The trains currently used in Nyasaland are still steam-powered. It is estimated that it will take some time to use internal combustion engines.
The steam train is very slow. The distance from Little Rock to Port Edward is 500 kilometers. The train ran for a whole day, and it happened to be early morning when it arrived at Port Edward.
Port Edward in the early morning is shrouded in a thin morning mist. The train station is not large, with only two platforms. The buildings are all masonry structures or reinforced concrete. Port Edward has relatively high requirements for buildings.
The exterior walls of the buildings must be painted, so the entire train station looks very beautiful, which is unique in this era.
The ground of the train station has been completely hardened and the sanitation is very clean. The cleaners are all Africans. They are all employees and are not permanent residents of Port Edward. The train station will provide dormitories for African employees. These Africans are here.
Port Edward does not have the right to live in Port Edward, and of course they cannot bring their families to Port Edward. Rock's control in this regard will not be relaxed. In the future, as the number of Chinese increases, the Chinese will gradually replace these Africans, and Rock will not even have the opportunity to work.
None will be left to Africans.
The administrator of Port Edward is Gordon, Gordon's younger brother. This position was not appointed by the British government, but by the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Company. Port Edward is nominally land leased by Roque from the Yao people. The British government
No jurisdiction.
Therefore, Port Edward has a great degree of freedom, and Roark can basically do whatever he wants. Roark also intends to move the tractor factory and truck factory to Port Edward, which will be more conducive to external sales.
"We gained access to the sea almost at the same time. Beira's foundation is better than Port Edward, but now the construction progress of Beira has been greatly lagged behind by Port Edward. Sometimes I really wonder why the same Africans
The gap is actually so big." After Xiaosi saw the train station in front of him, he was still a little desolate.
Nyasaland and Rhodesia were granted access to the sea at the same time. When Roque took over the Zambezi River Basin, Port Edward was still a wasteland. Then Roque spent more than a year building Port Edward from scratch. Although the current Port Edward covers a small area, it has shown good prospects. In the future, Rock will increase its investment in Port Edward and build Port Edward into an external business card of Nyasaland.
When Stoudemire took over Beira, Beira was already a port with a better foundation than Port Edward.
Therefore, Stoudemire did not completely transform Bella at the beginning, but just made tinkering on the original basis.
This does seem to save money, but when Port Edward is built, Bella will soon be dwarfed. Stoudemire must have been a little stimulated, so he completely rebuilt Bella, which in turn wasted more money.
All I can say is that if you have money, you are still willful.
"It is 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 10,000 Chinese in Port Edward. Without them, there would be no
Today's Port Edward." What Rock relied on was not Africans. During the process of building Port Edward, Africans could only undertake the heavy physical work. Africans could not do the more delicate work.
This is not an exaggeration. The work of Africans is really difficult to describe. Take the simplest building of a house as an example. Africans can only move bricks. Even building walls are incompetent for Africans. Even if they are supervised by supervisors, Africa
There is a high probability that people will build a wall crookedly. This has nothing to do with technology. It is completely caused by a lack of responsibility. It will not be like this with a little more care.
In Port Edward, many Africans can only take on unskilled jobs, such as simply digging trenches, cleaning, etc. Even so, Port Edward must use a large number of overseers, otherwise the Africans will not even be able to do this.
Can't do any work well.
Gordon has now summed up the experience of using Africans, such as cleaning. Gordon contracted sanitation as a business to Christian's company, and then Christian's company would arrange staff to clean the entire city.
And to maintain it, Gordon will organize manpower to inspect the sanitation work from time to time. If it is found to be unqualified, Gordon will directly deduct money in accordance with the contract.
As for how Christian's company ensures urban sanitation, Gordon doesn't care about that. Gordon only wants results. Even if Christian throws those cheating Africans into the sea, it doesn't matter to Gordon. Those African employees are not Nyasaland.
Gordon doesn't care whether they live or die.
Walking out of the train station, there is a road in the square in front of the station that leads directly to the dock. The road surface is made of asphalt. The asphalt is purchased directly from the Americas. When Port Edward was first built, there were no construction machinery, and the roadbed was made of African stones.
The road standards are not much different from those in the 21st century.
