Chapter 179
Author: Captain of the Youth First Crazy Squad
"....Are you ok?"
Liguri didn't know for a while whether he should suspect that Luo Mo was pretending to be calm, but he instinctively felt that such a child should not pretend to be so realistic
Before she could figure it out, Luo Mo couldn't help urging when she saw the changing face of her: "Can you tell me if there is anything I need to do soon, I have something else to do later."
"Cough, sorry.... I want to say, if you are interested in undead magic, you can take me as your teacher."
Since becoming the Thirteen Heroes two hundred years ago, no matter where he goes, he has always been a guest of the king and the great nobles. It was the first time that Ligurido was urged by others to have a complicated heart, but he still spoke his thoughts directly.
"Do you want to be a teacher? .... Please allow me to go back and think about it. If there is nothing else, I will leave first, goodbye~"
As far as he is concerned, it's just that the hero field is not worthy of apprenticeship at all, so he decisively declined, stood up, smiled and waved to the three women in the room, and left here without any hesitation.
This act of leaving after saying that he really left, made Ligurido froze in place. He never thought that he had been begged for apprenticeship for so many years and refused to accept him. He finally wanted to accept an apprentice. it turns out.....
"That kid is so unusual, how could it be so easy to accept him as an apprentice... How can I say it, condolences."
"Well, my condolences."
Gagland and Lahas, both put their hands on her shoulders in tacit understanding.
This way of comfort is too far apart, and the depression in her heart swells exponentially.
No matter what happened to the three people in this room, the entire king was shaken at this moment. After all, the fine-steel adventurer was defeated by a child, which no one could ignore.
The king also quickly summoned Luo Mo again, and without waiting for any heroic realm to arrive, he directly named him an earl and let him choose a territory by himself, and even specially asked Lana to accompany him to share with him. Take a look at the territory, and do everything possible to tie him to the royal family.
Take advantage of the noon to go out of the city on the carriage.
"As expected of Carlos! It's amazing~! A real genius!"
Lana hugged his hand very intimately, looking up at him with adoration written in her blue eyes, but as if she had thought of something inadvertently, she asked, "But...the magic of the palace. In the teacher, no one seems to have the magic of rock pillars emerging from the ground, right? How did you learn it?"
"Homemade."
"Hey~ It's amazing! It turned out to be my own creation!"
(Ah~ I'm really annoying, why did this guy become so powerful so quickly? Wouldn't it be more difficult to get him to take me seriously and just look at me? As it turns out, I can only find a way to do it. I ordered a special medicine....I don't know if I can find it in the kingdom.)
Lana had a pure and innocent smile on her face, but she was already thinking about how to give Luo Mo some medicine.
Because it was completely harmless, Luo Mo didn't notice anything, but she was speechless why she liked pretending to be a child so much.
....Yes, now he also knows that Lana is pretending.
Even if he didn't feel malicious, he also noticed in his daily communication that Lana's innocence was nothing like an ordinary child.
"It's okay, but to be honest, even me, I didn't expect to become a noble so quickly... But it's interesting."
Since Lana wanted to pretend he was rude, she casually pinched Lana's pink cheeks while she was talking.
Due to her innocent disguise, Lana really had no way to shake his hand away, so she could only scold her in her heart to protest delicately, but...
(This is back to this weak world. Even if I don't recover my current strength, I can be Long Aotian, right? Maybe I can try, during the recovery period, play a little game of farming?)
Luo Mo, who completely ignored Lana's protest, began to fantasize while playing with her face. He wanted to play a realistic version of the farming game, and during the period, he could go to the Silian Church. After all, his territory is I chose it myself, and naturally I chose the one bordering the Silian Church. I thought it would be quite convenient in the past.
Chapter Three
In the Kingdom of Re-Estige, roughly 30% of the territory is controlled by the king, 30% by the great nobles, and 40% by other nobles.
Because of this, the territory that Luo Mo obtained came from the royal family, and when he arrived in the city of the territory, the officials who received the news immediately ran out to greet him, and groups of soldiers maintained order.
After all, Lana is here. Except for the residents of the capital, everyone wants to see the princess, and there is no hope in their life.
But it is a soldier. In fact, except for the guards in the royal city, the soldiers in other areas of the kingdom are all civilians wearing defensive equipment. At most, they will occasionally train in formations and learn how to use weapons.
During the war, it was just like La Zhuang Ding. Almost all the army was temporarily recruited civilians, which made Luo Mo decide on the spot to change this too backward system.
Directly turning a soldier into a professional soldier can solve the problem of relative money. The world uses parchment paper, and one piece of parchment can produce four sheets of A4 paper. The price is self-evident.
In this case, isn't paper making just like printing money?
It's easy to solve any problems with money. It's easy to train professional soldiers, and you can buy some dwarf craftsmen to make flintlock guns to equip troops, and sweeping the countries is just around the corner!
