April 1, 1696, Oriental Port.

Christopher Wagner had just returned to the villa after playing a polo game. After instructing two Polish maids to prepare hot water, he went straight to the garden, intending to rectify his thoughts.

The group of people who played polo this afternoon were all young men from Dongfang Port. The worst one in these people's family was a director or something, and their energy was extraordinary. Christopher went to get together with them, but it was actually just a favorable mood. Fortunately, he was willing to spend money and had a low attitude. Therefore, after two years of hang out, he has successfully squeezed into the circle and can speak with many people, although most of the time others don't look at him in the eye and treat him as an ATM.

But some of them were good at it, and sometimes they would talk to him with heart-to-heart, whether intentional or unintentional. The overall central idea of ​​these people is to ask about the business development status, population status, whether there are new investment opportunities, etc. Originally, Christopher answered this one by one, but later he felt something was wrong. These people didn't seem to be preparing to invest in New Courland at all. They asked too much, and they knew more and more information than normal business cooperation needed.

Christopher Wagner has been living and studying on the East Coast since his father served as the governor of New Courland. He has been living and studying on the East Courland for many years. He is not a fool, and he knows clearly what this means. Thinking that at least 30% of civil servants in New Courland are trained and studied on the East Courland, Christopher knows even more clearly that this is an attack of East Courland's desire to control New Courland, and he wants to understand more closely and control this rich colony located at the mouth of the Congo River.

Of course, these young men are not professional intelligence personnel. The situations they ask are complicated, sometimes without even covering up, but this is even more terrifying, because it means that the people of the East Coast no longer care about covering up. They are very confident and confident that New Kurland cannot escape their palms.

In fact, this is almost the same. Take Christopher as an example. His family owns several large-scale logging farms in the upper reaches of the Congo River, and also has a wood processing factory in the downstream port. The logging farm is nothing. It uses a large number of black slaves to cut down trees, then discharge them along the river, and collect them all the way to the estuary of the lower reaches. However, the various machine tools and drying equipment needed to process wood need to be provided by people on the east coast, especially those steam machine tools. Courland is not capable of manufacturing, and the quality of British goods is poor, so he can basically rely on people on people on the east coast. Not to mention, the labor tools and standard wooden boards required for the logging farm are all on the east coast, and their family is basically impossible to be separated from the east coast.

The same is true for some other commercial families in the New Kurland Colonial. More than half of the popular products such as tobacco, sugar and pepper are sold to the east coast, and 30% are eaten by a joint consortium of merchants from Koh Ya, Tuscany and Luka. Only 20% are transported back to Wendao Port by their own fleets and sold to Livornia and Poland. They are very dependent on the East Coast people. Furthermore, families operating these industries have introduced locally eliminated sugar-pressing and tobacco-curing equipment from the East Coast in recent years to improve their production efficiency. Considering that such equipment has only gradually been copied in the continental region, and they cannot buy spot stocks (there are a lot of problems when buying them). In the future, the equipment maintenance and upgrading will still rely on the East Coast people, so they are firmly tied to the ship on the East Coast.

When Christopher Wagner was in the Port of Jacob, the capital city of New Courland, he often heard people talking about the power and wealth of the East Coast. Considering the deep economic dependence between the two sides, this is not surprising. But the situation has been a little different recently. In his sense, the East Coast people seemed to want to further control the colony in the Congo River Basin, not a military means, but a political and economic means.

As for the reason, Christopher Wagner discussed with his father, and concluded that the East Coast people were not at ease with the Courland in Europe and were preparing for some preparations. His father clearly pointed out that the East Coast people were not very satisfied with the Grand Duke Frederick, mainly because of his ruling ability (no achievements in construction, and excessive squandering) and his unstable political stance, especially the latter, who sometimes hooked up with Russia and sometimes flirted with Poland and Prussia. Although most of them were for self-protection, they did not take the initiative to seek opinions from the East Coast people, which made people very unhappy.

The New Courland Colony has been developing for many years. Now it has a large city and four or five colonial strongholds. After absorbing a large number of French Huguenots, the white population has reached 40,000 to 50,000, which is the largest source of assets and profits under the Duchy of Courland. Moreover, due to good management, this colony is still increasing in value. Among them, the lower management is basically trained by people from the East Coast, and its governance abilities are pretty good, and the local area is well managed. Moreover, the continental region has been for many years.

