African Entrepreneurship Chronicles
Chapter 547

Orphans

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East Africa had many projects like the Kui River Arch Dam. Some projects, large and small, progressed quickly, while others involved heavier workloads and therefore took longer to complete.

In reality, East Africa did not have many so-called major projects. Rather, countless small projects had been combined into major ones. Not to mention anything else, many of East Africa's great rivers had yet to be developed. Developing them required profound astronomical and geographical knowledge, and East Africa lacked specialists in those fields.

Without professionals to keep watch, disaster could easily strike. Take reservoirs, for example: a single miscalculation or substandard technology could create the risk of a dam collapse. Therefore, East Africa mainly built small and medium-sized reservoirs. Even if losses occurred, they would not be too severe and could be corrected in time.

Hengshui.

Yang Family Village.

"Fugui, I'm entrusting all these children to you. They're all orphans from the village, pitiful little things. You must take good care of them!"

"Uncle Da Yang, don't worry! Don't you know what kind of man I am? Back in the village, I was known as one of the honest ones." Yang Fugui grinned as he spoke to Third Uncle.

"Heh heh, an honest man. If you were truly honest, you wouldn't have run off to that whatever-East-Africa place yourself. I heard it's a world ruled by foreigners. Look at you—even your queue is gone. Good thing you work for the foreigners, or you'd have been dragged off and beheaded long ago."

"Uncle Da Yang, I don't like hearing that. What do you mean, a world ruled by foreigners? We're proper citizens of the Kingdom of East Africa. Do you understand what citizen means? It means we're part of the Kingdom of East Africa, just as you are subjects of Great

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