December 1892.

"Brother Rogge, are you here?" Enders, a member of the Hawaii Business Association, smiled and introduced Rogge into the house.

"Moore, go make a cup of coffee."

Moore is a servant in Endes's family, a typical black man, and Enders hires a black man as his domestic servant, naturally because it is cost-effective, the price is right, not to mention, and the management of the family is orderly.

Rogge was lying on the sofa, looking quite comfortable, and he asked Enders, "Boss Enders, why do you have time to call me here this time, I have often invited you in the past, but you are not at home." ”

"Heh, I'm all busy with business, I'm not like you, the business is so big, don't be busy for a while, I was busy with orders in Europe a while ago, the list is not big, they are all small portions, the amount is large, and the work is endless." Enders said.

"You're joking, I'm a small businessman, I haven't had any business recently, so I have time to wander around, I don't know how much I really envy you, Europe has always been generous, so I can only do business in the Far East."

In Hawaii, everyone is still mainly engaged in the sandalwood business, but the sandalwood business in Hawaii is also declining, and think about it, there are already a few small islands here, and no amount of resources can keep up with the pace of cutting for decades.

As for other places, Hawaii's biggest role is to serve as a docking place for ships at sea, after all, the heart of the North Pacific Ocean is a decent place in the Hawaiian Islands.

Of course, this is also the main reason why East Africa is eyeing here, Hawaii's position is too important to say without intervening.

Hawaii is in the middle of the North Pacific Current, and East Africa travels to Alaska mainly along the North Pacific Current to the west coast of the Americas, and then north along the Alaska Current.

Ships at sea, which generally follow the currents, can save a lot of time and money, especially in the age of sailing.

The colony of the South Ryukyu Islands in East Africa is located at the source of the North Pacific Current, so as long as Hawaii is replenished, the communication between East Africa and Alaska can be considered stable.

Of course, when the ship returns from Alaska, it will take a different route, that is, the Japanese archipelago and the waters of eastern Asia.

Most of the goods carried by Alaskan ships returning to the sea were lumber and furs, which were reloaded and returned to East Africa after they had been sold in Japan and the Far East.

After all, there is no shortage of wood in East Africa itself, and fur is not needed, and East Africa is located in the tropics, and there is no need for fur for heating, but products such as silk are more popular.

Thanks to the extreme lack of timber in the Far Eastern Empire, especially in the North, Alaska's merchant ships did not return to the country with too high an empty rate.

Of course, in this way, the Alaska route will not make much money in the trade of East Africa, and even lose money, and East Africa will send more than 20,000 tons of rations to Alaska every year to ensure the normal operation of the Alaskan royal territory.

At the beginning, the main reason why Tsarist Russia abandoned Alaska was Alaska's poor food self-sufficiency rate.

Moreover, Tsarist Russia itself had a Siberian region and the Tsar had to exile prisoners to maintain the population, so it was impossible for the Russians to go to Alaska to open up the wasteland.

Alaska is not without growing anything, the south can grow potatoes, barley, oats and a small number of drought-tolerant vegetables, but this is also a drop in the bucket for the whole of Alaska, so East Africa needs to continue to supply the Alaskan people with staple food, on this basis, the effective use of Alaska's arable land resources.

Of course, if Alaska's mineral resources can be exploited, it will certainly be a different story, but is East Africa capable of developing Alaska now?

Obviously, no, it is certain that if Alaska's mineral development is liberalized, then the army of Canadians and Americans will immediately go north, so they can only suffer the people of Alaska first.

Of course, this is just a joke, Alaska's standard of living is not bad at all, after all, the population is small, as a country with overcapacity in agriculture, East Africa is not short of that bit of food, plus Alaska is rich in fishery resources, so in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, the living standard of Alaska residents is quite high.

In East Africa, or the Heshingen royal family wants to maintain the rule of Alaska, it naturally needs to ensure the smooth flow between the two places, and the main thing from East Africa to Alaska is shipping, so the importance of Hawaii is highlighted again.

This is the same reason as Ernst's insistence on intervening in the dispute over the Ryukyu Islands, but in fact, the ultimate goal is to ensure the security of Alaska.

Without the Alaska royal domain, East Africa would not have been muddyed at all, because the South Ryukyu Islands and Kauai had few resources, and the occupation of the two places in East Africa would not have any real gains, and it might be targeted by Japan and the United States.

Of course, the United States and Japan will not be intimidated against East Africa, East Africa itself is far away from the two countries, even if they do their best to take East Africa, there is no good way, but on the other hand, East Africa can control the two countries.

This shows the geographical superiority of East Africa, where world trade is mainly concentrated in the Eurasian continent, and it is impossible for the United States and the Japanese not to take the Indian Ocean region, and in the Indian Ocean region, as long as East Africa is not aimed at Britain and the United States, no one can do anything about East Africa.

Especially in Japan, the European raw silk market is extremely important to Japan, and the Indian Ocean is the only way for Japanese merchant ships to go to Europe, otherwise they can only detour through the Americas, and the Panama Canal is not opened today, the risk of detouring through the Americas is too great, and the time is also long.

The construction of railways in the United States in the 19th century was also due to the inconvenience of shipping, so it was forced to connect the east and west coasts through railways, giving birth to the world's largest railway network.

The poor French are still building the Panama Canal, and they simply haven't learned the lessons of the "Suez" Canal, but now France likes to invest overseas, after all, the cost of its own industrial production is too high, especially after the loss of Lorraine and Alsace, and it is completely impossible to compete with Germany, so it is understandable that France has invested heavily overseas.

In the previous life, the French colonies were relatively stable, because France had a higher degree of construction, and the colonies received more dividends than the colonies of other countries, of course, this dividend has nothing to do with the local natives, mainly French residents living in the French colonies.

"Brother Rogge, you underestimate yourself too much, you have been in Hawaii for all these years, who doesn't know Rogge's name, the entire Kauai Island is almost all over your industry, just by virtue of these industries, you are also a big businessman in Hawaii, unlike me can only turn around in the sandalwood business, and with the depletion of sandalwood resources, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it in a few years, if I change careers at that time, I'm afraid I will have to take care of you, brother." Endes complimented Rogge.

Rogge's industries are naturally concentrated on Kauai, after all, this is a directive from the central government, which is conducive to East Africa's covert control of Kauai.

Now is not the time for a showdown, East Africa can only continue to raise on Kauai, once the United States makes a move in Hawaii, East Africa will "respond" in time to achieve the division of Hawaii between the two countries.

To put it mildly, the Americans could not have imagined that East Africa would be so insidious, in fact, there are three countries that the United States mainly guards against in Hawaii, Britain, France and Japan.

With these three countries sharing firepower, East Africa, a country far away in Africa, naturally has no one to care about, and in the midst of competition and precautions against each other, it is impossible to imagine that East Africa will quietly extend its hand to Hawaii.

(End of chapter)

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