 One of the first major projects under consideration by King Stanisław August Poniatowski was a channel linking Noteć and Brda rivers via Bydgoszcz.Main aims to be achieved were facilitating Polish goods exports to Western Europe, as well as commercial exploitation of forest resource (neglected so far), while weakening the quasi-monopoly of the then-Prussian city of Gdańsk.Politically, the opposition to this concept was the fact that such a canal could in fact increase the power of the Kingdom of Prussia.