Ceci Waldhouse said that no inch of land in Germany is superfluous, and the same is true for Britain, and the British people's desire for land is also endless, otherwise there would be no empire on which the sun never sets.

Southern Africa, though nominally self-governing, was still part of the British Empire, otherwise the British government would not have the right to send Viscount Gladstone as governor-general.

Since he is the governor of southern Africa, of course, he must consider the interests of southern Africa, and it is inconvenient for southwest Africa and Tanganyika to do it for a while, and Portuguese West Africa and the Congo Free State are no problem, speaking of which, Portugal and Belgium have also picked up the leaks in order to occupy these two large colonies in Africa, and Britain has never been able to find a reason, so it is inconvenient to do it against Portugal and Belgium.

Compared with the previous brutal colonial struggle, the means of annexing Portuguese East Africa in southern Africa are obviously more hidden, more thorough, and more speechless, the key is not yet in the future, and the price is very low, it can be said that Roque's series of operations have made many people see another possibility, Viscount Gladstone is obviously more interested, otherwise he would not have tricked Roque into attacking the Portuguese and Belgians.

"West Africa and the Congo Free State are indeed good, but Port Elizabeth is not bad, and while we expand our sphere of influence on the peninsula, it does not affect our infiltration into West Africa and the Congo Free State." Roque has his own rhythm and will not easily change his plans just because of a few words from Viscount Gladstone.

In fact, after the drastic changes in East Africa, West Africa and the Congo Free State have been strictly guarding against southern Africa, maintaining a high degree of vigilance against southern Africa, and even cutting off personnel exchanges between the two places, just because they are afraid that Nyasaland will infiltrate West Africa and the Congo Free State.

But infiltration of this kind of thing is unavoidable, and Nyasaland did not send whites and Chinese to infiltrate West Africa and the Congo Free State, but sent Africans under Yaya.

This poses a huge dilemma for the Portuguese and Belgians, if the Portuguese and Belgians are capable of maintaining stability in their territory, then the Portuguese and Belgians are capable, and if the Africans in West Africa and the Congo Free State rise up and the Portuguese and Belgians are unable to control the situation, then it is only natural that the Portuguese and Belgians lose West Africa and the Congo Free State.

Britain recognized that the Portuguese and Belgians occupied West Africa and the Congo Free State respectively, but it had no obligation to assist the Portuguese and Belgians in maintaining the stability of their colonies.

During the Boer War, the rest of Europe watched the British jokes together, and some even formed volunteers to fight in southern Africa to directly support the Transvaal and Orange, which would be self-defeating to say that there were no countries involved.

Viscount Gladstone didn't expect to see the effect right away, it was enough to know that Roque had made a move.

After his expedition to Port Edward, Viscount Gladstone and Roque took a train to Clare City.

The focus of the inspection in Xuanji City must be the University of Nyasaland, and the entire Xuanji City is built around the University of Nyasaland, but the University of Nyasaland is not in the center of Xuanji City, but on the side of Xuanji City near Xuanji Lake.

Because the professors of the University of Nyasaland come from all over the world, Xuanji City is the most culturally inclusive, architecturally diverse, profound and promising city in Nyasaland and indeed in the whole of Southern Africa.

After all, most professors still have a high income, so there are more cars parked on both sides of the streets of Xuanji City.

Of course, most of the cars in Xuanji City are not high-profile and luxurious Lord cars, but the civilian model of the Nyasaland Automobile Group, the Beetle.

As one of the most classic models of the entire twentieth century, the Beetle was born in another time and space from 1938 to 2003, and the tenacity of vitality is undoubted, so Roque didn't bother to design at all, and directly took the shape of the Beetle to launch it grandly.

In this time and space, this is the original of Southern Africa.

Compared with the Lord car, the Beetle has reduced a lot of unnecessary extravagance, and there are no gold and diamonds for decoration, which greatly reduces the cost of the Beetle, a top-of-the-line Lord car on the market can be sold for 10,000 rand, and the most basic version of the Beetle car is only sold for 800 rand.

Of course, this price is only available in southern Africa, and out of southern Africa, even as far as Madagascar, which is just across the sea, the price of the Beetle will soar to 1,500 pounds.

The price of 800 rand is not stressful for the professors in Nyasaland, and many students even grit their teeth and can buy one with a loan from the RAND Bank with their student ID cards, so the number of cars in Xuanji City is a bit large.

At this time, it was necessary for Roque to build Xuanji City that required the main street to be at least 50 meters wide.

In fact, the 50-meter-wide street, removing the two-way six-lane, the sidewalks on both sides, and the green belt on the road, is also very compact, the municipal government has never been soft in this regard, pedestrians must cross the street, cars must be parked indiscriminately will be fined, and even when shopping, as long as there are more than three people to consciously queue up, if you can't do this, the consequences in Nyasaland will be very serious, half of the punishment is fines plus public services.

Considering the general income level of Xuanji City, the fines start at least five points, and the most common job in public service is to sweep the streets, and don't think about being lazy and grinding foreign workers, there is someone to supervise when you work, if the work is not clean and cannot 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, and those students and new immigrants who have just arrived in Xuanji City will also have someone to remind them of the matters to pay attention to in Xuanji City, as well as the punishment for violating the relevant regulations.

So what Viscount Gladstone saw was a very orderly city, with neat parking spaces on both sides of the streets, cars and horse-drawn carriages and trams on the roads at moderate speeds, pedestrians consciously parked in front of the sidewalks and waiting for the traffic police to let them go, and although the whole city was not spotless, the sanitary conditions were still very different from those of Cape Town.

