The practicing lawyer is indeed powerful, and the contract signed by the umbrella company has been in business for less than a week and is as high as 35,000 pounds per month, which is more than the military expenditure of the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division.

It was at this time that Roque knew why there were so many mercenary companies in the future, and this industry was indeed making money.

For example, Adam Stephen's mine, which has more than 8,000 miners, spent more than £4,000 a month on security before working with Umbrella to keep them on the job, plus the safety expenses of the mine managers.

In fact, there must not be so much, Roque has his own mine, and he is very clear about the expenses in this regard, there are less than one hundred and fifty security guards and overseers in Adam Stephen's mine, and the monthly expenses will definitely not exceed 3,000 pounds, where is the extra part-

Just think about it.

After Adam Stephen signed the contract, the Umbrella Company would deposit £500 a month into Adam Stephen's account with the Rand Bank.

The Umbrella would then only need to send 80 security guards and overseers to Adam Stephen's gold mine to keep the mine running, and if something unexpected happens, the Umbrella Company could add more staff at any time, and the cost of the additional staff would be calculated separately.

For the gold mines, the cost of security did not increase, and certainly did not decrease, and the remaining 1,000 pounds belonged to the new 1st Cavalry Division, and Roque finally received 22,000 pounds a month for military expenses, which was enough for the new 1st Cavalry Division.

"It's not enough, the new First Cavalry Division only has five hundred people, and the money is enough to maintain a force of five thousand people, and the Northern Rhodesia Division does not have such sufficient military funds as you." Xiao Si is really sour, Roque's status has risen again, but the South African company is still the same, London seems to have forgotten that the northern division of Rhodesia is the army of the South African company, and there is no share of Xiao Si when it comes to rewarding meritorious deeds.

London's speed this time is still very fast, after the northern division of Rhodesia successfully assessed the Zulu rebellion, London reacted as quickly as possible, including Anton and Martin, a total of twelve people in the northern division of Rhodesia were knighted, Roque himself was specially commended by King Edward, all participants had bonuses, and the only forgotten person was Xiao Si.

Xiao Si is also used to it, Xiao Si is in Rhodesia, except that he has no name, he is equivalent to the king of Rhodesia, so it doesn't matter how good Xiao Si is, London will not consider knighting Xiao Si.

"How is it possible, it's not just about paying salaries to the troops, training, logistics, equipment, which doesn't cost money?" Roque disagreed with Xiao Si's words, 22,000 pounds is indeed expandable, but it can be expanded to a maximum of 1,000 people, just like the current Northern Rhodesian Division, any more is wishful thinking.

"What else can I say, General Hopkins' men only earn £3.5 a month, your men are at least £5 a month, and those extra spends on equipment, is it really necessary in southern Africa?" Xiao Si also disapproves of Roque's way of forming an army, Roque is too extravagant.

As for salaries, soldiers in this period, even those in England, could only earn about 12 shillings a week, which translates to 31 pounds 4 shillings a year.

Of course, this is the British mainland, and if you add the colonial allowance, then it should be higher, but no matter how high it is, it will not be higher than 50 pounds a year.

If it was purely a colony-formed army, then each soldier would probably not earn more than 20 pounds a year, and when Roque was in the Huayong Battalion before, each soldier's annual salary was only 10 pounds.

The soldier's salary is so low, and the officer's salary is not much higher, Roque was a non-commissioned officer when he was in the Huayong Battalion, and his annual salary was only 13.5 pounds, which was limited higher than the soldier's.

The British will certainly not treat southern Africa as harshly as the Chinese, no matter what, the Boers are also white, so the British originally formed a Boer-based unit in the Cape, and the treatment of ordinary soldiers is about 3.5 pounds per month.

Converted to adulthood, it is £42 per year.

"The account can't be calculated like this, the Northern Rhodesia Division and the newly formed First Cavalry Division, the soldiers with the lowest rank are also corporals, it is normal for them to earn a lot, not to mention, the Northern Rhodesia Division has proven with its records that they are worthy of this salary." Roque will not budge an inch on this issue, who let the vast majority of the members of the Northern Rhodesia Division and the newly formed First Cavalry Division be Chinese, Roque will definitely not treat them badly.

"Hehe, it's not up to you to decide what rank they are—" Xiao Si was still complaining.

Roque was also dissatisfied at this time, and quietly watched Xiao Si not speak.

"Well, well, I don't mean to object." Xiao Si took the initiative to back down.

"If you have time, go to Krupp to buy recipes, the arsenal can now produce artillery, and we will start training artillery." Roque finally put artillery on the agenda, the training of artillery is complicated and the cost is too high, and Roque has not had the strength to form artillery until now.

