Chapter 124 Well
It turns out that Franz doesn't take this matter very seriously. As the king of a country, Franz is busy with some national affairs every day.
As for the education of little Rudolf, Franz still trusts his mother. After all, he came here the same way.
In fact, this is an irresponsible attitude. Some people may just want to make a living. Maybe they don't realize it, but it really saves trouble.
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Poor little Rudolf fell into Ernst's clutches, and he didn't know what kind of life he would face next.
"Goodbye sister, goodbye grandma!" Little Rudolf said goodbye to his two sisters (his own sisters, Princess Gisela and Karina) and his grandmother.
"Ernst! Rudolf will be in your hands for a while. You must watch him carefully and not neglect your studies." Empress Dowager Sophie emphasized.
"Don't worry! Queen Mother, I brought Rudolf with me so that he can receive a more complete and advanced education. He will also come into contact with outstanding nobles from various European countries." Ernst promised.
"Baby, take care of yourself!" Queen Sophie kissed Rudolph's forehead goodbye.
"Let's go!" Ernst said to the coachman. The coachman waved his whip and slapped the horse on the buttocks, and the convoy moved slowly.
As the carriage gradually disappeared from sight, Queen Mother Sophie came back to her senses. I don't know if Rudolf's departure was good or bad. Anyway, it was only three months, so it was not a big problem.
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"Rudolf, what do you think of the scene along the way?" Ernst asked Rudolf through the window of the train, looking at the fields rushing backwards.
"Brother Ernst, yesterday was fine. The scenery outside is indeed something you can't see in the palace. It's very novel. But I was so tired afterward. I feel like my bones are about to fall apart." Rudolf complained.
Rudolf was like this because Ernst took him on a train to North Germany.
The comfort of steam trains in this era was obviously very poor, and Ernst specially ordered a hard-seat carriage.
Only Ernst and Rudolf were in the carriage, along with Ernst's team of bodyguards and assistants.
In fact, as Ernst, you can definitely order a high-end box. The conditions there are very good, but the high-end box does not have the smell of the hard-seat compartment of the green leather car when Ernst was a child in his previous life.
Ernst also wanted Rudolf to experience the hardships of ordinary people traveling. These steam trains and bumpy railways, plus hard leather seats, huge noise and more than ten hours of journey.
Not to mention Rudolf, even Ernst felt very tired, but Ernst had the taste of remembering bitterness and sweetness, so he enjoyed it instead. Rudolf was miserable. Ever since he was a child, he had never been tortured like this. .
After more than ten hours of torture, the train finally arrived at its destination in Berlin.
Rudolf, who was going abroad for the first time and seeing other capitals, felt very strange about everything here. Prussia and Vienna seemed more strict and orderly than the atmosphere. This was a feeling that could only be understood from the city itself.
Ernst prepared a complete education for Rudolf, and all the schedules were fully arranged, which was of course completely different from what he had promised to the Queen Mother Sophie.
In addition to all the courses he originally received, little Rudolf also had to deal with the Prussian royal family and visit Prussia's industrial achievements. At the same time, he would be arranged to study at the Hechingen Military Academy for a month.
Ernst focused on establishing a social education for Rudolf in addition to court education.
Just like in previous lives, many families in China actually lacked education, but school education made up for the lack of family education.
Good family education is definitely more advantageous than social education like school, but many family educations fail.
Judging from Rudolf's past life experience, his family education was definitely a failure among failures, so Ernst wanted to imitate the exam-oriented education in his previous life and forcefully instill a set of normal thinking in Rudolf.
Birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together. Let Rudolph get in touch with more outstanding people, which will definitely affect his future.
The advantage of exam-oriented education is very obvious, that is, it is so difficult that Rudolph has no time to think or complain.
This is incomparable to court education. Court education only serves Rudolf alone. All the court teachers revolve around Rudolf. Those court teachers only need to forcefully instill knowledge into Rudolf.
In exam-oriented education, Rudolf had a competitor. Ernst was ready to let Rudolf experience the horror of exams and the horror of competing with geniuses of the same age.
As for the examination-oriented education that obliterates nature and imagination, even if this is true, it will definitely not harm Rudolph. Franz wanted to train Rudolph into a conservative king, but it seems that Franz still failed in his previous life.
Under the pressure of exam-oriented education, Rudolph can really make some close friends. Unlike those who take the initiative to fawn over, Rudolph's classmates will all be brothers in trouble.
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February 10, 1868.
Just today, the central government of East Africa issued a new document to local governments, which involves digging water wells throughout the East African colonies.
Judging from this document, East Africa is indeed backward, and digging water wells should be a spontaneous act of the people in any country and region (except Africa).
