Thanks to Sergei's efforts, the Russian government ultimately decided to sell the Alaska colony to the Hohenzollern Conglomerate.
After repeated tug-of-war between both sides, the final price was set at 7 million rubles. It was practically a bargain basement price.
Of course, to appease the Russian government, several more habitable island groups and territories were not reclaimed by Alaska. The land actually traded amounted to roughly 1.6 million square kilometers.
In return, Sergei himself directly profited by nearly a million rubles from this transaction.
March 13, 1867.
Under the Prussian Government's witness, the Hohenzollern Conglomerate and the Russian government signed the "Agreement on the Transfer of the Alaska Colony," and the Alaska colony was placed under Prince Constantin's name.
In other words, from this day onward, the Alaska colony itself became an overseas territory of the Hechingen Royal Family.
The transaction was made public by certain European media outlets, but it caused no great stir. In the eyes of Europeans at the time, Alaska was merely a barren land ten thousand miles away. Perhaps polar bears were its most numerous inhabitants.
As for Ernst, although he had paid to buy Alaska, he had no intention of developing it.
He was simply taking three swings whether there were dates on the tree or not. It was just too cheap, and he would never again encounter such a good thing as spending a little money to acquire such a vast stretch of land.
This time, thanks to the bribes paid to Sergei and the others, although he had separately paid a million rubles, those Russian ministers had ultimately done their jobs well after taking the money.
One had to know that, in his previous life, the United States had spent more than 7 million US Dollars to purchase Alaska, while Ernst had