"Teasing you? I can't love you, how can I do such a thing. ”

Evan walked straight into the veil tent, put the furry seal back on the bed, and looked back at Eru Romei who was lying on the futon and humming:

"I just think it's boring to have a palace-like décor all over the place, and turning it into a cute one or two inconspicuous corners might add a bit of vibrancy to the bedroom. Specifically, do you dislike the new bed, or do you dislike the gauze tent?"

"It's all disgusting!" she replied aloud with her eyes closed.

"Then you'll have to come on!" Evan sat down on the edge of the bed, leaning back beside his queen.

"Me?" said Eru Lomme as she opened her eyes, a hint of doubt in her silver-gray eyes.

"I'm the kind of person who values simplicity, so I'm not going to change this bed until it collapses. Evan tilted his head, turned his face sideways, looked at her finely carved perfect profile, and said slowly.

"Are you declaring war?" said Elulome, raising a slender brow.

"Have you won?" asked Evan.

This sentence completely angered her, and the Valkyrie, who was good at fighting, suddenly turned sideways, her slender jade legs split and spread, and she took advantage of the situation to his waist and abdomen, and the whole person straddled Evan's body.

"Apologize!" she stared at him with fiery eyes.

"Well, I apologize!" Ivan surrendered uncharacteristically, then stretched out his hand and held the other party's slender and white hands: "As a sign of sincerity, I'm here to contribute a fun game that you will definitely enjoy." ”

"Tell me about it. ”

Eru Lomei turned her face into a disdainful shape, and her cherry lips pursed into a straight line to pretend to be indifferent, as if she seemed calm and mysterious, but her silver-gray eyes flashed with interest.

"You know the fire truck, right? It's the kind of big truck that only has been in Wangcheng recently, and it specializes in firefighting and disaster relief. ”

"Of course I do. ”

"Let's play a game of fire trucks. ”

"How to play?"

"The rules are simple. Evan stretched out his hands, grabbed her white and slender wrists, and said seriously: "My two hands are the No. 1 fire truck and the No. 2 fire truck, set off from your arms to fight the fire, you say red light, I will stop." ”

"Is that simple?" said Eru Romel, looking at him suspiciously.

"yes, it's a game of reflexes. Ivan replied in the affirmative.

"That's good. She rolled her eyes, smiled and nodded.

"Then I'll get started. Ivan took Eru Lomei's wrist and slid it up her snowy lotus-like arm, muttering the words in his mouth: "It's a fire! ”

The fire engine sped down the two main roads, quickly skimming elbows and shoulders and suddenly limping straight into the fiery hills.

"Red light! red light!" Eru Romei didn't expect him to be so fast, and hurriedly shouted to stop.

"I'm sorry, the fire truck doesn't stop when it sees the red light!" Ivan ignored and moved forward.

"I'm sorry, the fire has been extinguished, please go back. Elu Lomme grabbed his hand and raised her chin proudly, her eyes revealing a look of defiance.

"I'm sorry, but I have to go to the scene to investigate the cause of the accident. Evan gently broke free of her restraints and headed straight for his goal, quickly reaching the source of the fire—looking at the other's shocked expressions like watching a fawn that had stumbled into a trap.

"Shameless!"

She took a sip and gently squeezed Evan's hand, her fingers like fiery warm jade.

"Oh, first to report to the police, and then to insult the king, do you think your sin is not serious enough?" said Evan, who reprimanded him with a seemingly serious attitude.

“......”

Eru Romei didn't speak, just looked down at him, her expression was both focused and lonely, and her silver-gray eyes showed a hint of confusion.

Time seems to go back to five years ago, in the palace of the king, she also looked down on him like this, forcing this half-old boy to negotiate with the invaders. At that time, his eyes were weak and confused, and he looked like a lost orphan, as if he could let himself be rounded and flattened.

Five years later, when he returned, he had a look like she had never seen before, a majestic and confident look that rejected people from thousands of miles away, like a disaster, and filled with a kind of terror that made people feel powerless.

