Chapter 1633: The World Is So Big (IV.)

As the train started slowly, Palatina's eyes were still looking out the window at the tavern, recalling the recitations she had heard in the tavern, and she couldn't help but be deeply moved by the national pride and strong patriotic feelings that flowed from it. But when the train began to speed up and the cool breeze poured into the windows blew on her head, she gradually calmed down again, suspecting that the recitation in the tavern was Roland's pre-rehearsed "show", specially performed for the empire to watch objectively, in an attempt to "brainwash" political propaganda against her.

It was already lunch time, and the flight attendants pushed the food cart to bring snacks and drinks. Palatine reluctantly suppressed her suspicions and accepted Roland's suggestion to eat two snacks.

The train seems to be moving very smoothly while the passengers are eating, and the fast-spinning wheels run on the tracks, grinding out the sonorous echo of the rhythm. Two parallel railroad tracks seem to stretch all the way to the end of the horizon, and the endless sea of forests is outside the car window.

At the beginning of October, the weather in the north turned significantly colder, and the local woods were mostly broad-leaved and coniferous, and the gravel embankment on the outside of the railway tracks was full of fiery red or orange leaves. The train is running in the forest, and the red leaves of the maple sea suddenly float outside the window, and suddenly the eyes are full of green and pine waves, and the scenery along the way is beautiful.

After two hours of traveling, the train finally found its way through the "Whispering Jungle", and suddenly the vast wilderness opened up outside the window, and the vast wilderness appeared in front of the passengers.

The locomotive sounded the whistle, first stopped at Huyang Village, stopped for another ten minutes through Wufeng Township, and then continued to set off before entering the jurisdiction of the northern agricultural town "Gudi Village Commune", and the scenery outside the window was different.

"It's so beautiful!" Looking out the car window at the endless sea of alfalfa flowers, Paladina's eyes lit up and she was amazed.

The beautiful and familiar scenery in front of him evokes Roland's memories, and it seems that this is the time last year, when he came to inspect the valley village, he also saw a field of alfalfa swaying with blue flower spikes and fragrant fragrance. It's just that he was on a train pulled by Los Beast, and his traveling companions were two other beautiful girls.

Behind the sea of alfalfa flowers is an endless field of corn. Palatina stared out the car window, her eyes were sour, and the scenery had not changed, the fields were full of spit corn, and the continuous green gauze tents seemed to have no end.

"Roland, the farmland on both sides of the railroad belongs to one farm?"

"That's right, it's all run by the people of Valley Village."

"How big is this farmland, it feels like the waves of the sea...... "Palatina is a young lady who grew up in a big city, and this is the first time in her life that she has gone to the countryside, and she can't imagine how vast the fields in the north are.

Roland fully understood the mood of the city girl when she first went to the countryside, and told her the history of the development of the commune in the valley village without hesitation.

"Gudi Village was one of the first selected agricultural reform pilots in the Far East, and in 1621 it was built as a state-owned farm, and about seventy percent of the villagers became farm members, and the participation was very high from the situation at that time, with a total of more than 900 agricultural workers cultivating 25,000 acres of farmland, most of which were used to grow corn."

"Last year, the Gudi Village Commune had a bumper harvest, and the members of the commune had a lot of income from selling surplus grain, and the villagers who were skeptical of the state-owned farms at the beginning saw that the pioneers had tasted the sweetness and enthusiastically joined in, and the Gudi Village Commune also absorbed the population from the surrounding remote small villages, and now the total number of members has exceeded 2,500 people, and the adult labor force is about 1,600, and after a whole year of hard work to open up the wasteland, the cultivated land area has now reached more than 50,000 mu, which is double that of the beginning of the establishment of the commune."

Palatine listened to Roland's series of numbers as she heard them come out with mixed feelings.

The first thing that struck her was Roland's professionalism and professionalism. Palatina had long heard her cousin Grofa talk about the agricultural reform in the Far East, and Grofa admired Roland very much, calling him a "young and bold reformer" and "a trendsetter who grasped the pulse of the times", and said that he attributed most of the success of the agricultural reform in the Far East to him. Palatina, who had thought that Colossa's rhetoric was exaggerated, and was deeply skeptical of the results of the agricultural reform in the Far East, was convinced that the Far East had indeed been transformed into a large granary of abundant grains, capable of exporting six million tons of grain while guaranteeing the basic rations of the people, and that the Imperial authorities were compelled to take this competitor seriously.

Since there is no doubt about the results of the agricultural reform in the Far East, Roland is certainly worthy of admiration as the helmsman of this great cause. Palatine had also come into contact with many of the so-called "reformist" young talents in the social scene of the Holy City, but they were either well-written or good at rhetoric, but they could not produce any results to prove that their theories were practical. Compared with those "reformers" who talk on paper, Roland is familiar with macro agricultural data, and specifically talks about the pest control of a certain crop, and has personally participated in all aspects from organization to production, showing a pragmatic attitude everywhere, but not talking about how important he has played in the process of agricultural reform in the Far East and what contributions he has made. Palatine couldn't see through his indifference or hypocrisy, but on second thought, Roland really didn't need to brag about himself, and the harvest fields outside the car window were enough to prove his merits.

The train sounded its whistle again and slowly stopped in front of the platform of the valley village commune, which was usually half an hour of repair.

Palatine followed Roland out of the car, and the evening breeze with the fragrance of cereals blew in her face, and she was refreshed and stretched out comfortably.

"It's been hard to sit in the car for a day, and my back hurts, Roland, can you take a walk around here with me?"

"It's an honor, but the residents of Valley Village are too familiar with me, even if I change my appearance, I may be recognized, so I'll be an 'invisible bodyguard' for you."

Palatina thought he was joking, but she didn't think that Roland actually pulled a staff out of the storage bag and activated the "invisible orb" to hide itself.

Palatina carries with her a constant "true knowledge" magic device, and Roland's invisibility has no effect on her, but walking side by side with "a cloud of air" on the country road, she is inevitably suspected of talking to herself when she talks.

Palatina couldn't stand the strange eyes of passers-by, so she simply found a secluded place to bury her head into the "invisible magic ball", and she became a ball of "air", so as not to be suspected of insaneness.

The "invisible orb" was only five feet in space, and Palatina had to be close to Roland, holding his arm in a "telepathic" communication, so as not to make a noise and provoke onlookers.

During the walk, Roland told Palatine about his relationship with the village of the Valley. From the first time I came here on a hike to the north five years ago, when I was involved in the conflict between the Green Druids and the Ghost Woman, and slaughtered a scavenger that had taken over the garbage dump, I told the story of the volcano awakening when I visited Vale Village last year......