Chapter 97: Ace (12/12)
Ten days later.
Roman led a team of 1,000 people to open up rivers and build water conservancy projects, and he compared the drawings in his hand and guided the craftsmen to build waterwheels and build concentrated fields.
Today's Goa Kingdom has basically completed the merger of villages and towns, and the entire country has a total population of 200,000, and its own land area is not large, even the royal city is only 20,000 people, which is quite easy for Roman to deal with. The young men were all gathered and joined the construction corps to work together to develop farmland, centering on the new and existing ten cities, along the periphery.
The city walls and everything, except for the royal city, were basically demolished.
The whole country has now entered a thorough military management system, which is also a helpless thing, after all, in this situation of lack of manpower, military management is the most reasonable measure.
Roman estimated that according to this design, it could accommodate 400,000 people, but this is almost the limit.
"It's such a small place, and it's enough to make so many bandits."
Roman complained.
Behind him, a tall and sturdy woman with a man-like face and big wavy orange-red curly hair rubbed her hands a little fearfully, and said, "Hehe, Mr. Roman, isn't this also a help, everyone is a mess......"
Roman looked at her, then withdrew his gaze and sighed helplessly.
Bandits or something, he naturally had to clean it up, but because of the original environment of the Goya Kingdom, he didn't bother to pursue too much, so most of them were recruited into the army and let them work to compensate for their previous crimes, as for some of the best scum who took pleasure in killing, he was not polite, and threw them all into the mines.
Although the Kingdom of Goya is not large, it still has several ore veins, three iron mines, two gold mines, and four silver mines.
The output is very rich, to be honest, the environment of the Goya Kingdom is really very good, even if the previous nobles were oppressed excessively, but at least the royal city and some villages and towns without nobles, the people are still peaceful and happy.
"Dadan, I heard that Luffy was sent to you by Lieutenant General Karp?"
Roman said suddenly.
Dadan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, that little ghost is really very capable of making trouble!" You don't know ......"
As soon as Dadan opened his mouth, he began to babble, obviously fed up with Luffy's noisy little guy.
"What do they do? I mean him and Ace, I remember Lieutenant General Karp sending his other grandson to you long ago. ”
Roman said without raising his head.
"Huh? Oh, they usually hunt or something, but recently those former scholars and nobles have been sent by you and opened that school, so they should be studying now. ”
Dardan said with a smile.
Not to mention, after throwing those two little guys to school, it really stopped a lot.
"So, I see."
Roman closed the drawings in his hand, then looked at the grass on the side, and said, "The three over there, come over to me!" ”
After a while, there was a rush in the grass, and three little boys covered with branches and grass blades walked out of it, Sabo on the far left looked at his teacher with some embarrassment, and Ace in the middle also looked on the ground.
As for Luffy on the far right, he said loudly with a look of surprise: "Brother Roman, you can actually find us!" We're well hidden! ”
"You idiot!"
Dardan stepped forward and slammed a punch into his head.
But obviously, for Luffy, the rubber man, this didn't have any effect, but he couldn't control his ability well, so his head fell directly to the ground, and he bounced a few times before he took it back.
I always feel that this kid has a talent for acting in ghost movies.
The corners of Roman's eyebrows twitched, and he complained inwardly.
"Okay Dadan, leave it to me, I'll leave it to you to watch first, please."
He said mildly.
"Ah, that's so kind, Mr. Roman, hahaha! Don't worry, leave it to me! ”
Dadan straightened his chest, and instantly looked proud.
Roman looked at her like this, and suddenly regretted it, but after thinking about it, he handed over the drawings to Dadan, and then led the three little boys out of here.
After walking for a while, Ace suddenly reacted and said dissatisfiedly: "Why do I have to follow you!" ”
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, but a big hand directly pressed the back of his neck and lifted his whole body like a cat, and suddenly Ace struggled like a little beast.
"Let go of me! Let me go! ”
"You bastard, let me down!"
Ace struggled for a long time, his face turned red with anger, and he deeply felt embarrassed in front of his two brothers.
Roman asked Sabo with some surprise: "When did you have such a good relationship?" ”
He knew that Sabo and Ace were originally friends, and when he was recruiting Dadan's gang, when he saw Sabo following him, Ace thought that Sabo was arrested by him, and rushed over to beat him with a steel pipe, and then he picked him up like this.
As for Luffy, Roman remembers that Sabo had spit out Ace and Luffy a few days ago, and the two should still have a bad relationship at the moment.
After all, the current Ace is an awkward little ghost.
Sabo scratched his face with his fingers and said with some embarrassment, "Well...... Well...... this."
Luffy crossed his waist and directly exposed himself with a grin, "I helped Ace skip class as a cover!" As a result, that fierce teacher made me stand on the ground! ”
"That's it?"
Roman was a little confused, so much so that he didn't care about Ace's skipping class, and saw that these were a few habitual offenders, and he was talking about education problems.
Sabo glanced at Luffy a little speechlessly, and then explained seriously to his teacher, "It's not entirely because of this, it's mainly that Luffy is very tenacious, he wanted to run away after being punished, but the teacher said that if he didn't punish him honestly, he would double the punishment for Ace." ”
"As a result, this idiot didn't leave after school, and stood until the third day, and when we saw him, his face was deflated."
The teachers in the school also have to take on a certain amount of government affairs, so the school is basically one, three, five, three days a week.
Luffy puffed up and said, "That teacher is so annoying, he didn't tell me I could leave after school!" ”
Ace in Roman's hand had stopped struggling.
It was true that this incident made the relationship between the two better, and Luffy almost starved to death at that time, and the first thing he said when he saw them was to eat meat.
A smile appeared on the corner of Roman's mouth, put down Ace, and rubbed his soft black hair, this action made Ace a little shy, this move has not been done to him except Karp, and Karp rarely does this, occasionally so many times, the strength is also terrible, as if Ace's head is a random rag.