If the country is compared to a machine, the machine of the Kolas Kingdom is still in the run-in period, and it also breaks down from time to time while roaring, and the operation of the state machine cannot be stopped, so it can only be repaired while starting work. Roland is like a mechanic, holding a wrench in his left hand and a screwdriver in his right, and when he finds something is not working, he goes up and twists this screw, tightens that clockwork, and is very busy.

Finally completed the currency reform, put hundreds of millions of silver coins back into the treasury, and before he could take a breath, a lot of work was put on his desk.

At the same time that Roland was busy with currency reform, his two female secretaries were not idle. Just after the Spring Festival of 1622, before the ice and snow in the Far East had melted, Lyudmila and Tonya returned to work from their annual leave ahead of schedule and led their team aboard the "Dawn" to continue the census journey. Half a year passed in a blink of an eye, and the time came to the end of April, when the southern plains along the river ushered in the busy season of early rice planting, and the north finally waited for the belated spring breeze, the melting snow water merged into gurgling streams flowing along the mountains, and the reckless jungle was dressed in tender green new clothes.

Roland got the inspection report sent back by Lyudmila in advance, and a thick book of bricks was played. A general glance shows that a lot of the data doesn't quite match people's usual impressions.

According to Lyudmila's team, the Far East, which is about 4.3 million square kilometers, seems to be in line with people's perception at first glance, but it does not include the autonomous regions of Kitland, Icewind Valley, Dragon City, Kolas Island, and Silversky, nor does it include friendly states such as the North Sea Federation, the city-state of Zociofa, and the Parnia Peninsula that could be merged into the kingdom of Kolas. If all these territories are included, the actual territory controlled by the Kingdom of Kolas will reach 5 million square kilometers.

In addition, there are about one million square kilometers of land west of the Turbidity River Bridge to the Ulino Pass. In the era of imperial rule, this vast territory was also subordinate to the Far Eastern Province, and after the establishment of the Kolas Kingdom, it claimed to have the right to the entire Far Eastern Province, but in reality, the western region was still under the control of the Imperial Border Guards, and unless this territory was recovered, the Kolas Kingdom could not be considered truly independent from the legal point of view. Of course, considering that the time is not yet ripe, the Kolas government has no motion to recover the western territories for the time being, and it is more realistic to continue to maintain the situation of ruling across the river.

Territories are disputed, and demographic data have different statistical calibers. In terms of the 4.3 million square miles of land where the Kingdom of Kolas can fully exercise its sovereignty, there are nearly 7 million inhabitants in total, of which about 90% are humans, and they are the main people, along with dwarves, sub-giants, elves, gnomes, halflings, and half-orcs.

This number is also more than is commonly believed. When Roland first traveled to the world of Vares, he consulted the archives at the public library of Krasbourg, then known as Fort Atonement, which had a population of about 5.6 million according to a rough census of the Imperial Far Eastern provinces in 1610. This decade-old figure is clearly out of date. In particular, in the past three years since the independence of the Far East, the government of Koras has introduced many policies to promote population growth, such as reducing the tax burden on peasants, levying income tax on a family basis, and lowering the marginal tax rate for the larger the family size......

The above policies, combined with the abundant harvest of the country and the people in the past three years, have greatly reduced the fertility rate and the rate of neonatal death, and now the average life expectancy of Far Easterners has increased from 34 years before independence to 47 years, and it took less than three years to complete this feat, which is enough to go down in history.

Considering that since the independence of the Far East, people have generally lived and worked in peace and contentment, life has been secured, and food and clothing are no longer a luxury, and the population boom is not unexpected. If you take into account the inhabitants of Kitland, Icewind Dale, North Sea Federation, Lighthouse Mountain, Parnia, Dragon City, Koras Island, and Silversky, the total population of the Far East is likely to exceed the 10 million mark!

What does 10 million people mean? Lyudmila and Tonya give the following reference data in the statistical report as a comparison:

First of all, Vares, the world's number one power, the Holy Assanian Empire, which has been established for more than 1,600 years, has a territorial territory of more than 2,000 square miles, occupying most of the Atlas continent. In addition, the Holy Assanian Empire had a large overseas colony of no less than 10 million square miles in places such as Vernoa and Grabelen. The empire has a native population of nearly 200 million, and the total population is about 220 million, including overseas colonists, which is a unique giant in the entire Varess world!

The nominal second largest country in Vares, Baoshihua, covers an area of about 720 square miles, most of which are located in the western plains of the Atlas continent, and are endowed with much better resources than the cold and mountainous Far East, supporting more than 60 million inhabitants. Despite such unique conditions, it is a pity that the Grand Duchy of Baoshihua does not have the strength to match its size. The court of Baoshihua was only the nominal ruler of the state, and this multi-ethnic state was divided by feudal lords, and there have been constant disputes for thousands of years, and there are still 38 relatively independent states and 4 free cities that compete with each other for power and profit. This form of aristocratic alliance of states has become increasingly unable to adapt to modern industrial society, and the immediate task facing the court of Baoshihua is not to colonize and expand, but to clean up internal affairs, flatten the separatist forces, and unify this land into a modern state in the true sense of the word.

The truth is simple, but unfortunately it is easier said than done. The Grand Duchy of Baoshua is a multi-ethnic mixed region, with humans accounting for only 60% of the total population, and the population of giants, dwarves, orcs, beasts, goblins and other ethnic groups is also millions. In addition to internal factors, there is also an external factor that cannot be ignored. For geopolitical reasons, neither Yasan nor Hailan wanted Baoshihua to become too powerful, and for many years the first diplomatic policy of the two countries was to nurture proxies within Baoshihua to prevent the country with great potential from completing de facto unification.

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