The fierce war also brought a lot of immigrants to New Courland. Although the local outbreaks have "eliminated" a lot of people, overall the popularity of the entire colony is increasing. Especially after a cholera outbreak caused a large number of people to die, they learned from the pain and introduced a new health management system from the East Coast, refreshing the sanitation conditions of all colonial towns. Strictly speaking, it is better than other colonies established by the Europeans, and the prospects for future development are still very good.

Christopher's father was undoubtedly loyal to Grand Duke Frederick. He also tried to suppress the influence of the East Coast people in New Courland, but after the second-hand mobile phone he ordered was stuck twice, the so-called butt decided his head, and he quickly surrendered and gave up this "unregulated" approach. But he still adhered to one bottom line, that is, to help the office firmly guard the land, but to sell out the rights and interests of New Courland, especially when it comes to the ownership of land, minerals, and ports.

But Governor Wagner also knew that this kind of thing could not be stopped. There is a lot of surplus capital in the East Coast, and New Courland can be called a virgin land, which will naturally attract a lot of capital. What is even more amazing is that Grand Duke Frederick does not refuse to sell land, forest farms, etc., because this can provide him with a lot of money to spend, which makes Governor Wagner feel very hurt. The only thing he can do is to transfer several colonial officials who are too inclined to the East Coast from their original positions to curb the speed of the colonial government's "fall". In addition, he can't do anything. He is already worthy of the Grand Duke. He should consider himself that considering how much his industry relies on the East Coast, Governor Wagner cannot completely break the relationship with the East Coast, and generally, he must maintain a cooperative attitude.

Christopher once interned with his father for a few years, and he knew the situation clearly. He was not as loyal to his office as his father, and he loved himself more and money more. He had spent seven or eight years in New Courland. Now he has been accustomed to the warm climate here, the prosperous life on the east coast, the breath of civilization, and does not have much interest in the cold port city in the eastern Baltic Sea where he was born. Moreover, he is very smart and can roughly guess the thoughts of the East Courland, that is, once there is any change in Mitao, whether passive or active, in the event of recovery, the East Courland will definitely instigate New Courland independence to ensure their own interests. They are not very interested in directly annexing New Courland. Christopher knows very well.

In fact, it's not a big deal, right? If you become independent, those who rule New Korland are still the people who rule New Korland. Merchants, knights and a few nobles are just co-governing. Maybe it's a good thing for their own family who already have many industries in the local area. Mitao's blood draw on New Korland is really too powerful. Many local people have long been dissatisfied with it. Once the East Coast people instigate independence, he can guarantee that there will be almost no armed conflict in New Korland that will complete this matter.

Perhaps, New Courland will truly usher in a new life after successfully independent and repairing the cut blood vessels, right? Grand Duke Frederick is old. After years of indulging in alcohol and women, he has lost enough judgment and does not understand the powerful strength contained in the East Coast country. This country will sooner or later reach the top of the world. France, Austria, England, Spain and other countries in Europe are all shit, and even a little finger on the East Coast is not as good as. A few months ago, he met a Mongoma from Qingdao Port.

The English nobles of the Le family were very happy to talk to him. This guy also believed that continental countries should not confront the East Coast, and should cooperate in response, so that they could gain stable benefits. It is unwise and unnecessary to challenge the order established by the East Coast people. It may only cause you to suffer a blow, and at the same time, the competitors of England are France, Austria and the United Provinces, not the East Coast. The young man named George Montgomery insisted on thinking so.

Christopher Wagner actually agreed with this. The East Coast people did not participate directly in this Continental War, but this does not mean that they will not participate in the next war. Once they participate in the war, it will inevitably be thunderous. Perhaps the new world order will be completely established after this war. This order must be the East Coast Republic, and other countries are crawling at their feet, fighting for the remaining territory and resources. As long as they realize this, what should they do is actually very obvious. A great power like France may not be able to make a turn for the time being, but what Courland should do is actually very clear. I just hope that the Grand Duke will not mislead itself.

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Chapter completed!