Chapter 124 Well
Facts have proved that Franz does not attach much importance to this matter. As the king of a country, Franz is busy with some important national affairs every day.
As for little Rudolph's education, Franz still trusts his mother, after all, he came here that way.
In fact, this is an irresponsible attitude. Some people may just pursue a job. Maybe they don’t realize it, but it’s really easy.
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Poor little Rudolph just fell into Ernst's clutches, and he still doesn't know what kind of life he will face next.
"Goodbye sister, goodbye grandmother!" Little Rudolf bid farewell to his two sisters (his own sisters Princess Gisela and Karina) and grandmother.
"Ernst! Rudolf will be handed over to you for a while, you have to watch him carefully, and don't waste your studies." Queen Sophie emphasized.
"Don't worry! Queen Mother, I brought Rudolph to let him receive a more complete and advanced education, and he also came into contact with outstanding nobles from all over Europe." Ernst assured.
"Baby, take care of yourself!" Queen Sophie kissed Rudolph on the forehead to say goodbye.
"Let's go!" Ernst said to the coachman. The coachman waved his whip and whipped the horse's buttocks, and the convoy moved slowly.
As the carriage gradually disappeared from sight, the Queen Mother Sophie came back to her senses. Rudolph's visit was not good or bad. Anyway, it only took three months, so it was not a big problem.
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"Rudolph, what do you think of the scene along the way?" Ernst asked Rudolph through the window of the train, looking at the fields passing by quickly.
"Brother Ernst, yesterday was fine. The scenery outside is indeed something you can't see in the palace. It's very novel, but I'm too tired afterward. I feel like my bones are about to fall apart." Rudolph complained.
The reason why Rudolph is like this is because Ernst took him to take the train to North Germany.
Steam trains in this era are conceivably poor in comfort, and Ernst specially ordered a hard-seat carriage.
Only Ernst and Rudolph were in the carriage, as well as Ernst's bodyguard and assistant team.
Actually, as Ernst, he can order a high-end box. The conditions there are very good, but the high-level box does not have the taste of the hard-seat green leather car that Ernst had in his previous life when he was a child.
Ernst also wanted Rudolph to experience the hardships of ordinary people traveling, these steam trains and bumpy railways, plus hard leather seats, loud noises and a journey of more than ten hours.
Not to mention Rudolph, even Ernst felt very tired, but Ernst had a taste of reminiscing bitterness and sweetness, so he enjoyed it instead. Rudolph was miserable. Since he was a child, when did he suffer from this kind of torture? .
After more than ten hours of torture, the train finally arrived at the terminal in Berlin.
It was the first time to go abroad, and Rudolph, who had seen other capitals, felt very novel about everything here. Prussia and Vienna seemed more strict and orderly than the atmosphere. This is a feeling that can only be felt from the city itself.
Ernst prepared a full set of education for Rudolph, and all the itineraries were fully arranged, which of course was slightly different from what he had promised to Queen Sophie.
In addition to accepting all the courses, little Rudolph also had to deal with the Prussian royal family and visit Prussia’s industrial achievements. At the same time, he would be arranged to study at the Hechingen Military Academy for one month.
Ernst focused on establishing a social education for Rudolph outside the court education.
Just like in the previous life, many family education in China was actually missing, but school education made up for the lack of family education.
Good family education is definitely more advantageous than social education like schools, but many family educations fail.
Judging from Rudolph’s previous life experience, his family education was definitely a failure among failures, so Ernst wanted to imitate the exam-oriented education in his previous life to forcefully instill a set of normal thinking in Rudolph.
Birds of a feather flock together, and people are divided into groups. Let Rudolph get in touch with some outstanding people, which will definitely affect his future.
The benefits of exam-oriented education are very obvious, that is, "rolling", so that Rudolph has no time to think and complain.
This is incomparable to court education. Court education only serves Rudolf, and all court teachers revolve around Rudolf. Those court teachers only need to forcibly instill knowledge into Rudolf.
In exam-oriented education, Rudolph has competitors. Ernst is going to let Rudolph have a taste of the horror of exams and the horror of competing with geniuses of the same age.
As for exam-oriented education obliterating nature and imagination, even if this is the case, it is definitely not harmful to Rudolph. Franz wanted to train Rudolph to be a conservative king, but it seems that Franz failed in his previous life.
Under the pressure of exam-oriented education, Rudolph can really make some close friends. Unlike those who take the initiative to curry favor, Rudolph's classmates will be troubled brothers.
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February 10, 1868.
Just today, the central government of East Africa issued a new document to the localities, which is to dig wells throughout the colony of East Africa.
