If someone else wants to produce diesel engines, I am afraid that there are companies willing to provide production lines, so I am afraid that they will be busy paying for it.

After all, Rudolf Diesel is on Roque's side, and Rudolf Diesel knows everything about diesel engines very clearly, so the German Augsburg Machine Building Factory has no money to cheat Roque.

What's more, at this time, the diesel engine is still in a relatively early stage, and there is still a lot of room for improvement, not to mention that the German Augsburg machine building plant does not have a mature production line, even if there is, it is not very useful, so the most critical thing is engineers and skilled workers, there are a lot of talents in this area of the German Augsburg machine building factory, so Roque hired a few.

The reason why he didn't hire too much was because Roque had to train his own talents, and Rudolph Discel also had to take students in Nyasaland, in order to let Rudolph Diser do his best, Roque promised to give Rudolph Discel a part of the shares of the tractor factory after the engine factory was put into operation, so Roque didn't have to worry about Rudolph Discel's cheating, in order for the engine factory to be put into production as soon as possible, Rudolph Discel wanted his students to learn as soon as possible.

In the same way, the technical personnel hired by Roque from the Augsburg machine building plant in Germany are also working in Nyasaland to train talents for Nyasaland.

Of course, these people don't have to give shares, just give a high salary, their average salary in the Augsburg machine-building factory in Germany is less than 100 pounds a year, and it is not even the average in the UK, Roque gives them at least 200 pounds per year, which is at least twice as high as their income in the Augsburg machine-building factory in Germany, and there is additional income with apprentices, so the engineers and technicians are very satisfied, and a few young people directly say that they want to settle in Nyasaland, Those who do not want to settle in Nyasaland can earn a few years of money in Nyasaland and return to Germany to make a good living.

To put it bluntly, money is still moving, who will have trouble with money!

With diesel engines, Nyasaland's development can be regarded as entering a high-speed track.

Diesel engines can not only be used in tractors, but also in cars and fishing boats, if the diesel engine is made big enough, you can also use the diesel engine on the ship, it can be said that the diesel engine is the heart of the industry, solve this problem, many problems in the industry can be solved, the industry derived from it, not to mention feed a Nyasaland, plus a Rhodesia is more than enough.

What Roque has to do is to do a good job of supporting facilities to create good conditions for industrial development, and for the rest, Roque will wait for time to ferment.

At the end of November, the steel plant in the Barony of Favart was finally put into production, a first for the whole of Africa, with not only Roque and Henry, but also Ade and Philippe Matilda in attendance.

The steel plant is located on the banks of the Limpopo River and is connected by rail to the Pretoria to Salisbury, making it accessible by water and land.

After the completion of the steel mill with an annual output of 100,000 tons, it seems to be relatively small, right, but don't forget that this is 1902, this year, the United States, the world's highest steel production, has just exceeded 10 million tons, the United Kingdom's steel output is only more than 5 million tons, 100,000 tons of annual output, has surpassed Japan, and Italy, so this annual output is already very high.

Ade and Philip Matilda visited the office area and rest area of the steel plant, forget about the work area, the working environment of the steel plant is also very bad these years, and a lot of Zulu people are used in the steel plant, so for the mental health of Ade and Philip Matilda, the work area, and the mines near the steel plant, don't visit, if you look everywhere and delay the time, I'm afraid that Ade and Philip Matilda won't even be able to eat.

In fact, there is already a lot to see in the office area and lounge area alone.

Thanks to the relocation of the Chinese, the office buildings of the steel mill are all made of bricks, which are simpler to make, easier to obtain and cheaper to obtain than traditional stone buildings and wooden buildings, so many new buildings in Nyasaland and Johannesburg are now brick and tile structures.

The implementation of brick and tile structure buildings, objectively also improved the social status of the Chinese, and build the same wooden structure building blocks, building a house with bricks and tiles is a technical work, this technology is temporarily only Chinese can be competent, so now the number of Chinese on the construction site is increasing, Zulu people can only engage in some simple manual work, as long as the work of technology touches the edge, basically monopolized by the Chinese.

The reason for this is not because the Zulus are not smart enough, but because the Zulus are not responsible, careless, and do not like to examine themselves, so they can only do some of the simplest jobs, and no one dares to give the complicated work to the Zulus.

