On the eve of the unveiling of the military exercise, she finally made a choice and cast a spell to send a text message with the same wording to the major wealthy families in Mulberry Bay, with only two sentences:

The time has not yet come, take into account the overall situation.

Tamara sent this letter, indicating that the Naluo Order was forced to temporarily terminate its support for the local separatist forces in Mulberry Bay due to the situation, and the "thaw plan" that had been painstakingly planned was put on hold. Even Tamara herself felt that she could not count on it.

The joint military exercise between the Kingdom of Kolas and Parnia was scheduled to open on November 22, and Roland stayed in Parniaborg for another week to co-organize the event, but on November 19, he received an unexpected letter that prompted him to give up attending the joint military exercise, and hurriedly boarded the "Independence" airship early the next morning to bid farewell to Parniabor.

The letter was sent by Lyudmila and Tonya from the Gobi Territory in the Far Southeast, jointly named by Lyudmila and Tonya on behalf of the census team, and revealed a not-so-good news: During the Census team's inspection of the Frontier on the "Dawn" airship, they heard and witnessed some things, and all kinds of signs showed that the lords of the estates and local tycoons in the Frontier were not willing to accept the jurisdiction of the Kolas government, and they resisted many policies and decrees promulgated by the central government, both openly and covertly, and even did not rule out the possibility of plotting a rebellion.

Lyudmila and Tonya realized that the situation was serious and that their position and prestige were not enough to take charge of the local situation on their own, so they wrote to Roland and asked him to meet them in detail in Sweetwater Town, an important agricultural town near the capital of southern Xinjiang, Mochizuki City.

Reading this letter, Roland immediately realized that the situation was abnormal. Lyudmila and Tonya's census team was investigating in the border region, and he knew about it, but why didn't the expedition team stay in the border town of "Mochizuki City", the capital of the border region, but set up a foothold in a border town more than 200 miles away from Mochizuki City? This can only show that Lyudmila and Tonya received a cold reception in Mochizuki City, losing trust in the local bureaucracy and even being wary.

Since the founding of the Far East, Roland has been busy at full speed. People's energy is limited, and he has no three heads and six arms, so he can only choose the work that he thinks is more important to deal with first, so he knows that Mochizuki City, the capital of the border region, has been outside the administrative system of the Far Eastern authorities, and he is quite disobedient, but he has not bothered to understand the local situation for more than a year.

Now Lyudmila and Tonya went to the local area to investigate, and sure enough, they found that the dark tide was surging, and if the "historical problem" of the border region was not completely solved, it would probably cause a catastrophe!

Roland didn't reach out to take care of the problem of the border region before, in addition to having no time to doppelganger, another factor was that the local situation was too complicated, involving the game of multiple forces. If we want to sort out this mess, we must start with the geographical environment.

The so-called "Gobi Territory" refers to the border between the Great Desert and the Far East.

The Celestial Desert is extremely vast, covering an area of more than 10 million square miles, which is larger than the Sahara Desert on Earth. The arid climate of the yellow sands is not suitable for the development of agricultural civilization, but there is no shortage of life in the desert, such as half-scorpions, mantismen, half-giants, and many monsters beyond ordinary imagination, in addition to the human race that maintains the lifestyle of nomadic tribes. Of course, there are non-quarrelsome and hospitable groups among these desert natives, but they are forced by an extremely cruel environment, and more are extremely aggressive, and they are proud of raiding sand bandits, among which the most famous and powerful are the six major witch king families with spiritual blood, the Zion royal family of Canaan is a descendant of one of the witch king families, and the queen of Canaan, Lady Judy, is from another witch king family, the "Rosenthal tribe".

The Far Southeast and Southern Frontier were often raided by sand bandits, most of whom were backed by the Witch King family, and were not peaceful from the time of the imperial provinces, so the provincial government had to garrison troops on the frontier, and Mochizuki Castle was a border fortress built for this purpose, with strong castles and walls, and later developed into the capital of the frontier.

If you exclude the Witch King family and the undetermined bandits in the desert, there are three countries and one separatist power in the region where Mochizuki City is located, namely the Marquis of Canaan in the south of the desert, Parnia in the Golden Horn, the Order of Naro in the Twilight Valley, and the Kingdom of Kolas, which was established after the Far East Revolution in 1620.

Due to the sparse local population and inconvenient transportation, the capital Mochizuki Castle has maintained a cold relationship with the Kolas government established after the revolution for more than a year, with a faint sense of secession and self-reliance.

Because of their heretical blood, the Far Easterners have not been recognized by the central government of the Yashan Empire, and have not formed an aristocratic class, but there is no shortage of large landowners, especially in the southern frontier areas far away from the Tiangao Emperor, most of the local plantations practice a more barbaric slavery than serfdom, and it is common for the lord of the manor to scold and even massacre slaves for no reason, and the master regards it as a matter of course, and never thinks that he should be condemned for this, let alone break the law.

At the beginning of the Kolas government, the government legislated to abolish serfdom and allow serfs to move freely without the control of their masters, and local governments were responsible for maintaining their safety and freedom. This policy clashed fiercely with the interests of the slave-owning class in southern Xinjiang and was rightfully resisted.

Roland had heard cabinet ministers complain that the central government's decrees could not be implemented in southern Xinjiang, and the personal experiences of Lyudmila and Tonya proved that the local forces in southern Xinjiang were even more arrogant than rumored.

In this letter to Roland, Lyudmila recounts that on the first day of the census team's arrival in southern Xinjiang aboard the Dawn, they found a troop of heavily armed cavalry near Mochizuki Castle, chasing fugitives in ragged clothes with metal collars.

Lyudmila and Tonya could not bear to sit idly by and watch this atrocity, and led the Giant Eagle Wing down to make contact with the fugitives, who learned that they were slaves on a nearby cotton plantation, with their names and their masters' surnames engraved on their necks, and that according to local custom, the fugitives were no different from thieves.

Lyudmila, of course, could not agree with the barbaric customs of the locality, and immediately decided to provide protection for the fugitives, so they clashed fiercely with the mercenaries who captured the fugitives.

After a fierce battle, the "slave catchers" were repulsed and fled back to Mochizuki City, and what surprised Lyudmila even more was that among the mercenaries chasing the fugitive slaves was the former imperial border guards.