"Now that our country is actively expanding its armament war, there are too many places to use money, the government's financial budget is limited, there is no need to do everything yourself, such as canneries, which are not very high-tech and do not involve military secrets, can be completely open to private capital to operate, and allow all canning manufacturers to compete freely, and the military only needs to place orders with manufacturers that rank in the forefront of cost performance."

Evgenia's proposal was immediately unanimously supported by all the ministers from the "Club of the Awakened".

At first, Roland thought that the "Far Eastern Capital Group" represented by the cabinet ministers was eager to make a "national disaster", but he immediately realized that his idea was too extreme. As Evgenia said, if the state funds the handling of things, first of all, the huge financial expenditure will not be able to bear, and secondly, it is not necessarily a good thing for state-owned enterprises to monopolize a certain industry, especially when the industry does not involve the lifeline of the country's economy and public security, due to the lack of effective supervision and incentives, the power rent-seeking and inefficiency derived from monopoly have become a heavy burden on the back of a country's government, but it is better to liberalize market control and allow private capital to come in to compete, not only the production efficiency is higher, but the procurement cost will be lower.

After some careful consideration, Roland raised his hand to support Evgenia's initiative to authorize the technical patents of the "Canned Research Group" of the Military Technology Research Institute to private enterprises. Industrialists who are interested in this emerging industry can get all the technical information as long as they pay a licensing fee to the research institute, build their own factories and production lines, and process canned food. According to the usual practice, one-third of the income from each patent grant is handed over to the Military Technology Research Institute as a fund for follow-up research and development, and the remaining two-thirds is distributed as a bonus to the staff involved in the research.

Roland copied the canned food from the earth to the Far East, originally intended as a portable military food, but the popularity of this shelf-stable and convenient food was far beyond his expectations, not only after the officers and soldiers at all levels tasted it well, but also in the civilian market is widely sought after, and has achieved great commercial success!

There is a saying that "no one does a business that loses money" and "everyone rushes to do a business that makes money". Seeing that canned food in the market is popular, similar factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the canned food flavors offered are also diverse. Even a famous writer who traveled to the Far East was so struck by the locals' enthusiasm for canned food that he wrote the following in his travel diary:

Presumably because the winters in the Far East were too cold and long, the inhabitants of the north could not obtain fresh and abundant ingredients, so they had to rely on sealed jars to preserve the ingredients. Far Easterners are generally keen to buy and store these canned foods. The industrialists of the Far East are also willing to invest in the people's favor and develop and produce a wide variety of canned food. Whenever a new canned food comes on the market, it is always quickly snapped up. Canned food occupies such an important place in family life that it makes an extremely strong impression on outsiders: almost any ingredient that can be eaten, Far Easterners will find ways to make it into cans!

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Busy days always fly by, and in a blink of an eye, it's almost October. It has only been four years since the independence of the Far East, but it has already developed a unique national tradition, which is always manifested through various statutory or customary "festivals".

In the minds of the vast majority of people in the Far East, the most important day of the year is not Chinese New Year's Eve, but October 1. This day is both a national holiday in the Far East and a "sanctification festival" for Sindra, the goddess of fate, to bestow blessings on all believers.

Four years ago, on October 1, Roland, in his capacity as the Chosen Woman and Crown Prince of the Far East, presided over a grand "sanctification ceremony" at the Krasbourg Cathedral, washing away the accusations of heresy suffered by the Far Easterners for thousands of years, thus establishing the status of the "Sindra Church" as the state religion in the entire Far East.

For four years, every year at 8 o'clock in the morning on October 1st, the bell tower of the Krasbourg Cathedral would ring the bell to call on the people to come to the church to participate in the annual sacrificial celebrations, especially the newborns born in that year, who should be carried by their parents to the sacred and solemn cathedral, kneel in front of the altar, and pray to the statue of the goddess of fate high above the altar to give the baby blessings and bless this pure little life with a lifetime of happiness. It is believed that this sacred ritual is related to the lifelong happiness of the child, so the Far Easterners cannot call the baby by name when it is born, and only when the baby has participated in the sacrament can it really have a name blessed by the goddess, so the people of the Far East also call this sacrament "name festival".

The naming ceremony of newborns does not necessarily have to be held in the cathedral of the capital, and churches in towns and villages everywhere also provide the same sacramental services.

However, there always seems to be a superstitious belief that the capital cathedral, as the highest holy place of the state church, has a magical power not found in other township churches, and that children who receive the "god-given name" in the capital cathedral will grow up faster, healthier, and wiser than their peers.

In order to put their baby at the starting line, countless young couples believe in the above baseless rumors, and always try to take their young son all the way to Colasbourg to attend the sacrament in the capital cathedral on October 1. Fortunately, the Far East is not what it used to be, and the roads, railways, and water transportation are all well developed, and the journey from all parts of the country to Beijing has been shortened from a year and a half to a week, and the trains are equipped with nurses, so that children under the age of one will not die of illness due to long-distance travel.

In the past two years, the Far East has absorbed millions of immigrants from the interior of the empire, some of these new immigrants have not yet converted, although some have converted, but they are also eager to come to the capital cathedral for pilgrimage, and the new immigrants have brought more newborns, plus the aborigines of the Far East have also ushered in the peak period of birth due to the national peace and security for many years, the unprecedented wave of immigrants and baby booms has added a lot of popularity to this year's National Day, and since August, the flow of pilgrimage to Krasbourg has been endless, increasing day by day. On the eve of the National Day, according to the statistics of the civil affairs department, the floating population of Colasburg has exceeded the permanent population, and the total number of residents has reached an exaggerated 2 million!

As far as the entire world of Varess is concerned, there are only a handful of cities with permanent residents and floating populations of 2 million, including the imperial capital of Asan, the capital of Avalon, the capital of Fergen, the capital of Patus, and the capital of Canaan, Bethlehem - in addition to the above four megacities, there is only one Colasburg.

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