Since the assassination of Rudolf I, Roland became regent of the Far East and handed over the post of governor of the central bank to Katya. Katya also consciously cultivated a successor, promoting Antron, who had returned from the New World, to senior vice president, and Ou Luomei to vice president, taking over most of the work that she was originally responsible for, so that she could free up more energy to assist Roland in managing the cloud network.

In addition to Katya, Lyudmila and Tonya, two senior cabinet officials, were also promoted to **** and assistant regents. Roland did not favor one over the other, and also granted the two "big secretaries" the authority to manage the cloud network, and formed a three-person committee with Katya to jointly be responsible for the daily maintenance of the cloud network and the procurement of cloud assets.

After arranging internal affairs, Roland took the magic train south early the next morning. He still had two days to spare before going to Medes, and considering that southern Xinjiang was a forward base for operations in the south, he decided to take this opportunity to inspect and see how well he was preparing for war.

On the afternoon of February 2, Roland and his entourage arrived at Moon City, the capital of southern Xinjiang. The train blew its whistle and entered the station, and the platform was already crowded with people who had come to greet His Royal Highness the Regent.

Standing at the forefront of the crowd were Joseph Davidovich, Governor of Southern Xinjiang, Mayor of Mochizuki and Director of the Commune, Deputy Mayor of Mochizuki and Chief Druisa Rose of the Commune, Archbishop Vitas Feodovich Karamazov of the Sindra Church in Southern Xinjiang, and Roland's old friend, Bloom Wrought Iron, Commander of the Southern Frontier and Director of Mines.

With cheers resounding through the platform, Roland appeared in front of the door, smiling and waving to the thousands of people in southern Xinjiang who spontaneously came to greet him. Immediately shook hands with Joseph, Sand Rose, Vitas and other local government officials who came forward, and finally when it was Bloom's turn, the dwarf big brother did not change his heroic nature, laughed and opened his arms to Roland. Roland didn't put on a stand as the king of a country in front of his old brothers, and hugged Bloom warmly, thinking back to the days when he fought side by side, and the two iron-clad men couldn't help but burst into tears.

The Governor's Palace has prepared a sumptuous dinner for His Royal Highness the Regent. Roland didn't eat much, but he didn't refuse to drink, much to the admiration of Vitas, a wine hero on a par with Bloom.

After the dinner, Roland refused the ball prepared by Joseph and invited the four giants of the southern Xinjiang government to come to the small living room alone to talk and gain an in-depth understanding of the development of southern Xinjiang in recent years, with a focus of course on preparing for war.

Joseph first reported to Roland on the preparations for the southward war, and also prepared a detailed list in advance, with all kinds of materials in reserve and storage.

"Your Highness, judging from the current military reserves alone, it can meet the needs of at least 50,000 troops for a whole year, and I think it should take less than a year to win a complete victory in the south." Joseph said optimistically.

"Where can it take so long as a year, in my opinion, it will be able to completely wipe out the Naraku Sect in three months at most!" Bloom seemed overly optimistic, but his self-confidence did not come out of nowhere, after all, he was the commander of the southern Xinjiang garrison, and his military views were more authoritative than Joseph's civilian officials.

Next, Sand Rose reported to Roland on the development of local agriculture.

Recall that at the beginning of 1622, Southern Xinjiang first put down the rebellion of Baron Hurd, and then repelled the invasion of Mayer and the four major sand bandits, and finally got rid of the ravages of war. In order to revitalize southern Xinjiang, Roland formulated an industrial plan centered on the reclamation of cotton fields, planning to restore the scale of cotton fields in the border region to 800,000 mu within three years, and will also build a railway through southern Xinjiang to transport cotton textiles.

Now, at the end of the three-year period, the above plan has not only been successfully realized, but also greatly exceeded Roland's original expectations. The scale of cotton fields has been expanded to 2 million acres, and initially established a complete industrial chain including "cotton planting, spinning, weaving, printing and dyeing, garment" and many other industrial categories, the railway trunk line from the Crescent Valley to Colasburg was also completed and opened to traffic a year ago, and a steady stream of cotton and cotton textiles produced in southern Xinjiang were transported to all parts of the Far East, which not only met the clothing needs of domestic residents, but also exported a large number of them to Canaan, Hailan and Feizhen and other countries, following the grain, became another internationally competitive agricultural product in the Far East.

Roland's economic boom in southern Xinjiang is not a surprise to Roland, but there are actually unplanned factors at play in such rapid economic growth.

Roland formulated the Southern Xinjiang Rejuvenation Plan at the time, based on the resource endowment and population size of Southern Xinjiang at that time, and the biggest shortcoming of Southern Xinjiang at that time was the serious lack of population, more than 600,000 square miles of land, only less than 500,000 residents lived, and the population density was even lower than the Lucia Plateau, which was covered with snow all year round! In such a vast and sparsely populated area with continuous Gobi, it is unrealistic to quickly promote the development and growth of the cotton textile industry.

But then things changed. The reintegration of southern Xinjiang into the Kolas government has given the locals a long-awaited opportunity for peace to finally live and work in peace and contentment free from the harassment of bandits. Soon after, the authorities of the Far East signed an economic cooperation agreement with the government of Canaan to establish a "preferential customs zone" across the border from Mochizuki Castle to Medea, which greatly facilitated border trade.

Investors from the Far East to Canaan were attracted to invest in the two emerging industries of cotton textiles and border trade, and most of them received rich returns on their investment.

People who had been harassed by sand bandits and were forced to flee southern Xinjiang have returned to their hometowns to settle down, providing the local labor force that is in dire need. The southern Xinjiang region really ushered in the opportunity for rapid development, but also from the radical reform set off by the Yashan Empire last year, the reform led by Prince Frank involved land, economy and finance in many fields, the empire was tossed and complained, countless middle and lower class families in the reform tide went bankrupt, and tens of millions of serfs could not bear the oppression of state-owned farms, these victims of Frank's reform have embarked on the road of escape, gathered into a tide of escape from the empire, and the tide rushed to the main destination, It is the Far East that has opened its doors to refugees.

In 1624 alone, the Far East hosted more than 1 million fugitives from the empire, most of whom were resettled in southern Xinjiang. With such a new force, the local "labor shortage" was immediately alleviated.