"Hurry up brother, run faster, you won't be able to get cookies if you go late."

"But I don't feel hungry yet, I ate too much last night......

"No, when we wait in line, we'll be hungry."

Prince Elise walked down the street, and couldn't help but look around suspiciously, the sword and shield banners of the Elise family were still everywhere in the heights of the surrounding buildings, this was indeed the royal city of Elis. But in the memory of Prince Elis, the difference is too great.

It's just morning, there's only one small sun in the sky, it's the most comfortable time of day in summer, and if it's usual, the streets should be bustling with people right now. At this moment, Prince Elise looked around, and the whole street was empty. He just didn't go out at home for a few days, and what happened in the royal city of Elis in the past few days?

The prince walked to the bulletin board at the entrance of the street and quickly saw the reason.

On the bulletin board was a brand-new proclamation, and the most conspicuous thing on the proclamation was a drawing of a pie, which took up most of the area of the small piece of paper. The prince looked at the bread in astonishment—he had seen the work of many first-rate painters, but even they could not have painted a cake so realistically, and even the slight bulge on the cake and the faint heat coming out of the picture could be seen.

Beneath the cake was an arrow, which the prince did not understand, but followed in the direction of the arrow.

Then there is the second loaf and then the second arrow, then the third, and then the fourth...... By the time the prince found the seventh arrow, the pattern of the cake had disappeared, and there was only a simple arrow, but by this time, he no longer needed the arrow's instructions—the originally empty street was already full of people in front of the prince. He looked over and couldn't even see the end of the crowd.

But the strange thing is that so many people are neatly arranged. The prince had seen the army many times and participated in some wars with the army, and he knew what the army looked like. To be honest, even in the army, it is difficult to see such a neat scene, and even when the king inspects the troops, everyone is habitually rushed to the army, and sometimes even has to use the Guards to maintain order.

But now, these civilians are all lined up in a straight line, and some people who can't help but stand on tiptoe, or simply jump up and look at the scene in the distance. And those who dared to get out of the queue, or even tried to cut into the line, were pulled to the back row of the line by soldiers with sticks.

The prince was a little curious, and he continued along the lined crowd. Most of the people in the queue recognized the richly dressed young man as their prince, and they all avoided a little distance, and when the prince walked past them, they returned to the queue again.

In front of Prince Elise were all awe-struck faces, and they waited for the prince to pass by, but behind him, there was a cacophony of them. In the midst of this cacophony, the prince's ears automatically picked up the harshest sounds.

"The prince is still in the royal city? Didn't he go to the fiefdom? ”

"Oh my God, he's so handsome...... I thought Elise would have a handsome king in the future. ”

"I heard that the prince is going to fight in the incisor fort?"

……

The prince did not bring an entourage with him on this trip, so naturally there was no one to warn the prince about those who spoke disrespectfully, and the prince felt for the first time that all the people around him here were so strange, completely different from the people of the royal city of Elis that he was familiar with before.

The prince had taken the lead in many ceremonies in the royal city, most of which were in the name of the Great Yang Sect, holding a collective prayer ceremony for his father. At those ceremonies, the prince felt the heartfelt expectations and appreciation of all for him, and every time he finished speaking, there was a storm of applause. Both bishops and commoners praised him for his virtue and kindness, and the maidens would salute him shyly, and the old men nodded to him...... However, just two words from the father, overnight, all this was gone, and all the loud praise that used to be face-to-face now became a whisper behind the scenes.

This short journey has become so difficult. When the prince finally reached the end of this long queue, he finally saw the key to making so many people stand in a long line.

It was bread, innumerable, piled up like a hill, and it was exactly the same as the bread drawn on paper. In the square that the prince saw, there were more than a dozen huge long tables, each of which was stacked on top of each other, and was half a man's high. The cooks were on one side of the table, busy putting the freshly made cakes in the empty space that could still be placed on the table, and the crowd in line stood on the other side.

In a house by the oven, the prince saw a large amount of flour brought by a wagon, a large amount of sugar, and water to prepare the dough. The handymen were busy with the constant flow between this house and the house outside. The prince noticed that there were special markings on the flour pockets, which he remembered - he had also checked his father's vault, and knew that all this grain came from his father's long accumulation over the years.

