Chapter 1080 National Canal Plan
Yalsted: "There are many problems in my country's water conservancy construction, especially the unreasonable planning of some early projects, which has caused some ecological and environmental disasters, thus leading to economic losses. For example, the Ancarena Reservoir breach in 1876 caused hundreds of casualties and destroyed some farmland and villages.”
The Ancarena Reservoir breach was obviously not what Yarsted described. That is an understatement, but the actual casualties were in the thousands, but the casualties of black laborers were not counted in East African statistics.
The Ancarena Reservoir is a large reservoir planned in the early days of East Africa. It is actually relatively feasible technically. The main problem is that during construction, flooding occurred due to miscalculation of weather conditions. At that time, the Ancarena Reservoir It was not completed yet, and the workers were stationed too close to the river beach, which caused subsequent problems.
In the early days, East Africa's grasp of domestic hydrology was obviously not as perfect as it is now, and many reasons such as relatively backward technology and insufficient training of professional teams led to this tragedy.
According to the consistent practice of the East African government, such large-scale water conservancy construction projects obviously require a large number of black workers, so many black workers sacrificed in this disaster. For this kind of sacrifice, the East African government will not even shed crocodile tears. One drop, but it will get worse.
Just listen to Yasted continue to say: "However, in general, my country's water conservancy construction has brought huge benefits to the country. Some problems are not worth mentioning in the face of huge economic and social benefits, so in the next ten years Here, our country should pursue higher goals, further improve the level of national water conservancy facilities, improve national transportation accessibility, and provide better services for the construction of my country's industry, agriculture and urban areas."
"One is to provide better services to the current situation. Some water conservancy facilities across the country are undergoing further renovation and upgrading to solve a series of problems caused by lack of awareness and lack of technology in the past. "
"The second is to further develop our country's inland water transportation network, in addition to development. In addition to a batch of new canals, the existing canals must also be upgraded. With the economic development of our country in the past, the population, urban and industrial scale have greatly increased, which also means that the logistics volume has greatly increased, and the originally designed navigable canals have been unable to cope with it. At present, our country’s industrial and urban development needs, so we need to deepen and widen some canals on the original basis.”
“On the basis of the East African Canal, we have accumulated rich experience and formulated more detailed plans on this basis. A scientific and more macro-scale national water transport network covers most of the country's water systems and lake systems, realizing the serial work of inland water transport across the country."
"The third is to dredge and manage the country's main rivers to protect the ecology of our country's rivers and reshape the adverse effects on the environment."
There is no doubt that any of the three proposals of the Ministry of Water Resources will cost money Huge manpower, material and financial support, of course, if it can be completed, the benefits to East Africa will be obvious.
The key to completing the above proposal is black labor. East Africa’s idea of eliminating black labor has not changed from beginning to end, and now these black laborers still play a great role in terms of number and age. space.
Seven million people came to complete the plan of the East African Ministry of Water Resources. Once these three points are completed, it is estimated that all black people in East Africa will be basically consumed.
The first is the upgrading and renovation of the original national water conservancy facilities. The construction of East African water conservancy facilities has accumulated many problems, mainly in early planning and construction. Technology, personnel, and domestic industrial capabilities have made the East African government make many compromises, so Just accomplishing this is not easy.
The second point is that the canal plan in East Africa is the most exaggerated. According to Yasted, the East African government is no longer satisfied with the current national water transportation system.
As we all know, East Africa’s talent in water transportation is far less than that of Europe, the Far Eastern Empire and the Americas, the world’s major economies. Although East Africa has been working hard for more than half a century, it is not as good as these countries or regions. The gap is still significant.
So the East African government hopes to form a usable and effective canal system across East Africa through huge manpower transformation, to further reduce the logistics costs in East Africa and provide a better service between East Africa and other major economies. Competition builds logistics advantages.
In this regard, railways and roads in East Africa are no worse than other countries. Only water transportation has always been East Africa's biggest regret. Yasted said: “In the past few decades, through long-term demonstrations and inspections, our Ministry of Water Resources and other departments have gained an in-depth understanding of the national water system, climate, topography, topography, etc., and have carried out long-term water conservancy construction work. ”
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"That is, through the construction of 48 large canals across the country, with an estimated total length of 2,730 kilometers, the national water transportation system will be improved."
"Once the plan is realized, my country's inland areas Water transportation will completely achieve a qualitative leap. Although the national water transportation conditions will not reach the level of the Far Eastern Empire and Europe, they will surpass those of the United States. The cost of my country's inland water transportation will be greatly reduced, and it will further supplement an important link in national transportation. . ”
Europe, the United States and the Far Eastern Empire are characterized by large areas of plains crisscrossed by rivers, forming a developed inland water transportation network, and these countries and regions have iconic rivers that represent their own water transportation. Europe is the Rhine and Danube rivers, the United States is the Mississippi River, and the most representative example of the Far Eastern Empire is the Yangtze River.
Looking at East Africa, although there are world-class rivers such as the Congo River, Nile River, Zambezi River, and Orange River, the value of shipping is limited by terrain, and the only way to break this limitation is through This can only be achieved through artificial transformation.
The canal plan in East Africa is obviously crazy. According to the experience of the East African Grand Canal, at least three million workers must be sacrificed to complete the national canal plan in a short time.
The East African Grand Canal in East Africa is more than 1,000 kilometers long, with a construction period of approximately thirteen years. The construction length of the National Canal Plan is almost 2.5 times that of the East African Grand Canal, which is almost equivalent to the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal in the Far Eastern Empire.
The Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty was more than 2,700 kilometers long. It took millions of people six years to complete it, and at least two million people died.
Looking at it this way, the construction of the East African Grand Canal in East Africa is not as good as that of the Sui Dynasty. After all, East Africa paid almost the same price in human lives, and only built the Sui Dynasty when its technology and tools were far superior to those of the Sui Dynasty. It was half the project of the Sui Dynasty and took twice as long as the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty.
This is actually easy to understand. Even when East Africa was building the East African Grand Canal, East Africa far surpassed the Sui Dynasty in terms of technology and tools. However, this advantage was not obvious, and in the end it still had to rely on a large amount of manpower to complete it.
Although East Africa was able to produce modern engineering construction tools such as tractors and automobiles at that time, the output was pitiful and it was not invested in canal construction at all.
It can be said that the East African Grand Canal was completed step by step under the suppression of East Africa by black laborers using hoes, shovels and other tools.
And the conditions for canal construction in East Africa at that time were not as good as those of the Sui Dynasty. The East African Grand Canal mainly connected the Zambezi and Congo River systems, and these two areas were not fully developed at the time. This was reflected in the East African Grand Canal. This is especially true along the route.
The area that the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal passed through was basically the core economic area of the Sui Dynasty at that time, and most of it was located in plain areas. This saved construction costs and risks for the construction of the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal to a certain extent.
Looking at the East African Grand Canal, especially the projects in the Congo River Basin, many of them have to pass through dense virgin jungles, or increase the difficulty of construction in order to bypass unfavorable terrain such as valleys and ravines.
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