However, the mere eight tractors are a drop in the bucket for Shaokui Town, and local agricultural construction still requires a lot of manpower.

As a long-term Portuguese area, there are a large number of plantations and farms nearby, and the area is not small, otherwise Count Roberts would not have chosen to set up the headquarters of the coalition forces here.

Before the Portuguese left en masse, there were tens of thousands of black slaves working as laborers throughout the town of Shoquay, serving the local plantations and farms.

At the time of becoming a battlefield, a large number of military facilities were built in the area of Shaokui, and now there are still a large number of trenches in Shaokui, and the pillboxes are in the outer area.

The lack of large-scale dismantling of these military installations by the East African government has also delayed the development of agriculture in Shoquay, especially since the trenches in the town of Shoquay have been flooded with rainwater after the heavy rains a while ago, and at the same time, there are a large number of bullet casings left under the land in the Shoquay area, which need to be cleared.

Of course, this was not too difficult for the town of Shoquay, which was left with a ready-made labor force of more than 100,000 black slaves in East Africa after the surrender of Portugal.

In particular, the town of Shaokui was left behind after the war to maintain the production and clearing activities of Shaokui, and East Africa stationed a whole regiment of troops here.

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First Town City.

"This is the East African Radio Station, the present time, May 12, 1891, East African time, at 6 p.m., welcome to the East News Agency......"

The Ernst family listened to the news from East Africa's first cable radio station in front of the radio.

East China News Agency is the abbreviation of East African National News Agency, which was previously the main channel of communication was newspapers, but now the emergence of cable broadcasting has once again enriched the way East Africa transmits information.

Of course, as the first batch of cable users, the residents of First Town are lucky, and they are always the first to enjoy the improvement of the quality of life caused by technological progress.

"Daddy, hug ......" a snorting porcelain doll disturbed Ernst's thoughts as he listened to the radio.

This is Ernst's second daughter, Princess Lina of East Africa, born in 1885, who is seven years old this year, and has a twin brother.

In the past ten years, from the birth of the eldest daughter Jena, Ernst now has a total of six children, including the eldest son Friedrich, four princes and two princesses.

The eldest prince Friedrich, the eldest princess Jena, and the second prince Karls have all gone to school, as for the twin princess Lina and his brother Antonio, the third prince, will also enroll in the second half of this year, and the youngest son Maxim was born four years ago and is only five years old.

Ernst picked up his second daughter and kissed him and said, "What's wrong with the baby, do you want to listen to the radio too!" ”

"What's the radio, Daddy?" Princess Lina asked.

"Radio means to advertise, a lot of people can hear the news, you know the phone, the radio is just a sound coming out of a similar device, but a lot of people can hear it, as long as they have a radio at home."

Lina's eyes widened, completely unaware of what her father was talking about.

Of course, Ernst said something much the same, cable broadcasting is actually transmitted by telephone lines, so there is nothing wrong with saying that it is a telephone-like device.

Historically, in 1893, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, connected more than 700 telephone lines to broadcast news regularly, forming an official cable broadcast, and East Africa was two years ahead of this time.

This is not because the technology was immature before, but because there was no need for cablecasting to deliver messages in East Africa, but now with the development of East African cities, cablecasting technology can also be introduced.

And unlike before, the application of new technologies had to be carried out in the European market first, such as electric lights, telephones, etc.

The first city to apply cablecasting technology is a local city in East Africa, which also shows the development of East African cities.

ERNST is a strong supporter of the development of the power industry, and today East Africa is among the first in the world in terms of electrification.

The development of the local power industry has also promoted the development of East African power companies such as the Hexingen Power Company, which was in Germany the year before and was topped by the German Electric Corporation and slipped to the third place, and the top two were Siemens and the German Electric Corporation, two of which are monopolies supported by the German government.

However, the decline in the German market is only the result of the transfer of industry to East Africa by the Hexingen royal family, in fact, in the world, Hexingen Power Company is still one of the top monopolies in the world, ranking in the forefront in many countries.

Of course, in addition to the royal enterprise of the Hexingen Power Company, there are also a number of large state-owned power companies in East Africa, which together with the Hexingen Power Company monopolize the East African electricity market and form a huge power monopoly organization.

In the 19th century, enterprises moving towards monopoly were the norm of enterprise development, which could better participate in international competition and improve the efficiency of resource utilization.

At present, there are a total of five power entities in the world, which basically divide most of the world's market, first of all, the Hexingen Power Company, followed by the East African National Power Corporation, then the United States' General Electric, and finally the German Siemens and Electric Corporation.

It is a very intuitive reflection of the strong strength of East Africa in the field of electric power, and with the ability of Ernst to foresee, the general direction of East Africa's power development is stable, for example, the promotion of alternating current in East Africa and the international community has been greatly accelerated.

In the past decade, East Africa has been one of the countries with the largest number of new thermal power and hydropower plants in the world, and in the central and eastern parts of East Africa, electricity is basically no longer a "luxury", and it has widely participated in social production and life activities, and all major cities have basically achieved the goal of "electrification".

At the same time, East African power has a huge market share in Eastern Europe, southern Europe, Asia and other regions, and the three-legged pattern of international power is basically stable.

Moreover, East Africa is supported by the East African National Electric Power University, which is a university that has developed with the strength of the whole country in East Africa, and can be said to be the higher education institution with the highest concentration of electric power talents and technology in the world.

At the same time, almost every major city in East Africa has built electricity-related colleges and universities, which has made great contributions to the popularization and promotion of electricity in East Africa, so in the field of electric power, East Africa has truly achieved comprehensive development, and there are almost no shortcomings.

Of course, the vigorous development of the power industry is not representative and cannot reflect the economic development level of East Africa, such as machinery, chemical industry, shipbuilding, medical care, etc., and there is still a big gap between East Africa and European and American countries.

For example, during the South African War, Britain almost completely banned the import of high-end machinery into East Africa, which had a certain impact on the textile and mining industries in East Africa.

And in the past decade, East Africa has mainly focused on the four major industries of steel, railways, mining, electricity, and automobiles, and East Africa has caught up or even surpassed these four areas, but the performance of other fields has been unsatisfactory.

Therefore, in the future, East Africa must work hard in other industrial fields, especially important industries such as chemicals, petroleum, textiles, and medical care.

However, this kind of thing is not easy, because of the fact that a large number of new territories have been annexed, and the development of these new territories will inevitably involve a lot of energy, manpower, material and financial resources of the East African government.

If East Africa wants to achieve a breakthrough in the industry, it must first meet the basic conditions for mass production, and this condition is to continuously expand production.

To put it simply, quantitative change causes qualitative change, and now East Africa does not even have enough "quantity", so it is naturally impossible to cause qualitative change, just like a person, first play to solve the problem of "fullness", and then consider others.

(End of chapter)

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