After another night of planning, Rafa finally made a preliminary division of the hundreds of new arrivals.

With 200 people going to the mines to mine minerals, 200 people joining the queue to build a cement factory and becoming workers there after the factory was built, and 300 people joining the ironworks to separate ore and smelting steel, these people, together with the local blacksmiths, should make it easy to get off to a start in Icefield City's manufacturing.

At this time, the seven hundred men who came to Icefield City were simply distributed, although this arrangement is not necessarily reasonable, but it will take a while for the specific problems to be exposed, so it is no problem for the time being.

Then it's time to arrange the women.

Some of the women who came here came alone with their children after their families were ruined, some came with their husbands, and some came for no reason but had nowhere to go.

For example, these four in front of Rafa now.

In order to make a more reasonable arrangement for these few women, he decided to simply ask them about their wishes.

Most women just want to have something to eat, so when Rafa asked them, many women said that it was okay to do dirty work, after all, they were people who had gone through hard times, and as long as they could get by, they would not pick and choose anymore.

It's just that the girls in front of Rafa are different.

They were very few young women who had just arrived in Icefield City, but when they saw Rafa, they all had a straight face, as if you owe me money.

"Uh... What's your name?" Rafa didn't know how to speak, stared at by four pairs of wary eyes.

"Lena"

"Katya"

"Shirley"

"Cole"

The four of them replied quickly.

Asking the names was the only thing Rafa had learned from them, and then he asked any questions, such as why they were here, or what hobbies and interests they were good at, and their answers were almost always perfunctory answers such as "I don't know", "whatever", "sleeping", "eating".

However, he didn't force them to say anything too much, after all, who didn't have some sadness when they came to Icefield City in desperation?

Eventually, he assigned them, like most women, to a newly built shed.

Because the rumor that "vegetables can cure curses" seems to have had a real effect, it is not only these newcomers who have returned with the second caravan, but also many merchants who want to peek into the secrets of Icefield City's winter vegetable cultivation.

The principle of the greenhouse is very simple, but after seeing that the light transmission material of the greenhouse is pure transparent glass, which is as expensive as sky-high prices, they are all a little discouraged;

Since there were people who wanted to help with the errands, Rafa had agreed not only to the distribution agreements with some of the merchants, but also to promise them to help them grow some of the new varieties they had brought.

Although it seems that the merchant has made a lot of profit in it, it doesn't matter, this step is the first step in the development of Icefield City, as long as there is money to be made, it doesn't matter what else is.

Rafa had already anticipated that the demand for vegetables would increase, so before the cement plant started, he asked Sievers to set aside a plot of land to use the glass left over from the previous conservative planting, and re-planned a number of greenhouses, and now these new women are undoubtedly the best people to take care of the greenhouses.

"Sister, we behaved so rudely just now, will the third prince be very angry?" Out of the City Lord's Mansion, the youngest Shirley asked cautiously.

Lena was the eldest of the four sisters, and when she heard the younger sister's concern, she had to comfort, "Don't worry, I carefully observed him just now, he is by no means a narrow-minded person, he should be fine." ”

"It would be great if that were the case! we can grow vegetables in peace, I like growing vegetables the most!" the dark-red-haired Cole cried out with joy when he heard that it was all right.

"Based on past experience, we dare not hope for long-term stability, and now we can only pray that we will not be discovered too soon and live a peaceful life. Katya, who was somewhat indifferent, replied calmly.

"Cole, Shirley, you have to change the problem of seeing injured cats, dogs, and flowers and plants heal them, although we all know that it is right to do so, but in the eyes of others, we are damned heretics. Lena reached out her hands and rubbed their heads, all of which were different colors.

Cole silently agreed, but Shirley stubbornly raised her head, "Isn't there a way to get people to accept us? We obviously haven't hurt good people! Why do those people do this to us?"

"Shirley, have you forgotten your own sister? she saved the clergy of the church, but she was taken away by the church and burned alive, and it was the person she saved who lit the fire. Lena repeated the horrific memories that lingered in her mind.

"At least my sister did what she thought was right. ”

"It's a pity that for this world, our existence is wrong, and the wrong people do it, who would believe it is right?" Katya said coldly.

Talking about the death of their companions, all four were in a somewhat depressed mood.

