Population has always been the focus of contention in the colonial era. Why can the British allow Canada and Australia to be autonomous, but firmly hold India in their hands? It is because India's huge population base can effectively provide enough for British colonies around the world.
Labor force.
There are also many Indians in southern Africa, otherwise Gandhi would not have been able to easily organize a stretcher team of more than a thousand people. However, the status of Indians in southern Africa is not high, and this has always been the goal of Gandhi's efforts.
About ten years ago, Gandhi, who had never won a single lawsuit in India, got on a train from Durban to Pretoria. As an Indian elite and educated in the United Kingdom, Gandhi thought he was qualified to sit on the first-class seat.
I bought a first-class ticket.
Unexpectedly, after the police on the train learned about Gandhi's Indian identity, they did not allow Gandhi to sit in the first-class seat and asked Gandhi to sit in the luggage compartment with those lower-class people.
Gandhi felt insulted and refused to obey, so he was roughly pushed off the train by the police and stood on the platform at midnight for half the night.
This story was processed into the story that Gandhi once took a train and dropped one of his shoes on the track. The train had already started moving and it was impossible to go down to pick it up. So Gandhi hurriedly picked up the other shoe that was still on his foot.
Take it off and throw it next to the first shoe.
People traveling with him asked Gandhi why he did this in confusion. Gandhi said seriously: "This way, the poor people passing by the railway tracks can get a pair of shoes."
The person who made up this story probably didn’t consider why Gandhi’s shoes fell outside the carriage when he was in the carriage. Perhaps the train Gandhi took was quite crowded, and when people sit in the carriage, their legs must be placed outside the carriage.
The British can hire Indians as a supplement to their labor force, but Roque will never do so. Relying on the human resources of the Chinese, Roque can completely ignore the role of Indians. Therefore, the Barony of Nyasaland under Roque is now
There is not a single Indian. Except for a small number of white people, they are all Chinese.
Entering November, an immigrant ship arrived in Nyasaland every three days. Some people disembarked at Port Edward and devoted themselves to the construction of Port Edward. More people went upstream along the Zambezi River to Little Rock, and then
Assigned to various colonial development points in Nyasaland.
Colonial development sites have blossomed all over Nyasaland, and the development of Nyasaland is centered around Lake Nyasa and the rivers in Nyasaland.
The Chinese are indeed hard-working and capable, and the colonial development is progressing very quickly. It has been less than a year since Roque got Nyasaland. Nyasaland is now basically self-sufficient, and there is basically no need for Xiaosi to provide food. For farm horses,
The demand for agricultural equipment and agricultural equipment is increasing rapidly.
It's no wonder that Xiao Si also began to give up his prejudices and hoped that Roque would allow some Chinese to enter Rhodesia and develop farms in Rhodesia.
Of course Roque allowed it. Don’t forget that Roque still has a thousand square miles of land in Rhodesia. In the past, Roque was busy developing Nyasaland and did not have the manpower to take over this thousand square miles. Now Nias
Saran is gradually on the right track, and Rock is finally able to develop the land in Rhodesia.
One thousand square miles, almost 2,600 square kilometers, cost Rock sixteen thousand pounds!
Logically speaking, developing so much land would require at least three to five thousand people.
However, Roque didn't have that many people in hand. With all his plans, Roque could only send out 500 people.
"Five hundred people, are you going to let them go to Rhodesia to herd cattle?" Xiaosi despised Roque's preference for one and another. Each of the immigration ships arriving in Nyasaland can transport at least two thousand people, and five hundred people.
It’s really not even enough to fill the gap between your teeth.
However, when it comes to cattle herding, five hundred people are really about the same. Referring to the past herding efficiency of the Boers, even if a thousand square miles are pasture, they can only raise one hundred thousand cattle.
This can only be thought of. It would be great if half of a thousand square miles were qualified pastures. These pastures can actually be developed into arable land, so there is still potential. It mainly depends on how to operate it. p>
"The agricultural model of the Boers is definitely inappropriate, and even the agricultural model of Johannesburg is not suitable. In the future, agriculture is about to enter the era of mechanization, so the large-scale farm model using agricultural machinery on a large scale is in line with the development trend of agriculture, but whether it will work or not is still unclear.
It requires practice, and I am trying it now." Rock wants to try different possibilities. Johannesburg is a private farm model, Nyasaland is a corporate business model, and here in Rhodesia, Rock plans to try a large-scale operation like the United States.
Farm model, which model is the best, let’s talk about the final yield.
"What is agricultural mechanization?" Xiaosi was confused.
You can't blame Xiaosi for being ignorant. Although tractors using internal combustion engines have been invented for ten years, current tractors are not perfect enough and have not had time to be popularized. Even European agriculture still relies on manpower and livestock, let alone Africa.