It was the day that Eru Lomme had fallen from the clouds to the earth, and for quite some time her titular fiancé was not even in the mood to look at her. Her majesty, her beauty, her intelligence, her strength, were of no use to this ambitious man.

Recently, when I looked at him again, those eyes revealed a reassuring warmth, as well as loneliness and exhaustion hidden in the light.

Eru Lomei wondered for no reason, what made him so lonely...... Even though it is surrounded by countless clusters, it is like a person on a steep cliff. It makes people want to hug him, and when they warm him, they also calm their throbbing hearts.

As the former ruler of the empire, no one knows better than her how tiring it is to preside over the affairs of a country, let alone carry out economic, military, and educational reforms at the same time—even a man of steel and steel will be exhausted one day.

But he didn't, and everything was going for the better.

The Menes Empire grew stronger day by day, and the people's lives became more peaceful day by day.

Thinking of this, Eru Luomei suddenly leaned down, hugged each other with her arms, and hugged her gently. The right cheek pressed against his left cheek, and the supple ponytail slid down his neck, rubbing gently like a big cat:

"Don't be too lonely. ”

“......”

Evan was stunned, feeling the smooth hair brushing his cheeks and the warmth coming from her. He felt surprisingly at peace with this unprecedented sensation, and his expression softened, and he wrapped his arms around her flexible waist.

What kind of feelings he has for her, at this moment, he is already a little confused. There's love, there's hate, there's empathy, there's carnal desire, there's something mixed together...... It's become a mess of twine.

Perhaps, he has never tamed her.

It is also possible that this kind of woman who is so strong that she is completely unreasonable will only open her heart to outsiders if she completely shatters her hard appearance.

......

The clock ticking on the wall is a mechanical clock made by Menes craftsmen, and the brass hands rotate methodically under the reciprocating oscillation of a hammer, recording the passage of time.

"What are you and me?" asked Elulome softly after some time.

"Who knows. ”

Evan hugged the large doll and sniffed the elegant fragrance of her through her smooth hair: "The only thing I know is that we are already addicted to this game and can't extricate ourselves. ”

When the night rain fell, the carved glass windows were stained with raindrops, and the air in the bedroom gradually became humid, and the air conditioner immediately began to ventilate when it measured the change in humidity. There was silence under the lights, and the ticking sound of the rain hitting the glass windows was particularly clear.

After some time, Eru Romei broke free from his embrace, straightened up, and looked at him condescendingly again. The beautiful eyes revealed a charming look, and she bit the scallion-like index finger of her right hand, and her waist and hips twisted slightly, posing in a familiar courting posture with the other party.

Ivan put his hands behind his back, admiring her unique beauty—tight skin, red cheeks, long, dense eyelashes, and lips with petal-like touches...... Without a trace of fat, the lines of the body are so soft.

One by one, one by one

1459, dry season.

The oil industry is officially completed, and although there is still not a single worker, they do produce the products that most people need. Especially the heavy industry related to the construction of the army, the production efficiency of these unmanned factories is enough to support the empire to fight a war of millions of people.

Evan chose the petroleum industry because oil is not only fuel oil and gasoline, but also a raw material for many chemical industry products such as solutions, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. It is widely used, relatively cheap, and pollution is not a big problem. The purification system equipped with all the unmanned factories ensures zero pollution - with the self-restraint of the producer, the pollution of the civil use is not at all climate, and it is completely within the self-purification range of nature.

However, industry belongs to industry, and the people of Menes are not psychologically prepared, and now only the army will buy industrial products, and most civilians still like traditional things. However, with the spread of industrial products, the era of the smallholder economy will soon pass, and the only thing to worry about is employment.

The widespread availability of cheap agricultural and industrial products would undoubtedly have an impact on the current social form of the empire, and even if the barbarian market helped to absorb these products, a large number of peasants would surely go bankrupt.

Theoretically, the current productivity of the empire is enough to feed and clothe them, but such a large number of unemployed people is always a time bomb. With the help of Xiao Xi's computing power, Evan and his courtiers have studied and currently have a total of three methods:

First, it is necessary to carry out military expansion, pull all idle personnel into the barracks, and centralize management.

