In order for a person to be non-possessive and equal, he must first change his heart and attitude.

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

Because Bai Feng planned to return to Rome at the beginning of September to start his journey to unify the eastern part of the barren land, he had to deal with the affairs of the three provinces of Montaine, Lyon, and Toulon and the division of garrisons before the end of August.

However, the limited speed of the march determined that Bai Feng would not be able to reach Mengtan County, the capital of Mengtan Province, until mid-August at the earliest, which meant that after arriving in Mengdan, Bai Feng only had less than twenty days left to deal with these matters.

Bai Feng, who was pressed for time, had to ask Heinrich, Auchinleck, Cunningham and others to rush to Mengtan County as soon as possible to familiarize themselves with all aspects of the affairs of the three provinces of Mengdan, and on the other hand, let the net sort out the situation in the three provinces of Mengdan.

Before the last day of July, that is, on the third day of the army's entry into the territory of the province of Lyon, the overall status quo of the three provinces was finally delivered to Bai Feng, and at the same time, a copy of the current situation of the three provinces sent by the secret guard was also delivered to Bai Feng.

What made Bai Feng feel unbelievable was that there was not much discrepancy between the current situation of the three provinces sent by the Hidden Guard and the current situation of the three provinces sorted out by Luo Net; this was still in the Eastern Provinces where the Hidden Guard was the weakest, so it can be seen how powerful the Hidden Guard was!

Looking at the two almost identical data on the current situation of the three provinces in his hand, Bai Feng sighed that while the intelligence force of the Hidden Guard was strong, he was also glad that he had the secret support of Ames, the commander of the Hidden Guard, otherwise, too many secrets belonging to him would have been made public.

The establishment of a powerful intelligence organization is by no means a day's work, even if this intelligence organization has countless favorable external conditions, it will take time to gradually improve its own intelligence system, and Bai Feng's net is such an intelligence organization that needs time to grow.

As for Bai Feng's original Shogunate spies, ninjas, secret envoys, and geisha as the core, the tragic Song of Death formed in the imperial capital has long since lost the secrecy and development space that an intelligence organization should have;

Fortunately, the relationship between Tianyulou and the Tragic Dead has not been discovered by Charlemagne and the magnates of the imperial capital, and it is still the most valuable place for the Tragic Dead, but with the alliance between Ames and Bai Feng, their importance has decreased a lot.

With Ames, the commander of the secret guard that Charlemagne regarded as his confidant, it was impossible for Bai Feng to hide any major and small things that happened in the imperial capital;

Of course, the reason for the existence of Tianyulou also has its own irreplaceable special value; for example, using geisha as bait to control some fictitious nobles in the imperial capital is one of the biggest roles of Tianyulou, and it is also Bai Feng's secret means to expand his influence in the imperial capital.

After thinking about the three intelligence organizations of Luo Net, Hidden Guard, and Tragic Song Dead for a while, Bai Feng, who had calmed down again, began to carefully browse the current situation data of the three provinces in his hand, which was a major matter related to how he developed these three provinces.

The province of Mengdan, which had been occupied by the orc army for the longest time and had been the most severely damaged at the time of the reconquest, now has five counties, but the total population is less than four million, and the number of young and strong people is only about 800,000 of the less than four million.

With a mere 800,000 young and strong people, 3.2 million old and weak women and children have to be fed, and on average, each young man has to feed four old and weak women and children, not including themselves.

In the past, when Duke Gna commanded various armies stationed in Mengdan Province, if it were not for Duke Gna's repeated misappropriation of grain in the army to help the people, maybe the population of Mengdan Province would have dropped by about one-tenth, after all, the people of Mengdan at that time really had no rations.

Relying on the assistance of the Duke of Gna and the assistance of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, the four million people of Mengtan Province were able to barely solve their own food and clothing problems.

Now if Bai Feng wants to focus on the development of Mengdan Province, the first thing he needs to do is to take the large amount of idle fertile land in Mengdan Province as the core, supplemented by food subsidies and policy support, to attract the proletarian poor and bankrupt people from other provinces of the empire.

Although the distance from other provinces of the empire to Mengdan Province is relatively long, with the Sophia Chamber of Commerce and the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, no matter how far it is, it will not become an obstacle for Mengdan Province to attract displaced people, and sufficient financial support is the foundation for Bai Feng to implement the policy of attracting displaced people.

With the fertile land of the five counties of Mengdan Province, it is not difficult to feed tens of millions of people, the only thing to worry about is nothing more than the Sunset Fortress adjacent to the Mengdan Province and the hundreds of thousands of orcs who occupy the Sunset Fortress.

Bai Feng had a way to deal with the orc army that relied on brute force to fight the war, so Bai Feng dared to develop Mengdan Province with confidence and boldness, without worrying that his investment in Mengdan Province would end up in nothing.

With the detailed situation of the counties in Mengtan Province in hand, after some careful consideration, Bai Feng decided to set the population development target of Mengtan Province at 8 million, that is, within two years, by absorbing 4 million displaced people, and ensure that the young and strong population is not less than one-third!

In order to achieve this goal, Bai Feng will need to invest as much as one billion gold coins! Of this, about half of the gold coins will be provided to the displaced people for the relocation costs, as well as the expenses for eating, drinking, and sleeping along the way, and the remaining gold coins will be used for the infrastructure construction and development of the five counties.

In order for a town to accommodate more people, it must have more and better housing and other public buildings, and every displaced family that has been relocated needs to plough cattle and farming tools after being redistributed to the land, which requires financial investment.

Calculated in bits and pieces, the investment of one billion gold coins in two years seems to be high, but in fact it is not much, and compared with the province of Montaine, which is the worst in the current situation, the two provinces of Lyon and Toulon, which are both provinces of four counties, the situation is more than a star and a half better.

The total population of Lyon Province is 5.6 million, and the number of young and strong people is about 1.6 million, and the development rate of the cities and towns under the four counties is not slow.

The people of the provinces of Montaine and Toulon were fed and clothed mainly by the full operation of the Sophia Chamber of Commerce, but the province of Lyon was achieved by its own rapid development, and in view of this, the population target given by Bai Feng to the province of Lyon was the same as that of the province of Montaine.

Because the economic recovery speed of Lyon Province is relatively fast, and the fact that Lyon Province is not as close to Sunset Fortress as Mengtan Province, Bai Feng only needs to invest 600 million gold coins to make Lyon Province complete the goal of reaching a total population of 8 million.

Finally, Toulon Province, with a total population of more than 6 million and less than 1 million young and strong people, Bai Feng's idea was to abandon the status of Toulon Province as an agricultural province and develop it into a commercial province.

In this way, the province of Lyon does not need to take measures to absorb the displaced and poor for the time being, but only needs to develop the economy with all its might, and the cost of developing the economy can be much greater than the development of agriculture.