Bismarck thought that the Caucasus he saw would be the same agricultural region as the Urals he had visited, a predominantly immigrant agricultural region.

The agricultural areas here did transplant the armor protection system of the Chinese mainland, and the large number of immigrants quickly formed a majority ethnic group here, while the Russians could not even send a second ethnic group here, and there were more Hui ethnic groups in the local area than Russians.

To his surprise, the level of industrial and commercial prosperity here was not at all the same era as that of the Urals.

The Black Sea coast occupied by China is actually quite narrow, the Don River flows into the Sea of Azov, and the north of the Don River belongs to Russia, so China has a long coast on the coast of the Sea of Azov, but out of the Sea of Azov, the Crimean Peninsula north of the Kerch Strait is the Ottoman Empire, and the Greater Caucasus Mountains not far to the south are the border with the Manchu Empire.

Therefore, the Black Sea coast is only a narrow strip from the Kerch Strait to the Greater Caucasus, and from Sochi, a city at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, to the Kerch Strait, the longest is no more than 300 kilometers. The only area in the plain with a better geographical location is the area around the Taman Peninsula near the Kerch Strait, and the area is not as large as Shanghai.

But it was this sharp corner that became the center of the entire Black Sea.

Starting from Rostov-on-Don on the Don River, China established a new city and river port on the south bank of the Don River opposite the Russian city of Rostov on the north bank, named Wangluo Port, which was regarded as ironic by the Russians, and built the port of Azov at the mouth of the Don River into the Sea of Azov, and at the mouth of the Caucasus Mountains that flow into the Sea of Azov, a number of ports for both river and sea have been established, Yaya Harbor is commonly known as Wild Duck Port at the mouth of the Yaya River, the poetic Port of Beysug at the mouth of the River, and the Kuban Port at the mouth of the largest river, The port of Taman in the Kerch Strait, the port of Silla (Novorossiysk), built on the basis of the Russian military fortress and naval base after entering the Black Sea, the health resort of the port of Anapa, as well as the ports of Tuapse and Sochi.

Chinese railways run from Kazakhstan along the Volga and south of the Don River, almost always along the Sea of Azov, connecting this series of ports, passing from the western Taman Peninsula into the port of Silla, and connecting with coastal ports such as Sochi.

Due to the presence of ice floes in the Kerch Strait in winter, which affected shipping, Novorossiysk became the center of Black Sea trade.

Due to the arrival of China, this closed sea surrounded by land has become lively in an instant. On the north shore there are Russia, the Austrian Empire, on the south shore is the Manchu Empire, on the west bank there is the Ottoman Empire, in addition to the Turkish Strait, which is the Aegean Sea controlled by the Greeks, directly communicating with the Mediterranean countries, linking Egypt, Italy, France, Spain and other countries.

As a result, the grain produced in the two river basins in the south was transported here through Batumi, the grain produced in the Don River and the Volga River basin in the north was transported here through the river and railway conveyor here, and the grain produced in the Danube River basin was transported here through the steamship conveyor road, making it quickly become the largest grain distribution center in the Black Sea; At the same time, the machinery and equipment, crystal products, wool textiles of the Austrian Empire, the wool textiles, olive oil and cotton textiles of Greece, the handicrafts of the Ottoman Empire, the handicrafts of Persia and Mesopotamia of the Manchu Empire all converge here, making it the largest gathering place of industrial products on the Black Sea coast; Of course, the most important thing is that China's huge goods are transported from here to Europe, tea, silk, porcelain, high-end cotton, jewelry, folding fan carving and other handicrafts, and of course, there are also machinery and equipment that are the standard of industrial countries.

In just five years, Novorossiysk has become the largest industrial and commercial city on the Black Sea.

The logistics of China and Europe converge, and the wealth gathered gushes out from here, and it is difficult to think about underdevelopment.

Relying on the thriving logistics, it has developed a well-developed shipbuilding, machinery, commerce and financial industries.

What made Bismarck feel the most was not the huge scale of commerce here, but the mature commercial culture, the scale of industry and commerce can be built up through resources, but the maturity of commercial culture can not be formed overnight.

After the opening of the port here, there were indeed thousands of Chinese businessmen pouring here, the Russians said that Odessa is Russia's window to the Black Sea, then the port of Silla is China's window to the Black Sea, so a large number of Chinese businessmen brought capital and Chinese business culture into here, but they entered an unfamiliar region, and it was impossible to give birth to a mature business culture suitable for the local area in the short term.

What really matures the local business culture is the business culture and business community that already exists in the Black Sea.

Mainly Greek, Armenian and Jewish merchants, who came here in large numbers.

