Free trade means more choices, the same bullet production line, even if the Royal Light Weapons Factory does not sell to Roque, Roque will not sit idly, the Royal Light Weapons Factory is not on this road, Roque can also go to the Herstal National Arsenal in Belgium, to the Springfields of the United States, and even to Krupp in Germany, but if Roque does this, London will definitely be very unhappy, so Roque went to the Royal Light Weapons Factory first.

Fortunately, Britain was not conservative at this time.

In addition to weapons production lines and hydroelectric power generation equipment, Roque is also frantically collecting talents all over the world, the top talents of this era, Roque must not be able to invite, but no matter what era, there are people who are not talented, and there are still people who are willing to come to Johannesburg and Nyasaland to work in Johannesburg and Nyasaland when Roque offers a high salary.

Isn't it just a job, and not asking them to settle down, work in Johannesburg or Nyasaland for three or five years, bring out a group of apprentices, and then return to Europe with a good salary to enjoy life?

Not everyone is as self-cherishing as the old craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty, the reason why the old craftsmen cherish themselves is that they are afraid that the apprentices of the church will starve to death of the master, and those who have skills and strength but do not get the corresponding remuneration will be afraid of this?

Don't be funny, South Africa is thousands of miles away from the United States and Europe, and no further technological progress in South Africa will affect American and European companies?

Even if she could, those who took apprentices with high salaries would not care, such as Dr. Kay Mallory of Ziwei Hospital, she was not worried about the disciples starving to death of her master, she only hoped that she could teach more students as soon as possible and relieve her of her work tasks.

It is indeed tired, there are too many pregnant women in Ziwei Hospital, not only the Boers on Scarlett's farm, but also the police officers and the family members of the farmers who have married in recent months, the beds in Ziwei Hospital are now full, and even the corridors of the wards are full of beds, Colin Bellamy has to occupy a large lawn and build new wards to meet the needs of patients.

"We have to spin off Ziwei Hospital and build a new hospital dedicated to providing medical care for women and children, and there are too many patients now, or we can build a new hospital for women and children, and we will build a new hospital for other people." Colin Bellamy asked Roque to apply for a new hospital, and by the way, hoped that Roque would hire more doctors.

Nurses don't need it, there are enough nurses in Ziwei Hospital, although many nurses are also pregnant women now, but the training speed of nurses is very fast, according to the nurse standards at this time, it is not much more difficult to train a qualified nurse than to train a qualified waiter.

"Then build it, the current Ziwei Hospital can be called Ziwei Women's and Children's Hospital." Roque really didn't expect that people's demand for medical care in this era was so high.

In fact, it is also very normal, although there are not many people in Johannesburg, but there are few hospitals, and now there are only a few private hospitals in Johannesburg, and each private hospital has only three or five beds.

After the end of the war, the population will immediately enter an outbreak period, which is estimated to last for about ten years, so it is necessary to set up a women's and children's hospital, and even a women's and children's hospital may not be enough.

Let's set up a first, it's simple to build a hospital, just build a house non-stop, but doctors are not easy to find, Douglas hired more than a dozen doctors from Europe during this time, and there are no female doctors, Abu's students are at a very high level, but they are limited to the theoretical level, and the practical operation is not as good as the nurses in Ziwei Hospital, so they still have to train themselves.

"How's the hospital doing? How many interns can enter the clinic? "Roque still cares about people, don't worry about money, never have to worry, in addition to gold mines, Roque can also apply for government support.

Joseph Chamberlain's pledge of £20,000 for Ziwei College was already in place, which may not sound like much, but it was enough to build two more Ziwei schools.

It is impossible to build a new one, and Roque does not plan to expand Ziwei School, just maintain the current scale, and in a few years, when the current newborns reach the enrollment period, it is not too late to expand the school.

The 20,000 pounds are intended to be used to enhance the soft power of Ziwei College, on the one hand, to improve the infrastructure, and on the other hand, to hire higher-level teachers from Europe to prepare for universal compulsory education in Nyasaland.

