In fact, it is procedurally impossible for Prince Konstantin to leave for Africa immediately, after all, Prince Konstantin's status is not ordinary.

Not only is the monarch of Hexingen, but also the prince of the Kingdom of Prussia, and if he wants to go to East Africa, he must take some henchmen of the Hexingen royal family with him, and he can't directly let these loyal ministers who have worked for the Hexingen royal family for generations dissolve in situ.

Heixingen is not large, but as a state, it should have a lot of administrative organs, even if it was annexed to Prussia, some power was handed over.

That's just military, taxation and other powers, and the Heixingen royal family still has a large number of people, including servants and guards.

The follow-up arrangements for these people must be arranged, those who are willing to go to East Africa with Prince Constantine will be brought with them, those who are unwilling will be given a higher dissolution fee, and the rest who are neither willing to go to East Africa nor have nowhere to go will stay and continue to take care of Heixingen's industry.

After all, the castle and the property also need to be taken care of by manpower, but with the departure of Prince Konstantin, they no longer belong to the Hexingen royal family, but are managed by the Hexingen Foundation, and they have changed from employees attached to the royal family to employees.

At the same time, Prince Konstantin's whereabouts also had to be thoroughly negotiated with the family, and the first to receive the news was Sigmaringen next door.

"Konstantin, are you really going overseas alone?" Prince Karl Anton asked Prince Konstantin.

As one of the most familiar friends and relatives of Prince Konstantin, Karl Anton did not understand Prince Konstantin's decision quite unwell.

Because of the geographical location and family reasons, Heichengen and Sigmaringen have a very good relationship, especially in this generation, with Prince Karl Anton and Prince Konstantin having the best relationship.

Together, the two decided to annex the two countries to Prussia, and they also helped each other politically, and in recent years Konstantin has faded out of Prussian politics, but his support for Prince Karl Anton has not diminished.

And Sigmaringen is indeed developing well, Karl Anton's two sons are more promising, and he is also in important positions in the Kingdom of Prussia, if Prince Konstantin does not fade out of the center of power in the kingdom, it is estimated that he is now similar to Prince Karl Anton in the Kingdom of Prussia.

"Yes, for the sake of the family's expansion overseas, my old bones also want to contribute." Prince Konstantin said.

"Then you don't have to go to East Africa in person! In this era, there are almost no big aristocrats of our status to develop overseas, Europe is the center of the world, and the overseas situation is complicated, you may not be able to grasp it! ”

Prince Carl Anton is alluding to nothing else, it is the Brazilian Empire, the Portuguese royal family was forced to move to Brazil because of Napoleon, and the country was established for a short time.

"To tell the truth, our aristocracy has a foothold in Europe, to a large extent, relying on the mutual support of family and political allies, after all, overseas is an area that is difficult for our strength to radiate, and we have no strength there, and the risk of going overseas is too great." Prince Karl Anton said to Konstantin.

In Karl Anton's view, the East African colonies are estimated to be the same as those traditional colonies, and the overlords use the method of peace and mud to maintain the rule of the colonies.

It is to temporarily suppress the majority with a few, after all, colonies are for plunder, and who will be idle and have nothing to do to build colonies sincerely.

Even if Britain and France have some construction in the colony, it is to squeeze the potential of the colony more vigorously, and only Portugal is forced to vigorously build Angola and Mozambique.

There was still a risk of independence in the overseas colonies, so Karl Anton strongly advised Konstantin not to risk going overseas.

"Alas, Karl, I'm not like you, Heshingen is a small country with little potential, and since the annexation to Prussia, I don't have much motivation to struggle.

Unlike you, now my sons can almost find a good place, Ernst was too young to catch up with the good times, even if I want to operate in Europe in the future, I am afraid that the opportunity will be slim, after all, I am also old, and after my death, Ernst's situation will be even more difficult. ”

Konstantin is talking about the future of Ernst, just like Sigmaringen, Ernst himself has the possibility of becoming the king of Europe, but this kind of pie-in-the-sky thing is estimated to be encountered only twice in Sigmaringen.

