Chapter 518 Step by Step
After introducing the farm, looking at the energetic young man in front of him, Cade thought to himself rather unkindly: "Young people are just full of energy, but they will suffer in the future."
Because it is the first day, the Third State Farm is mainly responsible for arranging accommodation and other matters for these students, but starting tomorrow they will really have to work in the fields.
the next day.
"Your task today is to weed. As you can see, this piece of land is not small. However, according to the arrangements in previous years, you will not be assigned other farm tools today. Do you see the hoe in my hand? You can only use the hoe to weed the land."
However, the young people in East Africa are not ignorant of farming. Some of them can help their families with farm work and are familiar with the use of hoes.
However, the land of the Third State Farm is not a small one, it covers a large area, so it is also a huge project for them.
Soon, everyone was swinging their hoes enthusiastically. Mbeya is located at a relatively high altitude, so the weather is not too hot. This is not too stressful for everyone, except that the sun is a bit hot.
As time goes by, the practical courses are exciting for the students of No. 2 Middle School at the beginning, but now they are a little dull. However, it is easier to get through this boring work through collective labor. But when it comes to lunch time, students become more troubled.
"Ah! Why are there only pancakes and pickles?"
It’s not that East African students are pretentious. The latitude of East Africa means that the temperature in East Africa will not be too low all year round. As long as there is sufficient water supply, plants can grow all year round, although East Africa only has rainy season and dry season.
This results in the variety and yield of vegetables in East Africa being high. Not to mention vegetables, even more delicate plants such as flowers are very suitable for growing in East Africa.
Therefore, the meat consumption level of East Africans may not be as high as that of some countries for the time being, but they definitely have enough vegetables. The Chinese immigrant groups in East Africa brought woks to East Africa, so stir-frying is also quite popular in East Africa.
Ernst feels that the simpler food Europeans eat has a lot to do with their cooking methods, which are relatively primitive, such as frying, roasting, deep-frying, or simply stewing everything in one pot. Except for deep-frying, which is a bit more advanced, the other methods seem to be something that civilized people all over the world are born with.
Moreover, stir-frying is a cooking method that is very suitable for processing vegetables. For example, in India, their mainstream eating habit is to make vegetables and other ingredients into paste, or Western vegetable salads are all compromises made due to the lack of stir-frying.
As if he had heard the students' complaints, Cade said, "Because this course is to make you understand the hard work and the difficulties of life, just like the land you cultivated today, the output at the end of the year is wheat, and this wheat will eventually become the bread in your hands."
"Uncle Cade, but we in East Africa don't lack food, do we?"
"Of course we know this, but East Africa is a special case. There are many countries in the world where people cannot even have enough food. You can go back and ask your parents. Many of them immigrated to East Africa because they could not get enough food, unless they were fleeing war. So we cannot feel at ease just because life in East Africa is good now."
Only comparison can more intuitively reflect the quality of life in East Africa. However, the countries surrounding East Africa do not have the conditions to compare with East Africa, and those black people are still in the hunting and gathering stage.
So Cade continued, "Don't be fooled by the fact that there are only flatbreads and pickles here. In fact, it may not be easy for ordinary people in some countries to eat these. You are lucky enough to have a good time and have not suffered much. Take me for example. I used to only eat corn paste and often didn't have enough. Some immigrants from the Far East were even worse off. Many of them even ate tree bark and grass roots."
Cade's words made the students of the Second Middle School think deeply. In fact, most of the second generation in East Africa have parents who came from hard times, so they would also tell them about their previous lives.
Of course, when they first arrived in East Africa, life was not necessarily easy. They could only maintain basic food and clothing, and they also had to face the threat of disease. This is why Ernst did not go to East Africa in person in the early days. He waited until East Africa was developed before he moved the Hechingen royal family to East Africa. Therefore, after more than ten years of development and the explosion of productivity in East Africa, the average quality of life of East Africans has greatly improved.
Looking at the thoughtful students, Cade felt very relieved. In fact, the mentality of East Africans, at least ordinary people, is very simple.
As the saying goes, poverty breeds cunning while wealth breeds conscience. Whether in Europe, America or the Far East, the poor have to plan carefully to make their living. But in a society like East Africa, the lower class people are certainly not too rich, but not too poor either. Therefore, the competition is not fierce enough. On the contrary, people do not have to plan too much to make their living, and the whole society is relatively harmonious.
Of course, East Africa’s development is bound to take the path of competition and involution, otherwise it will not be able to compete with other countries in the future. As for now, the conditions are not yet mature.
The main population force in East Africa, that is, the first generation of immigrants, are young and strong. Although they have good physical strength, their cultural quality is quite low. Even the bureaucratic group in East Africa is like this.
Therefore, the national policies and directions of East Africa are almost completely controlled by the Hechingen royal family, because only the Hechingen royal family has experience in national governance.
However, the Hechingen royal family was previously just a small royal family in Germany and had no experience in governing a super-large country like East Africa.
Therefore, this requires long-term exploration by the East African regime. In other words, East Africa is an extremely immature country. If the country is to quickly acquire the ability to self-update and optimize, it must relax regulations and allow fierce competition within East Africa.
Ernst would not do this, because if East Africa were in ancient times, it would not matter to do so. But now is the era of imperialism, and external troubles are worse than internal troubles. So Ernst does not want East Africa to be in turmoil and consume itself, giving potential enemies such as Britain an opportunity to take advantage.
Therefore, from the very beginning, East Africa has controlled the army and used the army to complete the construction of the country. After all, one of the characteristics of the army is that it is relatively easy to manage. However, East Africa is not as dependent on the army as Prussia. After each time the East African army broke through the restrictions, Ernst began to take back the military power.
However, all this was done step by step, and Ernst was always able to keep the number of troops within a relatively reasonable range.
In the early days of East Africa, the people of East Africa were managed through the military. In fact, early East Africa was a military camp, which led to the highly centralized power in East Africa later on.
This means that major policies in East Africa are top-down, rather than bottom-up as in democratic countries such as Britain, France and the United States.
However, it is not quite correct to say that democracy exists in countries like Britain, France and the United States. The people that Ernst understood are the lowest class of people, while the people in Europe are more in line with the status of Roman citizens in ancient Rome.
This can be seen from the electoral systems in Europe and the United States. At this time, European and American countries have not yet evolved to the point where all citizens have the right to vote.
Take Britain in the past as an example. After 1866, Britain carried out two parliamentary reforms, and it was not until 1885 that it basically achieved universal suffrage for adult men. However, this universal suffrage for adult men in Britain was the result of many previous workers' struggles.
East Africa does not need any so-called elections at the moment. The size of the working class in East Africa is not large, the education level of the people is temporarily low, and the people do not have much desire for political demands.
Ernst naturally cannot push such things forward. After all, he is a nobleman and will only follow up after things are natural and ready. Now the people of East Africa only need to obey the royal arrangements.
Of course, Ernst also understands that the general trend cannot be violated. If he were reborn in ancient times, he would not bother to make any changes. Therefore, the future development of East Africa must be controlled in a proper manner and adapt to the development of the times.
(End of this chapter)
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