Xiao Dong stood at the intersection outside his village, and the carriage master took the money and moved in the direction he came from after declining Xiao Dong's invitation, and for a while, only Xiao Dong was left at the entire road intersection.

Looking at the long-lost hometown, Xiaodong took a deep breath of air, the wind with an obvious hometown atmosphere, the empty intersection, a breeze blew the slightest nostalgia, Xiaodong lifted the luggage bag under his feet, and walked towards the village, the village is an obvious new village, more than 20 families live here, outside the village is an endless farmland, this time is the farmland, the ridge seems very empty, only a pot of dried oranges are piled up.

It is now noon, every household is eating, the smoke wafting from the air, with the fragrance of bacon, the peasant family still prefers to eat bacon, without him, convenient storage, so no one at the entrance of the village found Xiao Dong back, Xiao Dong walked to his door, he looked at the uniform on his body, and his mood was finally better, after all, he is now also a soldier of the garrison, and his family can also enjoy the treatment of military dependents.

Xiaodong knocked on the door, waited for a while, the door opened, a girl looked outside, when he saw Xiaodong, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xiaodong's uniform, and finally put his eyes on Xiaodong's face, and a trace of surprise slowly appeared on his face:

"Brother is back, brother is back!"

Xiaodong's sister's cheers made a sound in the room quickly, and a person walked out and hugged Xiaodong directly in his arms:

"Oh, thank you for the blessing of the Son of God, my son is back!"

Mother hugged Xiaodong excitedly, and then saw Xiaodong's uniform, even more happy hand dance, for their peasant families, military status means too many benefits and privileges, mother quickly brought Xiaodong into the house, father stood at the dining table and looked at Xiaodong, although there was nothing on his face, but in which eyes, but full of love, especially when Xiaodong put on that handsome uniform, the love is more obvious, who would not want their children to become talents?

"It's good to come back, it's good to come back, I haven't eaten yet, come on, come on, eat first, the kid, let's cook the bacon, kill a chicken again, make up for Dongzi, come back all the way, I must be tired!"

Father's words and mother nodded again and again, he happily went to prepare a meal for Xiaodong, the warmth of home made Xiaodong finally temporarily let go of the sadness in his heart for the departure of his comrades-in-arms, he smiled and took something from his package:

"Little sister, come, this is what my brother bought for you in Baicheng, it is said that this is the latest schoolbag, as well as stationery boxes, homework books..."

If Xiaodong took out something in modern times, it may only be sent to the children who gave gifts to greet their families in the depths of their hearts, but in the land of heaven, it is the best gift, Xiaodong's sister excitedly took these pink stationery, put it in her hand and couldn't put it down, Xiaodong took something for her sister and said to her father:

"Father, this is the best tobacco in White City, produced by elves!"

Xiao Dong took out a beautifully packaged wooden box, in which is the tobacco produced by the elves, these years with the reopening of the trade of the human elves, the products of these elves have become more and more on the side of the empire, so the elf tobacco has also begun to be sold in Baicheng, even if the price of these tobacco is very expensive, it is also Xiao Dong's excellent performance on the battlefield, he can buy these luxury goods, Xiao Dong's father also looked at this wooden box in disbelief, elf tobacco, this is a legendary thing for him, and now it is placed in front of him。

Xiaodong's father is speechless now, but the box of cigarettes is gently stroked, Xiaodong of course did not forget his mother, he took out a bag of clothes from his backpack:

"Mother, I bought some clothes worn by the people of Baicheng and came back, and the people of Baicheng wear them like this, they look good!"

Xiaodong was holding a few of the latest clothes in Baicheng, these clothes can only be regarded as regular clothes in Baicheng, but in the countryside of their villages, they are quite trendy clothes, Xiaodong's mother looked at these clothes, but complained:

"What kind of clothes to buy, it's better to buy a few pieces of cloth back, it's not that our family can't do it, buying clothes is much more expensive than buying cloth!"

"Who still buys cloth now, they all buy clothes directly, which is beautiful and comfortable. ”

Xiaodong's sister suddenly checked her mouth at this time, and her mother glanced at Xiaomei unhappily:

"You said that your child has only lived a good life for a few days, and he is such a loser, if it weren't for the order of Lord Miko, that girl would have gone to school!"

"Who said that, the teacher told us that the times are different, men and women are the same, and we women can also hold up half the sky. ”

Family: "...!".

"Oh, okay, okay, Xiaodong is back, I haven't sat down to rest for so long, let Dongzi sit down and eat." ”

Father spoke, Xiaodong sat at the dining table, at the dinner table, Xiaodong explained in detail to his family the entire war he participated in, the fierceness of the battle through Xiaodong's mouth made the whole family fall into shock, although Xiaodong's ability to express may not be very good, but the atmosphere on the battlefield was successfully brought to the small house in this small village through Xiaodong's eyes.

Especially when they heard that another child in the same village had died in battle, they were even more embarrassed, and the mother wiped her tears several times, feeling afraid of Xiaodong's experience, Xiaodong was relaxed after eating a beautiful hometown meal, he had a month's vacation, this holiday was actually used for the soldiers to get married, no need to explain, just adjust the time, these soldiers' families will go to find wives for these soldiers themselves.

Xiaodong had just finished eating, the door of the house rang again, Xiaomei went to open the door again, and there was a team of elderly couples standing at the door, and next to them there was a half-old child, who were the parents of Xiaodong's comrades-in-arms.

"That, we heard that Xiaodong is back, but my family hasn't come back yet, so I want to ask, hasn't he been on leave yet, or is there any arrangement in the army?"

The parents are relatively old, Xiaodong's original good mood disappeared instantly after seeing the couple, his throat was a little choked, he opened his mouth to say something, but he didn't say it, he stood up and walked to the door, his eyes were a little dodgy:

"He, he's here!"

