On January 1, 1905, Baron Nyasaland finally had a rightful first successor to the title.

Philip wanted the child to be named Bowen, which means "cultured aristocrat".

Neither Roque nor Phyllis liked the name, and Roque was too embarrassed to bring it up directly, so Phyllis unceremoniously vetoed it directly, and then named the child "Gavin".

Gavin's name means "Eagle of Victory", and the name carries Roark and Phyllis's best wishes to Lunn.

"Gavin Locke, that's a good name-" Roark was very satisfied with the name, and in the future, Roque's descendants will probably use "Locke" as a family form.

"He's so cute, with the same dark hair as you." Phyllis looked at Gavin intently, and Roque could feel that his status in the family would plummet in the future.

In fact, the newborn child is not good-looking at all, the hair is sparse and not black at all, and the body is covered with vernix and looks dirty.

Dr. Kay Mallory didn't even know the effect of vernix, and as soon as Gavin was born, Dr. Kay Mallory had to wash off the vernix on Gavin's body.

Roque decisively refused, the original function of vernix was to protect the fetal skin from the effects of amniotic fluid infiltration, without this layer of vernix, the fetal skin would ulcerate.

After the fetus is born, the vernix can still play a role in protecting the baby's skin, which will reduce the breeding of skin diseases, and generally within a day or two, this layer of vernix will be absorbed by the baby, so there is no need to wash it at all.

This is already basically common knowledge in the twenty-first century, but at the beginning of the twentieth century, the best doctors in Johannesburg did not know about it.

"Yes, I think so too - would you like an apple?" Roque is very diligent at this time, and big things have to be put aside, and the children and wives are the most important.

"I don't want to eat—" Phyllis was still weak, and she had to eat every meal that Dr. Mallory had carefully prepared for each meal.

Roque didn't mind, he peeled an apple by himself and ate it slowly, but as soon as he ate a few bites, Phyllis couldn't help it, so Roque handed Phyllis the half-eaten apple to Phyllis, and he was peeling another one himself.

Then Phyllis was very dissatisfied, and insisted that she would not eat what Roque had eaten, and would eat a new one herself.

Roque doesn't argue, the eldest child in the world is the biggest.

At noon, Henry, Xiao Si, and Owen would take turns to come over to eat with Roque, Roque was very happy, and Lacey and Karina often came to accompany Phyllis, but Roque was disgusted and stayed at home for less than a week, and was rushed to work by Phyllis.

In fact, the class is really nothing good, and it's not that, during the time when Roque was at home, the training of the new 1st Cavalry Division was carried out normally, and after the implementation of the democratic representative system in Johannesburg, the city government also began to allocate funds to the new 1st Cavalry Division, and the scale of the new 1st Cavalry Division has now expanded to 2,000 people.

The scale of the new 1st Cavalry Division is expanding, the garrison led by General Hopkins is being downsized, when the Transvaal Provisional Government was established, General Hopkins had nearly 20,000 men under his command, and now with the expansion of the new 1st Cavalry Division, most of General Hopkins' troops have been transferred to the Cape and Natal, and there are only less than 8,000 people left in the Transvaal.

If the Transvaal had given all its military expenses to the new 1st Cavalry Division, the size of the new 1st Cavalry Division would have been easily expanded to 5,000 men, which would be enough to deal with any situation that arose in the Transvaal.

Roque had very strict requirements for the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division, especially the newly formed artillery unit, and Roque pinned great hopes on this unit.

Artillery is known as the god of war, without artillery troops are incomplete, can only be in southern Africa rats carry guns in the nest, if Roque wants to make a difference in the First World War, it is necessary to pay attention to the construction of artillery units, so the artillery units in the new first cavalry division have a very high starting standard, all 350 artillery officers and soldiers, more than 10 percent of the highly educated members have a university degree.

"We are now cooperating with the medical school to organize forces to compile a firing table, but the professors of the medical school are not professional artillery experts, this work is progressing very slowly, and our current firing table is only limited to 75 mm infantry rapid-fire guns, lack of large-caliber artillery for research, can you buy some 105 mm or 120 mm artillery, 75 mm rapid-fire guns are still too small for divisional troops, our companies are now equipped with 60 mm caliber mortars, The 75-mm rapid-fire gun is quite suitable for the regimental level troops, but the divisional level troops are really a bit shabby. A few years ago, the mainstream caliber of artillery in European countries was still 60 to 90 mm, and now it has rapidly climbed to a caliber of more than 100 mm, 75 mm caliber, compared with those large-caliber guns, it is like a toy.

"First of all, the current artillery will be trained, and the large caliber will be talked about later." Roque is not in a hurry, of course large-caliber artillery is good, everyone wants it, as long as it is still a question of suitability, the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division is not necessary to be equipped with large-caliber heavy artillery now, and in Africa, there is simply no opponent worthy of using heavy artillery.

