Emancipating slaves is easy to say, but the freed slaves are not optimistic: the old way of life has been broken with the shackles on their bodies, the hard but stable days are over, and in the face of an uncertain future, how should we make a living when we are free? Who's going to help us with an idea? Who will help us arrange food, clothing, housing and transportation? These livelihood issues were not resolved, and how could the freed slaves be happy.

Roland's gaze swept over the worried faces, understood people's concerns, smiled slightly, and calmly said the resettlement plan.

First of all, those who are willing to stay can continue to work in the mine. Roland promised to improve working conditions, food and living conditions, pay miners on a monthly basis, and provide a range of additional benefits.

Secondly, those who did not want to stay in the mines were free to leave, and each person could receive 2 gold talers for the passage home, which was paid from the confiscation of the family property of Hurd's party, and Roland was also a good deed for the moths who oppressed the slaves.

The cost of the journey was too much or too little, and the miners were happy for a moment and worried about their future livelihood. Roland said at the right time that he would provide them with job opportunities.

The specific process is as follows: Liberated miners first register at the labor service office of the Mochizuki City Hall, and fill in the fields including age, place of origin, physical condition, professional skills, and whether they are willing to join a labor union...... Then wait for the message. If there is any employment news, a notice will be posted on the notice board in front of the city hall gate, and unemployed people who meet the requirements of the recruiter will be invited to attend the interview. There is currently only one job available for all, and those who are interested can join the soon-to-be-created Sweetwater commune and work on a state-owned cotton farm.

Instead of staying in the mines, Roland recommended that these freed miners go to work on the farms, not only to get a stable income to make ends meet, but also to receive near-free medical care in the local druid community, so that the miners' battered bodies can be restored.

The state-owned cotton farm continues Roland's consistent proposition, adopting a modern enterprise management model, and the miners who go to work do not bring farmland into the cooperative, so they cannot obtain shares in the farm, but with the expansion of the scale of the farm, more newly cultivated land is included, and the share capital of the farm will also be expanded, and now the elders who join the commune have the opportunity to obtain shares and become shareholders of the farm, in addition to wages can also get dividend income.

From slaves with nothing to shareholders on state-owned farms, these ragged and disjointed men were deeply moved by the bright prospects portrayed by His Royal Highness the Prince, and their long-suppressed passions finally burst out. I don't know who took the lead in shouting "Long live the kingdom of Koras", and the cheers immediately resounded through the mine.

Roland left the dismissal of the miners to Jacqueline and Eleanor, and returned to Mochizuki City on the "Independence" on his own.

Sitting in the airship cabin, staring intently at Mount Mochizuki fading away outside the porthole, Roland fell into deep thought.

If nothing else, the vast majority of miners will choose to leave the gold mine that has cast a psychological shadow on them and head to Sweetwater in search of a new life. How can an empty mine maintain production? Recruiting miners is urgent, and unlike other mines, gold mines have stricter security and confidentiality requirements. Roland remembers that before he crossed his country, there was an "armed police gold unit" dedicated to the exploration and protection of gold mines. Most of the gold mines in Varess were also firmly in the hands of the government, and the army directly under the royal family was sent to take care of security matters, and the miners were mostly drawn from the engineering army.

Referring to the conventional practices of the two worlds of Earth and Varess, Roland gave up the idea of recruiting miners from the society to mine gold, and decided to select an engineering unit to mine the gold mines of Mount Mochizuki, and the mines were managed militarized, and an additional special post allowance was provided for the practitioners.

It's not hard to run a mine, it's hard to keep this huge gold mine. The discovery of a gold mine that had been hidden by Baron Hurd for many years was good news, but it also deepened Roland's concerns. Without this gold mine, Baron Hurd would have been just a reservoir dog, and the Canaanites would not have fought against the Far East for him, but since such a huge gold mine existed near the border between the two countries, the situation would be completely different, and Baron Hurd, who had been exiled to the Medes, would also become a strange commodity, and it was difficult to guarantee that His Excellency the Doge of Medes would not use him to make a fuss, so Roland had to take precautions as soon as possible.

Returning to the Doge's Palace with heavy thoughts, Roland first summoned a meeting of his right-hand men, including Joseph, Sand Rose, Lyudmila, Veronica, and Tonya, to arrange the next stage of work.

Joseph presided over the civil affairs of Mochizuki Castle, and the newly established labor service department was to pay more attention to ensure timely and comprehensive employment opportunities for freed miners. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the Mochizukiyama mine and maintain the status quo until the restart of work. Captain Aurora dispatched a squadron of Giant Eagles to patrol Mount Mochizuki and take charge of local security to prevent thieves from stealing while the mine was closed.

Sand Rose is responsible for receiving the miners who defected to the farm, doing a good job of resettlement in Sweetwater, and by the way, organizing her disciples to build a hospital to provide thoughtful treatment for those miners who are mostly sick or even disabled.

Lyudmila and Tonya continued their work, conducting the census in Mochizuki and the surrounding countryside, while Joseph provided the necessary assistance to the census team.

Veronica led the Redstone Guards to temporarily take on security and policing in Mochizuki until Krasbourg sent border guards to take over security.

After arranging these trivial matters, Roland freed up and wrote three letters in a row.

The first letter was addressed to the father. In the letter, Roland gave a detailed account of the changes in the southern Xinjiang region over the past few days, focusing on the reserves and exploitation of the gold mines in Mount Mochizuki, and bluntly pointed out that although the gold mines were located in the Far East, the Canaanites were still likely to make a big fuss about the fifty percent equity that the Medean governor Meyer had during the control of the gold mines by Baron Hurd. In order to guard against threats from across the border, Roland decided it necessary to strengthen the defenses of the frontier and send an engineer unit to the top of Mount Mochizuki as soon as possible to mine gold for the freed slaves.

Roland's letter was nominally addressed to Rudolf I, but at the same time he acquiesced to the ministers of the Cabinet, for His Majesty would inevitably read it out in public at a meeting of the Cabinet, and would ask the Cabinet for authorization and decrees concerning his son's many arrangements concerning the Southern Frontier.

PS. About gold mines

The reserve data for the Mochizukiyama gold mine is mainly based on the Muruntau gold mine on Earth.

The Muruntau gold mine in Uzbekistan is currently the world's largest land-based gold mine. The mine produced 61 tonnes of gold in 2015, and experts estimate that there are still about 4,819 tonnes of unmined gold reserves.