Every time he returns to Nyasaland, Roque makes new discoveries, and Nyasaland's progress can really be described as changing with each passing day.

When Roque first got Nyasaland, there were less than 100,000 people in Nyasaland, most of them Africans, and less than 1,000 whites.

After Roque took over Nyasaland, he took all the whites and Africans away from Xiao Si, and began to emigrate from the Qing Dynasty to a large extent.

At that time, Xiao Si did not approve of Roque's approach, and even Xiao Si still had the intention of waiting to see Roque's jokes, because Xiao Si did not know how easy it was to immigrate from the Qing Dynasty, nor did he know the potential of the Chinese, so Xiao Si once thought that Roque would eventually rely on Africans to develop Nyasaland.

Or, there will be no development at all.

It has been less than two years since Roque got Nyasaland, and the population of Nyasaland has exceeded 300,000, and when Roque got Nyasaland, Nyasaland did not have a city of more than 10,000 people, no railways and roads, and Little Rock had only a rudimentary wharf and only two or three fishing boats.

There are now two cities in Nyasaland with more than 10,000 people, and in addition to Little Rock, Port Edward has a population of more than 10,000.

There are nearly 100 colonies with more than 1,000 people in Nyasaland, and these colonies are all over the territory of Nyasaland, from the area around Lake Nyasa, which has the highest degree of development, to the North Sea region, which has just become a part of Nyasaland, there are colonial development points composed of Chinese, and these colonial development points have the opportunity to develop into cities.

When Roque took over Nyasaland, Nyasaland's industrial base was basically equal to zero, not to mention tractors and marine police boats, Nyasaland was difficult to build even wooden fishing boats, those Africans were basically still in a state of slash-and-burn, and South African companies were still taking care of Rhodesia and not caring about Nyasaland at all.

Now, Nyasaland can already produce trucks.

Xiao Si hadn't seen a truck before, so when he saw the truck, Xiao Si looked at Roque like he was looking at Superman-

No, Superman hasn't appeared yet, so Xiao Si looks at Roque like he is looking at God!

"Unbelievable, huh? Actually, there is nothing unbelievable, after a while Nyasaland will be able to produce cars, remember the car you gave to Henry, I will find someone to dismantle it, and when Nyasaland can produce cars, I will give you one. "Roque is very generous, Rhodesia will be a big customer of Nyasaland in the future, and Roque is sharpening his knives now.

Compared to Nyasaland, Rhodesia's biggest bottleneck is people, and the only way to solve this problem is to increase the efficiency of work, in addition to increasing the population.

It is impossible to increase the population in a short period of time, the Transvaal cannot attract more new immigrants, and Rhodesia does not have to think about it, so it can only use a large number of machinery to make up for the lack of manpower.

Xiao Si took the initiative to talk to Roke Lai Niyasaland, originally to investigate the actual efficiency of the tractor, if the tractor can improve the efficiency of arable land, Xiao Si will buy it in large quantities.

So the first stop for Xiao Si and Roque after coming to Nyasaland was the tractor factory.

The tractor factory in Nyasaland is located on the shores of Lake Nyassa, not far from Little Rock, and in order to improve efficiency, Roque built a small section of railroad and a small wharf for the tractor factory, although the wharf has only one berth, but can dock 10,000 tons of giant ships, the same size as the port of Little Rock.

The tractor factory in Nyasaland now has more than a thousand workers, because the production of engines is not available, now it can only produce less than ten tractors a day, and now the production of cars also needs engines, so in a short time, the production of tractors may also decline, Rudolf Diesel has tried everything to increase the production of engines, but still cannot meet the demand for tractors and trucks.

In fact, ten units is already a lot, on a monthly basis, it can already produce 300 units per month, which is absolutely world-class in 1903, except for Nyasaland, in 1903 all the countries in the world combined, the monthly output is estimated to be less than 300 units.

"Is the efficiency of the tractor really as good as advertised?" Xiao Si was still skeptical about the efficiency of the tractor.

"Mr. Diesel, you can introduce me." Roque did not want to answer such a retarded question, the efficiency of the tractor was not high, and the agricultural company of Nanyasaland was not the culprit.

Now all the tractors produced must be supplied to the Nyasaland Agricultural Company on a priority basis, in addition to the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, only the Johannesburg Agricultural Association has purchased two for testing, and the two tractors are still working, how to say the efficiency, under the same conditions, the efficiency of the tractor is 50 times that of the horse.

"Mr. Rhodesey, there is no doubt about the efficiency of the tractor, last month, we at the Nyasaland Agricultural Company developed a total of 300,000 acres of land, and the efficiency of the tractor is very important to develop so much." Rudolf Diesel patiently explains, facts speak louder than words.

