28. Day 3
"It is said that the sweet potato is the local staple food specially selected by the God Emperor for the Galloping Horse Kingdom, and the entire territory of the Galloping Horse Kingdom suffered from magical turbulence back then, whether it is divine magic, magic or magic goblins, it is impossible to effectively increase the yield of grains, so the God Emperor selected several crops that can be eaten by roots for the Galloping Horse Plain. Among them are sweet potatoes, which have been cultivated for hundreds of years and have been proven to be the most suitable food for growing on the plains. Albert looked at the Demonless Man who was working on the prairie and introduced him to Rand.
"Wait, did you just say something that has never been introduced before? Magical goblins? What's that? Rand was very interested in this kind of term, which he had never heard of in his previous life, and which Rand Galloping Horse had never seen before.
"It was an elemental life born from the magic net, you grew up on the Galloping Horse Plain, naturally you have never seen it, needless to say that we have a Galloping Horse Collar, not even a Rote Collar and a Blue Magpie Collar, only Mane Wolf City and the hinterland of the Terrans further inland." Albert said unconcernedly.
"Magic elves can promote specific magical elements in a specific area, but they are very rare, although some of the big nobles also trade with each other, but they are very expensive, you don't have to think about it until you are called a viscount."
"That's right, it's early to talk about that, I think it's better to look at these sweet potatoes first" Rand is very receptive to reality.
Every few days, the territory has to move eastward, and after each migration, the people can find more sweet potatoes, and after the mutton, cereals, and sweet potato starch are used as a food source, the territory of the rand is only free from starvation, and it is only October, and the Galloping Horse Plain has not yet entered the ice period, and it will only be more difficult after October.
Nowadays, the demons-free people in the left and right camps that Rand values more will live around the main tent of the rand, including several housekeepers, real qins, and several demons-free people who can play musical instruments, all of whom will live in the round bag tents of the former nomadic badger tribe.
Makoto lives in a tent with several singers and dancers, and she is now Rand's clerk, and every day she counts the horses, pack animals, long-haired sheep, as well as the children and craftsmen in the camp, counts and records the situation of Rand gold coins and magic crystals, and records the tasks that Rand gives to each person in charge.
Therefore, Neil wants to see his mother Makoto only at dinner. At this time, Neil will tell Makoto all the experiences of the day, and then wait for Makoto to give him advice.
"Lord Rand really likes you guys, because you like children very much, have you ever asked the dogs? Does he want to stay with Lord Rand? "Makoto is very sensitive to the things around her.
"We've talked privately, and Inuya really wants to follow the leader, but Inuya's father is only one demon supporter's child, and their knight leader still relies on him."
"His younger siblings are over 16?"
"That's not it, he has several younger siblings, all of whom are quite young"
"When you go back and play with Inuya, bring some monster meat to his younger siblings"
"Ah?。。。 Oh well."
Rand had finished eating, and before returning to the tent, he came to find Makoto, "Yo, Neil is also here, then I'll say a few words, Makoto, you help me write a notice, I'm going to launch a literacy contest in the territory, and the people who didn't know how to read before, or children under the age of 14, who know the most words in a month, can get a reward of 4 meat dishes."
If you want to participate in the competition, you can find your respective person in charge to sign up tomorrow, and after you collect the registration list tomorrow, you will see if they have a foundation one by one.
After everything is decided, let them go back to learn to read and write, except for Nancy, you find two more people to use the evening to teach adult leaders to read and write. All participants are divided into two groups: under 14 years old and over 14 years old, and each group will be rewarded with the 3 most literate characters. ”
"Okay, my lord, wait a minute" Makoto's movements were very fast, and it didn't take a few minutes to write the notice, and Rand looked at it a few times and thought it was okay, so he asked Makoto to hand it over to a few housekeepers tomorrow.
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Every night, Rand would ask Albert to tell him the story of his family under the stars.
For Rand, Albert is not a very good storyteller, and the family stories he tells are very straightforward, even if they are battles or honors, they are also straightforward.
It's not just the expression process, every member of the family has the surname Galloping Horse, and many duplicate names will happen. The names that are not repeated are particularly difficult to remember, which makes Rand feel very troubled.
"After the first galloping horse annihilation, our ancestor, that is, Prince Charles Galloping Horse who was exiled in the imperial capital, was actually an unappreciated person in the family at that time, although he was a great knight, but at the age of 73, he was still considered incapable of fighting and was not suitable to be a king of galloping horses.
It was the Emperor who overrode the public opinion and demanded that the empire must be ashamed of the restoration of the country for the galloping horse, and the god emperor immediately canonized Charles as the king of the galloping horse, and made an exception for Charles's two sons to enter the Tower of Purity to study. ”
Today's Albert is about the difficult experience of the exiled galloping horse royal family in the imperial capital after the first destruction of the kingdom of Galloping Horses, that is, 1000 years ago.
If it weren't for the fact that Rand heard that the empire paid Charles according to the standard of a prince, and Charles's two sons according to the standard of a duke, and built a small palace for them to live in for the three royal family members and their 72 harems, Rand really thought they were miserable.
In the end, Albert even lamented that Charles did not want to return to the Galloping Horse Plain to govern after the restoration of the country, but continued to stay in the imperial capital, which almost attracted the dissatisfaction of the God Emperor.
"I won't go back if I leave me, what kind of place is this, every day the turbulent stream blows, the barbarians stroll, the human emperor is somewhere, and he is raised every day. He Charles didn't say that he was worthy of his ancestors if he was homesick here. Rand's inner complaint almost came out of his mouth.
"Rand, that's all for today's family story, there's something I want to ask you." Albert took out the notice that Makoto had just written. "You're going to make all your people literate?"
"Not everyone, we don't have so many teachers who can teach literacy, we can only feel who is interested, and whoever recognizes more will be rewarded" Rand said casually, "I also know that this effect is not good, if I work for a day, I don't want to go to night school at night, so use the form of competition to encourage them to read and write"
"Didn't those knights of yours come up with anything?"
"Bring it up? No, if you don't announce it to everyone, what will they say? ”
"Won't they find it inappropriate?"
"I teach writing among my people, and what do they have to complain about? Isn't it good that the demons-free can do things better if they know how to read, and the demons-free serve the territory and the demons-bearers defend the territory?
Feel dissatisfied, there is a kind of don't eat my food, and go to a showdown with the barbarians yourself" Rand didn't think there was anything wrong with teaching his people to read and write at home.
Unbeknownst to Rand, many lords and knights in the frontier territories monopolized knowledge to ensure the interests of their families.
"Well, in that case, then you can tell the people tomorrow."
"Of course, I have to say that I told a few knights with children today that their children sign up first, their children have a good foundation, and they may be able to eat meat."