Everyone in the twenty-first century knows the importance of hype, but few in 1903 understood it.

In other words, in 1903, there were people who realized the importance of hype, but they didn't know how to hype.

Heinrich realized it and had some ideas, but they weren't perfect.

But it doesn't matter, the imperfect part of Heinrich's plan, Roque will supplement him, and the rest depends on Heinrich's performance.

"Then let's start, set up a factory, buy equipment, and encourage the farm to grow potatoes, it's best to sign a purchase agreement with the farmer first, don't get too much at first, and slowly increase the yield." Roque is not worried about not being able to sell at all, nor is he worried about losing money, and even if he loses money, Roque doesn't care.

That's why the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer.

Heinrich wanted to make wine from potatoes, and several families scraped together some money but only barely got started, and they were absorbed at the beginning, and there was no chance to become bigger and stronger.

A rich man like Roque can continue to try and make mistakes with his abundant capital, even if he loses money, it doesn't matter, investment is a factory, as long as one makes money, then it doesn't matter if the other nine investments are with him.

Heinrich is not bad, more poor people, hard to earn some money, do not dare to invest at all, because once it fails, it means that the only little savings will be lost, not everyone has the courage to break the kettle, Xiang Yu broke the kettle, people really have that strength, ordinary people break the kettle and sink the boat, most of them have to smash the pot and sell iron.

Oh, it seems wrong, the pot has been broken, so it can only be used as a pant again.

"No problem." Buck smiled brightly, this time he found a business opportunity not by Roque's "golden finger", but by Buck himself.

Of course, Roque did not treat Buck badly, and gave Heinrich and Barda a total of only five percent of their shares, and Roque directly gave Buck ten percent, and he was rewarded for his merit.

In mid-October, good news finally came from the Nyasaland Arsenal that the high-manganese steel sent to the Nyasala Arsenal by the Favart Iron Works fully met Roque's requirements and could be used as weapons steel.

Roque was very satisfied with this, and instructed the Nyasaland Arsenal to quickly copy Miss Seventy-Five.

A few days later, the arsenal sent Roque another general-purpose machine gun that had just been developed, which was another good news.

The heavy machine gun used by the Northern Rhodesia Division and the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division was the Maxim, and the light machine gun was an improved version of the Madsen produced by the Nyasaland Arsenal.

Both machine guns are actually quite good, and both have the potential to develop into general-purpose machine guns.

During the First World War, the Germans replaced Makqin's tripod with a bipod to reduce the weight and use it as a light machine gun.

This transformation was actually not successful, the tripod was replaced with a bipod, it seems that the weight is indeed reduced, but the cooling method of the Maxim machine gun will still be limited, if there is water, of course it is easy to use, but if there is no water, then Maxim is not as good as a burning stick.

The biggest improvement that the Nyasaland Arsenal has made to the universal machine gun this time around is the cooling method.

Although at present, the effect of air cooling is indeed not as good as that of water cooling, but the Nyasaland Arsenal creatively used a barrel heat sink on the barrel of the machine gun to solve this problem to the greatest extent.

In fact, even if the barrel heat sink is used, the cooling effect is still not as good as that of the water-cooled Maxim.

However, considering the intensity of firepower of the Northern Rhodesia Division and the new 1st Cavalry Division, as well as the advantages of air-cooled machine guns over water-cooled machine guns, the continuous firing ability of machine guns is really not so important, so the new general-purpose machine guns are all air-cooled heat dissipation, and the caliber is all unified to 7.7 mm.

Doing so seems to reduce the power of the heavy machine gun.

In fact, it has not been reduced much, the universal caliber of the Makqin heavy machine gun is 11.43 mm, and the effective range is 800 to 1000 meters, if it is a straddle fire, the bullet still has lethality at 5000 meters, this killing distance is actually a serious excess, not to mention five thousand meters, without a scope, only relying on tracer bullets to correct the trajectory, the distance is more than 500 meters, it is basically blind, the distance is more than 800 meters, God knows where the bullet can fly.

Under normal circumstances, even if it is a heavy machine gun, the firing distance is within 500 meters, so 7.7 mm bullets are enough for a general-purpose machine gun, if the enemy is farther away, the Northern Rhodesian Division and the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division still have the Ao Yao Gun and the 75 Miss.

It is worth mentioning that the Nyasaland Arsenal is also working on the improvement of the "Woo Woo Cannon".

This improvement was mainly based on the progress of artillery shells, and the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal developed a 40 mm grenade, which does not rely on shrapnel to create damage, but on steel balls in the grenade, 37 mm grenades can only produce up to 200 fragments when exploding, and 400 fragments plus steel balls when 40 mm grenades explode.

The comparison is obvious, the power of a 40mm grenade is much more than that of a 37mm grenade.

