By the time we got back to the mine, it was already dark.

A fire was lit in the canyon, and the guards under Rick's command lit the black stone, but a small piece of black stone could burn for most of the day, much to everyone's amazement.

Luo Lan smiled in his heart, and the flame of coal was like the brilliance of the future, cheering and jumping.

When Bina told Rick about the name of the special economic zone, the young man with gray temples knelt down respectfully.

Everything is self-evident, and Rick is willing to dedicate his life to Luo Lan.

Luo Lan helped him up, didn't say anything, and after leaving most of the guards and food, he took Bina and Gandalf back to the city.

Luo Lan actually wanted to stay in the Rick Special Zone for a while and guide the initial construction of the Special Economic Zone, but he was too busy and had a lot to do, so the Special Economic Zone could only be handed over to Rick.

Even halfway through, Luo Lan took Gandalf to take the first step, and they rode away, one old and one young.

Bena's carriage was escorted back to the city by Barrett's guards.

Watching Luo Lan's back gradually disappear into the darkness, Bina sighed: "This guy actually left me here, it's too ungraceful." ”

"Miss Bina, don't worry, I, Barrett, will protect you!"

Barrett swore as solemnly as a Templar, and Bina smiled at him and lowered the curtain.

In the second half of the night, Luo Lan and Gandalf finally returned to Phuket City.

Both of them were tired, and Luo Lan hurriedly asked Gandalf to go back to rest, while he himself went back to the palace to take a bath.

Before the results were finished, Ellie came.

In the dark palace, Ellie yawned and came to the door.

"Stupid prince, there is no money again, there is not a single gold coin, what will I do with the worker's remuneration in a few days?"

Hey, the thatched pit movement is really unlucky.

"Miss Ellie, you're really urging your life."

Luo Lan wrapped her clothes and shook her wet hair to bury her. Ellie squinted, "Or else?" Do you think toilets are so easy to dig? A lot of people are using stone shovels, and they will break down after a while, and I estimate that your toilet exercise will take a year or two, and you can calculate how much gold you will spend."

Ellie is not joking, if the current progress is calculated, the Maokeng movement may really last for a year or two, which will directly drag down the economy of Phuket.

Luo Lan nodded in understanding, he walked to the desk and sat down, and began to formulate a new policy, this policy Luo Lan has been thinking about for a long time, and now the West Coast Special Zone can only be implemented.

Elle curiously leaned over and looked at the words Luo Lan had written on the paper, "The western development policy? What do you mean? ”

Luo Lan explained, "There are tens of thousands of residents in the city, they are not farmers, and they have not been allocated land. Now the aristocracy has been expelled again, and the inhabitants have lost their consumers and have begun to do nothing. It's a big problem, and I'm going to move them somewhere else and let them create value."

Luo Lan has long been thinking about the problem of the residents in the city, a primitive and backward town in the Buji urban area, there are tens of thousands of residents, and the development is very deformed. In the past, when there were nobles, they could work for the nobles to make money, or they could work as hawkers, but now they can't, they are all unemployed.

This is also one of the reasons why the Maokeng movement can attract urban residents to join, and they also want to earn money to live.

"Yes, yes, I also think there are too many idlers in the city, and we have to let them work."

Ellie's eyes lit up and she continued to stare at the parchment, "The West Coast New City Construction Plan, the relocation of five thousand people, everyone can go to the West Coast to buy land, and they only need hardware coins to own one acre of land permanently." Merchants may open shops, fishermen may fish, and support any lawful trade, limited to five thousand people......"

The more Elle reads, the more excited she becomes, and she pats Luo Lan on the shoulder, "Haha, you are so bad, you actually used the rotten land on the west coast to loot everyone's gold coins, if one person has hardware coins, five thousand people are twenty-five thousand gold coins, and you can immediately solve the problem of funding for the Maokeng Movement"!

Ellie is smart and understands it at a glance.

Luo Lan snorted, "What do you mean by rotten ground?" The west coast is a special economic zone, and the land will increase exponentially in a few years, and you won't be able to buy it if you want to."

"Cut, it's rotten land now, I don't think many people will want to buy it."

Ai Li is disdainful, in fact, the reason for her disdain is also one aspect of Luo Lan's worries.

How do you get people to buy land on the West Coast?

Price is the key, but more important is value, no one will buy land without value.

Luo Lan thought about it for a while, and then wrote on the parchment: Mr. Rick of the Martin family has established a base on the West Coast to make wheat material that can increase wheat production dozens of times.

Using Rick's prestige to attract a group of "investors" is a clever move.

