Hao Kang, the Minister of Water Resources of the Mongol Empire, stopped his horse and looked at the wheat fields. Totoh had already seen Hao Kang's temper, and seeing that Damascus City was in front of him, Totoku persuaded: "Brother Hao Kang, when we come back, brother, I will accompany you to see enough." ”

Hao Kang also knows the temper of the eldest brother, most Mongolians are like this, and the detachment is not particularly prominent in it. He urged the half-breed to ride side by side with Tokhtar. Tokhtar also rode the Yuanguo hybrid horse given to him by Hao Ren, thinking that he was going to enter the city, but he didn't expect Hao Kang to pass by outside the city gate and go straight to a mansion on the outskirts of the city.

Seeing the family emblem of Boyan on the flag fluttering on the flagpole outside the door from a distance, I felt relieved. The Mongolian princes all colluded with each other, and it would be strange if there was no collusion between Hao Ren and Boyan. The caravans outside the gate of Boyan's mansion came and went, and it was very lively. The Yuan Kingdom mixed breed horse is tall, and compared to the surrounding horses, it feels like it stands out from the crowd. In the eyes of envy and jealousy of everyone, I got rid of the beauty in my heart.

Hao Kang and Tokh led a total of fifty guards, waving a clear banner. Someone had already seen them inside the compound, and when they arrived outside the door, someone had already greeted them at the door. The steward stepped forward to salute Hao Kang, "The little prince is well." ”

Totoku was unhappy in his heart, and shouted to the steward: "Brother Hao Kang is already the Minister of Water Resources, what little prince, can you speak?" ”

When the steward heard the reprimand, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Hello minister." Who is this? ”

Hao Kang replied: "Brother Tokhtar is the confidant minister of the Great Khan, and he is in charge of the affairs of the banner army. ”

"Two masters, it's a little rude." The steward saluted the two again.

He shouted "Hey" to Hao Kang, and after Hao Kang heard it, he could only ask the steward here, "Has the courtesan group arrived?" ”

"Back to the little prince, they sent someone to say that they could arrive today. Small conjecture, watching the performance is only afraid to wait for the day after tomorrow. ”

"Hmm." Hao Kang answered, thought for a while and then said, "You leave us a place to stay, and we will come back tomorrow." ”

"Yes."

"Brother Tokhtar, let's go to Damascus first." After Hao Kang finished speaking, he turned the horse and left. Totoku was stunned, he didn't understand what Hao Kang meant, so he could only urge the horse to catch up.

Without waiting for Totoku to ask, Hao Kang first explained: "Brother Toto, our Mongolian man has run hundreds of miles, can he sing when he jumps off the horse?" Even if you can sing, will it sound good? ”

Tokhtar understood what Hao Kang meant, so he could only follow Hao Kang. As he walked, he came to a fork in the road, and Hao Kang stopped his horse and thought for a moment, and set off towards the road away from Damascus. Tokhtar followed, and he sighed, "Alas! Brother Hao Ren, can't you just look at the farmland? ”

"I became the Minister of Water Resources, what do I see if I don't look at the farmland?"

"Brother, you're not short of money...... Alas, brother, you will only be hated for doing so! ”

"It's these birdmen messing around in the court that the court is so poor!" Hao Kang was also furious. He raised his horsewhip and pointed to the saline-alkali land in the fertile fields where large patches of barren grass had grown, and said angrily: "The saline-alkali land and farmland here are half and half, and if they are not treated, the fertile land will also become saline-alkali land." Now things can still grow in saline-alkali land, and nothing can grow, and good land is also wasted! ”

"Brother Hao Kang, don't say it, whatever you say won't be useful." Totok lamented: "You are still young, do you think that the princes don't know that there will be accidents in the saline-alkali land?" They're not as stupid as you think. It is a good thing for the princes to have these saline-alkali lands, and the province has to work hard to draw the boundary. ”

"Huh?" Young Hao Kang was stunned, he never thought of such a technique. Logically speaking, this is really in line with the impression left by the Mongolian prince on Hao Kang, because of this, Hao Kang only felt anger rushing to his heart after a short period of surprise, "Don't these people think about future generations?" ”

"Future generations? Hehe, hahaha...... "Tokh is really amused." After being in contact with Hao Ren and Hao Kang for half a year, Totok figured out the hearts of the father and son. The Mongolian prince's evaluation of these two people is really not wronged by them. The Mongolian tribes live in pursuit of water and grass, and have a fixed place in summer and winter every year, and rush to migrate in the two places at other times. In the event of a natural disaster, they also have to migrate to other backup areas. The tribe will ruthlessly rob and kill in order to keep the herd.

