Population has always been the focus of contention in the colonial era, and the reason why Britain can allow Canada and Australia to be self-governing while holding India firmly in the palm of its hand is because India's huge population base can effectively provide enough labor for Britain's colonies around the world.

There are also many Indians in southern Africa, otherwise Gandhi would not have easily formed a stretcher team of more than 1,000 people, but the status of Indians in southern Africa is not high, which has always been the goal of Gandhi's efforts.

About a decade ago, Gandhi, who had won a lawsuit in India, boarded a train from Durban to Pretoria, and as an elite Indian and educated in the UK, Gandhi bought a first-class ticket, believing he was qualified to do first-class seats.

Unexpectedly, after the police on the train learned of Gandhi's Indian identity, they did not allow Gandhi to sit in the first class seat, and asked Gandhi to sit in the luggage car with those inferior people.

Gandhi felt insulted and refused to obey, so he was violently pushed off the train by the police and stood on the platform at midnight for half the night.

The story is processed into a train in which Gandhi once fell on the railroad tracks, and the train had already started, and it was impossible to go down and pick it up, so Gandhi hurriedly took off the other shoe that was still on his foot and threw it next to the first shoe.

Puzzled, his companions asked Gandhi why he did this, and Gandhi said earnestly: "In this way, the poor people passing by the railroad tracks will get a pair of shoes." ”

The person who made up this story probably didn't take into account why the Gandhi people were in the carriage, why did the shoes fall outside the carriage, probably the train Gandhi took was more crowded, and the person sat in the carriage, and the legs had to be placed outside the carriage.

The British can hire Indians as a labor supplement, Roque will never do this, relying on the human resources of the Chinese, Roque can completely ignore the role of Indians, so the Barony of Nyasaland under Roque is now not a single Indian, except for a small number of whites, all of them are Chinese.

In November, a migrant ship arrives in Nyasaland every three days, some disembarking in Port Edward and devoting themselves to the construction of Port Edward, while many more travel up the Zambezi River to Little Rock, where they are assigned to various colonial colonies in Nyasaland.

Colonial settlements have blossomed throughout the territory of Nyasaland, and the exploitation of Nyasaland has been carried out around Lake Nyasaland and the rivers in Nyasaland.

The Chinese were indeed industrious and capable, and the progress of colonial development was very fast, and it was less than a year before Roque got Nyasaland, which was now basically self-sufficient, and there was basically no need for food from Xiaosi, but the demand for farming horses and farm tools was increasing rapidly.

It is no wonder that Xiao Si also began to give up his prejudices, hoping 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, and a thousand Roque is busy developing Nyasaland, and there is no manpower to take over this thousand square miles, and now that Nyasaland is gradually on the right track, Roque finally has the ability to develop the land in Rhodesia.

A thousand square miles, almost two thousand six hundred square kilometers, cost Roque sixteen thousand pounds!

It stands to reason that it takes at least 3,000 or 5,000 people to develop so much land.

Roque didn't have that many men in his hands, and when he was full, Roque could only send five hundred people.

"Five hundred, are you going to let them go to Rhodesia to herd cattle?" Xiao Si despised Roque's favoritism very much, and the migrant ships that arrived in Nyasaland could transport at least 2,000 people each, and 500 people was really not enough to even plug the gaps.

However, if it is cattle herding, 500 people is really about the same, referring to the grazing efficiency of the Boers in the past, even if 1,000 square miles is pasture, it can only raise 100,000 cattle.

This can only be thought of, a thousand square miles, half of which can be qualified pastures, these pastures can actually be developed into arable land, so the potential is still there, mainly depends on how to operate.

"The agricultural model of the Boers is definitely not suitable, and even the agricultural model of Johannesburg is not suitable, and agriculture is about to enter the era of mechanization in the future, so the large-scale use of agricultural machinery is in line with the development trend of agriculture, but it still needs to be practiced, and I am also trying now." Roque wants to try different possibilities, Johannesburg is a private farm model, Nyasaland is a corporatized business model, Rhodesia, Roque plans to try the American kind of big farm model, what is the best model, talk about the final output.

"What is agricultural mechanization?" Xiao Si was confused.

