Roland's State of the Union address, written by himself, is also a passionate battle message, through which he wants to establish a moral code for Far Easterners to love the motherland and hate the empire, and make it the mainstream ideology of society.

Until then, it had been almost impossible to carry out such a large-scale, carpet-style simultaneous propaganda work throughout the country, and the natural territory spanning 3,000 miles from north to south was the greatest obstacle, and even the most exciting propaganda slogans could only circulate in the capital and its surrounding towns, and spread to the countryside in the remote areas of the kingdom...... That would probably be a year from now.

However, this time is different from the past, the Far East's transportation construction is in full swing, the national road and bridge company to undertake the construction of the super project "Northern Railway Trunk Line" is a major symbol of the development of the Far East's transportation, but the Northern Railway is not the only achievement, in fact, the value of the railway is mainly reflected in the strategic aspect, and those contracted by private enterprises to build railway branch lines and township roads have a more significant direct impact on the daily life of the people.

In Roland's plan for transport, "connecting towns and villages" is a major theme. At the same time that the main railway line of the Northern Railway is advancing as planned, the large and small towns in the Far East from south to north are also actively carrying out road and bridge construction projects. The originally isolated mountain villages were connected by roads, and for the first time, mountain people had the opportunity to ride horses and ox carts into the city, which opened their eyes, and many young people never wanted to go back to the countryside once they entered the city.

Roland and John Pulit chose those towns with a population of 2,000 or more to distribute newspapers and periodicals throughout the country, and these 400 towns have a combined population of more than 1 million, which together with the surrounding towns of Krasbourg has a population of about 2 million, which is almost the entire population of the towns in the kingdom of Kolas, which is within the coverage of the news distribution network. Relying on the tremendous power of the new phototypesetting printing press and the magic fax machine, the inaugural issue of the "Fatherland Daily," which carried Roland's own articles, spread almost a day throughout the cities and towns of the Far East, adding a piece of spiritual food to the breakfast tables of two million townspeople, and even according to the most conservative estimates, at least 50,000 middle-class urban families would subscribe to the "Motherland Daily" on a long-term basis.

2 million urban dwellers, 50,000 middle-class families, is this the entire target customer base of the Far Eastern press and publishing industry?

Roland doesn't think so.

The fact that the newspaper published in Krasbourg was distributed simultaneously in more than 400 towns and cities across the country on the same day was already a miracle in the history of world publishing in Vares, but Roland and his press director, Mr. John Plitt, were not satisfied and managed to sell the newspaper to the countryside around the town.

Thanks to the increasing availability of transportation, most of the villages located around towns have post offices. Village postmen would take to the city early in the morning on horseback or in their cars, along the newly built township roads. Most of the post offices in the city are co-located with newspaper distribution points and press stations, and there are several signs in a set of people. The village postman delivers the letters and parcels delivered by the villagers to the town post office, and then collects the mail sent to the countryside, and brings the newly published newspapers and periodicals back to the countryside by the way.

Some villages are too remote for postmen to travel the same day, and only once a week do they go into the city to send and receive mail and buy newspapers and periodicals. But for rural residents who live in remote villages and are accustomed to a slower pace of life, the newspaper published seven days ago still has "news" value, and they don't care that their news is not as good as that of people in the city.

When the sun was rising in Krasburg, the "valley village" thousands of miles to the north was affected by the time difference, and the sky was not yet bright, and a hazy twilight was shrouded over the village, and the rooster crowed in the distance.

Since the valley village and the surrounding four smaller natural villages united to form the "commune", the five villages with a total of more than 300 households have joined the commune to become "members", and the farmland of each village has also been connected into a large area under the organization of the commune leadership, more than 20,000 acres of spring wheat planted at the end of April in two days, now growing well, at a glance the green fields are endless, and the valley village surrounded by wheat fields looks very inconspicuous, like a small island in the green ocean.

Before six o'clock in the morning, Lieutenant Nikolai, the sheriff of the valley village, got up and went to work and nailed two signboards written last night to the door of one of the offices of the village office. One signboard reads "Gudi Village Commune Post Office" and another reads "Newspaper and Book Purchasing Station".

Yes, the village of the Valley is also one of the 400 newspaper distribution points designated by Roland, which is operated by the Commune Management Committee.

Gudi Village is not a town, and its population size does not reach the threshold of 2,000 people, which divides the township into two levels of government, and the reason why it was fortunate to have a place at a distribution station was mainly because there were "people in the court", who were personally cared for by His Royal Highness the Prince, and perhaps under the care of the Prince-to-be, Miss Lyudmila, the National Agricultural Adviser, and Miss Tonya, the Senior Minister of the Cabinet...... All in all, he made an exception and enjoyed the treatment at the town level.

Nikolai did not see any privileges in the village of the Valley, but took His Royal Highness's attention as a spur and took charge of the commune's postal and newspaper work himself. Although he had one arm less than a normal person, Nikolai was still very quick to do his work, and it took less than ten minutes to nail two signboards with one hand.

Then the door of the opposite room opened, and Peter, the young resident priest, yawned and walked out.

"Good morning, Big Brother Nikolai! Hey? The signboard is nailed! ”

"How's that, it's not bad, right?" Nikolai asked the little one with a smile.

Peter took two steps back and looked up and down, nodding his head in admiration: "The handwriting is so good, and the nails are neat, it's hard to imagine that you can do it so well with only one hand, if it were me, it would be enough to choke on both hands together!" ”

"You're still young, and besides, this kind of rough work doesn't need to be done by the young priest himself."

In the two months he has been in the valley village, Nikolai has gradually changed from the discomfort he had when he first left the army, and the quiet and simple country life seems to have a miraculous healing effect, so that he gradually got rid of the psychological shadow caused by the loss of his left arm, regained his self-confidence and optimism, and learned to make some innocuous jokes in the way of a countryman.

"Peter, what time is it?"

"About six o'clock? Do you want me to do a magic trick to confirm it? ”

Peter's list of 0-ring magic spells includes "Time Signal", which makes it easy to check the time.