Lawrence began to work out in the mountains near Oak City, exercising his ability to move and observe in the cold wind and snow.

On this day, Lawrence was just about to go out when he saw Saliel coming down with a basket.

Sariel wore a beautiful white and brown dress, with a long blue towel around her neck, like a young lady going out on an outing.

Lawrence looked at Sariel's outfit and at the brand-new cowhide shoes on Sariel's feet.

"Sariel, where are you going?"

Sariel was in a very good mood, and smiled at Lawrence with a relaxed and happy smile: "I also go to the forest to eat some wild vegetables, there should be a lot of food in the forest this season, we used to be like this, looking for hard-won precious vegetables in winter, and I am also remembering bittersweet now." ”

Lawrence frowned, only thinking that there was something wrong with Sariel's brain.

"It's true that there are some wild plants in the forest and under the carpet in winter, but you will pick them at this time when you are full."

Sariel looked at Lawrence unhappily, and was very upset when she was scolded.

Lawrence continued: "You go out into the forest in new clothes and new shoes on your feet to gather wild vegetables? You...... You're acting like you're using precious sugar as a stone to hit someone! ”

Lawrence counted Sariel's extravagant behavior and said angrily: "Remember when we first met, I wanted to catch a fish, and you strongly objected, why? ”

"It's not because you've just had a full meal, only a fool would waste his strength to catch fish, but now you go to the forest to look for wild vegetables, just like catching fish, at the cost of stepping on muddy ice and snow cold cement, braving the bitter wind and snow to collect that poor little wild vegetable."

"You're full, aren't you?"

Sariel looked at the ground uncomfortably, and after being reprimanded by Lawrence, she realized that she was indeed wearing new clothes and new shoes, and went to collect bad food that she didn't need.

"It's bittersweet memories...... Saliel whispered a little face to herself, "it's about suffering." ”

Lawrence suggested: "It's easy to remember the bittersweets, you can skip meals, you can make less clothes, you can take a shower every three or four days, and you can save some bathwater." ”

"Forget it then." Sariel quickly gave up on her plans to reminisce about the bittersweet ones.

Originally, I wanted to impress Lawrence, but just like last year, I quickly gave up.

Lawrence didn't blame Sarry, who had never done such a thing as hitting someone in the head with precious sugar.

"I'm going to practice martial arts with O'Laua recently, if you're bored, you can go to the Holy Maiden Academy and study your own abilities."

Sariel frowned, not because of Lawrence and O'Raua, the Countess of Vakiri, practicing wrestling, but because Lawrence reminded her about abilities.

"That's what I'm capable of, wouldn't it be nice to know the weather?" Sariel has no desire to become stronger, and she has always felt that she is capable of it.

Lawrence walked over to Sarri and sat down, and said patiently: "You can use your intuition to summarize the weather changes outside, and rely on the results to extrapolate backwards and draw experience." ”

"If we come up with a set of experiences about the weather, or if we find ways to predict the weather, then not only here but also the rest of our country will benefit from it."

Sariel's weather forecasting ability is close to 100% accurate.

If this success is taken as authority, it is easy to find certain patterns in the various natural changes.

At that time, it would certainly not be 100% accurate, but as long as the accuracy rate is more than 50%, it will be a huge help for agricultural production!

Sariel didn't know how useful she was, and nodded quickly at Lawrence's suggestion.

"Okay, I'll be idle anyway, so I'll go to the building and find something to do."

Sariel is also a cultural person, and she readily accepts the matter of educating children.

There are a lot of smart little girls and teenage girls in the Holy Women's Academy, and the current disciplines are becoming more and more perfect, and the division is becoming clearer and clearer, and there are different people in charge of teaching various things.

Delenn and Losanda are also teachers in the academy, and Sariel is looking for something to do.

Lawrence soon sends Sariel to Emerald and tells Emerald what to do and has a general direction of development.

After dealing with these things, Lawrence did not go to the forest to exercise again, and stood at the window of the corridor and looked at the dark sky outside.

Because of the approaching eternal night, the daytime is getting shorter and shorter.

The next day, Lawrence held a prayer in the town of Peumitheus at the foot of the mountain, and in the church he interacted with the princes and nobles of various countries.

Sergio, the heir of the Koccarko Kingdom, and his wife kneel before Lawrence to greet Lawrence's blessing.

