Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Lawrence began to exercise in the mountains and forests near Oak City, practicing his movement and observation skills in the cold wind and snow.

On this day, Lawrence was just about to go out when he saw Salil coming down with a basket.

Salil was wearing a beautiful white and brown dress with a long blue towel around her neck, looking like a young lady going out for an outing.

Lawrence looked at Salil's outfit and then at the brand new leather shoes on Salil's feet.

"Saryl, where are you going?"

Salil was in a very good mood and smiled relaxedly at Lawrence: "I will also go to the forest to get some wild vegetables to eat. There should be a lot of food in the forest this season. We used to be like this, looking for wild vegetables in winter." These precious vegetables are hard to come by, and now I remember the bitterness and the sweetness.”

Lawrence frowned, thinking that there was something wrong with Salil's mind.

"There are indeed some wild vegetables in the forest and under the carpet in winter, but you will only pick wild vegetables at this time if you are full."

Salil looked at Lawrence unhappily, not happy to be scolded.

Lawrence continued: "You wear new clothes and new shoes and go to the forest to collect wild vegetables? You...your behavior is like using precious sugar as a stone to hit others!"

Lawrence scolded Salil's extravagant behavior and said angrily: "Remember when we first met, I wanted to catch a fish, and you were strongly opposed to it. Why?"

"It's not because you just had a full meal. Only a fool would waste your energy catching fish. Now you go to the forest to look for wild vegetables, just like catching fish, at the expense of stepping on muddy ice, snow, cold cement, and braving the cold wind. I went to collect the few wild vegetables in the biting wind and snow.”

"You're full, right?"

Salil looked at the ground uncomfortably. After being scolded by Lawrence, she realized that she was indeed wearing new clothes and new shoes to collect unnecessary and unpalatable food.

"This is about remembering hardships and thinking about sweetness..." Salil whispered to find some face for herself, "It's just about enduring hardships."

Lawrence suggested: "It's easy to remember the bitter and the sweet. You can skip meals, make less clothes, and take a bath every three or four days to save some bath water."

"Then let's forget it." Salil quickly gave up the plan of remembering the bitterness and thinking about the sweetness.

I originally wanted to show off to impress Lawrence, but just like last year, I quickly gave up.

Lawrence didn't mean to blame Salil. She had never done anything like hitting someone on the head with precious candy.

"I will be practicing fighting skills with Olaua recently. If you feel bored, you can go to the Saint's Academy to study and study your own abilities."

Sariel frowned, not because Lawrence was practicing wrestling with Countess Olua of Valkyrie, but because Lawrence reminded her about her abilities.

"My abilities are like this. Wouldn't it be nice to know the weather?" Sariel has no desire to become stronger, and has always thought of her abilities: This is fine.

Lawrence walked to Sariel and sat down, and said patiently: "You can use your intuition to summarize the changes in the weather outside, and rely on the results to extrapolate and gain experience."

"If a set of experiences about weather can be summarized, or a method can be found to predict weather, then not only us, but the rest of our country will benefit from it in the future."

Sariel's weather forecasting ability is nearly 100% accurate.

If this success is regarded as authority, then it is easy to find certain patterns from various natural changes.

It will definitely not be 100% accurate at that time, but as long as the accuracy rate is more than 50%, it will be a huge boost to agricultural production!

Sariel didn't know how big her role was, so she nodded quickly at Lawrence's suggestion.

"Okay, since I have nothing to do, I'll go to the building to find something to do."

Salil is also a cultural person and readily accepts the task of educating children.

There are many smart little girls and girls in Saintess Academy. The current subjects are becoming more and more complete and divided more and more clearly. Different people are responsible for teaching various things.

Delenn and Lathander were also teachers at the academy, and Saryl was also looking for something to do.

Lawrence quickly sent Salil to Jade and told Jade what to do and had a general direction of development.

After dealing with these matters, Lawrence did not go to the forest to exercise anymore. He stood at the window of the corridor and looked at the dull sky outside.

Because the night is approaching, the days are getting shorter and shorter.

The next day, Lawrence held a prayer in the town of Pumexiu at the foot of the mountain and negotiated with the princes and nobles of various countries in the church.

Sergio, the heir to the Kingdom of Kojaco, and his wife knelt before Lawrence to receive Lawrence's blessing.

