Chapter 415

In the winter of previous years, the old people and children are difficult to survive. It is normal for hundreds of people to freeze and starve every year. Even most Lords have selectively ignored it.

However, under the leadership of Donne's policy, this year the Lord's house allocated a batch of warm clothes and even subsidies for poor families to spend the winter. This kind and compassionate approach has unprecedentedly improved Donne's prestige and ruling power among the people, and Ellington's cohesion has reached an unprecedented peak.

In a word, under Donne's drastic reform, this year, Ellington's unprecedented winter, no one fled, because as long as they are willing to work, as long as they are willing to work, they can definitely earn enough money to buy winter food, so these people now have the leisure mood to sit here and drink.

"Even if I have money and food, I don't necessarily go out," complained a man sitting by the fireplace, "In retrospect, the road in Ellington used to be very painful. It was wet when it snowed and rained. It was very uncomfortable not to wet your shoes. What's like now? Even if it snowed and rained, the road was still hard. There was no problem walking or cycling."

"So the LORD said that if you want to be rich, you should build a road first. This road should be this kind of asphalt road."

"I heard that in order to spend the cold winter, Miss Fiona said that the LORD was preparing something..."

On a table in the tavern, there was a sumptuous lunch. A goblin and a handsome red haired man sat opposite each other with a glass of ale.

It's Gallian and Ezra Kamanda.

Due to the sudden heavy snow, the Star Diamond bank under construction had to stop working. Recently, goblins can be seen everywhere in Ellington - which makes Nokia's dwarf craftsmen very unhappy.

Gallian shook his ears and laughed in a low, sharp voice: "I just wanted to listen to his wind review. I didn't expect to hear good information."

Ezra Kamanda put down the book with the manual of dragon training on the cover, glanced curiously at the hall and said, "you mean, the asphalt highway? Well, it's a good investment project."

Gallian's eyes lit up and said, "we have personally experienced the superior performance of this road. If we build a highway network throughout prandal and provide toll service, we can make money lying down!"

Ezra Kamanda thought for a moment and nodded: "your goblins are really genius in this regard."

"Unfortunately, I can't afford this kind of project myself."

Gallian said very discontentedly, "I'm afraid only our leader can eat it with the strength of the whole Star Diamond bank."

"The premise is that don Ende agrees to cooperate."

"He will cooperate."

Ezra Kamanda put down the book and recalled about Donne. She couldn't help nodding and saying, "you're right. He'll agree. We must admit that he's a good man. Even I was attracted by his charm."

"Oh?"

Gallian looked at Ezra Kamanda in surprise: "as a red dragon, will you be attracted by a human? Or a human male? - Oh, I don't mean that. I don't have any opinion whether you want to cross that line... You're a dragon anyway."

Ezra Kamanda said with a smile, "man... There seems to be nothing wrong?"

Gallian grinned. "I don't comment."

"Come on, I admit he is very attractive, but I can't control my impulse - seriously, it scares me a little because I don't understand what's going on."

Ezra Kamanda shrugged and said, "if one day I really can't control myself and attack him, remember to wake me up."

"Oh."

Gary settled down and asked, "what's the equivalent?"

"How big, how big."

As soon as the voice of Ezra Kamanda fell, he suddenly paused, then smiled and said, "our Lord is back. Do you want to meet him?"

"Welcome? Come on, let's go quickly. I don't want to know if there's anything wrong with those magic iron bombs."

Gallian drained his beer, muttered, jumped off his chair and was ready to leave.

"Oh, it's a little late."

With a smile, Ezra Kamanda snapped his fingers, and Donne and Fiona, who met on the way, pushed the door in the wind and snow.

The people in the tavern were suddenly stunned, and then they all cheered: "lord lord! It's Lord!"

"There are so many people."

Donne smiled and waved. "Eat and drink well, everyone. I'll come and have a glass of cider to warm up."