Yes, Roque intended to make education compulsory in Nyasaland in 1902.

It sounds a bit nonsense, right, but in fact it is not, after the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan began to implement free compulsory education with the reparations received from the Qing Dynasty, and by 1907, the enrollment rate of school-age children in Japan had increased to 97.3% -

So, when should universal compulsory education start in Nyasaland?

It must be as early as possible, and Roque does not want four-year compulsory education like in Japan, what Roque really wants is nine years of compulsory education, but with the current level of education in Nyasaland, it is very difficult to do this, so Roque refers to the British education system, and the six-year compulsory education to be implemented in Nyasaland.

Compared with the level of science and technology at this time, six years is almost enough, if students enter school from the age of six and receive six-year compulsory education, then six years later, the age of 12 years old can almost be married in the Qing Dynasty, and in the United Kingdom, it is normal to start working in factories at the age of 12, and there is no such thing as an adult at the age of 18, and children from poor families are not eligible to wait until the age of 18 to become adults.

Life forces people to grow quickly.

"We now have more than 40 interns, all of whom have entered the clinic, and as assistants to the attending doctors, some of them have made faster progress and are already qualified to perform the surgery alone—" Colin Bellamy said with a relieved face.

If it weren't for the fact that many Chinese nurses have begun to take maternity leave, the number of interns will be even more, and the training of doctors in these years is not as complicated as that of later generations, there is no need to see a doctor or a doctor, no need to be experienced, an arm can be connected if the arm is broken, and a pregnant woman can deliver a baby, as for what high blood pressure and cancer, sorry, these diseases do exist, but the pathology has not been figured out, there is no treatment, and there is no symptomatic medicine, these diseases are the so-called "terminal diseases", and you can only go home and wait for death if you get sick.

The blood pressure monitor used by doctors was invented by Italian scientist Hippione Rivarocchi in 1896, and due to the speed of knowledge spread at this time, there was not even a single blood pressure monitor in the whole of South Africa, so this is really not an exaggeration.

"Continue to hire high-level doctors, and at the same time increase the training of interns, don't feel sorry for the money that should be spent, and all the money earned by the hospital should be spent." Roque does not expect the hospital to make money, which is also the reason why Ziwei Hospital has developed so fast, and it is impossible for other hospitals to invest so recklessly.

Ziwei Hospital is really profitable, originally the charging standard of Ziwei Hospital is relatively high, and now there is the municipal government to support the bottom, and it is not soft to put away the money, so in the past two months, the money earned by Ziwei Hospital is enough to build another Ziwei Hospital.

After Joseph Chamberlain inspected Ziwei Hospital, he handed over all the production expenses of the Boer woman on Scarlett's farm to the city of Johannesburg, that is, the Boer woman on Scarlett's farm gave birth, and the city of Johannesburg had to reimburse all the expenses, which was regarded as the city of Johannesburg paying off the debt of the expeditionary force.

Joseph Chamberlain did not bother Philip either, and now the city government did not have enough financial resources to afford this part of the cost, so Joseph Chamberlain added a new relief grant project to cover this part of the cost.

In the end, it is the British government that pays.

Specific to Ziwei Hospital, it is very cool to collect money, the bed fee of Ziwei Hospital is about one pound a day, even if a patient does not incur other expenses, it costs 30 pounds a month to live in the hospital, Ziwei Hospital now has nearly 200 beds, but it is still in short supply, you can imagine how high the hospital's monthly income is.

In addition to ensuring the normal operation of the hospital, Roque put all the excess into Abu's laboratory, so Abu has been very happy recently, doing experiments like crazy, and writing letters to colleagues and students in Europe, trying to attract more people to Johannesburg.

For every person called, Roque would give Abu a reward of 100 pounds, and during this time, Abu had already taken more than 1,000 pounds from Roque with this, so Abu was not worried that others would take Abu's job, and being a "human trafficker" was more profitable than being a professor.

In early May, weapons production lines and hydroelectric generators arrived in Nyasaland at the same time via the Shire River.

By the time Roque returned to Nyasaland, the small town of Little Rock on the shores of Lake Nyasaland had turned into a busy construction site.

