After all, only a small part of the airport was able to greet Ernst, and when they came to the Doge's Palace, hundreds of East Prussian nobles, wealthy merchants, and high-ranking officials were waiting for Ernst's reception. There were not many military personnel among them, not that the military was not valued, but that Ernst would take the time to meet with the middle and low-level generals who were representative of the army.

The process of meeting was very boring, but fortunately Ernst was used to it, and no matter what he thought in his heart or whether his emotions were high, Ernst greeted these local people in East Prussia with a smile and earnestly. In the process, Ernst praised East Prussia and the people who had great influence in East Prussia.

Needless to say, the nobles are all part of the group that must be wooed, after all, they have lived here for hundreds of years, and their influence on this place is unimaginable to Ernst. Although their influence will gradually diminish as education becomes more widespread, it will take a process.

There is nothing to say about the group of officials, and the nobles need to be co-opted and these officials need to be gracious, after all, they are Ernst's subordinates, and if they are too friendly, it will not be conducive to Ernst's rule. Perhaps only the merchant group was really seriously approached by Ernst, because now that the Four-Nation Alliance had entered an economic period, Ernst valued these people very much.

After the dinner, Ernst asked Wales to arrange the next day's business talks, which took place in a small conference room in the Governor's Palace, and invited representatives of the large East Prussian industrial groups, the financial circles, and of course some potential small and medium-sized enterprises.

The meeting was preceded by a commercial contact with Wales, in which Ernst made it clear that the citizens of East Prussia were relatively wealthy. It stands to reason that government departments should find ways to use this part of the funds. Banks and the stock market are typical platforms.

Small meetings are held. In the next two years, the government will relax the review requirements for stock market applications and bank loans, and as long as the basic requirements are met, they can obtain unlimited bank loans and successfully list companies and groups.

This was undoubtedly a bombshell, but there was one point that also made the merchants a little disappointed, they still valued the capital of Prague, and if they could, they would be more than happy to go to Prague and not East Prussia, and it would be one thing to underestimate the power of capital in East Prussia. The business climate is another major reason.

Ernst was a little surprised by the reaction of the merchants, and Wales gave an answer after the meeting, and Ernst came to his senses, but he was not prepared to concentrate all the capital forces in Prague from the beginning. To be honest, Prague's financial market is almost saturated, and going to Prague to list will certainly stabilize Prague's status as the European financial capital, but at the same time, it will also delay the development of some excellent companies, which is the result that Ernst does not want to see.

The first bombshell was dropped, followed by the second, and the second was also beneficial to the merchants of East Prussia, and that was about the British compromise on maritime trade. East Prussia was a coastal region, and this was naturally a great thing for East Prussia. Of course, there are also some businessmen who have concerns. Fears of an impact on the commodity market of East Prussia by foreign capital will weigh on their living space. Thus the third thing was brought up by Ernst.

The third thing about the meeting was about the comprehensive economic cooperation of the Quad, and there are almost no tariffs within the Quad, which has dragged down some rich countries and naturally gives others some opportunities for development. Although East Prussia is a wealthy place, many new goods on the market cannot be copied by East Prussian companies and groups, and such cooperation is naturally conducive to the development of East Prussian enterprises.

The Quadruple had long had commercial restrictions, with more than 2,000 patents restricted from leaving the country, and now that East Prussia is a member of the Quadruple Alliance, it has naturally escaped such restrictions. For example, some new technologies and commodities can be obtained at a high price.

Ernst still attached great importance to East Prussia, and he was ready to place some high-tech things in East Prussia in the future, so Ernst had some guiding bias towards the economy of East Prussia.

Fashion weeks, music festivals, film festivals in Prague (Czech principality), the political center of Warsaw (Poland), sports in Vilnius (Lithuania), the nobility of Budapest (Hungary), the steppes and war horses of Galaganda (the Kingdom of Kazakhstan), the underground resources of Novosibirsk (Russian Empire), which are now representatives of all the important cities of the Quadruple Alliance, and for Qin and East Prussia, Ernst naturally also has some demands.

For the Qin State Ernst does not need it to have its own characteristics, as long as it is a miniature Han kingdom, with what Han traditions and customs, it will be the hometown of all Chinese in the Four-Power Alliance in the future. Its responsibilities are extraordinarily important, you must know that with the development of time, the Chinese population of the Quadruple Alliance will naturally occupy a fairly important proportion, and Ernst is also biased to make his future "daughter-in-law" have a Chinese American.

