The diplomatic strategy of Yashan and Hailan was fruitful, and Bao Shihua remained in a scattered situation, left behind by his opponents in the race between the Industrial Revolution and colonial expansion, until the unexpected rise of the Far Eastern kingdom of Kolas distracted the imperial authorities, and the country's situation improved slightly.

Located in the southeastern border of the Atlas continent and near the Great Desert of Canaan, the Marquis of Canaan covers an area of about 3.6 million square miles; With a total population of 22 million, it is the third largest country in the world in terms of territorial area. After all, the Canaanites came from the desert, their navigation skills were congenitally insufficient, and their overseas colonial expansion started late and did not go very well, and they only occupied a few smaller colonies in the New World, which was better than nothing.

The Canaanites lived in a harsh environment, with a dry and barren land, a severe shortage of water, and sandstorms and bandits from the south constantly invading the country's borders; The west also faced the threat of expansion of the Assanian Empire for a time, and was forced to survive in the cracks. It was for the sake of national defense and security that the Zion royal family heavily financed Rudolph's seizure of the Far Eastern provinces, trying to use the kingdom of Kolas as a buffer between Canaan and the Assanian Empire, so as to spare energy to deal with the threat from the southern desert region.

Judging from the current situation, Canaan's diplomatic goals have been basically achieved, and if the domestic political situation is stable, it is likely to usher in a golden period of rapid development.

The southwestern part of the Atlas continent extends to the storm ocean, like a long leg stretching out to the ocean, and the narrow continental shelf gradually surfaced after the end of the "Flood Century", forming the largest peninsula on the continent, the Bologni Peninsula, facing the Parnia Peninsula in the northeast across the Coral Sea.

Located at the southern tip of the Bologni Peninsula, the Marquis of Hailan is a typical naval power with a total area of about 2 million square miles and a population of nearly 35 million. The history of the Marquis of Hailan has been invaded and plundered by the "Baoshihua barbarians" many times, and the worst one even the capital was sacked by the Baoshihua mercenaries, and burned to the ground, and the royal family members had to board the ship overnight and flee to the sea for refuge. Although it later repelled the robbers with a powerful fleet and recovered the lost territory, the Hailan royal family never forgot this tragedy, always beware of the barbarian neighbors in the north, strengthened the border defense while not forgetting to support the pro-Hailan forces in Baoshihua, and obstructed the unification of Baoshihua at all costs.

As a sea power, Hailan developed commerce, completed the primitive accumulation of capital through transoceanic trade, realized constitutional monarchy and parliamentary politics as early as the end of the last century, and was committed to promoting the magical industrial revolution and expanding overseas colonization. La Mer's colonial company owns more land in the New World than La Mer itself, and the total number of overseas immigrants has exceeded the five million mark.

The last powerful Marquis of Phaezhen, Vares, has the world's most powerful navy, the most abundant commercial capital, and the most developed magic industry. But the mainland of this powerful country is surprisingly small, with a total area of 800,000 square miles. Compared to the sprawling continent of Atlas, this tiny island nation is nothing short of insignificant. However, this small island nation took the lead in the magical industrial revolution, catching up with and surpassing the Yashan Empire in all aspects of politics, military, economy, culture and other fields, as if it had the atmosphere of a new generation of overlords.

The Industrial Revolution led to rapid population growth, and the snowballing population of Fizhen almost overstretched this small island nation, and in order to relieve the population pressure at home, Fizhen began to migrate overseas on a large scale as early as the last century. So far, Feizhen has established a variety of colonial towns in the New World, occupying a total of about 5.6 million square miles of land, equivalent to seven times the territory of the mainland, and the total overseas population has exceeded 18 million.

Taking the above four great powers as a reference, looking back at the toddler kingdom of Kolas, if the Far East can achieve the unification of the whole territory, the local territory will exceed 6 million square miles, and the total population will reach 10 million, although it is not as good as the four major powers, but it can be regarded as the same magnitude.

The size of the territory and the size of the population basically determine the development potential of a country, and the unified kingdom of Kolas has the potential to become one of the top powers in the world of Vares.

Of course, the hardware of territory and population alone is not enough to transform the country's potential into strength, and it is necessary to strengthen the construction of software in many aspects such as politics, economy, military, culture, and education.

The Far East's economic achievements do not need to be boasted of, and the country's national defense strength is also rapidly improving, and what surprises Roland the most is the great progress in the field of culture and education. According to the statistical reports of Lyudmila and Tonya, the adult literacy rate in the kingdom of Kolas is about 36%, and at least one in every three adults can read books and newspapers, which is a very remarkable cultural foundation, compared to less than 30% of the adult population in the Assanian Empire.

Roland had long known that the Far Easterners had a tradition of attaching importance to education, but he did not expect the literacy rate to reach such a high level, which shows that the literacy education he has been promoting in the past two years has been very effective, and the newspaper distribution network throughout the country has also played a positive role in the eradication of illiteracy.

A good cultural foundation is an innate advantage for the country's rise, and what Roland needs to do now is to make full use of this advantage and improve the education system in the Far East.

Over the past three years, all localities in the Far East have been vigorously building schools and schools, and compulsory education for school-age children has basically been realized from the towns to the villages. Urban secondary schools are also thriving, but higher education is still a blank.

Merlin and Boris had been planning the creation of the "National University of Colasbourg" two years earlier. It is planned to expand the seminary into a comprehensive university based on it, and invest heavily in building a "university town" around the seminary.

By the beginning of this year, the school buildings in the university town had been built, but the three most important things had not yet been finalized - one was the design of the department, the second was the hiring of teachers, and the third was the recruitment of students.

The first two things are actually the same problem, and only by first determining which faculties to set up can we recruit professors and lecturers in the corresponding fields according to the faculties.

Needless to say, the seminary is a talent training base for the Sindra Church, and the faculty is quite strong. Master Merlin intends to establish the Arcane Academy to train arcane talents, in addition to the regular faculties such as the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Business, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Faculty of Arts, which are basically copied from the structure of other comprehensive universities in the world of Vares.

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