Chapter 1411 Engineering Construction
Today's industrial countries, one counts one, will enjoy the treatment of France today, which is the problem of a decrease in the population birth rate. The decrease in the population birth rate means that the population will be introduced to the outside world and face the problem of illegal entry.
These two can be said to have formed an organic combination in their previous lives. Developed countries have labor demand, and people in backward areas also want to squeeze in to developed countries.
Ernst does not believe that East Africa will get rid of this common situation in the future, so it is better to make arrangements in advance and isolate the Arab countries or regions around East Africa.
The best way to isolate is to support puppet countries with similar cultures and living habits. In this way, even if the people from neighboring countries and regions in East Africa benefit East Africa in the future, the cost of assimilating them will be the lowest in the future.
After all, experience in previous lives has proved that it is difficult for two groups with too many differences in culture or thinking to pee into the same pot. There is an old saying in the Far East: "If you are not from my ethnic group, your heart will be different."
When East Africa was in ethnic integration, it was particularly taboo to form so-called "communities". This situation is more common in the United States, such as Chinatown, German communities, black communities, etc.
In short, East Africa's policies in dealing with immigration are significantly different from those in Europe and the United States, but the effect is also very significant. Now a Rhine nation with a population of nearly 200 million and a common understanding has been formed on the African continent, and the social cohesion of East Africa is also greater than those immigrant countries in Latin America.
The poor Sudanese people still don’t know that their fate has been sentenced by Ernst, the “demon”.
The vast majority of Sudanese people have to consider whether they can have a meal tomorrow. So even if the sewage and oil stains discharged from the upstream float on the White Nile River, the Seidli family can only pinch their noses and introduce the river water into the fields to water their own wheat fields.
Although the water of the White Nile River has been polluted to a certain extent, the impact of watering farmland on the growth of crops is not very big. After all, the sewage discharged from a small city has little impact on the White Nile River.
In his previous life, Cairo, Egypt had a population of more than 20 million. At the same time, most of Egypt's industries were gathered, and it was still in the lower reaches of the Nile River. It can be imagined how the Nile River is in Cairo, so the "slight" pollution caused by the city of Jezira is just a drop in the bucket for the White Nile River.
This is not aimless. In fact, no matter how hard East Africa makes, it will not cause a devastating blow to the White Nile ecology. Unless the population of the White Nile River basin in the upper East Africa exceeds 100 million and there is no restricted water use, this may cause a drop of water to flow into Sudan.
This is not unfounded. The water volume of the Nile River is less than twice that of the Yellow River, while the water volume of the White Nile River, as a tributary, is even less. However, the total population of the Nile Province in East Africa is less than 2 million, but the area is as high as more than 500,000 square kilometers, and the land is vast and sparsely populated.
Therefore, unless East Africa can divert the White Nile River, it will not have much impact on the downstream, not to mention that Egypt and other rivers such as the Blue Nile River will replenish the Nile water volume.
Of course, if you ask Ernst to drink the water from the White Nile River in Sudan, he will definitely not drink it.
In fact, the precipitation in the Nile Province in East Africa is still quite considerable, and the average annual precipitation in the south even exceeds one thousand millimeters.
However, the evaporation is also very large. After all, the Nile Basin is low in altitude, high in temperature, dense vegetation, and many swamps, so most of the precipitation is consumed in East Africa. If this is not the case, the water volume of the Nile River will definitely be so pitiful compared to other major rivers in the world.
However, even so, the activities in the upper reaches of East Africa, especially the establishment of the city of Jezira, have a great impact on the White Nile River in Sudan. The White Nile River in Sudan is only about 300 kilometers long and the water volume is not high.
Therefore, the impact of the Jezira City, which is about 300 kilometers away from Khartoum, on the White Nile River downstream is enough to make Sudan uncomfortable.
Khartoum doesn't feel deeply about this, because Khartoum is the intersection of the Qing and White Nile Rivers. As long as the Blue Nile River is not affected too much, Khartoum will basically not have too many problems.
