Chapter 1193 "Utopia"
Secondly, the business in Mombasa is currently more important than that of Dar es Salaam. After all, it is the bridgehead where East Africa and Eurasia meet, so there are many foreign trade businesses and exchanges. The centers are all set up in Mombasa.
Nowadays, with the progress of the European war, many businesses that were originally in the hands of European powers have naturally transitioned to the hands of East Africa, making Mombasa the most important information intersection on the east coast of East Africa.
Thanks to the advancement of communication technology in East Africa, as well as the growth of the country's telecommunications industry and the popularization of telegraphs and telephones, orders placed in Mombasa can be quickly sent to the whole of East Africa, and do not necessarily have to go to a certain place. Only cities can complete their commercial tasks.
So in addition to a large number of exchanges and exchange centers, Mombasa also has many sites set up by large East African companies, or simply the headquarters.
Therefore, in order not to break the current status of Mombasa, the East African government will still place the exhibition in the Dar es Salaam urban area after careful consideration.
This actually explains to a certain extent the relative decline of Dar es Salaam’s status among East African cities. This is actually easy to understand. In Beira, Maputo, New Hamburg Port, Pemba When a number of east coast port cities rise, they will inevitably compete with Dar es Salaam.
After all, Dar es Salaam is not Shanghai. It sits at the leading position of the Yangtze River, a golden waterway, and in terms of railway and road transportation, those rising stars in East Africa are not inferior to Dar es Salaam.
But Mombasa is different. It can be said that it has no competitors at all. The dividends of the Northern Railway are still firmly in the hands of Mombasa.
Of course, the last point is that the reason why Dar es Salaam City Circle was chosen as the venue for the exhibition is that Dar es Salaam City is enough. Today, Dar es Salaam City is still the largest city in East Africa. The largest city in the world is still the strongest in overall strength and has no shortcomings in other aspects. It is enough to deal with people from participating countries.
This was at least evident in discussions among Brazilian exhibitors.
Yordel still commented: "I noticed many details, such as the roads in Dar es Salaam, which are obviously smoother. Although this may be related to the performance of the car, but you see, East Africa The roads are completely paved with black asphalt, while only a few urban roads in Rio de Janeiro have this treatment.”
“And the characteristics of East African road design are very obvious, and there are various lines on the asphalt pavement. And special patterns, I think they must have a special purpose.”
At this point, Yodel started to ask the East African driver who was driving in German. Before that, he had been talking to his colleague in Portuguese, an East African driver from Dar es. It is naturally impossible for the old natives of Salam City to participate. After all, they do not understand.
Because he had immigrated to Brazil for too long, Jodel’s German was obviously not fluent, and he communicated with the East African driver with difficulty.
"Mr. Driver, don't know what to call me?"
"Hello sir, can I call you Foccherini? What's the matter?"
"Mr. Foccherini, I just have I have a small question. I noticed that there are many patterns and lines on the roads in East Africa. Some are painted on the pavement and some are used on warning signs. Is this a unified traffic rule? ”
Fuchellini said: "It's like this. The most basic function of white paint is to divide the road. For example, we are in the inside lane now, and the vehicles in the same lane are traveling in the same direction. Of course, there are also Instructions and warnings, just like solid lines cannot change lanes, dotted areas can..."
These natural traffic rules were completed under the guidance of Ernst. In fact, early East African traffic was not what it is today. strict.
After all, there were not many cars in East Africa, and the speed of horse-drawn carriages and other vehicles was not fast, so there was no need for complicated traffic rules. It was not until the increase in the number of vehicles in East Africa in the 1990s that the East African government began to improve and implement more stringent road traffic rules.
After Yoder translated these knowledge points into Portuguese and shared them with his colleagues, he once again aroused unanimous praise from Brazilians.
As an experienced driver, Fuchellini especially likes the feeling of being praised by foreign friends, and now he has Yodel, a person who can speak German, as a translator. The seal of his chatterbox was completely lifted, and he began to introduce many details of East Africa bit by bit.
“The green belts in the middle and on both sides of the road, according to the foreign tourists or businessmen I have contacted, seem to be only found in East Africa. The function of these green belts is not only to beautify the environment. In addition, it can also eliminate certain noise and dust. Of course, the effect is definitely limited, but I believe that is the case. ”
"If you touch these green belts, you can see that there is a certain amount of dust adsorbed on the leaves before the sprinklers water them."
"Our roads in East Africa use the latest traffic lights. systems, they all use electricity as a source of energy, layout At large and small intersections or other complex road sections in Dar es Salaam..."
Brazilian people were fascinated by what they said. Anyone can feel it in Fucherini's words. The strength of the transportation system to East Africa embodies the advantages of order, fairness and humanity.
Of course, they also raise some new questions from time to time.
“Mr. Fuchellini, are all the streets in Dar es Salaam so clean?”
"Of course, we in East Africa attach great importance to health conditions, not just now, but this tradition has existed in East Africa dating back to my grandfather's time."
"I heard from my grandfather that early East Africa did not Safety. At that time, many people had very little awareness of hygiene, but at that time the government had already begun to mandate personal and public health cleaning, and the effect was very significant."
"I think everyone has heard of it. There is a saying that Africa is a cursed continent. Various tropical diseases are rampant, and this is how we in East Africa have greatly reduced the spread of viruses in East Africa. Now East Africa is even safer than many middle and high latitudes.” Caerini's words are not easy to resonate with others, but it is different with Brazilians.
The latitude of Brazil is similar to that of East Africa, and the climate of the two countries can also be said to be very similar, so some of the problems that exist in East Africa also apply to Brazil.
There is no doubt that Brazil's poor medical and health systems, as well as the rampant various tropical diseases, are probably one of the reasons why Brazil's population growth is unsatisfactory and the population is concentrated in large cities.
After all, if you think about it, it is really difficult for a country like Brazil with a small population, a vast land and sparsely populated areas, and the inability to concentrate national efforts to develop the inland through administrative means like East Africa did in the past, to develop.
Expecting private companies to take employees No. 100 to open up wasteland in the interior is simply costing lives. That is to say, there were enough Indians in Brazil in the early days and enough black people to exploit them later. Otherwise, Brazil would not even be able to survive today. I can't even save this little money.
After all, it was already the end of the 19th century when Brazil abolished slavery. At that time, the effective development of the land in East Africa had reached millions of square kilometers. Now the western economy and population have also gained momentum. This is East African institutional superiority.
Of course, the consumption of black slaves in East Africa is obviously very prominent, but it may not be more than that in Brazil. After all, the black people in Brazil have been updated for several generations and are following a sustainable development path, while East Africa is There is less emphasis on "sustainable development" and a method of "fishing from the lake".
From this point of view, the black people in Brazil are both lucky and unlucky compared to their East African "fellows". At least Brazil has not exterminated them all. However, the treatment of black people in East Africa and Brazil is obviously not as good as that in the United States. Although black people in the United States are subject to social discrimination, they are still Having gained freedom in the middle of the last century, Brazilian blacks have just been liberated and their social status is not as good as that of American blacks.
Of course, Fucherini will not reveal this kind of "stain" to international friends, so in Fucherini's words, East Africa has almost no shortcomings, but only advantages.
And many Brazilians believe it to be true. After all, the facts are here, and people are more willing to believe what they see. East Africa shows a civilized side, so East Africa is more civilized and richer than Brazil. More powerful, it is simply a "utopia".
(End of this chapter)