"The Lingwaiyin book is broken, and the winter returns to the spring. The hometown is even more timid, and he doesn't dare to ask anyone. ”

All the way north, the closer I got to this familiar land, the more I realized the feeling of "closer to home, more timid", but unfortunately, this increasingly bad situation is in front of me, and I can't even want to be a turtle with a shrunken head.

Since it is destined to be inescapable, then, try to face it.

At my request, the Northern Lights would stop at every town, and I would come down and walk around and see what was going on.

Due to the stop-and-go stops, Ben's journey to the capital from the Principality of Donglan to the capital has taken more than two months.

This is my consistent style, and it is also the administrative basis for my teaching Anne and Renee, sitting on the top of the hall and blindly directing cannot solve the problem, to solve the problem, at least first find out what the problem is.

In this regard, waiting for a report at home and witnessing it with your own eyes are completely two different things, "twenty people starved to death" and "seeing with your own eyes more than a dozen corpses frozen to death on the streets, witnessing the human tragedy of Yi Zi and eating" are completely different things, the former is just a report that the superior can forget at a glance, and the latter can make the ruler with a little conscience sleep at night.

But at the moment, the more I investigated, the more depressed I became, and the situation was much worse than I expected.

The worst-case prediction has come true, and after losing the worst mineral land, Donglan, who is financially bankrupt, has been unable to survive for twenty years.

And the orc war in the north a year ago shook the foundation of Donglan's worst roots, after the war wore away the country's worst resources, and after not even being able to purchase enough food for the winter, the Duchy of Donglan was actually on the verge of collapse.

This year's grain harvest is as poor as ever. Plus the treasury is already poor and doesn't have to close its doors. There will be a widespread famine. Fortunately, after making a lot of money from the Orlan Empire, at least there won't be many frozen corpses this winter.

But even so, seeing the life of those people who are not very demanding is so hard, it is still uncomfortable, and I can't stand it, although I know that this is not a symptomatic cure that has little effect, I will still reach out to help.

"Maybe it won't change the fate of the whole country. But at least it can change the fate of the people in front of you. ”

Along the way, more than thirty orphans have been received, and if that Ellie hadn't been taken away and adopted by the warrior Kurul, I'm afraid I would have taken her directly.

Of course, there is a heart-wrenching good boy like Ellie, and naturally there are also bully lords who routinely bully men and women in traditional novels, and evil businessmen who hoard strange things, and there will be no shortage of such guys who make a fortune.

When I encounter this situation, I will secretly write it down and find an opportunity to settle accounts in the future. If it is really excessive, for example, a certain lord actually uses the fulfillment of the right of the first night as a reason for extortion. The whole territory is full of complaints, and I will not forget to fulfill my duty as an executioner, of course, at this time, thanks to Renee for the royal envoy certificate issued to me.

"Great, the royal family has begun to rectify the bad nobles who do evil."

In troubled times, since it is also a death penalty to be pulled to the fair trial seat, for the sake of the lords and people who are still being oppressed, this intermediate procedure should be omitted.

Even though I was careful, such rumors continued to spread, and inexplicably increased the authority and prestige of the royal family.

But what is gratifying is that perhaps the nobles who want to live a good life have fled to other countries, perhaps this martial country's tradition of dividing territories with military merits, or perhaps the overly remote northern land has not fully passed on the general extravagant and erosive style of human aristocracy, and the vast majority of lords whose ancestors were commoners have not said the nonsense of "since there is no rice grain, why don't you eat broth", they have not yet gotten rid of their natural earthy atmosphere, and they are still fulfilling the basic duty of protecting the people.

Well, to use Oran's group of "noble pure-bloods" who have been handed down for hundreds of years of "true aristocracy", the so-called nobles of the north are barbarians who think with muscles, and they have not yet shaken their smell of dirty farmers.

But I would say that I prefer these peasants and barbarians to the so-called pure-blooded nobles who are obsessed with feasts, luxuries, and psychedelic drugs, at least they have not forgotten their origins, or at least they are more like the pioneer lords of antiquity, protecting their people from wild beasts and famines.

