Northern Plateau Region capital, Karatu.
A tall windmill started working. As the breeze blew, the huge windmill blades began to rotate slowly, and the wooden blades and drive shaft made a squeaking sound.
The debugger walked down the spiral staircase. The huge wooden gear was fixed in mid-air inside the windmill. As the outer windmill blades rotated, the gears and other parts inside the windmill also began to rotate. The running trajectory of the huge wooden gear was clearly visible.
"Okay, starting from today, this windmill can start operating!" The technician said to the residents of Karatu after the windmill had been running for a period of time.
This windmill is a microcosm of the Dutch windmill that was originally introduced. Currently, there are many new windmills in East Africa, but most of them are used to divert water for irrigation. This is the first one that is used to provide power for mills.
"Seeing this windmill, I feel that East African colony is almost the same as Bavaria's hometown!" said a Bavaria immigrant.
In his hometown, there was also a windmill built at the entrance of the village. People in the village went there to grind noodles, so he was very impressed.
However, when he compared the rural areas of Bavaria with the capital of the East African region, it really made people laugh, fully demonstrating the fact that East Africa is a large rural area.
East African colony is currently only a few port cities in coastal areas and First Town can be compared with some small cities in Europe.
"Add wheat first and see how it works?" the technician said.
Two men poured half a sack of wheat into a bucket above the millstone, and technicians manipulated the ropes that controlled the windmill millstone, and the mill began to operate.
The millstone began to rotate with the crankshaft, grinding the wheat particles. The wheat gathered towards the center of the millstone, and gradually the wheat was swallowed up by the millstone.
As the stone mill grinds the wheat, the original granular wheat begins to turn into powder, and the bran becomes yellowed coarse flour.
"It works normally. This windmill can basically solve the local flour processing work." said the technician.
"Is it that simple, turning into flour?" asked a Chinese immigrants.
"Of course, the flour we have there is made in this way, but in recent years, steam engines have been used in the city, and the flour mills built are very large and can be processed in large quantities, and the quality is much better than this, so most people in the city buy flour produced by factories, but in our rural areas, windmills are still used more often." said an immigrant from the Bavaria area.
Chinese immigrants Most of them use stone mills, which are driven by manpower and animal power, so I am curious about windmills.
"Before I was at the river, I thought this thing was powerful enough for lifting water, but I didn't expect it could be used in this way." Chinese immigrants said.
Due to the increase in the German descendants population in East Africa and the advancement of adult education, many Chinese in East Africa are now able to communicate with European immigrants in simple German.
"I have only seen windmills. In fact, it is rare to see windmills used for irrigation in Germany." Bavaria immigrant said.
The technician interrupted at this time, "If you really look at the purpose of windmills, then our Netherlands is definitely world-class. In the Netherlands, windmills were the most important source of power before.
We use windmills to divert water, make paper, process food, drive machinery...
Even much of our land was snatched from the sea using windmills.
That is to say, steam engines are now widely used, and the status of windmills is not as good as before. "
"Using windmills to snatch land from the sea?"
"Yes, the Netherlands is Low Countries, connected to the sea. In the past, much of our land was covered by the sea and swamps. We built dikes and then used windmills to drain the water in the dikes. This left a lot of land for farming and living." Dutch technicians proudly introduced the story of their windmills and the Netherlands.
This is hard to imagine for the Chinese and Bavaria immigrants living in the interior. The only time they saw the sea was when they took an immigrant ship to East Africa. Even before arriving in East Africa, they had never left their villages.
"I have only seen the sea once in my life, when I was wandering on the sea. But the sea is so big, and you Dutch people can still grab land from the sea. It's amazing!" Bavaria immigrant said with sincere admiration.
The technicians from the Netherlands were very happy to hear this. After all, it is a matter of pride to hear others praise one's own country.
In fact, the educational level of Dutch technicians is not high, and they were hired by East African colony only because of their skills in building windmills.
But when compared with Chinese and Germany country bumpkins who have never seen the world, a sense of superiority immediately arises.
East Africa actually has its own flour mill, located at Bagamoyo, but the flour produced by that factory is mainly exported to Europe and is not intended to meet the milling needs of East African immigrants.
Therefore, East African colony each village and town still has to handle the processing of wheat and other rations on its own.
In the past, it had been completed by relying on manpower, and even in the early days there were not even enough stone mills. Later, some stone processing workshops of Sultanate of Zanzibar were annexed, and the problem was solved by reorganizing the staff to produce stone mills.
As for animal power, East Africa does not have the conditions to do it. After all, it takes time to popularize animal power, and animal power also needs to breed and grow. And there are countless animal power in East Africa, many of which are used to pull carts or for the army.
Therefore, in various parts of East Africa, the indigenous people can only be used as draft animals and used as grinders.
But the indigenous people are also an important labor force after all. They are used in building bridges and roads, digging trenches and canals. In addition, East Africa intends to control the scale of the indigenous people, so the indigenous labor force is not as wealthy as imagined.
Now that East African colony is building windmills, it can at least save more indigenous people and invest them in other projects.
Moreover, after the windmill is built, it can be used for a long time. As long as the parts are replaced and maintained, it will not be a problem for more than ten years.
Don't even think about more advanced steam engines. The price of those things is too high and it is difficult to popularize them. East Africa can make and provide the materials for windmills by itself.
For example, the unsalable sisal cloth from East Africa can be used for canvas on windmills, and there is an unlimited supply of stone and wood.
And windmills are not backward. Europe and America is still using windmills extensively. After all, where is the cost of steam engines?
Among them, United States is currently developing the western region. In order to solve the water problem for humans and animals, many windmills have been built, which are the famous farm windmills of United States in the previous life.
The windmill of United States is different from the windmill of East African colony. The windmill of United States, who is rich and wealthy, uses many metal parts and even metal blades. After all, United States has high steel production, which is not available in East Africa now.