East Africa is burying a hole on one side, but the other side doesn't care about the situation of Spain and United States, because now there are more important things to do in East Africa.
April 1, 1898.
East African government officially approved the draft to move the capital to Rhine City, and moving the capital is obviously a complex and huge project. Fortunately, First Town was not designed according to a big city from the beginning. It has a small population and industry. In addition, it is close to Dar es Salaam city, so except for its political status, other aspects are not prominent, which also provides convenience to East African government.
This is easy to understand. The capital of the Far East Empire in the 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 is a headache.
However, it must be admitted that the location of the capital of the Far East Empire is indeed good, that is, the modern navy lacks strength, Bohai Sea 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.
"This capital relocation process is divided into three steps. The first step is for each government department to separate part of it and set up a framework in Rhine City in advance. The second step is for some government agencies to completely move into Rhine City. Before 1900, Rhine City will become the new political center of East Africa."
The vast majority of people have no objections to moving the capital to Rhine City. After all, First Town is indeed not a priority, and the new capital Rhine City greatly surpasses First Town in all aspects of planning. Although Rhine City is currently still comparable in scale to other cities, the potential is huge.
After the capital relocation was officially launched, the train on Central Railway once again increased its workload, and a large number of files and equipment began to be moved to Rhine City.
At this time, the Rhine City railway framework is basically complete. Arriving at Rhine City from First Town no longer requires a turnaround from New Frankfurt City. Although New Frankfurt City is still the most important railway hub, Rhine City's transportation also has its own system.
In fact, the Rhine City and New Frankfurt City railways form dual cores in the national railway network, but the Rhine City railway gives priority to government, military and other departments, while the New Frankfurt City focuses on more economical cargo transportation.
Rhine City.
East African National Library.
The original National Library is located at First Town. Of course, in terms of scale, the largest library in East Africa is located at Soga City.
"Rhine City National Library will replace the original First Town National Library, while First Town Library will be used as a branch library. The books in the new National Library mainly come from First Town National Library and Soga City Library, and will expand on this basis. According to the latest plan, the library's collection will reach five million volumes, including other document 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."
Director of the National Library Kron is a happy person about his future. After all, he loves reading. At this time, the new National Library of East Africa is at the top level 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. It was not for other reasons, but mainly because of 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 goal. Later large-scale libraries often have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of books. Therefore, Ernst used this as a reference to invest relatively heavily in the Rhine City National Library. In the future, at least 20 million books will be collected here. This also makes the New National Library extremely large in scale, and has installed an electric system and a more advanced and complete fire protection system.
Rhine City The architectural style of the National Library 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 palace-like artistic style and are more solemn.
Therefore, East African National Library 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.
The National Library is just a microcosm of Rhine City. Many national service institutions have been built with Rhine City in recent years, including the Royal Palace, the Parliament Building, 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 equivalent to the scale of two First Town.
After all, the total population of First Town is less than 200,000, only 170,000. If the initial construction is completed, Rhine City will be close to three times that of First Town.
In other words, the size of Rhine City can now accommodate the entire First Town, which is also the basic condition for the official start of the capital relocation work.
However, because Rhine City has a small population now, apart from the huge number of construction workers, the entire city seems 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."
In the Svit Palace, Ernst directly informed Constantin of his idea. This idea had actually been buried in Ernst's heart ten years ago, but East Africa was weak at the time and did not have this condition.
Constantin 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 Constantin's mind, 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 has become Queen, which sounds better. The traditional coronation ceremony process is extremely complicated, so the elderly Constantin 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 days when we established Kingdom of Hechingen, there was a lot of colonial history, and we just took this opportunity to separate from the previous one."
"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". He himself can't remember the content of Bible, so this kind of operation is commonplace for him.
Moreover, East Africa is different from Europe. Even if East Africa follows European rules, it is just a hot face but a cold butt, which 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. We in East Africa in Africa naturally have different national conditions and interests from Europe."