After the middle of winter, the cold is no longer and Phuket is starting to warm up.

The people also became active, especially the peasants, who were everywhere in Uttar Pradesh, and many of them even held festivals to thank God for not destroying all the wheat.

The officials of the palace were also idle, and Gandalf went directly south, and this old minister seemed to be more energetic than anyone else.

Luo Lan knew that he was still worried about the household registration system in his heart, so he didn't stop him, but just mentioned the southern state to him when he saw him off.

Gandalf immediately became nervous, he didn't know about the Southern Pradesh cavalry, and Charles just told Luo Lan and Ellie to keep it a secret.

"Your Highness, I didn't tell you about the uncontrolled Southern State because I was afraid that you would attack the Southern State in a hurry and attack the Southern State, which would lead to mutual hatred between the north and the south." Gandalf explained, "It's just that I didn't expect the Southern Pradesh to have such a strong force, which is unusual. ”

Hundreds of elite iron horsemen are indeed a powerful force for Phuket Island.

"Don't worry, I'm measured, just leave the affairs of diplomacy and war to Charles, you don't have to work hard, so as not to exhaust your body." Luo Lan smiled, Gandalf was not suitable for dealing with war and diplomacy, he was good at finance.

Gandalf nodded yes, and he told Luo Lan to pay attention to safety and try not to get into conflicts.

Gandalf then went south and continued to implement the hukou system.

Luo Lan also prepared to go south, and Charles would accompany him.

Completely different from Luo Lan's lightheartedness, Charles was very serious, he had a straight face, he ran between the shops in the city all day, and he didn't know what he was doing.

Luo Lan thought about it for a while, and probably guessed what Charles was doing.

As Luo Lan expected, the day before the southern tour, Charles approached Luo Lan and proposed a new policy.

"Your Highness, since we want to tour south, we can't just patrol, we have to take a group of merchants south." Charles took out a list of businessmen who were willing to go south, and there were sixty or seventy businessmen, large and small.

These merchants were not as good as the winemakers and charcoal merchants, but if they went to the South, they were the only big merchants, because there were few merchants in the South.

Luo Lan nodded approvingly: "You are really making up this matter, you should think about it carefully, go and do it." ”

This is the northerner south.

The merchants of Phuket Island are basically concentrated in Phuket City, and there are many merchants and few customers, so it is time to move some of them south.

Many businessmen are also willing to try, and they see business opportunities. Uttar Pradesh's grain is competitively competitive because it supplies special industrial zones and big merchants.

However, no one buys the grain in the south, and when the autumn wheat is ripe, it will be the silver of white flowers.

Charles rushed to do it.

He is very reliable, it can be said that he can do a complete set of things, and in just one day, he has assigned more than 70 merchants to various provinces.

A dozen merchants from one province, they took the workers they had recruited and some materials, and set sail south.

Whether it's the Phuket River or the east coast, there are boats heading south, and merchants are panning for gold to go to various ferry ports and join the local trade market.

Luo Lan watched the merchants go out of the city on the city wall, and his mood was like the bright sunshine. The southward movement of northern merchants can be regarded as an injection of vitality into the planned economy, and the next step is to see whether the market economy can be revitalized.

Two days later, Roland and Charles and Barrett Guards moved south.

They rode south.

In fact, it is faster to take a boat, but in order to inspect the situation of the peasants, it is more convenient to ride a horse, and you can stop as you go.

Along the way, Luo Lan inspected more than a dozen villages, and the smile on her face gradually increased.

The villages had survived the winter, and the peasants who had been warming themselves at the castle had returned, busy tending the wheat in preparation for spring.

Of course, there are still places where people are freezing to death. These places were basically too remote to receive news from officials, and they were shivering in the snow and freezing to death.

"The governor of the Nakajima State sent cavalry over, saying that there are a total of seventy-eight corpses found so far, and there should be no more than 100 people frozen to death in the entire Nakajima State, as for the West County and Dongjun, due to the proximity to the river and the sea, the heating point is the most recently, and the number of people who have frozen to death should not exceed 50."

Charles gave the statistics on the eleventh day of his journey south.

This data is quite good, in previous years, it snowed, and more than 10,000 people froze to death when it was the worst time, and in that kind of year, Phuket Island collapsed directly in winter.

"The losses are very large, and before the arrival of next winter, our textile industry will be developed, and farmers will have cotton clothes to wear." Luo Lan frowned, he knew that the reason why the peasants froze to death was because they didn't have thick clothes.

"Your Highness, you can't force everything, Phuket Island does not have the foundation for the development of the textile industry, and I am afraid that it will not work in a year." Charles analyzed that he knew Phuket Island well and thought that Luo Lan was in a hurry.

Luo Lan didn't refute, he just looked at the Norlan Continent in the east.

He missed Bina a little, and she went back to the Holy Mountain of the Church, and she didn't know what happened, and she said that she would bring a weaver when she returned.

"Let's go, it's time to meet the new king of the southern state."

Nearly fifty people quickly moved south, through the flat hinterland of the center, and submerged into the vast mountains to the south.

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The western region of the Norlan Continent is characterized by staggered plains, deserts, and high mountains.

There are the most barren sandy lands, the most fertile meadows, the highest peaks, and the deepest inner lakes.

Such a complex and varied terrain has created dozens of countries with very different cultures and languages, as well as dozens of small vassal states.

The sacred mountain of the church is at the entrance to the Western Regions, which is the dividing line between civilization and barbarism in the Norlan Continent.

To the east of the dividing line, eleven powerful empires divided the north and the south, and they were united in language and culture, even the steppe peoples of the north were no exception. This all stems from the era of great unification a hundred years ago, which lasted for six hundred years, and finally fell apart a hundred years ago, and the Nuolandong Continent has now entered the Warring States Period.

And the countries of the Western Regions have never been unified, and they seem to have fought from birth to the present.

However, the Western Regions unexpectedly revered the church, and there were countless churches in each Western Regions country, and the people of the Western Regions believed in the gods more, and the number of people in the Western Regions who went to the Holy Mountain to worship every day was innumerable.

And the nuns of the church will give them holy water to exorcise evil and purify their bodies.

Of course, this is the work of the little nun, and the big nun does not have to do such a thing.

But there is one person who is an exception, and she is the Grand Nun Bina. She was very keen to exorcise evil spirits for worshippers, and after returning from Phuket, Bina received hundreds of worshippers almost every day, and she was the only one who was so patient.

When the weather was a little warmer, Bina finally stopped doing this work, she packed up her things in her bedroom, and then pushed open the window to look out at the vast mountains on the north side of the sacred mountain.

In that forest, black smoke occasionally rises, and there is often a pungent smell in the air.

Bina asked the bishop, who said that the forbidden forest was a place to exorcise evil spirits, that black smoke was the demon that had been destroyed, and that the smell was the smell of the demon.

"It's a bit like the taste of Luo Lan's special industrial zone."

Bena looked at it for a while, but at last she shook her head and left the Holy Mountain, and traveled east in search of an old friend, a lady who had attracted the nobility with her impossibly gorgeous fabrics.