We must live as we want others to emulate.

- Mahatma Gandhi (the founding father of modern India, India's greatest political leader, founder of Gandhiism)

For a whole afternoon, Bai Feng and Prince GLP had been discussing the future development direction of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Palace, and Nice Province, as one of the six eastern provinces, was naturally within the scope of the discussion, but neither of them specifically talked about the development of Nice Province.

With the exception of the province of Nice, which is run by the House of Nice, the other five provinces are not governed by a governor for the time being, and both agree that it is better for these five provinces to remain without a governor, after all, the presence of the governor is not conducive to their control of the provinces.

Of course, after a simple division of provinces, it is not true that the provinces of Brojansson and Grenoble are completely in the hands of the Prince of Pross, and Bai Feng's unparalleled influence in these two provinces is impossible to eliminate in a short period of time.

Prince Pros, who already knew something about the situation in the eastern provinces, was also wise not to think about eliminating Bai Feng's influence, all he wanted was the administrative power and the right to collect taxes and taxes in these two provinces, and he would not care too much about the rest.

In the opinion of Prince Pros, if he has the right to administer, he can give orders to the people and nobles of these two provinces, and if he has the right to collect taxes and taxes, he can obtain wealth through these two provinces.

Based on this typical aristocratic thinking of the upper echelons of the empire, Prince Pros did not care about Bai Feng's high prestige in the hearts of the people, and even offered to let Bai Feng increase his investment in the Sophia Chamber of Commerce in order to improve the living conditions of ordinary people in the eastern provinces.

The reason why Prince Pros, who had never cared about the lives of ordinary people, made such a suggestion that was obviously beneficial to Bai Feng and the people was mainly because he wanted to collect more taxes, and it was obvious that the better the people lived, the higher his tax revenue would be.

After the two of them analyzed the current situation of the five eastern provinces, Bai Feng, who was unwilling to expose his financial situation, promised to invest 10 million gold coins in the Sophia Chamber of Commerce every year.

Note that the 10 million gold coins here are not 10 million gold coins per year in the five provinces, but 10 million gold coins per year in each province! This means that Bai Feng needs to invest 50 million gold coins every year to improve the lives of the people in the five eastern provinces.

The total population of the five eastern provinces is only about 20 or 30 million, and if 50 million gold coins are divided equally among their heads, each person can receive at least two gold coins, and if a family is counted as a family of five, each family can receive ten gold coins, which is not a small amount.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this money can really be used, it will only take three years at most, and in terms of economy, the five eastern provinces, which were almost destroyed by the orc army, can be restored to their original heyday, and even surpassed!

First gave 50 million gold coins free of charge, and then promised to spend 50 million gold coins every year to develop the economy of the five eastern provinces, Bai Feng's financial strength was not like that of an imperial upstart who had just been promoted to duke; even the Bai family behind Bai Feng did not have such strong financial resources.

Even if Prince Pros didn't deliberately ask, Bai Feng still took the initiative to explain that the spoils he had already distributed to the soldiers of the army had become the source of this mysterious fund;

You know, it takes skill to snatch the spoils of war from the cavalry armies of the steppe tribes, and Prince Pros doesn't think he has the ability to do so, so he doesn't have any excessive desire for this staggering amount of loot.

Bai Feng paid 50 million gold coins in return, Prince GLP agreed that the Sophia Chamber of Commerce under Bai Feng's name could develop freely in all areas under the rule of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor, and more importantly, the shops owned by the Sophia Chamber of Commerce did not need to pay taxes to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion!

Although Bai Feng, who had so much money that he couldn't spend it all, didn't care about the amount of taxes that should be paid, it was also a waste to spend such a sum of money to pay taxes every year, wasn't it? Therefore, he did not refuse the kindness of Prince GLP, and calmly accepted the other party's generosity.

After the future development of the five eastern provinces was agreed, the next step was to expand the Eastern Legion and make arrangements for the provincial garrisons, as well as the appointment of provincial officials.

The original five Eastern Legions were all militia legions formed by Bai Feng, and for these five legions that were obviously loyal to Bai Feng, Prince GLP didn't think about it, so he 'generously' assigned them to Bai Feng's command.

As for the three Eastern Legions that were about to be formed, Prince Pros, who was interested in cultivating his own lineage, specially 'borrowed' 500 low-level officers with actual combat experience from Bai Feng in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the three Eastern Legions, so as to enhance the quality of the officers of the newly built Eastern Legions.

Knowing that the 'borrowing' of the Prince of GLP was a 'borrowing' that could not be repaid, Bai Feng still agreed without hesitation; it was not that Bai Feng was friendly to the Prince of Pros, but in Bai Feng's view, this was another good opportunity to infiltrate the forces into the three Eastern Legions.

At this time, Bai Feng didn't know that after Prince GLP 'borrowed' his five hundred low-ranking officers, he actually did not integrate these five hundred officers into the newly built Eastern Legion, but used these five hundred officers to break up and integrate them into the four standing regiments under his command.

On the one hand, he improved the actual combat experience of the standing army under his command, and on the other hand, he used the extra 500 officers under his command to form three Eastern Legions that were loyal to him, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Even the expansion of the Eastern Legion was negotiated, not to mention the provincial garrison, and how the twelve standing legions, including the headquarters of the Erik Overseer under Bai Feng's command, were stationed in the three provinces of Mengdan, all of which were arranged by Bai Feng himself.

Judging from the decentralization of power by Prince Pros, Bai Feng should not interfere in the garrison affairs of Brojansson Province and Grenoble Province, but the vital Thundercloud Base is in Brojansson Province, and Bai Feng has to make some appropriate requests.

Bai Feng did not put forward many requirements, only two points: first, the army of the Prince of Pros stationed in the province of Buluo Yangsong must maintain a distance of at least fifty miles from the Thundercloud base; second, after the completion of Thundercloud City, Bai Feng himself sent less than 5,000 troops to garrison it.

A mere piece of land with a radius of fifty miles will not be looked at by the Prince of Pros, who owns two provinces; one second Bai Feng just promised to fulfill the promise of 100,000 sets of new weapons and equipment within a year, and the next second the Prince of Pross allowed the existence of the 'country within a country' Thundercloud City.

On the issue of the final appointment of officials in the provinces, Bai Feng promised to transfer all the officials of the two provinces, including Broyangsong, who had been appointed by him, and hand them over to Prince GLP for reappointment; Prince GLP also handed over the appointment of officials from Meng Dan and other provinces to Bai Feng without any delay.

At this point, all the powers and interests of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion under the jurisdiction of the six provinces have been divided between Bai Feng and Prince Pros, and the next thing is how the two of them can exercise their respective powers as soon as possible and take the provinces under the autonomy on the road of rapid development!