractive thing in people's hearts. Who can't live with money?
With the diesel engine, the development of Nyasaland has entered a high-speed track.
Diesel engines can be used not only on tractors, but also on cars and fishing boats. If the diesel engine is made large enough, the diesel engine can also be used on ships. It can be said that the diesel engine is the heart of industry, which solves this problem.
Problems, many industrial problems can be easily solved, and the industries derived from it are more than enough to feed a Nyasaland, plus a Rhodesia.
What Rock has to do is to provide supporting facilities and create good conditions for industrial development. The rest, Rock will wait for time to ferment.
At the end of November, the steel plant located in the Barony of Fawalt finally went into production. This was also a first in Africa. Not only Roque and Henry, but also Ade and Philippe Matilda also attended the commissioning ceremony of the steel plant.
The steel plant is located on the banks of the Limpopo River and is connected to the railway from Pretoria to Salisbury. Whether it is waterway or land, transportation is very convenient.
The annual output of the completed steel plant is 100,000 tons, which seems relatively small, right? But don’t forget that this was 1902. In this year, the United States, which had the highest steel production in the world, had just exceeded 10 million tons. British steel production
The output is just over 5 million tons. The annual output of 100,000 tons has already surpassed Japan and is similar to Italy, so this annual output is already very high.
Ade and Philip Matilda visited the office area and rest area of the steel plant. Forget about the work area, the working environment in the steel plant is also very bad these days. Many Zulus are used in the steel plant, so for Ade
Don’t visit Philip Matilda’s mental health, workspace, and mines near the steel plant. If you look everywhere and waste time, I’m afraid Ade and Philip Matilda won’t even be able to eat.
Can't eat it.
In fact, there is already a lot to see in just the office area and rest area.
Thanks to the immigration of Chinese, the office buildings of the steel plant are all made of brick and tile structures. Compared with traditional stone buildings and wooden structures, brick and tile production is simpler, raw materials are more convenient to obtain, and the price is cheaper.
, so many new buildings in Nyasaland and Johannesburg now use brick structures.
The promotion of brick and tile structure construction has also objectively improved the social status of the Chinese. Compared with building a wooden structure like building blocks, building a house with bricks and tiles is a technical job. This technology is only capable of by the Chinese for the time being, so now construction sites
As the number of Chinese in Shanghai increases, the Zulus can only engage in some simple manual labor. As long as the work has something to do with technology, it is basically monopolized by the Chinese.
The reason why this situation occurs is not because the Zulu people are not smart enough, but because the Zulu people have no sense of responsibility, are careless in doing things, and do not like to review themselves, so they can only do some of the simplest jobs. No one dares to do anything.
The complex work was left to the Zulus.
As lazy as the Zulus are the Indians. There are also many Indians in the Transvaal. They can also only undertake the simplest jobs. What's more, the Indians are worse than the Zulus. The Indians work best.
One person is assigned a supervisor, and as long as the supervisor is not around, the Indians will unleash their natural instincts. There are also some Indians in the Transvaal who take over projects. The most common scene is that one Indian is working, and then there are three or four Indians nearby.
In terms of criticism, the Chinese often use the phrase "not even helping the oil bottle when it pours" to describe those who are extremely lazy. If according to this standard, the vast majority of Indians can be classified into the ranks of "extremely lazy", a unique caste in India.
Because of the system, people of high caste will not hold the oil bottle, because that is what low castes should do, and people of low caste will not take the initiative to hold the oil bottle, unless a high caste orders them to hold the oil bottle.
As a result of the large number of Chinese people participating in construction, Chinese-style buildings began to become popular in the Transvaal, such as the Fawalt Steel Works. Many office buildings have vertical ridges with eaves on the roofs, and there are beasts on the lower eaves.
It is a remarkable standard of Chinese architecture.
"The biggest advantage of using brick and tile structures is the low cost. If this row of office buildings is made of wood, its service life will not be long enough. If it is made of stone, the cost will be too high, so the brick and tile structure is the most suitable
, the construction cost of such a row of office buildings is just over a hundred pounds. If it is made of stone, the money will not be enough to buy stones." Rock still had to explain, mainly because he was worried about Ade and Philippe Marty.
Erda realized that this was actually a cultural invasion.
The problem is that Ade and Philippe Matilda have no such awareness at all. When they learned that it only took less than half a year to build such a factory, Ade and Philippe Matilda were a little surprised.
"It's a very beautiful office building and looks very solid. If the cost is really low, it will have great promotion value." Ade is still concerned about whether it has promotion value. Wooden structure buildings actually have great hidden dangers, especially fire and bricks.
The structure has almost no such hidden dangers.
"It is indeed valuable. Many such houses have appeared in Johannesburg now. The price of stone and wood is still a bit high." Philip agreed. Stone is a non-renewable raw material, so it is expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.
Although wood is a renewable raw material, the growth cycle of wood is also very long. It takes more than ten years for a tree to reach the point where it can be used to build a house. There are no virgin forests within a hundred kilometers around Johannesburg.
, all the trees have been cut down for urban construction in Johannesburg. Like stone, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Johannesburg to obtain wood, and it is about to become a bottleneck restricting the development of Johannesburg.
Now that the problem has been completely solved, there are already more than ten brick factories in the outer suburbs of Johannesburg, producing bricks and tiles around the clock for use in Johannesburg's urban construction. The Liberal Party headquarters that Christian promised to build is a three-story brick building.
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Compared with stone buildings and wooden buildings, the biggest advantage of brick and tile structures is that they can evolve into reinforced concrete buildings. After cities undergo brutal development, they will develop in a three-dimensional direction. At this time, the advantages of reinforced concrete will be revealed. Simple stone buildings
Buildings and wooden buildings will be eliminated sooner or later.
Also because of the popularity of brick factories, the floors in the office area of Fawalt Steel Plant have been completely hardened without the use of cement. The bricks used in the hardened floors are different from those used in building houses. They are custom-made from brick factories.
A piece of blue brick, with carved patterns and patterns on it, which surprised Ade and Philip even more.
After learning about the price of this kind of customized blue bricks, Ade and Philip both had ideas. It is estimated that it will not be long before the ground in Johannesburg and Pretoria will gradually begin to harden.
In addition to the hardened ground, the office area also has gardens and green spaces, and even towering trees transplanted from nearby. If it weren't for the towering chimneys of the steel factory, no one would believe that this is a factory with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel.
Steel Plant.
Rock is actually very dissatisfied with this output. In Rock's concept, if he doesn't have an annual output of 18 million tons, he would be embarrassed to say that he is a steel factory with an annual output of 100,000 tons.
The bad thing is that it is almost like a handicraft workshop.
Fortunately, there is still room for expansion of the steel plant, and there is no shortage of iron ore in the nearby mines. As long as Roque maintains his current hunger and thirst, sooner or later, the scale of the Fawalte Steel Plant can reach tens of millions of tons.
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By then, perhaps the steel plant will already be a steel group.
Unlike the ambitious Roque, neither Ade nor Philip have such ambitions. In their concepts, it is already a miracle that Africa can produce steel.
