African Nationhood

Shi Jinyong looked at James Lister and said, "The Ministry of Transport will tell you."

James Lister stood up and nodded to Chairman Shi and Vice Premier Shi Jinyong, and then waited for the department's civil servants to hang up a Southern African railway route map, which had red, green and blue annotations.

“This is the latest railway construction map from our Ministry of Transport. The green ones on it are those that have been built or are being built.

The red ones above are planned and we plan to build them. "

"After the last State Council meeting, our railway mileage base has become 2.296 kilometers. Most of the railway projects in the southern territory have been completed, but there are still some places where railway lines need to be built.

Connecting the Buffalo Port (today's East London Port in South Africa)-Lomborg (today's Trompsburg, South Africa) railway line, this line has a total construction of 480 kilometers.

The regional line connecting Port Elizabeth to De Aar is approximately 472 kilometers long.

The regional line connecting Nakonde (now Nakonde, Tanzania) to Liyang (now Lilongwe, Malawi) is about 700 kilometers long.

The regional line connecting Nakonde to Kaputa (now Kaputa, Zambia) is approximately 1580 kilometers long.

The natural and geographical conditions of the Great Lakes of Tanganyika and the Great Lakes of Malawi are very harsh, and the indigenous people there are difficult to control. During this period, many outbreaks of malaria and yellow fever occurred.

Fortunately, our medical conditions are high enough, so the railway construction workers did not suffer any major casualties.

Because many places in the two lakes area are mountainous, we encountered many difficulties when building the railway, so our construction progress was very slow.

The construction of railway lines in the two Great Lakes areas has not been completely completed, and it will take about two years to complete. "

“After taking over Tanga in East Africa, we immediately started building a regional line connecting Tapola (now an important inland town in Tanzania) to Kigoma (an important fishing port on the Great Lake Tanganyika), which is about 506 kilometers long.

In this way, the Great Lakes Railway we are building can be connected with the railway built by the Germans.

But the railways in our territory are all standard gauge, while the railways built by the Germans are narrow gauge railways.

Our newly built railway lines are still standard gauge, while the narrow gauge railways in Tanga, East Africa, can only be renovated later. "

In fact, in South China, not only Tanga in East Africa, but also the Benguela Railway built by the Portuguese in West Africa, the Transvaal, Natal and Cape Town areas are mostly narrow gauge railways.

It is not compatible with the standard gauge railway in Nanhua. These are all projects for future reconstruction and upgrading.

There is nothing that can be done about this. After all, Nanhua has acquired its territory through mergers or redemptions, and Nanhua had not had the final say on these territories before.

This is considered an additional cost that Nanhua will have to pay during the infrastructure construction process.

Although the track gauge is different, there is no difference in load capacity, but this will increase the extra workload at the site connection.

Liszt continued: "After talking about what has been built or is being built, the only thing left is the railway lines we plan to build.

The railway lines from the Ministry of Transport's Two Great Lakes to the Luben Town of Lunda Administration (now Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the lines from Nakonde to Kamita, and the lines from Luben Town to Luau and Malanje of the West African Administration need to be added below. It will be built again within one cycle.

Due to the complex environment in the interior of the West African Administrative Region, we may not be able to complete the construction in the next five-year plan. We can only build it as much as possible.

This is the future work plan of our department. Let me continue to talk about our situation in highway construction. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang took the initiative to comfort him.

"Well, there are more epidemics when going inland, and the work is more complicated. Your Department of Transportation has done a lot of credit, especially you, Minister Liszt. You should also take care of your health."

When Liszt heard that the chairman of the committee cared about him, he was moved and his energy was aroused.

"Thank you, Chairman, for your concern. I and everyone at the Transportation Department will be grateful for your concern."

After finishing speaking, Lister continued: “Thanks to the development of heavy-duty freight locomotives by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, we have made a major breakthrough in the construction of third-level highways.

Focused on paving the port from Mapu Port (now Maputo, Mozambique) to Handu (Bulawayo) in the Matabeleland region.

Hanking (Pretoria) to Landfortress (Johannesburg),

Hanking to Mapugang, Hanking to Handu.

The total length of these four third-class highways does not exceed 4000 kilometers.

With these four wide high-end highways, soldiers and supplies can be quickly transported.

In addition, in the next phase, we plan to focus on paving Beira Port to Jianye (now Harare, Zimbabwe), and Jianye to Lusa Town (now Lusaka, Zambia).

Third-class highways from Walvis Bay to Anhai Town (today's Swakopmund, Nargos) to Jinshan Town (today's Camilla, Narcosm), and from Walvis Bay to Hot Springs (today's Windhoek, Narcosm).

As for road construction in Tanga, Uganda, and South Somalia in East Africa, exploration and planning are still needed, and they will be sorted out in the next stage.

Railway transportation in Uganda cannot be advanced rapidly for the time being.

