Mountain and Forest Kingdom

The spring plowing work in the Ice Land has ended, and Lawrence came to Dumu Port to wait for his elite men to meet up.

While waiting, Lawrence came to the monastery as a guest and stood in front of the mirror at the entrance of the monastery and looked at himself in the mirror.

The man in the mirror is tall and majestic, with a strong build, nearly 1.85 meters tall. There is doubt and emotion in his eyes, as well as indifference and majesty.

Lawrence raised his hand and touched his neatly trimmed chin, looking at himself in the mirror.

"I haven't looked in the mirror for a long time. I never thought I would look like this now."

You don't need a beard to be handsome. Lawrence doesn't like to have a beard, and the women and children at home don't like it either, so he doesn't have a big beard like other barbarians.

Bu Gongwei said: "You have always been so handsome and majestic."

"Bull also learned to compliment." Lawrence smiled, "I still remember what kind of person I was at the beginning."

"I don't miss who I was at that time." Lawrence looked at himself in the mirror and smiled: "The me now is exactly what I expected. What about you, Bull? Are you satisfied with who you are now?"

"Satisfied." Buell was satisfied from the bottom of his heart. "I am very satisfied with my current life. Compared with the past, I know very clearly that this life now is more worthy of my protection. Correspondingly, if you want to protect your current life, you must protect it." you."

Lawrence was in a very good mood, "I'm right, Bull has also learned to praise others."

Bull said seriously: "I am speaking what is in my heart. This is what I think and what I do. I tell the sisters and children in the convent what I think and educate them in this way."

Lawrence felt like he was drifting off, and it became easier and easier to believe the compliments from people around him.

"Very good, how are things going in the monastery recently?" Lawrence changed the subject and walked into the monastery.

Bull followed with the rest of the escort.

"This year we have taken in a few noble ladies from outside. These noble ladies are not used to the life here. They sneaked out to the tavern in the middle of the night. Fortunately, there were no problems."

"When we found out about this, we punished them, whipped them and informed their families to take them back."

After hearing this, Lawrence thought about it and still did not cancel the punishment.

Discipline without punishment lacks educational significance.

The barbarian kingdom is not founded on loyalty and filial piety. It is always a barbaric and violent country, and only a very small number of people are qualified to show kindness.

Whether it is an army or a monastery, the core of violence must not be lost. Lawrence does not want his core team to lose this core and become civilized people who only know how to reason.

I used to be civilized and reasonable because the people around me were too barbaric.

Correction, but not too much. If you insist on being civilized, you will lose the dignity it deserves.

Whether they are wizards or humans, most people are a group of people who bully the weak and fear the strong, including Lawrence himself.

"The necessary punishment is deserved. You did the right thing, but now that I know about this, I will give them a chance."

"Let them choose for themselves, whether to leave here and go back to their original place to become willful female nobles, or to stay and abide by the rules in the monastery for the rest of their lives."

"If they want to leave, send them away, and if they want to stay, they can stay. But if they make another mistake, they and their descendants will not be able to set foot in Dumu Port again."

Bull agreed: "Yes, Prophet."

Lawrence thought for a while and quickly added: "It would be really boring to be in the monastery all the time. Let's do this. We can hold a beer party every week, and the monastery will provide some wine and food to the nuns who have performed well to celebrate a little. Meng Lang doesn’t care at all.”

Bull showed a helpless look, "This is a long-term expense, and the monastery's expenses will increase again."

Lawrence smiled and said: "We have a lot of beer and potato wine, and the price is very cheap. I will have some shipped over every month."

"Now the various workshops on the streets of Pumixiu Town have been improved. I usually buy some food for the nuns as a treat for me."

Lawrence was in a good mood, "I'm very rich."

Bull also smiled and said: "Of course, you are a prophet and a king."

"No, no, no, that's not the case." Lawrence corrected: "Kings and prophets have high status, and they are not necessarily the richest people. Whether they have money or not mainly depends on their personal strength."