And the more critical problem is that the 37th Rhodesia Northern Division is now using the Maxim gun, because it is an enlarged version of the Maxim heavy machine gun, so even the water tank of the Maxim heavy machine gun has been copied.

This design was redundant, the rate of fire of the Ngai gun was much slower than that of the Maxim heavy machine gun, so there was no need for a water tank to cool it down, so the redesigned Ngai gun, although the caliber of the previous Ngai gun was a little higher, but the weight was reduced by 25 kg.

This is a welcome step forward, also because Roque did not play a role in improving the Gunner, which was made by the engineers of the Nyasaland Arsenal on their own.

"Awards, heavy awards, a hundred pounds each for all those involved in the improvement, and double for the main personnel." Roque was never stingy at this time, it was only a few thousand pounds, but it brought a huge increase in the combat effectiveness of the troops, as well as a reduction in the logistical burden, the latter point is particularly important.

Speaking of logistics, Roque couldn't help but want to call Rudolph Diesel, the monster tractor has been finalized and began to supply the Nyasaland Agricultural Company, Rudolph Diesel only needs to make some improvements on the basis of the monster, and the monster can be converted into a truck, and now the conditions are quite sufficient, many things do not need to be developed from scratch, after all, the engine, chassis, tires and everything are ready-made, and you only need to combine these things.

"So next, are we going to change the equipment for the Northern Rhodesia Division?" Xiao Si's eyes were a little sloppy, and he probably saw a lot of pounds with wings and wanted to fly away.

"Of course, it has to be replaced, not only the northern Rhodesian division, but also the equipment of the newly formed 1st Cavalry Division." Roque has a lot of energy.

"The equipment of the new First Cavalry Division is not all in place yet, you are going to replace it, what a madman, where did you get the money?" In Xiao Si's view, many of Roque's behaviors are losers.

"It doesn't matter, if you run out of money, you can go to the RAND Bank to borrow it, not to mention the equipment we have eliminated, and we can continue to sell it if we send it back to the arsenal for repair, and we can't afford it." Roque's abacus is very fine, in fact, the replacement of equipment is not a loss of money for Xiao Si and Roque, and Xiao Si also has a stake in the Nyasaland Arsenal.

Otherwise, Xiao Si would not have done so much for the Northern Rhodesian Division.

As for finding a loan from the Rand Bank, it is even more rotten and still in the pot, and Roque must be prepared now, otherwise someone will jump out and pick peaches at some point.

After all, the new 1st Cavalry Division is not Roque's private army, although Roque is now appointed as the commander of the new 1st Cavalry Division, but God knows when Ade's brain is not normal, and a new division commander is sent, and then Roque will be dumbfounded.

In order to prevent this from happening, Roque has to find a way to turn the new First Cavalry Division into a hot potato, except for Roque, no matter who sits in the position of division commander of the new First Cavalry Division, he can't do it, so that Roque, the division commander, can be as stable as Mount Tai.

What a simple fact, Roque is in such a hurry to change the equipment now, just to make the new First Cavalry Division bear a huge debt, because the creditor is the Rand Bank, so it doesn't matter how Roque tosses in the position of division commander, if the division commander changes, then the Rand Bank will have to collect debts.

As mentioned earlier, Roque only raised 22,000 pounds of military spending, which is actually only enough to maintain the scale of the new 1st Cavalry Division, and the new 1st Cavalry Division wants to build camps and buy equipment, all of which are borrowed from the RAND Bank, so now the new 1st Cavalry Division has a debt of 15,000 pounds, and after the replacement of equipment this time, the debt is estimated to increase to more than 25,000 pounds, which will discourage many people.

"I have to say, you are really a profiteer, why didn't I find out before, the queen is really blind to make you a baron." Xiao Si shook his head and sighed, in terms of treachery, Xiao Si couldn't catch up with Roque.

"First of all, the baron was given to me by the present king, and the queen only made me a subordinate baron; Secondly, as a citizen of the British Empire, I don't think you should denigrate the Queen. "Roque doesn't bother with who is more treacherous, and it doesn't make sense to win.

"Hehe-" Xiao Si sneered, looking at Roque with disdain.

Roque didn't care, lit a cigar to himself, and looked out the window at the balcony with a distant gaze.

Not far from the window is the station of the newly formed 1st Division.

The station of the new 1st Division was chosen by Roque, and Roque naturally placed the station between Ziwei Town and Johannesburg, and the road from Ziwei Town to Johannesburg has been completed, and the workers who have just finished building the road just arrived to start building the station of the new 1st Division.

Roque still has very strict requirements for the station, and all the buildings in the station are permanent buildings, with a large amount of reinforced concrete, which will not break for a hundred years.