Chapter 361 K-001
In the next month, East Africa began to give full play to the role of the Far East Aid Group. To make people willing to do things, one must know how to induce others. The price offered by the East African Kingdom was still good. In addition to basic living security, it also offered very high wages. However, all of them were Rhine guilders circulated within East Africa. East Africa made money and spent it in East Africa. Don't even think about taking a single guilder home.
At the same time, these doctors were given East African professional titles, and were considered public servants in the medical field. Li Ge and Ander could only stare helplessly at the actions of the East African government.
With East Africa's strong efforts to attract them, many people are indeed tempted, but most people still want to return to the Far East. The profession of doctor is a high-paying job everywhere, and the life is not bad. Moreover, most doctors in the Far East are relatively talented and have a stronger desire to return to their roots.
East Africa also understands this, but it doesn't matter. There will always be a steady stream of talents from the Far East coming to the East African Kingdom to fill these gaps until one day East African medicine is fully developed.
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September 13, 1871.
King Constantine personally visited Dar es Salaam. After years of development, the city of Dar es Salaam has been under increasing pressure in terms of transportation.
Therefore, as early as three years ago, before the transformation of Dar es Salaam, 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 bulk commodities, immigration, important imported equipment and other businesses in East Africa, while the old port is mainly responsible for receiving foreign ships that need to dock in Dar es Salaam.
This is also the reason why the Dar es Salaam immigration transition point was 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 is also helpful for management.
In the past, when immigrants arrived in Dar es Salaam, they were mixed with the residential areas in the city. Their temporary settlements were also restricted by the old city, with some areas scattered in the east and some in the west. Not only was this inconvenient to manage, it also affected the city's appearance and was not conducive to the happiness of passing consumers.
The immigrants had been on the ship for a long time, and most of them came from poor families. It is understandable that their manners and makeup were not very popular when they landed in East Africa.
Although the consumers passing through Dar es Salaam were also long-term seafarers and had a bad image, they had money! They could go for months without showering or washing their clothes, and their clothes were all starched. However, they were lenient with themselves and strict with others, and could not bear to see the unkempt appearance of immigrants. Therefore, a good city appearance helped the East African Kingdom to 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 city of Dar es Salaam is a mixed bag, with businessmen from all over the world gathering there. Who knows if there are any "interested people" among them.
Today, Constantine personally came to the new port of Dar es Salaam to attend the opening ceremony of the first railway in East Africa.
Just three days ago, the steam-powered locomotive built by the Hechingen Vienna Energiewende Company and the Austrian Royal Railway Company arrived in East Africa, along with six matching carriages, including one passenger carriage and five freight carriages.
It took two full days to transport this big guy from the dock to the station. The Dar es Salaam Railway Station was built in the suburbs three kilometers southwest of Dar es Salaam. In order to deliver this big guy to the station, the East African Railway workers repeatedly reinforced the roads along the way.
The Dar es Salaam railway station looks very simple. Apart from the platform and signboard, there is only a small bungalow covering an area of more than 30 square meters.
A technician from Vienna Energy Power Company in Hechingen introduces the first train in East Africa to Constantine on the platform.
"Your Majesty, this train was jointly designed and built by the Hechingen Vienna Energy Power Company and the Austrian Royal Franz-Eastern Emperor Railway Company. It uses many cutting-edge technologies of the current era. After half a year of technical verification, it was assembled by skilled Austrian locomotive production workers. After leaving the factory, it was tested in Austria for three months. 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 the mountains, can it still operate normally? The height difference between the East African plateau and the coastal plain is still quite large."
"Your Majesty, this locomotive has undergone extensive testing in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our team has built a special test track in the Alps. Its speed and gradeability are at world average levels. We also have data on East Africa's geographical conditions. 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. Although 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, which is the highest of 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, lacking 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 officially a plain. In fact, only the area close to the coastline has an altitude below 200 meters. Most of the middle areas transition from 200 meters to 1,000 meters. When you 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 that are more than 5,800 meters high are mainly affected by the Great Rift Valley of East Africa.
It is essentially caused by volcanic activity, its formation began about 750,000 years ago, and originally consisted of three large craters: Shira, Kibo and Mawenzi.
There are many volcanoes in East Africa, but most of them have passed their active period and are mainly extinct volcanoes and dormant volcanoes. Although the volcanic seismic belt caused by the Great Rift Valley of East Africa is very large, it is nothing compared to the Pacific Rim volcanic seismic belt.
The incidence of earthquakes and volcanoes in East Africa is not even as high as that in Italy. At least Ernst had never heard of any major volcanic or earthquake events in Africa in his previous life. Earthquakes often occur, but they are not very strong, and most of them do not exceed magnitude 6.
Ernst remembered that there was an earthquake near Lake Tanganyika in Africa. The data measured by the United States at that time was 6.8 and that by France was 7.5. Apart from single-digit casualties, the damage caused was almost negligible, or even no damage at all.
Generally speaking, except for the area near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, East Africa does not have to worry about the occurrence of natural disasters such as volcanoes and earthquakes. The geological conditions are generally stable. Instead, more consideration should be given to factors such as heavy rains and floods when building railways.
Furthermore, East Africa is vast and sparsely populated, so areas that are not conducive to railway construction can be completely bypassed, so it is not too difficult.
(End of this chapter)
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