Lucie explained: "Cui Bin is a very down-to-earth person, you ask him to do some specific things, he has no problem. But when it comes to controlling the situation, he may be less able to control it."
"Yes, or our home lu Fei brother suitable to be the eldest." Zhang Yutong said with a smile.
Lucy smiled weakly and said softly, "He barely passed."
I agree with Lucie. I am not a leader myself, everything is fate. I never thought I'd see this day. As if Cao Cao in his old age with emotion, in fact, he just want to be a general in the west, did not think of the final will climb so high position up.
The truly chosen ones, the angels, are very few after all.
As we passed the kiln, we caught a pungent smell of lime and, it seemed, cement.
Beyond the kiln, there were building sites everywhere. A new palace had begun to rise at the foot of the hill near the back, and a number of buildings had been erected around the broad street, but they had not been topped off.
When someone found us, they quickly went to inform Cui Bin. Cui Bin and Li Ding came to meet us on their alpacas. Everyone wore a coconut hat on their head.
After getting off the alpaca, I saw them all dusty, and I greeted them.
"Brother Cui Bin, you take this as a safety helmet?" Zhang Yutong asked with a smile.
Cui Bin knocked down the shell of the coconut hat: "A man was hit on the head before, Li Ding came up with the method."
Li Ding in the side immediately put on a proud manner.
"Not bad, Li Ding."
"By chance."
I nodded and turned to Cui Bin to ask if they were going well.
"It went well." Cui Bin nodded behind his back, "I have another piece of good news to tell you. We made cement out of lime and volcanic ash, not really cement, but almost as cohesive, and that's what we use to build our houses. The house is strong and I want to build two or three stories to have a look.Then we can have a real capital here."
"How did you figure it out? It's an invention." I heartily approve.
Cui Bin shook his head. "It's not me. It's a native who came up with this idea. He suggested this when he saw that we had made lime."
"That's good. Call me." Such people must be rewarded.
After Cui Bin sent his men, I turned around and asked the two women if they had any money with them. They all said they didn't, because they thought they had nowhere to spend their money.
I felt around, and there were only two gold pieces. It was meant to be given to the king who provided the land.
We soon followed them into tents made of wood and skins. There were some benches and tables borrowed from the kingdom.
After drinking some water, I said to Cui Bin, "After the construction of the new royal city is finished, you can take people here to splash the road with new cement. It has only been a long time. Along the way, I can see that many places are damaged.
Cui Bin said with a wry smile, "You are going to use me as a contractor."
"You're too good for that." I hesitated and tried to suggest, "Cui Bin, you have done so much for our tribe. What can I give you?"
Cui Bin looked at Lucie and said, "Let Lucie have a daughter. We can become children in the future."
"Ha ha... This words say too far, still don't know meeting give birth to boy girl."
"As long as one of your families has a daughter and the other has a son. It doesn't have to be a son, but a daughter." Li Ding joined in.
All jokes aside, I really want to repay Cui Bin for his hard work.
"You know what? I will make you a duke, and every year you will enjoy more money and goods."
As SOON as I said this, all the people present were stunned.
Lucie suddenly said, "Hubby, you should give Cui Bin a raise if you are entitled to any title."
Cui Bin waved his hand and said, "No, I don't need that much money. If we hadn't met you, the three of us would still have been living by the sea, and NOW I'm quite content with it. At least there are more people to talk to."
"That's no good. Those who have done something will be punished, but those who have done something good will not be rewarded." I made up my mind: "So, I will make you the duke of Qin, in addition to the salary, every year at the end of the year to enjoy ten thousand copper coins year-end bonus."
Cui Bin does not care too much, nods: "follow you, I do not care."
Lucie poked me in the back, but I ignored her.
"Fly elder brother, cui bin all had a title, that I also should have?" Li Ding was excited.
"You didn't do enough. We'll talk about it later."
Li Ding settled for the second best: "Duke is not good, marquis earl what also can ah. I'm not too demanding."
"You just know how to take advantage." Zhang Yutong taunted 1.
Li Ding cheekily smiled and asked me to give him one.
Cui Bin also suggested that I give him one to save him from going back and complaining endlessly.
"Make you Count Dracula, then. Two thousand at the end of the year."
"Good." Li Ding happily claps hands: "have a line."
"So happy to be a vampire?" Zhang Yutong asked.
Li Ding leng once, puzzled of counter-ask a way: "what vampire?"
Li Ding laughed until Lucie explained, "Count Dracula was the first vampire. Of course, he was a count when he was."
Li Ding pulls next face, very depressed: "fly elder brother, you this also too much. I was wondering why my title was so Western. Here you were waiting for me."
"Yes or no? I'll take it back if you don't." I threatened.
Li Ding immediately changed the attitude, is a vampire is a vampire, at least is also a title.
Everyone burst into laughter. Then the man who had invented cement was brought in. He was a thin young man. After inquiring his name and general information, I learned that he was an ordinary citizen of a kingdom, and I gave him a gold coin. He was deeply grateful for the honor and said he would do more for the tribe in the future.
After sending him away, we had lunch together in the tent. The food was good, with meat and vegetables. Then he took a stroll around the construction site.
Cui Bin plans to build more houses before collectively building the roof. The roof was covered with wood and covered with cement. In this way, it will be more fruit, and it will also be a good control of the moth.
Wooden buildings, the most afraid of is the moth. A single moth can destroy an entire building, which, of course, takes a long time.
After seeing the construction site, we took our leave and went over the mountain, which was only two or three hundred meters high, to the kingdom behind us.
Because I had sent for advance notice, when we arrived, the King and many people were waiting for us by the roadside.
The king himself came up and took the REINS for me, and said excitedly, "I never expected you to visit my kingdom again, chief."
I jumped down from the sheep's hump to greet him.
When we entered, we found that they had built bungalows just like ours, but there were also some wooden houses interspersed among them. The kingdom did not build walls.
His house was the largest in the tribe, and the entrance to it was a big yard, and there must have been nearly twenty rooms in a circle, because there was another one behind the first circle.
After entering the lobby, I asked directly, "Are you still used to living here?"
"Habit, habit." He nodded again and again. "Since we have been near the new royal city, we have become more accustomed to it."
"The royal city will let you live in, and there will be very nice houses." I waved my hand. "But now I want to give you another piece of land for the construction of the new royal city."
"Are we to move our kingdom, chief?" His eyes nearly popped out in amazement.
"Yes, I intend to give you all the fertile land outside the old king's city, and some of the houses in the king's city. Would you like it?"
He immediately stood up, bowed and said, "Thank you, chief. I never expected that your Majesty would grant me such good land. But......" He looked up. "Who will get it when we move?"