The reason for the failure to start was not that the truck was malfunctioning, but that the truck driver accidentally injured his jaw while starting the engine and needed to be taken to the hospital for treatment.

When the engine of the car starts, it needs to let the crankshaft reach a certain speed in order to start the engine smoothly.

At this time, the engine had a rotating interface on the outside, and when it started, the driver was required to use the external crank to shake the crankshaft to reach the running speed.

So the driver in this period is a manual job, this is not actually a woman, but the strength of women is too small, they can't start the engine at all, even if it is a man, it generally takes two people to cooperate in order to start the engine smoothly.

Roque has never driven a car yet, and he doesn't know how the car starts is so primitive, so Roque immediately arranged a task for Rudolf Diesel to change the way the engine starts, replace manpower with electricity, and drive the engine to start through the motor.

In this way, the driver only needs to sit in the cab and twist the key, and the engine will start smoothly.

"I'm afraid it's difficult, the current motor is too big, and it's difficult to apply it to the engine." Rudolf Diesel was very difficult, he studied diesel engines, not electric motors, and now the study of the whole vehicle is already very complicated, and he really can't afford to start from scratch in a new field.

"I didn't say that you should do your own research, you won't, you can go to someone who will do it." Roque didn't worry that no one would, but if he couldn't, Roque sent someone to find Nikola Tesla, who was a great expert in playing with electricity.

Adding an electric motor to a car will definitely increase the cost of the car, which may not be necessary in the eyes of many people, but Roque knows the value of the motor, so even if it will increase the cost, Roque will pile it up, not only for the sake of truck drivers, but for the technology in this area, and the concept of insatiability.

Those who can afford to buy a car don't care about the cost of it.

"Sir, we don't need to do our own research on everything." Rudolf Diser has a different opinion, perhaps in Rudolf Disser's opinion, Nyasaland can do the current level of mechanics is almost the extreme, and it is impossible to ask for more.

"Rudolph, just do what you have to do." Roque didn't want to explain to Rudolph Desel, and it was difficult to explain these things to him as a technomaniac, just like the Chinese in Nyasaland, Roque never told them why they had to line up for dinner, queuing had nothing to do with morality, and it had nothing to do with quality, Roque used mandatory regulations to gradually regulate the behavior of Chinese people.

This is not a generalization, for the Chinese who have become adults, Roque is indeed too lazy to explain, and for those Chinese who are being educated in school, Roque is still very patient.

Of course, Roque will not overemphasize the role of morality and quality, the schools in Nyasaland are not to cultivate polite Taoist gentlemen, and the Taoist gentlemen in these years are very disadvantaged, Roque hopes that the next generation of Chinese will have a strong pioneering spirit, so that Nyasaland can be competitive internationally.

Turning back, Roque went to the shipyard on the shores of Lake Niassa.

Shipyards are now producing marine police boats at the same time as they are starting to replicate freighters.

Last month, the shipyard tried to produce a 3,000-ton inland waterway cargo ship, and when Roque arrived at the shipyard, the shipyard was replicating a 5,000-ton ocean-going freighter.

"We are not in high demand for cargo ships now, and the existing migrant ships are also enough to use, we try to use diesel engines on ocean-going ships, if we can succeed, then we can undertake orders, in fact, now the Germans have contacted us, hoping to buy police officers equipped with police boats, but we did not agree, if the police ships are sold to the Germans, then it may have an impact on our interests in the North Sea." Duncan's expression was unusually proud, and if he wanted to, the shipyard could now earn foreign exchange.

Well, in fact, foreign exchange is not attractive to Nyasaland at all, the currency with the strongest purchasing power in the world is the pound sterling, compared with the pound, the Deutsche Mark is a notch lower in terms of purchasing power and stability, so Duncan is basically not interested in German orders.

"It's right not to sell, we are not short of money now, and the shipyard mainly needs to meet our own needs first." Roque also did not agree to sell the police boats, the North Sea is now Nyasaland and Tanganyika, and the Germans can only buy the police boats in Tanganyika, so Roque will not make trouble for himself.

Although it seems that the fishing resources in the North Sea are still abundant, and the fishermen of Nyasaland cannot cross the border to fish, but no one can say what the future will be, with the increase in the population of Nyasaland, the scale of the North Sea fishery must be getting bigger and bigger.

