Chapter 1193 "Utopia"
Secondly, the business in Mombasa is currently more important than that of Dar es Salaam. After all, it is the bridgehead where East Africa and Europe and Asia meet, so many foreign trade business and exchange centers are established in Mombasa.
Nowadays, with the progress of the European war, many businesses that were originally in the hands of European powers have naturally transitioned to the hands of East Africa. This has made Mombasa the most important information intersection on the east coast of East Africa.
Thanks to the advancement of communication technology in East Africa, the growth of the country's telecommunications industry, and the popularization of telegraphs and telephones, orders placed in Mombasa can be quickly sent to the whole of East Africa, and it is not necessary to go to a certain city to complete commercial tasks.
Therefore, in addition to a large number of exchanges and exchange centers, Mombasa also has many sites set up by large East African companies, or simply the headquarters.
Therefore, in order not to break the current status of Mombasa, the East African government will still place the exhibition in the Dar es Salaam urban area after careful consideration.
This actually explains to a certain extent the relative decline of Dar es Salaam among East African cities. This is actually easy to understand. In Beira, Maputo, New Hamburg Port, Pemba and other east coast ports After the city rises, it will inevitably compete with Dar es Salaam.
After all, Dar es Salaam is not Shanghai. It sits at the leading position of the Yangtze River, a golden waterway, and in terms of railway and road transportation, those rising stars in East Africa are not inferior to Dar es Salaam.
But Mombasa is different. It can be said that it has no competitors at all. The dividends of the Northern Railway are still firmly in the hands of Mombasa.
Of course, the last point is that the reason why Dar es Salaam City Circle was chosen as the venue for the exhibition is that Dar es Salaam City is enough. Today, Dar es Salaam City is still the largest city in East Africa. It is still the strongest and has no shortcomings in other aspects. It is enough to deal with people from participating countries.
This was at least evident in discussions among Brazilian exhibitors.
Yoder continued to comment: "I noticed many details, such as the roads in Dar es Salaam, which are significantly smoother. Although this may be related to the performance of the car, you see, the roads in East Africa are entirely made of black. are paved with asphalt, but only a few urban roads in Rio de Janeiro have this treatment.”
"And the characteristics of East African road design are very obvious. There are various lines and special patterns on the asphalt pavement. I think they must have special purposes."
At this point, Yoder began to ask the East African driver in German. He had been talking to his colleagues in Portuguese before. It was naturally impossible for the East African driver, an old native of Dar es Salaam, to participate because he could not understand.
Because he had immigrated to Brazil for too long, Jodel's German was obviously not fluent. He communicated with the East African driver in a stumbling manner.
"Mr. Driver, don't know what to call me?"
"Hello sir, you can call me Fuchirini. What can I do?"
"Mr. Fucherini, I just have a small question to ask. I noticed that there are many patterns and lines on the roads in East Africa. Some are painted on the pavement and some are used on warning signs. Is this a unified traffic pattern? Rules?"
Fuchellini said: "It's like this. The most basic function of white paint is to divide the road. For example, we are in the inside lane now, and the vehicles in the same lane are traveling in the same direction. Of course, there are also Instructions and warnings, for example, solid lines cannot change lanes, but dotted areas can..."
These natural traffic rules were all completed under the guidance of Ernst. In fact, early East African traffic was not as strict as it is today.
After all, there were not many cars in East Africa, and the speed of horse-drawn carriages and other vehicles was not fast, so there was no need for complicated traffic rules. It was not until the increase in the number of vehicles in East Africa in the 1990s that the East African government began to improve and implement more stringent road traffic rules.
As an experienced driver, Fuchellini especially likes the feeling of being praised by foreign friends. Now he has Jodel, a person who can speak German, as a translator. The seal of his chatterbox was completely lifted, and he began to introduce many details of East Africa bit by bit.
"The green belts in the middle and on both sides of the road, according to the foreign tourists or businessmen I have contacted, seem to be only found in East Africa. In addition to beautifying the environment, these green belts can also eliminate certain noise and dust. Of course, , the effect is definitely limited, but I believe that is the case.”
"If you touch these green belts, you can see that there is a certain amount of dust adsorbed on the leaves before the sprinklers water them."
"Our roads in East Africa use the latest traffic light systems. They all use electricity as the energy source and are arranged at large and small intersections or other complex road sections in Dar es Salaam..."
Brazilian people listened with fascination. In Fucherini's words, anyone can feel the power of East Africa's transportation system, which embodies the advantages of order, fairness and humanity.
Of course, they also raise some new questions from time to time.
"Mr. Fuchellini, are all the streets in Dar es Salaam so clean?"
"Of course, we in East Africa attach great importance to health conditions, not just now, but this tradition has existed in East Africa dating back to my grandfather's time."
"I heard from my grandfather that East Africa was indeed unsafe in the early days. Many people had very little awareness of hygiene at that time, but the government at that time had already begun to mandate personal and public health cleanliness, and the effect was very significant."
"I think everyone has heard that Africa is a cursed continent. Various tropical diseases are rampant. This is how we in East Africa have greatly reduced the spread of viruses in East Africa. Now East Africa is even safer than many middle and high latitudes. "
If Fucherini's words were said to other people, it would not be easy to resonate, but it is different for Brazilians.
Brazil's latitude is similar to that of East Africa, and the climates of the two countries can also be said to be very similar, so some of the problems that exist in East Africa also apply to Brazil.
There is no doubt that Brazil's poor medical and health systems, as well as the rampant various tropical diseases, are probably one of the reasons why Brazil's population growth is unsatisfactory and the population is concentrated in large cities.
After all, if you think about it, a country like Brazil with a small population, a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and the inability to use administrative means to concentrate national efforts to develop the inland as East Africa did in the past, is indeed very difficult to develop.
It would cost lives to expect private companies to bring their 100th employee to open up wasteland in the interior. That is to say, there were enough Indians in Brazil in the early days and enough black people to exploit them later. Otherwise, Brazil might not even be able to accumulate the wealth it has today. stand up.
After all, it was already the end of the 19th century when Brazil abolished slavery. At that time, the effective development of East Africa’s territory had reached millions of square kilometers. Now the economy and population of the west have also gained momentum. This is the institutional superiority of East Africa. .
Of course, East Africa's consumption of black slaves is obviously also very prominent, but it may not be more than that of Brazil. After all, black people in Brazil have been updated for several generations and are following a sustainable development path, while East Africa does not pay much attention to "but" sustainable development" and adopted the method of "fishing from the lake".
From this point of view, the black people in Brazil are both lucky and unlucky compared to their East African "fellows". At least Brazil has not exterminated them all. However, the treatment of black people in East Africa and Brazil is obviously not as good as that in the United States. Although black people in the United States are subject to social discrimination, they are still Having gained freedom in the middle of the last century, Brazilian blacks have just been liberated and their social status is not as good as that of American blacks.
Of course, Fucherini would not disclose this kind of "stain" to international friends, so in Fucherini's words, East Africa has almost no shortcomings, but only advantages.
And many Brazilians also believe it. After all, the facts are here, and people are more willing to believe what they see. East Africa shows a civilized side, so East Africa is more civilized, richer, and more powerful than Brazil. It is simply " Utopia".
(End of chapter)