Ceci Wodehouse said that not an inch of land in Germany is redundant. The same is true for Britain. The British’s desire for land is never-ending. Otherwise, there would be no empire on which the sun never sets.<
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Although Southern Africa is nominally autonomous, it is still part of the British Empire. Otherwise, the British government would not have the right to send Viscount Glaston as governor.
Since he is the Governor-General of Southern Africa, he must of course consider the interests of Southern Africa. It is not convenient for Southwest Africa and Tanganyika to take action for a while, but there is no problem for Portuguese West Africa and the Congo Free State. Speaking of Portugal and Belgium,
The two countries also made mistakes to occupy these two large colonies in Africa. The United Kingdom has never been able to find a reason, so it is inconvenient to take action against Portugal and Belgium.
Compared with previous rough colonial competitions, Southern Africa's method of annexing Portuguese East Africa is obviously more covert, more thorough, and even more speechless. The key is that there are no future troubles and the cost is very low. It can be said that Roque's series of operations
Many people have seen another possibility. Viscount Glaston is obviously more interested, otherwise he would not have tempted Roque to attack the Portuguese and Belgians.
"West Africa and the Congo Free State are indeed good, but Port Elizabeth is not bad either. While we are expanding our sphere of influence on the peninsula, it does not affect our penetration into West Africa and the Congo Free State." Roque has his own rhythm and will not let Guerra go.
Viscount Ston can easily change his plan with just a few words.
In fact, after the drastic changes in East Africa, West Africa and the Congo Free State have been closely guarding and maintaining a high degree of vigilance towards southern Africa. They have even interrupted personnel exchanges between the two places, just because they are afraid that Nyasaland will infiltrate West Africa and the Congo Free State.
But infiltration is unavoidable. Nyasaland did not send whites and Chinese to infiltrate West Africa and the Congo Free State. Instead, it sent Africans under Yaya's command.
This poses a huge problem to the Portuguese and Belgians. If the Portuguese and Belgians have the ability to maintain stability within the territory, then the Portuguese and Belgians are capable. If the Africans in West Africa and the Congo Free State rise up, the Portuguese
and the Belgians are unable to control the situation, then it is natural for the Portuguese and Belgians to lose West Africa and the Congo Free State.
The United Kingdom recognizes that the Portuguese and Belgians occupied West Africa and the Congo Free State respectively, but has no obligation to assist the Portuguese and Belgians in maintaining colonial stability. If the Portuguese and Belgians cannot maintain their colonies, then there is no need to blame others. It is only their own fault.
To strive for success, you can’t blame someone for secretly provoking it.
During the Boer War, other European countries watched the British joke together, and some even organized volunteers to fight in southern Africa to directly support the Transvaal and Orange. To say that there was no participation from certain countries would be to deceive oneself.<
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Viscount Glaston did not expect to see the effect immediately. It was enough to know that Roque had taken action.
After the inspection in Port Edward, Viscount Glaston and Rock took the train to Xuanji City together.
The focus of the inspection in Xuanji City must be Nyasaland University. The entire Xuanji City is built around Nyasaland University. However, Nyasaland University is not in the center of Xuanji City, but in Xuanji City close to Xuanji Lake.
side.
Because professors at the University of Nyasaland come from all over the world, Xuanji City is the most culturally tolerant, architecturally diverse, profound, and promising city in Nyasaland and even in the entire southern Africa.
After all, the income of most professors is still very high, so there are more cars parked on both sides of the streets in Xuanji City.
Of course, most of the cars in Xuanji City are not high-profile and luxurious Lord cars, but Beetles, civilian models launched by Nyasaland Automobile Group.
This "Beetle" is exactly the same in appearance as the Beetle in Rock's memory. As one of the most classic car models in the entire 20th century, the Beetle was born in another time and space from 1938 to 2003. There is no doubt about its tenacious vitality.
So Rock didn't bother to design it at all, and just took the shape of the Beetle and launched it grandly.