In the city lord's mansion, Rafa was very busy, first after arranging the work of the people, and then busy meeting with the merchants who had come to Icefield City, and after sending them away, he was just about to draw tools and drawings about metallurgy and the like, when Felihill came to the door and asked this and that.

Thankfully, she wasn't asking about guns today, but about the future of Iceborne.

"You mean... Do you want me to find a way to get the ironworks to start sooner?"

"Yes, we don't have enough iron. ”

In fact, in the end, Felihill just wanted to do something with the power of Icefield City, but this is exactly what Rafa wanted to do.

"I've already arranged this matter, the workers have already gone to the coal mine and iron mine cave to explore, and it should be able to produce soon, but on your side, have you finished the machine tools and iron plates I asked you and Ai Lei to make?"

When the caravan returned, it bought a lot of blacksmith tools such as iron felt, just to cope with the shortage of tool tables, but the functions of this thing were really limited, and it was almost impossible to make something with a little higher precision, so Rafa urgently drew a batch of drawings of machine tools similar to milling machines such as simple grinding and drilling, and gave them to Felihill, and reminded her that this thing was the highest priority, so that she could take a look at it first.

But Felicille's answer was simple, "No." ”

"Uh... You're not going to even look at it, are you?"

"Yes. ”

"And what has Elle been doing all along?"

"Build guns. ”

Rafa looked up at her in surprise, and she realized that she seemed to be in a different state today.

The beautiful dress was covered with dust, the sleeves were still burned, and the slender fingers were covered with black stains, although the face was a little tired, but the eyes were extremely stubborn.

In his memory, Felihill has always been dignified and elegant, and has never behaved inappropriately, but there is something wrong with her untidy behavior today.

Looking at her tired eyes, who had apparently not slept all night, Rafa stood up and walked up to her, "What the hell is wrong with you, why are you so attached to that thing?"

Felihill has always been honest, "We need strength!"

"We do need strength, but not now. He was a little confused, but there seemed to be some subtle change in her state since Felihill had taken the drawings in a frenzy yesterday.

Felihill's next words refreshed his perception of her.

"We have an opportunity to change the rules of the continent, why didn't you seize it sooner?"

She was so clever that she saw part of the future of the world in what Rafa revealed, but she always saw the part, so she put the cart before the horse, like a monkey who beats his kind with a stick for the first time, and then treats the stick as the whole of the future.

I didn't know that in order to get a sharper sword, I needed to burn the wooden stick as firewood before forging it

"Since you know we can change the world, why don't you do what I say?"

"I don't want to waste my time on things that don't make sense. ”

"Fili... You are wrong, nothing can be done overnight, what I am talking about is what can really lead us to a future that is different from anywhere else on the mainland, and when you really get a peek into that grand future, you will know that the paranoia of the present is completely unnecessary. ”

Felihill was visibly surprised by his words, and his stubborn eyes gradually became overtaken by hesitation and exhaustion.

She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, they returned to their usual calm and indifference

"I... Believe you, you have something in your head that I can't reach, and you should see a future far away than I do. ”

Seeing that Felihill had recovered his sanity from paranoia so quickly, Rafa smiled, "So you don't have to worry about firearms, as long as the mining of minerals is smooth and the machine tool is successfully built, I can make more and more weapons that are dozens of times more powerful than guns!"

"Really?" Philisille's eyes widened in surprise at his bold words.

"Of course, you know, I never lie. ”

"Where's the drawings?"

"Ahem, before that, if you can do one thing, I'll promise to show you a sketch first. ”

"Speak quickly!" a frenzied look appeared in her eyes again.

Now he completely understood, it turned out that Felihill was a complete weapon enthusiast, and he had a strange attachment to things that could generate great energy.

Rafa stretched out her hand and brushed her loose pale blonde hair back of her head, then stared into her eyes and said earnestly, "I want you to take a hot bath and get some sleep, and then get to work when you have eaten enough." ”

Felihill looked at the smiling Rafa and unconsciously took a half step back.

It was as if she felt something eating away at her, not like the magic was born, but like a ray of sunlight shining into her closed and dimly lit room, making her feel warm.

"Hopefully you'll be able to deliver on your promise when I wake up. Glancing deeply at Rafa, she left with a brisk step she had never seen before, and it was to be expected that she would sleep soundly.

"I will. ”

Rafa also felt a unique strangeness that he had never experienced in his two lifetimes.