Maybe a lot of people don't know Rick, but absolutely everyone knows about the Martin family, and that's a golden sign.

Moreover, Luo Lan announced the wheat material, which will definitely stir up a thousand waves with one stone, and when the effect of the wheat material comes out, the notoriety of alchemy will also be eliminated, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, this is still not enough, and the people must be given the greatest protection, so Luo Lan wrote: If the land on the west coast cannot make money after three years, the land can be returned and double the gold coins can be returned.

"Are you crazy? It's too risky, if the West Coast can't make money in three years, you're doomed, and the whole of Phuket will collapse because of this! ”

Seeing Luo Lan write such a bold decree, Ellie's face turned white with fright, but Luo Lan smiled slightly: "Everything is under control." Besides, after three years, I can collect taxes from the peasants, and even if I fail, I can still pay the compensation. ”

Elle stopped talking, then muttered, "What a fool, what lord would be so stupid......"

Not long after, the decree on the large-scale development of the western region was drafted, Ai Li did not leave, Luo Lan did not sleep, he still had to draft a policy, a guiding policy.

"Ridge tillage is a method in which a flat piece of land is divided into dozens of interspaced furrows, and ridges are formed between the trenches, on which crops are planted......"

Luo Lan wrote down the ridge cultivation method in detail, and also drew sketches to make it easier for farmers to understand.

By the time everything was done, Luo Lan was already exhausted, so she climbed into bed and went to sleep.

"Ellie, give my two decrees to Gandalf tomorrow, let him watch it, and tell him by the way that he can continue to build the provincial system, and promote the ridge cultivation method along the way, and must strongly promote the ridge cultivation method......"

After Luo Lan finished speaking, she fell asleep, and her eyelids were so tired that she couldn't move.

Elle blinked, put away the two pieces of parchment, and walked lightly to Luo Lan's bed.

She stared at Luo Lan's face for a long time, and then gently covered him with the quilt.

When the sun rose the next day, Elle visited Gandalf and told him about the policy of developing the west.

Gandalf, who was worried about his financial problems, immediately had his eyes lit up, and he gathered the few dozen officials in Phuket City to take care of the matter.

In the afternoon, the Guards pasted parchment with decrees on the walls.

Residents rushed to the city, and people who were repairing the toilets also came to join in the fun.

The literate officials read aloud the decrees on the parchment and exclaimed.

"What? Buying land on the West Coast? Why? ”

"One acre of land for hardware coins, permanent use, is not expensive, and it is a whimsical good thing for civilians to own land. But the West Coast is a place where birds don't, and you can't farm in the mountains. ”

"I think it's better to repair toilets to make money."

There was a lot of discussion, and the officials motioned for everyone to be quiet, and continued to read.

When they were all finished, the crowd began to talk again.

"Is Mr. Rick of the Martin family the lord of New City on the West Coast? Wouldn't it be, the Martin family would like to come to us? ”

"Is it true that he made any wheat that could increase grain production by dozens of times?"

"Does anyone buy it? You can fish as much as you like! ”

The whole city of Phuket was in an uproar, but most of the people wavered, after all, in this part of Phuket Island, hardware coins are also a huge amount of money.

The officials were very anxious, looking forward to everyone buying land, and tried to persuade them, but with little effect.

At this moment, a fast horse arrived, and Elle, who was dressed in a strong suit and heroic, held a new parchment and said loudly: "Wrong, wrong, there is another condition that I forgot to write." Anyone who buys land on the West Coast, if there is no income after three years, can return the land and receive double compensation, 10 gold coins for one acre of land! ”

Ellie was so dazzling, she caught everyone's attention as soon as she appeared, and her words made everyone overjoyed.

"There is compensation? I bought, two acres! ”

"Three acres, no, five acres!"

"I have a boat, give me ten acres, I want the seaside!"

Luo Lan's prestige was undoubtedly revealed at this moment, from the alliance under the city of Buji City to the incident of offering wheat in Buji City, Luo Lan's prestige was established step by step, and everyone believed his words, which seemed incredible in this era when nobles were kings.

Without worries, the enthusiasm of the people was ignited instantly, but in half a day, 5,000 people had been enough, and the officials were so busy that they issued land holding certificates while collecting money.

This was the first migration of the agricultural population to the industrial and commercial population in the history of the Noran Continent, and it is still talked about by historians countless years later.

"Prince Luo Lan's Western Development Movement can be called a genius idea, in the face of a shortage of funds and the people are unemployed, it has very skillfully resolved the financial crisis faced by the country, so that the people can save themselves, and the national treasury has received a large amount of development funds." ——"The History of Population Migration in the Nuolan Continent"