497 blossom and bear fruit
Sesie Wardhouse said that Germany has no inch of land that is unnecessary, and it is actually the same for Britain. The British's desire for land is endless, otherwise there would not be the current empire that will never set.
Although southern Africa is nominally autonomous, it is still part of the British Empire, otherwise the British government would not have the right to send Viscount Glaston to be the governor.
Since it is the governor of Southern Africa, of course, we have to consider the interests of Southern Africa. Southwest Africa and Tanganika are not convenient for a while now, and Portugal West Africa and the Congo Free State are fine. Speaking of which, Portugal and Belgium have also found a gap to occupy these two large colonies in Africa. Britain has never found a reason, so it is not convenient for Portugal and Belgium to attack Portugal and Belgium.
Compared with the previous rough colonial battles, the methods of southern Africa's annexation of Portuguese East Africa were obviously more concealed, more thorough, and more words. The key was no longer the consequences and the cost was very low. It can be said that Rock's series of operations allowed many people to see another possibility. Viscount Glaston was obviously more interested, otherwise it would not have bewitched Rock's attack on the Portuguese and Belgians.
"West Africa and the Congo Free State are indeed good, but Port Elizabeth is not bad either. While we expand our sphere of influence on the peninsula, it will not affect our infiltration into the West Africa and the Congo Free State." Rock has his own rhythm and will not easily change his plan just by Viscount Glaston's words.
In fact, after the drastic changes in East Africa, West Africa and the Congo Free State have been strictly guarding and maintaining high vigilance against Southern Africa. They have even interrupted personnel exchanges between the two places, because they are afraid that Niasaran will infiltrate West Africa and the Congo Free State.
But it is inevitable to infiltrate such things. Niasaran did not send whites and Chinese to infiltrate West Africa and the Free State of the Congo. The Africans sent by Yaya were all from Yaya.
This raises a huge problem for the Portuguese and Belgians. If the Portuguese and Belgians have the ability to maintain stability within the territory, then the Portuguese and Belgians have the ability. If the Africans in West Africa and the Congo Free State rise up and the Portuguese and Belgians are unable to control the situation, it is natural that the Portuguese and Belgians lose West Africa and the Congo Free State.
The British acknowledged that the Portuguese and the Belgians occupied West Africa and the Congo Free State respectively, but did not have the obligation to assist the Portuguese and the Belgians in maintaining colonial stability. If the Portuguese and the Belgians cannot protect their colonies, don’t blame others for not being able to do anything, and don’t blame someone for secretly provoking them.
During the Boer War, other European countries watched British jokes together, and some even formed volunteers to join the war in southern Africa and directly supported Transvaal and Orange. It would be a deception to say that there was no participation of some countries.
Viscount Glaston had no hope of seeing the effect immediately, and it was enough to know that Rock had made some moves.
After finishing his inspection in Port Edward, Viscount Glaston and Rock took a train to Xuanji City.
The focus of the inspection in Xuanji City is definitely the Nyasalan University. The entire Xuanji City is built around Niyasalan University. However, Niyasalan University is not in the center of Xuanji City, but on the side of Xuanji City near Xuanji Lake.
Because the professors of Nyasalan University come from all over the world, Xuanji City is the most culturally inclusive, culturally diverse, profound and promising city in Nyasalan and even the entire southern Africa.
After all, most professors still have high incomes, so there are more cars parked on both sides of the streets of Xuanji City.
Of course, most cars in Xuanji City are not high-profile and luxurious Lord cars, but civilian models launched by Niasaran Automobile Group - the Beetle.
This "Beetle" is exactly the same as the Beetle in Rock's memory. As one of the most classic models of the entire 20th century, the Beetle was born in another time and space from 1938 to 2003. Its vitality is unquestionable, so Rock was too lazy to design it, so he took the Beetle's appearance and grandly launched it.
In this time and space, this is the original creation of Southern Africa.
Compared with Lord Cars, Beetle reduces a lot of unnecessary luxury configurations, and there is no gold and diamond for decoration at all, which greatly reduces the cost of Beetle. A top-end Lord car on the market can sell for rand 10,000, while a most basic version of Beetle car only sells for rand 800.
Of course, this price is only available in southern Africa. If you leave southern Africa, even if you go to Madagascar, a sea-crossed, the price of the Beetle will soar to 1,500 pounds. If you like to buy it, don’t buy it.
The price of 800 rand is no pressure for the professors in Niasaran. Many students even gritted their teeth and could buy one from Rand Bank with their student ID, so the number of cars in Xuanji City is a bit too high.
At this time, we can see the necessity that when Luo Ke built Xuanji City, he required the main street to be at least fifty meters wide.
In fact, the 50-meter-wide street has a 6 lane in both directions, sidewalks on both sides, and green belts on the road. The arrangement is also very compact. The municipal government is never ruthless in this regard. Pedestrians must pass through sidewalks when crossing the street. Cars will be fined. Even if more than three people are shopping, they must queue up consciously. If they cannot do this, the consequences will be very serious in Niasaran. Half the punishment is fined plus public services.
Considering the general income level of Xuanji City, fines start at least five minutes. The most common job of public services is to sweep the streets, and don’t think about being lazy and working hard. There is someone to supervise when working. If the work is not done cleanly and the task cannot be completed, the time will be doubled.
Whether Chinese or white, they are very sensitive to money and time, so in a short period of time, Xuanji City began to become neat and orderly. Students and new immigrants who have just arrived in Xuanji City will also have special people to remind them of what to pay attention to in Xuanji City and the punishments they will receive when violating relevant regulations.
