Frederick sought to exploit and develop Poland economically as part of his wider aim of enriching Prussia. and described it as an "artichoke, ready to be consumed leaf by leaf". As early as 1731 Frederick had suggested that his country would benefit from annexing Polish Prussia in order to join the separated territories of his own kingdom, and to gain more ports on the Baltic Sea. He saw the outlying regions of Prussia as barbaric and uncivilised. He also had low regard for the Polish inhabitants, expressing Anti-Polish sentiments such as describing them as "slovenly Polish trash".