Chapter 940 The work of relocating the capital begins
East Africa is burying a hole on one side, but the other side cannot care about the situation in Spain and the United States, because there are more important things to do in East Africa now.
April 1, 1898.
The East African government officially approved the draft to move the capital to the Rhine City. Moving the capital is obviously a complex and huge project, but fortunately, the first town and city did not follow the design of a big city from the beginning, with population and industry There are not many, and it is close to the city of Dar es Salaam, so apart from its political status, it is not outstanding in other aspects, which also provides convenience to the East African government.
This is easy to understand. For example, in the capital of the Far Eastern Empire in the previous life, the registered population alone was more than 10 million. If a decision like moving the capital of East Africa was made, there would be more than 10 million opponents. Just thinking about it is a headache.
However, it must be admitted that the location of the capital of the Far East Empire is indeed good. That is to say, the navy lacked strength in modern times, the Bohai Bay was prone to invasion by foreign enemies, the population in later generations was too concentrated, and there were almost no shortcomings in other aspects except water shortage.
“This capital relocation process is divided into three steps. The first step is for each government department to separate a part and go to the Rhine City in advance to set up a framework. The second step is for some government agencies to completely move into the Rhine City for their offices. Before 1900, the Rhine City became the new political center of East Africa.”
The vast majority of people have no objection to moving the capital to the Rhine City. After all, the first town and city are indeed not a priority, and the new capital Rhine City does not matter. In terms of planning in all aspects, it greatly surpasses the first town. Although the scale of Rhine City is still compared with other cities, the potential is huge.
After the official start of the capital relocation, the trains on the Central Railway once again increased their workload, and a large number of files and equipment began to be moved to the Rhine City.
At this time, the railway framework of the Rhine City was basically complete. To reach the Rhine City from the first town, it was no longer necessary to go through New Frankfurt. Although New Frankfurt was still the most important railway hub, the traffic in the Rhine City also changed. Self-contained system.
In fact, the railways in Rhine City and New Frankfurt City form dual cores in the national railway network. However, the Rhine City Railway gives priority to government, military and other departments, while New Frankfurt City focuses on more economical cargo transportation.
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Rhine City.
National Library of East Africa.
The original National Library is located in the First Town City. Of course, in terms of scale, the largest library in East Africa is in Soga City.
"The Rhineland National Library will replace the original First Town National Library, while the First Town Library will be used as a branch library. The books in the new National Library mainly come from the First Town National Library and Soga Municipal Library, and will expand on this basis. According to the latest plan, the library’s collection will reach five million volumes, including other documentary collections, becoming a new knowledge and cultural destination in East Africa.”
"With our library as the center, there are as many as 13 pre-designed colleges and universities and scientific research institutions nearby. This will become an important place for talent and cultural exchanges across East Africa in the future."
National Library Library director Crohn is a happy person about his future. After all, he loves reading. At this time, the new National Library of East Africa is among the top in the world in terms of size and collection of books.
Books were relatively valuable items in the 19th century. In order to ensure the safety of the books, some libraries would even lock the books on the cabinets with special chains and shells to prevent them from being stolen.
In the early days, East Africa was obviously unable to build a library with a collection of more than five million books. The main reason was not for other reasons, but the "lack of books" in East Africa at that time.
As for the number of books in the new National Library, five million is just the first-phase target. Later large libraries often have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of books. Therefore, Ernst used this as a reference when investing in the National Library in Rhineland. It is larger than the previous one. In the future, at least 20 million books will be collected here. This also makes the new National Library extremely large in scale. It also has an electric power system and a more advanced and complete fire protection system. The architectural style of the Rhine City National Library is also completely different from the traditional library style, paying more attention to practicality and improving the reading experience, while Europe and the United States highlight the palace-like artistic style and are more solemn.
So the National Library of East Africa can be said to be the most modern-style building in East Africa at present, breaking the tradition.
Of course, the new National Library of East Africa has just started. The total number of books is only more than 200,000. Subsequent books will need to be transported from the east or other regions.
The National Library is just a microcosm of the Rhine City. Many national service institutions have been built in the Rhine City in recent years, including the Royal Palace, the Parliament Building, the Supreme Court, government office buildings, embassies, hospitals, etc. .
At present, the overall core framework of Rhine City is designed for 500,000 people, and a large amount of development space is reserved on the periphery. According to the current construction progress, it is already equivalent to the size of two first towns.
After all, the total population of the First Town is less than 200,000, only 170,000. If the initial construction is completed, the Rhine City will be close to three times the size of the First Town.
That is to say, the size of Rhine City can now accommodate the entire first town. This is also the basic condition for the official start of the capital relocation work.
However, because the population of Rhine City is currently small, except for the huge number of construction workers, the entire city looks very empty and lifeless.
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"Father, when the capital move is completed, I plan to upgrade Dongjia from a kingdom to an empire. By then, you, the king, can become the real emperor."
In the Swet Palace, Ernst willed himself The idea was directly communicated to Constantine. This idea had actually been buried in Ernst's mind ten years ago, but East Africa was weak at the time and did not have this condition.
Constantine said: "Actually, in my opinion, kings and emperors are just names. Adding a title doesn't seem to have much impact. Moreover, if the procedure is too complicated, my body may not be able to bear it."
In Constantine’s consciousness, now he He would be very satisfied if he could become the king of a powerful country. As for the title of emperor, he didn't care too much. After all, the Queen of England became the Queen, which sounds better, and the traditional coronation ceremony process is extremely complicated, so the elderly Constantine didn't want to suffer this.
Ernst persuaded: "Father, actually turning the kingdom into an empire this time has other meanings. My idea is to divide the history of East Africa into two periods through this change of state structure. When we established the Kingdom of Hechingen in the early days, there was a lot of colonial history, and we took this opportunity to separate ourselves from the previous one.”
"Secondly, although you are older, you are still strong, so I will take this opportunity to let you experience the joy of being an emperor. As for the coronation ceremony, it will naturally follow our own rules in East Africa. There is no need to imitate Europe. We can Simplifying the ceremony "
Ernst's remarks are very unconventional, but Ernst is just a fake "Christian" and he can't remember the content of the Bible, so this kind of operation is not good for him. It has become a common occurrence.
And East Africa is different from Europe. Even if East Africa follows European rules, it is just a hot face but a cold butt, which will not please people, so it is better to follow their own ideas.
So Ernst said: "If we really follow the European tradition, it is impossible for East Africa to become an empire. After all, there can only be one emperor in Europe. Now Germany, Tsarist Russia, even Austria and the former France Napoleon claimed to be emperor, but their emperor was Caesar. We in East Africa naturally have different national conditions and interests than Europe.”
(End of this chapter)