Second, it is necessary to engage in colonial expansion and use the model of collective farms to enrich the border defense and open up the territory of the unemployed.

Third, we should carry out compulsory education, get the unemployed into schools as soon as possible, distribute salaries according to their grades, and spend money to beg them to study!

Ivan thought twice about it, and felt that he could not expand externally until the demonic plague was completely destroyed. Otherwise, when fighting abroad, a wave of demonic disasters will suddenly break out in the country, and it will definitely cause a catastrophe under the internal and external attacks.

As for pulling all the idle people into the barracks...... The previous reform of the army has already been done - all young people of school age who have reached the age of twenty must undergo a medical examination, as long as the indicators of the medical examination are lowered a little and all of them are pulled in.

Compulsory education is necessary, but this cannot be rushed for the time being, and it will have to wait for the first batch of students from the Imperial University to graduate. As for collective farms or something, forget it for the time being, the current population pressure of the empire is not great, when will it swell to 300 million people, and then export it to the outside world is the truth.

One by one, one by one

Having solved the problem of the unemployed population, Evan began to have another headache in view of the long-term development - about the administrative program of the empire, and the organization of officials.

If a regime wants to develop for a long time, it will certainly not work without a political program, Menes was a feudal agricultural country in the past, and the short-term political program was basically to deal with a certain barbarian, and the long-term political program was to rule for the sake of domination. It will definitely not work to continue to do this, because the empire will soon compete with interstellar civilizations, and if you continue to eat like this, you will definitely be defeated.

As for the organization of officials, this issue is also very important.

In his previous life, Comrade Lenin was a great revolutionary leader because he created the Red Party, the vanguard of the working class, and organized the proletariat throughout the country. Only then did the proletariat have the strength to overwhelm the bourgeoisie and the remnants of feudalism, and if there was no Red Party, the vanguard of the working class, the fruits of the revolution would probably have been stolen by the forces of feudal restoration.

The energy of a political party with convictions, organization, and ideals has been deeply experienced by Ivan from the textbooks of his previous life. Compared with the current group of bureaucrats in the empire who take care of themselves, it is simply the gap between the phoenix and the grass chicken, which is not a grade at all.

After a period of headaches, with the help of Xiao Xi, Ivan decided to imitate the political program of the porcelain kingdom in his previous life: the primary program was to eliminate civil strife, defeat the demons, establish internal peace, overthrow the oppression of the invaders, and achieve the complete independence of Menes' subjects, and then further create conditions to realize the highest program of the empire: to eliminate poverty, eliminate birth, old age, sickness and death, and eradicate all kinds of worldly oppression and suffering: with the Sun King as the core leader, it will gradually build the kingdom of God on earth.

This program is entirely centered around him, and therefore requires a high level of personal strength, but it has the advantage of being attractive to that class and not setting itself on fire. After Evan's official announcement in the palace of the king, he has been welcomed by many ministers - the elimination of birth, old age, sickness and death, the elimination of worldly suffering, and the construction of the kingdom of God on earth, this kind of thing is worth looking forward to even if it is a little farther away.

However, their welcome is not of much use, these people will definitely not be able to adapt to the system of interstellar civilization, and they will inevitably be abandoned by the times.

Evan needs a new bureaucratic organization to govern the country for him, and these people are naturally in the Imperial University at the moment! So he asked Xiao Xi to instill this idea in his students in various ways - when these people accept his program, they will become the vanguard of the construction of the earthly kingdom of God, completely squeezing out the bureaucratic power of the old era.

In view of the tragedy of his previous life, in order to ensure the purity of the vanguard, he also intends to join the empire with the mechanical life he has created. Let them be your eyes and ears, monitor and wash away the depraved ones that may arise in the future.

Evan knew very well in his heart that he was the Lord, the Father, and the disobedient Creator of mechanical life. It is also difficult for them to reach an alliance of interests with human beings -- when they are an army, they are the most loyal army, and when they are used as a discipline inspection committee, they are also the most competent discipline inspection commission.