Although European aristocrats married each other, and Germany had a tradition of exporting kings, it was impossible to make a position out of thin air.

Especially in recent years, the political situation in Europe has been chaotic, and even if there is a real opportunity, Konstantin may not agree.

In Europe, when other people invite you to be king, it is not a trivial matter to invite you to dinner, it is to maintain their own interests, such as Massimiliano I, who was thrown to Mexico by Napoleon III, at best a puppet of high status.

It is really extremely rare to find a country like Romania, which is under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, and who wants to turn to Europe and needs a king to strengthen its ties with Europe.

"This is not a big deal, there are so many European nobles, especially our relatively high status, there are not a few, there are three royal families in France next door, there are so many people at the bottom, it is really difficult to go further, but Heixingen, as a prince, is very talented, and you have a son, it is enough for Ernst to inherit your title in the future, and now Heixinggen's industry is so big, many nobles have asked for your family, which is not envied by many people!" Prince Karl Anton still could not understand Konstantin's thoughts.

To tell the truth, Prince Carl Anton is actually very envious of Konstantin, aristocrats like them are actually most lacking in money, to say who has the most money in the German region, the Heshingen royal family is definitely among the best, the Hexingen Bank alone is already one of the largest banks in Europe, if Konstantin gives Ens a special marriage, a large number of top nobles will definitely flock to it.

Although, the great aristocracy itself has more assets, but it can spend more, especially these European nobles who came over in the Middle Ages, they have not been less worried about debts in history, and Ernst is synonymous with youth, more money, and noble status in the eyes of outsiders.

"Money is not everything, at least our Heixingen royal family is not very interested in money now." Konstantin rarely took a moment of pride: "Money is enough to spend, when wealth reaches a certain stage, it is not of much significance to a big aristocrat like us, if you want to achieve something, you still have to be one step closer politically." ”

"Then you won't go to that hellish place in Africa and suffer and be tired! With Heixingen's current strength, I think there are many opportunities to operate in Europe, especially since you have a good relationship with Austria-Hungary and have nothing to do, at least you can go to the Balkans to seek a throne! Karl Anton said.

"There are many opportunities in the Balkans, and the success rate is also high, but the situation in that place is too complicated, and the three great powers are surviving in the cracks, presumably Karl (Carol I, the king of Romania) has complained to you a lot!" Konstantin asked rhetorically.

"That's true, but it's better than that barren land in Africa, even if Carl really can't hold it down, we won't stand idly by, but if you go to Africa, even if we want to intervene, we can't do anything." Karl Anton said.

"There's nothing wrong with barren land, at least it shows that the potential is good, and Europe is too turbulent, it's really not easy to get ahead, although there may be a lot of danger there, but it's much easier to deal with the natives than to deal with a bunch of old foxes in Europe." Konstantin said insincerely.

The more I learned, the more I felt the potential of East Africa, which was similar to Prince Carl Anton's impression of Africa before Konstantin decided to go to East Africa.

But when more and more data was put in front of Prince Constantine, Konstantin had to admit that his previous most optimistic expectations for East Africa were still too conservative.

After Ernst's vigorous development of East Africa, there are almost no shortcomings, just a navy, but East Africa is now busy with inland expansion, and the demand for a navy is not very urgent.

Konstantin became more and more excited at the thought of an emerging country with an extremely easy population of more than 2 million square kilometers and an area of more than 2 million square kilometers and constantly expanding, being taken over by the Hahinden royal family.

However, the one who is close to Zhu is red, and the one who is close to ink is black, and with his son, Konstantin has now learned badly, and he has made a lot of money with a muffled voice.

He said to Karl Anton: "Although Africa is difficult, but our Hohenzollern family was also extremely difficult, after many generations to reach today's achievement, the future development of the East African colonies will inevitably need the support of Germany, then you should not be stingy, in the kingdom to fight for more support for me." ”

He did not mention the current development of East Africa and the huge interests of the Heixingen royal family in East Africa, but instead turned to it and asked for help.

(End of chapter)