Over the next few days, the students of the No. 2 Secondary School continued to participate in the workforce, and according to the date, the practical courses in East Africa were divided into three categories: labor, equipment, and industry, which were one-day, two-day, and half-day respectively.

Manual labor is the work done by black slaves in East Africa, using relatively primitive tools to carry out a series of agricultural activities, mainly relying on manpower to complete.

The equipment is mainly the use of cattle and horses to do work, or hand tools, which can greatly save human resources, but still rely on manpower.

Finally, there is industry, that is, agriculture in the age of mechanization, and there is currently no country in the world that has realized the mechanization of agriculture, so this can only be done by imagination.

That is to say, the last half-day class is still a theory class, and students have to go home for the holidays in the afternoon, so it is arranged in this way.

In the afternoon, the students returned to school, and then the teachers summarized the activity.

"The practical course actually corresponds to the sequence of the development of the level of productivity, reflecting the significant improvement of agricultural production efficiency by the development of science and technology......"

To give East African students a first-hand experience of the benefits of science and technology, and to develop an interest in science and, of course, Ernst's expectation is that East African society as a whole is science-minded.

Nowadays, East Africans are actually not enthusiastic about science, especially the older generation and new immigrants, many of whom come from backward regions or religious countries, so they may be more convinced of gods and spirits than science.

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While the students of Secondary School No. 2 were enjoying practical lessons on the farm, water construction projects were also underway across the country, and the city of Mbeya was no exception.

Mbeya City is located on the north shore of Lake Malawi, so this national water conservancy construction project cannot be avoided by Mbeya City.

In the agricultural area south of Mbeya, tens of thousands of blacks are building three main canals that run to the outskirts of Mbeya.

Stephen, a German water conservancy expert, looked at the tens of thousands of blacks digging trunk canals and sighed: "This place in East Africa, as the homeland of blacks, is now also conquered by Germany, and the amazing amount of work in East Africa is all on these huge numbers of blacks, I think the East African Central Railway was also built in this way!" ”

His colleague Richard said: "The construction of railways does not require many workers, of course, if you add related industries, there must be a lot of them, but as far as I know, in the past few years, East Africa's steel was mainly imported from us and Austria-Hungary and other countries, including a large number of rails, which were originally orders from major railway companies before the economic crisis, but after the economic crisis broke out, they were all cheaper in East Africa." ”

Stephen: "You're right, the number of railroad workers is not comparable to the number of people in East Africa, and I've heard that they're going to use millions of blacks to complete this project, which is crazy, but aren't they afraid of black riots?" ”

Richard: "You have been in East Africa for too short, in fact, your knowledge of East Africa is only superficial, in fact, the immigrant population in East Africa is definitely not as small as the outside world speculates, I have worked in many places in East Africa, and many areas are actually quite a few people, such as a few well-known cities in East Africa, but more people in East Africa live in rural areas, and I suspect that the population of East Africa is at least more than eight million, and maybe even more than ten million, which is not a small number in Europe." ”

Stephen: "You don't include blacks?" ”

Richard: "Of course, so there are enough white people in East Africa to suppress the blacks, and if these blacks are in turmoil, there is no chance that they will overturn the results of enslavement. ”

Stephen: "So East Africa is the oppression of blacks by the whole society?" All the wicked? ”

Richard: "Just like black Americans. ”

Stephen: "No, it's very different from the United States, where the black people are now emancipated. ”

Richard: "That's not right, the emancipation of black people in the United States is the charity of white people, without Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, those black slaves would not have been able to confront the southern plantation owners, let alone be free, and the attitude towards slaves in East Africa is completely different from that of the United States, and all of them take it for granted that they enjoy the value created by black people." ”

Stephen: "This has something to do with the social atmosphere of East Africa, most of the immigrants introduced by East Africa are people who have not left the ideological participation of the feudal era, which leads to their lack of interest in the so-called freedom and democracy, fraternity, they only obey the orders of the monarch and emperor, that is, the Hexingen royal family, which is now the ruler of East Africa, I dare to conclude that East Africa is the most authoritarian and feudal country in the world at present. ”

Richard joked: "You want to be the Voltaire of East Africa?" ”

Stephen: "Hehe, I'm not that great, I just want to take the salary paid in East Africa and go back to Europe in the future, if I am allowed to live in this system in East Africa, I should not be willing." ”

Richard: "You're right, unless you're an East African, if you see the prosperity of European countries, I'm afraid most intellectuals would prefer to develop in Europe." ”

More than 700,000 slaves have been mobilized nationwide for this water conservancy project, and the city of Mbeya is also upgrading irrigation facilities along the coast of Malawi.

Although the three major lakes in East Africa are large in size and abundant in freshwater resources, it is not easy to take advantage of the abundant water resources in them.

These lakes are originally located in relatively low-lying areas, and because of the close distance along the coast, it is relatively simple to divert water, but not in remote areas, which is also a kind of resource enrichment in one place.

The abundance of water is of course a good thing, but everything cannot be just averaged, the three lakes occupy the vast majority of East Africa's freshwater resources, and in this era, there are no pumps and plastic hoses, which means that the great resources are not easy to develop.

Therefore, in order to make full use of the lake water source, it is necessary to set up water lifting facilities and irrigation canals, and there are three categories of water lifting settings, which are three major types of power, namely artificial, steam engine, and windmill, and the irrigation canal is not so easy to build, this kind of channel is from low to high, so it must be widened and dug in reverse.

As for the steam engine, that is, the steam pump, because of the price and fuel, East Africa cannot be equipped with all of them, and this kind of thing is more suitable for pumping groundwater in arid areas, so East Africa still chooses to build a large windmill.

The three lakes have their own basins, so the river systems that flow into the three lakes can also be used.

In fact, there is also a conflict between these rivers and the irrigation projects in East Africa, the rivers all flow from high to low, and the irrigation system of the three major lakes in East Africa mainly wants to use the water of the three lakes as a backup water source in the dry season, and the three lakes are originally depressions, so the construction of irrigation systems in East Africa is equivalent to channeling the water from the low-lying lakes into the farmland at the high places.

Most of the reservoirs that Ernst had seen in his previous life were built on high ground, and when water was needed, he directly opened the sluice gates to release water, taking advantage of the difference in terrain.

The three lakes were originally low-lying areas in the region, so it was impossible to take advantage of this difference in terrain for irrigation, so the German water conservancy experts proposed to build irrigation canals, extending from the lakes to the inland, and as the terrain rises, the depth of the canals is also strengthened, so that the water from these lakes can be transported inland.

To put it bluntly, it is to dig a network of artificial canals along the shores of the three major lakes, so you can imagine how huge the project is, and the millions of black laborers in East Africa have not even made a splash in the water conservancy construction project.

After Ernst's plan was completed, Ernst himself could be said to be Emperor Yang of Sui alive, even surpassing Emperor Yang of Sui's achievements, but Ernst did not have to worry that his fate would be the same as Emperor Yang of Sui.

After all, Emperor Yang of Sui finally lost the throne, mainly because he was at odds with the family and could not suppress the peasant uprising, while East Africa was supported by immigrants, so he could only suffer the East African blacks first, and there was no result of the rebellion anyway.

(End of chapter)