Buell felt that there was no difference and echoed with a smile: "Yes, prophet."

Lawrence didn't understand Bull, and there was no need to explain this.

The reason we were able to provide compensation to more than 100,000 workers and soldiers this year was mainly because we had plundered enough wealth through violence, so we did not need to ask too much from our own people.

In the early years, I always focused on civilization construction, but in the past few years, after really spending money, I have paid more attention to fists and violence.

It is better to kill others than to die yourself.

Being able to plunder from the outside, Lawrence would not collect heavy taxes from the vast number of workers and peasants who had not yet accumulated early wealth in their own families.

The provinces of Glen and Io have not kept pace with the Land of Ice for a long time because they need two to three million people there to support the hundreds of thousands here.

In recent years, both the military and agricultural industries have gradually achieved results. Lawrence plans to slow down for a few years to allow the new generation to spend these few years safely.

Let the veterans teach their military skills and skills to the young people aged 12 or 13, let the workers improve their production technology as quickly as possible, let the serfs quickly stabilize agricultural production, and be promoted from serfs to farmhands, and from farmhands to freemen.

Compared to the Elf Kingdom, the Southern Kingdom controlled by the Holy Church is richer and has vast lands and plains.

The Southern Kingdom is wider than the Western Kingdom. Large areas of land are located further south. The sunshine and temperature are very suitable for the growth of crops.

Lawrence plans to launch a war against the South in a few years, and it will focus on support and garrisoning troops, without the grand idea of ​​unifying the entire continent. That would be too tiring.

"This time I'm on a tour of the Three Kingdoms. If there are any in the monastery who want to go home or write letters to their families, please count them down. I'll take them there by the way."

Lawrence walked into the courtyard and talked to Bull about work.

Bull has been managing here for several years and knows all the nuns well.

"There are definitely no ones who have gone back. There should be quite a few who have written letters. I will ask them later."

"Okay, it looks like it's peaceful here."

Bull didn't want Lawrence to think this way, "There are still a lot of things, such as a few nuns who often fight and always quarrel. I listen to them blaming each other every day. Sometimes I really want to beat them all up."

Lawrence smiled innocently, looking happy.

"That's what happens when there are more women. If they have finished their homework, it would be good to find some games to vent their energy, such as dancing and painting, or swordsmanship."

"Having a strong and healthy body is a good thing. We don't need women to go out to fight now, but we can't forget everything. It's only been more than ten years since you went up to the mountain at night."

"If you feel that they spend all their time in meaningless quarrels, then train them for a while every day. This will make it easier for them to work in the future."

"Yes, prophet." Bull remembered Lawrence's words.

Lawrence asked, "Any good news, or anything interesting?"

Bull thought for a moment and said, "Yes!"

"Lana and Yubao have fenced a piece of land on the beach to raise fish. Yubao also raised more than ten ducks in the pond in Bull Town. Every day he and Lana would drive an oxcart there to see them."

Lawrence smiled and nodded, "Let them develop on their own. As long as it is not too dangerous, there is no need to interfere. I have already said hello to the lighthouse guardian, and the guard will protect them."

Bull said helplessly: "That child is not serious about her homework, not pious to God, and is always stupid. She is not young anymore. I can imagine that when she gets older, she will definitely look like a scary old witch." Words that no one else understands.”

Lawrence realized that he had overlooked many things.

The little nun looks silly and cute now, but that doesn't mean she will still look that way when she grows up.

As Bull said, if left alone, a friendless and lonely little nun can easily turn into that annoying dead old woman.

"I allow her and Yu Bao to take fifty kilograms of fish from the fish school to sell at the market every day in exchange for additional expenses. You can also send a little nun who has a job handover with her to assist."

"We have to let Yubao go to church with her to pray, and we have to ask her to participate in activities. She is a child of a convent, and we can't let her be excluded."

