Chapter 839 Powerful East African Electric Power
However, a mere eight tractors are a drop in the bucket for Shaokui Town. Local agricultural construction still requires a lot of manpower.
As an area where Portugal has been operating for a long time, Sauquet has 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 coalition headquarters here.
Before the Portuguese left on a large scale, there were tens of thousands of black slaves in the entire town of Sauquet as a labor force, serving local plantations and farms.
When it 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 area of Shaokui.
The East African government did not dismantle these military facilities on a large scale, which also delayed the agricultural development of Shaokui. Especially after the heavy rains recently, the trenches in Shaokui Town were filled with rainwater. At the same time, there were a large number of shell casings left in the Shaokui area. Underneath the land, these all need to be cleared.
Of course, this is not too difficult for Sauquet Town. After Portugal surrendered, hundreds of thousands of black slaves were left in East Africa to join the army. These are ready-made labor forces.
Especially in Shaokui Town, 20,000 black people were left here after the war to maintain production and land reclamation activities in Shaokui, and East Africa stationed a whole regiment of troops here.
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The first town.
"This is the East African Radio Station. The current time is May 12, 1891, East African time, six o'clock in the afternoon. Welcome to listen to the news from the East African News Agency..."
The Ernst family listened to the East African Radio in front of the radio. A message from a cable radio station.
Eastern News Agency is the abbreviation of the East African National News Agency. Before that, the main communication channel of East African 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 cable users, the residents of the first towns and cities are lucky. They are always the first to enjoy the improvement of quality of life brought by technological progress.
"Dad, give me a hug..." A chirping porcelain doll disturbed Ernst's mind while listening to the radio.
This is Ernst's second daughter, Princess Lena 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 Jena, Ernst has now had a total of six children, including four princes and two princesses, including his eldest son Friedrich.
The eldest prince Friedrich, the eldest princess Jenna, and the second prince Karls have all started school. As for the twin princess Lina and his brother the third prince Antonio, they will also enter school in the second half of this year. The youngest son Mark Sim was born four years ago and is only five years old. Now the royal family of Hechingen finally feels like it is prosperous. At least Ernst's fortune will not be left without anyone to inherit it.
Ernst picked up his second daughter, kissed him and said, "What's wrong, baby? Do you want to listen to the radio too?"
"What is the radio, daddy?" Princess Linna asked road.
"Broadcasting means spreading the word widely. Many people can hear the news. You know the telephone? Broadcasting is a sound coming from a similar device, but this sound can be heard by many people, as long as they have one at home. Radio."
Lina stared with big eyes, not knowing what her father was talking about.
Of course, what Ernst said is similar. Nowadays, cable broadcasting is actually transmitted by telephone lines, so there is no problem with a device similar to a telephone.
Historically, in 1893, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, connected more than 700 telephone lines to broadcast news regularly, forming a formal cable broadcast. East Africa was two years earlier than this. This is not because the technology was not mature before, but because East Africa did not need cable broadcasting to deliver news before. However, as the development level of East African cities improves, cable broadcasting technology can be introduced.
And it is different from the past. In the past, the application of new technologies had to be launched in the European market first, such as electric lights, telephones, etc.
The first city where cable broadcasting technology was applied this time was a local city in East Africa, which also illustrates the development status of East African cities.
Ernst strongly supports the development of the electric power industry. Today, the level of electrification in East Africa ranks first in the world.
The development of the local power industry has also promoted the development of East African power companies such as the Hechingen Electric Power Company. Just the previous year, the Hechingen Electric Power Company in Germany was overthrown by the Deutsche Electric AG and fell. In third place, the top two are Siemens and Deutsche Electric AG, two monopolies supported by the German government.
However, the decline in the German market is only the result of the royal family of Hechingen transferring its industry to East Africa. In fact, in the world, the Hechingen Electric Power Company is still one of the top monopolies, operating in many countries. All countries can be ranked at the forefront.
Of course, in addition to the royal enterprise of Hechingen Electric Power Company, there are many large state-owned power companies in East Africa. They and Hechingen Electric Power Company jointly monopolize the East African electricity market, forming a huge power monopoly organization.
It was the normal development of enterprises in the 19th century that enterprises move toward monopoly. They can better participate in international social competition and improve resource utilization efficiency.
At present, there are a total of five electric power entities in the world, which basically divide most of the world's market. The first is the Hechingen Electric Power Company, followed by the East African National Electric Power Company, then General Electric of the United States, and finally It is Germany's Siemens and Electrical Corporation.
This is a very intuitive reflection of East Africa’s strong strength in the electric power field, and thanks to Ernst’s foresight, the general direction of East Africa’s electric power development is stable, such as the rapid promotion of alternating current in East Africa and the international community. Great acceleration.
In the past ten years, East Africa has been one of the countries with the largest number of new thermal power and hydropower plants in the world. In the central and eastern parts of East Africa, electricity is basically no longer a "luxury" and has been widely involved in social production and life activities. All 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 international power tripartite pattern is basically stable.
And East Africa is supported by the East African National Electric Power University. This university in East Africa has been developed with national efforts. It can be said to be an institution of higher learning with the largest concentration of electric power talents and technologies in the world.
At the same time, almost every big city in East Africa has built 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, and there are almost no short-term plate.
Of course, the booming development of the power industry is not representative and cannot reflect the level of economic development in East Africa, such as machinery, chemicals, shipbuilding, medical care, etc. The gap between East Africa and European and American countries is still huge. .
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, the United Kingdom almost completely banned the import of mid-to-high-end machinery to East Africa, which affected the East African textile industry and The mining industry has had some impact.
Moreover, in the past ten years, East Africa has mainly focused on the four major industries of steel, railways, mining, electricity, and automobiles. In these four areas, East Africa has caught up or even surpassed it, but its performance in other areas is unsatisfactory.
So East Africa must work hard in other industrial fields in the future, especially chemical, petroleum, textile, medical and other important industries.
However, this kind of thing may not be easy, because a large number of newly incorporated territories will inevitably involve a lot of energy, manpower, material and financial resources from the East African government in order to develop these new territories.
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 achieved can qualitative changes be considered.
To put it simply, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. Now East Africa does not even have enough "quantity", so it naturally cannot lead to qualitative changes. It is like a person who solves the problem of "eating enough" first before thinking about other things.
(End of this chapter)