Chapter 60: The Southern Tour
Young Daisy was forcibly taken back to Phuket City by Luo Lan.
In this cold winter, Daisy felt warmth like never before.
Prince Luo Lan not only took her to build a snowman, but also took her to ride a horse and walk in the snow on the plains, and even invented a sweet ice cube for her, which the prince called "popsicles".
The cold winter seems to be warmer, and the people of Phuket City are very enthusiastic about Daisy, calling her "Little Princess".
This embarrassing title always makes Daisy blush, and when she is no, she secretly laughs again.
Compared with the happy Daisy, Luo Lan is a little miserable, he is scolded by Elle all day long.
Elle not only scolds him, but also spies on him to prevent him from doing bad things to Daisy.
"You should be careful, Daisy is still a child, and I can't stand your destruction."
These are Ellie's exact words.
Luo Lan could only sigh depressedly, who did I provoke? I'm obviously a "kind old father", and I'm not a "perverted lolicon".
In the midst of such happiness and depression, the snow on Phuket Island finally stopped, and before I knew it, I had survived the middle of winter.
During this period, Luo Lan went south again and spent half a month inspecting coal heating points in various places.
Since the special industrial zone is unable to produce bee coal, the use of nest bee coal in the south is one day less.
Fortunately, the heating maximizes the use of the heat of the bee coal, and ten pieces of the bee coal can be used for half a day, so the supply problem of the bee coal has not affected the heating.
At this point, Luo Lan was finally completely relieved.
Phuket Island is stable, and this wave of operations is very good.
In stark contrast to Phuket is the Southern Plains, a powerful fiefdom the size of more than 30 Phuket Islands and a population of more than 3 million.
The population of three million is very important in this world, and the largest Diman Empire in the north is thirty times the size of the Southern Plains, but the population is less than 10 million.
According to Luo Lan's earth standard, the Diman Empire was Russia, which had shrunk by one-fifth, and the Southern Yuan Empire was a two-fold expansion of Guangyue.
The land area and population of Nanyuan Ling made Luo Lan extremely jealous.
However, this winter, there was a serious "cold disaster" in the southern plain territory where Luo Lan was red.
Before it snowed, many people froze to death, and from north to south, wherever there were no cities, many poor people were frozen to death.
And when the snow falls, the cold is even worse.
Outside the hundreds of cities in the southern plains, displaced peasants fell one after another, covered in snow.
The elderly, children, women, and people with poor physical fitness simply cannot bear the heavy snow, especially when the snow is mixed with strong winds and hail.
The nobility's enclosure movement caused many peasants to lose their homes and farmland, and the peasants themselves worked for the nobility, and now they were driven out by the nobility and were powerless to resist, so they could only go elsewhere and seek the rest of the lords to take them in.
Unfortunately, this winter was so cold that the peasants died on the road.
While the second prince Barron was enjoying the wine and the beautiful women, he had no idea that at least a tenth of his three million people were in danger of freezing to death.
Moreover, with the unscrupulous enclosure of land by thousands of small lords in the southern plains, this situation will become more and more serious year by year, even if it survives this year, it will continue next year and the year after, and the peasants who have lost their homes will not even be able to bear the early winter.
In a stable in the Nanyuan Basin, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man was silently looking up at the sky.
The snow here still hasn't stopped, and the snowflakes are falling one by one, and the cold air is coming in bursts, making the middle-aged man sigh deeply.
"Max, I've brought you a few clothes."
When the middle-aged man sighed, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and a strong heroic general ran over with a few cotton clothes.
"Linton, you re-enter the palace and ask the second prince to send someone to rescue the disaster, otherwise the peasants will definitely riot and damage the foundation of the Southern Plains." Seeing General Linton coming, Max immediately said.
However, Linton shook his head: "Max, forget it, don't meddle in the affairs of the palace, after a while, I will find a relationship to send you away." ”
"Linton, listen to me, the Nanyuan Territory is in danger, if it continues like this, in less than three years, we won't even have food!"
Max's voice became hoarse: "Please warn the second prince that you can't blindly buy food from the Western Regions and the Northern Plains, no matter how cheap it is, you can't buy it, food is the foundation of the country, and you must be self-sufficient!" ”
Linton was silent, silently draped Math in a thick coat.
"It's useless, Raj's group of nobles are already lawless, and His Highness can't control it if he wants to, not to mention that he doesn't want to control it at all. After the beginning of spring, he had to parade again, the nobles had begun to increase taxes, and the merchants in the city were complaining. ”
Max fell into a dead silence and sat down decadently on the grass.
The cold winds of the Southern Plains Territory swept through the vast land and raged throughout the territory.
Day after day, in the cold wind, the southern plains are like a year, but the time on Phuket Island flies quickly.
The children of Phuket City were frolicking, and suddenly they found that it was no longer snowing, and the daytime sun warmed up, and the peasants outside the city began to come out to work.
Luo Lan pushed open the window early one morning, but was stabbed in the eye by the sun.
It's still winter, but the climate in the south is finally normal.
Luo Lan's heart brightened, and he immediately ran out to look at the wheat field.
As far as the eye can see, there are peasants in the fields far and near, who are distressed to take care of the wheat, pull out the broken ones, and straighten the bent ones.
This winter, farmers lost at least a third of their wheat. But it was still a good harvest, because Rick's prediction was that the yield would increase more than twentyfold, and even if a third was lost, one acre would still be more than the ten acres of any country.
Luo Lan smiled happily, and the sound of light footsteps came from behind her.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, the sky is clear."
It's Daisy, she put on a special dress today, her hair is coiled, she looks a little more mature, and her delicate and lovely face is more prominent.
Luo Lan smiled and nodded, the weather is warm, it's time to work.
Luo Lan's "work" is the southern tour, which on the one hand is to inspect the situation of the peasants, and on the other hand, it is a real southern tour, and the target is the southern state.
Thinking of the Southern Pradesh, Luo Lan's face sank, and he had a premonition that the first war he faced might be coming.
Although it was only a thousand-person war, like a group of towns and villages, Luo Lan still attached great importance to it.
"Your Highness, I'm back to the West Coast, and this time I'll definitely make a rocket for you!"
When Luo Lan was groaning, Daisy swore with her little fist, it was so cute.
Luo Lan was adored by her, thinking that if Daisy lived on Earth, she would definitely be a little star sought after by thousands of people.
"Okay, I'll wait for your news, and if you succeed, I'll make you a duke, the biggest official on our island."
Luo Lan smiled heroically, Daisy blinked her eyelashes, and suddenly twisted: "I don't want to be a duke, if I succeed, I want His Royal Highness to grant me a request." ”
"What do you ask you to say." Of course, Luo Lan would not refuse, Daisy smiled sweetly: "When the time comes, you can't refuse." ”