Thanks to his unforgettable ability, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this plan could be implemented.
Therefore, he broke into Lana's room on the night of staying in the lord's mansion. Looking at the girl who had changed into pajamas and covered the quilt on the bed, he rushed forward with great interest and lifted her quilt:
"Lana!"
"No, no...! We're still too young...!" Lana, who seemed to have misunderstood something because of his actions, shrank her cheeks red and said shyly: "It's too early, still....."
"It's okay! Age doesn't matter! Time doesn't matter distance!"
"But.... well, if you must give it a try, then I..."
"—Lend me some money!" Just try, he is not at all embarrassed by ordinary borrowers, rubbing his hands and approaching again.
"Huh? What did you say? Borrow money...?" The girl was immediately dumbfounded.
"If I remember correctly, the king should have given you a lot of money over the years. Lend it to me! I'll pay you back in one year!"
"No....No, since it's what you're going to do, I'll definitely support you with all my strength! After all, we're good friends!"
(Running to my room for a long time, not for my body, but for borrowing money?! Are you really a man!) Lana's face seems to be saying, you are so out-of-the-way, but in her heart I can't wait to give him a slap.
"That's so nice..."
"Why do we have to be so divided between us?"
"Yes, then I'm welcome."
"Well! Use it anyway, mine is yours!"
Although the direction of the topic was a hundred and eight thousand miles away from what she imagined, Lana still stretched out her hand to wrap Luo Mo's hand with a very unpretentious, very natural smile, and Luo Mo also shook back with a moved face. Raised her hand.
The two young children seem to attach great importance to each other's friendship, but in their hearts...
(I knew it would be like this, this guy's face is really thick enough.... Sooner or later, I will let you take profits and even pay me!)
(You can pretend, but this is what you said. Since yours is mine, then mine must still be mine, right? Don't regret it then!)
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With the financial support of Lana and the bounty given by the king, Luo Mo directly started his own plan.
Bought dwarves and elves and a group of humans from the slave market, and gathered to help themselves make breech flintlocks and paper. The problem of magic steel is not a problem at all, and at the same time, he began to call up regular troops.
With the assistance of Lana, he established an epoch-making institution, issued a new bill to reduce taxes, improve the loyalty of the people to himself, and strengthen productivity.
By the way, the concentration of serfs improved farming methods, allowing farmers to work to increase food production.
While researching the way of keeping secrets, he immediately made great efforts to reform.
The sale of paper has been popular in various countries as soon as it is launched.
The flintlock gun was regarded as a precious magical weapon, and he bought it at a very high price, so that his financial problem was solved neatly.
The first harvest season of grain has also been greatly improved. The 5,000 soldiers have been set up with a unified slogan, the same salute, the same military uniforms, and common beliefs, so that they have a high degree of identification with the territory and themselves.
.... to put it simply, it is a reference to the brainwashing method of Germany during World War II.
In a blink of an eye, another year has passed, and the entire army has become united, excited and full of passion, and even the territory has been affected to show a high degree of cohesion, and the originally ordinary territory has directly become the richest and most energetic in the entire kingdom. territory.
Residents from other nearby territories also came here, and they came to Luo Mo's territory to settle down, which tripled the population, and the number of troops also increased from the original 5,000 to 23,000 because the treasury was sufficient.
Although only 500 people were equipped with flintlock guns due to the production problem of flintlock guns, he still let people play with all kinds of smoothbore guns according to his requirements.
"People in the old days are just fooling around, or....Brainwashing is always easier to win people's hearts?"
On the newly built towering castle, I looked at the soldiers standing guard with bayonets and flintlocks, and the cavalry who were wrapped in armor and patrolled earnestly with long spears on their waists, and then looked at the ever-changing streets in the distance. ...but felt a emptiness.
There is no way, the leap-forward progress made too simple is really impossible to achieve a sense of achievement.
Moreover, humans in this world are too weak, the advantages of demihumans over humans are too obvious, and the gap between human foundations is too large, even if they fight with flintlock guns, it is very useful to deal with humans themselves, but they can't deal with powerful individual artillery. Can break through the array to kill.
When it comes to dealing with humans, it doesn't need to be too exaggerated. A hundred-person flintlock pistol team brings a lot of ammunition. If no masters appear, it sounds exaggerated to kill the next empire or kingdom, but it is not difficult.
The morale of ancient soldiers was generally not high, and their ability to withstand casualties was also low. Not to mention the soldiers in this world generally composed of ordinary civilians, what Luo Mo knew about the past... 180 people used old-fashioned arquebuses that were lower than the rear-mounted flintlock guns. The colonial team defeated the Inca king with tens of thousands of guard troops alone, and after several battles, he relied on hundreds of people to completely conquer the Inca Empire.
