It was precisely because this occupied area was in terrible shape and would not become Prince Charles's fiefdom that Prince Bernard was willing to hand it over to Roland, and Roland himself had no objections.
If you want others to accept your ideas, you have to present something concrete.
This was a saying Li Lin often quoted, as well as a universally acknowledged truth. Apart from students whose reading had depleted their brains of oxygen, few people considered verbal declarations as an unfailingly mighty weapon. Similarly, if Roland wanted others to embrace his ideological positions, he needed to substantiate them with some form of validation, demonstrating their correctness and rationality. And the broader the claim, the more weighty the evidence had to be.
A colony on the brink of collapse and unrest turned into a thriving and peaceful land—this was the evidence Roland intended to create, and he had been preparing himself mentally for this task.
