The land expedition team led by Lyudmila and Tonya set off on the military airship "Dawn" in early April, which took half a year. After more than five months of arduous work, the important mission of inspecting the land resources of the Far East was finally completed in late September.

On the morning of September 24, the "Dawn" airship landed at the military dock in Krasbourg, and Roland personally greeted the two hard-working ladies and gave them a three-day vacation.

On 28 September, Rowland presented this detailed report to the Cabinet, in which the statistics on arable land lifted the spirits of His Majesty the King and his courtiers.

According to Lyudmila and Tonya's investigation, a total of about 75 million mu of cultivated land has been reclaimed in the country, of which about 10 million mu are paddy fields in the south and 65 million mu are dry fields in the north, mainly wheat, soybeans and corn.

Compared with the more than 5 million people in the Far East, 15 acres of cultivated land per capita is not much. Of the 75 million cultivated land, about two-thirds of the fields are concentrated and densely populated, making them suitable for conversion into collective farms. This conclusion answered Rudolph's questions and was deeply gratifying to His Majesty the King.

Two-thirds of the 75 million mu of cultivated land is 50 million mu, and the total amount of cultivated land involved in the current 200 agricultural reform pilot projects in the Far East is only about 5 million mu. If the scale of arable land of the subsequent state-owned farms is similar to that of the previous pilot, then a rough calculation shows that at least 1,800 collective farms with an average cultivated area of about 25,000 mu can be created in the Far East, including no less than 2.5 million agricultural people - this accounts for almost three-quarters of all the agricultural population in the Far East!

It would be too much to think that the agricultural potential of the Far East has been understood on this basis. Lyudmila and Tonya gave another, more exciting set of statistics in their report:

"Judging from the results of preliminary surveys, there are at least 1 billion acres of cultivable land in the Far East that have not yet been cultivated."

Based on this, Lyudmila and Tonya made cautious and optimistic conclusions in their report:

"There is still a huge potential for agriculture in the Far East to be explored!"

The report submitted by Lyudmila and Tonya on the expedition to the Far East sparked heated discussions in the cabinet, and the professional atlases of the Far East, such as topographical maps, administrative maps, traffic maps, and resource distribution maps, were so beautifully drawn that Rudolph couldn't put it down and sighed with emotion: "I have lived in the Far East for more than 20 years, and I have been a king for a whole year, and I don't know until today that the land under my feet looks like a fat goose looking back." ”

Including Roland, everyone was amused by His Majesty's words, and looking carefully at the map, the outline of the Far Eastern territory was indeed like a chubby "goose", as if it was crawling on the water and looking back, and the slender neck was the narrow peninsula extending to the meteorite ocean in the north of the Atlas continent, marked on the map as the "Bend Peninsula", which was actually the area where the "North Sea Federation" was located.

The Bend Peninsula and the North Sea Federation are not theoretically part of the territory of the Kolas Kingdom, but the ordinary people from the top of the two countries down to the North Bay have already tacitly accepted that the North Sea Federation belongs to a special administrative region of the Kolas Kingdom, and there is no national border between the two places, and there are no restrictions on the movement of residents. Not long ago, the North Sea Federation and the Kingdom of Kolas jointly formed a delegation to attend the Bethlehem World Expo, and confirmed the fact that the two places are one in the diplomatic field, and the merger has not yet been publicly announced, mainly with the help of the North Sea Federation as an external port to bypass the economic blockade of the Kingdom of Kolas by the Yashan Empire.

The survey team that Roland had spent so much money on from Beacon Hill was indeed worth the money, and the atlas was well received by His Majesty the King and your Excellencies. There happened to be a new type of magic typesetting press in the conference hall, and the secretaries of the various ministries lined up to copy the atlas at the behest of their bosses. His Majesty Rudolph was inspired by this scene and asked John Prit, the director of the Press, to publish an Atlas of the Far East, which would be distributed to the city, town, and village governments, as well as to the public sector such as libraries, schools, and Sindra churches.

His Excellency the Press Director, who was more copyright-conscious than the King, asked Roland privately after receiving the decree: "If we publish and print an atlas, do we need to pay an additional royalty to the surveying team?" ”

Roland smiled and shook his head: "When I hired the survey team, I signed a contract, and one of the articles clearly stated that the survey results belonged to the government of Koras, and they did not need to be paid to publish the atlas. ”

"That's good." His Excellency, the witty news director, began to ponder how to make the most of these free materials, such as setting up a column in the "Motherland Daily" to introduce readers to the magnificent mountains and customs of the Far East with maps, and to popularize geographical knowledge and at the same time receive the purpose of patriotic education.

"Roland, when you proposed to conduct a land survey, we were still a little skeptical, thinking that it was a waste to invest a lot of manpower and financial resources for such an inconsequential matter, but now it seems that you are right, without the various professional maps and accurate statistics obtained from the land survey, we will not be able to formulate a realistic policy, and if we only manage the country based on imagination and experience, it is inevitable that we will make mistakes." Rudolph reflected with deep feeling.

As a king, His Majesty Rudolph was still a novice and had many shortcomings, but his humble attitude and strong intellectual curiosity did not change the slightest because of his high position on the throne. He can't help but be angry when people point out his mistakes in public, but if it turns out that he is indeed wrong, he will humbly accept criticism and correct his mistakes - this is what Roland admires most about his father.

"Your Majesty, our decisions directly affect the lives of more than five million Far Easterners, and the slightest carelessness will cause irreparable consequences, and only by grasping the information of all walks of life in the country as comprehensively and accurately as possible can it be possible to formulate practical policies, and the land survey has enabled us to obtain a lot of valuable first-hand data, but this is far from enough."

Over the course of the year, Roland has been involved in discussing almost all of the major issues in the Köras government, and has often played a key role in making decisions. If you want to ask him how he feels about his experience in politics this year...... Is it pride, pride, or the sense of accomplishment in controlling the livelihood of all people?

Roland does not deny that he does have the above feelings, but there are stronger but not so beautiful feelings, in fact, what has often lingered in his heart this year is the sense of crisis walking on thin ice, the tension and anxiety of trembling, gaining and losing.

PS. On the area of arable land in the Far East

Taking the Celestial Empire as a comparison, the red line of cultivated land is 1.8 billion mu, which is converted to about 1,200,000 square kilometers, accounting for 1/8 of the country's land area. China is a country with a relatively low proportion of arable land among the countries in the world (comparative data: the arable land area of the United States is about 2.9 billion mu), and according to the above standards, the reclaimable arable land area of the Far Eastern Kolas Kingdom should not be less than 1 billion mu.