The Battle of Lissa had ended, but it didn't have much impact on Ernst.
Now, besides hastening to supply the warring parties with materials, Ernst's main focus was to accelerate immigration from the Far East and Europe.
Although the Marine District had cleared the land, there wasn't enough manpower to develop such a vast area. Except for a few new settlements with a slight population, most of the land was left unused.
To attract more immigrants, Ernst sent instructions to the East African colony to increase the pace of immigration, using deceit or force if necessary, to bring more people from the Far East.
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July 4, 1866. Jiaozhou Bay.
A Dutch fleet, passing through East Africa, docked at Jiaozhou Bay, and unlike before, this time some Chinese who had lived in the East African colony for a long time returned with the staff responsible for immigration affairs of the Heixinggen consortium.
They were the first batch of Chinese immigrants to the East African colony.
