Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 30 28. One 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. At that time, the whole territory of the Galloping Horse Kingdom suffered from magical turbulence. No matter whether it was magic, magic or magic goblins, they could not effectively increase the grain production. God The emperor selected several edible root crops for the Benma Plain. Among them are field potatoes. After hundreds of years of cultivation, sweet potatoes, white potatoes and purple potatoes have been proven to be the most suitable food for growing on the plains." Abel Te looked at the non-monsters who were working on the grassland, and introduced to Lante.

"Wait, did you just say something that has never been introduced before? Magic goblin? What is that?" Lante was very interested in this kind of noun that he had never heard of in his previous life, and Lante Benma himself had never seen it before. interested.

"It is an elemental life born in the magic net. You grew up on the Galloping Horse Plain, so you have never seen it before. Needless to say, we don't even have the Galloping Horse Collar, the Rotor Collar and the Blue Magpie Collar. Only Maned Wolf City and Only in the hinterland of the human race inland." Albert said not very concerned.

"Magic goblins can promote specific magic elements in a specific area, but they are very rare. Although there are transactions between some big nobles, they are very expensive. You don't have to think about it before you become a viscount."

"That's right, it's too early to talk about that now, I think we should look at these sweet potatoes first." Rand was able to accept the reality.

Every few days, the territory will migrate eastward. After each migration, the people can find more sweet potatoes. After mutton, grain and sweet potato starch were used as food sources, the territory of Rand avoided The hunger is only in October now, and the Benma Plain has not yet entered the freezing period, and it will only be more difficult after October.

Now the non-magic people from the left camp and the right camp that Lante values ​​more will live around the main tent of Rante, including several housekeepers, real pianos, and several non-magic people who can play musical instruments. Inside the tent.

Zhenqin lives in a tent with several song and dancers. She is now Rand's clerk. Every day, she has to count horses, pack animals, long-haired sheep, and the situation of children and craftsmen in the camp. She counts and records Rand gold coins, The situation of the magic crystal, record the tasks that Rand gave to each person in charge.

Therefore, Neil wants to see his mother, Makoto, only during dinner.At this time, Neil will tell Makoto all the experiences of the day, and then wait for Makoto to give him advice.

"Master Lante really likes you guys because he likes children very much. Have you ever asked Fang? Does he want to stay with Lord Lante?" Makoto is very sensitive to the things around her.

"We talked privately. Canine Fang really wants to follow the leader, but Canine Fang's father only has him as a child of a Demon Owner, and their knight leader still relies on him."

"The younger siblings in his family are all over 16?"

"That's right, he has several younger brothers and sisters, all of whom are quite young."

"When you go back to Fangfang to play, bring some monster meat to his younger siblings"

"Huh?...that's okay"

Rand had finished eating, so he came to look for Makoto before returning to the tent, "Yo, Neil is here too, so let me just say a few words, Makoto, please write a notice for me, I'm going to launch a literacy competition in the territory, before Citizens who cannot read, or children under the age of 14, who can read the most words within a month, can get 4 meat dishes as rewards.

Those who want to participate will find their respective person in charge to sign up tomorrow. After you collect the list of entries tomorrow, check them one by one to see if they have the foundation.

After everything is confirmed, let them go back to learn to read by themselves. Besides Nancy, you find two more people to teach adult leaders how to read at night.All contestants are divided into two groups: under 14 years old and over 14 years old. In each group, the 3 most recognizable characters will be rewarded. "

"Okay, my lord, please wait a moment" Makoto's actions were quick, and he wrote the notice in a few minutes. Rand took a few glances and thought there was no problem, so he asked Makoto to hand it over to a few housekeepers tomorrow.

. . . . . .

Every night, Rand would ask Albert to tell him family stories under the stars.

For Rand, Yabt is not a very good narrator. The family stories he tells are very straightforward, even the battles or honors are straightforward.

Not only the expression process, every member of the family has the surname Benma, and many cases of duplication of names will happen.Unrepeated names are particularly difficult to remember, which bothers Rand.

"After the first galloping horse destroyed the country, our ancestor, that is, Prince Charles Benma, who was living in the imperial capital, was actually a person who was not valued in the family at that time. Although he was a great knight, he was 73 years old. Still considered too weak to fight, unfit to be a galloping horse king.

It was the first emperor who resisted all opinions and demanded that the empire must avenge the shame of the galloping horse. After the emperor ascended the throne, he immediately canonized Charles as the galloping horse king, and made an exception to allow Charles's two sons to enter the Tower of Purity to study. "

Today's Albert is talking about the hardships of the galloping royal family in exile in the imperial capital after the galloping horse kingdom was destroyed for the first time, that is, 1000 years ago.

If it hadn't been for Rand to hear that the empire paid Charles the salary according to the standard of the prince, paid the salary of Charles' two sons according to the standard of the duke, and built a small palace specially for them for the three royal family members and their 72 harems to live in. If so, Rand really thinks they are miserable.

At the end of the talk, Albert was even saddened that Charles did not want to return to the Benma Plain to govern after the restoration of the country, but continued to stay in the imperial capital, which almost aroused the dissatisfaction of the Emperor.

"I won't go back if I leave it alone. What kind of place is this place, with turbulent currents blowing every day, barbarians wandering around, the emperor's capital is somewhere, and he is raised every day. He, Charles, did not say that he is not homesick here, so he is worthy of his ancestors." Rant's complaints in his heart almost came out of his mouth.

"Rand, this is the end of today's family story. I have something to ask you." Albert took out the notice written by Makoto just now. "You want all the citizens to be literate?"

"Not everyone, we don't have so many teachers who can teach reading and writing now, we can only recognize whoever is interested, and reward whoever recognizes more." Lante said casually, "I also know that this is not effective. Well, if I work all day, I don’t want to go to night school at night, so use the form of competition to encourage them to read more.”

"Didn't your knights propose anything?"

"Bring it up? No, I didn't tell them. What would they say?"

"Won't they think this is inappropriate?"

"I teach characters to my people. What are they dissatisfied with? The non-monsters can do things better when they can read and write. The non-monsters serve the territory, and the demon-bearers defend the territory. Isn't that good?
If you feel dissatisfied, don’t eat my food if you have the guts, and fight the barbarians yourself.” Rand didn’t think there was any problem teaching his own people to read at home.

Rand didn't know that many lords and knights in border territories monopolized knowledge to ensure their own family interests.

"Well, if that's the case, then you can tell the citizens tomorrow."

"Of course I have to say, I told several knights with children today, let their children sign up first, their children have a good foundation, maybe they can eat meat."

(End of this chapter)