Hao Ren and Hao Kang wanted to settle down, just as they had traveled thousands of miles to the vicinity of the Dnieper River and had taken root in the land like trees. The royal city in Kiev had not been touched for ten years, and it was originally heard that they were going to move the capital to Warsaw, but it was terminated because the imperial court urged Hao Ren to take office. The reason why the Yuan Kingdom wanted to move to Warsaw was not because it could not stay in Kiev, but because it was so that it could continue to expand westward. Presumably they will stay forever after arriving in Warsaw.

Such an approach is incompatible with the Mongols. The way the Mongols are working for future generations is to build as much pasture as possible, so that they have more options to migrate and run faster in the event of a disaster. When you encounter difficulties, stay to face them and solve them? This was not at all in the minds of the Mongols.

I laughed heartily for a while, and it took off to clean up my mood. Seeing that Hao Kang continued to move forward with a gloomy face at this time, he said, "Brother Hao Kang, I advise you not to move forward. It's not that you won't be allowed to look at the ground, and if you go forward, you're afraid that you will encounter danger. ”

"Does anyone dare to rob us? We're going to be flying the big flag. Hao Kang replied angrily.

"If we don't play a big banner and pass in front of the prince's Zhuangzi, they don't know where we came from, and they may not come to provoke. Let's fly the banner, and the princes dare to send people over to inquire. In case someone doesn't have a long-term eye on our horse, hehe, I think we better not cause trouble. ”

Because he knew that Tokhtar was temporarily on the same side as himself, Hao Kang believed that Tokhtar would not be deliberately alarmist. Coupled with the words he heard before, Hao Kang said viciously: "Since you dare to come to rob, then ask the guy in our hands!" ”

Seeing that Hao Kang was really on the fire, he could only sigh and follow Hao Kang to continue to move forward.

The fifty-odd cavalry walked along the passage formed by the saline-alkali land, and Hao Kang looked at the farmland and the looming Zhuangzi, and admired Tokh more and more in his heart. He originally thought that Tokhtar was only mixed in the Mongolian court, and he was not clear about the specific things below. And it turns out that the detachment does not know anything about agriculture and water conservancy. But it is clear to the princes that the saline-alkali land forms a natural barrier, outlining irregular plots on the plain. Each Zhuangzi occupies a piece of it, and it is easy to see that the land is king.

Having seen the plains of the Great Song Dynasty, the plains of the Yuan Kingdom, and now seeing the plains of Mongolia, Hao Kang only felt that the whole person had no strength to laugh. "Brother Totok, let's go back." Hao Kang said.

"It's all here, where is it so easy to go back." Totoh replied indifferently.

"Oh?" Hao Kang looked at Tofu in puzzlement.

Tokhtar raised his horsewhip and pointed to his right, "It's been following us for a while." ”

Hao Kang looked at it for a while, but he didn't see anything.

"I didn't expect that someone would dare to brush the tiger's whiskers and teach them how to do it." Tokhtar's voice and expression were completely different from his in Baghdad, and his cunning and sleek turned into a mixture of cruel war intent.

"Brother Tokhtar, are you trying to kill someone?" Hao Kang was a little surprised.

"Didn't the Great Khan form a banner army for this? What's the matter, Brother Hao Kang is afraid that people will talk about you behind their backs? ”

Listening to the murderous words, Hao Kang muttered in his heart. He was just afraid that his father would know that he was killing people outside with his guards, and it would be difficult for his father to scold him at that time. However, this uneasiness soon turned into surprise for Tokhtar himself. Of course, Hao Kang knew that Totok, as the confidant of the Great Khan, was responsible for forming a banner army, and the purpose of forming a banner army was to suppress all the Mongolian princes. It's just that Hao Kang knows that the level of the Mongolian Great Khan's banner army is completely incapable of comparing with the elite of the Yuan State. How will the flag army compare with the prince's army? Hao Kang was quite interested in this.

Everyone continued to move forward, and Hao Kang carefully observed. Finally, I vaguely saw that some cavalry was indeed on the right, and they cleverly used the undulations of the terrain to hide. Even the Great Plains cannot really be completely level, and it is impossible for ordinary people to see the end of the earth at a glance on horseback.

After walking for a while, Totoku suddenly took a sip, "Cut, these unseeded guys actually retreated!" ”

Hao Kang had never fought a war, and he didn't understand how Tokhtar made such a judgment. He asked tentatively, "Are those people really gone?" ”

"Well, let's go. Let's go back. After Tokhtar finished speaking, he turned his horse's head and returned the way he came. Faced with an unfamiliar situation, Hao Kang could only follow the direction of Damascus after taking off.

