Before the end of dinner, while Wesley and Richard were chatting happily, Lucia leaned over to Donner's side and whispered:

"Don't leave tonight......"

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Donner let out a soft "um", and after seeing Una become what she is now, he was even more touched by Wesley's advice.

The years can be fateful, life is long and the time to get together is short, rather than waiting to sigh after the loss, it is better to cherish the beautiful scenery in front of you.

So, Donner reached out under the table and gently took Lucia's small hand. Lucia couldn't help but smile sweetly, and the blush on her face became even more intense.

......

The queen's bedroom in the royal palace is full of spring overnight.

By this time, the night was dark, and Donner leaned back on the soft silk pillow, listening to Lucia's soft voice.

Outside the lilac curtains around the bed, the candles are swaying, the fragrance of flowers is overflowing, and the girl in her arms is delicate and graceful, soft and smooth.

Compared to Ricke's youthful and eccentric, Lucia has a completely different feeling.

She was a noble empress in front of people, but when she was alone with Donner, she was gentle and considerate to the extreme, as if she could tickle him at any time.

Now, Lucia leaned over Donner's shoulder, as if she had something to say to him. The topic started from the Tris School of Magic, to the Great Patriotic War, to the feeling when he heard about Donner's "death......

From her words, Donner could hear that when she was still at Tris School of Magic, she had secretly promised herself that this feeling had become stronger and stronger over time, and to this day, it has long been ingrained in her bones.

Scenes of the past, in Lucia's narration, reappear in front of Donner like a movie lens.

Misunderstandings in the library of the Academy, thrills in the dark night in the Whispering Forest, starry running after escaping from the kidnappers, turning the tide when Eli rebelled in the city of Dorne, reunion after victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Looking back now, those scenes seem to be covered with a thin veil and shrouded in fog because they have been separated for a long time, which seems hazy and poetic.

Finally, Donner hugged Lucia tightly into his arms.

Lucia stopped talking, just quietly enjoying the beautiful moment.

She had been waiting for this moment for many years, but the dizzying sense of happiness at this time convinced her that all the waiting was worth it.

......

At the beginning of March, Empress Lucia issued a decree in Coennas that any commoner could move freely within the empire, and that the lords and nobles were not allowed to interfere with it.

At the beginning of the promulgation of this decree, people were a little confused as to what Her Majesty the Empress was going to do.

Civilians do not own land, they can only wait to die if they leave their employers, and freedom of movement means nothing to them.

In other words, the decree is a dead letter and worthless.

However, at the end of March, when the Duke of Venn issued a proclamation to the entire empire, it was finally understood what the purpose of the empress's decree was.

The Duke of Vene's announcement reads as follows:

From now on, 10,000 freemen will be recruited from all over the empire, and those who can apply locally can pass the enlistment, and after passing the application, they can move to the three northern provinces, and they will receive one hectare of arable land, and there will be no other taxes and fees except for paying half of the harvest. Applicants who apply as a family unit will be provided with land corresponding to the number of members of the family, and children will also be counted.

Obviously, the edict issued by Lucia was what Donner had mentioned and asked her to do.

When Downer arrived in the three northern provinces more than four years ago, the combined population of the three provinces was only 400,000, and now that number is slowly rising as the fertility rate rises, but it will take at least a dozen years for newborns to become available.

In addition, the labor recruited from the major cities of the northern suburbs after the evacuation increased the total population of the three northern provinces by tens of thousands, but these tens of thousands of people went to the province of Oviere to build reservoirs and roads, which did not help the growth of the agricultural population.

Now, Downer recruited 10,000 freemen from across the empire, an increase of only two percent compared to the population of the three northern provinces.

The figure of 10,000 is due to the fact that the three northern provinces have increased their arable area by about 10,000 hectares over the past four years through the efforts of Merkel's water working group.

However, the effect of this recruitment order was not as great as imagined, and even with the decree issued by Her Majesty the Empress first, not many civilians had the courage to emigrate.

As a result, by the end of the year, the total number of civilians who had migrated to the three northern provinces was only more than 2,000, all of whom had migrated from the provinces bordering the three northern provinces.

After arriving in their new homes, more than 2,000 people were given unexpected hospitality, not only were they allocated enough land, but also received simple houses, farm tools, and enough food and cloth to eat for a year.

After 641 years of hard work, they finally planted seeds on their own land in the spring of the following year.

During the year, Donner spent most of his time in Foggy City, except for the occasional commute to Coenas.

Within the Knights' Federation, the number of attacks on dwarven convoys is decreasing, and the giant Jesse seems to have lost patience or is busy exploring other continents in Middle-earth.

As time progresses, the performance of the clockwork battery continues to improve.

The windmill working group, led by the dwarven craftsman Bruno, installed nearly a thousand windmills throughout the province of Santan with a supply of standardized parts produced in Fog City.

A special factory was built near the Lingbei Machinery Factory, which did not produce any products, but was equipped with more than a dozen hydraulic winding machines, making it the first base in the three northern provinces that could charge the clockwork batteries in large quantities after Wucheng.

This year, the Misty School of Chemical Engineering enrolled a full three hundred students, and the term chemistry became popular throughout the college.

However, in the eyes of the outside world, the real value of the Misty Chemical Engineering Institute is a subsidiary factory built at the beginning of the year, in this factory built outside Misty Town, a large amount of firewood is consumed to produce a powder that can turn into rock when exposed to water. This powder, known as cement, played a pivotal role in the subsequent construction of the Misty Town complex.

In October of that year, an article signed by Lucia Femon was published in the monthly journal of Truth in Pamplo.

The article calculates the size and shape of the planet through the angle of the sun shadow on the day of the summer solstice in the city of Dorne and other places, that is, taking the city of Dorne as a reference point, the circumference of the planet in the direction of the east-west latitude is about 720,000 kilometers, and the circumference in the direction of the north-south meridian is 530,000 kilometers.

This article, written by Empress Lucia herself, proves for the first time that the shape of the planet is indeed a flattened ball.

As a result of this article, the monthly magazine of Truth circulated wildly throughout the entire Femon Empire, and the direct effect was that the monthly magazine of Truth, which originally had a monthly print run of less than 100 copies, never had a print run of less than 2,000 copies since this month.

However, the greatest value of this article is that it fixes the name of the planet forever. Because, in her article, Empress Lucia gave this flat ball a name for the first time - Rand. (To be continued.) )