At the foot of Mount Kenya.
The coffee plantation Ernst had chosen was under construction.
Coffee was one of the most common beverages in Europe, America, and the Middle East, and its market was highly promising.
In his previous life, Kenya had been a producer of fairly high-quality coffee, but coffee cultivation there had not begun until the end of the nineteenth century, when British colonists introduced superior coffee varieties from abroad.
Now, Ernst had opened up coffee plantations here ahead of time.
It was rather amusing when one thought about it. To Kenya's north lay Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, yet coffee had not taken root in Kenya until modern times.
Previously, a small number of Arabs had brought coffee trees in from Yemen, but they had never been planted on a large scale.
Ernst directly drew upon Kenya's experience from his previous life and introduced coffee varieties from Brazil.
The eastern highlands centered around the foothills of Mount Kenya stood between 1,400 and 2,000 meters above sea level.
The first coffee plantation currently planned alone covered more than 28,000 mu.
Ernst might not have had the nerve to compete with Britain, France, and the like for business, but he was still highly ambitious about reigning supreme in the German territories.
Most countries such as Britain and France that maintained overseas colonies had their own coffee plantations. France, for instance, had opened plantations in Vietnam and elsewhere, while Haiti had once borne the heavy responsibility of producing coffee for France.
The states in the German territories, however, had no overseas colonies, and their homelands were unsuitable for coffee production. This made things convenient for Ernst.
Kenyan coffee was of excellent quality due to its natural conditions. As the saying went, good goods never feared finding no buyer. Moreover, land