Bagamoyo.

To the south of the East African naval base, on the south bank of the Lower Rhine, a new site is being transformed, and the Bagamoyo shipyard is being planned.

The construction of the site has been completed, and a shipyard of the same size will be built in accordance with the model of the Venetian shipyard and the geographical conditions of the port of Bagamoyo.

The Bagamoyo shipyard is currently the largest initiative in East Africa to increase its autonomous ship manufacturing capacity.

Belster, a technician at the Venetian shipyard, was presenting the project to Konstantin.

"Why relocate the Venetian shipyard to Bagamoyo, the main thing is to avoid crowding out the operating space of the port of Dar es Salaam, although the conditions and infrastructure of Dar es Salaam are stronger than those of Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, as an open port, occupies an important position in the East African economy, and the import and export capacity of East Africa is mainly concentrated in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. However, considering the future development of various ports in East Africa, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has specially explained that the shipyard will be located in the non-free port area, and only Bagamoyo and Mogadishu have the best conditions among the non-free ports, but Mogadishu is located in the north, and the Somali climate makes the local lack of relevant raw materials. ”

The shipbuilding industry is still relatively dependent on wood, and Mogadishu, as an oasis city, happens to be at a disadvantage in terms of raw materials.

"Bagamoyo's own conditions, with good water depths, Zanzibar on the opposite side to offset most of the sea breezes, and a bay zone in the leeward part of the mainland like Dar es Salaam, all give the port of Bagamoyo the potential to be on par with Venice." Bear said eloquently.

Bell is an Austrian, a technician at the Trieste shipyard, who had previously studied at the Venetian shipyard and was appointed director by the Heshingen consortium after opening the Trieste branch in the Venetian shipyard.

The shipbuilding industry in East Africa can be roughly divided into two systems, one is the inland shipbuilding industry that relies on lakes and rivers, and its typical examples are the Mwanza shipyard on the coast of the Great Lake, the Kigoma shipyard on Lake Solon and the Karonga shipyard on the shores of Lake Malawi.

On the advice of Naval Commander-in-Chief Ferdinand, East Africa established two small ship repair yards in Dar es Salaam and Mombasa, whose main business was to produce small wooden fishing boats in addition to the maintenance of ships along the route.

These two small ship repair yards were actually rebuilt on the basis of the former shipyards of the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and the technical system was derived from Arabia, but the shipbuilding center of Zanzibar was actually on the island of Zanzibar, mainly because Zanzibar controlled the coast for too short a time.

Another city in East Africa with shipbuilding capacity is Mogadishu, which has a long history of shipbuilding capacity on the Indian Ocean coast, but is completely backward in technology.

Taking advantage of the outbreak of the war between Austria-Hungary and Italy, Ernst planned to copy the Hexingen shipyard in Venice to East Africa, and the panic caused by the war helped the shipyard workers to choose to develop in East Africa.

"After the completion of the Bagamoyo shipyard, does it mean that East Africa can develop independently in the seagoing shipbuilding industry?" Konstantin asked.

"This depends on how to understand it, for example, now, the design, planning, and construction of the shipyard are completely completed by our own people, which is considered independent! However, in terms of hardware, the shipbuilding industry in East Africa is completely unable to meet the conditions for independence. "For example, the steam power system and important components will definitely need to be imported, and even if the Bagamoyo shipyard is built, it will only be able to complete the hull construction alone, so it is essentially a large ship assembly plant." ”

Belst continued: "At present, the completion of the Bagamoyo shipyard is still a milestone for the shipbuilding industry in East Africa, first solve the problem of whether there is a problem, and then gradually fill in the missing industrial chain, Bagamoyo is a large place, and in the future, it will rely on the Bagamoyo shipyard as the center to form a shipbuilding related industry." ”

"I see!" Konstantin sighed, "After the Bagamoyo shipyard is built, what kind of ships will it produce if it is put into the world?" ”

"It's a pity, Your Majesty, it is estimated that there will be two generations behind in technology, in fact, the Venetian shipyard itself is slightly behind its peers in technology because of the decline of Venice, and now shipbuilding has been greatly improved again in terms of technological progress space because of the emergence of ironclad ships, so the shipbuilding technology introduced by Bagamoyo will definitely lag behind the European mainland."