When the royal family fell into an embarrassment due to a long-term war, most of the lords were still trying to support the country, there were not a few people who were diligent and loved the people, and I have seen a lot of them scattering their property to help the people.

This is the best thing that makes me happy, no matter how difficult the external trouble is, there is a way to solve it, if even the bones are rotten, then there is really no help.

I have promised little Ellie to change everything, but how to save it has become a big problem in front of me.

In this era when the people's demands are not high, in order to maintain the stable development of a country, we must first have two basic prerequisites, one is food supply, and the other is social security, which is directly related to the most fundamental problem of survival.

The northern land has never been a grain-producing land, but the mineral resources are indeed very rich, exchanging minerals for food and daily necessities has been a historical habit for thousands of years, the same piece of land, and the country of Lan in the past stood in the north, but now the Duchy of Donglan is constantly losing land and almost collapsing, which cannot be blamed for the incompetence of future generations of kings, in fact, it is just a reason.

"If the country is strong, people will be strong, and if the country is weak, people will be weak. It's really a weak country."

A little comparison will show you where the root of the problem is.

How majestic was the country of Lan back then, although it was a small country, but it was not a weak country, the people were still martial, a variety of third-order troops were matched with high and low, and the lowest fourth-order Aurora Knight was famous in the entire Anthropocene realm, and the seven ace knights below the Royal Knights sent two to sweep the north.

That year, the war-torn country of Arashi was the entire Anthropocene Realm that rejected orcs and elves in the north, sealed the demon abyss in the east, and was rich in mining wealth. The surrounding countries are not to mention the threat of choking the "throat of the grain road" of the country of Arashi. There are many people who come to trade every year.

But today's Donglan Principality is equivalent to the re-emergence after the destruction of the country. Most of the strong troops have been lost, the mineral-rich territories have been occupied by other countries, coupled with the historical grievances, there are many enemies, and under the internal and external troubles, it is natural to fight weaker and weaker.

"The country is weak and thinks of Wumu." Perhaps, Donglan's current weakness is also the root of the troubled heroes Gemini Star Knight being regarded as the patron god, although the country of the most rearly Lan is still coming to an end. But the historical stories of more than a dozen coalition armies fought by that country are still widely spread, and those powerful troops that have been lost have become legends in the mouths of Donglan men.

It's a pity that compared to the glory of the past, the current bleakness is even more frustrating and uncomfortable, even if the martial tradition is still the same, but the current Donglan Principality has been reduced to a third-rate small country, and the current military strength is not to mention dominating the Northland, even in the hands of the beast tide and ambitious neighbors to protect their own citizens is very reluctant.

"If there was enough food and supplies, Ellie's mother wouldn't starve to death and freeze to death. If there is a stronger army, even if it is not possible to hold a winter hunting ceremony like the land of Arashi, the winter beasts are regarded as rare prey. But at least the size of the herd can be controlled before winter. will not be forced to carry out the great migration of the entire town in front of the beast tide, and the father of the little Ellie will die on the way. ”

That's why I would say that "relief for individuals is only a palliative, not a cure." The extorted grain will be eaten sooner or later, and there is not enough combat power, even if you are lucky enough to survive the beast tide this winter, there will still be problems in the coming year.

If we want to reverse all this, what we need to do is very clear: since food shortage and military weakness are the most important problems at present, then solving the problem of food supply and strengthening the military strength is the first thing I should do, and this is the way to solve the fundamental problem.

I already have a plan to strengthen the army, and now the biggest difficulty is food.

"Food, that's really hard."

This barren permafrost is rich in minerals, but it is indeed not suitable for the growth of crops, it is feasible to ask the mages to have a short-term wind and rain, but the mages also need interpretation materials, and no one can afford to pay the huge bill if they do this on a large scale.

Since it's difficult to do, let's check the strategy, of course, there will be no answer to this kind of question on the "historical strategy", and it is another book to check.

【Roland's Survival Booklet】

The thick, worn-out notebook is dusty, and the treated pages have turned yellow, so it can be replaced with a cover and sent to the museum as an ancient classic.