Only Sultans, like Seidli, who survived by the White Nile, would complain about East Africa's behavior, but it was only limited to complaining.
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In fact, for Egypt, the North African country, the Nile River flowing through is already considered a gift from God. The Nile River alone is enough to envy North African countries such as Libya and Algeria next door, which are also short of water.
Compared with these countries, the "water shortage" problem that East Africa has been promoting seems insignificant, and East Africa is just a little less precipitation compared with most high-latitude countries.
But even so, East Africa has made many efforts to make rational use of water resources, such as the large-scale water conservancy construction in the last century and the construction of artificial canals and reservoirs at the beginning of this century.
During the 55th Five-Year Plan, the focus of East Africa's water conservancy construction was undoubtedly the "water diversion project" and the construction of hydropower stations.
During his investigation in Beida Lake Province, Ernst went to the northeast of the province to visit the construction of the Western Front of the Sardindida Plain.
After returning to Rhine, Ernst even called the Ministry of Water Resources and other relevant departments to inquire about the current progress of water conservancy work in East Africa.
"Just three days ago, I just returned from Beida Lake Province and focused on visiting the Xingguo Hydropower Station in Tianjin City, as well as the construction of the Western Water Diversion Project of the Sardindida Plain in northeastern Beida Lake Province."
"Now, there are many regional water diversion projects in the field of water conservancy construction in my country. The Ministry of Water Resources will truthfully report the specific situation of these projects."
In response to Ernst's inquiry, the current Minister of Water Resources of East Africa, Moorbach, said: "Your Majesty, there are four major water transfer projects in my country at present. From north to south, the Sardindida Plain water diversion project, the East African Plateau West Water Diversion Project, the Mozambique North and South Water Diversion Project, and the East and West Water Diversion Project in the South African Plateau."
"However, the current stage of implementation is only the Sardinidad Plain water diversion project and the South African Plateau East and West Water Diversion Project."
"These two projects are the least difficult and have the weakest negative effects on the ecological environment. Among them, the South African Plateau East Water Diversion Project is one of the most important engineering projects that the Ministry of Water Resources attaches great importance to."
"We have completed the exploration and measurement of the route. In the next step, we will formally invite top experts in the fields of water conservancy, ecological environment, engineering, etc. in the country to formulate the most reasonable plan. It is expected that construction will officially start by the end of next year."
The reason why the Ministry of Water Resources puts the East Water Diversion Project first is that this project is one of the most important large-scale national construction projects in the 55th Five-Year Plan.
After all, the South African plateau area is an energy and mineral base in East Africa and an important agricultural production base in East Africa. After the completion of this project, it will have the greatest gain effect on the strength of East Africa. Ernst also knows this. Compared with other water diversion projects, only the east-west water diversion of the South African Plateau involves industrial development in the South African Plateau area, while several other water diversion projects focus on serving agriculture.
So he said: "When you have to hurry up and do not seek success in the East Water Diversion Project on the South African Plateau, if you have any problems, you should not take it lightly. After all, the fundamental purpose of this large-scale water conservancy construction project is to lay a good foundation for the overall economic development of the country."
"So, you don't have to rush to build it in a hasty manner during the 55th Five-Year Plan. This project can be completed within ten or even twenty years. Everything is based on stability."
The construction cycle of such large-scale water diversion projects is usually more than ten years. Of course, this is generally the case. In fact, after the 20th century, East Africa has also made rapid progress in its construction capacity due to the improvement of industrial level in the industry.
Moreover, after experiencing various miraculous large-scale engineering projects in the era of the planned economy, this has also led to some officials in East Africa having some frivolity.
Ernst can understand this mentality of some officials. After all, whether it is national water conservancy construction, artificial canal construction, or large-scale infrastructure projects such as railways, highways, bridges, ports, etc., the East African government has basically achieved these amazing achievements as expected.
However, from the last century to the beginning of this century, the completion of these projects in East Africa highlighted one feature, that is, the pursuit of "fast".
As for why this is the case, it is related to Ernst's requirements under the historical environment at that time.