With that, Donne and Fiona came to the bar. The nervous old Tom immediately brought two cups of full hot cider to Donne and Fiona. The overflowing wine came out, accompanied by several hot fruit pies.

Donne took a sip. "It's warm all over. How much is it?"

Old Tom shook his head vigorously and said, "Lord, it's my pleasure for you to come to me for a drink. How can you ask for money?"

Donne laughed and said, "so you mean I'll let the soldiers of the Ellington guard come to you every day for free?"

Old Tom's face turned white. So many people still don't eat him bankrupt?

"If, if you like..."

"Just kidding, how much is how much."

Donne motioned Fiona to pay, and then casually said, "power will corrupt people, especially dictatorship. If you don't want me to be like those people, don't engage in any personal worship, and don't slowly corrode me with this indifferent interest."

"Lord, you are joking. You are the Lord of Ellington. Everything here, including us, belongs to you. How can this corrode you?"

Donne shook his head and said, "there are no saints in the world. I have been living in the aura of personal worship. Sooner or later, I will become the kind of person you hate most - and so will you."

Fiona was stunned. Of course, she thought in a different depth than others. Donne said the truth. Everyone knows. Similarly, everyone wants to be the dictator who commands everything, but no one ever thought whether it was a mistake.

Is it fundamentally a mistake to add all the power, all the wealth and all the hope of the whole world to one person?

If you decentralize power

"Fiona, what I just told you will be implemented as soon as possible. These problems can't be delayed any longer."

Donne said it himself, completely unaware that Fiona was thinking about the prototype of parliamentary system in her mind.

Just when the two met, Donne was watching some children running and playing in the snow.

Seeing their carefree appearance, Donne smiled, and then... He thought of himself who had been dominated by holiday homework.

Education is a very important issue.

There is no so-called compulsory education in prandal. There are no ordinary compulsory education schools, or even systematic language and mathematics education. The nobles will hire knowledgeable scholars to carry out elite customized training for future generations. However, no one cares about the education of civilians. Of course, they will not devote funds to solve the education problem.

There is only one real school in Ilus, that is Ilus Royal Military Academy.

However, this college only teaches military experience and is a place to cultivate corresponding talents.

In addition to this college, the only college that Donne has heard of that really meets the requirements of compulsory education is the Xingyue Secret Law College in Silver City - mages will explore excellent magic talents when traveling around the world, and then take him to Xingyue secret law college to receive a systematic and complete education.

Knowledge is power, which is best reflected in the city of silver.

Ellington's population is increasing day by day. In the coming year, the population will soon enter a period of explosive growth. Once the population exceeds 100000, it can really be called a city. Now we start building schools in advance. At that time, we will implement the compulsory education system and teach every school-age child basic skills such as language, mathematics, physics, chemistry and art, At the same time, combat training courses can also be opened for all-round training.

In this way, Donne believes that he can explore the potential children in the territory, carry out elite training, enhance his sense of belonging and further strengthen Ellington's strength

This is a virtuous circle, and it is very necessary - a territory full of illiterates is doomed to no development.

Of course, at Donne's level, he can only make a start, just like the first driving force.

"... now the children of Ellington are very busy in addition to delivering newspapers. If they can make use of these hours to do their homework... I mean learning literacy and mathematics is certainly good for their future growth."

Donne rambled on for a long time, and then suddenly found Fiona distracted: "Fiona? What are you thinking?"

"Ah? Lord? I, I listen."

"Just listen. In a word, if the expansion of outer urban areas has been suspended and the internal construction begins, the issue of education must be put on the agenda."

Donne took a sip of hot cider, thought about it, and said, "there's another thing, isn't there basically any vegetables after winter?"

"I can get some supplements from the Emerald Forest, so I'm not in a hurry."

"Human beings can't always rely on others. We have to solve this problem ourselves... I'll give Brian them a technical solution later. Because it's not difficult, let them implement it immediately."

Fiona looked at him curiously: "what technical scheme?"

Donne smiled, put down his glass and said, "greenhouse off-season planting technology."