Chapter 1116 Titanic
In short, small farmers lack start-up capital, and the larger the investment scale, the greater the risk. The average person simply cannot bear this risk, so in the early days of East African agriculture, they could only concentrate them. Then implement agriculture similar to the large farm style in Europe and the United States.
Of course, the quality of life of farmers under East African governance can only be said to be quite satisfactory. In the context of accelerated urbanization, in order to transport labor to the city, even if the rural areas have better conditions, the East African government will still think Try every means to compress these conditions and differentiate urban and rural life.
For a country that has not completed industrialization, if the population does not move to the city, the country's industrialization process will inevitably become more difficult. France is one of the typical examples, which not only affects the population growth rate, but also affects The country's urban labor force is relatively lacking, thus losing its competitiveness with German industry.
Of course, France faces many problems, such as the substantial increase in industrial development costs due to the cession of Lorraine and other areas to Germany, the loss of local cheap iron ore supplies, and so on.
Therefore, industrialization is a very complex process of social change, and adjustments to industrialization need to be made in many fields. It took a long time for East Africa to explore this path before gradually forming the situation it has today.
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Atlantic Ocean.
The North Atlantic is almost an area rarely visited by East African ships. In the extremely prosperous North Atlantic route, American and British shipping companies almost monopolize most of the business.
Furthermore, East Africa itself has limited shipping capacity and focuses on shipping trade between East Africa and Europe, the Far East, and South America. This makes the North Atlantic not a key focus of East African shipping.
Previously, the East African Navy did not frequently operate in the North Atlantic. The main reason was that the East African Navy was too weak at the beginning. However, with the development of the East African Navy, East Africa cannot always stare at the Indian Ocean.
At this time, an East African warship was sailing on the North Atlantic route, the cruiser "Luanda". In addition to accumulating experience in ocean navigation, its main mission was to investigate the hydrological conditions of the North Atlantic. Adding North Atlantic hydrographic data and intelligence to East African navies.
It is already late at night, and most of the crew members on the Luanda have fallen asleep. Of course, as a warship, the duty procedures are still relatively strict.
Just like the Luanda's message reception room at this time, the lights are still bright, and the operator Antonio and his colleagues are on duty in strict accordance with the regulations.
"Beep...beep...beep..."
The warning light suddenly sounded, breaking the silence in the information reception room. Antonio was not surprised by this. He began to operate the radio to see what information this unknown telecommunications signal expressed and conveyed.
As the telecommunications signal gradually became clearer in the earphones, Antonio's expression became serious. This is a universal distress signal sent by international ships when they are in distress.
"Karl, did you hear the distress signal over there?"
Carl is Antonio's colleague, and the two of them are sitting relatively close to each other, so the first person Antonio asked was Karl. .
"It should be a distress signal sent to us by a civilian ship. The source of the signal shows that it is only about twenty nautical miles away from us." Karl replied.
After confirming the accuracy of the news, Antonio did not dare to neglect. He said: "It is better to report the situation to the superior first. You continue on duty, and I will make a report."
Antonio came to the phone room and reported the news. The instructions were given directly to the Luanda's command room.
“There is a distress signal sent by a ship to the southwest of our ship. The distance may be about twenty nautical miles...”
After receiving the news, Captain Garland of the Luanda only After thinking for a moment, he began to issue an order: "Turn the direction, sail towards the direction of the unknown accident ship, enter a state of combat readiness, and fully observe the situation in the surrounding sea areas."
Since there is a ship in distress at sea, it means that There may be unknown risks in the surrounding waters, so Garland is still more vigilant. As a new cruiser that has just entered service, the Luanda is relatively fast. In less than fifty minutes, the Luanda arrived close to the accident site.
“A lifeboat was found on the right front, at ten o’clock!” the sharp-eyed sailor exclaimed.
Soon, the Luanda fished out the people on the lifeboat. The lifeboat was full of people, and their faces were in shock at the moment.
"Who are you?" Garland asked this group of people who were shipwrecked at sea.
After seeing that a warship rescued them, these people finally felt uneasy. A man said: "Your Excellency General, I am a sailor of the Titanic. There was an accident between our ship and the iceberg. The ship has started to sink due to the collision, and many people have not been rescued. Please help those poor people!”
Garland carefully looked at the clothes of this group of people, and he knew at a glance that they were either rich or noble. On the contrary, the sailor who reported to him was wearing his own uniform and should be the operator of the lifeboat.
"Titanic!" Garland thought silently in his heart, and suddenly realized, isn't this the cruise ship that has been so popular recently?
After learning that the shipwreck was the Titanic, he thought of the previous slogan of the Titanic, which made Garland's mouth twitch.
Because Europe had previously promoted the Titanic as "unsinkable", it ended up encountering a shipwreck the first time it went to sea and was about to sink on the dark bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
"Where did your ship sink?" Garland continued to ask.
No one answered this question, because they had become disoriented during the time they were drifting at sea, and the direction was difficult to identify. There was no other way but to complete the next rescue mission by the Luanda.
Ten minutes later, according to the oral accounts of other lifeboats, the cruiser Luanda finally arrived at the accident site. It was already past one o'clock in the evening.
The time when the Titanic collided with the iceberg was 11 o'clock last night, and it has been two hours now.
The Titanic has not completely sunk yet, a large part of it is exposed on the water, and the stern is already under the water.
The arrival of the Luanda undoubtedly gave everyone hope. At this time, there were still many people on the ship who could not evacuate, and they gathered at the bow of the ship.
After seeing the warship Luanda, the already desperate people seemed to grasp the last straw. They waved frantically to Luanda and called for help.
The cruiser Luanda also responded quickly. At this time, it began to send lifeboats to approach the Titanic.
The Titanic may sink at any time, so the sailors of the cruiser Luanda must complete the rescue mission in a very short time.
The experienced East African sailors, under the orderly command of the commander, transferred the personnel on the Titanic to the Luanda in an orderly manner.
At 1:54 minutes, all remaining personnel on the Titanic were finally rescued. At this time, the Titanic's tilt angle was too large, and the Luanda did not dare to get too close to avoid being caught by the Titanic. Nick spreads.
The Luanda has a displacement of only more than 3,000 tons, while a giant like the Titanic has a displacement of more than 40,000 tons. The Luanda looks like a small person in front of the Titanic, and if the Titanic sinks, The resulting vortices may pose a threat to the Luanda.
This also caused the deck of the cruiser Luanda to be overcrowded for a while. Originally there were only more than 600 East African officers and soldiers on board the Luanda, but the number of people rescued by the Luanda alone was as high as more than a thousand. Well beyond the limits of the Luanda.
(End of this chapter)