April 1879.

Bujumbura, Great Lakes Occidental.

Bujumbura, the capital of the Western Great Lakes province, was built on the shores of Lake Solon (Tanganyika), and the long rainy season is approaching in March and April.

This year's rain comes quite quickly, Bujumbura City's annual precipitation is between 800mm and 1000mm in normal years, but this year it has exceeded 2000mm, and even more than 3000mm in some areas, most of the raging river water is discharged into Lake Solon along the river, but there are still many areas, the river water has not outperformed the collection rate of rainwater, flooding large areas of farmland on both sides of the river.

This made Nagin, a senior official of the Western Great Lakes Province, very worried, and he frowned and said: "The abundant rain in the Western Great Lakes Province this year is a bit excessive, and we have received reports from many places that in the western region close to Hesse Province, the rain even reached 130 millimeters a day, and the precipitation in most parts of the province exceeded the peak, and the province's grain production plan this year may be greatly damaged." ”

Western Great Lakes Province is composed of Burundi, the whole territory of Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and part of Congo, so the flood disaster in Western Great Lakes Province has a wide range of impacts, and the provincial capital Bujumbura is not seriously affected, and other regions, especially the rainy areas, have suffered great losses.

However, Bujumbura is not serious, and it is also for other places in the province of the Great Lakes West Region, where Bujumbura is located is actually an area where there is usually little rain, and now even Bujumbura has been affected, and the situation in other areas can be imagined.

"Your Excellency, there is no way to do this, natural disasters are uncontrollable, we can only try to recover the losses, dredge the rivers in the province, prevent floods from flooding more farmland, and we should also start to implement the rescue and disaster relief in the province." The assistant said.

The assistant's words brought Nagin's thinking back to solving the problem, and he smiled bitterly: "Yes! Now is not the time to complain, you immediately organize personnel to make statistics on the disaster, the grain depots in various places are ready, ready to provide disaster relief at any time, and the health department should not take it lightly, as the saying goes, there will be a big epidemic after the disaster, and do a good job ......of disinfection."

As the Western Great Lakes Province with abundant rainfall, the Western Great Lakes Province will encounter this kind of rain every few years in the year of abnormal rainfall, so I have seen more and experienced in coping with it.

Correspondingly, the provinces around the Great Lakes region, South Prussia, and Plateau Province were also affected by the heavy rain, but it is not a bad thing that the rain in these areas is heavier, especially in the Plateau Province, where the precipitation is usually relatively small, and now that the water comes, the animals on the Gelencetti steppe are more moist.

The Great Lakes region as a whole was affected by the disaster, and this year's grain production was inevitable, and the news was quickly uploaded to the central government.

Ernst: "The Great Lakes region is the second largest grain production base in East Africa, and the disaster in the Great Lakes region has had a great impact on the country's grain production this year. ”

In recent years, due to the construction of water conservancy projects in the coastal plains, especially in the central provinces, many water conservancy projects have been built, including the excavation of canals, the renovation of farmland irrigation systems, the management of river channels, and the construction of reservoirs, which have greatly stabilized and increased the grain output in the coastal plains, and achieved the goal of ensuring income in drought and flood, surpassing the Great Lakes region and returning to the first place.

Konstantin: "Are you going to put the set of measures on the coast in the Great Lakes?" ”

Ernst: "The natural conditions of the Great Lakes are much stronger than those of the coastal plains, and even better than those of France, but what is lacking is infrastructure, otherwise the level of agricultural development in the Great Lakes region would have surpassed that of France." ”

In terms of agriculture, France is really far ahead, although the United States is also very strong, but the United States agriculture is very rough, more or rely on the huge arable land to pile up, according to the average France is better, especially the arable land in France is not snatched from the Indians like the United States, and the living standards of French farmers are generally relatively high.

Fortunately, East Africa is located in the tropics, which makes East Africa's tropical agriculture economically developed, avoiding competition with many temperate countries, and can compete with East Africa on the same stage is nothing more than Brazil and Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia is not developed at all, Brazil is more turbulent and chaotic, and there is no political stability like East Africa.

Of course, Brazil's first-mover advantage cannot be ignored, but East Africa is rapidly erasing Brazil's first-mover advantage, and the way East Africa closes the gap is by building water conservancy.

Water conservancy projects can be large or small, East Africa can solve this problem according to its own needs, and Brazil may be able to cope with small water conservancy projects, large-scale water conservancy projects are far less than East Africa, after all, the Brazilian government is not as strong as the East African government, large-scale water conservancy projects can not avoid occupying land, so it is too difficult for the Brazilian government to buy those big landlords.

Ernst said to Konstantin: "Now the government has nothing to do, and many areas in the interior have not been developed, so this time we simply overhaul the water conservancy projects on a national scale according to the model of water conservancy projects on the coastal plains." ”

Konstantin pondered for a moment and said, "This project is a bit large! ”

Ernst: "Father, it doesn't matter, I don't want to finish it all at once, after all, the degree of development of Africa is too low, and I am afraid that it is only a little stronger than Oceania on all continents in the world. ”

Most of the East African region can be said to have entered the agricultural society for the first time after the incorporation of East Africa, and many places can be said to maintain the original appearance of the earth, so the difficulties encountered in East Africa to develop land are very difficult.

However, the natural conditions in East Africa are relatively good, and as long as these lands are developed, they can produce good agricultural income, so in Ernst's view, it is a profitable business.

However, if East Africa wants to catch up with those regions that have developed for thousands of years or hundreds of years in a short time, it must make huge sacrifices, fortunately, the number of black people in East Africa is huge, and East Africa can pass on these negative factors to the black people, if it were not for Ernst from later generations, knowing that colonization will backfire itself, Ernst really wants to keep these black people as the object of exploitation.

Konstantin: "Well, since it's decided, let's implement it!" ”

Enst nodded, and then went to arrange this matter, having experience in coastal water conservancy projects, this time Ernst directly asked the two big brothers of Germany and Austria for help.

Ernst plans to build water conservancy projects across the country, and this time Ernst plans to build water conservancy projects across the country, and the talent gap is not small, so he simply borrowed some people from Germany and Austria to guide the construction of water conservancy projects in East Africa.

The German and Austrian governments directly agreed to East Africa's request for help, and it was not a big problem to borrow some manpower, so it should be regarded as a favor for East Africa.

Therefore, under the liaison of the two governments, East Africa invited more than 200 technical experts in water conservancy from the two countries to come to East Africa to guide the construction of water conservancy projects.

In this water conservancy project, Ernst plans to directly carry out a wave of saturation attack, and in 20 years, he will complete the path taken by other countries for hundreds of years, and pave the way for the development of agriculture in East Africa.

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