What the East African government deals with and does every day does not look like managing a country at all, but like managing a large village.
The East African colonies were of course rich in water resources, and villages and towns were also close to water sources.
Why did Ernst launch a "well digging" campaign in East Africa?
This depends on the data report of the East African government. Currently, drinking water resources for immigrants in East Africa mainly come from rivers and lakes.
The rivers and lakes in East Africa are not as clean as imagined. They are used to irrigate agriculture. However, when the rainy season comes or during the dry season, many rivers and water bodies turn into yellow mud.
Some rivers are even more exaggerated. Some hippos gather in the same river section, and their excrement directly pollutes the entire water. Even fish can be smoked to death (it is said that they die from lack of oxygen).
Therefore, water from rivers and lakes in East Africa is generally drinkable after simple treatment, which is a mandatory requirement.
Generally, two sedimentation tanks are dug to simply filter the river water. If it is too turbid, some alum may be added, and finally it is boiled for drinking.
In this way, the drinking water in the East African colonies was directly linked to the quality of local surface water. Even with simple filtration measures, many people still fell ill or even died due to drinking water problems.
However, in this era, this is the case in most areas, so everyone is more accustomed to it. It is also common for some people to drink raw water directly from rivers and lakes to save trouble.
Therefore, every measure in East Africa was enforced, and anyone found to have violated the regulations of the colonial government would be punished.
All in all, East Africa currently lacks clean and reliable drinking water. Ernst does not insist on comparing it with the tap water in his previous life, but at least it must meet the standard of well water.
Well water may face hidden dangers of bacterial dust and excessive mineral content, but it is much safer than surface water in rivers and lakes, especially compared with many water sources in East Africa that often turn yellow.
Dodoma, Fata Village.
"The mud here is relatively wet. You see, this is the area with the heaviest moisture." Jorah Mormont said to the people in the village.
As he spoke, he dug out a piece of soil directly from the ground in front of him with his hands, and also dug out a piece around it.
"Look, this piece of mud took shape when I squeezed it. Look at this piece of mud, and it fell apart when I squeezed it! So there is probably a water source under this piece of land." Jorah Mo Ermon proved his suspicion.
Jorah Mormont was an immigrant from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and a Serbian. He had lived in Hungary before and had experience in digging wells, but it was just experience.
"Then let's dig here first!" The German village chief made a decision.
So a group of more than a dozen villagers started digging here with tools. They didn't have any advanced tools, just shovels and hoes.
People in the village are responsible for preparing masonry materials and rattan as materials for the well walls.
Jorah Mormont was responsible for the main work. After digging about fifty centimeters, he began to build the walls of the well with rattan and bricks. The rattan was mainly used for fixation.
After each circle was completed, Jorah Mormont and his assistants used short-handled shovels to dig soil along the bottom of the masonry. The villagers used barrels tied with ropes to pull the soil up from the ground.
It was getting late, and after struggling for a long time, the well gradually took shape. It was dug for almost ten meters, but there was no water yet.
"How deep is it now?" asked the village chief.
Someone brought a measuring rope and lowered it along the well mouth, and the person at the bottom pulled it up.
"Village chief, there's still about four meters to go and we're going to be twenty meters away!"
"Okay! Let's work overtime today to see if he comes out of the water. If he doesn't come out of the water after 20 meters, we will come back in another place tomorrow." The village chief set the tone.
At this time, Jorah Mormont spoke from the well: "Village chief, don't worry. If you dig a few more meters, water will definitely come out. The mud will get wetter as you go down. According to my previous experience in Hungary, water should come out after about ten meters." , it seems that there are some differences between Africa and Europe."
After hearing this, the group speeded up the digging. Sure enough, it was less than one meter. When Jorah Mormont shoveled down, the well water surged up from the ground.
"Out of the water, out of the water!" Jorah Mormont shouted excitedly.
"Okay, let's pull him up first," the village chief said.
The villagers used a simple escalator and lowered it into the well, and Jorah Mormont slowly climbed up.
In this way, the first well in Fata Village was born.
Currently in East Africa, water wells are mainly used for residents' drinking. One or two wells dug in each village are enough for the entire village.
As for agricultural irrigation, surface water from rivers and lakes is naturally used, including drinking water for livestock.
The development and utilization of water wells further improved the water security of residents in the East African colonies and further reduced the living space for various diseases.
Before the construction of water plants began in East Africa, water wells had always been responsible for the main task of drinking water for residents. Some of these wells continued to serve for decades before they were slowly replaced by tap water. In some places with extreme water shortages, water wells will continue to be used. play an irreplaceable role.