Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 524 Launching Ceremony

In just a few days, Rock took Adelaide all over Nyasaland, just like a little accomplished child, who couldn't wait to show his achievements to his elders.

At the Nyasaland Automobile Factory, Ade visited the assembly line of automobiles, which was established by Rock according to Ford's assembly line model, which can be said to represent the highest level of industrial assembly nowadays.

Ade didn't understand the meaning of the assembly line, but Ade was still amazed by the orderly and well-organized workshop.

Most factories in this era can be described as "dirty, messy, and poor". Many factories in Europe still use child labor and female workers. Even if workers are engaged in the most dangerous jobs, they basically have no labor protection at all.

Nyasaland's side is much better, because of Rock's strict requirements, the assembly workshop of the automobile factory is clean and tidy, there are almost no debris on the ground, and there must be no spider webs on the walls and roof. The assembly workshop covers an area of ​​thousands of square meters, and the noise is actually not too loud. The workers wear uniforms. The uniforms are not brand new, but they are clean and tidy. The workers are all wearing masks, and there are no supervisors holding whips and sticks. This is different from the factory in Ade's impression.

The Nyasaland car factory is now able to produce more than 50 cars a day, which are exported to Britain, France and India in addition to supplying southern Africa, although the cars produced in Nyasaland are almost more expensive than those produced in Europe However, the supply of cars in Nyasaland is still in short supply.

Of course, Rock would not be stingy with Ade, and gave Ade a latest Diesel sedan produced by Nyasaland on the spot.

The Diesel car is named after Rudolf Diesel, which is very common in Europe. In fact, under normal circumstances, the name of the Diesel car should be "Rocke Car", but what does Rock think? Everyone felt that the name was awkward, so Rock simply used the surname of Rudolf Diesel.

The appearance of the Diesel car is similar to the classic Mercedes-Benz car in another time and space. Although the "Tiger" military car is also good, but after all, the appearance is too rough and does not meet the aesthetic level of dignitaries, so Rock put the "Tiger" The "Tiger" military vehicle was changed to a new shell and sold at double the price, and it was very popular.

For those dignitaries, there is basically no difference between [-] pounds and [-] pounds. Nyasaland Automobile Factory now also has a customized model, which can inlay the pattern specified by the customer on the car body, a one-foot-square silver pattern , the price is more than a thousand pounds, if you want gold, then the price will be more expensive.

Even so, the Nyasaland Automobile Factory still couldn't meet the needs of the local nobles. Some people would rather increase the price by [-] pounds and add a pattern composed of gold and diamonds on the car body.

Of course, Nyasaran Automobile Factory will not refuse this kind of business. If you want gold and gems, Eternal has a lot, so Nyasaran Automobile Factory cooperated with Eternal to jointly launch the "Lord Car" for local nobles. ".

It is said that the order for the Lord car has been queued for two years.

Of course, Rock was not stingy with Ade. He prepared a Lord's car with a silver badge for Ade early on, and the badge of Viscount Halewood was inlaid on the body.

Ade did not reject Roque's kindness this time, and readily accepted Roque's gift, and then Ade went to Ulysses with Roque to participate in the launching ceremony of the "Northern Sea".

Ulysses Shipyard built the "Northern Sea", which took four months in total.

This time is indeed a bit long. During World War II, the United States produced aircraft carriers, and it only took one month for one aircraft carrier.

However, this is not easy for Ulysses Shipyard. Through the construction of "Beihai", Ulysses Shipyard has accumulated a large number of skilled workers. Much faster than building the "Beihai".

Compared with the "Beihai", the "Donghu" has been improved.

Rock also discovered when the "Beihai" was about to be completed. As a destroyer, the "Beihai" was not equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. Therefore, Rock urgently asked the design department of the shipyard to install two more guns on the "Donghu". It is a double-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun for future air defense operations.

Rock's idea was questioned by the engineers of the shipyard.

The engineers also have a good reason. For the current navy, there is no threat from the air at all, so there is no need to equip anti-aircraft machine guns on warships.

The explanation given by Roque is hard to convince. In fact, the current army has anti-aircraft machine guns. Because many artillery units are equipped with hot air balloons for reconnaissance and monitoring, some units will be equipped with large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. Air threats from the enemy.

Hot air balloons are mainly used for artillery observation and correction. There is no need for hot air balloons in the navy, so the engineers at the shipyard insisted that there is no need for destroyers to be equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns.

