Chapter 940： Capital relocation begins

Chapter 940: Capital relocation begins

East Africa is burying a hole on one side, but the other side cannot take care of the situation in Spain and the United States, because there are more important things to do in East Africa today.

April 1, 1898.

The East African government officially approved the draft to move the capital to the Rhine City. Moving the capital is obviously a complex and huge project. Fortunately, the first town was not designed according to the big city from the beginning. It has a small population and industry, and the distance Dar es Salaam is close to the city, so apart from its political status, it is not prominent in other aspects, which also provides convenience to the East African government.

This is easy to understand. The capital of the Far Eastern Empire in its previous life had a registered population of more than 10 million. If a decision like moving the capital of East Africa was made, there would be more than 10 million opponents. Just thinking about it makes one’s head ache. big.

However, it must be admitted that the location of the capital of the Far Eastern Empire is indeed good. In other words, it lacks naval strength in modern times, the Bohai Bay is prone to invasion by foreign enemies, the population in later generations is too concentrated, and there are almost no shortcomings in other aspects except water shortage.

"The process of moving the capital is divided into three steps. First, each government department will separate part of it and go to the Rhine City in advance to set up a framework. The second step is for some government agencies to completely move into the Rhine City. Before 1900, the Rhine City will be realized. Completely becoming the new political center of East Africa.”

The vast majority of people have no objection to moving the capital to Rhine City. After all, the first town and city is indeed not a priority, and the new capital Rhine City greatly surpasses the first town and city in all aspects of planning, although the current size of Rhine City Shang Shang is still compared to other cities, but the potential is huge.

After the capital relocation was officially launched, the trains on the Central Railway once again increased their workload, and a large number of files and equipment began to be moved to the Rhine City in a steady stream.

At this time, the railway framework of Rhine City was basically complete. To reach Rhine City from the first town, it was no longer necessary to go through New Frankfurt. Although New Frankfurt was still the most important railway hub, the transportation of Rhine City also had its own system.

In fact, the railways in Rhine City and New Frankfurt City form dual cores in the national railway network. However, the Rhine City Railway gives priority to government, military and other departments, while New Frankfurt City focuses on more economical cargo transportation.

…

Rhine City.

National Library of East Africa.

The original National Library is located in the first town. Of course, in terms of scale, the largest library in East Africa is in Soga City.

"The National Library of the Rhine City will replace the original National Library of the First Town, and the First Town Library will be used as a branch library. The books in the new National Library mainly come from the National Library of the First Town and Soga The city library will be expanded on this basis. According to the latest plan, the library’s collection will reach five million volumes, including other documentary collections, becoming a new knowledge and cultural destination in East Africa.”

“With our library as the center, there are as many as 13 pre-designed colleges and universities and scientific research institutions nearby. This will become an important place for talent and cultural exchanges across East Africa in the future.”

Crohn, the director of the National Library, feels happy about his future. After all, he loves reading. At this time, the new National Library of East Africa is among the top in the world in terms of size and collection of books.

Books were relatively valuable items in the 19th century. In order to ensure the safety of the books, some libraries would even lock the books in cabinets with special chains and shells to prevent them from being stolen.

In the early days, East Africa was obviously unable to build a library with a collection of more than five million books. The main reason was not for other reasons, but the "lack of books" in East Africa at that time.

As for the number of books in the new National Library, five million is just the first-phase target. Later large libraries often have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of books. Therefore, Ernst used this as a reference when investing in the National Library in Rhineland. It is larger than the previous one. In the future, at least 20 million books will be collected here. This also makes the new National Library extremely large in scale. It also has an electric power system and a more advanced and complete fire protection system. The architectural style of the National Library in the Rhine City is also very different from the traditional library style, paying more attention to practicality and improving the reading experience, while Europe and the United States highlight the artistic style of the palace and are more solemn.

So the National Library of East Africa can be said to be the most modern-style building in East Africa currently, breaking the tradition.

Of course, the new National Library of East Africa is just in its infancy, with a total of just over 200,000 books. Subsequent books will still need to be transported from the east or other regions.

And the National Library is just a microcosm of the Rhine City. Many national service institution buildings have landed in the Rhine City in recent years, including the Royal Palace, the Parliament Building, the Supreme Court, government office buildings, embassies, hospitals, etc.

At present, the overall core framework of Rhine City is designed for 500,000 people, and a large amount of development space is reserved on the periphery. According to the current construction progress, it is already equivalent to the size of two first towns.

After all, the total population of the first town is less than 200,000, only 170,000. If the initial construction is completed, the Rhine City will be close to three times the number of the first town.

In other words, the size of the Rhine City can now accommodate the entire first town, which is also the basic condition for the official relocation of the capital.

However, because Rhine City currently has a small population, except for the huge number of construction workers, the entire city looks very empty and lifeless.

…

“Father, when the capital move is completed, I plan to upgrade Dongjia from a kingdom to an empire. By then, you, the king, can become the real emperor.”

At the Sweet Palace, Ernst directly informed Constantine of his idea. This idea had actually been buried in Ernst's heart ten years ago, but at that time, East Africa was weak and did not have such conditions.

Constantine said: "Actually, in my opinion, kings and emperors are just names. Adding a title doesn't seem to have much impact. Moreover, if the procedure is too complicated, my body may not be able to bear it."

In Constantine's consciousness, he is very satisfied now that he can become the king of a powerful country. As for the title of emperor, he doesn't care too much. After all, the Queen of England becomes the empress, which sounds better, and the traditional coronation The ritual process is extremely complicated, so the elderly Constantine doesn't want to suffer this.

Ernst persuaded: "Father, actually turning the kingdom into an empire this time has other meanings. My idea is to divide the history of East Africa into two periods through this change of state structure. In the early stage, we established Hechingen The kingdom has a lot of colonial history, and it just took this opportunity to separate from the past. "

"Secondly, although you are older, you are still strong, so I will take this opportunity to let you experience the joy of being an emperor. As for the coronation ceremony, it will naturally follow our own rules in East Africa. There is no need to imitate Europe. We can Simplify the ceremony.”

Ernst's remarks are very deviant, but Ernst is just a fake "Christian" and he can't remember the contents of the Bible, so this kind of operation is commonplace for him.

And East Africa is different from Europe. Even if East Africa follows European rules, it is just a hot face but a cold butt, and it will not please people, so it is better to follow their own ideas.

So Ernst said: "If we really follow the European tradition, it is impossible for East Africa to become an empire. After all, there can only be one emperor in Europe. Now Germany, Tsarist Russia, even Austria and the former French Napoleon all call themselves emperors, but Their emperor is Caesar, and we in East Africa naturally have different national conditions and interests than Europe.”

(End of this chapter)