What the East African government handles and does every day does not look like managing a country at all, but like managing a large village.
The East African colonies are of course rich in water resources, and villages and towns are also close to water sources.
Why did Ernst carry out the "Dig Wells" campaign in East Africa!
It depends on the data report of the East African government. At present, the drinking water resources of East African immigrants mainly come from rivers and lakes.
The rivers and lakes in East Africa are not as clean as imagined. They are used to irrigate agriculture. Fortunately, when the rainy season comes or the dry season, many rivers and waters turn into muddy water.
Some rivers are even more exaggerated. Some hippos gather in the same river section, and their excrement directly pollutes the entire water area. Even fish can be suffocated to death (it is said that they died of lack of oxygen).
So the water of rivers and lakes in East Africa is generally drunk after simple treatment, which is a mandatory requirement.
Generally, two sedimentation tanks are dug, and the river water is simply filtered. If it is too turbid, some alum may be added, and finally boiled for drinking.
In this way, the drinking water in the East African colonies is directly linked to the quality of the local surface water. Even with simple filtration measures, many people still get sick or even die due to drinking water problems.
However, in this era, this is the case in most areas, so everyone is more accustomed to it. It is also common for some people to drink raw water directly from rivers and lakes to save trouble.
So every measure in East Africa is mandatory, and once it is found to violate the regulations of the colonial government, it will be punished.
All in all, East Africa currently lacks clean and safe drinking water. Ernst does not insist on comparing it with the tap water in his previous life, at least reaching the standard of well water.
Well water may face the hidden danger of excessive bacterial dust and minerals, but it is much safer than the surface water of those rivers and lakes, especially compared with many water sources in East Africa that often turn yellow.
Dodoma, Fata Village.
"The mud here is relatively wet, and you can see the heaviest water vapor around here." Jorah Mormont said to the people in the village.
As he spoke, he dug out a piece of soil directly from the ground in front of him with his hands, and at the same time dug out a piece around it.
"Look, this piece of mud, once I pinch it, it will take shape; looking at this piece, once I pinch it, it will fall apart! So there is a possibility that there is a water source under this piece of land." Jorah Mo Ermon proved his conjecture.
Jorah Mormont is an immigrant from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a Serbian, who lived in Hungary before, and has experience in drilling wells, but it is just experience.
"Then let's dig here first!" The German village chief made a decision.
So a group of more than a dozen villagers began to dig here with tools. There were no advanced tools, just shovels and hoes.
The people in the village are responsible for preparing masonry materials and rattan as materials for the well wall.
Jorah Mormont was in charge of the main work. After digging about 50 centimeters, he began to build the well wall with rattan and masonry, and the rattan was mainly used for fixing.
After each round was completed, Jorah Mormont and his assistants used short-handled shovels to dig along the bottom of the masonry, and the villagers pulled the soil up from the ground with wooden barrels tied to ropes.
It was getting late, and after tossing for a long time, the well gradually took shape. After digging for more than ten meters, there was still no water.
"How deep is it now?" asked the village chief.
Someone put the rope for measurement along the mouth of the well, and the person at the bottom of the well pulled it.
"Village chief, there are still about four meters to twenty meters!"
"Okay! Let's work overtime today to see if he can get out of the water. If there is no water after 20 meters, we will come back in another place tomorrow." The village chief set the tone.
At this time, Jorah Mormont said down the well, "Village Chief, don't worry, if you dig a few meters, water will definitely come out. The mud will get wetter as you go down. According to my previous experience in Hungary, water should come out after about ten meters." , it seems that the land of Africa is somewhat different from Europe.”
After hearing this, the group of people accelerated their digging speed. Sure enough, within one meter, Jorah Mormont shoveled down, and the well water gushed up from the ground.
"Out of the water, out of the water!" cried Jorah Mormont excitedly.
"Okay, first pull him up." The village chief said.
The villagers used simple escalators to put them into the well, and Jorah Mormont slowly climbed up.
In this way, the first well in Fata Village was born.
Currently in East Africa, water wells are mainly used for drinking by residents, and one or two wells dug in each village is enough for the entire village.
As for agricultural irrigation, it is natural to use surface water from rivers and lakes, including drinking water for livestock.
The development and utilization of water wells further improved the water safety of residents in the East African colonies and further reduced the living space of various diseases.
Before the construction of waterworks in East Africa, water wells have always been the main task of drinking water for residents. Some of these wells have been in service for decades before they are slowly replaced by tap water. In some extremely water-scarce places, water wells will always be play an irreplaceable role.
(end of this chapter)