Compared with Ernst, who kept the overall situation firmly in hand, Constantin focused more on the details in East Africa. Father and son, one coarse and one fine, kept a death grip on this family asset of theirs.
With his son recently keeping an eye on Water Conservancy Construction, Constantin naturally had to shoulder more of the burden, traveling all over East Africa to inspect the family industries.
"Is the construction of this power plant modeled after the Berlin railway station power plant?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, though calling it an imitation would not be entirely accurate. That power plant in Berlin was built several years ago. Ours employs new technology, and First Town railway station is far smaller in scale than Berlin railway station, so the construction was not particularly difficult."
The power supply system for Berlin railway station had been jointly developed and built by Hechingen Electric Power and Siemens. It was also the world's first power plant.
First Town railway station certainly could not compare with Berlin railway station in scale. After all, Berlin's population and economic strength were much greater than First Town's. Berlin was Germany's center, a great city with a million residents.
"Besides supplying First Town railway station, this power plant will also provide electricity to the surrounding area in the future. After all, a station is a node in railway transportation and is destined to interact with local economic industries."
Strictly speaking, this East African power plant should have been commercial in nature, unlike the politically motivated power plants East Africa had built before. However, East Africa essentially had no purely commercial enterprises. Aside from royal enterprises, most were state-owned, so the First Town Second Power Plant differed from European commercial power plants in the nature of its assets.
"Is that so? As far