If I let you farm, will you become the emperor of the empire?

Roman is very decisive.

Why only students over ten years old are eliminated?

It is because children of this age group have basic labor force.

The students who stayed in school the longest received at least a full year of education.

And the students who studied the shortest also received half a year of education - from Roman's first population plunder.

Nellie judged these people as dead branches and fallen leaves who were unlearned and unskilled, and she must have gone through a lot of consideration.

Can't learn?

I won't embarrass you.

Just go to work.

Roman doesn't care if there are buried geniuses among them.

If a genius is buried, it is not a genius.

If you have the ability to yell "Don't bully the poor young man" after being expelled from school, work hard, study hard, and make a splash, so that Nellie's face is swollen.

At that time, Roman will definitely be alarmed, and then he will personally meet this child prodigy who has mastered all the words and entrust him with important tasks.

With such a seedling with great perseverance and wisdom, he will be too happy to wait.

Of course, I am quite happy now.

After all, there are 600 more secondary laborers.

It is said that they start at the age of ten, but it does not mean that all of them are ten years old. There are also many children aged 14 or 15, and some children are even 16 years old - they entered the school on time last year.

According to the farmer's standard, 14 or 15 years old is a qualified labor force.

Roman raised them for so long in the past, which only proved that they were learning waste.

Then he will not give them a second chance.

Some of them will help Yaki cut grass and milk in the breeding department.

Some will be apprentices in the woodworking factory.

Some will be assigned to the forging department, and Ruto will teach them how to smelt iron.

Otherwise, they will go to the agricultural department and learn farming from Barro.

The town of Sige is so big that there is always a kind of labor suitable for them.

On the day of dropping out of school, Roman asked Nellie to give those students a literacy book full of words, and asked them not to forget this experience and study hard - cast a wide net, and you may really catch a few hidden geniuses.

After all, only when you work can you know the hardship of work, and then you will have the desire to learn.

Nellie's drastic reform of the school has an immediate effect.

All teachers are relieved. Damn, it was hell some time ago.

The school is self-operated.

The management cost is also close to zero.

Students take turns to cook, and Roman only needs to provide ingredients every day.

If you don't obey, you will be beaten. You can play freely after class. Do you dare to make trouble in class?

The teaching model is extremely rough.

But Roman doesn't care about so much.

All teachers add up to only about 40. It would be a pity if they were not rough to be responsible for such a large group of students.

In fact, elite education is the best choice.

Not only will the lower-level students be eliminated, but even the middle-level students will be eliminated, leaving only a hundred or so students who are willing to work hard and have potential.

But what Roman is doing now is mainly to improve the literacy rate and raise the literacy base.

In the final analysis, what Roman needs now is a huge grassroots force, not elite administrative talents.

One elite cannot be used as ten grassroots.

As long as they know the words, they have the basic foundation, because they can read the paper orders.

…

The last month of summer.

It rained heavily again in this land.

The temperature dropped again.

The population that Roman robbed last time was almost digested.

The laborers performed their duties and joined the collective labor, which was equivalent to digestion.

So Roman began to mobilize troops again, sending a total of 1,000 soldiers to Kant Territory to migrate a group of people.

This time there was no detour.

The boatmen pulled the boats upstream.

The troops were not led by Roman, but by the two captains Aaron and Green.

This time it was also a training battle.

But unfortunately, Count Kant did not send the remaining troops to intercept them, but sat in the castle and watched coldly.

Let them go.

This time, more than 3,000 people were robbed.

The process was smooth, and there was no conflict throughout the process.

The emotions of the robbers and the robbed were very stable.

The only unstable ones were the villagers.

But their opinions were not important, so they could only take a boat with their families to the downstream.

The soldiers gave them some time to pack their luggage, throw away the worthless things, and only carry the valuable things, so that they would not go to the river valley to settle down empty-handed.

At this time, Roman thought of Nathan.

Why hasn't he come back yet?

He would take a look at Nathan's apostle interface every day.

If his apostle died, Roman would feel it, and the apostle interface would dim, turn gray, and be locked.

Nathan's apostle panel was clearly still lit.

So...

Why hasn't he come back yet?

...

Nathan set off with two soldiers.

They left the boat halfway.

The three of them rode fast.

The journey was long, and Nathan was eager to return home, and he hurried day and night.

Tal County was in the north of the Black Iron Land, and he came from the southeast corner, far away from each other.

Although the waterway was fast and convenient, it was not safe.

The land route was not easy to travel either. The Black Iron Road led to various countries horizontally, but there were no vertical roads inside.

They had to find a way.

From the farms and villages, they passed through one noble territory after another.

But those roads were blocked by checkpoints, and some guards were stationed in front of the main roads, bridges, and paths.

They looked at people and extorted tolls. The woodcutters only needed to give a few pieces of firewood. But the wealthy merchants had to pay copper coins.

Nathan's body was as tall as a tower. He could not be fully armed for a long-distance raid. He could only wear light armor and put on the posture of a knight. Two riders followed him on both sides of the horse, and they also led two war horses loaded with supplies.

Such a heavyweight team, at first glance, knew that they were not small. Those poor knights and free riders could not touch porcelain.

The only strange thing was that Nathan did not wear any emblems or flags, and it was difficult to identify his origins.

The guards had to inquire about his whereabouts, otherwise they could not report to the higher-ups.

"I was ordered to act in secret, and my origins are not convenient to be revealed. This time I am going to the northern coast to look for someone."

This is what Roman taught Nathan.

The guards did not have to go against a passing knight, and they were even more secretive about the current situation in the north.

After hearing him say this, most people would give him a handicap.

Only a few guards thought it was not possible.

But they were also bribed by the copper and silver coins thrown by Nathan.

The three rushed day and night, getting closer and closer to Tal County, and encountered a group of pirates with more than ten people on the way.

This made Nathan shocked, and he quickly killed all the pirates. From the last pirate, he learned that these were just a small force.

The pirates invaded in large numbers, and the noble coalition attacked them. The two sides launched a head-on confrontation, and each won and lost.

These pirates broke up into small pieces, scattered everywhere, and carried out small-scale combat and looting.

But the noble coalition was very angry.

This land is crisscrossed with water networks, and the pirates are too mobile.

Now, the burning flames of war have directly swept the entire northern coast, spreading inland like a plague.

Nathan never wanted to be involved in the battlefield.

He took a long detour and fearfully avoided the terrifying vortex, and it was worth delaying for two days.

But the further he moved forward, the more scenes related to war appeared in his eyes.