While Zanzibar merchants were taking people and goods from East Africa, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate was also striving to cut production costs and secure greater profits.
This was also to ensure the safety and smooth flow of raw material channels. Before the East African colony was established, tobacco cultivation worldwide had basically been monopolized by those few overseas colonial powers. The East African colony happened to solve this problem.
Of course, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate was not currently facing the predicament of having its throat choked. The present world was one where great powers stood side by side; no single country could reign supreme.
When purchasing tobacco, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate could even compare goods from three different sellers and choose products that satisfied it.
Especially after the East African colony was developed, tobacco cultivation had spread ever wider over the past two years, leaving the Hohenzollern Conglomerate with even less to worry about.
The cost of growing tobacco in the colony was extremely low. All they had to do was ship it back to Europe, which could conveniently be handled on the return voyages of immigrant ships.
Of course, even Ernst himself no longer knew exactly how many types of industrial products the Hohenzollern Conglomerate produced. It had basically set foot in every product closely tied to German life.
The raw materials required by so many products were naturally diverse and needed in enormous quantities.
Fortunately, the industrial scale of this era was utterly incomparable to Ernst's previous life, and the public's spending power was likewise nowhere near it. Thus, many raw materials could be supplied by Europe itself alone.
Coal from the Ruhr area was a classic example, providing abundant and cheap energy for the future rise of German industry. Coal was also one of the key indicators of the First