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So what Viscount Glaston saw was an extremely orderly city. The cars on both sides of the street were parked neatly, cars and carriages driving on the roads, and trams were moderately speeded, and pedestrians consciously stopped in front of the sidewalk and waited for the traffic police to release. Although the whole city was not spotless, the sanitation was still very different from Cape Town.
Compared with European cities, London is even bigger. As the most developed city in Europe, it is now called the "Mist City". Many cities in Niasaran are simply paradise compared to London. Viscount Glaston could even smell the faint fragrance of flowers while sitting in the Lord's car. This feeling made Viscount Glaston intoxicated.
As a city that emerged with universities as the center, Xuanji City is not strong in business atmosphere. There are only two or three streets in the entire city that form a commercial area, and the rest of the streets are surrounded by residential communities or green parks.
The residents' communities here do not have skyscrapers lined up, and more resident families live in the most common two-story wooden buildings in southern Africa.
Because the municipal government is not restricted in land use, each household covers a large area, basically the main house has a lawn in front and a garden in the back. Some families also have outdoor swimming pools, and more and more families have independent garages. Few people raise horses in the city. Even if they like horses, they will keep them on farms in the suburbs of the city.
Viscount Glaston's first stop was Niasaran University. At this time, the person who introduced Viscount Glaston was replaced by Professor Douglas, and Rock and the belated Martin accompanied him throughout the journey.
"Niasaran University has nearly 10,000 students now, and there are almost 2,000 graduates this year. Those who need senior talents can work hard now-" Professor Douglas attracted the glare of Rock and Martin as soon as he spoke.
Neither Rock nor Martin have forgotten the grand occasion of the first two graduates of Nyasalan University when they graduated. At that time, the federal government and Nyasalan almost made a big splash in order to compete for talents. Now the graduates in Nyasalan are different from the previous two training classes. This time, the graduates have basically received a complete university education and their quality is higher than the previous two sessions. It is estimated that the competition between all parties will be more intense.
This year, in addition to the federal government and the Niasaran Prefecture, the state governments of several other states are expected to join the competition. It sounds like there are quite a few people. After Lorenzo Maguis joined Southern Africa, in fact, in the ten states plus the federal government, each state can get not many graduates.
Fortunately, this situation will probably improve in the next few years. In another two years, graduates will be graduated from Cape Hope University in Cape Town, Rhodes University in Rhodesia, and Rand University in Johannesburg. By then, the talent shortage in southern Africa will be greatly alleviated.
Cape of Good Hope University and Rhodes University and Rand University were both founded in the past two years, but their strength is much worse than that of Niasalam University, not just hardware facilities, but also the gap in faculty. Many professors at Niasalam University are elites who have been working in the field of university education in European countries for many years. Some of these newly established universities are even graduates who have just graduated from Niasalam University. Therefore, these universities cannot shake the status of Niasalam University in the field of education in southern Africa, and will even make Niasalam University graduates more popular.
Professor Douglas will introduce the hardware facilities of Niasalan University: "Niasalan University covers an area of 2,500 acres. It now has four national laboratories, twelve colleges, and more than 9,800 students. Each of our colleges has its own library, each library has more than 300,000 books in its collection. Each college also has its own printing factory, gym, swimming pool, theater and cinema. The school's affiliated hospital was put into use last year. A comprehensive stadium was just built this year, and the indoor gymnasium is also being planned. In the next five years, no, three years, we will build Niasalan University into a world-class university."
Professor Douglas is ambitious, but obviously not as ambitious as Viscount Glaston: "I think Niasaran University is now a world-class university-"
Indeed, the situation seen from Viscount Glaston, the foundation and prospects of the University of Niasaran are no less than those of famous universities in Europe.
The foundation and prospects of a university are mainly reflected in the school's software and hardware facilities. In this regard, Niasalan University is not inferior to those famous European universities. Even because of Rock's expense, Niasalan University's facilities are more complete and advanced.
In terms of software facilities, perhaps the average age of professors at Nyasalan University is relatively young, and their professional title level looks a bit overwhelming because of the special situation in southern Africa. However, this does not mean that the faculty of Nyasalan University is very weak. On the contrary, Nyasalan University has collected many unsuccessful backbone forces from Europe in recent years. European prestigious universities have lost a lot of faculty. As one rises and the other falls, the level of Nyasalan University is naturally rising.
Compared with software and hardware facilities, the quality level of students is also absolutely related to the school's grades. Now the students of Niasalan University have basically received complete primary and secondary education. They are not inferior to those of major European universities in terms of comprehensive quality. Considering the talent of Chinese students in studying, it can even be said that the overall level of students of Niasalan University is higher than that of those students of European universities.
That is, the University of Niasaran has just been born, and there are enough graduates who have entered society and their influence is not great enough. However, the scale of nearly 10,000 students is undoubtedly a first-class level in terms of number. As more and more students graduate and enter society and exert their greater influence, Niasaran University will sooner or later become a world-renowned university like Oxford and Cambridge.
All teachers and students of Niasalan University believe in this.
"It's not OK. Our strength in scientific research is not enough. The four national laboratories are now biology, mechanical power, materials, and agricultural laboratories. We strive to build more countries and laboratories in the next five years, so that we can compete with the world-renowned universities in Europe." Professor Douglas now also knows modesty.
In fact, there is no need to underestimate yourself in this regard. The Biological Laboratory of Niasaran University now has Nobel-level scientific research results, and it is not one, but several, so Professor Douglas is still very confident in this regard.
As for mechanical power, this is the pride of Nyasalan University. The rise of Nyasalan industry is precisely because of the continuous achievements of the mechanical power laboratory that there will be a steady stream of new products in southern Africa. Now the engines used by Nyasalan cars, aircraft and ships are produced by Nyasalan, which are the achievements of the mechanical power laboratory.
Chapter completed!