After more than half a year of intensive infrastructure construction, the Far East has undergone a huge transformation in many ways compared to when Lyudmila and Tonya first embarked on their land expeditions.

First of all, with the close cooperation of the Green Field Druids, the Sindra Church and the military, a group of young and promising cadres stationed in the village were selected through examinations and training, breaking the ruling model of "the king does not go to the countryside" in the imperial era, and adding the key link of "rural governance" to the government agencies, and establishing a more complete civil service system.

Secondly, the traffic situation in the Far East has improved significantly in the past six months. Rail and road construction is in full swing connecting isolated mountain villages and towns.

Finally, thanks to the technical support provided by Beacon Hill and the promotion of Roland, the Far East has established a nationwide news and newspaper distribution network, and the "Andre Magic Guide Talker" and "McManus Fax Machine" have also been rapidly popularized, and have become the standard equipment of government agencies at all levels and successful people in the business community.

With a civil service system that goes deep into the towns and villages, it is possible to conduct door-to-door surveys of remote villages throughout the country, and in many cases the civil servants in charge of the census have to fill out forms for illiterate rural residents, and the census actually turns into interviews.

With easy access by rail and road, census officers were able to go deep into isolated mountain villages to conduct surveys, otherwise these mountain people, who were unaware of the changes of the times, would have been silently forgotten by society.

With newspapers and periodicals all over the country, the government will be able to widely publicize the importance and necessity of the "census" to the whole people through newspapers, and will be able to motivate people to actively cooperate with civil servants who come to investigate.

With an efficient means of communication, all localities will be able to follow the command of the central government and simultaneously carry out the census work in thousands of towns and villages at a unified pace, and the data collected from various localities will be submitted to the headquarters of the "Census Office" in Colasburg as soon as possible with the help of the "Magic Guide Telephone" and the "Magic Guide Fax Machine" for summary and collation.

All in all, after more than half a year of high-speed construction, the Far East now has the basic conditions for conducting a census, and now the implementation of this project can be said to be a matter of course.

The census is a general mobilization of state administrations at all levels, but it does not mean that Lyudmila and Tonya will be able to sit comfortably in their offices in the future and sort out the census data submitted from all over the country.

As early as during their land survey, the two ladies discovered that there were still many scattered villages in the Far East, especially in the mountains of the north and the Gobi Territory in the south, that had not yet been administratively established, could not be included in the administrative system of the Kingdom of Kolas, and would not actively participate in the census. A responsible government can't leave these isolated villages to fend for themselves, and Lyudmila and Tonya have to take airships to marginalized communities that are alienated from the administrative system to conduct the census themselves.

When Lyudmila and Tonya return to Krasbourg, it is already the end of September, and Roland hands them over the work of the "census office" and then begins to prepare for Krasbourg's annual celebrations.

Since the establishment of the government of Kolas in the Far East on October 1 last year, Rudolph declared the state of independence, and in the blink of an eye this new regime has been established for one year. Looking back at the beginning, even Roland felt as if he was in a different world, but he did not expect to end the first year since the founding of the People's Republic of China so calmly, neither the outbreak of civil war, nor the invasion of foreign enemies, the domestic construction has been on the right track, all walks of life are thriving, the vast majority of Far Easterners really feel that their lives are getting better day by day, and the newspaper survey shows that the people's satisfaction with the Kolas government is as high as 98%!

Roland doesn't fully believe in the so-called newspaper survey data, and those who fill out survey forms in newspapers and mail them to newspapers are mostly well-educated, well-fed and more leisurely. Obviously, this demographic is predominantly the urban middle class. It would be nice to have their enthusiastic support, but Roland had to be soberly aware that these urban middle classes constituted a tiny fraction of the entire population of the Far East.

In order to strengthen national cohesion, Krasbourg will hold a grand independence celebration on October 1. Roland has more than that. October 1 is not only the national holiday of the Far East, but also the "Sanctification Day" of the Sindra Church, which was held at the capital's cathedral last year to clear the Far Easterners of heresy.

The construction of transportation in the Far East has achieved initial results, and people from all over the north and south no longer need to leave for the capital six months in advance, and they will leave from Kitland in early September, changing trains and horse-drawn carriages on the way, and arriving at Krasbourg before October 1 will not be a problem.

Roland's "The Economics of Pilgrimage," published a year ago under the pseudonym "Liszt Keynes," was recently published on the front page of the Fatherland Daily under the pseudonym "Liszt Keynes," and was recently translated by John Plitter, a well-wisher, to pay attention to business opportunities during their travels.

In the era of peace and security, the people's general gratitude and love for the new government, pious faith and religious fanaticism, convenient transportation and fast communication, coupled with the profit drive of seeking business opportunities, this year's "Far Eastern National Day and Sanctification Festival" has evolved into a national carnival under the joint action of many factors. Especially those rural people who enjoy the rare leisure time of the year after the autumn harvest, who have a lot of spare money in their hands after selling grain, most of them intend to go to the capital to participate in the celebrations, and enjoy the rare vacation time while making pilgrimages.

From the end of September to the beginning of October, nearly a million tourists flock to Krasbourg, almost overwhelming the ancient city. Roland had one of his busiest weeks since he traveled to Vares, preparing for the celebrations, presiding over the sacraments, and receiving congratulatory envoys from all over the world...... It's like a clockwork robot dog, running around from morning to night.

Seeing that Roland was busy, Lyudmila and Tonya didn't have the heart to continue enjoying their vacations. In addition to the "census" work, the two of them also serve as cabinet secretaries, and have the responsibility to share the pressure for His Royal Highness.

Fortunately, with the help of these two meticulous and diligent female secretaries, coupled with the young and good health, Roland finally survived. At the end of the week-long celebrations, Roland took an exception to take a leave of absence and went home for a day of rest, slept soundly until the afternoon of the next day, and woke up exhausted and refreshed to return to work.