The general's eyes were full of scrutiny and puzzlement. After staring at Sheila for a long time, the general asked, "Your Excellency Sheila, won't you lose money at this price?" ”

The whisperers in the cafeteria immediately stopped, and the officers focused their eyes on Sheila's face again. Before Sheila personally arrived at the Legion, she had sent an emissary to ask the Legion to gather the captain and the soldiers above the captain for dinner, and Sheila would bring a new food to the Legion. The officers had been discussing what new food Patriarch Sheila would bring to the table, and the common point was that they were full of anticipation. The results in front of us even exceeded expectations, but they did not make everyone happy.

Ordinary people in Eastern Rome would also make sweet jam from ripe berries, and such sweet sugar in front of them was a delicacy that only the nobles could enjoy. The officers in the legion just took the candy that had just been eaten in their mouths as a gesture of kindness to Sheila, and this kind of thing was probably just a few bites to taste the sweetness. If the total amount is a little bit, how can it be cheaper?

Sheila could understand the minds of these soldiers, they had been through it for a year, and this little sweetness was nothing compared to the anxiety they were enduring. So Sheila raised her left hand high, stretched out her five fingers, and said loudly: "Based on the price of wheat at the beginning of last year, three catties of wheat are exchanged for two catties of caramel sugar!" I guarantee that each soldier of the regiment in Ankara will receive five pounds of caramel per month. That's what you've just eaten. ”

Still no one spoke, everyone looked at Sheila like a monster, and some people's eyes were even full of pity. The price of sugar that only a legionnaire can eat for five catties a month is one and a half times that of last year's wheat. The general smiled bitterly, the female senator's concern for the Roman legions was indeed touching, but this female senator may have gone crazy under great concern.

Sheila was accustomed to the methods of the Europa province and understood that they were often inexplicable to outsiders. She didn't bother to explain, and asked the general in a loud voice: "Your Excellency, I know that Baseleus has already sent you food stamps. Can you accept my proposed price? ”

"Heh, hehe." The general couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your Excellency Sheila, are you sure you won't lose money?" ”

"I just don't make money, not to the point of losing money. Your Excellency, I am in a hurry to go back to deliver the goods, so please answer clearly, can the Legion accept this price? ”

This insistence left the general no longer able to help Sheila, and the general asked the officers, "Brothers of the Legion, can you accept this price?" ”

"Of course you can!" Immediately someone replied loudly. The others who did not say anything were not unacceptable to the price, but felt that the price itself was ridiculously cheap.

The general said to Sheila: "Look, everyone can accept it. ”

Sheila stood up and said, "I'll go back to shipping the goods now." With that, he walked out quickly.

Riding on her horse, Sheila felt a large stone fall back into her stomach. Suren was an unknown man in Constantinople, and few people knew him. The aristocracy of Ankara described Suren as a 'weirdo'. After working together for such a long time, Sheila felt that everyone's assessment was correct, and Suren was indeed a weirdo by the standards of a bygone era. But times are beginning to change, and Suren's personality will make him completely different in the new era.

The aristocracy of Ankara was very cautious in the first year of cooperation with the province of Europa, and most of the money earned from sepiolite was used to buy steel tools, and the new crops were planted very little. Su Lun's family has 2,000 eugram land, which is converted into 24,000 mu of land in the Great Song Dynasty. This guy's enthusiasm for cooperation is a little unbearable for everyone in the province of Europa. Almost the staff let Su Lun plant 12,000 acres of sweet potatoes, 4,000 acres of pumpkins, and 4,000 acres of corn. Two thousand acres of land are planted with barley and peppers, and the remaining corners are planted with potatoes. A small amount of extraordinarily fertile land was developed into wheat test plots.

The results of the harvest frightened Sheila, an acre of pumpkin yielded 2,000 catties, an acre of sweet potatoes was also 2,000 catties, and an acre of potatoes was 6 or 700 catties. Su Lun's granary was already stuffed, and a large number of sweet potatoes, pumpkins, and potatoes were piled up as high as a mountain in the open space outside the granary. Many nobles who were frightened by the yield per mu planted in a small amount simply cried regretfully after seeing Su Lun's house.

The province of Europa did not stop there, and Sheila did not understand why barley was planted on land that could have grown wheat. Now she understands that sugar can be made from sweet potatoes and barley malt. Suren gave Sheila half the price of maltose at the beginning of last year, and sweet potatoes were ten times as much as wheat. Even if barley is included, Suren benefits three and a half times the price of wheat per acre compared to the price of wheat at the beginning of last year. The great nobles tried their best to move and the unobtainable benefits were easily achieved here in Suren. In that case, Sheila had no reason to delay.

