Chapter 499: Annual Summary (Part II)

The superstitions of the mountain people, in Luo Ming's opinion, are not all a bad thing.

After all, the object of superstition is Luo Ming, a traverser, and the well-informed Aya as his secretary.

Even if the mountain people are all superstitious and blind, Luo Ming can lead them to the right path hand in hand, and they will not have too many doubts and fears, but will always trust blindly.

To put it mildly, even if Luo Ming now told them that they would go to heaven by chanting Luo Ming's name to commit suicide, there would be some people who would believe it.

Some people after the opening of the people's wisdom, even if they tell him the truth, they will doubt and guess, and it is naturally more inconvenient to rule.

Superstitions are certainly harmful if they persist for a long time, but they are still useful for a short period of time, and it is completely too late to correct them later.

In addition, in terms of hygiene, Pelodiana alone has made a lot of contributions.

Over the course of the year, she helped Luo Ming train ten apprentice physicians, who could usually help see illnesses such as injuries and colds, but once they arrived in wartime, they could become military doctors to help disinfect and stop bleeding and stitch up wounds.

In addition to this, she is now working on how to create a potent sedative on a large scale.

According to her, she usually controls the organs in her body to produce this sedative, which can quickly suppress the pain, and even she has operated on herself several times while using this sedative, at most just a few breaths.

Of course, she's done all sorts of human modifications on herself, and it's not surprising that she can produce this sedative in small amounts in her body, but it's a little difficult to produce it by other means, but she's trying.

She was willing to hand over this secret recipe, which was certainly a vote, but it also represented her willingness to cooperate amicably, which made Luo Ming very happy.

Therefore, Luo Ming gave her a large number of wild animals and four slaves as a reward for experiments, and told her a little about "conjectures" such as "hormones", and when she heard Luo Ming's conjectures, she almost gasped for breath, and was so excited that she could not control herself, so she threw herself directly on the operating table to start the experiment.

In short, Luo Ming has now completely mastered her, although she is indeed quite smart, but after Luo Ming covers her and does not have to worry about other things, most of her intelligence is put on academics.

Next, it is Dakang's turn to talk about infrastructure and agriculture.

Since the beginning of the year, several trails have been built in the mountains, and the main roads have been widened and maintained, so that traffic in the mountains of Karlo has been smoother.

More dwellings were built, as well as several larger grain warehouses.

At the same time, Luo Ming did not forget the importance of military architecture - he sent Dakang to further fortify the mountain city of Carlo, and built a number of small fortifications, outposts and beacons near the mountain city and at some dangerous passes.

Although it shouldn't be to that point, if the princess discovers Luo Ming's hidden strength one day, she thinks he wants to rebel and sends a large army to quell the rebellion. With these fortifications, Lomin also had the confidence to hold out for a while, and then sue for peace, or transfer the population directly from the passage north of the Karlo Mountains, and withdraw the industrial forces.

This is the consciousness of being a prince.

Anyway, Luo Ming owned his own brick factory and could produce earth and cement, and it didn't cost much money to build these fortifications - or to pay some Merbrunn coupons instead of spending any real money.

In terms of agriculture, Dakang presided over an inventory of acres, and found out some fields that had been hidden from taxation in the past, and the cultivated land in the Karlo Mountains was also carefully counted. Including this land, the new cultivated land area this year is almost 10,000 acres.

The water conservancy facilities and composting facilities have been further matured and improved, and it is expected that this year will be able to achieve a bumper harvest greater than in previous years, and it is expected that not only will the food problem be completely solved, but will even produce a large surplus.

The liquor industry in Luo Ming's territory can provide him with a lot of income, but originally he used grain to make wine, which would squeeze out the share of grain, so now he doesn't have to worry so much.

However, Lomin's next goal is to make wine from the berries of the mountains, and if successful, to free up some more grain.

Anyway, there is never too much food in this era, even if it is really too much to eat desperately, and the remaining large pile is left to the point of decay, Luo Ming can also use it to feed the anchovy chicken first.

The food volume of anchovy chickens is much larger than that of ordinary domestic chickens, and the consumption of food is very large, but as a demonic beast, eating their meat is of great help to enhance the body and the cultivation of fighting spirit, maybe in a few years, Luo Ming can use phoenix tail chicken to raise a large number of elite soldiers with fighting spirit.

Next, Grant also made a report:

The Four Winds organization has set up a scaffolding this year, catching six thieves, a gang of four roaming bandits, and two spies.

The two spies were not there to spy on Luo Ming's military prowess, but commercial spies, one trying to steal the recipe for the perfume, and the other trying to find out where the paper tree came from.

Luo Ming released a smoke bomb to the outside world, saying that the writing paper was made from the bark of a tree in the mountains, and the bark could be peeled off and then dried, and the spies naturally could not find it.

From the interrogation results of these two spies, Luo Ming can know that many people in the outside world now regard him as a merchant and nobleman who is contaminated with a lot of philistine atmosphere, thinking that he is very profitable, and there are many special products in the mountains that can be sold for money, and have forgotten the strength of the army under his command, and just think that he himself is more capable of fighting.

In Luo Ming's opinion, this is a good thing, and now that he is not yet ready to jump into the center of the stage to be in the limelight, it is nothing to make people look down on him a little.

The report pointed out that the Four Winds organization is developing well, but it is still several times short of the red line in Luo Ming's mind - if this organization is strong enough to a certain extent, Luo Ming will naturally start to split its functions to prevent it from becoming a monster such as the KGB and the East Factory.

In fact, unlike the earth, there is a personal strength in this world, Luo Ming can break through a hundred people with a sword, if he insists on escaping, a thousand people may not be able to surround him, and his cultivation will be improved again in the future, even if there is really a huge spy organization, he will not be counterattacked, but it will be very difficult to control it.

But for the sake of the healthy development of the regime and the balance between various departments, he still will not tolerate the emergence of such a huge department - otherwise, if he is lazy about political affairs for a few days, the secret service will ride to the head of other departments, is that still like a word?