The commercial atmosphere of Port Edward is not very strong. There are no shops in the station square and on both sides of the road leading to the port. Large tracts of reserved open space are now covered by green belts. Scattered residential areas are far away from the roads, and most of them are temporary constructions.
Only permanent residents of Port Edward are eligible for residential land.
Compared with when Rock and his friends were in Cape Town, the price of houses is much lower now. It only costs 30 pounds to build a two-storey wooden house with an attic in Port Edward. All of this cost is for materials.
Merchants who sell materials will build houses for free for customers. Unlike Europe in the 21st century, the cheapest thing in Port Edward now is labor.
As far as Gordon knows, Christian has many African hired hands purchased from the Yao people. The status of these hired workers is actually similar to that of slaves. Selling these workers is now the most important income for the Yao people.
Although Rock has not been to Port Edward yet, 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 was a military camp built by the Portuguese in the past. Gordon came to Port Edward
Afterwards, the general's camp was renovated and prepared for Roque to use as his official residence.
Rock is traveling now. There are hundreds of followers, servants, and security personnel in total. The empty military camp soon becomes lively. Rock and Xiao Si slept on the train for a night. They are very energetic now, and they
Let's go to the balcony to chat with Gordon.
"Zhazha is very arrogant now. He used to hope to restore the Mweni Matapa Kingdom, but now he has never mentioned it and has become a native emperor in Marupa. It is said that Zhazha now has more than a hundred wives and children.
I have sixty or seventy, and I still don’t know how many there will be in the future.” Gordon mentioned the scumbag with disdain and envy. This is the rhythm of one person creating a nation.
Of course, it was definitely not Zhazha’s wives that Gordon envied. Gordon really couldn’t accept Zhazha’s aesthetics.
Rock didn't know how to describe Zhazha's behavior. Today, the Yao people still live the same primitive tribal life without any change, so that the Yao people are actually independent now, but in the Transvaal
When mentioning the territory of the Yao people, we still use Portuguese East Africa to refer to it, because the territory of the Yao people is not a country at all now.
I guess Zhazha doesn’t know how to build a country. Perhaps in Zhazha’s understanding, a country is almost like an enlarged version of a tribe.
"Haha, Africans——" Xiao Si laughed, feeling of superiority welling up.
Rock also haha, it’s not a problem if Zha Zha continues like this, Rock still has to find a way to help.
It's not to help Zhazha establish a sound country, but to help Zhazha become stronger so that he can better serve Roque. After all, in Roque's plan, Zhazha and his Yao people are quite important.
, Roque needs a loyal subordinate to help Roque deal with the Africans after the establishment of the South African Union.
"Go back and send a telegram to Zhazha and ask him to come over. I think this guy is itchy -" Rock was very dissatisfied with Zhazha's lack of ambition.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to make progress, Roque is the whip that promotes progress.
"Be careful about raising tigers. Have you heard the story about the farmer and the snake?" Stoudemire reminded Rock.
Rock 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 people's hearts.
"It doesn't matter. No matter how powerful the Yao people are, they can never take it out of my hands." Luo Ke controls the lifeblood of the Yao people. As long as the Yao people do not have their own military industry, no matter how powerful the Yao people are, they can only serve Luo honestly.
Work hard.
Xiaosi probably doesn't understand why the Yao people want to take out Luo Ke's palm——
In other words, why can the Xia Yao people stand in the palm of Luo Ke——
So I was confused.
Gordon understood what Roque meant, and raised his hand to ask someone to come over and send a telegram, and continued to report to Roque about the situation in Madagascar.
Austin Burns - now no longer called Austin Burns, but Robert, Robert Pauley -
After Robert Polly went to Madagascar, Port Edward was responsible for providing logistical support to Robert Polly and the others.
Robert Poli and the others are making good progress. They have formed a mercenary force of about 1,500 people in Madagascar. They have fought several battles with the locals in the central highlands of Madagascar. Now they have stabilized the situation in the mine and are moving towards the center.
Heading to the highlands.
This matter is not without profit for Roque. The ore mined by the former president’s mine will be handed over to Nyasaland Agricultural Company for processing and sales. The profits are still very large. Roque and
The mining company that Stoudemire and Henry invested together is preparing to set up an ore refinery in Madagascar to process the ore and then sell it to others to obtain higher profits.