Lawrence stood in front of the future king of Kojako and placed a symbolic hand on the couple's heads.

"May the Lord of the Stars bless you." Lawrence said conservatively.

The two believers put their hands in front of them and thanked them devoutly.

"Thank you, great prophet, and thank you, the merciful Lord of the Stars."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Don't be formal. Today is the last time to pray this year. Everyone can enjoy wine and food, sit down and chat like you are at home."

Sergio also smiled, and Lawrence and Laurence quickly went to chat with the nobles of the other kingdoms.

In addition to the Kingdom of Kojako, there are also the Duke of Garp, an old friend of Hessenri, the Marquis of York from the Hokuriku Kingdom, and the great nobles of the Kingdoms of Durila and Deco.

Lawrence said: "We are all human beings living under the same sky and enjoying the sea from the same source, regardless of each other."

"Now that the war has subsided, we must not only maintain respect and restraint among ourselves and reduce unnecessary disputes, but also strengthen exchanges."

"I suggest that everyone build a road together and each be responsible for the roads within their own borders. This will keep traffic on land smooth and make the transportation of goods faster."

Several nobles were thinking about Lawrence's proposal. It was not easy to make a decision directly on this kind of thing.

Garp asked: "In addition to the sea, there are mountains in our Haisen. Where else can we build roads? Unless it is a miracle, we cannot do it."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Don't worry, even if you can't do it now, it doesn't matter. Whoever can do it can do it. To be conservative, you can not connect to other countries, but only to the ports of your own country."

"Building roads from the mountains to the seaside and transporting goods from the mountains to the ports are beneficial to everyone."

"I will not interfere in the affairs of other countries. The purpose of the Star Alliance is to bring us all together and deal with the outside world in unison."

"I hope that each of our countries will not need to point swords at themselves and save energy to fight within themselves. There is a vast world outside, with wonderful stars and magnificent seas."

"Do you know what is on the other side of the sea?"

Lawrence asked everyone.

Sergio and other nobles looked at Lawrence.

Someone said: "It's the islands in the east, where there are many powerful wizards, high towers and white coasts."

Lawrence looked at these people, "Have you been there?"

Everyone shook their heads. They knew more about the outside world than legends.

Lawrence added: "Do you know what is on the largest snow mountain in the Agama Mountains?"

Everyone, look at me and I look at you. Who knows about this kind of thing?

After a few seconds of silence, Lawrence said: "Do you know where the end of the western sea is? Beyond the Sea of ​​Storms beyond the Grand Sea, are there any other countries? Is there land? Or is that the sea? The end of?”

Everyone quickly shook their heads. They had never thought of such a thing before.

It is the first time for many people to go out. If it were not for the invasion of barbarians in the past ten years or so, most people would not even want to go abroad. It would be difficult for them to even leave their own fiefdoms.

"Do you know how far we are from the stars in the sky? Do you know what you can see when you stand high in the sky and look down?"

Sergio, Garp and others all held wine glasses and listened quietly to Lawrence's story.

Lawrence was not cheering others up, but himself.

These people who knew nothing strengthened Lawrence's exploration of the mountains.

Lawrence didn't want to know anything.

The Star Alliance has formulated a common language in the past few years, which is the language of the Kingdom of Stars as the official language for noble businessmen in all countries.

After solving language and writing problems, road problems and public security problems also need to be solved.

However, there is no need to worry about this. The Kingdom of Stars is still mainly based on agriculture. After ensuring food reserves, it will gradually transform the excess population into an industrial population.

As long as there is one percent of the industrial population, considering the current huge volume of nearly two million, an industrial population of 20,000 is enough to produce huge destructive power.

After the church banquet, nobles from other countries also began to meet with international students from their respective countries to inquire about their study progress.

At present, several countries have a clear division of labor. The Kingdom of Stars is responsible for the church and military, and the other countries are responsible for learning technology from the Kingdom of Stars and then developing in the corresponding direction.

Nobles and extraordinary people in various countries will use these technologies to gain wealth, and at the same time promote and popularize them to introduce new ones.

The Kingdom of Haisenli develops shipping, shipbuilding, and breeding.

This country is mostly descended from some voyagers and has a lot of ancestral experience in this. Moreover, the cultivated land is sparse. Most people are more adventurous and more willing to engage in work other than agriculture.

