Before having independent design capabilities, reverse imitation is a good idea, and there is nothing to be ashamed of, before the right to speak, Germany and the United States have done this kind of thing, and if Nyasaland has a strong military industry in the future, it is completely possible to stand on the height of moral standards to blame those countries that are trying to catch up.

In the British colonial system, Roque can easily obtain the world's most advanced technology, can hire the best engineers in the world, Roque himself spares no expense, if this can't create a first-class military industry, then Roque simply buy a piece of tofu and die.

In Johannesburg, Xiao Si's job is to eat, drink and be merry, and when he has nothing to do, he will follow Roque to see some strange new gadgets, such as Bobby Holt's motorcycles, and Xiao Si is very interested.

After getting to know Bobby Holt and them, Xiao Si came to Roque excitedly: "Locke, the things that those young people are tinkering with are very interesting, if you don't like them, give them to me, I'll give them a place in Salisbury, and let them toss." ”

"Who told you I didn't like them?" Roque was really curious, and he didn't know what gave Xiao Si this illusion.

"You didn't drive them out of Purple Town-" Xiao Si thought he could pick up a leak, but when he heard Roque's words, he was immediately disappointed.

"It's not to drive out Ziwei Town, but to build a new factory for them outside Ziwei Town, the production of motorcycles is too noisy, and it is polluting to the environment, so you must stay away from people." Roque patiently explained that it seems that Xiao Si is not stupid and can see the prospect of motorcycles.

That's for sure, although Xiao Si is a little naïve, after all, his vision is not bad, don't forget that the first car in the Transvaal was bought by Xiao Si.

"Really, I thought I could take them to Salisbury." Xiao Si was so excited that he collapsed on the sofa and didn't want to speak.

"If you have this time, you might as well go and see our steel mill and copper mine." Roque can't leave now, or Roque can live on the construction site.

The construction of heavy industry is measured in years, and it is useless for Roque to be in a hurry.

Fortunately, under the guidance of free trade, Nyasaland has no shortage of industrial raw materials, whether it is special steel or various chemical raw materials, as long as Roque is willing to pay, they can be bought from Europe, which is why the Nyasaland Arsenal can start working now.

When it comes to steel mills and copper mines, in fact, the progress is quite good, Roque only set up the project, regardless of the specific affairs, the work of building the factory is in charge of Henry and Xiao Si.

In this regard, Henry and Xiao Si have advantages that Roque does not have, the workers who built the factory are all Zulu, and they are replaced by Roque, probably ruthless to use human lives to pile up, Henry and Xiao Si have no concerns about this, they give the work to Christian, and Christian subcontracts the work to the construction team below, the supervisors and workers of the construction team are all Zulu, and those overseers treat Zulu workers very harshly, and they are more ruthless than whites, so the progress is very fast, and the steel plant is now in full swing construction, Copper mines in Nyasala have already begun producing ore and new smelters have been established.

"I regret it now, the report of Christian Exploration shows that there may be hundreds of millions of tons of copper reserves in Nyasala, should you say something?" Xiao Si regretted thinking of the copper mines in Nyasaland, hundreds of millions of tons of copper reserves, among the best copper mines in the world, and was directly sent to Roque by Xiao Si, thinking of this fact, Xiao Si was heartbroken.

"Come on, there are more copper mines in the Congo Free State, don't worry, those copper mines will be ours sooner or later." Roque is really not in a hurry, the copper reserves in Nyasaland are not hundreds of millions of tons, but at least 1.2 billion tons, if Xiao Si knows the news, it is estimated that he will not be distressed to death.

Of course, this information is now known to Roque, who has banned Christian Exploration from conducting any kind of exploration in Nyasaland, and this information may only be known to Roque in the future.

Relatively speaking, the Congo Free State also has an abundance of copper mines, and Leopold II does not seem to have noticed this.

In 1896, Leopold II passed a secret decree granting 112,000 square miles of fine land in the Congo Free State to the crown domain, and over the next ten years, the territory produced 11,354 tons of rubber and made a profit of $15 million.