You should know that before Ernst colonized East Africa, the whole country of East Africa can almost be called a "virgin land", without even a decent road, and the climate and environment are relatively harsh.
At that time, the international environment and situation facing East Africa were not optimistic, and it was surrounded by wolves. At that time, imperialism was preparing to set off a craze to divide the African continent.
This means that if the colonial activities in East Africa cannot be quickly transformed into strength, then all the efforts made by the Hei Xinggen royal family at that time would probably be just a wedding dress for the great power countries at that time.
So before the South African War, the task of the Hexinggen royal family was to "quickly occupy, immigrate quickly, develop and build quickly."
The East African colonies were built into family private areas and had the ability to preserve colonial achievements in competition and threats with the great powers.
Before the 1880s, we must have a certain population size, agricultural and industrial foundation on the African continent, and even build a strong army that can deal with the threat from other colonists.
This has led to any project in East Africa pursuing "fast", which is mainly reflected in both war and agricultural construction.
After the 1980s, East Africa had already had a certain ability to protect itself and had even built a country of a certain scale. At this time, East Africa still cannot relax.
Because at this time, European powers officially began to pour into Africa on a large scale, so after twenty or thirty years of accumulation and development, the direct conflict with the great power countries began for the first time.
East Africa's main opponents at that time were Portugal and Britain, which directly triggered the South African War in the early 1990s. East Africa also directly established East Africa's status in Africa through this war.
The South African War did not mean that the development of East Africa was over. At this time, as a regional power of a certain scale, East Africa began to participate in international competition.
The most important thing is to compete with other countries in the field of industrial development. After all, if you are backward, you will be beaten. At that time, East Africa was still a backward agricultural country.
This means that East Africa is still facing the crisis of a comeback of imperialist countries.
Just like in modern Egypt, under the reform of Ali, Egypt achieved a certain degree of "rich country and strengthening army" through a series of reforms, but the specific effect still did not get rid of the restrictions of "backward agricultural countries". After Britain and France returned to Egypt, Ali's reform was officially declared to be failed.
East Africa in the early 1990s also faced such problems. Agricultural countries had no advantages in facing industrial countries. Even if they won temporarily, they would likely fail later. This is mainly a problem of fault tolerance. Industrial countries have much higher fault tolerance than agricultural countries.
For example, the South African War, the victory of East Africa brought about a period of peace, but Britain, as the loser, was almost not greatly affected. If East Africa was lying on the credit card of the South African War and no longer developed, it would inevitably face a new crisis in the future.
Therefore, after the 1990s, turning East Africa from an agricultural country to an industrial power in the world in the shortest possible time became the primary political task of the East African government at that time.
After the 1990s, the construction progress of East Africa was even more exaggerated than before. In just 30 years, East Africa built more than 200,000 kilometers of railways and millions of kilometers of highways, transformed a large number of modern ports, and steel production reached a new level every year...
It can be said that World War I and East Africa before World War I created one miracle after another in economic and engineering fields, thus completely laying the foundation for East Africa to become a world power.
But behind these economic miracles, one thing cannot be ignored, that is, in order to get rid of the current situation of poverty and backwardness as much as possible, East Africa also sacrifices a lot, and blindly pursuing speed in construction has also laid no hidden dangers.
In summary, the rough economic development model of East Africa in the past is no longer in line with the actual situation of East African countries today.
After becoming a primary industrial power, East Africa will also face various problems such as "increased labor costs", "overcapacity of world industrial production", "tax barriers from various countries", "insufficient product competitiveness", "low technological level", etc. Therefore, starting from the 55th Five-Year Plan, the transformation of East Africa's economic development began.
In the field of engineering construction, East Africa used to blindly pursue progress, thus neglecting the safety of workers, the impact on the ecology, unscientific design, etc., and now it is definitely not possible.
To put it simply, in the past, East Africa did not take human lives seriously for economic development, but in the past, there were black workers in East Africa that could sacrifice, and now we must not joke about the safety of our own citizens’ lives.
(This chapter ends)