"Farming?"

As the Minister of Agriculture, Merlin looked shocked, and after coming back to his senses, he explained respectfully.

"Your Majesty, although there is still a lot of vacant land in the dark market excluding the construction land, there is no sunlight here, and it is not suitable for agriculture. ”

After a pause, he moved on to the second difficulty.

"Large-scale cultivation requires a lot of manpower, and at the current level of the state treasury, we can't pay enough people to grow crops for us. ”

Of course, Downing had already thought of these two questions.

The first problem is that plants cannot photosynthesize in the ground, nor can they carry pollen dispersal, so they cannot grow naturally, but he does not plan to grow them in the ground.

"No, we plant on the ground, and there are five hours of daylight every day, and there will be no monsters in those five hours, which is enough to plant. ”

Crawling out of the grave was overgrown with weeds, including the two-year-old city of Barbis, which meant that the monsters were not a threat to vegetation, and agriculture was not impossible.

Then to the second question.

"We don't have to hire people to plant it, but we give all the seeds to the people, and they plant them, and they pay 30% of the crop as a tax when they get the harvest every year. ”

The solutions are all very simple, but Master Merlin's thinking is solidified and they don't think about these aspects.

Master Merlin, who had come back to his senses, bent down and saluted.

"Your Majesty is wise. ”

"I'll ask Grant Chief, the head of the Marshal General's Office, to help you distribute these seeds, and you just need a simple guide on how to plant them. ”

Downing sent Merlin away, sat in his seat, and the next step was to restore the market economy.

Only the money that is sent out circulates and buys items, and those things are valuable, otherwise they are just a pile of scrap metal.

During Cruzeiro's previous reign, all the resources were under his control, and the food and cloth needed by the people had to be purchased from Cruzeiro, so money had not lost its value.

Now that Cruzeiro's dictatorship has been abandoned, the restoration of a market economy requires a good business climate as soon as possible.

Get up and give orders to the guards on the side.

"Tell Holman to bring Romero here. ”

Romero was soon brought in by Holman, his face delighted.

"Your Majesty, I saw Merlin and Grant distributing seeds, and you want to start farming?"

Downing nodded, then commanded.

"Romero, you find an open space to divide the market area, and rent and sell the market stalls to the commoners, who can sell any legal item in the market, and each stall only needs to pay 30 supees per month. ”

There was a pause.

"By the way, take out a third of the goods in the treasury and sell them, and as for the price of the goods, you will set them according to the amount of currency in the whole country at the moment. ”

In this way, the coexistence of state-owned operations and market economy can build a good economic system and generate income for the national treasury by the way, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Romero immediately went out and copied.

The rest can only wait, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and this is what she can do at present.

......

The seeds were distributed to the people, and as soon as the houses were built, they were planted on the ground.

Standing on the ground, otherwise the head of the General Marshal Guard, Grant, frowned.

"Don't you think our king is a little strange?"

Master Merlin, who was standing aside and was in charge of providing technical guidance to the farmers, frowned.

"It's a little strange that some of his ideas have never been brought forward. ”

Grant pondered for a long time, his eyes full of hope.

"I always felt that our young king would create a new era that he had never had, and that he would go down in history, including us. ”

Master Merlin frowned.

"It can also become a disaster, a thing that has never been verified needs him to try and practice, there are always some detours, some unforeseen difficulties, it can't be too smooth, but ...... Even failure is better than staying the same. ”

He didn't know that what he had never said had never been proven had already been a proven and mature experience in later generations.

Downing is nothing more than a take-it-or-leave-it.

......

The materials from the state treasury were taken out and sold in the market, which aroused the interest of many residents, and at the same time, some residents with more flexible brains began to join the ranks of market vendors.

In less than half a month, the market of the Federal Empire has been quite active, a large number of goods are taken out for sale every day, the variety of goods has reached nearly 300 kinds, and the flow of people in the market has also reached 300,000 people, and it is thriving.

In the meantime, agriculture has ended, and the entire vacated ground in the city of Barbis is being planted, and it only needs to wait until six months later for harvesting.

But beyond that, there are challenges ahead.

Grant and Captain of the Guards Holman stood inside the palace.

After the two looked at each other, the head of the General Bureau of Bailiffs stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

"Your Majesty, there are less than ten days left. ”

Tang Ning was stunned, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of these two people, and he was even more inexplicable when he heard this.

"What's less than ten days left?"

Grant explained with a solemn expression.

"Your Majesty, it's been a long time since the last full moon night, and a new full moon night will soon be ushered in, when the monsters will go berserk, the destructive power will increase, and it will pose a threat to the Federal Empire, and we need to deal with it in advance. ”

Tang Ning then remembered that there was still this matter.

At this time, Holman stepped forward, who had not spoken for a long time.

"Director Grant has found some prisoners who have broken the law, and has not yet made arrests, but if necessary, he can arrest them and feed them to the monsters, so that the Federation Empire can avoid trouble on a full moon night. ”

It seems that the two of them have already thought of countermeasures, but they are just here to ask for instructions.

Tang Ning asked with a frown.

"What crimes have these people committed?"

Grant made a report, mainly including the crime of destroying the market by maliciously raising the price of hot-selling goods, and the crime of witches who were found to have special abilities and so on.

Downing interrupted as soon as he heard the witch.

"You just said witches?"

Grande head.

"It's Her Majesty the Witch, the witch is very harmful to humans, according to previous experience......"

Downing interrupted Grant's debriefing once again.

"Now...... Not before, now it's a federal empire, unlike all the empires you've experienced before, bring the witch to me, I want to see her. ”

Sitting inside the palace, the witch was brought shortly after.

The bailiffs put the witch in a black hood, as well as handcuffs and leg irons.

Looking at the witch who was brought to the scene, Downing motioned for Grant to remove the black hood from the witch's head.

"Your Majesty, witches are extremely dangerous......"

Downing's face was gloomy, and Holman realized that the king was not very happy walked up and took off the witch's hood.

The girl looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, severely malnourished, but the girl's pupils were indeed different from ordinary people, there were no whites in the entire eye socket, only pure black pupils, which was a bit crazy.