As it turned out, the work was never done, and after a few days of rest, the "laborers" of Canal No. 1 were transferred to the Lower Rhine by East Africa to clean up the river.

The remediation of the Little Rhine began two months ago.

"Your Majesty, there have been 15 floods along the Little Rhine this year, flooding more than 13,000 acres of fertile land, because our villages are generally built far away from the river bank, so we have not suffered much damage, but there are still rivers that have flooded into three villages in the light rainy season, and this is only the statistics from the end of last year to March this year."

Konstantin asked: "As far as I know, the farmland in East Africa is a good place carefully selected by experienced farmers, and the central province has not expanded its planting area in the past two years, and the rain is not much different from the usual year, how can it still be affected by floods?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have consulted experts in water conservancy on this matter, and the reason they gave is that the condition of the Little Rhine is bound to cause such problems."

"What's the situation?"

"Generally speaking, because the rivers all over the world have a problem, that is, the river water is affected by the Coriolis force (geostrophic deflection force), and then it will be deflected, and our Little Rhine River in East Africa will be deflected to the left bank by the action of this force, and it will become tortuous over time, and the river water through the tortuous river channel is naturally not as good as the straight river, and it is not easy to flow out, so sometimes the rain is heavy, and the river water is easy to flow turbulently."

The Minister of Agriculture tried his best to explain the Lesser Rhine problem with his own level of knowledge, which fully demonstrated the ability of the East African Minister of Agriculture to have a primary school education for the country's governance.

"Uh, well! What you mean by this is that our rivers are more tortuous, so the water is not smooth, and it is easy to change lanes! Konstantin concluded.

"Almost, almost."

Then things will be clear.

The rivers of East Africa are very different from the rivers of other parts of the world, like the larger ones, such as the Nile, Zambezi, Congo, Limpopo...... East Africa has a little bit.

These rivers are ranked first in the world, but the economy of East Africa is not deeply tied to these rivers, on the one hand, the outlet to the sea is not in the hands of East Africa, and on the other hand, even if there is an outlet to the sea of these rivers, it is actually not very useful for East Africa at present.

The Nile is a little better, with its huge and fertile estuarine delta and Alexandria, an excellent port, but it flows through a predominantly desert area, which is the mother river of Egypt.

But there are many waterfalls in Egypt and Sudan, which makes the shipping value of the Nile almost dispensable for East Africa, and if it can go directly from South Sudan to the Mediterranean, Ernst will not mind starting a war, and the same is true for Egypt, if the Nile is not blocked by these waterfalls, its territory will not extend only to North Sudan for thousands of years.

Not to mention the Congo River, although the navigable area is large, it is limited to the tropical rainforest area of the Congo Basin, which is a green desert, and the value is only a little better than the desert, and the most important thing is that the mouth of the Congo River is a waterfall, which is not as valuable as the Nile.

The same is true of the Zambezi River, which is best known for its gorges, rapids and waterfalls, which only reach the sea in Mozambique.

The Limpopo River is slightly smaller than the previous rivers and is one of the largest rivers in the world, with the same problems as the Zambezi.

East Africa also has the Orange River, a boundary river with Cape Town, and the area through which the Orange River passes is largely uninhabited desert and mountainous, and the amount of water is not good.

In short, there is no one to take a shot, excluding these world-famous rivers in the past life, the most important shipping value in East Africa is the small and medium-sized rivers along the coast of East Africa.

The Little Rhine is one of the most typical of these, and the small river has a serious problem, that is, the channel is not wide enough and is very winding.

The Little Rhine cannot be described as a nine-curved ileum, almost 100 meters away from a large bay, and this is almost the characteristic of the entire section of the Little Rhine, and it is more appropriate to describe it with 18 bends of the mountain road.

(Figure: The straight-line distance of the river section in the Tu Nei is about 10 kilometers)

In fact, this state of the Little Rhine is the norm of all natural rivers in the world, but the rivers of East Africa are more outrageous, and there has been no agricultural civilization for thousands of years, which makes it almost impossible for sub-Saharan Africa to have any water conservancy projects, and the repair of river channels naturally does not exist.

Most of the rivers of the same caliber in Europe and the Far East have been repaired, at least the main sections are very straight.

If it is a river that is not artificially repaired, of course, it can also be relatively straight, because the river itself can also be cut and straightened, but this kind of river generally has a large flow, and it can be reduced by one force, so that the river surface is wide and the river channel is relatively straight.

For example, the Yellow River in the Far East, which has less water, has an average width of more than 500 meters, the Yangtze River has an average width of more than 900 meters, the Rhine River in Europe has an average width of more than 300 meters, and the Danube River is known as the Amazon River in Europe, with an average width of more than 1,600 meters in the middle section.

In addition to the river channel of more than 100 meters in the estuary area of the Little Rhine, most of the river section is only about 20 meters, and the average width is not more than 40 meters.

This greatly limits the development potential of the Lesser Rhine, and at the same time threatens agriculture and housing along the river.

So for the situation of the Little Rhine, Konstantin discussed with Ernst, and the father and son decided to strike hard at the Little Rhine.

This is also known as the Little Rhine Improvement and Strengthening Project, referred to as the "Small Governance and Strengthening Project", which includes a full set of one-stop services for more than 150 kilometers along the Little Rhine.

These include dredging and widening the river, reinforcing the river embankment, artificially cutting and straightening the entire line of the Lesser Rhine Plain, and comprehensively upgrading the agricultural irrigation system along the line.

After the completion of the project, the level of the Lesser Rhine River will be raised to more than 50 meters, which will greatly improve the flood discharge and navigation capacity of the Lesser Rhine in the rainy season, ensure the safety of farmland, villages and cities along the route, and most importantly, ensure the safety of the first town of the capital.

The Little Rhine River has an obvious flood season, so the project is mainly carried out when the river water flow is lowest in the dry season, and the difficulty of the project is relatively general, that is, the amount of work is relatively huge.

In addition to the Lesser Rhine, East African coastal rivers such as the Rufuma, Rufiti, Tana (rivers in Kenya) and others have more or less these problems.

On the contrary, the Juba River, the Shabelle River is slightly more conditional, because these two rivers mainly flow through the desert area, and the river channel is still relatively ideal, but the economic value of the area through which these two rivers flow is relatively low.

According to Ernst's idea, of course, it is to overhaul and overhaul it, and take advantage of the fact that there are still plenty of cheap "laborers" in East Africa to hurry up and complete these projects at one time, so as to benefit East Africa for generations to come.

(End of chapter)