Before this, there was not a single tractor in the entire Africa.
Rock couldn't answer Xiao Si's question. He raised his hand to see that it was almost time to get off work. Rock simply took Xiao Si to Ziwei Town.
Three months ago, Rock asked Christian to buy ten tractors from the Chada Engine Company in Chicago, USA, and transport them back to Nyasaland for research. The tractors of this period were still very primitive, and the main problem was that the tire problem had not been solved.
, so the popularization of tractors still has a long way to go.
Tractors during this period used solid tires and pneumatic tires for automobiles. Both types of tires were actually not suitable for use on tractors. After reading the research results of Nyasaland, Rock immediately made a decision.
Using crawler tracks on the tractor quickly solved the tractor's tire problem.
Compared with researching a tire suitable for use on a tractor, crawler tracks are the easiest way.
The tires used by tractors are different from car tires. Rock knows that the tires suitable for tractors are high-pattern and low-pressure pneumatic rubber tires, but he does not know how to make them. After all, a qualified tire, in addition to high-pattern and low-pressure pneumatic tires, also has
Other key technologies are required, and Rock does not have these technologies, nor does Rock, so Rock can only use crawler tracks as a substitute.
Fortunately, tracks are also a very good alternative. In the future, Britain will refer to track tractors, so it successfully developed the world's first tank. Rock is starting to develop track tractors now. In the future, it will have more experience in this area. When the UK needs tanks
When the time comes, Rock can come up with better products.
Back in Ziwei Town, the technicians who followed the crawler tractor to Ziwei Town were ready. Buck and George, the vice president of the Agricultural Association, were also at the scene. Everyone couldn't wait to see this kind of crawler track that Rock had high hopes for.
How powerful is the tractor?
"Are there any questions?" Rock asked Rudolf Diesel, who was responsible for improving the tractor.
If Rock hadn't had diesel engines in his business when he was a trading dog in his previous life, Rock wouldn't even know the name Rudolf Diesel.
Like Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel is also a tragedy of this era.
In 1897, Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine. This engine has high power, low fuel consumption, and can use low-quality fuel, showing brilliant development prospects.
It was precisely because of the bright future of the diesel engine that Rudolf Diesel was criticized and excluded by his opponents. Due to his lack of business acumen, Rudolf Diesel lost a lot of money playing stocks and gradually fell into financial difficulties. In 1898,
Diesel was admitted to a sanatorium near Munich due to severe neurological weakness.
When Roque's headhunting company found Rudolf Diesel, Rudolf Diesel was already on the verge of bankruptcy. Roque promised to help Rudolf Diesel pay off the debt and let Rudolf Diesel
The diesel engine flourished in Nyasaland, so Rudolf Diesel came to Nyasaland without hesitation.
"No problem. I have tested it many times in Nyasaland. The efficiency of the 'Monster' is 60 times more than that of heavy draft horses. The Monster can complete the workload of four draft horses in two hours in two hours."
Diesel is full of confidence. The advantage of a tractor is that it does not need to rest. As long as the machine is not broken, it can work continuously. This is an advantage that livestock cannot match.
"Then let's start!" Rock is also confident. Perhaps in Rudolf Diesel's view, tractors can only be used for plowing, but in Rock's view, the biggest treasure of this tractor is the diesel engine.
The application range of diesel engines is very wide, not only tractors, diesel engines can also be used in automobiles, ships, and the entire industrial field.
The most important thing for Rock is the future tank. The First World War will break out in twelve years. The time left for Rock is not much, but not much. If Rock wants to gain the most from the world war,
benefits, then from now on, every day is precious.
With a roar of "吭吭哧哧", the tractor started to work, and Stoudemire, Buck, and George came over immediately.
Rudolf Diesel is right, tractors are indeed "incomparably powerful". Compared with draft horses, tractors can plow faster and deeper. The plow used by ordinary four draft horses is only
Four plowshares, this already belongs to the category of heavy agricultural machinery, while the plow used by tractors has six plowshares, which cannot be pulled by ordinary four draft horses.
Rock did not move forward, because Rock knew that the efficiency of tractors must be much higher than that of draft horses.
Rudolf Diesel did not move forward because Rudolf Diesel had confidence in the tractor.
"Rudolf, next, we need to study how to use diesel engines on ships. We need diesel engines with greater power and more stable operation. At the same time, we also need diesel engines that are smaller in size and consume less." Roque told Luo Ke.
When Rudolf Diesel assigns tasks, these two extremes correspond to two different directions. If Rudolf Diesel can come up with more designs, Nyasaland’s prospects will be even broader.