"God, I can't believe that we are in Africa, and not in Europe, and there are hostile forces in Africa that deserve to use artillery? What's more, if the number of artillery produced is relatively small, it is most cost-effective for us to buy steel directly from Krupp, and there is no need to buy a formula at all. "Xiao Si is also better to build than to buy, and it is better to buy than to rent.

On the surface, there are indeed no hostile forces in Africa that are worth using artillery, and Roque can't directly tell Xiao Si that a world war will break out in ten years, so you must be prepared from now on.

So Roque can only move with emotion and reason: "Cecil, not now, does not mean that there will be no in the future, we have to take precautions to avoid when needed, but we are caught off guard because we can't produce." ”

Xiao Si is now a little immune to Roque's rhetoric, although he is not objectionable, but he is still reluctant: "I don't even know what you are preparing, and besides, Favart Iron and Steel Plant also has a laboratory, if we need special steel, can't we develop it ourselves?" I've heard that there are quite a few rare recipes out there, and maybe we can go to the Favart steel plant and have a look. ”

In the end, Xiao Si still doesn't want to spend money.

Roque did not want a patent license, which was very expensive during this period, such as Krupp's patent license, which may be about the same as the cost of the product itself.

Of course, if you buy Krupp products directly, then the price is more expensive, and Krupp will not let up if you don't want three or five times the profit.

So what Roque is interested in, it's better to buy out the patent directly, just like Rudolf Diesel's diesel engine.

The patent for the Luger pistol, Roque was also bought, but the Ruger produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal could only be sold in Africa and was not allowed to enter other markets.

Roque has no objection to this, this restriction is actually similar to no restriction, the fault is that the German Arms and Ammunition Arsenal has no vision, I don't know how big the market prospect of Luger's gun is, and after knowing that the Nyasaland Arsenal wants to buy the patent of the Ruger pistol, the German Arms and Ammunition Arsenal simply did not hesitate, as long as the transfer fee of 2,000 pounds, it sold the patent to the Nyasaland Arsenal.

Of course, for the sake of reciprocity, the German arms and ammunition arsenal promised not to allow its products to enter the African market.

This commitment is also the same as not having one.

"The lab has worked?" Roque had almost forgotten that there were also laboratories at the Favart steel plant.

"Who knows—send a telegram to Henry and ask." Xiao Si is not the owner of the steel plant, just a shareholder, so Xiao Si really does not know the specific situation of the steel plant.

Roque did not hesitate and immediately sent a telegram to Henry.

And it turned out to be true.

The artillery steel required by Roque is wear-resistant, corrosion-resistant, both hardness and strength, and Roque does not require the level to reach the level of the 21st century, at least not much worse than the mainstream gun steel in European countries.

After knowing that the laboratory now has finished products, Roque immediately asked Favart Iron and Steel Plant to send samples to the Nyasaland Arsenal for testing as soon as possible, and asked that if the laboratory has results in the future, it will be sent to the Nyasaland Arsenal for testing.

Roark didn't forget to go to Bobby Holt's motorcycle factory to order a motorcycle, and urged Rudolph Diesel to get the truck out as soon as possible.

In other words, now that tractors and coast guard ships are available, there is no technical problem in researching trucks, that is, a problem of thinking and integration.

In this regard, Roque has plenty of experience, although Roque does not know how to build trucks, but Roque knows what is going on with trucks, and after conveying the specific requirements to Rudolf Diesel, Roque just waits for the results of the experiment.

In Roque's concept, the mechanization of the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division could only be achieved if it was equipped with motorcycles and trucks.

As for whether the name is appropriate at that time, don't dwell on this kind of question, the United States still has cavalry divisions until the 21st century, and American GIs have long been flying in helicopters at that time.

On September 1, Ade came to Johannesburg to attend the formation ceremony of the new 1st Cavalry Division, which, like the Northern Rhodesian Division, had a training battalion of 835 men and a total of 1,109 men with logistics personnel.

Don't be afraid of the large number of logistics personnel, this is already Luo Ke's best to compress the scale to maintain the scale to this level, otherwise the number of people in the division-affiliated hospital alone may be seriously overnumbered.

The divisional hospital in Roque's concept is different from the divisional hospital in this period, the army in this period already had a military doctor and nurse establishment, but these military doctors and nurses are all for the officer, and ordinary soldiers are injured, most of them cannot enjoy sufficient medical resources.

Roque would certainly not let this happen to the 1st Cavalry Division, which now has six regular doctors and 24 nurses, enough to form a standard field hospital if war breaks out.