As lazy as the Zulus are the Indians, there are also many Indians in the Transvaal, they can only undertake the simplest work, and the Indians are worse than the Zulus is that the Indians are best to work with a person with an overseer, as long as the overseer is not around, the Indians will release their nature, the Transvaal also has some Indians to undertake the project, the most common scene is that an Indian is working, and then there are three or four Indians next to the argument, the Chinese often use "the oil bottle is poured and does not help" To describe those who are lazy to the extreme, if according to this standard, the vast majority of Indians can be classified as "lazy to the extreme", India's unique caste system, resulting in high castes people will not hold the oil bottle, because that is what the lower castes should do, and the low caste people will not take the initiative to hold the oil bottle, unless a high caste orders him to hold the oil bottle up.

As a result of the large number of Chinese people involved in the construction, Chinese architecture began to become popular in the Transvaal, such as the Favart Iron and Steel Works, and many office buildings have vertical ridges and eaves, and there are sets of beasts at the end of the lower eaves, which are significant standards for Chinese architecture.

"The biggest advantage of using brick and tile structure is that the cost is low, this row of office buildings, if it is a wooden building, then the service life is not long enough, if it is a stone structure, then the cost is too high, so the brick structure is the most suitable, such a row of office buildings, the cost is more than 100 pounds, if it is a stone structure, this money is not enough to buy stone." Roque still has to explain, mainly because he is worried that Ade and Philippe Matilda will realize that this is actually a cultural invasion.

The problem is that Ade and Philippe Matilda didn't realize this at all, and when they learned that it took less than half a year to build such a factory, Ade and Filipe Matilda were a little surprised.

"It's a beautiful office building, it looks sturdy, and if it's really cheap, it's very valuable to promote." Ade is still concerned about whether there is promotion value, wooden structure buildings are actually very hidden, especially fires, brick structures have almost no such hidden dangers.

"It's really valuable, and now there are quite a few such houses in Johannesburg, and the price of stone and wood is still a bit high." Philip echoed that stone is a non-renewable raw material, so it is expensive, and ordinary people simply cannot afford it.

Although wood is a renewable raw material, but the growth cycle of wood is also very long, a tree to reach the extent that it can be used to build a house, how to take more than ten years, Johannesburg around 100 kilometers, now there is no primeval forest, all the trees have been cut down for Johannesburg's urban construction, and stone, Johannesburg to obtain timber is becoming more and more difficult, and it is about to become a bottleneck restricting the development of Johannesburg.

Now that the problem has been solved, there are more than a dozen brick factories on the outskirts of Johannesburg, producing bricks and tiles around the clock for Johannesburg's urban construction, and the headquarters of the Liberal Party that Christian promised to build is a three-storey brick building.

Compared with stone buildings and wooden buildings, the biggest advantage of brick and tile structure is that it can evolve into reinforced concrete buildings, after the city has undergone barbaric development, it will develop in a three-dimensional direction, and the advantages of reinforced concrete will be undoubtedly revealed, and the simple stone buildings and wooden buildings will be eliminated sooner or later.

Also because of the popularity of the brick factory, in the absence of cement, the floor of the office area of the Favart steel plant has been hardened, and the bricks used in the hardened ground are not the same as the bricks used to build houses.

After learning about the price of this custom-made green brick, Ade and Philip had an idea, and it was estimated that it would not be long before the ground in Johannesburg and Pretoria would gradually begin to harden.

In addition to the hardened floor, there are gardens and green spaces in the office area, and even towering trees transplanted from the vicinity, and no one would have believed that this is a steel mill with an annual output of 100,000 tons of steel if it were not for the towering chimneys in the steel plant.

In Roque's concept, if there is no annual output of 18 million tons, he is embarrassed to say that he is a steel mill, with an annual output of 100,000 tons.

Fortunately, there is still room for expansion of the steel plant, and there is no shortage of iron ore in the mine next to it, as long as Roque maintains his current hunger and thirst, sooner or later in the future, the scale of the Favart steel plant can also reach 10 million tons.

By then, perhaps the steel mill would already be a steel group.

Unlike the ambitious Roque, neither Ade nor Philip had such ambitions, and in their conception that the production of steel in Africa was already a miracle.

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