In theory, a hundred musket teams can take over the kingdom, but in reality, there is no way to do it... It's not that it's not as good as the colonial team, but the kingdom has steel-level warriors.
The mobility of the Steel-level will become a big problem. Even if he can solve the morale problem with faith, it will not easily collapse, but it is really difficult for the Centuries to fight against the Steel-level.
After all, for him, even if the steel level and even the hero level are too weak to be motivated, they are the limit of human beings without using martial arts. If the use of magic equipment and magic properly exceeds the limit of human beings, the army composed of ordinary people is really not good. deal with these people.
This also means that he has to cultivate powerful individuals to confront each other. The problem is that human individuals want to cultivate a superhero level.... It is more difficult for him personally than to let the territory enter the industrial age in advance, so he directly gives up this choice.
And it is precisely because of the rapid development of the territory that he became a thorn in the eyes of the nobles of this kingdom, and even the king gradually became jealous of his child.
No way, who made him refuse to share papermaking, flintlock guns, and gunpowder technology with the king, and the 23,000 well-equipped professional troops are even more of a huge threat to the kingdom.
Especially the five hundred troops using flintlock guns, the power of directly piercing ordinary plate armor is almost equal to magical equipment. This is basically the army in mythology to the kingdom, and it is really impossible to be afraid.
It's not stingy that Luo Mo didn't give these things. First, the king didn't dare to ask for them directly. Second, he thought that if the corrupt kingdom got these technologies, it would only make these technologies lose their value...even if he didn't like them.
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Everything in the territory is prosperous, the population and military are booming, and undercurrents are surging outside the territory. Nobles from all over the country sharpen their knives and want to try to get some oil and water from Luo Mo, but they are afraid that no one in the territory dares to do anything.
Luo Mo naturally understands everything that is happening around him, but he doesn't care about those nobles at all, and it's too troublesome to even take care of them.
Lana behaved as always, holding the tray and handing him the black tea with a smile on her face, and said with concern:
"Carlos, what are you looking at? It's getting cold, why don't you come and drink some tea to nourish your stomach?"
"Oh, thanks."
Looking back from the street below, he took the tea and drank it.
Then... As if suddenly feeling exhausted, he sat down on the sofa behind him, looked up at the sky, and let out a long sigh as if he had lost interest in everything.
"What's wrong? Are you okay?"
Lana quickly leaned over to observe with a worried look, Luo Mo closed his eyes and waved his hands lazily: "It's okay... I'm just a little tired, and I don't feel interested in anything."
"Really? Then let me give you - redefine the meaning of life?"
Smiling and muttering, Lana sat directly on his lap, pressing her hands on either side of his cheeks, and the cute smile on her tender face gradually turned into a dark smile.
"The meaning of life? What are you talking about?" Luo Mo opened his eyes speechlessly, looked at the girl above who was doing something demon, and said in amazement, "Speaking of which...what are you doing?"
"...I'm taking your temperature?"
The darkness disappeared in a blink of an eye, and Lana once again showed him a lovely innocent smile.
"... Sitting on the body? Pressing on the face?"
"Yeah~ how is it? Lana's body temperature....feel it?"
While whispering softly, Lana's cheeks gradually flushed, and her azure pupils also became wet, making people unable to help being attracted by it.
However....
"I'm not telling you, are you trying to seduce me or take my body temperature, and how does it become to feel your body temperature? You should choose one of the three first, right?"
"Lust... lure?"
"We're only nine years old, aren't we? Are you sure you want to do this?"
"Just kidding~ Yes~ Just kidding~ It's just a little joke with you~"
Facing Luo Mo who was indifferent and even ruthlessly complaining, Lana stood up from him with a smile, picked up the plate that was thrown on the ground again and left the place unhurriedly.
Luo Mo on the sofa didn't say anything, but just looked at her distant back silently, almost... No, it's absolutely certain that she put some medicine in the tea.
But he was born to be the strongest ghost among the demi-humans. In principle, human medicines should be well adjusted to that kind of pertinence, otherwise it would be impossible to have any effect.
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To be honest, even after three years together, Luo Mo still doesn't quite understand the reason why Lana is obsessed with herself.
There are a lot of possible doubts, maybe it's interesting to have a comparable opponent? Want a sense of accomplishment by conquering yourself? ...he really doesn't understand.
But since he didn't notice the hostility, he didn't bother to care, and continued to lazily bask in the sun on the sofa, hoping that time would pass faster.
But.... just when he was about to close his eyes again, the engraving technique on the back of his hand suddenly flashed light, and a group of birds flying by in front of him also stopped in the air at this time.
Since he has been in contact with Xin Ke in the past, it is naturally impossible for him to be unprepared for the attacks of time and space.
The time-accelerating engraving technique can accelerate the separation of its own time from the external time, resist the possibility of suspending the time to kill oneself in seconds, or activate the engraving variant to create a time distortion, so as to resist the attacks of space and time