Lawrence stood in front of the future King Kogiako and symbolically placed his hand on the couple's heads.

"May the Lord of the Stars bless you." Lawrence is conservative.

The two believers put their hands in front of them and thanked them sincerely.

"Thank you, Great Prophet, and thank you, the merciful Lord of the Stars."

Lawrence smiled, "Don't be inhibited, today is the last prayer of the year, and everyone can enjoy good food and drink, and sit down and chat as if they were at home." ”

Sergio smiled as well, and Lawrence quickly walked over to the nobles of the rest of the kingdoms to chat.

In addition to the Kocako Kingdom, there are also Hasenli's old friend Duke Karp, the Marquis of York in the Hokuriku Kingdom, and the great nobles of Durella and the Deco Kingdom.

Lawrence said, "We are all human beings living under the same sky, enjoying the same source of the sea, regardless of each other. ”

"Now that the war has subsided, we must not only maintain respect and restraint with each other and reduce unnecessary disputes, but also strengthen exchanges."

"I would suggest that everyone build a road together, and each of us will be responsible for the roads within our own borders, so that the traffic on land will also be smooth, and the movement of goods will be faster."

Several aristocrats were thinking about Lawrence's proposal, and this kind of thing was not easy to decide directly.

Karp asked, "In addition to the sea and the mountains, where else can we build roads?" We can't do this kind of thing unless it's a miracle. ”

Lawrence smiled: "Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you can't do it now, whoever can do it can do it, for the sake of conservatism, you can not go to other countries first, but only to the ports of your own country." ”

"Building roads from the mountains to the sea, transporting goods from the mountains to the ports, it's good for everyone."

"I will not interfere in the affairs of various countries, and the Star Alliance was formed to bring all of us together and unite with the outside world."

"I hope that each of us does not need to face the sword at ourselves, save some effort to fight inwardly, and there is a vast world outside, with wonderful stars, and magnificent seas."

"Do you know what's on the other side of the ocean?"

Lawrence asked the crowd.

Sergio and other nobles looked at Lawrence.

Someone said, "It's the archipelago of the East, with its mighty wizards, towers and white shores." ”

Lawrence looked at the men, "Have you been there?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, and it was still a legend to know more about the outside world.

Lawrence added, "Do you know what's on the biggest snow-capped mountain in the mountains of Agama? ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, who knows this kind of thing?

After a few seconds of silence, Lawrence said, "You know what is the end of the western sea? Beyond the Gran Sea, behind the Sea of Storms, are there any other countries, is there land? Or is it the end of the sea? ”

Everyone quickly shook their heads, such a thing had never been thought of before.

Many people are going out for the first time, and if it weren't for the barbarian invasion in the last ten years, most people would not even be able to leave their fiefdoms, let alone going abroad.

"Do you know how far we are from the stars in the sky? Do you know what you can see when you stand high in the sky and look down? ”

Sergio, Karp and the others all held their glasses and listened quietly to Lawrence's story.

Lawrence is not cheering others up, but for himself.

These people, who didn't know anything, were even more determined by Lawrence's exploration of the mountains.

Lawrence didn't want to be ignorant.

In the past few years, the Stellar Alliance has established a lingua franca, the language of the Land of Stars, as the official language of the nobles and merchants of all countries.

After solving the problem of language and writing, the problem of roads and law and order must also be solved.

However, there is no hurry, the country of stars is still mainly agricultural, and after ensuring food reserves, it gradually converts the surplus population into an industrial population.

With only one percent of the industrial population, at the present volume of nearly two million, twenty thousand industrial population is enough to produce enormous destructive power.

After the banquet in the church, the nobles of the other countries also began to meet with the students from their respective countries to inquire about the progress of their studies.

At present, several countries have a clear division of labor, the country of stars is responsible for the church and the military, and the rest of the countries are responsible for learning technology from the country of stars, and then develop in the corresponding direction.

The nobility and transcendents of various countries will use these technologies to obtain wealth, and at the same time, they will also promote and popularize them, and bring forth the new.

The kingdom of Haisenli developed shipping, shipbuilding, and aquaculture.

The country is mostly descended from a number of seafarers, who have a lot of ancestral experience in this area, and arable land is scarce, and most people are more adventurous and willing to work outside of agriculture.

