This year, the Far East Air Force plans to add 10 "Shenghua-class" military airships with a load of not less than 500 tons. An airship needs to be paired with a Giant Eagle Wing and a cavalry company. At present, there are no more than four types of air combat cavalry in the countries of Vares: griffons, vultures, dragons, and pegases. Griffins and wyverns are carnivorous magical beasts that are too expensive to raise and difficult to domesticate; The vultures are omnivorous magical beasts, but unfortunately they have a short temper and low IQ; In contrast, Pegasus, a vegetarian magical beast, has the lowest cost to raise, is kind by nature, has a docile temper, and is not inferior in intelligence to humans, making it undoubtedly the most outstanding flying beast.

There are not many Pegasus habitats in the Varess world, mainly concentrated in the Canaan region, where a complete and mature Pegasus breeding, breeding and domestication industry chain has already been formed, according to the current market, each military Pegasus sells for about 2,000 gold tales. The Far East Air Force needs to purchase at least 10,000 Pegasus, and Colossa gave Roland a 20% discount for the sake of his old friend, and the total price of 10,000 military Pegasus is 16 million gold talers, and they will be delivered in batches within four years.

In order to balance the trade surplus between the Far East and Canaan, Roland also planned to import new cotton gins and looms produced in Canaan, together with the magic crystal steam engine that drove the cotton textile machinery, and the contract was also signed for four years, with a total price of about 4 million gold tales.

Joseph Davidovich, the mayor of Mochizuki, is preparing to build a large cotton mill on the banks of the Crescent River, and these machines imported from Canaan are high-end equipment that cotton mills are in short supply and cannot produce in local factories in the Far East. With this batch of equipment, cotton textile mills can use the abundant local cotton raw materials to process cotton yarn and cotton cloth to meet the clothing needs of Far Easterners.

With a total of 2.5 million tons of grain exported to Hailan, Fizhen and Canaan, Jodel was not satisfied and asked Roland if he could find other export channels. It is estimated that as much as 8 million tons of grain will be collected from the state treasury for the whole year, and at least half of it will have to be sold to give His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture some peace of mind.

"Of course, there are other sales channels, the North Sea Federation, Parnia, the city-state of Zociofa, Kitland, and Icewind Dale are all big importers of grain, and if we can convince these five friends to buy grain from us, we can at least solve 1 million tons of stocks, but I'm not sure if selling grain to these places is considered an 'export'." Roland replied with a smile.

"You have to pay customs duties, of course it's exports!" As soon as Yodel said this, he realized what Roland meant, and a smile of understanding appeared on the corner of his lips, "Of course, it would be better if the tariff could be exempted." ”

"Roland, I can hear it, do you have any thoughts about our five friendly countries, and plan to integrate the forces in the entire Far East?" Rudolph came to his senses, staring at his son with blazing eyes.

"That's true." "China has good relations with the North Sea Federation, Parnia, and Lighthouse Mountain, and Kitland and Icewind Dale are within our territory, and they are not so much a 'country within a state' as a special zone with a certain degree of autonomy, and they are inextricably linked with each other in terms of political economy, culture and technology, and military diplomacy......

His Majesty Rudolph didn't bother to listen to his son's mysterious nonsense, so he asked directly: "Do you want to persuade the five friendly countries to merge into our country, so that the vast territory from Beacon Mountain in the east, the Zhuolang River in the west, the Meteorite Ocean in the north, and the Gobi in the south will all be included in the territory of the Koras Kingdom?" ”

This is indeed an exciting blueprint that may one day be realized, but Roland knows in his heart that the time is not yet ripe.

"Your Majesty, the integration of the political level cannot be rushed, at present our country does not have the strength to promote the merger of friendly countries, and reluctantly getting together will weaken our right to speak, now what I want to do does not involve territorial changes, first from the economic level, invite the lords of the five friendly countries to come to Krasbourg to negotiate, to create an 'economic community' covering the entire territory of the Far East, and the member states will achieve tariff, trade and market integration, with only one central bank and the same currency, Take the same position in international economic decision-making. ”

"There is only one central bank, only one currency, a unified market, a unified foreign economic policy, there are no border guards and no customs on the borders of the member countries, and there is a free movement of capital, goods and residents......" Rudolf I muttered to himself, looking at his son in disbelief, "If your plan can be realized, the countries of the Far East will be only half a step away from merging into one country." ”

"Yes, this plan is to pave the way for the merger of the states of the Far East, and we will first unify ourselves economically, and then political unity will come naturally.

Roland smiled slightly, a scorching glint in his eyes.

"In order to promote economic integration in the Far East, we need to unite the states to form a supranational governing body, which may be called ...... 'Far Eastern Court.'"

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After a whole day of heated debate, it was not until the early hours of the next morning that Rudolf I made up his mind to support Roland's proposal to promote the economic integration of the Far East!

The final vote showed that the bill was highly controversial, with both the Minister of Industry, Zinovi, and the Minister of Agriculture, Yodel, voting against it for similar reasons – fearing that economic integration would have a negative impact on the employment situation in the country, with rural and urban labour moving to more economically developed regions such as Parnia in search of higher wages, leading to labour shortages in the country.

Roland acknowledged that the two ministers' concerns were valid, but he did not go to great lengths to appease his opponents. It is very complicated to explain which of high wages or low wages is more beneficial to a country's economic development. Economists on the planet have been arguing from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century, from normative analysis to empirical analysis, and the two sides of the debate have taken out eighteen weapons to beat each other, and the result is that the public still says that the public is justified, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and until the day of Roland's crossing, they have not been able to reach a consensus.

Most of the ministers voted in favor, and the matter was settled. His Majesty Rodolf authorized his son to preside over the matter, and Roland returned to his office in the Cabinet Residence, first summoned the "first secretary" Lyudmila, the "second secretary" Tonya, and a small secretary, closed the door and held an internal meeting to unify ideas, and assigned the preparations for the holding of state negotiations.

With these trivial matters arranged, Roland personally drafted five official letters, which were sent to Queen Lyubov of the North Bay, Lord Andre of Lighthouse Hill, Prince Carol and Lady Theodora of Parnia, Lord Bratu of Icewind Valley, and Beowulf and Natasha of Kitland.