Chapter 1003 Railway System Adjustment
After the whole family reached an agreement, the next thing became much easier. Ernst went to Sweet and told him about it and prepared wedding preparations. The Sweet family was also knocked unconscious by the sudden falling of the pie. At this time, Sweet realized that his cabbage had been eaten by...the Crown Prince.
"Your Highness, why didn't I find out? They have been secretly dating for several years. I didn't even know it. They did a good job of keeping it secret." Sweet said a little depressed.
Ernst had the same idea. If he hadn't urged the marriage, he, an old father, wouldn't have known about his son's underground love affair.
However, he still said: "Don't have any psychological burden. Two people actually like each other, so let's help them. After all, the trend of free love in society is becoming more and more popular now, and it is no longer the same as before in the Middle Ages."
Sweet frowned and said: "Your Highness, I am mainly worried that this will affect the overall situation of the country. After all, royal marriage can gain a lot of benefits for East Africa."
Ernst: "My opinion on this point is that it has little impact. Marriage of nobles is an important part of European diplomacy, but East Africa is not Europe after all. We in East Africa are isolated overseas, and our ties with Europe are not very close. It can be said that It is a system of its own, so royal marriages do not necessarily follow European traditions.”
“Furthermore, as East Africa is a country of immigrants from many sources, if Friedrich could marry a person with the ancestry of immigrants from the Far Eastern Empire, it would be greatly beneficial to the integration of our East African people.”
After hearing what Ernst said, Sweet also thought it was reasonable. Of course, Sweet was still a little complicated. After all, this matter was related to his family. If Friedrich's marriage partner was other East African nobles, then Sweet would probably I won’t think too much about it.
In fact, Ernst had other plans in mind, that is, in the future, the Rhine royal family will also need the cooperation of local political forces. European aristocrats may not have this effect. Assuming that the First World War was the same as in the previous life, then I am afraid that during this period, the aristocrats of the European continent will The final glory is gone, and the nobles who lose their power are just a name.
“It’s better to wait until the end of this year rather than later, and take advantage of the New Year time to hold a wedding for the two of them!” Ernst said decisively.
Ernst also wanted to have a grandson as soon as possible, and since Friedrich was already old, the wedding was better put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Sweite would naturally not object to Ernst's decision. Although his mentality was complicated, he knew Prince Friedrich well, and if others knew the news, they would only envy him.
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After confirming Friedrich's marriage, Ernst once again turned into a workaholic and devoted himself to East African political affairs.
"Your Highness, this is the latest feedback from the railway system. In addition to the current railway construction situation being implemented step by step according to the First Five-Year Plan, our domestic internal combustion engine locomotives are also stepping up production to improve the needs of my country's railway and transportation industries. ”
Generally, internal combustion engine locomotives can be divided into three categories according to the transmission form, namely mechanical transmission, hydraulic transmission, and electric transmission.
Mechanical transmission diesel locomotives use internal combustion engines as power. However, this type of internal combustion engine locomotive is only rarely used on low-power local railways and industrial and mining locomotives. Early hydraulic transmission diesel locomotives were driven by connecting rods similar to steam locomotives. . As for electric transmission, it was the main application form of internal combustion locomotives in the past. The role of the internal combustion engine is to provide electricity to the locomotive, and then use electrical energy as a power source. Electric transmission is also the mainstream development direction of internal combustion engine locomotives in East Africa.
This type of diesel locomotive has been relatively mature in East Africa, especially after the East African railway and power industries achieved rapid development in the 1990s. Electrically driven diesel locomotives officially achieved mass production in 1895.
Of course, old-fashioned steam locomotives have not been eliminated. The main reason is that the domestic production of steam locomotives in East Africa has only been less than 20 years ago, so the previous production was relatively limited. In addition, the East African railway was built too fast, and the gap for locomotives was getting bigger and bigger. , so now the East African railway system is facing a situation of more roads and fewer vehicles.
In addition, Ernst experienced the era of information explosion in later generations, so he knew more clearly that although old-fashioned steam locomotives gradually could not meet the needs of the economy and other aspects of society as time went by, they were simple in structure, stable and reliable, which was important. Strategic materials often require veterans to come to the rescue after the country's land and railway systems are damaged by war, or when encountering extreme natural disasters.
In addition, the old-fashioned steam locomotives in East Africa have just been expanded for a few years, so it is impossible to tear them down and start over. Instead, they must increase their production efforts.
Furthermore, the standards adopted by the East African railway system are different from those of other countries, which requires East Africa to produce more steam locomotives as a strategic reserve in the future.
So Ernst said: "Promoting the development of diesel locomotives is a need for economic development, but steam locomotives are equally important. Now East African railway transportation capacity is limited by the number of locomotives, so both diesel locomotives and steam locomotives must be vigorously developed."
In fact, steam locomotives are not backward. They are still the main force in the railway systems of various countries around the world. Although other countries also produce diesel locomotives, the number is extremely rare and the technology is immature. Therefore, continuing to produce steam locomotives will not be beneficial to East Africa. Have too big an impact on the economy.
"According to His Highness's request, our Ministry of Railways plans to increase the production of diesel locomotives to about 40% during the First Five-Year Plan period, while the original production of steam locomotives will remain unchanged. This will not cause any impact on the original production of steam locomotives. It’s such an impact.” Andre said: “In addition to locomotive production, the current problem of the railway system lies in the lack of information exchange and material allocation. This requires rectification of the entire system, especially the establishment of more marshalling stations, and Coordinate with various departments and enterprises to improve railway transportation efficiency.”
After all, railways are not as flexible as highways, especially because railway routes and times are fixed, which leads to easy empty trains and increased railway operating costs if information is not processed properly.
There are also changes in regional freight volume and improper railway use application and review processes, which can easily lead to the inability to fully release railway transport capacity.
In the past, the East African railway was developed roughly, so these problems were not obvious. However, during the First Five-Year Plan period, the East African railway construction plan was not aggressive, so there was more time and energy to sort out and sort out the various problems of the original East African railway system. solve.
Ernst also supports this point. Refined railway management is an inevitable trend in the development of railway transportation. Ernst does not want the decline of the American railway system to happen in East Africa.
In fact, a large part of the reason for the decline of American railways is improper management. From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, the American railway system could be said to have grown wildly. However, after the development of highways, aviation and other forms of transportation, adjustments could not be made in time. , making the American railway system inevitably enter a period of decline.
It is true that the development of aviation and road transportation has put certain pressure on railways, but this problem did not occur in Europe and the Far Eastern Empire. Especially the European railways in the previous life were not built later than the United States, and the development of other forms of transportation was not lagging behind. However, European countries, Countries including Germany, France, Spain, etc. have continued to develop in the railway field, so the decline of railways is obviously not only caused by competition from other modes of transportation.
(End of this chapter)