"It's not easy to do, Leopold II is expanding his army, and now there are more than 10,000 people, and it is estimated that it will not be easy to deal with Leopold II." Xiao Si was a little worried.

The Portuguese experience in Portuguese East Africa was a wake-up call for all African colonizers, and the big countries of Britain, France and Germany were able to sit still, while small countries such as Belgium and Portugal were sitting on pins and needles.

Compared with Portugal, Belgium was weaker, and the Congo Free State was still the personal domain of Leopold II, so Leopold II began to build an army in the Congo Free State to prevent a tragedy similar to that of Portuguese East Africa in the Congo Free State.

"Hehe, don't pay attention to him, look at the army formed by Leopold II, the officers are white, and the soldiers are all Africans from the Congo Free State, do you think that if we send the Yao people to the Congo Free State, will those Africans listen to Leopold II, or will they listen to the Yao people?" Roque laughed, Leopold II thought he was smart, and Roque saw how he would die in the future.

The tragedy of Leopold II is that the small country is widowed, not to mention the weakness of the Belgian state, the number of citizens is not large, and the entire Congo Free State, in 1904, there were only 1,424 white officials, of which only 900 were Belgians, so it is impossible for such a small number of people to effectively rule the Congo Free State, which covers an area of 2.34 million square kilometers.

Therefore, Leopold II's means of maintaining his rule were mercenaries and concessions.

Mercenaries are well understood, and white mercenaries in Europe, although useful, are expensive and cannot be maintained for a long time, so Leopold II had to form a colonial army dominated by Africans.

In 1884, European countries convened the Berlin Conference to divide Africa, and Leopold II took advantage of the contradictions between the great powers to conduct extra-conference transactions, and obtained the consent of 15 countries including Britain, France, and Germany, and assigned the Congo region to his personal ownership, known as the Congo Free State.

After the establishment of the Congo Free State, through a series of executive orders, Leopold II nationalized all the land in the Congo Free State, and then leased a large area of land together with the monopoly of the land to private management, and in 1891, private monopoly consortiums poured into the Congo Free State, and Katanga, Antwerp, Kasai, and British and Belgian rubber companies successively obtained large concessions.

Relying on mercenaries and concessions, Leopold II was able to maintain his dictatorship in the Congo Free State.

However, Leopold II's rule over the Congo Free State was not strong, and in the original history, the Africans in the Congo Free State did not even have time to resist, Leopold II lost his ownership of the Congo Free State, and in 1908, the Congo Free State was nationalized by Belgium and became a Belgian Congo.

As long as the Portuguese in Portuguese East Africa surrendered, Roque would turn his target to the Congo Free State, and at that time, the soldiers trained by Leopold II would become the sword that overthrew Leopold II's rule.

"Locke, don't wait, send someone over now." Xiao Si can't wait to see the excitement.

"Don't be in a hurry, first subdue the Portuguese, and then go toss the Belgians." Roque has a plan, he can't make too many enemies at the same time, and he can't make the enemy guard against Nyasaland, the enemies must be eliminated one by one, and the food must be eaten one bite at a time.

"Hmph, I don't know what year and month it will be." Xiao Si was a little disappointed, and really wanted to see as soon as possible what Africa would look like after the completion of the "Two Cs Plan".

In fact, there is no need to wait for "that year and that month", after the Yao people in Portuguese East Africa crossed the Zambezi River, they made great progress in a day, and it only took three days to cross Beira, an important city in central Portuguese East Africa, and continue to advance south.

In early October, the Yao besieged the southern Portuguese East African city of Sigubo, and the Portuguese finally admitted that the situation in Portuguese East Africa had completely collapsed and asked the British government to intervene.

This time it was not Smalls who received the telegram, but Roque who received the telegram, which was personally sent by the colonial minister, Joseph Chamberlain.

Joseph Chamberlain wanted Roque to intervene in the name of Baron Nyasaland and bring the two sides to the negotiating table to discuss the possibility of ending the war directly.

Roque laughed when he received the telegram, Joseph Chamberlain is also interesting, this is to make Roque both an athlete and a referee, the end of the Portuguese has come.