The Bagamoyo shipyard said that it was a copy of the Venetian shipyard, but in fact, the machines of the Venetian shipyard were retrieved and assembled in Bagamoyo and put into production again, while the original Venetian shipyard would introduce new equipment and technology to carry out industrial upgrading.

With the opening of the Suez Canal, the resurgence of the Mediterranean economy has been an inevitable trend, and Venice, the most brilliant port city on the Mediterranean coast in the past, will also have a second spring, so it is important to improve the shipbuilding level of the Venetian shipyard in Heixingen.

This is also one of the reasons why Ernst built the Bagamoyo shipyard, to eliminate the backward technology and equipment of the Venetian shipyard to East Africa, which is advanced technology for East Africa, and the Venetian shipyard can also complete industrial upgrading, which is beneficial for both.

At the same time, by relocating most of the Italian workers from the Venetian shipyards to East Africa, Ernst was able to recruit more Germans from Austria to work in Venice, which in turn helped Austria control Venice.

Coupled with Ernst's previous poisonous schemes, the population of the countryside around the city of Venice was hollowed out, and then it became Austrians outside the city of Venice, isolating the city of Venice from the predominantly Italian-based countryside.

The Italian countryside, which is separated from the city, is much less likely to be influenced by the Venetian city, because the general culture will consciously concentrate on the city and then radiate out.

Unable to accept the radiation of Italian culture in Venice, Austria can slowly assimilate the peasants in the countryside of the Veneto region through education and other means, provided that the hermeneutical power of the local rural magnates is broken, and then the old Italian peasants are ideologically edified, not to mention 100%, most Italians will slowly become Austrians.

Slowly the Italians in the Venetian cities will be replaced by the surrounding Austrian countrymen because of fertility problems, so that from the top to the bottom, the Germans' right to speak can be slowly strengthened, and as the mainstay of Italian culture, the middle class, Austria-Hungary will try every means to get them out of Venice, after all, the Kingdom of Italy cannot but accept these true Italian patriots, as for those who do not want to leave, they can also let East Africa take over, Ernst doesn't care about this, when he goes to East Africa to be a good man, he can still be saved, if not, Alaska snow package arrangement.

Of course, this is only a hypothesis, and whether it can be completed or not depends on a combination of factors, such as if the Kingdom of Italy regains Venice in the future, this process will be interrupted, but it is very unlikely.

There is also a purpose of this purpose, which is to block the spread of Italian culture in the territory of Austria-Hungary, the Italian culture on the Adriatic coast is very strong, and these areas happen to be on the coast of Austria, Venice is the connecting center is interrupted, and slowly the Italian culture on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea will also decline, and then start to solve the cultural imprint of the Slavs (mainly Croatia and Slovenia), at least the ethnic contradictions in Austria can be greatly alleviated.

This is essentially a culture war, and Ernst, as the initiator, feels that if it is done, the future Austrian descendants will have to thank him, of course, according to the experience of previous lives, the so-called virgins of postmodern society will definitely be criticized if they know about their "evil deeds", just as some people in the Saxons have enjoyed the blessings of their ancestors through exploitation and colonization, and then overthrow Victoria's sculptures.

If there is any repentance of colonial evils, in Ernst's view, these people should first cut off their food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and live the life of the poor people of Africa, after all, everything they enjoy is the legacy of the British colonial system, and they really think that working less than eight hours a day and living comfortably is the result of scientific and technological progress! That was only the result of domestic capital trying to plunder wealth from other countries, and the colonial era was far from over, but was replaced by more covert economic colonization.

(End of chapter)