It can't be blamed that Xiao Si is ignorant, although the tractor using the internal combustion engine has been invented for ten years, but the current tractor is not perfect enough, let alone popularized, even European agriculture still relies on manpower and livestock, not to mention Africa.

Before that, in the whole of Africa, there was not a single tractor.

Luo Ke couldn't answer Xiao Si's question, and when he raised his hand to see that it was almost time to get off work, Luo Ke simply took Xiao Si to Ziwei Town.

Three months ago, Roque asked Christian to buy ten tractors from the Chadah Engine Company in Chicago, USA, and ship them back to Nyasaland for research.

Tractors of this period used solid tires and pneumatic tires for automobiles, both of which were actually unsuitable for tractors.

Rather than researching a tire for a tractor, a track is the easiest way to do it.

The tires used in tractors are not the same as car tires, Roque knows that the tires suitable for tractors are high-pattern low-pressure pneumatic rubber tires, but he doesn't know how to make them, after all, a qualified tire, in addition to high-pattern and low-pressure inflation, also needs other key technologies, these technologies Roque does not have, Roque will not, so Roque can only use tracks as a substitute.

Fortunately, the crawler is also a very good alternative, the future of the UK is a reference to the crawler tractor, so the world's first tank was successfully developed, Roque will start to develop the crawler tractor now, the future experience in this area will be richer, and when the UK needs tanks, Roque can come up with better products.

Back in Ziwei Town, the technicians who followed the crawler tractor to Ziwei Town were ready, and Buck and George, the vice president of the Agricultural Association, were also on the scene, and everyone couldn't wait to see how powerful this crawler tractor that Roque had high hopes for.

"Is there a problem?" Roque asked Rudolf Diesel, who was in charge of improving the tractor.

If it weren't for the fact that Roque had diesel engines in his business scope when he was a trade dog in his last life, Roque would not have known the name Rudolph Diesel.

Like Nikola Tesla, Rudolf Diesel is also the tragedy of his time.

In 1897, Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine, which showed great prospects for development, such as high power, low fuel consumption, and the ability to use inferior fuel.

It is precisely because of the bright future of diesel engines 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, and in 1898, Diesel was admitted to a sanatorium near Munich because of severe nervous weakness.

When Roque's headhunter found Rudolph Diesel, Rudolph Diesel was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Roque promised to help Rudolph Diesel pay off the arrears and let Rudolph Diesel's diesel engine flourish in Nyasaland, so Rudolph Diesel did not hesitate to come to Nyasaland.

"No problem, I've tried it many times in Nyasaland, and the 'monster' is more than 60 times more efficient than a heavy pull-back, and the work of four pull-backs in a day can be done by the monster in two hours." Rudolf Diesel is full of confidence that the advantage of the tractor is that it does not need to rest, as long as the machine does not break, it can work continuously, which is an advantage that livestock cannot match.

"Let's get started!" Roque is also confident that perhaps in Rudolph Diesel's opinion, the tractor can only be used to plough the land, but in Roque's opinion, the biggest treasure of this tractor is the diesel engine.

Diesel engines are used in a wide range of applications, not only tractors, but also in automobiles, ships, and the entire industrial field.

Roque values the tank of the future the most, the First World War will break out after 12 years, and the time left for Roque is not too much, but not too much, if Roque wants to reap the most benefits in the world war, then from now on, every day is precious.

With a roar of "smack", the tractor began to work, and Xiao Si, Buck, and George immediately came over.

Rudolf Diesel is right, the tractor is indeed "powerful", compared with the horse, the tractor ploughs the land faster, the depth of the plough is also larger, the ordinary four-horse plough used only four ploughshares at most, which already belongs to the category of heavy agricultural machinery, the tractor uses six ploughshares, and the ordinary four-horse ploughshare can not be pulled at all.

Roque didn't move forward, because Roque knew that the efficiency of a tractor must be much higher than that of a horse.

Rudolf Diesel didn't move forward either, because Rudolf Diesel had confidence in the tractor.

"Rudolph, next, to study how to use diesel engines on ships, we need more powerful and stable diesel engines, and we also need diesel engines that are smaller and consume less." Roque gave Rudolph Diesel a task, and the two extremes corresponded to two different directions, and if Rudolph Diesel could come up with more designs, then Nyasaland's prospects would be even brighter.

Just like diesel engines now.

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