East Africa lay isolated overseas, far from Germany.
And clearly, for the Hechingen Royal Family, its core interests still lay in the German heartland. The East African colony could only be considered one of the Hechingen Royal Family's major investments.
Although Ernst had strategically chosen East Africa as the future of the Hechingen Royal Family, there was no need for him to go to East Africa immediately.
Because in the eyes of any colonial power, the East African colony was still a long-term project. It had not even completed its first phase yet.
The East African colony relied heavily on the Hohenzollern Conglomerate for transfusions of support. Once separated from the Hechingen Royal Family, its development would immediately grind to a halt.
Take the weapons, technology, and population from Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire—without the Hechingen Royal Family serving as the central coordinator, an East African colony could forget even dreaming of them.
Although Ernst was not in East Africa, all power in East Africa remained in his hands. Rules and restrictions confined every East African official's authority within an extremely narrow range.
Because East Africa employed a hiring system—that was, a corporate system—and its current main development project was agriculture, it would not have been wrong to call the East African colony an agricultural development company under Hechingen.
The officials in East Africa were also Hechingen employees. This was especially true in the military, where those earliest Germans had all signed contracts with Hechingen.
In other words, all these people had weak points held in the Hechingen Royal Family's hands. They could freely abuse their authority in East Africa if they wished, but their families were all recorded in the Hohenzollern Conglomerate's files. On the Hechingen Royal Family's own patch of land in Prussia and Germany, the House of