Of course, this does not mean that Roque does not pay attention to heavy artillery, the Nyasaland Arsenal is currently working on a 120 mm caliber gun, which combines the advantages of Krupp and Miss 75 of France, and is estimated to be ready for the troops in two years.

Relatively speaking, Roque attaches more importance to mortars, and heavy artillery, even compared with Miss 75, mortars are also huge, even Miss 75, which is known for its lightness and compactness, has a total weight of more than a ton, and the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal tried every means to improve the 75mm rapid-fire gun, but it was only to reduce the weight from about 1.2 tons to about one ton.

On the other hand, the 60 mm caliber mortar, the weight of the whole gun did not exceed 40 kg, after separating the barrel and the back seat, two soldiers could easily carry it to accompany the infantry action, and Miss 75 needed at least one squad of people to push, pull and drag to move, considering the bad traffic conditions of this era, if it was rainy, it was not easy to go up to a platoon.

Therefore, Roque's ideal infantry support weapon is a mortar, as for Miss 75, it is a transitional product for the Northern Rhodesia Division and the newly formed First Cavalry Division, and Roque's ideal divisional support artillery caliber should be above 120 mm, Miss 75 is too "petite".

In 1901, Germany first knew that the French army was equipped with Miss 75, and then was shocked by the rate of fire of Miss 75, at this time, the average rate of fire of the mainstream Armstrong breech guns in European countries was two rounds per minute, and the Miss 75 equipped with the stationed aircraft could fire fifteen shells per minute, and the extreme state could reach an astonishing rate of fire of thirty rounds per minute.

Because of the hatred of the Franco-Prussian War, France refused to license the drawings of Miss 75 to Germany, and Germany was forced to have no choice but to embark on the path of large-caliber and long-range.

Large-caliber long range is easy to say, but it is difficult to achieve, and most of the artillery of this era, including the gun carriage, weighed about one to four tons, and the reason was simple: larger guns, pack horses could not be dragged by them.

This is not a problem in Nyasaland, because Nyasaland now has trucks, and theoretically, no matter how heavy the artillery, Nyasaland's trucks can be dragged and run as they please.

So Nyasaland has an absolute advantage in the development of heavy artillery, heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm, compared with Miss 75, the lethal effect of heavy artillery is no longer dependent on the steel balls carried in the warhead and the fragmentation of a single head, but a whole high-explosive grenade stuffed with explosives, this grenade will produce a huge shock wave when it explodes, and then the enemy will not be killed, but shocked to death, and there is nowhere to escape from hiding in bunkers.

"The brothers have worked very hard, they have to train during the day, they have to study at night, they work hard every day, many brothers are memorizing when they eat, our brothers have not been to school for a few days, and now they can only work hard." Suo Chao can't help it, the cultural gap is not something that can be caught up in a day or two, fortunately, the artillery does not need to learn systematically, only need to memorize by rote, which is much simpler.

"You have to carry it when you should carry it, and if you become a qualified artilleryman, your salary will be doubled, your benefits will be better, and your hard work will be worth it." Roque will definitely not feel distressed at this time, he will be beaten if he is backward, and if he wants not to be beaten, he will work harder than others.

Those college graduates of the new First Cavalry Division, each of whom can get an annual salary of more than 100 pounds per year, this salary is not low in the British mainland, at least a middle class, in the new First Cavalry Division, the officers and soldiers basically have no place to spend money, that is to say, they can get home as much as they earn these salaries, if they are not willing, Roque can only hehe.

The salary of the soldiers in this era is actually very low, the soldier can only get a salary of 12 shillings a week, and it is only 31 pounds and four shillings a year, Johannesburg is a colony, the soldier will have a special allowance, the salary will be higher, the military budget of the new 1st Cavalry Division is sufficient, the annual salary of each soldier can reach about 50 pounds, and the salary of the artillery will reach 100 pounds, what is there to be dissatisfied!

"That is, in recent months, our brothers have basically moved their families to Johannesburg, many brothers do not want salaries, they prefer to exchange their salaries for land, and buy a farm for their families, but unfortunately now the nearby farms have been sold out, and if you want to buy, you can only go to the suburbs, and the price of the farm has doubled and risen, or the brothers who started early have the foresight." Suo Chao was very proud when he said this, he also belonged to the group that started early, and the farm under his name exceeded a thousand acres, right next to the Rock Gold Mine, and the location was very advantageous.

When Sochao bought the farm, the price of an acre of farm was no more than a pound.

Now there is no need to think about this price, the price of the farm next to Ziwei Town has exceeded ten pounds per acre, and those Chinese who came to Johannesburg later can no longer afford it.