Upon receiving the telegram, Roque immediately sent a telegram to Nyasaland and Lorenzo Marques, hoping that the Yao and Portuguese would negotiate in Johannesburg.

The Yao people reacted quickly, and immediately after receiving the telegram, they sent a delegation headed by the scumbags, but the Portuguese delegation did not arrive for a long time.

Roque chartered the Jinshan Hotel and arranged for both the Yao and the Portuguese to be at the Jinshan Hotel.

On the evening of his arrival in Johannesburg, the scum secretly came to the town of Ziwei.

"Sir, your faithful servant Scum salutes you, you are like the god of the mountains in the sky—" Scum said incoherently when he saw Roque.

"Stop!" Roque stopped in time, this kind of commercial blowing is meaningless, and it is only right to negotiate a plan to kill the Portuguese as soon as possible.

"What do you want?" Roque still asked about the requirements of the scum first, although this is not important, but the process that should be taken still has to be followed.

"Listen to you, sir, whatever you ask us to ask for, we will ask for it." The scum is very obedient, so Roque is embarrassed to be too scumbag.

"Two plans, the first is to completely drive the Portuguese out of Portuguese East Africa, but then the war may be protracted, and the Portuguese will not be willing to lose, and will mobilize troops from the mainland to talk about the continuation of the war - the second is to divide Portuguese East Africa into three, and the northern region will establish the kingdom of Mweni Matapa dominated by the Yao people, and the southern region will maintain Portuguese rule, and the central region will be a quarantine area, separating the Portuguese from the Yao, so as to calm the dispute." Roque let the scum choose for himself.

From Roque's standpoint, Roque is definitely willing to let the scum choose the second.

The second option, the quarantine zone in the central part of the country, was prepared by Roque for Nyasaland, and if both the Yao and the Portuguese agreed to the second plan, then the northern part of Portuguese East Africa would become the territory of the Yao people, and the Yao people could toss whatever they wanted.

Choosing the second option, the Portuguese could still maintain their rule in southern Portuguese East Africa, although the Portuguese suffered heavy losses, but they did not completely fail, and still retained a part of the colony, and because of the isolation zone between them and the Yao, there was no threat from the Yao people in the future.

For Nyasaland, through the quarantine zone in central Portuguese East Africa, Nyasaland could gain the coveted access to the sea, even if Roque paid a part of the economic cost, Roque did not hesitate to do so.

"Lord, listen to you, you let the scum choose, and the scum will choose." The scum is very on the road, and he doesn't think about which of the two plans is more beneficial to the Yao people.

Five months ago, either of these two plans was dreamed of by the scumbag, so now the scumbag really has no opinion, and either plan is beyond the scumbag's previous assumptions.

"Well, in order to quell the war as soon as possible, we will choose the second one." Roque is very satisfied with the attitude of the scum, as long as the slag continues, Roque will give the slag more benefits.

"Okay, Lord, we need more rifles, more grenades, more mines—" The scum suddenly became agitated.

Roque wondered, this has to be negotiated, why do you need so many weapons?

By the way, about grenades and mines, both of these weapons can already be produced in the Nyasaland arsenal, in fact, the technical content of grenades and mines is not high, the key is whether the technicians pay attention to it, the mines are better, and European countries actually do not pay attention to grenades.

Roque was well aware of the value of grenades, so at the beginning of the establishment of the Nyasaland Arsenal, Roque ordered the Nyasaland Arsenal to include grenades in the focus of research.

"We need more weapons to drive the Portuguese out of our land and form the great kingdom of Mweni Matapa—" The scum continued to agitate.

Roque almost didn't get out of breath, what he said just now was in vain, and the scum didn't listen to it at all.

"Shut up, what is the kingdom of Mweni Matapa later, now end the war first, and when the war is over, if you still don't want to let the Portuguese go, then continue when the time comes." Roque wants to get the sea mouth first, and his resentment against the sea mouth has moved the world.

An unrestricted access to the sea, no matter how the value of Nyasaland can not be overstated, Roque's ideal outlet to the sea is the Zambezi River Basin, as long as the Zambezi River Basin is in hand, then Nyasaland will really enter a period of rapid development.