Chapter 361 k—001
In the next month, East Africa began to give full play to the role of the Far East Assistance Group, making people willing to do things and knowing how to lure them. The price that the East African Kingdom can offer is still good. In addition to basic living guarantees, it also offers a very high salary. , but all of them are Rhine guilders circulating in East Africa. East Africa makes money and spends in East Africa. Don't even think about taking a guild home.
At the same time, assign these doctors professional titles in East Africa. In the medical field, they are regarded as public officials. Li Ge and Ander can only stare blankly at the actions of the East African government, and there is nothing they can do.
Under East Africa's efforts to win over, there are indeed many people who are tempted, but most of them still want to go back to the Far East. The profession of doctors is a high-paying profession everywhere, and their lives are not bad, and most of the doctors in the Far East are Those who are more talented and learned have a stronger thought of returning to the root.
East Africa also understands this, but it doesn’t matter, there will always be a steady stream of Far Eastern talents coming to the Kingdom of East Africa to fill these vacancies, until one day East African medicine is fully developed.
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September 13, 1871.
King Constantine came to Dar es Salaam in person. After years of development, Dar es Salaam bears increasingly heavy transportation pressure.
So before the renovation of Dar es Salaam three years ago, East Africa opened a new port seven kilometers southeast and south of the original port to share the pressure of the old port.
This new port is mainly used to undertake the import and export of bulk commodities in East Africa, immigration, and important imported equipment. The old port is mainly responsible for receiving foreign ships that need to berth in Dar es Salaam.
This is also the reason why the immigration transition point of Dar es Salaam has been transferred from the urban area of Dar es Salaam to the suburbs in the south of the city. for management.
In the past, after immigrants landed in Dar es Salaam, they were mixed with the residential areas in the city, and their temporary residence was also restricted by the old city. One block to the east and one block to the west, not to mention inconvenient management, it also affected the city appearance, which was not conducive to passing consumers. happy mood.
The immigrants themselves stayed on the ship for a long time, and most of them were from poor backgrounds. It is conceivable that their demeanor and makeup were not popular when they landed in East Africa.
Although the past consumers in Dar es Salaam are also drifters at sea all year round, and their image is not very good, but who makes them rich! He can go without bathing or washing for several months, and his clothes are all starched, but he is lenient with himself and strict with others, and he just can't see the unkempt appearance of immigrants. Therefore, the excellent city appearance will help the East African Kingdom empty the wallets of foreign sailors.
Of course, it can also be seen from the function of Xingang that it can be used to cover up some development data of the Kingdom of East Africa. The urban area of Dar es Salaam is mixed with good and evil people, and businessmen from all over the world gather. Who knows if there are any "minded people" among them.
Today, Constantine personally arrived at Newport in Dar es Salaam to participate in the opening ceremony of the first railway in East Africa.
It took two full days to transport this big guy from the pier to the station. The Dar es Salaam Railway Station was built in the suburbs three kilometers southwest of Dar es Salaam. In order to transport this big guy to At the station, the East African Railway workers repeatedly reinforced the road along the way.
Dar es Salaam Railway Station looks very simple, except for the platform and signs, there is only a small bungalow covering an area of more than 30 square meters.
Technicians from Hechingen Vienna Energy Power Company introduced the first train in East Africa to Konstantin on the platform.
"Your Majesty, this train was jointly designed and built by the Hechingen Vienna Energy Power Company and the Austrian Royal Franz-Oriental Kaiser Railway Company. It adopted many cutting-edge technologies of the current era. The locomotives were assembled by production workers, and after leaving the factory, they underwent a three-month test run in Austria, which can fully meet the current needs of East Africa. At the same time, under the instruction of His Royal Highness Ernst, this train is named after you and numbered K —001."
Constantine asked: "If it is in a mountainous area, can it still operate normally? The drop from the East African plateau to the coastal plain is still relatively large."
"Your Majesty, this locomotive has done quite a lot of experiments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our team specially built an experimental track in the Alps. Its speed and climbing ability have reached the world's average level. We also have data on the geographical conditions of East Africa. The difficulty is far less than that of Austria, Austria is a mountainous country, so many mountain railways have been built in the past two years, and although the altitude of the East African plateau is also high, there are many places where the transition from the plateau to the plain is gentle, and the overall **** is much lower.”
There are some differences between plateaus and mountains. Africa is a plateau continent, which is the highest among all continents. This geological structure is not conducive to crustal movement and forms mountains. Correspondingly, the terrain of East Africa is also dominated by gentle plateaus, lacking tall mountains.
Therefore, there is no abrupt geological structure blocking traffic in East Africa like the Brazilian coastal shield. The coastal plain in East Africa, according to the official definition of East Africa, is a plain. In fact, only the area close to the coastline is below 200 meters above sea level, and most of the middle area is from 200 meters to 1,000 meters. Transition, wait until the edge of the East African plateau, the difference in altitude between the two is not too big.
Because the altitude of the East African Plateau is between 1,000 and 2,000 meters, with an average altitude of about 1,200 meters, the high mountains of more than 5,800 meters like Mount Kilimanjaro are mainly affected by the Great Rift Valley in East Africa.
It is essentially caused by volcanic activity, and its formation began about 750,000 years ago, initially consisting of three large craters: Gila, Kibo and Mawenzi.
There are many volcanoes in East Africa, but most of them have passed the active period, mainly extinct volcanoes and dormant volcanoes. Although the volcanic seismic zone caused by the East African Rift Valley is huge, it is completely childish compared with the Pacific Rim volcanic seismic zone.
The incidence of earthquakes and volcanoes in East Africa is even lower than that of Italy. At least Ernst had never heard of any major volcanoes and earthquakes in Africa in his previous life. Earthquakes often occur, but they are not too strong, most of which do not exceed 6 class.
Ernst remembered an earthquake near Lake Tanganyika when he was in Africa. At that time, the data measured by the United States was 6.8, and that measured by France was 7.5. Except for single-digit casualties, the damage caused was almost negligible. , and even nothing to lose.
In general, except for the area near the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, East Africa does not have to worry about natural disasters such as volcanic earthquakes. The geological conditions are generally relatively stable. On the contrary, factors such as rainstorms and floods should be considered more when building railways.
Furthermore, East Africa is sparsely populated, and areas that are not conducive to railway construction can be bypassed, so it is not too difficult.
(end of this chapter)