The Minister of Education, Mehring, and the Minister of Religion, Boris, are intensively preparing for the establishment of the "University of Krasbourg", which is expected to open next spring. In addition to the regular majors of literature and art, business, law, medicine, and engineering, the existing Seminary and Psychic College (Silver Sky Branch) will be merged, and the Arcane Academy and the Mechanical Warlock College will be established.

By grasping the list of young people with spiritual talents in the country through the census, Roland will be able to recruit students for the various colleges of the "University of Krasbourg", and the Ministry of Education will provide full scholarships for these special talents with the talent of casting spells or demonstrative ability, in addition to providing grants for those from poor families to ensure that these talents can focus on their studies and contribute to the country after graduation.

Now that the questionnaire has been prepared, the next step is to carry out the specific census work.

Roland divides the census subjects into two categories, one of which lives in the administrative areas of cities, towns, townships, and villages under the rule of the Kingdom of Koras, where there are perfect administrative institutions that can assign civil servants to be in charge of the census, and there is also a complete news distribution network that uses newspapers and periodicals as a platform to publicize the census policy for urban and rural residents, and the work is not difficult; But there are still a small number of people living outside the law, such as the mountainous areas of the border where there are no government agencies and where state power is not extended, and it is very difficult to conduct a census in these areas where information is not available, and the central government can only come directly to the central government.

With the support of the military, Roland provided the "Census Working Group" with a military airship and a full complement of carrier-based aviation, whose mission was to escort census specialists to "extralegal places" in the Far East and ensure that they completed the census safely.

The "census office" equipped with the armed forces of the air force is probably unprecedented on both the planet and the world of Vares. Roland handed over the airship unit subordinate to the "Census Office" to Lyudmila and Tonya to be responsible for dispatching, and the two daems will lead the team to fly all over the poor and remote areas of the Far Eastern Frontier, publicize the New Deal in the Far East while conducting the census, assist the people in the border area to eliminate the local beasts and monsters, and by the way, fight against the local ruffians, local tyrants and gentry who have caused public resentment.

Fast forward to the end of October, when the census was just on track, and Roland received another hot potato from the Minister of Industry, Zinovi:

Since entering the fourth quarter, the growth momentum of various economic indicators in Karon Industrial Zone has declined, and industrial growth seems to have encountered a bottleneck!

At the beginning of the discovery of the above signs, Zinovi did not understand that there must be something wrong with the fact that more new factories were opening every day, and the business was still booming.

The results of the Ministry of Industry's survey showed that there were two main factors that led to the weaker than expected industrial growth in the fourth quarter, the first was that the weather was getting colder, the year was approaching, and the non-residents who came to Krasbourg to work in Krasbourg resigned or took leave to go home after receiving their October salary, and only returned to work after the year. As a result, labor shortages and factory capacity decreased, forcing some orders to be pushed back, while at the same time providing an additional incentive for the remaining workers, which increased costs and squeezed profit margins. All the above-mentioned negative factors have led to a poor look in industrial output since the fourth quarter.

Seasonal fluctuations in production are a nuisance, but they are not as serious as they may seem and can be mitigated by signing permanent employment contracts. Moreover, Roland felt that the factory owners had already earned a lot of money this year, and it was also appropriate to give more bonuses to workers during the New Year's holidays, and the government should not intervene in principle, and let the market mediate the supply and demand relationship between labor and management.

Zinovi took a different view, and in the Cabinet Council, he pointed out a very bad sign for the working class, citing Kitland's hired workers: most of the migrant workers from the northern highlands were transported to the Karon industrial area and railway construction sites through the "Kitland Labor Dispatch Company", and the company signed labor contracts on their behalf.

The company, which has tens of thousands of high-quality workers and is unionized, is very strong in negotiations with the management, and has strong bargaining power, which makes the factory owners feel very passive and forced to make concessions in the end due to the reality of the shortage of workers.

Zinovi sees this as a red flag. Labor dispatch companies are too strong, and the profits of the management are squeezed while fighting for favorable treatment for their workers, which will discourage the latter from starting a business and expanding production.

On the other hand, Zinovi is more worried that the scattered workers, seeing that they can fight for better treatment with the backing of "quasi-union institutions" such as labor dispatch companies, will also follow the example of the Kitlanders to form unions and negotiate with the management, and offer terms that will inevitably exacerbate the contradictions between labor and management and become a major hidden danger hindering the industrialization process in the Far East.

Although Roland is more sympathetic to the working class, he also has to admit that the concerns of the "old goat" are indeed insightful, and the trade unions are too powerful, and going on strike at every turn will indeed bring some negative social effects. If the conflict between labor and management is not reconciled for a long time, the management is likely to abandon investment in industry and enter the financial speculation market, which is less affected by trade unions, or relocate factories to foreign countries where labor prices are lower and there is no union power, or try to bring in foreign workers to replace domestic labor...... Either strategy, it will ultimately lead to the unhappy end of "deindustrialization". This phenomenon has been repeated on Earth many times, and Roland does not want the same history to be repeated in the kingdom of Koras.

In the face of the expansion of the union's power, Zinovi put forward a-for-tat proposal: calling on the factory owners to unite and reach an agreement on the wage standard of the same industry, and the representatives of the trade guild will come forward to negotiate with the union to force the union to accept the accepted wage standard of the industry, and if the other party refuses to compromise and threatens to "strike", the trade union will use a "block" strategy to fight back - unless the other party first bows down and compromises, the entire industry will refuse to hire the union's members.

As soon as Roland heard it, he understood that the "old goat" was actually imitating the organizational model of the trade union, creating a "capitalist union", or more precisely, a "cartel", and formulating industry wage standards, in fact, was to engage in employment price monopoly.

Whether Zinovi's method works or not depends on who is stronger, whose organizational discipline is stricter, and whose will to carry out the struggle more thoroughly depends on who is stronger and whose organizational discipline is stricter, and whose will to carry out the struggle more thoroughly, but it is more likely that both sides will lose, or even escalate from labor-management contradictions to class antagonism.