The sale of naval ships is actually no different from handling scrap copper and iron; it's just that in this era, even scrap copper and iron have high value.
Moreover, the ironclad ships armed with weapon systems are the most advanced technological weapons of this era, comparable to aircraft carriers of the past.
After Grand Duke Ferdinand arranges naval-related tasks, Von der Leyen begins to report to Ernst on last year's ivory business in East Africa.
"The ivory business in East Africa has always been prosperous. Last year, the transaction volume was over forty thousand tusks, with more than twenty thousand stored in inventory, meaning that around ten thousand elephants died under the hunters' guns in East Africa in 1884."
