"Woo~"

A desolate horn sounded, and everyone looked up in the direction of the Silver Deer, watching the Ink Sea Dragon flag flying wildly on the top of the mast, wondering what had happened.

On the deck of the Silver Deer, Frederick stood beside Xia Lan and asked uncertainly, "Your Majesty, will I really lead the army this time?"

"Of course, I also have to make refractory bricks, build a real hydraulic steelmaking blast furnace, and build a temple for the Lord of Truth. I really don't have time."

Xia Lan shook her head helplessly, untied the Wind Call, handed it to Frederick, and said, "Although that Tone Sudin has two golden warriors and a third-level mage, I believe you will find a way."

Frederick felt a toothache when he looked at the Call of the Wind in his hand, cursing in his heart, what can I do, I'm just a bronze!

"I know the time is short and the task is heavy, but don't worry, Baron Kord will help you."

Patting the stunned Frederick on the shoulder and sending him onto the somewhat dilapidated brig, Xia Lan left with his hands behind his back.

The two little guys, Maidan and Surer, holding the horn, looked at each other and had to keep up.

It was not until this moment that Frederick realized that apart from Kannepal, the boat driver, and Carmenla, the guide, there were only five people on the boat: himself, Valen and his servant.

"Frederick, where are you going?"

Wodek, Kahneman and Red Worm were passing by carrying a huge log. Seeing Frederick who seemed to be about to set sail, he stopped and asked.

Not knowing what the horn sound just now had to do with him, Wodek was puzzled as he looked at his friend who was staring at him, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Wardeck, do you want to go out to sea?"

Frederick, who had a sad face, suddenly smiled brightly when he saw Wodek, and invited him with his red beard raised high.

This invitation made Wodek's heart twitch. Why did he have such a bad feeling...

………

On the way back to the Silver Deer, Xia Lan saw several children playing with mud. They were all with Carmenla, and their adults had gone to work in the fields.

He turned around and asked Maidan and Soulaire who liked to follow him: "Why don't you go play with them?"

"They are too naive. We want to learn some skills from Your Majesty. Besides, doesn't every king have followers?" Soulier said like a little adult, and the thin Maidan beside him nodded in agreement.

"But the people following the king might also be eunuchs." Xia Lan said, stroking his chin and thinking for a while.

"What is a eunuch?" The two little guys didn't know what a eunuch was, so they asked in unison.

"As for eunuchs..." Xia Lan leaned close to their ears and carefully introduced the process of the emergence of eunuchs.

When they heard that their penises were going to be cut off, they were so scared that they covered their crotches and their faces turned pale.

"But since you're so well behaved, I won't cut your penis. I'll make you the king's personal secretaries."

Hearing that they could follow their respected king without having to cut, they both shouted "Long live the king".

Back on the Silver Deer, Xia Lan found Arnold lying on a wooden chair at the stern, sipping wine and basking in the sun.

"Arnold, what do you think is the most important thing for a country to prosper?"

Upon seeing the king arrive, Arnold, relying on his seniority, remained silent. Unexpectedly, he was asked for advice. He could only stroke his beard and reply, "Your Majesty, I believe that for a country to prosper, it must have a strong army and a vast amount of gold."

Xia Lan simply nodded. "Those two things are indeed important, but I think the most important thing is talent. Armies are formed and commanded by talented people, and gold coins are earned and used by talented people. Isn't talent important?"

Arnold nodded, feeling that what Xia Lan said made sense.

"So you have to work hard, and you will be the one to train the talents of the Kingdom of Faox."

Arnold didn't expect Xia Lan to give him such a big task. Teaching children was too troublesome. He said with a bitter face: "But I am the Home Secretary."

"You and Melvin are the only educated people in the country. Melvin is currently organizing a land reclamation project. Why don't you two switch places?"

When Arnold heard that he would have to work under the scorching sun and pull a plow like an animal to open up wasteland, he immediately said that teaching was a great idea.

"By the way, after teaching the kids during the day, I'll open a night school in the evening. I'll teach anyone who's motivated."

Before Arnold could make an excuse, Xia Lan left the Silver Deer before him and prepared to select a site for the Temple of Truth.

"What should we do?" Mai Dan touched his head, not knowing whether to follow Xia Lan or stay.

"Are you stupid? We still have night school. We study with Senior Arnold at night and with His Majesty during the day. You're already grown up, you have to learn everything you need to learn."

After saying this, the two immediately followed Xia Lan.

"Hey? These two little bastards."

Arnold, who thought no one would look for him at night, immediately lost his guard when he heard this. Wouldn't this just increase his workload? Who among those rough guys would go to night school? If I teach you all during the day, you don't have to work at night, right?

He didn't dare to disobey Xia Lan. That guy was very evil and liked to play tricks on people. If he knew that he didn't take his words seriously, he would not let him down.

Arnold sighed sadly, his carefree days were gone forever.

Arnold drank the last bit of wine reluctantly, got off the boat and looked at the carefree children playing in the mud, and sighed again with melancholy.

…

Xia Lan went around in circles and finally chose a gentle hillside to the north of the camp as the location for the Temple of Truth. Just as he was about to draw his Sword of Kings to weed, he remembered that he had lent the Call of the Wind to Frederick.

Xia Lan had no choice but to ask her two followers to find a wooden sign and put it up here to indicate that this was a place blessed by the Almighty Lord of Truth.

Then after the three of them worked hard for an afternoon, they cleared the weeds and bushes here and began to level the land.

Now the Kingdom of Faox is in ruins and seriously short of manpower. As the king, Xia Lan has to go into battle bare-handed and start from scratch.

"Looks like we need to find some stonemasons."

Wiping the sweat from their foreheads, Xia Lan, Mai Dan and Soulier sat on the cleared land, drinking water, admiring the sunset, and thinking about how to build a wonder on this land.

Now that the road between the camp and the mine has been built, the next step is to build a durable hydraulic steelmaking blast furnace.

If you ask what is the most profitable business in the world, it is undoubtedly the arms business, although the weapons of the nobles are generally forged from extraordinary metals.

But ordinary army soldiers cannot afford extraordinary weapons, and weapons mixed with even a little bit of exotic gold are not something ordinary people can afford.

However, wars break out every day in the Central Plains, and weapons made of ordinary steel are enough to satisfy Faox's hunger.