This is a note made at the beginning of the time travel to avoid forgetting the knowledge of another world, and considering that it may be used this time, it was brought.

"Make glass and sell it for money." At the beginning of the note are the individual ideas, but after the ideas there is often a note that "glassmaking was barely successful, but this idea failed from the beginning, and the alchemist had already invented more transparent glass in a chance experiment, and I had done futile work." ”

"The invention of gunpowder goblins has been invented, and the god of knowledge of movable type printing started from this."

The above ideas are followed by all kinds of failures, and all kinds of notes are traces of my failures after my efforts, if people are as they say, the immaturity and anger revealed on these twisted fonts are so obvious.

With just a little knowledge of another world, I wanted to make a big career in a real world, and it seems that I was full of ambition back then, but I was repeatedly hit by the harsh reality.

But now is not the time to look back on the past, and thinking of my purpose, I turned to the page where the catalog was food, and I was shocked again.

"There is, solve the food problem. Well, then plant high-yielding and high-tolerance corn, sweet potato, potato, hybrid rice and replace ordinary low-yielding grains with high-yielding otherworldly grains? That's a great idea. ”

I sighed, and then I closed the book and threw it in the corner.

"It's easy to say! Where can I find high-yield crops such as corn in this world! ”

Yes, this is the key, if there were such things in this world, there should have been no famine, it seems that I was really unreliable back then.

"Although it is unlikely that Zhilu Dao is likely, let's try it, system, is it possible that these high-yielding plants are being exchanged?"

【Can be redeemed.】 】

I didn't expect to ask, but I got a positive answer, but I was still unmoved, after all, I have been cheated too many times.

"What conditions are needed, if it were so simple, I would have redeemed it back then."

[10 million Destiny Points.] 】

All right. Sure enough, it's such a cheat again. But this time. But I was surprised to get an explanation.

[As long as this high-yield plant appears, with the help of druids and mages, it will quickly and fundamentally change the entire world, and may even shake the feudal social form based on the land, such a big cause and effect, you can't afford it. 】

It turned out that this was the reason why it could not be exchanged, but the system's explanation reminded me of a possible help.

"It seems. Write a letter to the Storm Eagle as well. It is true that the mages cannot afford to be hired, but the druids are considered dangerous by most countries, and as long as we acknowledge their teachings, their other demands should not be high. ”

Since even the undead are going to accept it, then the druids are naturally acceptable, unlike expensive mages, druids who use magic do not need any spell casting materials, and making plants mature early is their specialty.

"But it's still not enough, no matter how many druids there are, it's not enough for a country, so we have to think of other ways."

[Haven't you noticed the prompt to this point?] It is true that the system will not be able to exchange you for high-yielding plants. But can't you make it yourself? 】

Make it yourself? My first consciousness was that the system was still pranking me, and I would only be undead creation. It is possible to make a creature that makes people eat and become undead, but it is absolutely impossible to make a safe, high-yielding crop.

Have you forgotten where you learned about the structure of life? She still remembers you well. 】

Immediately, it dawned on me that my theory of undead creation was created by combining the knowledge of several disciplines, many of which originated from the life structure of a certain archmage, and if I remember correctly, that archmage specialized in the creation and summoning of plants, maybe it was impossible to create a high-yield plant that changed the world, but it should not be difficult for a small northern country to improve and manufacture a hardy crop.

So, I hesitated what to write the second letter, that archmage was different from the Storm Eagle, and I didn't want to deal with her again in my life, if I could.

But after thinking about it, I never thought of any other way, and in the end, I had no choice but to write.

"Dear Sister Amira, long time no see, junior brother, I have something to ask for"——

No matter how long the journey was, there was a day to go, and all the preliminary work had been completed, and finally the familiar capital city of Difender was in sight, and I was in the midst of gains and losses.

There was no longer a reason to drag it out, and I was about to enter the city, but I received a new message that directly asked the bow of the ship to turn.

More than half an hour later, in the mountains about twenty kilometers southwest of Diefend, I found my target, a silent camp, the campfire burning silently, and the cloaked shadows in the camp remained silent.

