The "Abolition Decree" advocated by Roland was welcomed by the vast majority of people in southern Xinjiang. After all, the poor are the main body of this society, and it is unjustifiable to continue to insist on slavery, both in terms of vital interests and moral ethics. Of course, a small number of manor owners inevitably suffered from this, complaining that the price paid by the Mochizuki City government for the purchase of slaves was too low.

"This money is only enough to buy a chicken, where is the ransom for a young serf?"

"Forced buying and selling is not in accordance with the rules, we can't accept it!"

In response to these clamors, Roland made the following response:

"It is your rule to force slaves to work, and it is my rule to punish slave holders severely, and since we can't convince each other to obey our own rules, let's go our separate ways."

Violence is the final game. When the Mochizuki Castle border guards marched into the plantation in full gear, the owners of the manors who resisted abolition finally recognized the cruel reality and learned the power of the state apparatus and the iron fist of the dictatorship, and they had to obediently bow their heads and make rational choices.

What the serfs desperately needed was not only freedom, but also a place to live, a job to support themselves. Roland allowed the emancipated serfs to fend for themselves, but the vast majority of them accepted his advice and settled in Sweetwater.

Roland, accompanied by Joseph and Sha Rose, examined the hydrology of the Crescent River Delta in detail, and all three were in favor of building large state-owned farms in the area to revive the cotton industry in southern Xinjiang.

At present, the total population of southern Xinjiang is nearly 200,000, and the total area of cultivated land reclaimed in its heyday is nearly 2 million mu, of which 800,000 mu is used for cotton planting. After years of harassment by bandits, cotton farmers were forced to flee their homeland with their families, and now most of the cotton fields are deserted and overgrown with weeds and thorns.

Roland plans to restore the size of the region's cotton fields to 800,000 mu within three years, and the China Development Bank will provide sufficient financial support for the reclamation project, in addition to building a railway through southern Xinjiang to transport cotton textiles.

Industrial promotion is inseparable from three major elements: capital, technology and labor. With the China Development Bank providing capital and the Green Field Druids led by Sand Rose providing technical support for cotton farming, labor is now in short supply, and the emancipated serfs can solve the urgent need and inject vitality into this fertile land that is in ruins.

Lyudmila and Tonya have not been idle, and these days they have been visiting all parts of southern Xinjiang in airships, taking the opportunity of the census to publicize the new appearance of the Crescent River Valley, publicizing the newly signed "Border Security and Trade Cooperation Agreement" between Canaan and the Far East, inviting back those cotton farmers who fled the valley delta to escape from sand bandits, and encouraging them to join the newly established "Sweet Water Town Commune" to help the vigorous cause of reclaiming cotton fields.

Economic construction is inseparable from security guarantees. Although the Far East and Canaan signed a peace agreement, Roland knew in his heart that the agreement was nothing more than a paper article, and the gentleman could not prevent the villain, not to mention that there were often sand bandits in the border area, in order to protect the smooth implementation of the cotton field reclamation plan, in order to maintain the normal mining of the gold mine in Mount Mochizuki, and in order to ensure the security of the border, it was necessary to strengthen the border defense armed in southern Xinjiang.

Roland entrusted the two important tasks of border defense and law and order to the brothers Bloom and Kirov. At this time, the dwarf artificial brigade from Icewind Dale had arrived at Mochizuki City after a long journey through mountains and rivers, and Bloom took over the command of the engineer brigade and pulled into the Mochizuki Mountain mine to start construction in full swing. Dwarf men were both soldiers and professional miners, and they were far more efficient than slave miners, and even according to the most conservative estimates, the annual production of gold could be twice as high as it was under Baron Hurd.

At the same time that the engineer brigade arrived in southern Xinjiang, a grenadier regiment from Krasbourg was also called. The commander of this unit was Roland's old friend, Alexander Brother, who had been newly promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Bloom's 2nd Armored Knights Regiment and Alexander's Grenadier Regiment triumphantly joined forces, and the two new types of troops cooperated with each other to perfectly make up for the tactical shortcomings of the Armored Knights.

Roland did not ignore the threat from the air. The Celestial Desert is rich in birds of prey such as Pegasus, bipedal wyverns, and sphinx-faced beasts, and the "Wind Knights" in Medes are not alone, and there is no shortage of psionic bandits in the desert to control birds of prey, and ground forces alone cannot resist invasions from the air. To this end, Roland transferred an artillery regiment to Bloom's command, and left the "Independence" airship in southern Xinjiang, established a base in the Mochizuki Mountain gold mine, and set up a strict no-fly zone.

In addition to guarding the border and managing the gold mines, the Bloom brothers also had an important mission to oversee the construction of the railway line between the Crescent Valley and the Karon Industrial Area. In the future, after the reclamation of cotton fields, this railway will continuously transport cotton and pre-processed cotton textiles to the Karon spinning base, creating a classic light industry chain of "cotton planting-spinning-weaving-printing and dyeing-garment".

Roland expects that after the completion of the first five-year plan, it will be able to meet the clothing needs of the people of the Far East, and will also be able to export large quantities of fine printed fabrics to earn scarce hard currency.

In addition to cotton, the Krai also has abundant reserves of shallow lapis lazuli mines that are easy to mine. Bloom suggested building a large local mining farm, where higher-grade lapis lazuli could be selected for export abroad, and lapis lazuli jewelry was popular in wealthy city-states overseas; Lapis lazuli of average grade can be processed into blue dye on the spot, which is a supporting facility for the cotton printing and dyeing industry.

Roland agreed to the professional advice of the dwarf brothers, anyway, the main purpose of the Tunjun Mochizuki Mountain is to mine gold, and by the way, it can be regarded as making full use of the infrastructure by mining it together with the lapis lazuli mine.

After arranging border affairs, the time has reached the end of December, and Roland has a key arrangement before leaving - to improve the government institutions in southern Xinjiang.

PS. About the origin of cotton

China is one of the world's three largest cotton producing areas (the United States, Central Asia, China), and China's largest cotton producing area is in Xinjiang, with a cotton planting area of about 23 million mu in 2016 and an annual output of 3.9 million tons of cotton, accounting for one-third of the country's total cotton output.

In contrast, the cotton planting area of the Crescent Valley Delta in its heyday was about 800,000 mu, only one-thirtieth of the cotton-producing area of Xinjiang, and in the best years, it could produce about 100,000 tons of cotton and spin about 80,000 tons of cotton yarn (the process of the industrial revolution in the 19th century, about 10% of the loss of cotton spun into yarn, and the textile technology of the Far East was more backward, and the loss was tentatively set at 20%), which was already a considerable scale in the pre-industrial era.

In addition, 800,000 mu of cotton fields are only the current cultivated area, and if the Mochizuki River Valley Plain is fully developed, the cultivated area of cotton fields can be expanded by at least ten times.

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