The technicians and guards of the Mochizuki Mountain Gold Mine, almost all of whom were Canaanite, came to work in the mines on the orders of the Governor of Mayer, but now they are still prisoners, not only refusing to confess but also making strong protests, claiming to be employees of Prince Mayer, who are ordered to work in the mines, which they insist is the property of Prince Mayer, and the Far Easterners have no right to interrogate them, let alone restrict their personal freedom.

These arrogant Canaanites were a problem for Roland, who could neither be easily released nor summarily executed, so he had to be temporarily detained and later found an opportunity to communicate with Canaanite's diplomatic department to resolve the issue. Fortunately, the results of the field trip to the Mt. Mochizuki gold mine brought him some comfort. In the letter, Aurora called it "a very large gold mine without exaggeration, and there are a total of 10 open pits in the mine, spread over a narrow valley, the deepest of which is 500 feet underground!" The ore type of the deposit is mainly gold-quartz vein, and the mineral composition is mainly pyrite sand and natural gold, which is commonly known as "dog's head gold" on earth. The proven gold reserves in the mining area are not less than 5,000 tons, or about 110 million pounds, and if all of them are used to mint gold coins currently in circulation in the Far East, they would be worth 5.5 billion gold thalers!

What is the concept of 5.5 billion gold thaler? In 1621, the total revenue of the Kingdom of Kolas was less than 50 million gold tales, and the reserves of the gold mines in Mount Mochizuki were equivalent to 110 times the national revenue of this year.

In order to survive, the mine manager took out a secret account book that Baron Hurd had given him for safekeeping. According to the books of accounts, the production of the Mochizukiyama gold mine has been relatively stable in the last five years, with an average annual output of about 50,000 pounds of gold, equivalent to 2.5 million gold talers.

Considering that Baron Hurd had to control the scale of mining in order to keep the gold mine secret, this annual production is actually not of much reference value. After Roland took over the Mochizuki Mountain gold mine, he will definitely increase the mining intensity and improve the smelting technology, and it is not a big problem to triple the annual gold production, which will increase the annual income of an additional 7.5 million gold talers, which is equivalent to 15% of the annual revenue of the current Koras government. According to the above production capacity calculation, the Mochizukiyama gold mine can continue to be mined for at least 80 years, and this is only the proven gold reserves so far, and God knows how many unproven gold deposits are buried deep in the ground?

Now Roland is convinced that Mount Mochizuki is a veritable "mountain of gold", and all he has to do is try to keep this mountain firmly in his hands.

Roland could recover the gold mines by force, but he did not want to continue the practice of Baron Hurd, who coerced the slaves into mining the gold mines by force. The business model of the Mochizukiyama mines had to be overhauled, and the first step in that reform began with the resettlement of slaves.

There are 10 mining pits in the Mochizukiyama Gold Mine, and a total of 2,441 slaves are currently forced to work there, most of whom are men in the prime of life, who have been working in the harsh pits for a long time, eating and sleeping poorly, most of them are yellow and thin, and suffer from various degrees of disease. The slaves looked frail and old, but the average age was less than 25 years, and the reason why they were decrepit before they grew old was due to long periods of heavy labor and malnutrition.

25 years old is the age when men are most energetic, but in this hellish pit on earth, those who can live to the age of 25 are considered to be long-lived, and most mine slaves work here for less than two years before their bodies are completely "scrapped". The end of their professional life means that they are worthless in the eyes of their masters, and they can only waste food when they live, and the skeletal abandoned mine pit is the final destination of their miserable life. Having witnessed the mass grave with more than 10,000 bones, Roland gained a deeper understanding of the greed and cruelty of Hurd's party, and the mountain of gold bricks in the castle's chamber was soaked in the blood of miners.

Roland gathered these long-cherished miners and gave them a brief account of the changes that had taken place in southern Xinjiang these days: the kingdom of Kolas had regained Mochizuki City, expelled Wilhelm von Hurd, who had ruled the area illegally, nationalized his estates, including the gold mines, and implemented the decrees of the Kolas government, freeing all miners who had been forced into slavery and freeing them.

His announcement caused a commotion among the miners, some of whom were overjoyed, but most of them were still worried, as if they were suffering from the "freedom" of His Royal Highness's "gift".

Roland's reaction was not surprising. How did slaves view abolitionist decrees, and how did they view the "liberation" and "freedom" that were imposed on them? This is a question that deserves to be explored in depth.

As far as the history of the earth is concerned, the slave class, accustomed to being called upon by their masters and passively giving up their free will, is not the group that is most desperately eager for emancipation. There were, of course, violent revolts against the slave owners, and there were many escapes, but the slavery system was still strong, and it was the rise of the new class that dealt a fatal blow to the system.

In the East, the dominant view attributed the abolition of slavery to the Shang Dynasty and the great unification of the First Emperor, believing that feudalism replaced slavery and that the landlord class replaced the slave owner class. This assertion is debatable, first of all, the slavery phenomenon still existed in the feudal dynasties, and even continued in the form of institutions in the border areas, and it was not until 49 that the remnants of slavery were completely abolished de jure in 49...... In the West, although the slave trade was still widespread until the 19th century, it was generally capitalist relations of production that eliminated slavery.

Capitalists may engage in all sorts of morally demanding propaganda, such as "all men are created equal", as a slogan for war against slave owners, but it is not the sense of justice that really motivates them to abolish slavery, but the internal logic of capital's pursuit of surplus value. Large-scale industrial production requires more labor to enter the factory, and the shortage of labor will cause its price to rise, which in turn will lead to a decline in the profit of the factory owner. In order to obtain sufficient labor, the industrial capitalists urgently needed to "emancipate" the slaves who were bound to the plantations, and give them the "freedom" to move and choose their jobs, although a large number of slaves did not expect such emancipation and freedom - after being "liberated" they had nothing but "freedom" but "freedom" in the factory, not to mention that the conditions and treatment of the factories were even inferior to those of the slave owners.

From the founding of the Independent State in 1620 to the present day, the social transformation in the Far East has in fact been a bourgeois revolution. Roland was well aware of this, and many of the policies he pursued after the founding of the People's Republic of China, including the abolitionist statute and the agrarian reform, were formulated in response to the fact that the Far East was vast and sparsely populated, in order to fully liberate the labor force and provide talent for the country's industrialization.