Throughout the autumn and winter, the Min kept restraint and did not attack on a large scale, although almost every day, the Turkic cavalry of the Min people and the knights of the Three Rivers would cross the border and burn the oasis farmland of the Arab tribes, and the cattle and sheep of the tribes would run around without giving them the slightest chance to gain weight.

However, Hussein is not a fuel-efficient lamp, after suffering a few losses from the traitors, Hussein quietly buried the nails that Li Jie spent a lot of money on, and the scum who bought them was almost investigated, and Hussein also deliberately allowed the traitors among these Arabs to continue to pass information on their respective tribes.

It wasn't until a certain time that Su Dingfang, who was in charge of the attack, was ambitious and decided to play the second biggest, and Hussein made a move that time, in the ambush circle of tens of thousands of Arab light cavalry, Su Dingfang, who dared to attack the Turkic Khan's tooth tent with two hundred turk horsemen, was defeated and returned, leaving thousands of corpses.

Since then, news has been reported from time to time among the Bedouin tribes, but since then, the Min army has not dared to penetrate deep into the heart of Syria.

After the autumn harvest, the whole of West Asia is like a seriously injured beast, constantly **** wounds, the war has tormented all the ethnic groups are exhausted, in the devastated land, the soldiers of the Great Min Mansion hurriedly sowed the last crop of winter wheat, Hussein's Arab Empire is also even children are dispatched, all over the mountains to collect winter grass, in case of livestock for the winter.

The busiest was Byzantium, which had almost wiped out 68 percent of the population of the Eastern Roman Empire after years of war, and Asia Minor, which had been an important grain producing area and military area of the empire, was even more uninhabited.

As if the heavens had played a joke on West Asia, the winter seeds, which carried the important hopes of all ethnic groups, had just been planted, and an unusually swollen cold snap rapidly moved southward from Siberia, crossing the Caucasus Mountains, which had been blocked by the Caucasus Mountains in previous years, and covering Mesopotamia in a thick layer of frost and snow in the two river basins.

For the first time in more than 100 years, the Tigris River froze, and this winter was exceptionally cold.

It was not until the middle of March of the following year that the monsoon from the Mediterranean slowly blew away the gloom in the sky, and after the ice and snow melted, the abundant meltwater moistened the earth, and it was also a once-in-a-century occurrence, and the northern part of the Nefd Desert actually bloomed hundreds of miles of splendid flowers, as if the kingdom of God had descended on the earth.

With this auspicious rainfall from the sky, Damin is also like a wheat seedling in spring, recovering rapidly.

One winter, Li Jie was not idle, went to the imperial examination in the autumn of the year, about 3,000 scholars of various ethnic groups, more than half were hired, and directly spread in Mesopotamia, here, Damin more perfect the entry of the county field book, did not wait for spring ploughing, the land has been measured and delineated, and a piece of square field appeared in the middle of the two rivers like a tofu block.

And in order to solve the problem of insufficient population due to the war, the people of Tianzhu are still unwilling to move their families, Li Jie also reluctantly moved the employment system in later generations, and also gave the employees of the Damin Commercial Bank a business target, how many people must be signed back, so in the winter, tens of thousands of employees of the commercial bank who sat in the office on weekdays under the cold wind went deep into the fields like the later generations sold insurance, and took the hands of those old men and aunts, and chatted cordially.

Eat and live, a salary of 20 yuan a year, don't use craftsmanship, just know how to farm, come back if you want to come back after three years, and you can renew the contract if you don't want to come back.

More than ten years of the reign of Damin, there is basically no too large-scale destruction war in the territory of North Tianzhu, even if there is, it will be solved within a month or two, the fertile soil under the irrigation of the Ganges River allows the population to grow rapidly, and many families are still spacious ten years ago The land has now begun to become tight, plus the girls are willing to marry into the city, and many families have two sons and three sons marrying daughters-in-law and it has become a problem. This has attracted the attention of many young people.

So under all kinds of flickering, they hurriedly signed the deed of sale, and hundreds of thousands of Tang people who set off from Tianzhu, and the spring tide of young people in Tianzhu generally filled the ferries in the Persian Gulf.

These young migrant workers who are full of longing never thought that with Li Jie's black belly, how could they easily let them back?

In order to manage the young people who came from Tianzhu to reclaim the wasteland, Li Jie also set up a West India Company, and hurriedly scattered countless orders in Punjab, and under the full force of the developed industry and commerce of Greater Fujian, ships of hoes, ploughs, and shovels were also piled up in the warehouses of Mesopotamia.

Before the ice and snow melted, all the manpower and material resources had arrived in Mesopotamia, the birthplace of the world's earliest civilization, and were waiting for the earth to warm up.

The spring breeze in March is like scissors, and the cold water is gurgling green willow seedlings. The warm Mediterranean wind that came for a long time finally melted the ice and snow, and the date palms and green willows on both sides of the river embankment began to sprout.

On the banks of the Tigris, thousands of young men in short shirts, trouser legs pulled up to their knees, and hoes on their shoulders stood like sculptures scattered in the fields, ready to go into battle at any moment, and all eyes were fixed on the big willow trees.

The bell jingles under the neck of the old ox blown by the spring breeze.

Under the big willow tree, there was a seven-rank county official in a green official uniform, with thick felt hats flickering on both sides of the hat, and under the brim of the hat was a Sogdian young man with a high nose and deep eyes, and his eyes were also round, staring at a timer engraved with scales in front of him.