In this time and space, this is original to southern Africa.
Compared with the Lord car, the Beetle has reduced many unnecessary luxury configurations, and there are no gold and diamonds used for decoration. This greatly reduces the cost of the Beetle. A top-end Lord car on the market can be sold for R10,000.
, a most basic version of the Beetle costs only R800.
Of course, this price can only be found in southern Africa. Outside of southern Africa, even across the sea in Madagascar, the price of a Beetle will soar to 1,500 pounds. Do you want to buy it or not?
The price of Rand 800 is no pressure for professors in Nyasaland. Many students can even grit their teeth and borrow money from Rand Bank to buy one with their student ID cards, so there are a lot of cars in Xuanji City.
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At this time, we can see the necessity of requiring the main street to be at least fifty meters wide when Luo Ke was building Xuanji City.
In fact, the 50-meter-wide street, excluding the two-way six lanes, the sidewalks on both sides, and the green belts on the road are also arranged very compactly. The municipal government has never been lenient in this regard. Pedestrians must pass through the sidewalks when crossing the street, and cars must be parked randomly.
You will be fined, and you will even have to queue up if there are more than three people when shopping. If you cannot do this, the consequences will be serious in Nyasaland, half of the punishment is fines plus public services.
Taking into account the general income level in Xuanji City, fines are at least five cents. The most common public service job is street sweeping, and don't think about being lazy and working as a foreigner. There is supervision when working. If the work is not done cleanly,
, unable to complete the task, the time will be doubled.
Both Chinese and white people are very sensitive to money and time, so in a short period of time, Xuanji City began to become neat and orderly. Those students and new immigrants who have just arrived in Xuanji City will also have someone to remind them
Things to pay attention to in Xuanji City, and penalties for violating relevant regulations.
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So what Viscount Glaston saw was an extremely orderly city, with cars parked neatly on both sides of the street, cars and carriages driving on the road, trams running at a moderate speed, and pedestrians voluntarily stopping in front of the sidewalk to wait for the traffic police.
Granted, although the entire city cannot be said to be spotless, the health situation is still very different from Cape Town.
Compared with European cities, the gap is even greater. London, as the most developed city in Europe, is still known as the "Fog City". Many cities in Nyasaland are simply paradise compared to London. Viscount Glaston sits
You can even smell the faint fragrance of flowers in the Lord's car. This feeling makes Viscount Glaston intoxicated.
As a city that grew up around a university, Xuanji City does not have a strong commercial atmosphere. There are only two or three streets in the entire city that form the commercial district, and the rest of the streets are lined with residential communities or green parks. p>
There are no rows of skyscrapers in the residential communities here. More families still live in the two-story wooden buildings that are the most common in southern Africa.
Because the municipal government has no restrictions on land use, each household has a large area. Basically, the main house has a lawn in front and a garden in the back. Some households also have outdoor swimming pools, and more and more of them have outdoor swimming pools.
Most families have independent garages. Few people in the city keep horses. Even if they like horses, they will keep them on farms in the suburbs of the city.
Viscount Glaston's first stop was the University of Nyasaland. At this time, the person who introduced Viscount Glaston was Professor Douglas, and Rock and the late Martin accompanied him throughout the journey.
"There are nearly 10,000 students at Nyasaland University, and there are almost 2,000 graduates this year. Those who need high-level talents can work hard now -" Professor Douglas just started to speak, attracting angry looks from Rock and Martin.<
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Neither Rock nor Martin have forgotten the grand occasion when the first two graduates of Nyasaland University graduated. At that time, the federal government and Nyasaland almost competed for talents. Now the graduates of Nyasaland and the first two graduates
The training courses are different. The graduates this time have basically received a complete university education, and their quality is higher than the previous two. It is estimated that the competition among all parties will be more intense.
This year, in addition to the federal government and the Nyasaland state capital, several other state governments are expected to join the fight. Two thousand people sounds like a lot. After Lorenzo Marquez joined Southern Africa, in fact,
With ten states plus the federal government, there are not many graduates available to each state.
