As Luo Lan expected, the people were very repulsive to Rick.

Luckily, he made a trip to the West Coast on land, otherwise the situation would have gotten out of control and Rick's life would have been in danger.

Seeing that the people were calm, Luo Lan dismounted and walked to Rick's side and stood with Bina.

After briefly inspecting the wheat feed and listening to Rick's report, Luo Lan talked about the wheat feed in detail with the onlookers.

"Mr. Rick of the Martin family, who devoted his life to increasing food production, discovered the efficacy of wheat, and studied and manufactured it in various ways to achieve what he is today. This is not alchemy, but a great invention. ”

Luo Lan looked around, his face was calm, but his words seemed cautious, this was fooling the people, sometimes this kind of white lie is needed.

"Just as the fisherman invented the fishing net, the farmer invented the heavy plough, and the blacksmith invented the sword. What was Mr. Rick's fault in inventing wheat? ”

Luo Lan's words echoed in the valley in the early morning, and everyone whispered one after another, thinking that it was reasonable.

Bina, who was next to Luo Lan, exhaled lightly and said, "Don't panic, everyone, if Mr. Rick is an alchemist, how can I conspire with him?" ”

This sentence carries a lot of weight because it comes from the mouth of a great nun who is a member of the church.

No one questioned it anymore.

The people's rejection and fear of Rick dissipated.

Amid the sound of birdsong, a new day begins, and the Guards busily carry wheat to fertilize the fields of Uttar Pradesh, while the people of the west coast wander around trying to pick better land.

Luo Lan talked to a group of merchants for a while, and then met with Rick alone.

The two entered an uninhabited mine with a tacit understanding.

Rick, who was hunched over, sighed first: "Your Highness, I'm really troublesome to you, I know that you are under a lot of pressure, after all, I am an alchemist." ”

Luo Lan smiled heartily and said heroically: "It's me who is sorry for you and dare not announce your identity." But don't worry, when the time is ripe, I will announce to the entire continent that I, Luo Lan, will accept the alchemist, and I will clear the alchemist's name! ”

Luo Lan was confident and determined, Rick glanced at him in a daze, and bent down respectfully, "Thank you, Your Highness, I am willing to fight for you"!

Luo Lan patted him on the shoulder and went out to find Carl.

Carl, the former general of the Guards of Boogie City, has been robbed of his position by Barrett because he is too timid.

But Carl is a veteran after all, so Luo Lan handed over the defense of the special economic zone to him.

At this time, in the face of Luo Lan's summons, this veteran was sincerely afraid, for fear that he would be demoted by Luo Lan again.

"Carl, I have a task for you, and this is a very important task."

Luo Lan didn't talk nonsense, he knew that Karl was not suitable for war, but it was suitable to do something else, because he had good connections.

When Karl heard this, he nodded hurriedly: "Please command, Your Highness!" ”

Luo Lan pointed in the direction of the sea, "I want a wide road that connects to the coast all the way, at least five horses can go along."

Carl breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, it turned out that he was just building a road. But he immediately became worried again, and hesitated: "Prince, I have no manpower, no gold coins, no tools......"

"You can ask Rick for a budget, and he can mobilize money from the treasury. As for the workers and tools, let's take them from the local area. There are more and more people in Phuket City, they need to work, and I will give you three months to make sure that a road to the coast is repaired. ”

"No problem!"

Carl was finally relieved that he could arrange everything, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to do it.

As a result, Luo Lan added: "If you want a stone road, just like the road built by the nobles for mining in the past, don't ram the earth road." ”

"What?"

Karl was dumbfounded, this request of the prince was too much.

At present, the popular roads are rammed (hang) dirt roads, the so-called rammed earth roads, that is, the soil is rammed and compacted, and the road is rolled with heavy objects.

Stone paths, on the other hand, require a high level of skill and cost several times more, even if they are simply rammed into the dirt.

"Your Highness, you can't do it in three months. You have to have five horses in parallel, and you also need a stone road, the requirements for the foundation are too high, we need to burn earth and bricks, and there are too many processes. ”

Well?

Luo Lan showed an expression of surprise, of course he was not surprised by Carl's rebuttal, but surprised that he actually knew about burning earth and bricks.

"Carl, what did you do before?"