So Roque could only call the designers of the Ulysses Shipyard and the engineers of the Flight Research Institute in Little Rock to a meeting to report their respective research progress and prove that the future navy will face serious threats from the air , so it is necessary for destroyers to be equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns.

However, this was questioned by the engineers of the shipyard. The reason was that since the aircraft was developed by Nyasaland itself, there was no need for the Nyasaland water police to be equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns.

Rock didn't talk nonsense this time, and asked directly in the form of an order, no longer brainstorming, and had nothing to say to these short-sighted otaku.

However, Rock still fully considered the opinions of the designers of the shipyard. Since the Nyasaland Marine Police will not be threatened from the air in a short period of time, the anti-aircraft machine gun must have the ability to shoot flat, so that even if it does not encounter enemy aircraft , anti-aircraft machine guns can also play a full role.

Don't underestimate the anti-aircraft machine gun. In fact, the anti-aircraft machine gun is an enlarged version of the heavy machine gun. It has a longer range and greater power. When there is no aircraft to fight, it can be used to fight infantry or tanks. The future anti-aircraft All machine guns are high-level and dual-purpose, but now they can only be used for air defense. In fact, many problems can be solved by changing the way of thinking.

Ade was obviously also changing his mind. After participating in the launching ceremony of the "Beihai", Ade and Rock returned to Little Rock, thinking about it along the way.

Rock and Ade returned to Little Rock on the "Lord Nyasaland" yacht, which was specially tailored for Rock by Ulysses Shipyard.

Said to be a yacht, in fact, the weapons equipped on the "Lord Nyasaland" are not weak. From the appearance, the "Lord Nyasaland" and the "Northern Sea" have almost the same dimensions, except that they are not equipped with 76 In addition to the millimeter rapid-fire guns, the "Lord Nyasaland" is also equipped with four 40mm rapid-fire guns. When necessary, the "Lord Nyasaland" also has terrifying firepower.

Of course, this "shocking" is only relative to southern Africa.

Ade knew that Nyasaland owned an arsenal before, and Ade ordered the machines of the arsenal from the British Royal Arms and Light Weapons Company.

But in Adelaide's impression, the Nyasaland Arsenal can only produce Martini Henry rifles that have been eliminated in the UK, and cannot produce advanced weapons.

So when he heard Rock's introduction that all the weapons used on the "Beihai" were all produced by Nyasaland, Ade's mood was still a bit complicated.

"Rock, what is your position for Nyasaland in the future?" Ade found that he didn't understand Roque more and more now. Many of Roque's actions, in Ade's opinion, have exceeded what a baron should be category.

"Nyasaland will be a paradise for Chinese in Africa, but also the last refuge of British people in southern Africa-of course I don't want this to happen, but if there is a real need in the future, then I think Nyasaland I will definitely not stand idly by." Rock didn't say too clearly, I believe Adelaide can understand.

Sure enough, Ade became even more entangled after hearing this: "Do you think the situation in southern Africa is so dangerous?"

"Of course not yet, I'm just planning for a rainy day." Rock will certainly not describe to Adelaide how miserable the white people in southern Africa will be in the future.

In that case, maybe Ade will remove all hidden dangers if he is cruel now.

Don't think that Adelaide can't do this kind of thing. Colonial thinking is terrible. They usually don't think that they are making mistakes. For some seemingly legitimate reasons, it is not uncommon to do anything against humanity.

"You are too pessimistic. Southern Africa will not develop to that extent. If it really comes to that point, all of us should take responsibility today." Ade did not believe Rock's judgment.

For now, I am afraid that no one will believe that the Boers have now accepted the reality. Although the situation in Orange has not fundamentally improved, at least the Boers have begun to rebuild their homes, which is a good start.

As for Africans, in the impression of many whites, Africans are slaves who have not yet fully civilized. They are not dangerous at all. Think Rock is crazy.

"So in order to prevent unbearable things from happening, all of us must work hard for it." Rock beat around the bush and still hoped that Ade would stay, twice if he failed once, and three times if he failed twice, as long as Rock kept emphasizing Southern Africa, then sooner or later Adelaide will be brainwashed by Rock.

"I understand what you mean, but—give me a little more time——" Ade's attitude has been greatly relaxed, and victory is in sight.

On Christmas Day, German Foreign Minister Bülow arrived in Nyasaland, starting a one-month visit to Nyasaland.

As the plenipotentiary representative of the King of England, Ade was responsible for receiving Bilov, and of course Rock would also accompany him.

(End of this chapter)