Regarding the proposal by the Ministry of Human Resources to build a rapid passage into the interior of Uganda, we are temporarily thinking of using the Great Lakes of Victoria as a rapid passage into the interior of Uganda.

We will develop shipping on the inner lake and gradually populate the area around Kampada, the capital of Uganda. This is the end of my speech. "

After Shi Jinyong waited until James List returned to his seat, he looked at Tang Kui in the corner. "Minister Tang Kui, please tell me."

Since Tang Kui became the police commissioner, he has basically been invisible behind the judicial department. This time, Minister Herzog was on a business trip in Europe, and he had to step forward as a representative of the judicial police department.

He had been used to being invisible for many years, and it was very unaccustomed to him to suddenly speak in front of everyone.

In particular, Chairman Shi was sitting in a high position, which made him feel even more stressed.

He tried hard to calm down his mood, and strode onto the podium with the spirit of lecturing in front of his subordinates.

After standing on the podium, he followed the example of other ministers and nodded to Chairman Shi and Vice Premier Shi Jinyong before he spoke.

“Our police department and the Ministry of Justice have had an easy job over the past five years.

After all, our legal popularization work has never stopped, and with the implementation of education and the continuous improvement of national quality, the work of our two departments has become a lot easier.

Coupled with the reporting phone number and reporting mailbox, the public has a channel to appeal, and major legal disputes are on the decline.

Only this year, with the improvement of people's living conditions, gambling and sexual harassment cases have become more frequent.

In the past few years, 30% of the ordinary criminal cases handled by our judicial police department were caused by these two reasons.

Cases of family breakdown due to gambling and family breakdown due to cheating between men and women are becoming increasingly common among the people.

Our researchers from the Police Department and the Ministry of Justice feel that the reason why there are so many cases shows that the overall quality of our people needs to be improved.

At the same time, after the economic situation improves, people lack effective guidance and cannot vent their excess energy well, which leads to such situations continuing to occur.

We hope that the cultural and educational departments will increase their guidance in this regard and improve the moral standards of the people.

In addition, can we petition the Central Parliament to formulate special laws and regulations to restrict people's behavior in these two aspects?

In addition, will the scope of opening up to gambling and entertainment be expanded? "

Hearing what Tang Kui said, Shi Jintang couldn't help but frown.

Love affairs are inevitable, after all, "when you are full and warm, you think about lust."

We can only strengthen guidance. This cannot be regarded as a criminal offense. Otherwise, countless people across the country will be punished for this.

If people caught cheating were whipped, it is estimated that such incidents would be reduced a lot.

Since it has affected the normal operation of society, the punishment should be increased to prevent social customs from being corrupted.

As for the establishment of casinos, since the Nanhua Company period, after Shi Jintang issued a license in Jinshan Town, it also issued another gaming license in the suburbs of Hanking.

No additional licenses have been issued in other places. The licenses in these two places are all under Li Jinhu's name.

The main reason for the incident of people gathering to gamble is that today's transportation is inconvenient, and most of the citizens of Nanhua are from the Qing Dynasty, so the bad habit of gambling cannot be easily given up.

And liberalizing casino licenses is not a good idea.

The purpose of opening the casino license to Jinshan Town was to make money from the British, and also to leave a way for development after the gold mines in Jinshan Town were exhausted.

Therefore, illegal gambling still needs to be severely cracked down on.

"Well, these two types of cases should be treated differently. The sex incident belongs to the moral level. Both parties in the sex incident can be punished with whipping, mainly punishment.

Gathering people to gamble illegally is an illegal act and needs to be severely punished.

Vice Premier Shi, remember to send a memorandum to the Central Council after the meeting and ask them to issue corresponding laws and regulations in the near future. "

Shi Jinyong nodded in agreement and recorded it in his work diary.

“Whether it is punishing both parties in a sex incident or arresting illegal gambling criminals, it must be implemented by the government and cannot be delegated to the so-called elders and parents among the people.

This is the public power of the government and cannot be granted or accepted privately. "

Upon hearing this, Tang Kui immediately stood up, raised his head, and answered loudly: "Yes!"

This "yes" directly caused an echo in the conference room, and several ministers couldn't help but admired that Minister Tang was really strong.

After Tang Kui finished answering, he continued: "In the past few years, the Ministry of Justice has only tried 1529 malignant criminal cases, 7019 ordinary criminal cases, and 70254 civil cases.

The number of civil cases continues to show an upward trend. As in the past, more civil cases involve civil disputes that do not contain criminal elements, and mediation is not difficult.

The public's satisfaction with the judicial police department's case handling remains at 90%.

In the past few years, our police department has handled a total of 290.45 million cases, 9.96% of which were civil disputes, and there were fewer vicious and large-scale criminal cases.

The crime rate of serious and serious crimes is far less than 5 per 10,000 people, and people's awareness of obeying the law is constantly increasing. "(End of chapter)