In the dripping and dripping of water, the sun also rose higher and higher, and finally, when the last drop of water dripped into the already full bucket, the county official, who had been stunned for half a second, shouted excitedly in the proficient Tang language.

"The auspicious time has come! The god of spring returns and ploughs!! ”

These words were like starting pistols, and the young men who had been silent for half an hour rushed out like a sprint, and countless hoes were shoveled into the earth fiercely, and the old ox who was gently whipped on his back by the whip seemed to be human in the same way that he dragged the heavy iron plough with a dashing force, and dragged a furrow in the ground.

Every young man's eyes were full of excitement, even the county officials who had just stared at the clock were leading their masters to carry hoes to the fields, and some people were still humming melodious ancient agricultural songs while taking turns with hoes.

In order to encourage the enthusiasm of spring ploughing, Damin not only asked the county officials to go to the fields in person, but the West India Company also offered a reward, and the three farming experts who completed the reclamation and sowing in each county town were rewarded with 100, 80, and 60 respectively.

Grab some work, three years' wages will be earned, and the vast majority of those who come to Mesopotamia to reclaim the land are young people, and everyone is full of energy under the stimulus of rewards.

Not only this one county, but also the whole county of Mesopotamia is such a general hot labor scene, a flame of youth seems to be burning, I haven't felt the enthusiasm for a long time, the enthusiasm of young people drives the original Mesopotamian aborigines are also enthusiastic into production, the great power of human beings is undoubtedly revealed in a few days, the entire landscape of the Great Plains has been changed, everywhere is newly turned out of the soil, and green seedlings are emerging from it.

Even the cultivated fields near the city of Taixi are the same, but the cultivation here is not so youthful, a group of half-hundred-hundred-year-old men snorted and bent over, turned, half a day, a large piece of dry land, half a day did not plough much.

There are also many young people, but they are even more unprofessional, waiting back and forth with wide sleeves, not carrying a hoe twice, wiping sweat and passing water several times.

Among so many people, it seems that only the dignified man wearing a straw hat at the front has the most posture, the wide sleeves of the scholar are tucked on the waist, and a hoe is like a windmill, although the furrows are crooked and slanted like dogs, so efficient, in the morning, the fertile fields that have been abandoned since the Arab attack on the Persian Empire show a sincere smile on half of the earth.

"Your Majesty, take a break!"

was already tired and panting like a dog, the already gray-headed imperial historian Li Gang, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Xiao Sheng, and the younger Chaosan Doctor Fang Zhizhi, Dasi Nong Yuwenjie looked at each other helplessly for a while, took the water and towels from the subordinate officials who came to please, and the four important ministers of the court surrounded them with the same flattering sad smiles.

Now several of them regret the green, because the king of Min is too belligerent and martial, just in time to catch up with the imperial court to reclaim Mesopotamia, the old Xiao Sheng took the lead, and the four of them gathered a large group of imperial historians to write together, persuading Li Jie to plough in person, in order to persuade the agricultural mulberry and encourage the national civil agriculture.

Who knew that the King of Min was really so real, not only promised to work hard, but also called all the civil and military officials to go to the field in person, and made a bold statement that he would open all the dry fields in the twenty miles of Jingdong, if it was twenty skilled farmers, it would be opened in one day, but for two hundred and twenty-seven court officials, let alone a day, they would not be willing to come out in a month.

Even if Li Shimin personally cultivated back then, it was only a symbolic hammer with a hoe twice, how could he really play it?

Seeing the tired backache and resentful eyes of his ministers and colleagues, Lao Xiao Sheng had long wanted to persuade Li Jie to return to the palace, but unfortunately King Min was really interested in cultivating the fields, and he didn't stop with his hoe, so that Lao Xiao Sheng didn't know how to speak.

Finally, with the help of Li Jie's sweat wiping kung fu, Xiao Sheng hurriedly came over.

Li Jie didn't postpone it, took the towel and wiped his already red face, and poured a large sip of cold water into it, and then exhaled comfortably.

The old Xiao Sheng didn't wait for him to speak and stop talking, but Li Jie was very angry, hugged Xiao Sheng's shoulders and pointed impassionedly to the left and right, and said with a laugh.

"Lao Qing's family, this is Sheji!"

In the wheat fields on the left and right, the green wheat seedlings have already emerged, looking at the past, mixed with the darkness of the earth, everywhere is a pleasant green, and the green wheat seedlings have also brought new hope to the birthplace of this civilization.

Straightened his waist and looked left and right, and the old Xiao Sheng, who was still worried about his stomach just now, unconsciously dissipated a lot of irritability in his heart.

What about farming for a day for the sake of this new hope?

"Your Majesty! Pimp!!! ”

When the monarch and the ministers were relaxed, the crisp shout came from the other side of the city gate, the family of King Min is completely close to the people today, the queen's eldest grandson weaving, Xiao Shufei Man'er, and Qin Concubine Anna are also dressed in the usual clothes of a people's woman, carrying a basket of earth, the long phoenix crown on the head is also removed, and the hair is wrapped in a handkerchief.

Especially Anna, I didn't expect that the king of Min, who was high in the stomach of bad water, would go to work in the field, full of curiosity, this girl ran and shouted, but just ran two steps, and I fell into the soft mud of the paddy field near the dry field.

Spraying muddy water, the Byzantine princess got up sadly, but in a blink of an eye, she turned into a mud monkey, Li Jie was stunned for a few seconds, and then covered her stomach and laughed loudly.

The warm spring breeze carries laughter, and the wheat seedlings blowing are warm and warm......