Chapter 519 Millions of Black Slaves
In the next few days, the students of the No. 2 Middle School continued to participate in labor. According to the date, the practical courses in East Africa were divided into three categories: manual, equipment, and industry, which lasted one day, two days, and half a day.
Manual work is the work done by black slaves in East Africa, using relatively primitive tools to carry out a series of agricultural activities, mainly relying on human power.
Equipment mainly uses oxen and horses for work, or hand tools. These can greatly save human resources, but they are still dominated by manpower.
Finally, there is industry, which is agriculture in the mechanized era. Currently, no country in the world has achieved agricultural mechanization, so we can only rely on imagination in this regard.
In other words, the last half-day course is still a theoretical class, and students have to go home for vacation in the afternoon, so it is arranged this way.
In the afternoon, students returned to school first, and then teachers summarized the activity.
"Practical courses actually correspond to the sequence of productivity level development, reflecting the significant improvement in agricultural production efficiency caused by scientific and technological development..."
Let East African students experience the benefits of technological development and cultivate their interest in science and technology. Of course, Ernst’s expectation is that East African society as a whole advocates science.
Now East Africans are actually not enthusiastic about science, especially the older generation and new immigrants. Many of them come from backward areas or religious countries, so they may be more interested in things like gods and ghosts than science. convince.
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While No. 2 Middle School students are enjoying practical lessons on the farm, water conservancy construction projects in East Africa are also underway across the country, and Mbeya City is no exception.
Mbeya City is located on the north shore of Lake Malawi, so this time the country coordinates water conservancy construction projects, Mbeya City cannot avoid it.
In the agricultural area south of Mbeya city, tens of thousands of black people are building three main canals that extend to the outskirts of Mbeya.
Stephen, a German water conservancy expert, looked at tens of thousands of black people digging canals and lamented: "East Africa, as the hometown of black people, has now been conquered by Germany, and the staggering amount of engineering work in East Africa has all fallen on these huge numbers of black people. I think The East African Central Railway was originally built this way too!”
His colleague Richard said: "Building railways actually does not require many workers. Of course, if related industries are added, the number will definitely be more. However, as far as I know, the steel in East Africa in the past few years mainly came from us and Austria. The Hungarian Empire and other countries imported a large number of railway tracks, which were originally orders from major railway companies before the economic crisis, but after the economic crisis broke out, they became cheaper in East Africa."
Stephen: "You are right. In fact, the number of railway workers cannot be compared with the national water conservancy construction project in East Africa. I heard that they plan to use millions of black people to complete this plan. This is indeed a bit crazy, but they are not afraid. Are black people rioting?”
Richard: "You have been in East Africa for too short a time. In fact, your understanding of East Africa is only superficial. In fact, the immigrant population in East Africa is definitely not as small as the outside world speculates. I have worked in many places in East Africa. In fact, in many areas There are quite a lot of people in the city, such as several well-known cities in East Africa, but more people in East Africa live in rural areas. I suspect that the population in East Africa is at least 8 million or more, and may even exceed 10 million. This number is comparable to that in Europe Not too little.”
Stephen: “You don’t mean black people?”
Richard: "Of course, so there is enough white population in East Africa to suppress black people. If these black people are unrest, there will be no chance to overturn the results of enslavement."
Stephen: "Does this mean that the whole society in East Africa oppresses black people? All of them are evil?"
Richard: "Just like black people in America were."
Stephen: "No, it's very different from the United States. Black Americans are now liberated."
Richard: "What you are saying is wrong. The liberation of black Americans was a gift from white people. Without Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, it would have been impossible for those black slaves to fight against the southern planters, let alone gain freedom. The attitude towards slaves in East Africa is completely different from that in the United States, and all of them enjoy the value created by black people as a matter of course."
Stephen: "This has something to do with the social atmosphere of the country in East Africa. Most of the immigrants introduced to East Africa are people who have not left the ideological involvement in the feudal era. This has led to them not having the slightest interest in the so-called freedom, democracy, and fraternity. They only obey the monarchs and emperors. I dare to conclude that East Africa is the most authoritarian and feudal country in the world."
Richard joked: "You want to be the Voltaire of East Africa?"
Stephen: "Haha, I'm not that great. I just want to take the salary paid in East Africa and go back to Europe in the future. If I am asked to live under this kind of system in East Africa, I probably won't be willing."
Richard: "You are right. Unless you are an East African, if you see the prosperity of European countries, I am afraid that most intellectuals would prefer to develop in Europe."
For this water conservancy construction project, the number of black slaves mobilized across the country has directly exceeded 700,000. Mbeya City is also updating irrigation facilities along the coast of Malawi.
Although the three major lakes in East Africa are large in area and have abundant fresh water resources, it is not easy to utilize the abundant water resources in them.
These lakes are originally located in relatively low-lying areas. Because of the close distance to the coast, it is relatively simple to divert water, but this is not possible in remote areas. This is also a problem when resources are concentrated in one place.
Sufficient water resources are of course a good thing, but everything should not be considered average. The three major lakes occupy most of East Africa's freshwater resources. In this era, there are no water pumps and plastic hoses, which means that great resources are not easy to develop.
Therefore, in order to make full use of the lake water source, it is necessary to set up water lifting facilities and irrigation canals. There are three major categories of water lifting facilities, namely artificial power, steam engines, and windmills. Irrigation canals are not so easy to build. This kind of canal ranges from low to low. High, so it must be widened and dug in reverse.
Human labor is not considered in East Africa because the efficiency is too low. As for steam engines, which are steam pumps, it is impossible for East Africa to have all of them due to price and fuel reasons, and this kind of thing is more suitable for pumping groundwater in arid areas, so East Africa still Choose Dajian Windmill.
The three major lakes have their own drainage basins, so the river systems that flow into the three major lakes can also be used.
In fact, these rivers also conflict with the irrigation projects in East Africa. The rivers all flow from high to low. The three major lakes irrigation system in East Africa mainly wants to use the water from the three major lakes as backup water sources in the dry season, and the three major lakes are originally lowlands. Therefore, the construction of irrigation systems in East Africa is equivalent to directing lake water from low-lying areas into farmland at high altitudes.
Most of the reservoirs Ernst had seen in his previous life were built at high altitudes. When water was needed, they would directly open the gates and release the water, taking advantage of the terrain differences.
The three major lakes are originally low-lying areas in the region, and it is impossible to use this terrain difference for irrigation. Therefore, the proposal of German water conservancy experts is to build irrigation channels that extend from the lakes inland. As the terrain rises, the channels are built. The depth is also enhanced so that these lake waters can be transported inland.
To put it bluntly, it is to dig a network of artificial canals along the three major lakes, so you can imagine how huge this project is. Millions of black laborers in East Africa have invested in water conservancy construction projects without even a splash.
After the completion of Ernst's plan, Ernst himself can be said to have achieved more than Emperor Sui Yang during his lifetime, but Ernst does not have to worry that his fate will be the same as Emperor Sui Yang's.
After all, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty finally lost his throne, mainly because he was at odds with his family and could not suppress the peasant uprising. And behind it was the support of immigrants in East Africa. He could only suffer the hardships of the black people in East Africa first. There was no result in resisting anyway.