Nyasaland still uses steam power, and it will take some time to use internal combustion engines.

The steam train was very slow, 500 kilometers from Little Rock to Port Edward, and the train ran for a whole day, and it was just early in the morning when it arrived in Port Edward.

Port Edward in the early morning, shrouded in a thin morning mist, the scale of the railway station is not large, there are only two platforms, the buildings are masonry or reinforced concrete, Port Edward has high requirements for buildings, all the exterior walls of the buildings must be painted, so the whole railway station looks very beautiful, unique in this era.

The ground of the railway station has been hardened, the sanitation is very clean, these cleaning are Africans, they are all hired workers, not permanent residents of Port Edward, the railway station will provide collective dormitories for African employees, these Africans do not have the right to live in Port Edward, of course they cannot bring their families to Port Edward, Roque will not relax his control over this aspect, in the future, with the increase of Chinese, the Chinese will gradually replace these Africans, Roque will not even leave the opportunity to work for Africans.

The administrator of Port Edward was Gauder's younger brother Gordon, a position not appointed by the British government, but by the Nyasaland Agricultural Development Corporation, and Port Edward was nominally land leased by Roque from the Yao people, over which the British government had no jurisdiction.

Therefore, Port Edward has a great degree of freedom, and basically Roque can toss and turn at will, and Roque also intends to move the tractor factory and truck factory to Port Edward, which is more conducive to external sales.

"We got access to the sea almost at the same time, Bella's foundation is better than Port Edward's, but now Bella's construction progress has been left behind by Port Edward, sometimes I really wonder why the same Africans have such a big gap." After Xiao Si saw the train station in front of him, he was still a little depressed.

Nyasaland and Rhodesia were both access to the sea, and when Roque took over the Zambezi River Basin, Port Edward was still a wasteland, and then Roque spent more than a year building Port Edward from scratch.

In the future, Roque will increase its investment in Port Edward and make Port Edward a business card of Nyasaland.

When Smalls took over Bella, Bella was already a port with a better foundation than Port Edward.

Therefore, Xiao Si did not completely renovate Bella at the beginning, but tinkered with the original foundation.

This does seem to save money, but when Port Edward is completed, Bella will immediately be dwarfed, and Xiao Si must be a little irritated, so completely rebuild Bella, which wastes more money.

It can only be said that there is still money and willfulness.

"It's not just Africans who build Port Edward, since October last year, at least half of the Chinese who immigrated to Nyasaland have stayed in the Zambezi River Valley, and Port Edward now has more than 10,000 Chinese, without them, there would be no current Port Edward." Roque did not rely on Africans, who in the process of building Port Edward, could only take on those heavy manual work, and Africans could not do a little more delicate work.

This is not an exaggeration, Africans work is indeed indescribable, take the simplest building a house as an example, Africans can only move bricks, even the work of building a wall Africans are not competent, even if it is supervised by the supervisor, Africans are likely to build a wall crookedly, this has nothing to do with technology, it is completely caused by a lack of responsibility, and it will not be like this with a little heart.

In Port Edward, many Africans can only do those tasks that are not very technical, such as digging a ditch, cleaning and so on, and even then Port Edward has to use a lot of overseers, otherwise Africans will not be able to do this work.

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 will arrange staff to clean the entire city, and maintain it, Gordon will organize people to inspect the sanitation work from time to time, and if it is found that it is not qualified, then Gordon will directly deduct money in accordance with the provisions of the contract.

As for how Christian's company ensures the health of the city, Gordon doesn't care about this, Gordon only needs the result, even if Christian throws those cheating and slippery Africans into the sea, it has nothing to do with Gordon, and those African employees are not Nyasaland, Gordon doesn't care whether they live or die.

Out of the railway station, there is a highway in the square in front of the station to the wharf, the road surface of the road uses asphalt, these asphalt are directly purchased from the Americas, Port Edward just began to build when there was no construction machinery, the roadbed is smashed out by Africans with stones little by little, and then paved with asphalt mixed with small stones, such road standards, compared with the 21st century is not much worse.

