African Entrepreneurship Record

Chapter 361 k-001

In the next month, East Africa began to give full play to the role of the Far East Assistance Mission, making people willing to do things and knowing the inducements. The prices offered by the East African Kingdom were quite good. In addition to basic living security, they also offered very high wages. , but they are all Rhine guilders circulating within East Africa. East Africa spends making money. Don’t even think about taking a guilder home.

At the same time, these doctors were assigned East African professional titles, which were regarded as public servants in the medical field. Li Ge and Ande could only stare at the actions of the East African government and had no choice but to do anything.

With the efforts of East Africa to win over, many people are indeed tempted, but most people still want to return to the Far East. The profession of doctor is a high-paying profession everywhere, and the life is not bad, and most of the doctors in the Far East are Those who are more talented and learned have a stronger desire to get back to their roots.

East Africa also understands this, but it doesn't matter. There will always be a steady stream of Far Eastern talents coming to the East African Kingdom to fill these vacancies, until one day East African medicine is completely developed.

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September 13, 1871.

King Constantine visited Dar es Salaam in person. After years of development, Dar es Salaam has been under increasing transportation pressure.

Therefore, before the reconstruction of Dar es Salaam three years ago, East Africa opened a new port seven kilometers southeast of the original port to share the pressure of the old port.

The new port is mainly used to handle the import and export of East African bulk commodities, 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 in Dar es Salaam has been moved from the urban area of ​​Dar es Salaam to the southern suburbs of the city. It is more convenient for immigrants to go to the immigration transition point after landing at the new port of Dar es Salaam, and it also helps For management.

In the past, when immigrants landed in Dar es Salaam, they were mixed with residential areas in the city, and temporary residences were also restricted by the old city, with one area in the east and one in the west. Not only was it inconvenient to manage, it also affected the city appearance and was not conducive to passing consumers. happy mood.

The immigrants themselves stayed on the ship for a long time, and most of them came from poor backgrounds. It is conceivable that their appearance and makeup were not well received when they landed in East Africa.

Although the consumers who pass by Dar es Salaam are also drifters at sea all year round, and their image is not very good, but who makes them rich? He could go months without bathing or washing, and his clothes would be starched, but he would be lenient to himself and strict to others, and he would not tolerate the unkempt appearance of immigrants. So good city appearance helps the East African kingdom empty the wallets of foreign sailors.

Of course, it can also be seen from the function of the new port that it can be used to cover up some development data of the East African Kingdom. The urban area of ​​Dar es Salaam is a mixed bag, with businessmen from all over the world gathered. Who knows if there are any "careful people" among them.

Today Constantine personally went to the new port of Dar es Salaam to attend the opening ceremony of the first railway in East Africa.

Just three days ago, a steam-powered locomotive built by Hechingen Vienna Energy Power Company and Austrian Royal Railways arrived in East Africa, along with six supporting carriages, including one passenger carriage and five freight carriages.

In order to transport this big guy from the dock to the station, it took two full days. 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 Station, East African Railway workers repeatedly reinforced the roads along the route.

The Dar es Salaam train station looks very simple. Apart from the platform and signs, there is only a small bungalow covering an area of ​​more than 30 square meters.

Technicians from the Vienna Energy Power Company in Hechingen introduced East Africa's first train to Constantine on the platform.

"Your Majesty, this train was jointly designed and built by Hechingen Vienna Energy Power Company and Austria's Royal Franz-Orient Kaiser Railway Company. It adopts many cutting-edge technologies of the current era. After half a year of technical verification, it was developed by Austria Assembled by skilled locomotive production workers, it was put into trial operation in Austria for three months after leaving the factory. It can fully meet the current needs of East Africa. At the same time, under the instructions of His 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 gap from the East African plateau to the coastal plain is still relatively large."

"Your Majesty, this locomotive has undergone quite a lot of experiments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our team has specially built experimental tracks in the Alps. Its speed and climbing ability have reached the world average. We also have data on the geographical conditions of East Africa. The difficulty is far less than in Austria. Austria is a mountainous country, so many mountain railways have been built in the past two years. Although the altitude of the East African plateau is also very high, there are many places where the transition from the plateau to the plain is gentle, and the overall slope is much lower."

There are some differences between plateaus and mountains. Africa is a plateau continent, the highest among all continents. This geological structure is not conducive to crustal movement and the formation of mountains. Correspondingly, the terrain of East Africa is mainly gentle plateaus and lacks tall mountains.

Therefore, East Africa does not have abrupt geological structures like the Brazilian Coastal Shield that block traffic. The East African coastal plain is a plain according to the official definition of East Africa. In fact, only the areas close to the coastline are below 200 meters above sea level, and most of the areas in the middle range from 200 meters to 1,000 meters. After the transition, when we reach the edge of the East African Plateau, the difference in altitude between the two is not that 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. Mountains like Mount Kilimanjaro with a height of more than 5,800 meters are mainly affected by the East African Rift Valley.

It is essentially caused by volcanic activity. Its formation began about 750,000 years ago and was originally composed of three large craters: Shira, Kibo and Mawenzi.

There are many volcanoes in East Africa, but most of them have passed their active stage and are mainly extinct volcanoes and dormant volcanoes. Although the volcanic and seismic belt caused by the East African Rift Valley is very large, it is completely childish compared with the Pacific Rim volcanic and seismic belt.

The incidence rate of earthquakes and volcanoes in East Africa is not even comparable to that of Italy. At least Ernst had never heard of any major volcanoes or earthquakes in Africa in his previous life. Earthquakes often occur, but they are not too strong, and most do not exceed 6 class.

Ernst remembers an earthquake that occurred near Lake Tanganyika in Africa. At that time, the United States measured a magnitude of 6.8, and France measured a magnitude of 7.5. Except for single-digit casualties, the damage caused was almost negligible. , not even a loss.

Generally speaking, except for the areas near the East African Great Rift Valley, East Africa does not have to worry about natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes. The geological conditions are generally relatively stable. On the contrary, heavy rains, floods and other factors should be considered more when building railways.

Furthermore, East Africa is vast and sparsely populated, and areas that are not conducive to railway construction can be completely bypassed, so it is not too difficult.