Luo Lan asked with a smile, Karl didn't dare to hide it, "My subordinates used to follow my father to build houses for nobles, and many houses in Phuket City were built by my father's generation, and my father's generation ......."

Carl suddenly stopped talking, and his expression became panicked again. Luo Lan motioned for him to continue, and he said with a weak heart: "There were many plasterers on Phuket Island back then, and they were needed to repair houses and city walls. But then one of the palaces they built collapsed, nearly crushing the concubine of the lord of Phuket City. After that, many plasterers were reduced to slavery, and all their descendants were enslaved, and if it weren't for the need for plasterers for the nobility, everyone might have been killed. ”

And this kind of thing?

Luo Lan immediately said, "What about those plasterers? They are the pillars of the country, so find them quickly. ”

Carl shuddered, a pillar of the nation? Are slaves the pillars of the state?

He thought he had misheard, and looked at Luo Lan in amazement. Luo Lan hurriedly said, "What are you looking at?" Where are they? ”

"My subordinates have been secretly taking care of them and settling in the slums west of the city. My father is long dead, but I have a younger brother named Bor, who came to the West Coast to see Blackstone. ”

Carl said excitedly, looking at Luo Lan with a blank eye.

Luo Lan waved his hand: "Please come over to your brother, I want to ask him some questions." ”

"Yes!"

After a while, an excited Carl brought a man who was also old.

This man is far less burly than Carl, and his stature is very small, and he knows that he has been malnourished all year round.

But he was equally excited, and when he heard his brother say that the prince was going to ask him a question, Bol almost thought he had misheard.

Because he is a slave, a lowlier existence than a peasant, where would a prince ask about slaves?

However, the facts are in front of him, and that Prince Luo Lan is waiting for him, and he is still eager.

The restrained and frightened Bol didn't dare to look directly into Luo Lan's eyes.

Luo Lan pulled him and walked directly to the end of the road in the mining area.

The front is a dense jungle with weeds and soft ground, which is completely unsuitable for building roads.

But to get to the coast, starting here is undoubtedly the closest.

"Mr. Bol, if I were to build a road to the coast, what do you think would be done?"

Luo Lan turned around and asked Bol, who was already sluggish, Bol didn't react at all, he was about to die of fright, because his dirty hands were pulled by His Royal Highness the Prince.

The people of the vicinity also gathered around at this time, watching in amazement as the prince took the hand of a slave.

It was Carl who reacted first, and hurriedly pushed his younger brother, "The prince asked you how to build the road."

"Ah, this, from here...... Since the land here is so wet and soft, we have to ...... Burn the hard soil, dig up the soil here, lay the foundation, and spread the hard soil......"

Bol stammered, his voice shaking.

Luo Lan touched his chin and muttered, "Mr. Bor, do you have the ability to burn hard soil?" ”

Hearing this question, the excited Bol finally calmed down, and he said lonely: "The plasterers are all slaves, and they have long since lost their former glory, and we don't even have an earthen kiln, let alone burn earth. ”

"Okay, Bor, in the future, you will be the Minister of Transportation and Construction of Phuket, responsible for the transportation construction of Phuket, you can apply for reasonable funds from Rick and go to work immediately."

Luo Lan did not hesitate at all, and accepted a slave to be the minister of transportation and construction.

"What is the Minister of Transport and Construction?"

Boer asked cautiously, Luo Lan smiled: "It's a knighthood, equivalent to an earl, if you build the road well, you can also add an official to a knighthood in the future." ”

"Uncle...... Earl? ”

Mo said Bol, everyone present was stunned.

During the half-hour-long "Bor Confusion Period", the surrounding people frantically crowded over.

"Your Highness, I also want a knighthood!"

"I will build roads, I will burn mud!"

"I'll cut down trees, I can help Bol cut down all the trees in the jungle!"

The entire West Coast mining region is bustling with activity, and the enthusiasm of the people is at an all-time high.

Luo Lan coped with them one by one, amiable, and had no prince's frame at all.

In the open-pit mine not far away, Bina secretly looked at Luo Lan who was surrounded by the crowd, and her eyes did not blink.

Rick next to her suddenly laughed: "Miss Bina, you said to come and help me, why are you lazy." ”

"Ah, no, use a blower to speed up the burning of the blackstone, right? It's so simple. ”