In September, after the central government sent part of the engineering team from the south to the Northern Province and the construction of the new port of Mogadishu finally began, the Northern Provincial Government officially invited Austrian businessmen interested in the processing of agricultural products to visit Mogadishu through the channel of the Heyingen Foundation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our Northern Province has the largest tropical crop growing area closest to Europe, and Mogadishu has been a pioneer in the fruit and vegetable export trade of the North of East Africa for many years. Kranis said to the Austrian businessmen at the reception.

"Mr. Mayor, I see that your port has only been under construction for a long time, can you guarantee that the port of Mogadishu will operate normally until we invest?"

"In two months' time, when the farming season is off, we will recruit a group of temporary workers from the surrounding villages to speed up the progress of the project and ensure that the new port of Mogadishu will be completed by the end of the year."

"But there are a lot of problems to be solved in building a factory in Mogadishu, such as the need for machinery to be started, the need for coal, the need for industrial workers to keep the machines running, and a host of problems such as transportation, lighting, water supply, and so on."

"Mr. Claire, let's put aside your question for a while, we naturally have considered what you said in Mogadishu City, which has to mention the new urban area plan of Mogadishu City adopted by our municipal government, in order to take care of the new port vision of Mogadishu City, our city intends to learn from Dar es Salaam City in the south of the city on the scale of the existing urban area, and build a new main urban area to house the introduction of industries." Kranis said.

"You are planning to build a new city, but will this conflict with your port construction, and now I don't know when the port will be completed, and the so-called new city is not a temporary pie, and I can't hear it."

"You don't have to worry about this, Mr. Claire, our new urban plan, will definitely not delay you in making money, you can build factories, we in Mogadishu City also give priority to the construction of tap water, power plants, roads, of course, water and electricity must be charged, if any of you are interested, you can also invest, as for the problem of manpower, we East Africa is a big country of immigrants, as long as there is the support of the central government, it will soon be able to fill the shortcomings of Mogadishu City in this regard."

Although the scale of East African immigration is not as large as before, it is only relative to the whole country, and a slight leak in the hands of the East African government is enough to fill Mogadishu's mouth full of oil.

"How can the city of Mogadishu solve the problem of industrial workers, who are not the ones who come out of the land and get out of the land?"

"This problem is better solved. We are implementing compulsory education in East Africa, and there are a large number of students in Mogadishu, and in previous years, the arrangement was to arrange farming directly after graduation. ”

There is an overall surplus of education in East Africa, especially middle school students, and the East African industry cannot arrange so many students, so these students can only be sent back to continue farming, which is not without benefits, and farmers also need to supplement their knowledge, so that in the future, the knowledge and knowledge level of East African farmers can more easily accept new agricultural concepts such as mechanization and scientific planting.

"And how many students can you offer?" Austrians have no specific concept of compulsory education in East Africa, after all, East Africa is not an open country, and outsiders do not know much about East Africa.

"Last year, the number of secondary school graduates in Mogadishu was more than 300, and only more than 100 entered the factory, and we can supply you with the rest, and this is only Mogadishu City, and the number of secondary school students in the entire Northern Province should be more than 4,000."

"What is the number of secondary school students in your East Africa?"

"Of course, but it's not what you think, schools in East Africa are still very different from Europe, our students have fewer class hours, fewer courses, and more relaxed management, so the knowledge of the corresponding academic qualifications may not be able to meet the standards, but this has a secondary school degree, and it must know more than the primary school education in Germany." Kranis said.

This is the same as Tian Ji horse racing, East African students must have a big deficit in the average level compared with European students of the same level, but if I use secondary school students to compare with European primary school students, the situation is reversed.

Moreover, the exaggerated secondary school penetration rate in East Africa makes the number of secondary school students in East Africa quite large, which is very attractive.

"If that's the case, that's acceptable, but can we do a tour of the local school?"

Although what Kranis said is very moving, you must know that the secondary school degree is also a talent in Europe, and generally in the factory can also be mixed with the management, so seeing is believing, hearing is false, Austrian businessmen still maintain a cautious attitude, they do not believe that East Africa has this level of education.

"Of course there is no problem, I know that this is not very credible for you, but this is the case, East Africa can be said to be the highest in the world in terms of promoting education, but the level of education is too uneven, which is related to the lack of teachers in East Africa, but with the continuous accumulation of talents in East Africa, this problem will become smaller and smaller in the future, until it is on par with European secondary schools." Kranis said.

Although the overall level of education in East Africa is low, it is the best of the best, and positions like teachers must be filled by excellent teacher graduates, so that it has been accumulating, and one day East Africa will get rid of the shortcomings of teachers.

However, Kranis also understands the situation of these Austrians, and the situation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the universal primary education in the whole country is somewhat insufficient, let alone the large-scale universal secondary education.

Nowadays, European secondary schools can be said to have a high gold content, in addition to the regular curriculum, what are the various foreign languages such as painting, music, religion, Latin, etc...... It covers a wide range of subjects, unlike East African textbooks, which only have German, mathematics, politics, history, geography, physics and chemistry, plus physical education.

Therefore, the contrast between the East African secondary school and the Austrian perception of the secondary school is huge, and it can even be said that it is not the same thing, of course, this also puts forward higher requirements for the level of European students.

Ernst had no doubt that European high school students were much more valuable than their 21st-century counterparts, and that 19th-century European students were synonymous with the elite.

In the suspicion of the Austrian businessmen, the city of Mogadishu organized a special visit to the only secondary school in Mogadishu, the first middle school in Mogadishu.

Here, Austrian businessmen finally figured out the essence of the East African secondary school, that is, the "beggar's version" of the secondary school, and it was very biased, especially the training of science students.

This must not be regarded as a "talent" in Europe, after all, if you don't even have the ability to appreciate art, how can you be considered a "middle school student".

But this has made them feel very satisfied, after all, they are here to invest in factories, not artists, and the "beggar's version" middle school is also a middle school, and the learning content is not comparable to ordinary primary schools in Germany, and even Austrian businessmen have begun to think about whether they can introduce this kind of "cheap" middle school students from East Africa to work in Austria, although the gold content is not high, but the number is enough to quench their thirst!

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