As the saying went, inviting a god was easy, sending one away was hard. With his pride so strong, Maximilian I did not want to return to Europe. He believed himself extraordinarily gifted; if he went back with his tail between his legs, he would surely be laughed at by everyone.
At the end of July.
Mombasa Port was quite bustling. Because of the distance, immigrants from Asia currently disembarked here, while European immigrants disembarked at Dar es Salaam Port.
Maximilian I had arrived in Mombasa with a ship convoy carrying Chinese immigrants. He had stayed in Alaska for only one day; that place was no place for people to live.
There was temporarily no Austro-Hungarian Empire diplomatic office in the Far East (the 1869 "Sino-Austro-Hungarian Beijing Treaty"), so vessels from the Hohenzollern Royal Territory could only bring Maximilian I to East Africa.
East Africa could directly contact the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Maximilian I in Mombasa immediately found his people.
After all, there were quite a few Austro-Hungarian Empire immigrants here. The colony's immigrants were assigned out and scattered for settlement. Maximilian I managed to extract quite a bit of intelligence from them.
After learning that this was the territory of his future son-in-law, Maximilian I decided not to leave. Using ill health as an excuse, he no longer boarded a ship with the students of Hechingen Military Academy back to Europe.
The East African Colonial Government and the Hechingen Military Academy special operations team could not exactly force Maximilian I to return either. This was, after all, the Hohenzollern Royal Territory, and Maximilian I was His Highness the Prince's father-in-law. Thus, Maximilian I was currently the highest-ranking person in the East African colony.
Of course, no one dared slight him based on his status as Emperor of Mexico alone,