Bull nodded respectfully, "Yes, Prophet, I will personally supervise this matter. I will stay at her place tomorrow night to see if there is any need. That child is so stupid that he cannot explain the problem clearly."

Lawrence felt warm in his heart. Taking care of and caring for others could help him be redeemed.

"Thank you for your hard work. I may pass by the Durela Kingdom when I go out this time. Do you need me to take Kenny there to have a look?"

Bull smiled bitterly, "Thank you for your kindness. I don't think it is needed. The child prefers to live here. I plan to let him go to Seravan next year to find something to do and find a healthy woman to live there. This way I, like Emma, ​​can end my duties as a mother."

"I thought you would continue to insist that the child go to his father's country and inherit his father's mission," Lawrence comforted.

"But the church is gone." Bull said helplessly: "I originally wanted him to decide his own future, but later I discovered that not every child can make a choice without regrets. Some children are born as weak as rabbits."

Neither Um nor Kenny could become a true warrior.

Lawrence looked at the tall and formidable walls of the monastery, as well as the many nuns and ladies nearby peeking in here.

"Those who can become warriors are always a minority, and those who can become berserkers are only a minority among the minority."

"Most people cannot become heroes. At most, they are ordinary people with dreams."

"However, with a huge population base, we do not lack warriors like Luke and Beow here."

"Men, women, humans, elves, witches, wizards, all."

"There's nothing wrong with some people not taking their chances, none of us."

“Some people are able to seize the opportunities we provide and stand out from the ordinary.”

"Tell my words to those children who are studying. They don't need to fight to the death on the battlefield, kill people, or awaken any bloodline. They just need to study hard and use their wisdom and loyalty to prove themselves."

"If there are more people in a few years, you will have to compete with more people if you want to get ahead."

Bull remembered something else.

"You always value the efforts of those people, but you don't ask them to worship and believe in you. This reminds me of a girl I saw at the manor in the spring. That girl was ugly, but she was very loyal to you."

Bull often goes out to deliver babies and inspect babies. Her status is actually very high, higher than the women in Lawrence's family in the land of ice.

People in Ironforge and the Manor respected her, and even the Valkyries bowed to her.

Bull, who mastered the magic of healing, was an equal to talk to even among wizards.

"Oh, I remember that there was indeed such a child. He was blond, right?"

"Yes, I want to take her to the monastery. She respects you very much and regards you as something more important than her own life."

"Okay." Lawrence actually doesn't like this kind of fanatical believer, "You can do whatever you want."

Bull saw that Lawrence didn't care. As a nun, she should obey the prophet's instructions completely, but Bull was also Lawrence's friend.

Lawrence has many women but few friends. Saliel is half, Stella is half, Kehalan is half, and Bull is one.

The rest, like Catherine, are more dependents and subordinates.

"That child is a child who is truly loyal to you, just like Awenla. I feel that you don't seem to care about the loyalty of these children and are unwilling to give them the opportunity to get close to divine magic."

Bull spoke his mind candidly.

Lawrence thought about Bull's words. He previously thought that the trouble with fanatics was their old thinking, that these people were ignorant and had to find a belief to survive.

But in this world...only those with faith can master divine arts.

"You are right, I am too arrogant and have neglected the growth of my children." Lawrence accepted Bull's reminder, "Then do what you want, and I will also provide additional rewards to those children who are loyal to me. ”

Bull nodded solemnly, "Yes, Prophet. After Awenla leaves, the monastery needs a good role model. I will let those children understand your greatness."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Then let Awenla give lectures to the nuns here in the next few days and set an example."

Awenla gave a lecture to the nuns that night, but all she talked about was Lawrence's fiery greatness, talking about the kind of skin-to-skin intimacy, and making every daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law's hearts flutter with excitement.

In Awenla's logic, this kind of greatness makes the witches fall in love with Lawrence and look forward to Lawrence's reward even more. (End of chapter)