Xiaodong handed over the urn of his comrades-in-arms, the moment he saw the box, the mother fainted directly, and the father was pale and shook slightly, and another young man next to him hurriedly helped his mother well, and Xiaodong handed out a package of things after giving the urn, all of which were subsidies for the war dead:

"Auntie, here are some state subsidies, twenty acres of land and five hundred gold coins, and this, the state provides free maintenance certificates, you can have another child, and the state will raise you until you are 18 years old. ”

Xiaodong didn't seem to dare to face his parents' faces, he kept taking out the generous subsidies given by various countries, these subsidies are indeed extraordinarily rich, although they failed to make the sadness in their parents' hearts less than that, but they didn't have the slightest hatred for the government, and their love for Lelouch went deeper, his father took the things Xiaodong handed over, waved his hand sadly, and then walked towards his home.

Two almost identical families, but today they have experienced two different extremes of life, looking at the three of them walking home slowly, Xiaodong is also mixed for a while, Xiaodong's parents are happy in their hearts after a slight sigh, the village chief and the priest have said, Mordor has finished fighting, the human race is now the most powerful force in the entire Middle Earth, and their children will never go to the dangerous battlefield in the future, which is for families like them, not only do not have to worry about the safety of their children, but also can enjoy the rich treatment of soldiers, how not to make people happy, as for the sadness of other families, it is only a slight expression of sympathy。

Xiaodong's return home to visit relatives can only be regarded as the most common thing that happened in the entire empire, for the upper level of Lelouch, this is just some insignificant little things, the whole empire took advantage of this time to seize the time to develop the economy and all aspects, the army quickly recovered its morale in the rotation, the empire is also in the case of a great increase in prestige, the diplomatic environment is bright, and the rapid development of foreign trade provides a stronger vitality for the development of the empire.

And under the latest version of the Private Enterprise Act, the empire's original government-run light industry was packaged into countless small packages and resold to the merchants of the entire empire, and Lelouch also put forward the concept of joint-stock system, which greatly absorbed the idle funds of the entire empire, the amount of these funds is even comparable to the ten years of taxes of the entire empire, and these resale costs directly become the cash income of the empire, and the development of light industry will also have these private enterprises to develop, although the empire can not directly obtain profits from these enterprises, but the tax is still lovely, and there is no need to worry about business problems, it can be said that there are disadvantages, but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages。

The development of the entire empire finally ushered in a large-scale rectification after initially solving the problem of Mordor, whether it is science and technology or political system, or economic model and army scheduling, they have been well rectified at this moment, and their next development is believed to be gratifying results, these things do not need to be explained in detail, Lelouch only needs to ensure that the general direction is determined.

This series of new adjustments will accompany the empire through at least three three-year plans, that is to say, nine to ten years later, the empire will enter the next stage of development, Lelouch estimates that ten years later, the empire should almost fully enter the earth's steam age, if coupled with the scientific and technological system of the Academy of Magic, Lelouch's Templar Empire, may develop some aspects that are not weaker, or even stronger than the earth's technology, at that time, Lelouch really has the strength to dominate the entire Middle-earth.

But these are all later words, maybe the heavens feel that it is not good for Lelouch to suddenly lose pressure, or he thinks that life is too dull, so from the sacred mountains of the dwarves, he made a joke to Leluxiu, uh, a big joke.

Lelouch's human beings are developing rapidly, and so are the dwarves of the Sacred Mountains, after they retreated to the Black Land, they launched an attack on the lost territory of the entire Sacred Mountains, and the little symbolic army left by Mordor on this side could not resist the dwarves' troops at all, a large number of lost land were liberated, and countless dwarves hiding in various mines throughout the mountain range were re-found to build their own homes, sometimes you have to admire the dwarves' ability to make holes, Lelouch even heard that the dwarves have found no less than one and a half million people in these lost lands, which is already more than the first batch of people mobilized by Lelouch in the Central Province, and the new and old people on the human side are mixed, and the dwarf side is a net increase, how can Lelouch not be surprised, you know, although the fertility rate of the dwarves is not low, it is definitely not high, and now there is suddenly so many more people, it is self-evident that the increase in dwarves is self-evident.

It's just that the dwarves are destined to not be smooth sailing.

In a relatively close area of the Sacred Mountains, at least two thousand dwarven legions marched in a huge cave, and the dwarven officers who led the team rode on top of the argali, walking on the ground in this gentle cave, he looked at the wide cave in front of him with satisfaction, this is the widest cave in all the dwarven lands except for the highest pit, and the recapture of this place is somewhat similar to China's possession of Shanghai, if trade with the Terrans and orcs can be fully restored, this place can undoubtedly become an economic center similar to the Pearl River Delta of China on Earth。

To be able to recapture this area, the dwarven officer who led the team was naturally very satisfied, and even the dwarven soldiers behind him were full of excitement, the beard on their faces could not stop the smile on the corner of their mouths, but what made the officers slightly vigilant was that in such an important area, they actually did not meet any Mordor defenders, which made the officer hesitate a little.

The dwarves are moving forward, they are looking for an underground city built by the dwarves here according to the map of the past, but the strange silence in the entire pit has clouded the dwarves' hearts with a layer of worry.

The sound of the dwarf team of two thousand people marching in the pit came from a long distance in the silent cave, the sound was like a gust of wind in the countless caves reverberated quickly, and finally these sounds came to the core of a huge natural cave, the sound woke up a hidden force in the depths of the cave, with the echo of the howl, the original dark and silent cave slowly brightened, and countless howling voices gathered, in the shadow of which firelight, a large army, is gathering!

(End of chapter)