Port Edward is not very commercial, there are no shops on either side of the station square and the road leading to the port, large tracts of reserved vacant land are now covered with green belts, scattered residential areas are far from the road, most of them are temporary dormitories, and only permanent residents of Port Edward are eligible for residential land.

Compared to when Roque was in Cape Town, the price of the house is much lower now, and it only costs 30 pounds to build a two-storey wooden house with an attic in Port Edward, which is all a cost of materials, and the merchant who sells the materials will build the house for free for the customer, unlike Europe in the 21st century, the cheapest thing in Port Edward now is labor.

As far as Gordon knows, Christian has a lot of African hired laborers purchased from the Yao people, and the status of these hired workers is actually similar to that of slaves, and selling these workers is also the most important income of the Yao people now.

Although Roque has not been to Port Edward, but Port Edward also has Roque's official residence, which is located on a peninsula not far from the Port Edward Police Station, which is said to have been built by the Portuguese in the past.

Roque is now traveling, there are hundreds of entourage, servants, security personnel and so on, the empty barracks soon became lively, Roque and Xiao Si they slept on the train for a night, and now they are very energetic, so they went to the balcony with Gordon to chat.

"The scum is very arrogant now, he used to hope to restore the kingdom of Mweni Matapa, but now he never mentions it, and he became the emperor of the soil in Marupa, it is said that now the scum has more than 100 wives and sixty or seventy children, and I don't know how many there will be in the future." Gordon mentions the scum with disdain and envy, this is the rhythm of a man creating a nation.

Of course, what Gordon envies is definitely not the group of wives of the scum, and Gordon's aesthetics of the scum are really unacceptable.

Roque doesn't know how to describe the behavior of the scum, the current Yao people, still live a primitive tribal life like the same together, without the slightest change, so that the Yao people are actually independent now, but when the territory of the Yao people is mentioned in the Transvaal, it is still referred to as Portuguese East Africa, because the territory of the Yao people is not a country at all.

It is estimated that the scum doesn't know how to build a country, maybe in the scumbag's understanding, the country is similar to an enlarged version of the tribe.

"Hehe, African—" Xiao Si smiled, and a sense of superiority arose.

Roque is also hehe, it is not a matter for the scum to go on like this, Roque still has to find a way to help.

It's not to help the scum establish a sound country, but to help the scum have a stronger strength, so that he can better serve Roque, after all, in Roque's plan, scum and his Yao people are still very important, and 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 the scum and ask him to come over, I think this guy has itchy skin-" Roque was very dissatisfied with the scumbag's lack of progress.

It doesn't matter if you don't want to make progress, Roque is the whip that makes the scum progress.

"Beware of tigers, I've heard the story of the farmer and the snake." Xiao Si reminded Roque.

Roque thought about it carefully, and then remembered that the story of the farmer and the snake was from Aesop's Fables, and it was too deeply rooted in the heart.

"It doesn't matter, no matter how powerful the Yao people are, they don't want to turn out my palm." Luo Ke controls the lifeblood of the Yao clan, as long as the Yao clan does not have its own military industry, no matter how strong the Yao clan is, they can only work for Roque honestly.

Xiao Si probably didn't understand why the Yao people turned out Luo Ke's palm-

Or, in other words, why can the Xia Yao people stand in the palm of Roque's hand-

So I was confused.

Gordon understood what Roque meant, and raised his hand to call someone to come and send a telegram, and continued to report to Roque about the situation in Madagascar.

Austin Pence - now it's not called Austin Pence, it's called Robert, Robert Polley -

When Robert Polley left for Madagascar, it was Port Edward who provided logistical support to Robert Polly and his family.

Robert Polly and the others are going well, forming a mercenary force of about 1,500 people in Madagascar, fighting several battles with the locals of the Central Highlands of Madagascar, and now they have stabilized the situation in the mines and are making their way to the Central Highlands.

This matter is not without profit for Roque, the ore mined from the mine of the former Mr. President will be handed over to the Nyasaland Agricultural Company for processing and sales, and the profit in this is still very large, and the mining company invested by Roque and Xiao Si and Henry is preparing to set up an ore refinery in Madagascar to process the ore and then sell it to the outside world for higher profits.