The Hokuriku Kingdom developed techniques such as animal husbandry, iron smelting, winemaking, fishing, and jewelry processing, and the country itself was a remote and poor country, and the transcendents who were willing to live here for a long time were basically of a relatively comfortable character.

Whether it's winemaking, animal husbandry, or jewellery processing, it takes time to develop, and if a patient transcendent is interested in it, it can definitely take a leap forward.

The kingdom of Kocako developed technologies such as agriculture and ore smelting, and produced instruments and equipment for craftsmen's workshops.

The kingdom of Kocako is mountainous and plain, especially the plains and mountains are particularly clear, as if they are a combination of mountains in one hand and fertile plains in the other, so there are many talents in this land, and there are also some people who are related to the Green Forest Kingdom who have mastered special agricultural technology.

The Land of Stars develops technologies such as gunpowder, printed books, compasses, and papermaking, and is also responsible for absorbing and summarizing the knowledge of various countries, and then feeding it back to students from various countries.

The other three kingdoms were also far and near, and Lawrence was in no hurry to let them join in, for there must always be a poor man for everyone to laugh at......

Some words, no matter how noble they are, are not as good as having an example of failure there for everyone to wake up.

The Kingdom of Stars has conquered three countries by force, and if the members of the Star Alliance are better off than the Kingdom of Deco in the next ten years, then naturally everyone thinks that the Kingdom of Stars is right.

Having a poor country there helps the remaining few countries to maintain their unity and loyalty.

There is still a threat from the Church of Light and the remnants of the Western Church, and Lawrence wants to conquer Mount Agama, so the development route of the Kingdom of Stars is to stabilize for a few years and rapidly increase its agricultural and industrial strength.

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Lawrence dealt with foreign affairs, and also spent half a day conferring knighthoods on several military nobles and civil servants at home.

Then it's time of the year.

On the last day before the arrival of the eternal night, the heads of the churches in the Frozen Lands, or temporary leaders, lead the people to pray to the gods for a good harvest and health next year.

After thanking the gods and the prophets, a long darkness was ushered in.

New calendar, ten years.

The girls of the Holy Virgin Academy were a year older and lined up to receive a bag full of candy that they could only get for the New Year.

It's the size of a fist!

For many girls, this big bag of candy is as precious as gold.

Lolita quickly lined up, followed by her sister Clara's ass, and excitedly received her own New Year's gift.

A bag of rock candy, two catties of cooked beef, cheese cut into one-sixteenth, three catties of small biscuits, and a hundred copper pocket money.

"Thank you, host!" Clara said thank you along with Lolita and the others.

Lawrence quickly said a few symbolic words and sent something to the people behind him.

Lolita happily walked forward with a basket of gifts, and when she looked back, she found that Lawrence was handing out gifts to the female students who had just come over this year, but the number of gifts was significantly less.

"There are a lot of new students coming in this year." Lolita thought about something.

Clara said happily, "Uh-huh! There are the former Durella people, as well as girls recommended from Grand Province and Flying Fish Harbor, and I heard that there are a few noble children sent by the Duke of Pig's Trotter City. ”

Lolita nodded, now that the master is so powerful, it is normal for many people to send children over to learn the rules of the nobility.

Tim leaned over at this time and whispered, "I heard that Lord Kassandra is pregnant, yesterday's incident. ”

Sophie, a female swordsman, reminded, "Don't talk nonsense about adults! ”

Tim quickly said to the others, "Don't say it, let alone say it!" Otherwise my mom would have beaten me. ”

Tim already knew he was wrong, and even nervous.

Clara quickly said, "Definitely won't say it." ”

The conversation between the girls didn't hide from the dark elves in the neighborhood, but the dark elves didn't mind this kind of thing spreading.

Kassandra is the hostess of the Dark Elves, and the Dark Elves want more people to know about Kassandra's pregnancy.

Because they're the descendants of two pure-blood wizards!

The Dark Elves had a fanatical anticipation of the pure-blood wizard descendants, but Lawrence reacted indifferently to the child's appearance, only arranging extra time to comfort Catherine and Sariel.

The emergence of new life did not affect Lawrence, who often sat quietly alone on the sloping roof, staring alone at the fantastical mountain scenery in the distance, sometimes pitch black, sometimes dyed gray by the colorful clouds in the sky. (End of chapter)