In the days when the girls were not around, Roland did not linger in the flowers as they feared, but devoted himself more to his work.

Since the beginning of April, Roland has maintained a regular schedule of going to the countryside twice a day, inspecting a commune pilot in the morning and afternoon, each time coming and going in a hurry, staying for only an hour or two.

The high intensity of his work did not make him feel tired or bored, but he was happy to be in a world where magic existed. If you are on earth, you can visit a mountain village thousands of miles away and without access to the outside world, and you will inevitably have to change various means of transportation, and maybe you have to cross the mountains and rivers on foot, but in Vares, you can easily do it with just one teleportation technique, and the round trip will only take a minute or two at most, which greatly saves commuting time.

However, he is also soberly aware that this convenient way of commuting can only be enjoyed by a very small number of spell casters, and for the general public, especially those living in poor and remote areas, the inconvenience of transportation has really deepened their suffering, limiting their vision, pattern and living space, and how can those villagers who have never gone out of the mountains in their lives awaken the consciousness of the country and the nation?

It is precisely in order to change as soon as possible the situation in which towns and villages in the Far East are separated from each other and do not communicate with each other, that Roland has decided to make transportation construction the focus of the next stage of work.

After the successful issuance of treasury bonds a year ago, Roland set aside a large amount of money as a start-up capital to promote domestic transportation construction, but this money has not been put into use until now, mainly due to two factors.

First of all, with the current level of industry in the Far East, the construction of large-scale projects such as roads and bridges has to look at God's face. From mid-November to the end of March, much of the Far Northeast was in the middle of a five-month winter, and the additional costs of building roads in this snowy environment were enormous.

Now in April, the Far East is in full bloom from south to north, and the snow has melted and the ground is soft, which is a good time to build roads, but Roland's proposed transportation construction plan has caused controversy in the cabinet meeting and has been pending for a long time.

On the morning of 11 April, at the regular royal meeting of the Cabinet Office at 10 Independence Avenue, the ministers again quarreled over the question of building the road.

The Minister of Industry, nicknamed "Old Goat", Zinovi, exhausted his patience in the quarrel, and suddenly got up, his face flushed, and he pulled his neck and yelled, looking not like the usual gloomy and cold "old goat", but like an angry bull.

"Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, and all the ministers here, we have been entangled in the details of the road construction for too long and wasted too much time, which makes me really unbearable, and I must stand up and ask you a few simple questions."

"Mr. Zinovi, if you have something to say, don't get excited~" Prime Minister Lloyd tried to appease the Minister of Industry, but the "old goat" did not buy his account, interrupted him and said loudly: "Since the establishment of this government, under the personal supervision of His Royal Highness Roland, I can proudly claim that the industrial momentum of the Far East has developed rapidly, and the production activities in the Karon Industrial Zone have been working around the clock to provide more and better goods for the Far Easterners, as long as you go to the market and the shops to see it, The problem now is that the supply of industrial goods in the capital city area is already saturated! In order to open up sales, factory owners have to face the cruel competition of their peers, improve the efficiency of machines as much as possible, reduce production costs, and even cut corners! ”

"The latter phenomenon is alarming, and if the quality of our industrial products declines, it will be passive to the propaganda that calls on the public to support domestic products." News Director John Pullett added.

"Mr. Plitt said to the point, but after all, there is an upper limit to the market capacity of the capital city area, and now that the industrial boom has swept the Far East, people with a little wealth are squeezing their heads to invest in factories, or buy industrial stocks and corporate bonds, and the competition will only become more and more fierce, Mr. Maynard proposed legislation to strictly prohibit counterfeiting and shoddy, cutting corners, in my opinion, this is pure empty talk, it is impossible to implement it at all! The correct way is to open up the market as soon as possible and sell the surplus industrial products in the cities to the vast countryside! I've heard that in some mountain villages, the brothers only have a pair of trousers and share a shirt? Gentlemen, this means a huge market potential, and politicians who do not try to develop this market are tantamount to crime! ”

This was said too radically, and immediately caused a clamor among the ministers.

Roland smiled and raised his hand to applaud.

Those ministers who were indignant and planned to criticize Zinovi fiercely, when they saw His Royal Highness the prince say this, they could only close their mouths and stare at the "old goat" who had been beaten with chicken blood.

Zinovi threw a grateful glance at Roland and continued to proclaim his idea: "How can the industrial products produced in the city be sold to the countryside? The little things of the needle and thread brain can be handed over to the merchants to go to the countryside to sell, but how can a big guy like the 'magic crystal steam harvester' be delivered to the country farm? Of course, we need convenient transportation, only the area covered by the transportation line can be regarded as an 'administrative district', and only by connecting the thousands of villages isolated outside the towns and cities by roads, railways and bridges, can our country be called a truly unified market, and our industrial products can be marketed, and we can obtain stronger demand stimulus, and we can produce more goods, create more wealth for our country, and provide more taxes for our government! If we only rely on the small market of the capital city circle, we will not be able to build a real industrial power, and our government is not a real central government, but a city-state in the name of a kingdom. ”

Rudolph sat on the throne with one hand on his chin and listened attentively to Zinovi's speech, and when he was finished, he smiled and waved his hand, indicating that he did not mind his criticism of the current situation that "it is difficult for the government decree to leave the capital area".

"Mr. Zinovi, what you say does not correspond to reality, in fact, our regime relied on the support of the millions of citizens in the capital city area, not the three or four million villagers who only exist in the statistics - to successfully launch the great revolution that overthrew the imperial rule and establish a new country, and now our cause has just begun, and it is the citizen class that is truly trustworthy and trustworthy, and it is our work to create wealth and provide convenience for the citizens. However, it is very unfair to the burghers to build roads and railways to the countryside as you say, costing astronomical amounts of national wealth, and benefiting the rural peasants who have not contributed anything to the cause of our nation-building! After all, more than 60% of our current fiscal revenue is provided by the citizen class, and if you want to build roads, you should first build roads in the capital area, so that the citizens will love us more, as for the country roads, just wait, anyway, those hillbillies have not seen any good roads for hundreds of thousands of years, so let them make do with the forest paths first. Chancellor of the Exchequer Zahar said disapprovingly.