In response to His Majesty the Emperor's words, Manfred nodded in agreement and said, "Our North Lake Province also understands this point. As a province in the Great Lakes Region, we are relatively disadvantaged nationwide, especially because we are far from the ocean."
"Therefore, inland and neighboring trade is the only way out for the Great Lakes Region, to make up as much as possible for the shortcomings of being a non-coastal province. Our province's main learning objective is to become an important inland trade, transportation, and communication hub, similar to the Austro-Hungarian Empire or Germany."
Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany both have seaports, in terms of their economic distribution, they belong to regions where the inland economy is relatively developed. One important factor for achieving this is that the economic levels of the countries surrounding Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are not bad.
