Compared with Ernst's control of the overall situation, Konstantin is more detail-oriented in East Africa, and the father and son are thick and thin, focusing on East Africa, their own assets.

Because his son has been eyeing water conservancy construction recently, Konstantin has been able to work harder and go around East Africa to inspect his own industry.

"The construction of your power plant is modeled after the construction of the power plant at the Berlin railway station?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, but it is a little inaccurate to say that it is imitated, the power plant in Berlin is already a product of several years ago, and we have applied new technology, and the scale of the first town railway station is much smaller than that of Berlin railway station, so it is not difficult to build."

The power supply system for Berlin Railway Station, jointly developed by Heixingen Power and Siemens, is also the world's first power plant.

The scale of the first town railway station is certainly not as large as that of Berlin railway station, after all, Berlin's population and economy are much higher than that of the first town, after all, Berlin is the center of Germany, a large city with a population of one million.

"In addition to supplying power to the railway station of the first town, our power plant will also provide power supply services to the surrounding areas in the future, after all, the station is a node of railway transportation and is destined to be linked with the local economy and industry."

It stands to reason that this power plant in East Africa should be in the nature of a commercial power plant, which is different from the political power plant built in East Africa before, but there is no pure business in East Africa in nature, after all, except for the royal enterprises, most of them are dominated by state-owned enterprises, so the nature of the assets of the second power plant in the first town and city is different from that of commercial power plants in Europe.

"Really? As far as I know, power plants are now very limited in terms of power generation, and there don't seem to be many large-scale applications other than telegraph and electric lights. ”

"Your Majesty, science and technology are constantly developing, and many other electrical products are being developed, but after all, the price of electrical products is very high, and the public generally cannot afford to consume them, so only nobles and businessmen will consume them for the sake of face or to improve the quality of life."

"And your power plant is still losing money as before?"

Konstantin's words made the manager of the second power plant speechless, it is really a pot that cannot be opened, but who let this be His Majesty the King!

"Your Majesty, with the development of the times, the power industry will sooner or later enter thousands of households, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also saw this, so he vigorously supported the development of the power industry, but the situation in East Africa is special, there are not as many rich groups as in Europe and the United States, so to promote the development of electric power must rely on administrative forces to promote."

Speaking of his son Konstantin thought about it carefully, he didn't say anything, although his son spent a lot of money, but the vision is still good, take the power industry as an example, people with a discerning eye know that this is a potential industry, but now the power industry can only make a difference in the high-end market, and the low-end market also needs to be spent by ordinary people.

"Your power plant, according to you, will provide services to the surrounding areas in the future, can you supply it? And what industry would consume so much electricity. Konstantin asked.

Because the power industry is a new industry, extremely immature, and the power generation efficiency is quite low, take the first town, for example, there was already a power plant, in addition to supplying power to government offices, at most two hours at night to supply power to street lights on the street.

In other words, in addition to the telegraph, electricity supplies at most a few light bulbs to maintain the decency of the East African capital.

The power industry in this first town is relatively developed, and there are more than a dozen electrified cities in East Africa, and only the first town and Soga city have the most complete power facilities.

"Your Majesty, the main thing is this, although the first town is the capital, but the future development can not be completely without industry, according to the arrangement of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, in the future, some light industries with less pollution will be developed around the railway, our power plant does not generate much electricity, but it is more than enough to provide lighting services for several factories."

Ernst was preparing to engage in a little light industry in the first town, which had three main modes of transportation, one was the central railway, the second was the road, and finally the central canal.

In fact, it might be better to have industry in the canal area, which can solve the problems of water and transportation, but Ernst intends to put these industries in the city of Bagamoyo.

Because of the location of the first town, to be honest, it was originally made by Ernst himself, in the previous life it was just a small town around Dar es Salaam, and there was no advantage, but Ernst regarded this as the capital, and found that there were no shortcomings here, so he didn't bother to move.

As for the city of Bagamoyo, there is still some historical heritage from ancient times to the present, of course, the ruins of the ancient Arab city of Bagamoyo were demolished by Ernst more than ten years ago, and now it looks like a completely new city.

Bagamoyo had no advantage in the competition with the city of Dar es Salaam, but since the opening of the Central Canal and the completion of the dredging of the Lesser Rhine, Bagamoyo's position has suddenly become important.

Bagamoyo was originally a seaport, but the Lesser Rhine was remodeled to work with the Central Canal, allowing Bagamoyo's ships to reach the interior of East Africa to the edge of the plateau.

This advantage of water transportation can radiate the entire central province and can be used as a bridgehead for the economic development of the entire central province, while the task of Dar es Salaam is to be responsible for the import and export needs of Zambia and Zimbabwe through the central railway.

It can be simply compared to Dar es Salaam as Tianjinwei, and Bagamoyo is Tangshan, but the first town and city cannot gather as many industries as Beiping.

In addition, the city of Soga shares some of the cultural, educational, scientific and technological functions of the first town, which is mainly responsible for administrative functions, similar to Melbourne in Australia.

Therefore, the cities in the central province should make the arrangement clear, the division of labor is clear, and the coordinated development will be developed, so that in addition to Dar es Salaam, Ernst is most optimistic about the city of Soga in the future, but the development of Soga city may not be highlighted until the development of education and science and technology in East Africa.

Hearing about the factory made Konstantin interested, and he asked: "What type of factory is it, and the first town has no resources." ”

"It's the processing industry, and I know that there are two non-staple food processing plants, which have already started to be built in the vicinity, and there is also a paper mill. The scale of the food processing plant is not enough, and it is mainly responsible for providing non-staple food products to the first town, as for the paper mill, it is easy to understand, the first town is the capital after all, so the demand for paper must not be small. ”

Konstantin nodded, this is for sure, the food processing plant is easy to understand, after all, it is the capital, the consumption capacity is stronger than many regions, the first town and city with paper demand is indispensable, mainly the national official document is not a small number, the file is a big head, in the past, the paper in East Africa mainly relied on imports from abroad, although now because of the construction of some paper mills in China, the demand is much less, but it still has to import a lot.

"Papermaking pollutes the water source a lot, and Ernst will agree?"

"Your Majesty can rest assured that the drainage system connected to the first town and the city of Soga has been completed long ago, and the sewage will be discharged directly into the sea through separate drainage pipes, without affecting the soil and water sources."

Ernst's main concern was air pollution, which was not easy to control, and water pollution could be avoided, that is, the wastewater was piped into the Indian Ocean, which was very close to the Indian Ocean anyway, and the sewage pipes in the first town were built with cement and masonry, so the sewage did not come into direct contact with the soil.

(End of chapter)