Many people in the Eutheistic region will say, 'If you want to know where heaven is, go to Damascus'. Every time he entered the city, Hao Kang felt that it was better to be famous than to meet. After entering this time, I saw a lot of restaurants and shops on the roadside. His mind moved, and he had some other feelings. Damascus has significantly more farmland than many other areas in the valley. Without food, there was no basis for trade, and the cities of the Yuan kingdom were much worse than those of Baghdad, and the towns on the transportation hubs were a hundred times better than the territory of the Great Khan. The farmers of the farm liked to trade their grain and meat in the town, because the food in the town was cheap and the people were used to eating and drinking outside. What makes everyone complain is probably the cooking skills of the town's chefs.

Thinking of this, Hao Kang went to his residence first. After that, he took a few guards out to go shopping, and he inquired about several restaurants in succession, and found that the price of food in Damascus was indeed cheaper than in Baghdad, but several times more expensive than in Yuanguo. The trading site they went to in Boyan before was mainly engaged in grain sales. It seems that Boyan got some of the grain from the Yuan Kingdom and sent it here to sell, but he made a lot of money.

Tokh probably accepted his fate, so he followed Hao Kang around. When Hao Kang finally sat down in a good-looking shop and began to order, he asked a little unexpectedly, "That's it?" ”

"Big Brother Tokh doesn't like this?"

"It's not. I thought you'd have to go a little bit more. ”

"Huh. I think this one is pretty good. ”

As he spoke, he heard music. Hao Kang: They sat on the second floor, which was for rich guests. The music came from behind the curtain hanging on the second floor of the store, and the curtain was pulled out in the running hall, where several musicians were tuning instruments. Before Hao Kang's meal came up, the musicians began to play music to entertain the guests.

At the end of the song, some guests lost their rewards. Tofu asked Hao Kang with great interest: "How are the courtesans you said compare to these people?" ”

Hao Kang laughed a few times, and it was hard to say anything. The artists here play local music, which is completely different from the tunes that Hao Kang is familiar with.

At this time, the meal was served, and Hao Kang and Totoku chatted while eating. Hao Kang is very interested in those princes, in his more than 20 years of life, he has not seen the so-called domineering guys since he was sensible. Of course, this is not to say that Hao Kang has not seen the stunned Qing. Although the Great Song Dynasty has a stable Qingming system, it is far from the point where the road is not forgotten and the door is not closed at night. Hao Kang has not only seen many thefts and robberies, but also encountered murders on the street. It was not uncommon for people to be killed in various fights in the Yuan Kingdom.

It's just that individual crimes are different from tyrannical crimes. Yuan Guo has never been soft on those 'heroes on the road', and every once in a while, you can see fresh and hot heads hanging up to warn the people of Yuan Guo that Yuan Guo has a royal law. As for the Great Song Dynasty, there is a patriotic health month that is openly publicized, and there is also a crackdown that is publicly publicized. During that time, raping a woman would result in a beheading, and stealing an alarm clock would result in a heavy sentence.

Tokhtar didn't know the security of the Great Song Dynasty and the Yuan Kingdom, and when he heard Hao Kang ask about the Mongolian prince, he raised his chin at the tables next to him, "Look at what they will do, don't you know." ”

Hao Kang turned his head to take a look, and saw that the people at the table next to him were wearing Mongolian summer clothes, and it was just like that from the fabric. Seeing Hao Kang coming over, there were people at several tables who cast unfriendly glances with their slender eyes. Hao Kang turned his head, his big bright eyes were puzzled. He lowered his voice a little more, "Big brother, are these people the prince?" ”

"Huh. Brother Hao Kang, the people you have seen are all big people, and they are naturally dressed differently. You can't go to the countryside and look down on people. If these people weren't the princes, how could they eat in such a restaurant. ”

Hao Kang didn't understand it, which meant that it was passable. Compared with other stores, it is much cleaner, barely to the level that Hao Kang can bear. If he really wants to eat in that kind of dirty restaurant, Hao Kang feels that he can completely deal with a meal by going back to his residence to grill some meat and nibble on naan.

I don't know what to say, and another song ends. I heard someone shouting at the table next to me: "Let&^*@#姑娘出来." ”

Because he said a foreign name, Hao Kang didn't understand it at all. There was a guy who looked like a foreman here and said with a smile: "A few princes, the girl has to wait a little longer." ”

When the prince heard this, he took out Zhang Dayuan's banknote and slapped it on the table, and shouted loudly: "We are here to see the girl, what is the point of you sending some singers!" ”

Looking at the denomination of the banknotes, Hao Kang almost didn't laugh. Too little.