East Prussia ...... Ernst's arrangement is the "kingdom of science and technology", where mobile phones and computers will be born in the future, but it is estimated that it will be decades later, and no one can say whether there will be a four-nation alliance at that time, after all, Ernst did not have an accurate decision on how to fight in World War II.

"The rail connection rate in East Prussia is only 60 percent, which is already very high in other countries in Europe, but in the Four-Power Alliance, this is far from up to standard, my standard for Qin is that the coverage rate must reach 80 percent, and for you, my requirements are 100 percent, I hope you can make a plan."

Transportation is a very important thing for a country, both military and economic, so for any newly acquired region or country, Ernst's first requirement is to build a railway, and the subsequent trilogy is to promote urbanization, large farms, education and medical care.

After years of development, there may still be some places that are still very poor, but there is one point that Ernst is very proud of, that is, the old are dependent, the young are supported, and the sick are treated, of course, the result of this has also made the finances of the Quad Alliance very tight, fortunately, a large number of groups and companies are absorbing nutrients from the former world, barely nourishing the government finances of the Quad Alliance.

Ernst's professional education was actually very successful, and the reason why the number of teachers and doctors in the Four-Power Alliance could be fully supplied was very simple, because of the unitary education of the Czech Principality, they saved a lot of time to become talents and quickly devoted themselves to society and play their role.

The Quadruple Alliance now has a large number of Chinese herbal medicine bases and Western medicine refining companies, which also virtually reduces the cost of medical treatment, especially the Quadrilateral Alliance is almost a national exercise, compared with other countries, the patients in the hospitals of the Quadruple Alliance are almost reduced by more than two-thirds.

In fact, it seems that many of the free policies of the Quad have put a lot of pressure on the government, but in fact the pressure is far from as great as imagined, such as in terms of medical subsidies, the reduction in the cost of drugs and the scarcity of patients, the Quad may only need to spend a few million euros a year to meet all the needs.

A few million is also a lot? Don't forget that the Quadruple Alliance has a lot of wealthy merchants and aristocrats, and most of the banquets have charity activities, and it is normal for such charity events to bring tens of thousands of euros at a time, and it is also common for charity donations of millions of euros to be collected throughout the year, and most of these charities are accepted by hospitals.

In order to encourage these nobles and businessmen to carry out more charitable activities, the government will award some things such as honorary citizens and medals of honor every year, and Ernst will also cooperate with the knighthood and gentleman's decoration, of course, compared with the medals and honors given by the government, the royal family is more difficult to obtain.

Is this a decoration? Not really, in a way it is also a kind of credibility, such as bank loans, invitations to banquets of great nobles, they will never be polite to a person who does not have any medals, and the government will be very friendly to these people who have medals, in a sense, having medals determines that you can get in touch with another high-end circle, which is conducive to increasing your own contacts.

After the meeting, Wales was very embarrassed by Ernst's demand for rails, but how could he refuse at this time? Prague, Vilnius, Warsaw have already done it, and if he expresses his embarrassment, doesn't that mean that he is far inferior to those people? The Prime Minister of Wales was a man of great pride, and he did not consider himself worse than Massena and Arturas, but he had great ambitions for the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Poland, East Prussia, and Lithuania.

Welsh's ambition Ernst can naturally see it, and in fact, Wales has never concealed his ambition, so he openly provokes Arturas and looks at Arturas's prime ministership. But no one told Wales that he was following a very difficult path, the main thing being that he was in the wrong place.

At this time, the crown prince of the Kingdom of Poland-East Prussia-Lithuania was Heinrich, and it stands to reason that Wales needs to show his second allegiance in order to obtain a high position.

Second allegiance? The first allegiance was, of course, to the king of Ernst, a matter of principle, and if it could be wrong, it would not be far from Wales leaving his position as governor.

Wales made a big mistake by believing that even if he was loyal to Heinrich, he secretly contacted Maria in the hope of being accepted by Charlie. Although Ernst had already made clear the position of Heinrich Crown Prince of Lithuania, who could guarantee that East Prussia would not be separated from the Kingdom of Lithuania in the future? Who else dares to guarantee that in the future Charlie will not become the master of this country? (To be continued.) )