It didn't take long to reach Soga via the first railway, and Ernst and his party arrived in Soga before dark. Construction is still ongoing in Soga, the southern part of the city has been completed, and the National Library is located in the center of Soga.

The Soga National Library is larger than the Habsburg Royal Library in Austria, the largest in the German region, and is also mainly baroque, covering an area of 5 hectares, with a total construction area of 39,500 square meters.

At present, the three cities of the Central Province, the first town, Dar es Salaam and Bagamoyo, are at the corners of each other, but Dar es Salaam is geographically southerly from Bagamoyo and the first town, so when you look at Dar es Salaam on the map, it always feels that it is empty due west.

The first town is the political and cultural center of East Africa, the city of Dar es Salaam is the economic center of the Central Province, and the city of Bagamoyo is the center of shipbuilding in East Africa. Therefore, Ernst felt that the central province still lacked a scientific research center, which was the fundamental reason for the construction of the city of Soga.

Although the education in East Africa has not kept up, the economic crisis is imminent, and Ernst believes that in the economic crisis, some talents can be recruited to East Africa to develop.

Soga plays a role in settling talents, and science and technology, of course, can only play a greater role if they are concentrated. Scientists, inventors live in a city and are always ready to interact with each other, be inspired, and correct mistakes.

Therefore, the construction of Soga is built according to the highest standards, which is not much better than the first town of the capital, so that people who will live in East Africa in the future will feel at home.

The first is the living environment, Soga can be called a garden city, large and small parks are distributed in the city, and the reason why it is located in the tropics will be full of flowers and trees all year round.

There is nothing special in the climate, it is better to be relatively stable, there is no winter, hovering between spring and summer, and the rainy season has to deal with heavy rain that can occur at any time, but the drainage facilities are quite perfect, and the sea is close, so there is no need to worry too much.

Road construction is the highest standard, now it is mainly a masonry road, but the width has reached the standard of later generations, and the green belt is also used, which makes the amount of work huge, convenient for the future to replace with asphalt road, which is the main road, and there are specially designed walking paths, and even Ernst has reserved a motorcycle lane, but the construction personnel do not know the role of designing an additional lane, and the walking path can also explain that the motorcycle road is no different from the vast majority of urban roads in Europe.

At present, the design of European roads is very rough, that is, a road, pedestrians, carriages, and animals are crowded together, the division is not detailed, and the roads are not wide, even Paris and London do not have such exaggerated urban road construction in East Africa, in the eyes of designers is completely extravagant and wasteful, which is why the city of Soga is called Ernst's big toy.

The second is that Soga is very convenient for the concentration of talent, and after the opening of the railway, it is less than half an hour away from the city of Dar es Salaam, which is conducive to their travel between Europe and East Africa.

This is very important, if it is not for the talents cultivated in East Africa, then they have a great need to travel to and from all over the world, including returning home to visit relatives, foreign academic exchanges, business trips, and even leaving East Africa after finding a home, etc., Ernst cannot tie them to East Africa with a rope.

Taking advantage of the economic crisis, the first choice of talents recruited in the unsatisfactory employment environment is inevitably not East Africa, but they have to develop in East Africa due to life pressure.

After all, Africa is synonymous with backwardness, and talent has always flowed into economically developed regions.

Here Ernst thinks that Hefei in his previous life did very well, and it is a very important decision to keep HKUST in Hefei. According to the layout of education in the Far East in the previous life, Anhui has no advantages, after all, it is next to Jinling, and the role of Jinling is to concentrate educational resources in the region, and Xi'an and Wuhan are the same reason.

Satisfied with the construction of the city in Soga, which was a very important step, Ernst asked his subordinates: "If you were given the option to live in Soga, would you consider it?" ”

"Your Highness, if you consider only the environment and transportation, then I think Europe and the whole world will not find a city far better than Soga, but whether Soga can attract people to settle in must first consider the issue of employment, there is no source of income without work, no one will stay here, and then there is the hardware facilities of a city, Soga has done a good job in this regard, and even some excessive waste, but it is not a bad thing that the roads are wider, and then the climate, which is not bad, The last thing to consider when living in a place is the city's business environment, safety, entertainment facilities, overall civic atmosphere, and urban culture. ”

Ernst was satisfied with this answer, and then he asked: "Do you think Soga has any shortcomings?" ”

"If you have a short board, you can't see anything now, after all, this city is still an empty city, what is it, it needs the population to come in and live for a period of time before it can be reflected, but Your Highness, what is the purpose of building this city? I've never been able to figure it out. ”

Ernst: "You will know this problem in two years, I can only say that the city of Soga is of great use to East Africa, and in your evaluation of the construction of the city of Soga, I noticed the problem of excessive waste, I want to say that the development of the city is changing with each passing day, now it seems that Soga is a little ahead, but the future is not necessarily, think about Paris, it used to be like this, at that time many Parisians thought that Napoleon III built a lot of construction for the sake of face, and there are indeed reasons for this, but now Paris is a model of transformation all over the world, And I think that in another twenty or thirty years, Paris may be replaced by some cities in North America, and it doesn't matter if the construction of Soga City is a little higher. ”

"What His Highness said is also true, anyway, the indigenous people of Africa can't be used up at all, and it doesn't matter if they do more big projects, and this is not Europe, European cities have long been built, and any changes have to be considered more than East Africa, and East Africa is a blank sheet of paper, and imagination can be realized more freely."

The city was built in a very short period of time, but it was much more difficult than the renovation of the city of Dar es Salaam, which still retains many of its former buildings, including the Zanzibar Royal Palace, which was converted into a luxury hotel, and Soga is completely flat and built a new city.

Thinking of this, Ernst suddenly felt a little pain in his conscience, he was out of sight and out of mind in Europe before, but he became hypocritical when he arrived in Africa, and tried to suppress the idea of "sympathy" in his heart.

Ernst said: "The construction of East Africa is inseparable from the indigenous people, the rational use of indigenous people is very important for East Africa, and there is no need to exterminate them like the United States did to the Indians, some indigenous people have reached the age limit, we have to find a good home for them, after all, we have done so many years of work for East Africa, whether it is farming, or working on construction sites, or digging canals, building roads, it can be regarded as teaching them some means of survival in modern society, and they can find some men to survive when they leave East Africa in the future." ”

"Your Highness, you are still too kind, but this is also the difference between our German nation and the North American beasts." As he spoke, he showed a rather proud expression.

What are you proud of! Fifty steps to laugh at a hundred steps, at least fifty steps less in East Africa! However, Ernst did not say much, the times are like this, East Africa is much stronger than the Americans even if it is only 50 steps less, and the good is not better than the United States, and the United States wins better than the worst.

(End of chapter)