After leaving the port, Luo Lan returned to the palace.

Ellie ran over with black circles under her eyes, "Hey, it's too hard for me to be the only one in the Ministry of Education, I'm going to be dazzled by the statistics of children"!

"You don't have to worry, let's count slowly, we are short of people at present, and there are too few literate people."

Luo Lan said helplessly, and Ai Li patted him, "How can you not be in a hurry?" Didn't those feudal lords obediently pay the money, we will soon have money, and we will be able to build schools right away."

Although Elle has always disliked Luo Lan's policies on the surface, she still has a great desire to build a school in her heart.

Seeing that Ellie was upright, Luo Lan shook her head and sighed: "This money can't be used to repair the school, you have to repair the toilet first." ”

"Huh?"

Ellie opened her mouth wide and looked at Luo Lan like an idiot, "What do you mean?" What toilets to repair? Everyone can just find a field for convenience."

Ellie's ideas are a common problem of this era.

Few countries pay attention to sanitation problems, and toilet repairs are put on the back burner.

But Luo Lan, who had lived in Phuket City for three months, felt the urgency of the toilet problem.

Cities without sewers, streets littered with garbage, alleys with feces piled up in the corners, and harbors full of stinky fish......

It's so dirty, the people here are completely unhygienic, and if a quantitative change leads to a qualitative change, the infectious disease will kill the entire island.

Although the island has a good climate and frequent monsoons, that doesn't mean that sanitation can be neglected.

Phuket had been gambling before, betting that there would be no outbreak of contagion, and that it was right. But Luo Lan didn't dare to gamble, he was afraid of the Black Death when he saw rats scurrying around the street, which was the biggest anxiety in the heart of a modern person.

Moreover, the repair of toilets is linked to agriculture, and if the toilets are repaired, then the fermented manure can be used for fertilization.

The farmers understand the principle of fertilizing with manure, but no one understands the concentrated fermentation of manure, because there has never been such a thing as a collective thatched pit on this island, and everyone solves it anywhere.

Luo Lan tried her best to explain the hygiene problem to Ellie, and Ellie frowned and said, "Can I repair the school after repairing the toilet?" ”

"Still can't," Luo Lan spread his hands, "you still have to build roads, you have to remember that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads."

"Huh? Why do you have to build roads, there are roads everywhere, what are you doing to build them? And everyone stays in the village, it's useless for you to build roads, no one will leave. ”

Ellie was in a hurry, she felt that Luo Lan was wasting money.

Luo Lan smiled mysteriously, "The roads on the island are all dirt roads that have been stepped on, and the potholes are too bad for ox carts and carriages to pass, so I want to build a gravel road to connect the entire Phuket Island."

This is the most basic policy, if there is no transportation, there will be no social development.

But Ellie didn't understand, she crossed her fingers and preached to Luo Lan: "Stupid prince, think about it, farmers don't need roads, they live and cultivate in the lord's land, even if the trade is a closed transaction, only when you come to attack the city, you only need a road." ”

"If you don't need a road now, what about three years from now? If a farmer's wheat yield increases tenfold, they have to sell it, and that needs to be traded. We need not only roads, but also boats, and in the future we need to transport wheat to land and sell it. ”

More than 10 times more production?

Ellie opened her mouth wide in shock, and then patted Luo Lan on the head, "Didn't you wake up?" Even if everyone has motivation, but everyone's physical strength is limited, how can it be possible to increase production by more than ten times? ”

Not just tenfold, maybe tens or hundreds.

Luo Lan smiled and said nothing, he also patted Ellie's head with his backhand: "It's centralized now, don't question my decision-making, follow the monarch, and obediently count the population." ”

"Cut!"

More than a month later.

The lords were basically gone, and Luo Lan led his troops to inspect the places where the population was concentrated on the island, and none of the lords found it.

The land that belonged to the lord had been reclaimed, and a dozen or so courtiers under Gandalf were toiling to count them.

The farmers were happy, singing and dancing, not only to thank Luo Lan, but also because the autumn harvest was coming soon.

Golden wheat swayed in the wind, and wheat could be seen at any time of the day in the vast northern plains.

In densely populated rural areas, farmers are excitedly driving away wheat-eating birds under the scorching sun.

In the past, they would never have done so, because even if the wheat harvest was large, the big head still belonged to the lord. But now it's different, all the wheat belongs to you, and it hurts for the birds to peck at a single grain.

Luo Lan and Barrett walked through the countryside, bypassing the enthusiastic people, and arrived at a high-slope grassland where they could see the wheat fields as far as the eye could see.

There are a lot of wheat fields, and as far as the eye can see, there are piles of them, and there is not even a gap between the wheat fields and the wheat fields. But the land in the distance was empty, and there was not a single wheat seedling.

Luo Lan deliberately walked down the wheat field and touched the land of the wheat field.

It's hard and strong, like an iron plate. The wheat grows crookedly on it, and many of them are crooked melons and cracked dates.

Seeing this, Luo Lan couldn't help but shake his head.

Barrett, who was behind him, unsheathed his long sword, jumped down, and stepped on the ridge with two footprints.

"Your Highness, what are you shaking your head?"

"It's so primitive that it's a waste of land, so it's no wonder that sometimes you need 60 litres of seeds to grow 100 litres of wheat."

Luo Lan sat down and picked up a piece of grass in her mouth.

Barrett was about to refute, but there was a silver bell laugh behind him: "Prince Luo Lan, you actually look down on the three-garden system?" ”

The two turned around, only to see a beautiful woman in a black nun's outfit walking over.

Barrett immediately blushed, and the rough man ran away in shame.

Luo Lan smiled: "Miss Bina, why are you here?" ”

For more than a month, Luo Lan has been busy eradicating the remnants of feudalism, and she has been so busy that she has no time to clone herself, and she has never seen Bina. Now I see it in the wheat field.

"I've been in Uttar Pradesh these days, one is to treat farmers, and the other is to help you promote the household contract system. I just heard that you are coming, so I came to meet you. ”

Bina, a generous nun, slid down the slope and sat next to Luo Lan, her ass covered in dirt.

Luo Lan hadn't seen her for a while, and it was pleasing to see her at this time, "You just said the three-garden system"?

"Yes, the whole continent is now planted in a three-garden system, where the cultivated land is divided into three parts, one part is fallow and two parts are cultivated, one part is the spring sow crop, and the other part is the autumn sow crop. It was a genius idea, more perfect than the two-garden system, and it was proposed by the Duke of Martin. Duke Martin is the Duke of your Sea Spirit Kingdom, but he has been dead for a hundred years. ”

"Duke Martin is a great man, he created the three-garden system to save many farmers, you know, in the past, everyone planted the land and then discarded it, but now he knows how to recycle the land."

"That's right," Luo Lan touched her chin, "Duke Martin should have a descendant, right?" Didn't his descendants pioneer more advanced planting techniques"?

Luo Lan's words made Bina stunned, she frowned, "You really dare to say it, you don't seem to think that the three-garden system is good." Be humble sometimes, I admit that your land system is unique, but you're not a farmer, and you have to respect the Martin family in terms of cultivation techniques."

Bina was a bit serious, she was a person who admired Duke Martin very much.

Luo Lan smiled lightly, and then said, "The three-garden system is indeed not advanced. In fact, a piece of land does not need to be divided into three pieces, as long as it is simply changed, the productive forces can be greatly liberated."