In fact, these groups of businessmen have been operating here for hundreds or even thousands of years.

In comparison, not only the Chinese are latecomers, but also the Russians are latecomers.

Russia occupied the area not long before China took it away, and the narrow Black Sea coast around Novorossiysk was the territory of the Ottoman Empire until the war over Greek independence. The inhabitants are mainly Chechens, Georgians and a large number of local Hui ethnic groups.

The Russians occupied this place for only ten years, because there were ports such as Odessa with better conditions, and the main direction of Russia's business was not here, so it only established a few military fortresses and naval bases, and did not have time or ability to develop commerce here.

Instead, the Caucasus War broke out for ten years with the local Chechens, who waged guerrilla warfare against the Russians in the mountains, which greatly affected the development of the region.

Compared to Chechnya and other peoples who formed and were nomadic here, the Greeks, Armenians and Jews were even longer here, and the Jews and Greeks were ancient peoples, and the Armenians had always been a commercial people in the Ottoman Empire who could compete with the Greeks.

The commercial culture of these ethnic groups is very developed, and even the Chinese are much inferior to them in comparison, because China is mainly an agricultural culture.

These people naturally entered the Black Sea coastal area thousands of years ago to do business, the ancient Greek city-states, on the Black Sea coast established a large number of colonies, the name of the city of Sochi originated, even because the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) period of the historian Procopius, in Latin recorded that "the native people of the Black Sea coast of the empire are Sochi", that is, Sochi itself during the Eastern Roman Empire, used to refer to the name of the local Eastern Romans.

Armenia was conquered by the Greek Kingdom of Macedonia during the reign of Alexander the Great, and then divided by Alexander's Seleucid tribe to establish the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty. During the Roman Empire, Armenia was a contentious area between the Roman Empire and the rising Sabbatical Empire in Central Asia, and during the Eastern Roman Empire, it was the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanid Empire of Persia who fought for the area. Greece and the Jews were conquered by the Romans during the Roman Empire, and it was not until Greece became an independent state that the Jews could not be restored until much later.

Greeks, Jews, and Armenians have all been in a state of turmoil over a long period of time, which has led to a culture of displacement and a shift to commerce. Later, they were all supported by the Araper and the Ottoman government, and the commercial culture of the Alaper and Ottoman Empire was relatively open, at least not as heavy as China's, so there was no expulsion or persecution of the commercial peoples in these territories.

So these business groups have been settling down on the Black Sea coast.

When the Chinese arrived, Russia successfully suppressed Chechnya and other ethnic groups not long after, and during the war between Russia and China, these people also revolted in the mountains. They were also co-opted by the Manchu Empire in the north, and together they fought with Russia and Britain.

The years of war had greatly depleted the strength of these peoples, and after the arrival of China, it adopted a more liberal ethnic and religious policy than that of Russia, and allowed them to exercise self-government, and there was no trouble with them. Chinese immigrants also live mainly in the coastal plains, rather than in the mountains and valleys where they raise their sheep.

The stable social order, coupled with the large amount of goods traded, attracted a large number of merchants from the Black Sea area, who brought with them the commercial practices and traditions of the region since ancient times. New Greeks entered the city from the Kingdom of Greece, merchants from the Austrian Empire from the Danube, Russian merchants from the Dnieper and Don rivers, Armenian and Persian merchants under the Manchu rule, and even wealthy merchants from the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. Coupled with the Jin merchant culture from China, with Jinshan merchants as the main body, various commercial cultures converged here and quickly merged into a mature commercial culture.

When a business system is at its most mature, it will inevitably give birth to the industry at the top of the business system, that is, the financial industry.

The region's financial sector rose to prominence as trade in services and quickly spread to other areas, quickly becoming the financial center of the Black Sea region with the help of China's world gold hegemony.

Here Bismarck saw money houses and pawnshops run by Chinese, banks run by Jews, grain auction markets founded by Greeks and Austrians, and joint stock exchanges founded by chambers of commerce of merchants from various countries. Businessmen from all over the world have brought different business innovations from different countries, such as short buying and selling, and futures trading, all of which appear here.

Not only do they buy and sell futures contracts here, but they also trade all kinds of securities, and it's even more incredible that they have already started to underwrite government bonds for other countries. If it was only a small country like Greece, and a backward country like the Manchus and the Ottomans, Bismarck found that even a large proportion of the national debt of Austria and Russia began to be underwritten by the banking banks of various countries here.

Bismarck realized that the emergence of China in the Black Sea was no longer simply the entry of a political force, not the entry of military influence, but a complete change in the geopolitical pattern of this generation.

The Chinese here are not just passers-by, but have become the de facto masters of the area.