In another ten years, the Rhine Royal Family's population could at least double again, because Ernst's grandchildren had already come of age. In Ernst's view, the more uncertain the future became, the more the Rhine Royal Family should encourage people to have more children. This would both prevent future monarchs from being left to support a lone tree and spread the family's risks.
After all, since the nineteenth century, no one knew how many royal families had vanished like smoke in the great tide of history.
Speaking of Alexei's family, although Alexei was now honored as the "Tsar," he still had to run himself ragged to provide for his household.
He said to his wife, "Some time ago, the economic crisis caused the stock market and financial sector to implode, and other industries had a hard time as well. Now that the economy is recovering, do you think we should make some new investments?"
When Alexei came to East Africa, he had not been without savings. Since Nicholas II had been able to send him to East Africa, he had naturally made preparations in advance. For instance, the industries invested in by the Russian imperial family in East Africa had been inherited by Alexei after he came of age.
There was nothing strange about this. After the South African War at the end of the previous century, other countries had already begun investing in East Africa, this emerging nation.
The Russian imperial family had established quite a few businesses along East Africa's coast. As for the interior, it had only opened after 1910, by which time the outbreak of World War was already close at hand. Thus, Russian imperial investment in East Africa had mainly been concentrated in the coastal regions.
The Russian imperial family's primary investment in East Africa