The Hokuriku Kingdom develops technologies such as animal husbandry, iron smelting, wine making, fishing, and jewelry processing. The country itself is a remote and poor country, and the extraordinary people who are willing to live here for a long time are basically of a relatively comfortable character.

Whether it is brewing, animal husbandry or jewelry processing technology, it takes time to develop, but if there is a patient extraordinary person who is interested in this technology, it will definitely develop rapidly.

The Kingdom of Kojako developed technologies such as agriculture and ore smelting, and produced instruments and equipment for craftsmen's workshops.

The Kingdom of Kojako has many mountains and plains, especially the plains and mountains are very clearly distinguished. It is like a combination of mountains on one hand and fertile plains on the other. Therefore, there are many talents on this land, and some are similar to those of the Green Forest Kingdom. People with connections have mastered special agricultural techniques.

The Kingdom of the Stars develops technologies such as gunpowder, printed books, compasses, and papermaking. It is also responsible for absorbing and summarizing knowledge from various countries, and then feeding it back to international students from various countries.

The other three kingdoms are also divided into far and near. Lawrence is not in a hurry to let them join in. There will always be a poor person for everyone to laugh at...

No matter how noble some words are, it is better to have a failed example there for everyone to wake up to.

The Kingdom of Stars conquered three countries by force. If the members of the Star Alliance live better than the Kingdom of Deco in the next ten years or so, then naturally everyone will feel that the Kingdom of Stars is right.

Having a poor country there helps the remaining countries stay united and loyal.

There are still threats from the Holy Light Church and the remaining Western Churches, and Lawrence is thinking about conquering the Agama Mountains. Therefore, the development path of the Kingdom of the Stars is to stabilize it for a few years and quickly improve its agricultural and industrial strength.

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Lawrence dealt with foreign affairs and spent half a day conferring titles on several domestic military nobles and civil servants.

Then comes the free time of the year.

On the last day before the arrival of eternal night, the person in charge of each church in the Ice Land, or the temporary person in charge, led everyone to pray to the gods for next year's harvest and health.

After thanking the gods and the prophet, everyone ushered in a long period of darkness.

New calendar, ten years.

The girls at Saintess Academy turned one year older and lined up to receive a bag full of candies that they could only get during the Chinese New Year.

It's as big as a fist!

For many girls, this big bag of candy is as precious as gold.

Lolita quickly lined up, following behind her sister Clara, and excitedly received her New Year's gift.

A bag of lumpy rock sugar, two kilograms of cooked beef, cheese cut into one-sixteenth, three kilograms of biscuits, and one hundred coppers of pocket money.

"Thank you, Master!" Clara, Lolita and others said their thanks together.

Lawrence quickly said a few symbolic words and handed out something to the people behind him.

Lolita walked forward happily holding a basket of gifts. She looked back and found that Lawrence was giving out gifts to the female students who had just come here this year, but the number of gifts was obviously much less.

"There are a lot of new students coming in this year." Lolita was thinking about something.

Clara said happily: "Yeah! There are people from Durila before, and girls recommended from Glen Province and Feiyu Port. I heard that there are also a few noble children sent by the Duke of Pig Trotter City."

Lolita nodded. Now that the master is so powerful, it is normal for many people to send their children here to learn the rules of the nobility.

Tim came closer at this time and whispered: "I heard that Lady Cassandra is pregnant, what happened yesterday."

The female swordsman Sophie reminded: "Don't talk nonsense about adults!"

Tim quickly said to the others: "Don't say it, let alone say it was me! Otherwise my mother will beat me."

Tim already knew he was wrong and even became nervous.

Clara said quickly: “I definitely won’t say it.”

The conversation between the girls was not hidden from the nearby dark elves, but the dark elves didn't mind if this kind of thing spread.

Cassandra is the mistress of the dark elves, and the dark elves all hope that more people will know about Cassandra's pregnancy.

Because they are the descendants of two pure-blood wizards!

The dark elves have a fanatical expectation for the descendants of pure-blood wizards, but Lawrence's reaction to the appearance of this child was very dull, and he only arranged more time to comfort Catherine and Sariel.

The emergence of new life did not affect Lawrence. Lawrence still often sat quietly alone on the sloping roof, staring lonely at the fantastic mountain scenery in the distance that was sometimes dark and sometimes dyed gray by the colorful clouds in the sky. (End of chapter)