"The Church of the Law led by Snowhoof has long since entered the city, and has established a church to begin preaching, while Sir Ferdinand and the other undead knights are camping outside the city."

This simple message surprised me very much, after all, I know Sir Ferdinand, he is extremely persistent in promises and military orders, since I said that I will let him and the dead knights enter the city to teach those new generation of young knights, he will definitely not be discounted, and it is long time ago to enter the city.

But as soon as I got off the boat and saw the camp, I knew why.

I originally expected that Ferdinand would bring twenty or thirty elite knights of various arms as instructors, so he could easily blend into the city, but at the moment, there were at least three hundred black cloaks resting in the camp!

Now let alone sneaking into the city, there are more than three hundred high-level intelligent undead, including at least thirty undead monarchs, who can roll up the undead natural disaster at any time, which is enough to easily defeat any living city, once their news leaks out, I am afraid that it will not be possible to cover up and clean it up at all.

"What's going on with you, I didn't mean"

Old Sir Ferdinand was the first to greet me and salute me, but the skeleton veteran looked embarrassed, and he knew that it was not done pretty.

"As soon as everyone heard that they were going to Difende, they all wanted to go and see it, and the number of applicants continued to increase, and if it weren't for the pressure of the head of Best, the personnel were repeatedly adjusted and selected, I am afraid that five or six thousand would come."

Looking around, Ferdy, Lucas, Dimir, Slans, Lanny, Kakana, all the ace knights really came, and I was a little embarrassed to see it.

I sighed helplessly,

"It's really a shame that you came all the way from the Underground World Realm, and you weren't found in the middle? Never mind. It's also a good thing that it's here. I'm in need of manpower. ”

"Rest during the day and hurry at night. They are all looking for barren mountains and mountains, and other countries are still in some trouble, and there are a few skirmishes, but no one is hurt. However, this place in Arashi no Kuni is really familiar, and no one should have discovered it yet. ”

"Yes, but since they have been silently lurked near the capital, this generation of guardian knights is very bad."

Well, these guys can easily infiltrate and forget it. actually complained about the poor garrison of the other party.

"Then you should go into town, right? How does it feel? ”

Even if it was impossible for a large army to enter the city, it would not be difficult for a dozen of them to enter according to their ability, but I was naturally asked, but I got an embarrassing silence.

"You guys, you don't stay in the city all the time, do you?"

It's still silent, but it's already a tacit acquiescence.

"When it's far away, I really want to see it. But when they got closer, they didn't dare to go in. ”

Ferdy's words were met with a nod of approval.

Maybe. This is the alternative "closer to home", but other than that. The undead knights have other scruples.

"After all, we are already undead, and we are not on the same path as the living. Actually, I was very satisfied when I looked at it from afar. ”

"This generation of Arashi no Country seems to be in a very bad situation, and if it is related to the undead again, I am afraid that it will be even more excluded by human society."

"Your Highness, our willfulness has caused you trouble, in fact, we are already very satisfied with revisiting our homeland like this, we have already discussed, leaving twenty people as instructors, and the rest of us will return the same way"

"Enough!"

The inexplicable anger made me interrupt the knights' self-pity.

"Have you said enough? Is it satisfying to look at it like this? Tell me out loud that you have traveled thousands of miles and crossed the borders of several countries at the risk of danger, just to see from afar? Will this be sufficient? So you're willing to go back? When I'm a fool?! ”

"Of course," Lucas said, but I glared at him and swallowed it back, he was obviously a little weak-hearted.

The scene in front of them was so similar to Casimias and Findak before, and a few days ago, they didn't say the same, "It's been a good day these days, there is still something different between the living and the dead, and it's enough for us to fly along." ”

In fact, I know that no intelligent creature likes to be alone, let alone be treated as an alien, and since they themselves are happy, why should they stop being pleasant for the sake of others' eyes?

I also know that in the face of the living, they are hesitating and fearing, worried that they have affected my plans, and that they will be hostile to the world because they have involved me. After all, the mainstream view in this world is that the dead are evil, and I can understand how this feeling of inferiority was born, but I don't intend to accept it at all!

