Looking at the flourishing experimental base before him, rising at a pace visible to the naked eye, Professor Anton Perutz felt immensely satisfied.
Professor Anton Perutz and his party were the strange outsiders in the eyes of Second Town's residents.
After all, unlike the immigrants, every one of Professor Anton Perutz's group was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, with personnel sent by the East African Colonial Government accompanying them. At a glance, they were clearly no ordinary people.
Second Town had also been instructed to cooperate with Professor Anton Perutz and the others. To build the experimental base for the East African Tropical Agriculture Research Institute, Second Town provided both manpower and land.
When Professor Anton Perutz had first arrived in Second Town, he too had been greatly startled. From the moment he passed through First Town's urban district, he had wondered whether this was some overseas branch of the Kingdom of Prussia.
The uniform Prussian military uniforms had left every researcher on Professor Anton Perutz's team deeply shocked.
Fortunately, personnel from the East African Colonial Government traveling with them served as guides and cleared up many of Professor Anton Perutz's doubts.
Still, Professor Anton Perutz and his research team were stunned by Ernst's grand scale of operations in the East African colony.
The clothing alone for over a million people must have cost a fortune—an astronomical sum for ordinary people of this era.
That was indeed the case. Apart from the large batch of secondhand Prussian military uniforms Ernst had picked up from the Prussian Government in the early days, he had later simply acquired a factory to produce knockoff Prussian military uniforms for East Africa.
After all, the Prussian Army itself only had several hundred thousand men. Where could there possibly be so many secondhand uniforms