The careful thinking of the officials of Kagera City, Konstantin naturally understood, but he did not say anything, because now that he had completely put down government affairs, it was better to leave this kind of matter to his son.

Konstantin's assistant interrupted at the right time: "Regarding these issues, I will make relevant records and report them to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but you should not get your hopes up too much, because many places in East Africa are the same as the city of Kagera, even in the central province, there are many cities queuing." ”

The number of industrial cities in East Africa is very limited, and the agricultural cities are not in the queue, so many agricultural cities need machines and have to queue up.

But if there are dates or not, let's hit two shots first, what if it happens? After all, it is impossible for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to turn a blind eye to the demands of the locality!

"We in Kagera also know about the country's difficulties now, so we thought about whether we could order relevant equipment from overseas, but there is no precedent for this situation in East Africa, so we had to ask." Mayor Kagera said.

East Africa has limited industrial capacity, so you can hit the idea on European and American countries, especially Germany and Austria, which are not bad in the field of agricultural processing machinery.

"Do you have enough money for your city?"

As an agricultural city, the city of Kagera should not be very financially adequate, if this is the case according to the general logic.

However, the Great Lakes region, as an early key development area in East Africa, has an advantage over the rest of East Africa, and that is its large population.

The entire Great Lakes region, with the population of more than 3 million people (not counting blacks) in the Western Great Lakes and Northern Lakes provinces alone, is comparable to the eastern coastal plains in terms of population density.

However, with a large population, even if the per capita output value is low, a relatively considerable data can be accumulated, so although it is an agricultural city and a prefecture-level city dominated by grain cultivation, the fiscal income of Kagera City is higher than that of some ordinary industrial cities.

"In the past few years, our city was indeed financially tight because of the construction of water conservancy, but now the project is in the final stage, so from next year, more funds can be used for the development of other industries."

Because the Great Lakes region is an important food production base in East Africa, the construction of water conservancy projects in this region was also the first to be carried out, and East Africa has been transforming the local environment before, so the construction of water conservancy projects in Kagera City is already a project that is about to be completed.

At the same time as the completion of the project, the agriculture of Kagera City has already enjoyed dividends a few years ago, the most intuitive is the newly opened farmland.

International food prices are now at a low level, but they are better than they were in the seventies, when they had already recovered.

On the one hand, the United States, Tsarist Russia and other countries have reduced production, and on the other hand, East Africa's domestic engineering construction and population growth have digested a large part.

However, food prices plummeted, and it was not these important grain exporting countries that suffered the most, but the Far Eastern Empire, which was thousands of miles away.

At the same time as the last economic crisis erupted, the northern part of the Far Eastern Empire was also hit by a major disaster, with drought and famine affecting thirteen provinces and affecting millions of people.

Although the losses were heavy, the situation of the Far Eastern Empire in this time and space was still better, because East Africa had absorbed a large number of people before, and the disaster had not reached the level of tens of millions as in previous lives.

And this famine, which affected the entire northern part of the Far Eastern Empire, also contributed to the new high of East Africa's grain exports to the Far Eastern Empire in 70 years, and in the era of agricultural crisis, barely recouped a little of the cost.

Because of the Huaihai Economic Zone, the Far Eastern Empire developed some industries and minerals in the north, which naturally cheapened East Africa, in fact, some coal mines and textiles.

The main thing is the loan business, but it is also limited to the Huaihai Economic Zone, after all, unlike armed colonization, East Africa is not as powerful as Britain and France in the face of the Far Eastern Empire.

"Since five years ago, many parts of East Africa have begun to shift to cash crops, and food crops are converging to several important food production bases, and it is against this backdrop that we in Kagera have been expanding our agricultural area."

Agricultural production in East Africa is becoming more standardized, leading to more local adaptation to local conditions, and rice cultivation in the Great Lakes region is far behind the eastern coastal plains, which also means that future development in the region will be limited.

Growing grain is a relatively unpromising undertaking, and this will become more and more a consensus, but the future development of the Great Lakes region should not be too bad, although the resources of Kagera are not abundant, but the resource potential of the two Great Lakes provinces is very considerable, especially in the western region close to Hesse.

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The city of Bujumbura is the capital of the province of Great Lakes Occidental.

After leaving the city of Kagera, Konstantin's next stop is Bujumbura, as the provincial capital, the city of Bujumbura is relatively remote in relation to the entire province of Great Lakes West, directly in the southwesternmost part of the province of Great Lakes West.

However, there is a reason for choosing this place as the capital of Western Great Lakes Province, which can be seen from the name of Western Great Lakes Province.

The name of the province of Great Lakes West is naturally taken from the west of the Great Lake (Lake Victoria), but Bujumbura does belong to the basin of Lake Solon (Lake Tanganyika).

The three major lakes of East Africa, namely the Great Lakes, Lake Solon and Lake Malawi, are not far from the map, and they are distributed from north to south.

At this distance, the East African government naturally considered the idea of connecting the three lakes with shipping, and in fact, the idea of connecting the rivers of the three lakes basin through the construction of canals is a certain possibility.

However, this is not possible in East Africa at the moment, mainly because of technical and efficiency issues.

For example, the Great Lakes and Lake Sauron, the largest source of water for the Great Lake, the navigable channel of the Kagera River, is less than 70 kilometers away from Lake Sauron.

In place of this option, the Mwanza Railway (Mwanza to Bujumbura) is the case.

"The Mbu Railway passes through the Kagera River, and the navigability of the upper reaches of the Kagera River is too poor, mainly mountainous and hilly terrain, which is almost the common denominator of the major rivers in East Africa, so considering all factors, we can only choose the way of water and rail transport to open up the problem of cargo transportation from Lake Soren to the Great Lake."

"It's not just our own problem in the Western Great Lakes province, it's also about the transportation between the Northern Industrial Belt and the three central provinces."

"The closest distance to the Northern Industrial Belt from the three central provinces is clearly a diagonal line on the map, but this diagonal line passes through mountains, rivers and, above all, through Lake Sauron and the Great Lake."

"We know that the depth of Lake Soren reaches hundreds of meters, which means that it is impossible to cross it by bridges and other means, even if the technology develops, it is impossible to do this in the next 100 years, and the area of the large lake is too large, and it is impossible to build a bridge, that kind of engineering volume, in Europe, it is directly transnational, it is better to build a long road along the shore of the lake."

"That's essentially a detour, so the last resort is still not to bypass water transport, which is also the goal of our city of Bujumbura, to become a bridge between the economic circle along Lake Solon and the future economic circle along the Great Lakes."

"Now we have completed the initial goal, that is, to set up a station in the upper reaches of the Kagera River channel, so that it only takes half an hour, Bujumbura goods, can be transferred to the water transport in our province through the Mbu railway, and finally arrive in Kisumu City, and this traffic line we cannot complete alone, the best way is to form a city similar to our Bujumbura on the south bank of the south of Solon Lake, to connect the three central provinces."

In this regard, East Africa is much less fortunate than the United States, the Great Lakes are surrounded by plains, and the terrain between the three major lakes of East Africa is much more complicated, so that East African shipping cannot be connected into a network.

(End of chapter)