In the North Sea, the Germans now have only one patrol boat of less than 100 tons, equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns, which is not enough in front of the 300-ton marine police boats, and the Nyasaland marine police boats are to deal with the Germans to put it bluntly, and selling the ship to the Germans is tantamount to capital the enemy.

Now Germany is not an enemy of Nyasaland, and even against the Congo Free State - the Belgian Congo, Nyasaland and Tanganyika still cooperate, the future is not easy to say, others do not know, Roque knows very well in his heart that there are only ten years left before the outbreak of the First World War.

"Our research on marine police ships has basically stopped, and at present, there is basically no opponent for this level of marine police ships in Africa, so the shipyard will put all its resources on ocean-going freighters, hoping that our ocean-going freighters can be sold to Europe, and then we will be qualified to take a breath." Duncan's pressure is also very great, and Roque is like a southern tyrant, wielding a whip to keep Duncan's and other officials' feet from touching the ground.

Of course, the effect is also obvious, the development of Nyasaland is obvious to all, it is only less than two years, if Nyasaland is given 20 years, what can Nyasaland develop?

Roque is looking forward to it.

"Our immigrants have now reached a bottleneck period, recently the Qing State has increased its control over immigration, and there are fewer and fewer immigrants who can successfully reach Nyasaland, and the immigration ships that arrived in Nyasaland last month are basically not full, and the next immigrants may be less and less, if we want to get more human resources, we have to think of other ways." Duncan, the head of the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, is now facing no less difficulties.

A population of 300,000 sounds like a lot, but it is still very inconspicuous in the whole territory of Nyasaland, and after obtaining the Zambezi River valley and the coast of the North Sea, the area of Nyasala has exceeded 400,000 square kilometers, and not even a single square kilometer can be fitted, and there is still a long way to go from Roque's request.

Roque envisions a minimum of 20 million people in Nyasaland to ensure Nyasaland's future development.

Before the First World War, according to Roque's vision, at least three to five million immigrants from the Qing Dynasty would have to be immigrated from the Qing Dynasty, which was not too high compared to the 450 million people of the Qing Dynasty.

In fact, there are quite a few, compared to 450 million, 4.5 million is one percent, and no country will watch so many people lose their population.

However, what Roque didn't expect was that now the total population of Nyasaland was just 300,000, and the Qing State had already noticed this problem.

Qing Guo's reaction was much faster than Roque had imagined.

"Find a way, let Liang Dingxin find a way, cooperate with the smugglers and pirates in East Asia, no matter what, in the next two years, the population of Nyasaland must reach at least 1 million, otherwise neither industry nor agriculture can be developed." Roque also has no way, whether it is to develop industry or agriculture, a large number of people are needed, and the importance of population is known by looking at the current Rhodesia.

Xiao Si proposed to Roque before, hoping that Roque could let some Chinese go to Rhodesia.

Of course, Roque would not refuse such a request, so although Nyasaland's own human resources were not enough, Roque still sent more than 5,000 people to Rhodesia, most of whom were concentrated in the Luangwa River basin in Rhodesia, and they built five large colonial development sites near the Luangwa River basin, and had reclaimed nearly 100,000 acres of land, and converted nearly 500,000 acres of mountains and grasslands into pastures suitable for grazing.

This efficiency is far more than that of the whites and Africans in Rhodesia, and compared with the Chinese, the farming technology of the whites and Africans is really not good.

The Chinese are not so picky, whether it is mountains, hills or swamps, in the hands of the Chinese, they can basically be developed into fertile land, which does not seem obvious enough now, because there is too much land suitable for reclamation, and the Chinese do not need to gnaw those hard bones, and when the land suitable for development is exhausted, the Chinese will start to the mountains, hills and swamps, just like around Little Rock now.

When Roque first got Nyasaland, there was basically no trace of development in Little Rock, as long as a few primitive tribes of African natives were engaged in a primitive life of slash-and-burn farming near Little Rock.

When the agricultural company first developed Little Rock, it also first focused on the easily cultivated land, and when the easily cultivated land was exhausted, the agricultural company began to organize its personnel to march into the mountains and hills.

It's only been two years now, and Little Rock is surrounded by fertile land, and the mountains and hills that were thought to be unsuitable for development are now endless plains.

This kind of efficiency, whites and Africans don't have to think about it.

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