Of course, that was somewhat sophistry. Given East Africa's current national strength, it was no exaggeration to say that unless all the world's great powers joined forces, none could threaten the East African mainland. For any single country, invading East Africa was basically impossible.
"Mr. Hull, let's set the digression aside and talk business. Affairs of state are matters for those at the top to consider. Small people like us can only offer support within the limits of our abilities. Take the economic sphere, for instance—it is no less important to a nation than the military," Maxim said.
Hull said, "You're right. This time, our company mainly intends to increase our purchases of East African agricultural products. The global economy has improved somewhat recently, so we plan to expand our textile raw material supplies. On that basis, we intend to import a batch of cotton from Luanda."
Hull did not state the specific quantity or price, naturally because he wanted East Africa to yield more profit. In fact, East Africa was at a disadvantage in trade between the two countries. As an agricultural nation, it could only export low-value-added goods such as agricultural products and minerals to the German state.
But that did not matter to Luanda City. Angola had now accumulated a batch of agricultural products and urgently needed to find an outlet for them.
After all, Angola had once been Portugal's source of raw materials. Now that it had expanded local agricultural cultivation on that foundation, output had risen, and the need to secure sales had naturally become more pressing.
"We can lower the price by ten percent, but your purchasing volume must reach at least one thousand jin. Otherwise, we can only lower it by five percent."
This counted as bundled sales, but even without that, Angolan