On the morning of Sheila's third day of departure from Ankara, thirty wagons loaded with goods stopped at the gate of the Ankara regimental camp. The general who got the news came to greet him in person, followed by many officers and soldiers. Sheila felt tired from all this rush, and she tried her best to straighten her waist and say to the general: "Your Excellency, how are you going to accept it?" ”

The general had experienced many fierce war scenes, and looking at the car full of things, he still didn't know how to deal with it. If Senator Sheila hadn't gone mad, the general felt like he was going mad. The legionnaires and their families had been starved of food for months, and Patriarch Sheila's solution was 'I don't have enough food, I'll give you candy.' ’

At this time, there is no room for things to turn around, and since there is always a crazy one between Sheila and the general, the general decides to die early and save his life early. He said to the adjutant general: "Start the acceptance." ”

After more than an hour, the solid and liquid maltose was accepted. The officers naturally smiled as they recalled the last taste. The soldiers didn't know what it tasted like, they could only hope for it. The general was silent for a while and then asked Sheila, "These are only two months' supply." ”

Sheila laughed, "Your Excellency, these sugars are not very shelf-stable. I will send it again in a month. ”

"Hmm." The general replied absentmindedly.

Sheila, she asked bluntly, "When will Your Excellency issue the certificate?" I also got the certificate and went back to Constantinople to receive the money. ”

The hesitation in the general's eyes was swept away, and he replied decisively: "Your Excellency Sheila, this is the first time I have eaten this kind of candy, and I don't know if the people of the legion can accept it, and I don't know what will happen after so many people eat it. Will I be allowed to issue a certificate after 2 months? ”

"Okay." Sheila replied very simply: "Can you please help me write letters of recommendation to other legions?" ”

"Absolutely." The general replied with a blank face.

Sheila, who got the general's letter of recommendation, rushed back to Constantinople as fast as she could, and went straight to Constantinople's legions without returning home. I thought that the generals of Constantinople would be more receptive to new things, but I didn't expect that this side would be more conservative than the generals of the regiments in Ankara. After the tasting, the general did not even order on a large scale, but asked Sheila to provide another 10,000 catties for promotion within the legion.

Sheila felt a little uneasy. Have these people been hungry long enough? Or are you addicted to pumpkin and potatoes? Why don't you hurry up and buy such a good thing! Forcing her patience, Sheila returns home and prepares to travel again. No matter what the Legion generals thought, all the legions except her brother's legion had to go in person.

Hearing that Sheila was going out again, her mother couldn't help but complain distressedly: "Sheila, how do I think that there is only one senator in the entire Senate doing things, and the others don't know what they are busy with all day." Look at what you've sunned! ”

Hearing this complaint, Sheila's father immediately objected, "You can't say that, the other patriarchs naturally have the affairs of other patriarchs, and they are also very hard." ”

She gave her husband a blank look, but Sheila's mother stopped talking. Sheila didn't think much of it, and she continued to prepare her luggage for the trip. Sheila's own affairs are already busy, and where can she take care of what the other patriarchs are doing.

Through the office's own channels, I learned that Sheila was about to leave as soon as she came back, and Director Xin smiled: "Is the little girl very motivated?" ”

Having momentum has been a tradition in Europa Province for more than ten years, and a place thousands of miles away from the motherland is not a good place to retire. Senior Li naturally hasn't been here for long, but he fully understands this tradition. He nodded appreciatively, and the office was eager for Sheila's success. The two foods look staggering in Maori, and the profits are just enough for Europa to invest in aid. The better Sheila does, the sooner the province will be profitable. The principal is required to open a bank, and the province of Europa does not want to use the banknotes of the four parties as the principal.

As soon as Director Xin finished praising Sheila, he asked Li Tiantian, "Will the other elders intervene?" ”

"They may intervene when they see the benefits, and the purpose of the elders who will intervene now is probably hostile to Sheila."

Director Xin agrees with Li Nature's analysis in principle, but it is difficult to say such a thing. The Yuan Kingdom originally had some meaning of taking the grain and waiting for the price to sell, and at this time, the Yuan ** team was fighting fiercely with the Crusaders dominated by the Teutonic Knights in the Warsaw area. The Eastern Rome really didn't have to think about importing grain again.

After more than half a year of panic, the legions, which were the cornerstone of the Eastern Roman court, became more and more hostile to the great nobles. After this toss, the nobles failed to achieve the goal of raising the price of grain. They are equally hopeless about the future. If the Great Song Dynasty encountered such a desperate situation on both sides, the most likely thing was that a civil war would break out.

Taking Europa Province as an example, the previous conflict between Yeluhon and Xie Song had not yet reached the point of life and death, and the upper echelons of Europa Province were divided and forced to take sides. Thanks to Yang calmly, he wrote a letter immediately after learning that there was a split opinion within the province, and Yeluhong was not an ordinary person, so he quickly discussed the matter with Xie Song, and finally did not let the situation deteriorate quickly. The upper echelons are no longer opposed, and the pressure on the operation of the office has plummeted. Director Xin was finally able to put all his energy into his own work. One of his tasks was to keep a close eye on the internal struggles of the upper echelons of Eastern Rome.