Trade staging was Franz's short-term vision for Hawaii Island, and he believed that the island's value and importance would emerge over time.

After all, intercontinental ocean trade will become more and more frequent in the future.

At this time, Hawaii's three pillar industries: sandalwood exports, whaling, and pearl gathering, although Franz was not optimistic about the prospects of these industries, but the money should be earned.

Franz, on the other hand, set his sights on the sandalwood and pearl collecting industries, both of which were inexpensive and highly rewarding.

As for the whaling industry, there is not even a single whaling ship in the whole of Austria, and there is a lack of relevant technical personnel and scientific and technological reserves.

In addition, whaling is too vulnerable to the other two luxury industries in terms of sustainability, and the petrochemical and rubber industries on which the empire will rely will take its place.

It is an irreversible trend that both baleen and whale oil will be replaced by cheaper industrial products.

And this time process will not be long, the oil in North Africa has been successfully extracted, and the rubber in Southeast Asia has matured.

The abundance of cheap raw materials will greatly contribute to the development of these two industries, and will affect the development of history to a certain extent, although not as obvious as the electric revolution, but not far behind.

Of course, in addition to the above, Franz also set his sights on coffee and sugar cane cultivation, after all, this can not only prevent labor surplus, but also enclose some land by the way, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, Friedrich's progress was not too smooth at this time, and his previous conflicts with the treacherous natives, and the subsequent frenzied revenge on the attackers, were all seen by their local counterparts.

In the past few days, there have been cases of indigenous people attacking Austrian soldiers who have landed on the shore, and when the Hawaiian Kingdom was invaded before, they did not harm the interests of other tribes, so they let it go.

Now that Friedrich's actions looked more like a provocation and a declaration of war, the tribes banded together to drive the powers out of their homeland.

Perhaps the previous colonizers were not large, and they were all mainly wealth-seeking enclosures, so there were not many conflicts with the natives, so the latter did not know the horror of the foreign powers.

It was the first time Friedrich had encountered such an outrageous event, and he found Kamehameha III, who was still secretly rejoicing at the bravery of his subjects.

The monarch also pretended to be stupid when questioned by distinguished visitors, and several British, French, and American advisers even had a good show.

The Austrian army was too strong in the here and now compared to the other powers, so they were eager to see it and its commander deflated.

Little did they know that Friedrich would preemptively order the removal of creatures that might pose a threat to his soldiers without receiving a reply.

No matter how strong the natives are, they can't stand up to a prepared modern army, and their defenses are useless and full of holes under the baptism of naval guns and rockets, and bows and arrows are impossible to fight against guns.

Soon the indigenous tribes around Pearl Bay were swept away, and they had to hide in the jungle of the island to escape the threat.

However, the local Nanming laborers, who had long been oppressed by the natives, stepped forward and joined the Austrian army under the leadership of some spies.

These men were better at jungle warfare than Friedrich's marines, after all, it was on the island of Kalimantan that they relied on to win against the British.

In the end, it took nearly a month for the Austrians to completely eliminate the hostile forces near Pearl Bay. This has made Hawaii's population, which is already suffering from infectious diseases, plummet.

These Chinese naturally became the new masters of the vicinity of Pearl Bay, and Austria left only a small number of local managers, but this was enough for no local power to underestimate its strength.

"It turns out that I'm really just an ant." Kamehameha III smiled wryly, and at this time, he was as enveloped by fear as the thousands of natives on the island.

Historically, the monarch's strategy of distributing land had made his subjects real landowners, and before World War I, they all frantically enslaved laborers from the East.

Moreover, they are more vicious than Westerners, often raising rents at will, beating and scolding at will, and even violently assaulting and robbing property.

According to the plan, Friedrich would have to use the funds to buy the land, or at least co-develop it as an acceptable option, but in the end it turned out to be a forcible seizure.

However, this variable has long been in Franz's expectation, so he prepared a group of Chinese laborers in advance, after all, it is not realistic to develop Hawaii Island by transporting people from the empire mainland across the ocean in the short term.

"Kagura-sama, why don't you come and take a look? Those fireworks are so beautiful! ”

Princess Sneka was fascinated by the smoke and burning gunpowder, and the sound of the huge explosions was like pleasant music.

Kagura looked at the unequal battle in the distance with some indifference, she had seen a battle far fiercer than this, and she was also there in the naval battle that destroyed the Omani Empire's navy.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, you better go into the cabin and rest, it's windy outside."

Kagura deliberately came out with a cloak, knowing that the former would not follow her advice.

"Miss Kagura, you are so considerate, I heard that you are Franz's close attendant?"

Nineka tentatively asked, Kagura was no longer the hateful little girl she had been, she knew what the former wanted to know, but nothing happened.

"Back to Her Royal Highness the Princess, I am just a student of the Grand Duke."

"Students?" This statement caught Princess Sneka by surprise, and she wondered what Friedrich's saint was like.

Although Snecka had contact with Franz, the time was too short and too thoughtful for the former to judge the latter's personality and preferences.

Carolina, on the other hand, was a complete idiot, and she only thought Franz was handsome and strong.

From the servants it was known that Franz was also very erudite and good at wrestling, but rarely attended royal events.

In fact, the royal family of this generation rarely shows their faces in public, and the exposure rate is far less than that of the Holy Roman Empire.

At that time, Archduke John would go to various celebrity balls and banquets every day, attend music festivals, opera opening ceremonies, and even go to taverns and cafes to chat with people.

Archduke Karl also often rode with his armies, and Emperor Franz II often looked down on his subjects from his balcony.

This generation of Emperor Ferdinand I is not to mention that he is powerless, and his younger brother, Archduke Franz Karl, is a social terrorist, and the only two appearances in public for so many years, once are debating with people in the park, and once is drunkenly bathing in the fountain in the square.

Archduke Karl's family, the old one went to Switzerland for a tour, the eldest hid in the headquarters all day and didn't know what he was studying, and the second one went to the United States to dig coal, and he really didn't understand the royal family's hobbies.

The third child drifted on the sea all day, and the fourth child never came out in his own palace.

Not to mention the few minor Grand Dukes in the direct line, only the Grand Duke Franz occasionally went out in a carriage to the Royal Society of Sciences.

(End of chapter)