Why is it called Little Rock Town?

Because Roque's English name is "Locke", so-

Roque's will cancel the names of all the current towns in Nyasaland and name them after new towns, completely erasing the traces of the Zulus and European colonizers, so that the Chinese can thrive in Nyasaland with peace of mind.

Well, including the name Nyasaland, when the time is right, Roque will also change it.

Formerly a barren beach uninhabited, Roch hired Christian Exploration to survey the terrain around Nyasaland and finally decided to build a port in Little Rock to facilitate the reception of supplies sent to Nyasaland via the Shiree River, as well as new immigrants.

Compared with before, it is too easy to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty now, just last month, 13,000 people arrived in Nyasaland, these 13,000 people are not all adult men, more than half of them are children and women, almost all of them are family immigrants to Nyasaland, and even three villages are collectively relocated, Duncan, who once studied shipbuilding in the UK, was appointed by Roque as the mayor of Xiaoshi Town, and Iron Hook was sent by Roque to serve as a sheriff, and Xiaoshi Town has entered a period of rapid development from the beginning.

Half a month ago, Roque asked Henry to ship all the newly produced cement to Nyasaland, which now has 10,000 tons of cement in storage, which is strong enough to support the construction of Little Rock Town and the port.

The construction workers under Christian who built the house in Little Rock were now Chinese and Zulu, and when the Chinese were familiar with the construction process, Roque would remove all Zulus and form an all-Chinese construction company.

In just one month, the port was certainly not fully completed, and now the port has only one berth, which can dock ships of less than 5,000 tons, and when Roque came to Little Rock, a South African company ship was unloading cargo at the berth.

"Locke, do you know how much money I've spent on food this month?" Xiao Si looked resentful, and he finally understood now why Roque agreed so happily at that time.

Roque looked at the buckets of milk and wheat that were being sent to the shore through the pulley, and felt no guilt in his heart: "Cecil, you don't need to buy milk and beef, you just have to stutter—"

"Beef! Do you still want beef? Next month even the wheat will be gone. Xiao Si accidentally fell for Roque's trick, and now he is full of remorse.

"What you said, two years-" Roque will not feel sorry for Xiao Si, there is no inheritance tax in Britain these years, Xiao Si inherited all the property of Cecil Rhodes, so Xiao Si is much richer than Roque, and Roque's net worth is nothing compared to the big nobles in Britain.

"I want to regret it, you can't catch me alone." Xiao Si is a miser at heart, no wonder in the original history after the death of Cecil Rhodes, the South African company collapsed.

In 1888, Cecil Rhodes was able to make a net profit of £5 million a year with the "De Beers Unified Mining Company" and the "South African Unified Gold Mining Company", and now the profits will only be higher.

What is the concept of 5 million pounds, before the Boer War, the Transvaal Republic could not earn so much in a year.

After the war, the British government paid only £3 million in compensation to the Boers.

In 1890, the share capital of the Bank of Baring in London was only £2.9 million.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that Cecil Rhodes was the richest man in the world during this period.

So how much is this little food for Nyasaland worth?

Compared to what Xiao Si can harvest from Nyasaland in the future, it is simply insignificant.

"Are you sure?" Roque confirmed that if Xiao Si really repented, Roque would not force it.

Xiao Si immediately became entangled.

"Hahahaha, let's go see the production line and the hydroelectric generator." Roque no longer continued on this topic, which was too much of a sentimental discussion.

Xiao Si was still reluctant on his face, but he followed Roque honestly.

In a camp next to Little Rock Harbor, freshly arrived machinery was piled up, and heavily armed militias were guarding the camp at gunpoint.

That's right, it's the militia, the local army in Nyasaland, which has not yet been recognized by the British government, so it can only be a militia.

The militia formed with the gold mine security and police as the backbone is certainly more powerful in terms of combat effectiveness than the militia during the Transvaal Republic.

In fact, the difference between the militia and the army is just a title, and with the army in hand, Roque has the confidence to fight against anyone.

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