The capital of the Northern Highlands district, Karatu.

A tall windmill began to work, and as the light wind blew, the huge windmill blades began to rotate slowly, and the wooden blades and drive shafts creaked.

The commissioning personnel walked down from the spiral ladder, and the huge wooden gear was fixed in mid-air inside the windmill, and with the rotation of the external windmill blades, the gears and other parts inside the windmill also began to rotate, and the running track of the huge wooden gear was clearly visible.

"Alright, starting today, this windmill is ready to go!" The technician said to the residents of Karatu after the windmill had been running for some time.

This windmill is a microcosm of the Dutch windmills that were originally introduced, and many new windmills have been built in East Africa, but most of them are used for irrigation, and it is the first one to power the mill.

"When I see this windmill, I feel that the East African colonies are almost like my hometown in Bavaria!" Said a Bavarian immigrant.

In his hometown, there is also a windmill, which is built at the entrance of the village, and the villagers go there to grind noodles, so he is very impressed.

However, his comparison of the Bavarian countryside with the capital of the East African region is really funny, and it fully demonstrates the fact that East Africa is a large rural village.

The East African colonies are now comparable to the smaller cities in Europe in terms of the port cities and first towns in the coastal areas.

"Add wheat to it first and see how it goes?" Said the technician.

Two men poured half sacks of wheat into a bucket above the millstone, and the technician manipulated the ropes that controlled the windmill mill, and the mill was put into operation.

The grinding disc begins to rotate with the crankshaft, grinding the wheat grains, and the wheat converges towards the middle of the grinding disc, and gradually the wheat is swallowed by the grinding disc.

As the stone mill grinds, the grainy wheat begins to turn into powder, and the bran becomes yellowed coarse flour.

"It's working properly, and this windmill can basically solve the local flour milling work." Said the technician.

"It's as simple as that, and it's turned into flour?" A Chinese immigrant asked.

"Of course, the flour we have there is made in this way, but in recent years, the city has used steam engines, and the flour mills built are still very large, can be processed in large quantities, and the quality is much better than this, so most of the people in the city buy flour produced by the factory, but we still use more windmills in the countryside." Said immigrants from the Bavarian region.

Most of the Chinese immigrants used stone mills, which were driven by human and animal power, so they were more curious about windmills.

"When I was by the river before, I thought this thing could be used to carry water, but I didn't expect it to be able to use it like this." Chinese immigrants said.

Due to the increase in the German population in East Africa and the advancement of adult education, many Chinese in East Africa are now able to communicate with European immigrants in simple German.

"I've seen windmills, but it's really rare to see windmills used for irrigation in Germany." Said the Bavarian immigrant.

The technician interjected at this time: "If you really look at the use of windmills, then we in the Netherlands are absolutely world-class, and windmills were the most important source of power in the Netherlands."

We use windmills to drain water, make paper, process food, and drive machines......

Even a lot of our land was snatched from the sea with windmills.

That is, now the steam engine is used in large quantities, and the status of the windmill is much less than before. ”

"Grab land from the sea with a windmill?"

"Yes, the Netherlands is a low-lying country, connected to the sea, and once a lot of our land was covered by the sea and swamps, and we built dikes and then used windmills to drain the water in the dikes, so that there was a lot of land to cultivate and live in." Dutch technicians proudly introduce their windmills and the story of the Netherlands.

This is hard to imagine for the Chinese and Bavarian immigrants living in the interior, who only saw the sea when they traveled to East Africa on a migrant ship, and even before they came to East Africa, they had never left their village.

"I've seen the sea once in my life, or when I was adrift on the sea, but the sea is so big, you Dutch can still grab land from the sea, it's amazing!" Bavarian immigrants were impressed.

The technician from the Netherlands was very helpful to hear this, after all, it is a matter of pride to hear others praise their country.

In fact, the Dutch technicians did not have a high level of education, and they were only hired by the East African colonies by virtue of their skills in building windmills.

But compared with the Chinese and German dumplings who had never seen the world, the sense of superiority immediately came up.

East Africa actually has its own flour mill, in Bagamoyo, but the flour produced by that mill is mainly exported to Europe, not to meet the milling needs of East African immigrants.

Therefore, every village and town in the East African colonies still has to solve the processing of wheat and other food rations by itself.

In the past, it had always relied on manpower to complete, and even the stone grinding was not enough at the beginning, but later it annexed some stone processing workshops in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and reorganized personnel to produce stone grinding to solve the problem.

As for animal power pulling and grinding, East Africa is not in a position to do it, after all, it takes time to popularize animal power, and animal power also needs to reproduce and grow, and East Africa has a large number of animal power, many of which are used to pull carts or for military use.

Therefore, all parts of East Africa can only use indigenous people as animal power, and use indigenous people to grind.

However, the indigenous people are also an important labor force after all, and they are used to build bridges and pave roads, dig ditches and repair canals, and East Africa intends to control the size of the indigenous people, so the indigenous people are not as rich as imagined as the labor force.

Now that the East African colonies are building windmills, at least more indigenous people can be saved for other projects.

Moreover, after the windmill is built, it can be used for a long time, as long as the parts are replaced and maintained, it will not be a problem to use it for more than ten years.

Don't think about the more advanced steam engines, which are too expensive to popularize and difficult to popularize, and the materials for windmills can be made and supplied by East Africa.

Like the canvas on windmills, the unsalable sisal cloth of East Africa can come in handy, and the supply of stone and wood is indefinite.

And windmills are not far behind, they are still used in large quantities in Europe and the United States, after all, where is the cost of the steam engine.

Among them, in order to solve the problem of water for people and livestock, many windmills have been built in the western development of the United States, which is the famous farm windmill in the United States in the past.

The windmills of the United States are different from the windmills of the East African colonies, and the windmills of the wealthy United States use many metal parts, and even metal blades, after all, the United States has a high steel production, and now East Africa cannot do it.

(End of chapter)