Fortunately, this situation is expected to improve in the next few years. In another two years, graduates from the University of Good Hope in Cape Town, Rhodes University in Rhodesia, and Rand University in Johannesburg will continue to graduate.
By then, the talent shortage in southern Africa will be greatly alleviated.
The University of Good Hope, Rhodes University, and Rand University were all just established in the past two years, but they are far inferior to Nyasaland University in terms of strength, not only in terms of hardware facilities, but also in terms of teaching staff.
Many professors at Nyasaland University are elites who have worked in the field of university education in European countries for many years. Some of the lecturers in these newly established universities are even recent graduates from Nyasaland University, so these universities
It will not shake the status of the University of Nyasaland in the field of university education in Southern Africa, and will even make Nyasaland University graduates more popular.
Professor Douglas next introduced the hardware facilities of the University of Nyasaland: "The University of Nyasaland covers an area of 2,500 acres. It now has four national laboratories, 12 colleges, and more than 9,800
students. Each of our colleges has its own library. Each library has a collection of more than 300,000 books. Each college also has its own printing house, gym, swimming pool, theater and cinema. The school's affiliated hospital has been
It has been put into use. A comprehensive stadium has just been built this year, and the indoor stadium is also under planning. In the next five years, no, three years, within three years, we will build Nyasaland University into a world-class university."
Professor Douglas is ambitious, but obviously not as ambitious as Viscount Glaston: "I think the University of Nyasaland is now a world-class university——"
Indeed, from what Viscount Glaston has seen, the foundation and prospects shown by Nyasaland University are no less than those of famous universities in Europe.
The heritage and prospects of a university are mainly reflected in the school's software and hardware facilities. In this regard, Nyasaland University is no worse than those famous universities in Europe. Even because of Rock's willingness to spare no expense, Nyasaland University
The facilities are more complete and advanced.
In terms of software facilities, perhaps the average age of professors at Nyasaland University is still relatively young. Due to the special situation in southern Africa, the professional title level seems to be a bit overwhelming. However, this does not mean that the teaching staff at Nyasaland University is weak.
, On the contrary, Nyasaland University has recruited many frustrated backbones from Europe in recent years. As a result, major European universities have lost a lot of faculty. As one goes, the level of Nyasaland University will naturally increase. Compared with software and hardware facilities, the quality level of students is also absolutely related to the school's performance. Now students at Nyasaland University have basically received a complete primary and secondary education. In terms of comprehensive quality, they are on par with major European universities.
There is no difference in comparison with the students. Taking into account the talent of Chinese students in reading, it can even be said that the overall quality level of students at Nyasaland University is higher than that of students from famous European universities.
That is to say, Nyasaland University has just been born. There are still enough graduates entering the society and their influence is not large enough. However, the scale of nearly 10,000 students is undoubtedly first-class in terms of quantity. As it becomes more and more popular,
As more and more students graduate and enter the society, exerting more and more influence, Nyasaland University will one day become a world-famous university like Oxbridge.
All teachers and students at Nyasaland University firmly believe in this.
"Not yet, our strength in scientific research is not enough. The current four national laboratories are biology, mechanical power, materials, and agricultural laboratories. We strive to build more national and laboratory laboratories in the next five years.
Only then will we be able to compete with those world-famous universities in Europe." Professor Douglas now also knows how to be modest.
In fact, there is no need to belittle oneself in this regard. The biological laboratory of Nyasaland University now also has Nobel-level scientific research results, and not just one, but several, so Professor Douglas is still very confident in this regard.
As for mechanical power, this is the pride of Nyasaland University. The take-off of Nyasaland industry is precisely because of the continuous achievements of the mechanical power laboratory, so southern Africa will have a steady stream of new products. Now Nigeria
The engines used in Asalan's cars, airplanes, and ships are all produced in Asalan, and they are all results of the Mechanical Power Laboratory.