Thanks to Sergei's efforts, the Russian government finally decided to sell the Alaska colony to the Heshingen consortium.

In the end, the price was set at 7 million rubles after repeated pulls from both sides, which is really a jump price.

Of course, in order to appease the Russian government, some of the more habitable islands and territories were not reclaimed by Alaska, and the actual land area traded was about 1.6 million square kilometers.

In return, Sergey himself directly benefited from this transaction with almost a million rubles.

March 13, 1867.

Witnessed by the Prussian government, the Heshingen consortium and the Russian government signed the Agreement on the Transfer of the Alaska Colony, and the Alaska colony was assigned to Prince Constantine.

In other words, from today onwards, the majority of Alaska colonies are the overseas territories of the Heshingen royal family.

The deal was publicized by some European media, but it did not cause any waves, after all, in the eyes of Europeans at the time, Alaska was just a barren land thousands of miles away, and perhaps polar bears were the largest number of residents in Alaska.

As for Ernst, although he paid for Alaska, he did not have the heart to develop Alaska.

It's completely out of the psychology of having dates and not hitting three poles, after all, it's too cheap, and it is impossible to meet this kind of good thing that you can get a large piece of land for a little money in the future.

This time, thanks to the bribes of Sergei and others, although a million rubles were paid separately, in the end it was good for these Russian ministers to take the money and do things.

You must know that in the previous life, the United States bought Alaska for more than seven million dollars, and Ernst only paid for rubles.

In this era, the exchange rate between the dollar and the ruble was basically two to one, and due to the impact of the Crimean War, the ruble still had room to continue to depreciate.

So even with the money paid to bribe the Russian minister, Ernst saved nearly half of the money and took the Alaska region.

That's a full 1.6 million square kilometers of land, not to mention whether it is useful now, even if Ernst leaves it to his descendants in the future, it will allow them to live a prosperous life.

As for the possibility of a futile, Ernst also took it into account, in addition to inviting the Prussian royal family to vouch for it.

Work was also done on other fronts, such as payments to the Russians, which Ernst used in installments.

After paying the first 2 million rubles, the remaining 5 million rubles will be paid off within 10 years, so that the Russians will have to be honest if they want to get the money.

In less than ten years, Ernst will be able to drive out all the Russians in Alaska, as was agreed in the previous agreement.

After all, the Russians still have the southernmost part of Alaska, which is 20,000 square kilometers, and the Russians also need manpower to develop it.

Therefore, the agreement between the Heshingen Foundation and the Russian government clearly states that Alaska (Greater Alaska) under the Heshingen royal domain has the right and obligation to send Russians in the territory of South Alaska (Little Alaska) in Russia to assist in development, and in the same way, Russians are not allowed to stay in Greater Alaska.

In the greater Alaska region, Ernst intends to adopt a state-of-the-art policy of "closing the country" to expel foreign merchants and monopolize the local fur market.

At the same time, expeditions and private individuals were strictly forbidden to enter the greater Alaska region to engage in any activities, and if Alaska's resources were discovered, Ernst's money would be wasted.

Now, Ernst is buying Alaska and putting it there to eat ashes, and it is better that no one finds out the true value there.

Combined with the newly acquired land in Zanzibar, the territory of the Heixingen royal family has now reached a staggering 2.8 million square kilometers.

In order to facilitate the external claim, Ernst and Prince Constantine discussed and jointly called the two places the royal domain of the Hohenzollern family Hehingen.

Such a large territory naturally attracted the attention of those who wished to do so, but other countries tacitly accepted that this was an overseas colony of Prussia.

After all, Ernst's industrial entity was still based in North Germany, and taxes were naturally paid to the Prussian government.

At present, the East African colonies are barely able to integrate with Ernst's industry, limited to tropical crops such as grain and sisal.

As part of the raw materials, it was incorporated into Ernst's industry, which in turn was a part of the Prussian industry, so it was equivalent to the industry of the East African colonies that finally served the German region.

Therefore, there is no problem that the East African colonies are Prussia's overseas colonies, but the Ernst and Heshingen consortium acted as intermediaries, liaising between East Africa and Germany's industrial union.

At present, Prussia's voice in North Germany is growing stronger, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as no other country interferes with Prussia's integration with North Germany, it is only a matter of time.

If Ernst wants to get rich quickly, it is too easy, as long as people go to East Africa to look for minerals, they can definitely make a lot of money in a short time.

But this may have drawn the attention of the great powers to Africa in advance, and the productive forces determined the relations of production, and the reason why the great powers also focused on Africa in the late 19th century was because the second industrial revolution changed the production mode of the great powers.

They have embarked on the road of exporting capital from the export of commodities, so they need to dominate the raw material market and consumer market all over the world.

The East African colonies were currently on the eve of this general trend, so Ernst carried out relatively backward plantation in East Africa, although the plantation industry accumulated wealth slowly, but it was better to be stable, and at the same time it could slowly accumulate the colonial population.

Only when the population under his rule reached a certain size could the future East African colonies be able to resist the invasion of other colonists.

At the same time, the freedom of colonial immigrants was strictly restricted, and the mode of collectivized management was adopted to prevent the outflow of some information.

For example, the current East African colonies are actually quite well developed among the colonies of the world, but the Europeans do not know about this place due to the geography (the Ottoman Empire and the Arabs spread all over North and East Africa).

The lag in information gave Ernst room to maneuver, and there was still a chance to gain a firm foothold in Africa by making good use of the two decades before the Great Powers divided Africa to determine the general extent of the East African colonies and consolidate the migration work.

In fact, as long as most countries do not die, it is still difficult for other countries to take advantage of it, and Ernst is still very comfortable as long as he farms honestly in Africa in the early stage and does not mix with some international hot spots.

Therefore, the East African colonies basically did not have much major deal with the rest of the matter, except for the digestion of the newly annexed Kenyan land.

In the Alaska colony, in order to pack up the Russians and other foreign businessmen in Alaska first, Ernst decided to send an East African colonial army to the Alaska colony to cooperate with the new Alaska colonial government.