"Back then, you died because of the people of this land, and now you are coming back to save them! You are glorious triumphants, not cowardly deserters! You never owe anything to anyone, only what this bastard world owes you. "Puff up your chest, my proudest knights! Let go of that indifferent worry, today is the day of triumphant return, you who sacrificed for this land, return to this homeland where you sacrificed everything to protect, what need to hesitate, what fear to face? Answer me, so cringe, do you think you did something wrong back then? Regretted it? ”

As I questioned, more than three hundred pairs of soul fires burned silently in the night, and their mood was not calm.

"No, we never regret it!"

"Even if we turn back the clock, we are still willing to sacrifice everything for our homeland, but we ...... now"

Who is willing to just take a look at the dream home from afar, the knights are worthy of their hearts, why must they suffer such a cruel fate, they are indeed afraid, but the object of fear is not a strong enemy, on the battlefield, my knights are never afraid, I know that they are afraid now. It is the people for whom they have sacrificed in the past, but they will look at themselves with hatred and hostility, just because they are already undead.

"Excellent! Since you don't regret it, what's the point of hesitation. Take off that boring cloak and follow me as before, please continue to trust me, I will give you the glory and respect you deserve! ”

One by one, all the undead knights took off their cloaks, and the black aura of death began to spread, but I smiled, this is my cutest knight.

"Ferdy, my flag bearer, are you ready?"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

"Raise the flag for me!! Tell everyone that in three hundred and seventy-seven years, we have returned triumphantly again! ”

The tall skeleton general carried the Legion battle flag and began to beat the war drums, and the erection of the battle flag of Arashi also announced that the immortal army had begun to assemble again.

As usual, when the trumpets of war were blown, when the flags of the legions were flying, the knights raised their weapons and marched forward.

And since it is a triumph, how can there be only one battle flag, under my gaze, the knights also raised their own flags, among them, there are not only emblem flags representing the glory of the family, but also legion battle flags representing the honor of the legion, and even personal military flags.

For knights, the battle flag is their own glory, and even if they lose their weapons, they still do not lose their flags.

Family continuation, glorious legion, personal martial arts, there are not a few who carry three banners, and some knights even carry more than a dozen banners, but he stubbornly intends to carry his brother's war spirit on his back.

Thrans twelve, Findak fifteen, Barak twenty, Seta seventeen......

Some knights were trembling with the dry bones of the battle flag, not because he was too cowardly, but because the battle flag was too heavy, and as the lowest standard-bearer of the legion, he was afraid that he would be worthy of the glory that this snow lion battle flag represented.

Ed. Lun, whose family has served in the Snow Lion Heavy Infantry Regiment for generations, was struck by the Forbidden Curse before the Battle of Difender, and the less than 100 survivors fought the last drop of blood in the subsequent war.

There were also knights who lost themselves and the most disgraced banners of the legions in the war, but repainted their glory with the blood of the enemy, and the hand-pieced banners were shabby to witness, but no companion ever laughed at him, on the contrary, brought him to the forefront of the ranks.

His name is Dimir, and the Black Griffon's Empty Cavalry has been wiped out, leaving no bones left, except for the Dragon Knight, who has answered my call and returned from Hell.

The battle flag is the continuation of history, and what he carries is the loyal bones under the green mountains, and the soldiers who dedicate everything to this land.

Every banner is so shabby, every banner represents the sacrifice and blood of countless warriors, and every banner is full of memories of past blood and fire.

The morning sun in the distance slowly rose, the night wind blew at the back, these broken battle flags fluttered in the wind, and our group of remnants of the defeated army returned triumphantly.

"Playing music! The third movement of Rydstein's triumph – a triumphal celebration! ”

The horn of the charge was accompanied by a triumphant song, and the banshees began to lead the song in the softest and most cheerful rhythm, and in the cheerful harmony, even the clumsy knights began to hum along.

The joyful triumphal march of yesteryear echoes in our ears, and the victorious celebrations of the past are reproduced in the eyes of all, as if we were ready to return to the city to receive the cheers of the people after countless victories in the past.

"We're home!" (To be continued......)