And now, he must have been bewitched by those pagans, and his father, who was old and deaf, began to squander these important strategic assets of the kingdom. Use the precious military rations to deal with the war to expand the influence of this heretical sect that has never been heard of.

The prince was heartbroken, and looked at these commoners with loaves in front of him and their faces full of joy, and he naturally thought of the scene of these people turning into starvation when dealing with the siege in the future.

The civilians who received the bread were not allowed to eat it immediately, but lined up to a corner of the square. Here, everyone was arranged in a rectangular phalanx, and after making sure that the team was up to standard, one soldier took out his whistle, blew it, and then everyone quickly began to eat the bread in their hands. For a moment, the prince could only hear the sounds of chewing and swallowing in everyone's mouth.

"Don't waste it, violators! No takeout! Violator batons! Everyone eats and leaves together! While the people were eating the bread in their hands, the soldiers were patrolling beside them, noticing for any abnormalities in each person's eating of the bread, and announcing the latest rules of discipline for eating bread.

Looking at the scene of hundreds of people standing together in front of him, eating cakes in an orderly manner, the prince was in a trance, and he subconsciously thought of the scene of one of his hunting instructors training dogs at home. The instructor had more than a hundred good hunting dogs, each of which was a good helper for the nobles in hunting. The prince once saw the scene of the instructor training the dogs, and at the sound of an order, all the dogs came to the food, and they were not allowed to eat first, and they were not allowed to make noise. When the dogs were quiet, the instructor whistled and all the dogs began to eat their own food quickly...... How similar that scene was to the scene in front of me.

They're treating people like dogs! The prince felt his blood boiling with rage.

However, those who participated in the eating of the bread did not seem to be as unconvinced as the prince imagined, on the contrary, each of them was so devoted and attentive when eating. Some of them eat quickly, and after eating, the expression on their faces is also completely satisfied. Some of them, who were familiar with each other, were still whispering, not about the shame of their standing bread, but about the taste of the bread: "Today's bread is not as good as yesterday's." ”

"Yes, it's been a long time, it's not fresh."

"But there's more sugar, it's sweeter."

"It's very sweet...... Hey, there are too many people in line now, otherwise I would have been able to queue up to eat again. ”

"I asked you to come five days ago, and I could eat five loaves in one meal! You still don't believe it. ”

"Stop bragging, five cakes, are you done eating?"

The prince looked around the square, and there were still three or four of them lined up in such a square of eating cakes. Each one has a different soldier in command, but the procedure is much the same. In short, after a certain number of people who had received the bread in front had been gathered, the soldiers who had spare time would organize them and concentrate on eating the bread.

Prince Elise was in the bread shed and found the person in charge of the place, an official prince whom he had known before, the illegitimate son of a baron.

"Your Highness," the clerk saluted the prince, "why did you come to such a place?" ”

"Who came up with this way of eating bread?" The prince lowered his voice and asked, "Are you going to turn the royal city of Elise into a joke of the whole continent!" The largest dog training farm in the world?! ”

"I don't know," the clerk shook his head, "this is the third way, I've tried other things before...... It's ugly, but it doesn't work, and this method is the most convenient. ”

"Just to save trouble?!"

"Yes, it's too busy," said the clerk, "and there are targets every day, and if you don't do it, you'll be fined...... If you don't, you won't have time to eat, and you won't be able to supervise. ”

The prince did not understand what the clerk meant.

"Your Highness," explained the clerk, "the oracles demanded that all the bread of the bread hut be eaten under supervision, and that the commoners were not allowed to take it out. If the same bread is found outside the bread shed, and the quantity exceeds the limit, the clerk will be replaced. But I only have fifty soldiers under me, and thousands of people come to eat bread every day, and everyone used to be busy to death, and it is inevitable that some people will take the bread out and sell it for money. The Divine Envoy later called us to a meeting, and this approach was proposed...... I didn't know it was for dog training, but the oracles thought it could. They also call this the assembly line pie method, saying that this is the most efficient. ”

"But this is a violation of the dignity of all people!"

"This bread is free, if you don't like it, you can't come," If it weren't for the other party's prince, the clerk wouldn't have time to talk to him now, "Your Highness, look at this procession, there will be more people here at lunch and dinner, these people are all lined up, waiting to be trampled." ”