The discovery of oil in East Africa has also made Ernst breathe a sigh of relief, everything is difficult at the beginning, and only after completing the first step can the future energy security of East Africa be in his own hands.

At least in the next few decades, East Africa's energy security has been guaranteed, first of all, coal mines, enough for East Africa's own use, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana any place in the coal resources in Europe is not bad, now oil is being explored, although the reserves are not clear, but there is the first oil well, there is a second, the future will be more and more.

What is more important now is how to make use of this oil, which East Africa really has zero foundation for, and before that, East Africa's refined oil products were basically imported from Austria-Hungary, Romania and the United States.

Therefore, there is basically no oil industry in East Africa, which requires the help of the Hexingen Foundation, and at the same time, it is necessary for East African students studying abroad to return to China to preside over relevant theoretical research work.

Cooperation between the Heshingen consortium and the East African government is not uncommon in East Africa, and the two have collectively shaped the industrial landscape of East Africa, and this is still the case.

"Your Highness, the military has taken over the oil fields of Turkana Province, and we will try our best to control this news in the country, and although Turkana Province is also a border province, the Abyssinian Empire is in the north, and the Ethiopian Plateau and mountains are used as blocks, so the oil fields in this location are very conducive to us continuing to keep secrets."

The East African military attaches great importance to the oil industry, and the automobile industry, the internal combustion engine industry, the national defense industry and other industries closely related to the oil industry have been upgraded to a higher level.

After all, in the past, East Africa relied on oil imports, and there was a risk that the import routes would be cut off by foreign countries, and the main shipping routes for East African oil imports were the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

In its previous life, Yemen demonstrated how to use its geographical advantages to hold hostage the world's most important trade route.

East Africa's domestic oil solves this problem, so the military must ensure security here from the perspective of energy security.

This has to do with the future development of the army, the creation of automobiles has allowed the military to see endless possibilities, and once oil is also guaranteed, the East African military can fully bet on this.

"Very good, not only for energy security considerations, but also at the technical level, we also need to accumulate, first of all, relying on local oil resources, the construction of oil refineries, oil is not only energy, but also an important chemical raw material, we need to increase research in this field, break the monopoly of the Americans, and this takes time, now we are catching up, so the technical research needs to be kept secret, continue to paralyze competitors."

The U.S. oil industry has been developing for decades now, and in other regions, only the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Heshingen Consortium in Eastern Europe have built a relatively rudimentary petroleum processing industry chain in a relatively short period of time by virtue of German and European talents and technology accumulation.

"We will first bring a group of experts to Turkana province to study the causes of the oil fields and deduce theories, and then we will continue to increase our exploration efforts in Turkana province."

"At the same time, some of our workers will be transferred from Austria-Hungary and Romania, so that they can prepare for the fact that in the future they may have to stay in the country forever and move their families and industries to East Africa!"

"The most important thing is the machinery and equipment, we have to place an order in Germany as soon as possible, purchase it in the name of the Romanian oil field, and then ship it to East Africa."

Finally, East Africa does not have to worry about technical problems in this field, after all, Ernst has already made relevant layouts in Europe.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, there is still a problem, that is, oil transportation and urban construction, you must know that the environment in the south of Turkana Province is not very good, so if we want to invest in construction there, it will definitely be difficult."

Turkana province has an extreme climate, with abundant precipitation and humid climate in the north due to the uplift of the Ethiopian plateau, while the plains in the south are just the opposite.

This oil field is in the south of Turkana province, so to overcome the disadvantage of climate and environment, followed by transportation problems, the whole Turkana province and the Somali region have a certain position in the East African economy, but there is no railway.

According to von der Leyen's idea, it would be better to build a railway directly through the oil fields and directly to the border between East Africa and the Abyssinian Empire.

After all, the Abyssinian Empire was the largest land trading partner in East Africa, which could not only facilitate the transportation of oil to the south, but also improve the transportation of Turkana Province, and further expand East Africa's trade with the Abyssinian Empire to accelerate the local economic development of Turkana Province.

"Yes." Ernst agreed to this without much thought.

Because there is a real need for such a railway in the Northeast, just as the Todoma-Bujumbura Railway was built in East Africa to transport rubber resources from the interior to the rest of East Africa.

In addition to this, railways can greatly improve the comfort of local residents, the oil industry is closely related to the second industrial revolution, and East Africa's electricity, automobiles, rubber and so on are all new industries.

Since the discovery of oil resources in Turkana Province, the layout of the oil industry in East Africa should also be launched immediately, and the same type of industry, that is, the oil industry in the emerging industry, has appeared relatively late, not to mention that the oil industry in East Africa is still in a state of "zero".

"We want to ensure the quality of life of experts and oil workers, after all, the whole world, the oil industry is now a new industry, and the northern region is not as livable as the plateau region, that is, the living materials, food categories, are also worse than the east, although Romania and the eastern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are not very developed, but it is certain that the conditions there are stronger than the current northern East Africa.

Therefore, we should also improve the local living environment, at least to ensure that the necessary daily necessities can be delivered to Turkana province as quickly as possible. Ernst said.

However, all oil producing areas, supporting living facilities, basically there is no shortage, it is easy to form industrial clusters, relying on oil can also drive the development of a large number of upstream and downstream industries, so in the future, Turkana Province should be able to get good development in the face of oil dividends.

However, there is a certain difficulty in overcoming the arid environment of deserts and semi-deserts, although Ernst believes that this will also allow East Africa to gain experience in building railways in desert environments.

Because East Africa has millions of square kilometers of tropical desert climate regions, especially the resource-rich northern Nile Province (South Sudan oil resources), Southwest Africa (Namibia's oil, coal, iron, uranium mines, etc.), Soma region, etc.

It seems that several major desert areas in East Africa are rich in mineral deposits, and the development of mineral deposits is indispensable to the construction of railways, so far, East Africa has not built a railway in the desert area, so now the construction of a railway in Turkana Province is also a good choice.

Another important reason is that Turkana Province is not a small population, which is very different from several other regions, East Africa has a relatively early history of development of Turkana Province, coupled with the later active development and Abyssinian Empire trade, this railway is obviously profitable, and can solve the history of the lack of railways in the northeast of East Africa.

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