In the era when there was no large-scale mechanical engineering, all projects needed manpower to carry out, and this question was obviously beyond the norm for Africans who had just stepped out of the primitive society.

On the western side of the Mitumba Mountains, the Hessian provincial government is preparing to mobilize 400,000 people to repair the planned line in order to open the way for the Hessian railway.

Of course, 400,000 people cannot be gathered at once, in addition to applying from other places, more importantly, from the mobilization of the people in Hesse, and more importantly, the militia to ensure the orderly progress of the project.

In addition to the suppression of blacks, there are all kinds of dangers in the primeval forest, which must be dealt with by the locals, after all, they have lived here for so many years and have accumulated a lot of experience.

Logging alone is quite a big undertaking, and it's not just that it's easy to bring down the trees, but the roots of the trees in the ground have to be cleaned up.

The primeval forests of Hesse are quite dangerous, the primeval forests that have not been developed for thousands of years, the trees can easily reach more than ten meters high, and thirty or forty meters are not uncommon, and if the direction is not well controlled, then a lucky person may be randomly stoned to death, even in the 21st century, logging is also a dangerous job, so this is unavoidable.

The black lumberjack, with a rope tied around his waist, climbed neatly to the top of the tree, stretched out his hand to take the rope out from behind his back, skillfully tied it to the trunk, and then slid down.

Later, two lumberjacks slashed at the trunk of the tree with an iron axe from East Africa, and finally, with the cooperation of a dozen people, a towering tree that had grown for an unknown number of years fell in a fixed direction.

But this is far from the end, because the felled tree did not fall directly to the ground, but was held up by the dense vegetation around it, and if you want to move it to the ground completely, you can only continue to cut down the surrounding trees.

"Cut down all the vegetation within 50 meters of the perimeter, remove all the leaves, and throw them into the jungle on the side, and after the branches are repaired from the trunks, they are piled up on the periphery, and the main trunks are all processed into logs and stacked." Hans, the leader of the engineering team, commanded according to the requirements of his superiors.

Fifty meters is a temporary site, and Hans's task is to lead the team to expand the 50-meter wide road to the north, and then make it easier for subsequent construction crews.

The logs collected after being cut down are processed by carpenters into railroad sleepers or cable support rods for communication along the railway.

The wood that does not meet the requirements is not wasted, and the leftover branches are dried to become natural fuel, which is used to boil water for cooking and hygiene.

After all, it is a primeval rainforest, so there are countless parasites or fungi of all kinds, and for the safety of workers, workers are required to bathe, wash clothes, and soak their feet every day.

And these all need hot water, fortunately this is a primeval forest, there is no shortage of wood, of course, continuous rainy weather, it is easy to wet these natural fuels, so the East African engineering team, will also be equipped with coal and other fuels prepared from the rear.

"Slacker, take your machete, go and clear the branches and leaves, what's the use of you chopping the air there?" Hans kicked a black worker in the ass with a paddling man.

Hans had more than fifty men under his command, including seven militiamen from Hesse alone, six overseers, and three cooks.

One overseer kept an eye on four or five black people, and because it was located in a primeval forest, the Hessian government and the Ministry of Railways paid special attention to surveillance in order to prevent these black people from escaping.

It's not a big fuss, but it's all dense forests in the vicinity, and the terrain is complicated, if you really let the black laborers run away, then they really run away, and it is impossible for East Africa to go deep into the dense forests to track them.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with running a few black workers, the most important thing is to prevent these black people with "sharp weapons" from rioting and causing bloody conflicts.

With the explosion of steel production capacity in East Africa, East Africa's tools have changed one after another, and the small construction team under Hans alone is equipped with dangerous tools such as "iron picks, axes, machetes, shovels, and iron drills".

Although the East Africans are holding hot weapons in their hands, who can guarantee that these blacks will not make mistakes, and they have to fight to the death with the East Africans, this is still a primeval forest, and it is not suitable for hot weapons, so it is better to be careful.

Of course, unlike East Africans, who are full of concern, the vast majority of black workers have no awareness of this.

It's not that they don't like freedom, it's that they don't know where to go? Most of the blacks in East Africa originally lived in the steppe area of the plateau, and they were taken around by East Africans all the year round to work, and they would not stay in one place for a long time, so they were also very unfamiliar with the Congo rainforest, and the only people in the team who were more familiar with it were the militia of Hesse, or rubber agricultural workers.

The black rainforest, ordinary people look at the storm, the same is true for the black people who live in the savannah all year round and enjoy the bright sunshine, so they are not really stupid enough to drill into the strange primeval forest.

And the most critical point is that East Africans manage food, if they really run away, how to solve the problem of eating? If the grasslands can still use traditional hunting skills, the rainforest will be numb, the ecosystem here is completely different from the grassland, and the animals are very different.

Of course, the black people on the grassland can't run away at all, and in such an empty environment, the East Africans let him run a hundred meters first, and he can be knocked down with one shot.

Another key point is that under the rule of East Africa, the spirit of these blacks has long been worn out, and the blacks who may have been iron-clad a few years ago yearn for freedom, and the current blacks in East Africa do not have the courage to confront East Africans.

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"The sky in Hesse is changing, the sky was clear just now, and now it's raining heavily." Hans said.

"Captain Hans, let everyone take shelter from the rain first! I can't work in this weather. Militia Captain Chris said.

"How long will this rain last?" Hans asked.

"It's hard to judge, it may be a few minutes, it may be a few hours, it may even be a few days, but it doesn't matter, it's getting dark now, and you won't be able to see the sun in a while, so it's better to take advantage of the rain now, call it a day and prepare dinner and hot water at the same time."

Chris is a militia member in the nearby village of Penensari, so he knows the climate well.

"Well, that's all there is to it, let the blacks hand in all the tools, count the numbers, and then go to the tent to take shelter from the rain, Hera and Will will take care of them, and the others will take turns in two hours." Hans said.

The tools are all relatively sharp objects, so every time they are finished, they must be counted and turned in, which is a necessary procedure for every construction team in East Africa with a black man.

This rule was certainly not born out of thin air, but was the result of a bloody lesson, and there were once blacks who took tools distributed in East Africa to open the heads of overseers in East Africa at night, and after this kind of thing happened so much, recycling tools became the rule of the East African construction team.

In the evening, Hans and his party gathered around the campfire and ate dinner, and the sound of the rain outside the tent did not stop, and the damp wood cracked in the flames.

The blacks slept in a large tent, and they were not treated as well as the East Africans, but they also shared two large bowls of rice, and the floor was directly covered with straw mats, which were their beds, or floors.

The railway in Hesse is divided into four sections and started construction at the same time, but the speed in the early stage is slow, and the weather and environment are obstacles to the construction of the railway, especially the rainy weather in Hesse throughout the year, which is very different from the dry and rainy seasons in the plateau.

(End of chapter)