Compared with European cities, the gap is even greater, London as the most developed city in Europe, is now known as the "fog capital", many cities in Nyasaland are simply paradise compared to London, Viscount Gladstone can even smell a faint fragrance of flowers when sitting in the Lord's car, this feeling simply makes Viscount Gladstone intoxicated.

As a university-centric city, Xuanji City does not have a strong commercial atmosphere, and only two or three streets in the whole city form a commercial area, and the rest of the streets are flanked by residential communities or green parks.

There are no skyscrapers in the residential communities, and more families live in two-storey wooden buildings, which are most common in southern Africa.

Because the city government is not restricted in the use of land, each household covers a large area, basically the main house is a lawn in front, a garden in the back, some families also have an outdoor swimming pool, more and more families have independent garages, few people in the city have horses, even if they like horses, they will be raised on farms on the outskirts of the city.

Viscount Gladstone's first stop was the University of Nyasaland, and the person who introduced Viscount Gladstone was replaced by Professor Douglas, accompanied by Roque and the belated Martin.

"The University of Nyasaland now has nearly 10,000 students, and this year's graduates are almost 2,000.

Both Roque and Martin have not forgotten the grand occasion when the first two classes of graduates of the University of Nyasaland graduated, when the federal government and Nyasaland almost broke the head in order to compete for talent, and now the graduates of Nyasaland are not the same as the previous two classes of training courses, this time the graduates have basically received a complete university education, and the quality is higher than the previous two classes, and it is estimated that the competition between the parties will be more intense.

This year, in addition to the federal government and the Nyasarstate government, the state governments of several other states are expected to join the competition, which sounds like a lot of 2,000 people, and after Lorenzo Marques joined Southern Africa, in fact, ten states plus the federal government, each state can not get many graduates.

Fortunately, the situation is expected to improve in the next few years, and in two years, the University of Good Hope in Cape Town, Rhodes University in Rhodesia, and the Rand University in Johannesburg will also have graduates one after another, and the talent shortage in southern Africa will be greatly alleviated.

The University of Good Hope, Rhodes University, and the University of Rand have just been founded in the past two years, but the strength is much worse than that of the University of Nyasaland, not only the hardware facilities, but also the gap in the faculty, many professors of the University of Nyasaland are elites who have been working in the field of university education in European countries for many years, and some of the lecturers of these universities have just graduated from the University of Nyasaland, so these universities cannot shake the status of the University of Nyasaland in the field of university education in Southern Africa. It will even make graduates of the University of Nyasaland more sought-after.

Professor Douglas next introduced the hardware facilities of the University of Nyasaland: "The University of Nyasaland covers an area of 2,500 acres, and now has four national laboratories, 12 colleges, more than 9,800 students, each of our colleges has its own library, each library has its own collection of more than 300,000 books, each college also has its own printing house, gymnasium, swimming pool, theater and cinema, the school affiliated hospital has been put into use last year, and a comprehensive stadium has just been built this year, The indoor gymnasium is also being planned, and in the next five years, no, three years, three years, we will build the University of Nyasaland into a world-class university. ”

Professor Douglas is ambitious, but obviously not as ambitious as Viscount Gladstone: "I think the University of Nyasaland is now a world-class university—"

Indeed, from what Viscount Gladstone has seen, the University of Nyasaland has shown no less heritage and prospects than those famous universities in Europe.

The heritage and prospects of a university are mainly reflected in the software and hardware facilities of the university, which are no worse than those famous universities in Europe, and even because of Roque's cost, the facilities of the University of Nyasaland are more complete and advanced.

In terms of software facilities, perhaps the average age of professors at the University of Nyasaland is still relatively young, and the level of professional titles is a bit overflowing because of the special situation in southern Africa, but this does not mean that the faculty of the University of Nyasaland is very weak, on the contrary, the University of Nyasaland has collected a lot of depressed backbones from Europe over the years, and the major universities in Europe have lost a lot of teachers.

Compared with the hardware and software facilities, the quality level of students is also absolutely related to the school's performance, now the students of the University of Nyasaland, basically have received a complete primary and secondary education, they are not worse than the students of major European universities in terms of comprehensive quality, considering the talent of Chinese students in reading, it can even be said that the overall level of students of the University of Nyasaland is higher than the overall quality level of students in those famous European universities.

That is, the University of Nyasaland has just been born, there are enough graduates who have gone into the society, and the influence is not big enough, but the scale of nearly 10,000 students is undoubtedly first-class in terms of quantity, as more and more students graduate and go into the society, exert more and more influence, the University of Nyasaland will one day become a world famous university like Oxbridge.

All the faculty and students of the University of Nyasaland are convinced of 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 countries and laboratories in the next five years, and then we will have the ability to compete with those world-famous universities in Europe." Professor Douglas now knows humility as well.

In fact, there is no need to be presumptuous in this regard, the biological laboratory of the University of Nyasaland now also has Nobel-level scientific research results, and it is not one, but several, so Professor Douglas is still very confident in this regard.

As for mechanical power, this is the pride of the University of Nyasaland, the take-off of Nyasaland industry, it is precisely because of the continuous results of the mechanical power laboratory, so there will be a steady stream of new products in southern Africa, and now the engines used in Nyasaland automobiles and airplanes and ships are all produced in Nyasaland, which are the achievements of the mechanical power laboratory.

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