Chapter 839 Powerful East African Power
However, eight mere tractors are just a drop in the bucket for Shaokui Town, and local agricultural construction still requires a large amount of manpower.
Chokwe is an area that has been operated by Portugal for a long time. There are a large number of plantations and farms nearby, and the area is not small. Otherwise, Earl Roberts would not have chosen to set up the Allied Command here.
Before the Portuguese left on a large scale, there were tens of thousands of black slaves in the entire town of Choquí working as laborers on local plantations and farms.
When Shaokui became a battlefield, a large number of military facilities were built in the Shaokui area. Now there are still a large number of trenches and bunkers in the outer areas of Shaokui.
The East African government did not dismantle these military facilities on a large scale, which also delayed the agricultural development of Chokwe. Especially after the heavy rains a while ago, the trenches in Chokwe town were filled with rainwater. At the same time, there were a large number of shell casings left under the land in the Chokwe area, which all needed to be cleaned up.
Of course, this was not too difficult for the town of Chokwe. After the surrender of Portugal, it left behind more than 100,000 black slaves and servants in East Africa, who were all ready-made labor.
Especially in the town of Chokwe, 20,000 blacks were left here after the war to maintain production and land reclamation activities in Chokwe, and East Africa stationed a whole regiment of troops here.
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First town city.
"This is the East African Broadcasting Station. The current time is 6:00 p.m., May 12, 1891, East African time. Welcome to listen to the news from the East African News Agency..."
The Ernst family listened to the news from East Africa's first wired radio station.
East News Agency is the abbreviation of East African National News Agency. Before this, the main means of communication of East News Agency was newspapers. Now the emergence of cable broadcasting has once again enriched the way of information transmission in East Africa.
Of course, as the first batch of users of cable, the residents of the first town and city are lucky. They are always the first to enjoy the improvement in quality of life brought by technological progress.
"Daddy, give me a hug..." A porcelain doll with a coquettish voice disturbed Ernst's concentration on the radio.
This is Ernst's second daughter, Princess Lina of East Africa, who was born in 1885. She is seven years old this year and has a twin brother.
In the past ten years, since the birth of his eldest daughter Jenna, Ernst now has a total of six children, including his eldest son Friedrich, four princes and two princesses.
The eldest prince Friedrich, the eldest princess Jenna, and the second prince Carls are already in school. As for the twin princesses Lina and her brother the third prince Antonio, they will also start school in the second half of this year. The youngest son Maxim was born four years ago and is only five years old. Now the Hechingen royal family finally has a sense of prosperity. At least Ernst's family estate will not be left without an heir.
Ernst picked up his second daughter, kissed her and said, "What's wrong, baby? Do you want to listen to the radio too?"
"What is radio, Dad?" asked Princess Lina.
"Broadcasting means to make a message known to many people. You know the telephone, right? Broadcasting is a voice coming from a similar device, but this voice can be heard by many people, as long as they have a radio at home."
Lina stared with her eyes wide open, having no idea what her father was talking about.
Of course, what Ernst said is similar. Nowadays, cable broadcasting is actually transmitted through telephone lines, so there is nothing wrong with saying that it is a device similar to a telephone.
Historically, in 1893, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, connected more than 700 telephone lines to broadcast news on a regular basis, forming formal cable broadcasting. East Africa was two years ahead of this time.
This is not because the technology was not mature before, but because East Africa did not need wired broadcasting to transmit messages before. However, now with the improvement of the development level of East African cities, wired broadcasting technology can also be introduced.
And it is different from the past, when the application of new technologies had to be launched in the European market first, such as electric lights and telephones.
The first city to apply cable broadcasting technology this time is a local city in East Africa, which also indirectly illustrates the development status of East African cities.
Ernst strongly supports the development of the power industry. Today, East Africa's electrification level is in the first echelon in the world.
The development of the local power industry has also promoted the development of East African power companies such as the Hechingen Power Company. Just the year before, the Hechingen Power Company was overtaken by the German Electric Corporation in Germany and slipped to third place. The top two were Siemens and the German Electric Corporation, two monopoly companies supported by the German government.
However, the decline in the German market is only the result of the Hechingen royal family transferring its industries to East Africa. In fact, on a global scale, the Hechingen Electric Power Company is still one of the top monopoly enterprises and ranks among the top in many countries.
Of course, in addition to the royal enterprise, the Hexingen Power Company, there are several large state-owned power companies in East Africa. Together with the Hexingen Power Company, they monopolize the East African power market and form a huge power monopoly organization.
The development of enterprises towards monopoly was the norm in the 19th century, which enabled them to better participate in international competition and improve resource utilization efficiency.
There are currently five power companies in the world, which basically divide up most of the world's market. The first is the Hechingen Power Company, followed by the East African Electric Power Company, then General Electric of the United States, and finally Siemens and General Electric of Germany.
It very directly reflects the strong strength of East Africa in the field of electricity, and with Ernst's foresight, the general direction of East Africa's electricity development is stable. For example, the promotion of alternating current in East Africa and the international community has been greatly accelerated.
In the past decade, East Africa is one of the countries with the largest number of newly built thermal power and hydropower plants in the world. In central and eastern East Africa, electricity is basically no longer a "luxury" and is widely used in social production and life activities. Major cities have basically achieved the goal of "electrification".
At the same time, East African Power has a huge market share in Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, Asia and other regions, and the three-legged pattern of international power is basically stable.
Moreover, East Africa is supported by the East African Power University. This university, developed with the whole country's efforts, can be said to be the world's institution of higher learning with the most concentrated power talents and technologies.
At the same time, almost every major city in East Africa has electricity-related colleges and universities, which have made great contributions to the popularization and promotion of electricity in East Africa. Therefore, in the field of electricity, East Africa has truly achieved comprehensive development with almost no shortcomings.
Of course, the booming power industry is not representative and cannot reflect the level of economic development in East Africa. For example, in machinery, chemicals, shipbuilding, medical care, etc., there is still a big gap between East Africa and European and American countries.
In the field of traditional industries, the problem is even more prominent. In this regard, countries such as Britain and France have an absolute advantage. For example, during the South African War, Britain almost completely banned the import of medium and high-end machinery to East Africa, which had a certain impact on East Africa's textile and mining industries.
Moreover, in the past decade, East Africa has mainly focused on the four major industries of steel, railways, mining, electricity, and automobiles. In these four areas, East Africa has achieved catch-up and even surpassed other countries, but the performance in other areas has been disappointing.
Therefore, East Africa must work hard in other industrial fields in the future, especially important industries such as chemicals, petroleum, textiles, and medical care.
However, this may not be an easy task, because a large amount of new land has been annexed. In order to develop these new territories, the East African government will inevitably involve a lot of energy, manpower, material and financial resources.
If East Africa wants to achieve an industrial breakthrough, it must first meet the basic conditions for mass production, and this condition is to continuously expand production. Only when the quantity is reached can the issue of qualitative change be considered.
To put it simply, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Now East Africa does not even have enough "quantity", so it is naturally impossible to cause qualitative change. It is like a person who has to solve the problem of "eating" before considering other things.
(End of this chapter)
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