Developing the land is not an easy task, the terrain of Nyasaland is actually a bit complicated, basically the terrain of the transition from savannah to rainforest, it is very difficult to turn forests and grasslands into arable land, many of the terrain are hillsides and hills, and it is really difficult to develop the land without tractors.

Of course, Xiao Si knows how difficult it is to develop land, Rhodesia's millions of square kilometers, and the cultivated land now developed accounts for less than one percent of the total arable land, otherwise Rhodesia's agriculture would not be based on grazing, and the farms around Johannesburg have proven the advantages of targeted grazing over nomadic herding.

Of course, Xiao Si also wants to graze at fixed points, but Rhodesia does not have the advantages of Nyasaland and Johannesburg, so fixed grazing can only be thought about.

The advent of tractors may change this, which is why Xiao Si is so urgent.

"Cecil, you always know that Nyasaland is now less and less dependent on Rhodesia, and in the past, Nyasala needed Rhodesia to provide food, but now it is basically not needed, and this is the importance of technology." Luo Ke still nodded more or less, as for whether Xiao Si could listen to it, that was Xiao Si's problem.

Sometimes I have to sigh that creation makes people, the same car, Xiao Si is tired of playing and then gives it away.

It's still that car, in Henry's hands, it can only be parked in the garage and eaten ashes, and it can't produce the slightest value, and Henry has to maintain a maintenance team, and the cost of spending is distressed when she sees it.

The same car, in the hands of Roque, Roque organized people to dismantle the car, then improve it, and finally put it into production, the difference between this is indeed not a sentence or two sentences can be explained.

"Yes, everyone who knows about Nyasaland is amazed at the development of Nyasaland, so Locke, sell me 50 first, and that kind of truck, I will also have 50, no, 100." Xiao Si placed an order on the spot.

Rudolf Diesel's expression was a little embarrassed.

Roque knows why, the tractor is better, the truck has just been put into production now, and the monthly output is estimated to not be a hundred, and now the Nyasaland Agricultural Company and the Northern Rhodesia Division have sent people to stay in the truck factory, and when one is produced, one will be driven away, and there is no extra truck to sell to Xiao Si at all.

But it doesn't work if you don't sell it, after all, Nyasaland was given to Roque by Xiaosi, although Cecil Rhodes's purpose in giving Nyasaland to Roque was not pure, and this love still has to be accepted.

"Cecil, the tractor is fine, the truck really doesn't work, the quality of the truck is not stable enough now, let's talk about it later." Roque is half-truthful.

Regarding quality, this is actually a very magical question, and many people may think that the quality of the cars that have just been produced in this era must be very unstable, and it is normal to break down while running on the road.

It is true that the quality of the car was unstable when it was first born, but now it has been 25 years since Carl Benz invented the car, and 75 years have passed since the steam car invented by James in England, and the current car has been greatly improved compared with the car invented by Carl Benz, whether it is the engine or the materials used in the car, the current car has made great progress compared with the previous one, the Ford Model T produced by Ford in 1908, Many parts are still usable after decades.

The same is true for the tractors produced in Nyasaland, Roque's requirements for product quality are endless, the tractor factory has been continuously improving the tractors, every week, the engineers of the tractor factory will test the tractors of the agricultural company, not only to detect the working condition of the tractor, but also to ask the tractor operators of the agricultural company to encounter the status in the process of using the tractor.

Since the tractor in Nyasaland was finalized, it has now been improved more than a dozen times, so the performance of the tractor will be better and better.

Of course, the same is true for trucks, Roque's requirements for trucks are also endless, and unlike tractors, Roque's requirements for trucks are not only to be able to pull, but also to be able to run fast, but also to be more reliable and durable.

As for fuel consumption, Roque is not worried about this, it is only 1903, oil is far from the extent of controlling the world economy, oil is very cheap all over the world, and now Roque has not yet had the heart to toss oil, and after a while, as the mechanization of Nyasaland is becoming more and more popular, Roque must also prepare in advance.

"Don't talk nonsense, the Northern Rhodesia Division has begun to equip trucks, and now you tell me that the quality of the trucks is not stable enough, if the quality is unstable, will you buy trucks to equip the Northern Rhodesia Division with real money?" Xiao Si didn't believe in Roque's words at all, whoever has something good will stick to his own people first.

"I really didn't lie to you—" Roque was speechless, and there was no way to explain it, just at this moment, a truck carrying parts for the tractor factory stopped at the gate of the tractor factory and could not start, and the engineers of the tractor factory quickly surrounded him.

This is not a problem at the tractor factory.