In East Asia, Archduke Ferdinand was warmly welcomed, in fact, it is not difficult to understand that the most important identity of Archduke Ferdinand is actually the Archduke of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz, even if this identity does not have the bonus of the East African Fleet, it will be courteous to East Asian countries.

The East African Navy also took advantage of the situation to fulfill the purpose of this visit and showed its face in East Asia, which can be regarded as letting East Asians know that there is still a country in the world, after all, there are only a few countries that can drive ironclad ships to East Asia in this era.

After completing this mission, the East African Navy could turn back, but Archduke Ferdinand thought that he should go to Alaska, and after replenishing supplies in East Asia, he would go to the Alaskan royal domain.

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Alaska Crown Domain.

As the isolated territory of the Heixingen royal family, it has a total population of more than 90,000 people, of which the army alone is as high as 30,000, and it is an area truly controlled by the army. And this state of affairs may remain in place for a long time until the East African Navy is actually capable of enforcing the law across the oceans.

The population of Alaska's Crown Realm is predominantly distributed in the southern temperate oceanic climate zone, which is the same as Western Europe in terms of climate type, but in fact varies greatly.

The southern part of Alaska is cooler than Western Europe, and the precipitation is extremely high, with annual precipitation of more than 1500 mm, which is due to the fact that Alaska is dominated by mountainous terrain, while Western Europe has vast large plains, and the terrain is uplifted, and water vapor is more likely to condense to form rainfall.

"A few years ago, I was in transit from here to East Africa, and it's really exciting to revisit this place!"

Archduke Ferdinand will never forget the day he was put into a sack, carried on horseback, and the bumps along the way directly made Ferdinand faint at that time, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already woken up on the ship to Alaska, so Alaska was the turning point of Archduke Ferdinand's fate.

In Alaska in August, the temperature is around 10 degrees, and the overall temperature is relatively cool, and the coastal area is full of life.

Agriculture in Alaska is dominated by potatoes and wheat, so you can see a large number of farmland developed near the settlements in Alaska, which is not as easy to develop as in East Africa, because the main inhabitants of the Alaskan royal domain are immigrants, and there is no cheap labor like East African "laborers".

There are some Ikismos in the Alaska Crown Territory, but the number is almost negligible, and the Ikismos live in an icy environment, and have little interaction with the inhabitants of the Crown Territory.

In this way, the development of the royal territory can only be done by immigrants themselves, and it is not as efficient as East Africa, but it also makes the sparsely populated Alaskan royal territory have some popularity.

At the same time, Alaska's fishery resources are also relatively rich, so Alaska's fishing industry is also very developed. This is not the case in East Africa, where the boats are almost entirely Ernst's private fleet, while the Alaskan fishing boats are built by Alaskan immigrants themselves.

Because fishing resources are one of the important sources of livelihood for the residents of Alaska's royal territory, private boats are common in Alaska, and almost every household has small fishing boats.

The civilian shipbuilding industry in the Alaska royal territory is more developed than that in East Africa, of course, this development is only the degree of activity, in fact, the fishing boats in the Alaska royal territory are not high-tech, and they can go to sea to fish, and they have no other capabilities.

The development of the coastal area of the Alaska royal territory is not bad, but in the development of the inland, Alaska is not enthusiastic, in addition to not developing itself, but also to prevent outsiders from entering Alaska, from the establishment of the royal territory to this year, the Alaska royal guard, a total of more than 20 groups of foreign expeditions who want to enter Alaska.

Some people want to fight the idea of Alaska, but most of them are civil organizations, so that the biggest investment of the Heshingen royal family in Alaska is the military, so the number of Alaskan troops accounts for 30% of the total population.

This is also a helpless move, as the weakest force in the region, it can only continue to focus on the military, but the defensive pressure of the Alaska royal territory is mainly at sea, so the Alaska royal territory has a small fleet, mainly small gunboats, to drive out illegal fishing boats from Canada and the United States to prevent them from going ashore in Alaska.

Of course, the Alaska royal territory is relatively restrained, as long as it is not the offshore area of the Alaska royal territory, it is generally one eye open, one eye closed, fishing on the "high seas", and the Alaskan royal territory has no opinion.

After all, if these foreign fishing boats are really not allowed to make some seafood in the Bay of Alaska, then these foreign fishing boats themselves are not easy to mess with, and they also have their own interest groups behind them, but only that.

Every step of the Alaska royal territory must be cautious, but there is no need to worry too much, the United States and Canada are not too interested in Alaska, in addition to the good Alaskan armed forces, there is also the right decision, originally left a piece of land for the Russians in the southernmost part, so that other countries in North America want to invade the Alaska royal territory from the land, must first pass through the Russian territory.

Without passing through the territory of the Russians, you can only enter Alaska from the inland, but the interior of Alaska is already precipitous, and the snow does not melt all year round, and the difficulty of passing through such a treacherous climate environment is no different from the German winter attack on Siberia.

Therefore, it is an impossible task to organize a certain size of army to attack the Alaskan royal territory through the interior, and the threat is mainly at sea.

However, with the East African Fleet circling the Gulf of Alaska, ordinary people really can't underestimate the strength of the Alaskan royal territory.

In September, Archduke Ferdinand inspected various parts of the Alaskan royal domain.

"The Alaska royal realm needs more advanced communications equipment, and if possible, it would be better to lay telegraph lines directly to the Jiaozhou area."

"The area of the Alaska royal territory is too large, even if the population is mainly distributed in the south, but the territory of the south is too much for 90,000 people, and the interval between each settlement is too large, so it is better to connect these settlements by telegraph to facilitate the unified management of the Alaska royal territory military district."

"Connecting with the telegraph line in the Far East would increase East Africa's control over Alaska's royal territory, and it would be too slow to deliver news by mail ship."

This was the suggestion given by Archduke Ferdinand after his inspection, and in fact, if the conditions did not allow it, Ferdinand would have wanted to set up a fleet for the navy in the Alaskan royal domain.

The Alaska royal family guard has its own separate naval system, this is because the Alaska royal territory does not belong to the East African kingdom, only belongs to the Hexingen royal family, and theoretically is on the same level as East Africa, which is not surprising, and Konstantin is still the monarch of the Hexingen pro-kingdom! If he wanted, Konstantin could go back to Prussia and become his own prince, but there was no need for it now.

"At the same time, the navy of the Alaska Crown Territory should be merged with the navy of our kingdom, so that they can also receive more systematic naval training, and at the same time, they can effectively link up to ensure the global interests of East Africa."

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, and Archduke Ferdinand is very interested in the Alaska royal domain navy, which uses small gunboats as the main combat ships, although it is not useful now, but the future may be uncertain, because there are many excellent harbors in Alaska, and at the same time control the Bering Strait, so Archduke Ferdinand believes that the strategic value here will be of great use in the future.

Moreover, the Alaska royal territory is very likely to be the largest territory of East Africa in the Eastern Pacific in the future, so it is not an exaggeration to call East Africa the "pearl" of the Eastern Pacific.

(End of chapter)