The sunset in Kyiv is beautiful, Hao Rui sits in his father Hao Ren's office and looks at the dazzling sunset from the window. By the ninth month of the Western calendar, the length of the day and night is similar. If it's June, you'll be able to see a completely different landscape.

Every year on the summer solstice, due to the direct sunlight hitting the Tropic of Capricorn, the phenomenon of long days and short nights in the northern hemisphere is formed. Kyiv is located in a very northerly part of the planet, with extremely long days and very short nights. On the day of the summer solstice, Kiev has 17 hours of sunshine, and the sky is still bright at 11 p.m. after sunset. People can read, write, and play chess in the white night, and the so-called night falls between 1 and 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, the sky is gray, and people can still distinguish each other from a distance of more than ten meters. At this time, the sunset and the morning halo are reflected in the sky over Kiev, and the scenery is extremely gorgeous. The night lasted less than two hours, and when it was dark, a meal was cooked, and after the meal was finished, it was bright again.

At that time, he and his eldest brother were really close, Hao Rui sighed in his heart. He has never been to the Great Song Dynasty, and his memory of the capital is very weak. Listening to the eldest brother talk about his experience in the Great Song Dynasty, Hangzhou, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, is located in the south near the Tropic of Cancer, so the difference between day and night every day is not large. This exotic style made Hao Rui want to go to the Great Song Dynasty to see it.

However, the second brother rushed to tell Hao Rui that day, and the eldest brother Hao Kang was not the biological son of his father Hao Ren, which made Hao Rui angry. He scolded the second brother away first, and suddenly became worried while being angry, and then secretly sent someone to tell the eldest brother Hao Kang that the second brother Hao Gui was only afraid of raiding the eldest brother.

Later, when he heard that the second brother died during the raid on the eldest brother, Hao Rui was shocked. After the eldest brother fled, Jiang Guangtou suddenly became obsessed with nonsense. Hao Rui can only beg his mother to take action, and now that the situation in Kiev has finally stabilized, Hao Rui has time to sort out his thoughts. Even if the eldest brother didn't kill the second brother himself, the eldest brother would not be able to escape the blame. Knowing that the two are not the same father, Hao Rui felt as if part of his feelings had been drained of his heart, of course he didn't want to kill his eldest brother Hao Kang, but all the friendship was that.

In Odessa, almost a thousand kilometers to the south, it was already completely dark. Wei Jingwang looked anxious in the conference room where the candles were lit, and seeing that Hao Kang didn't speak, Wei Jingwang said hurriedly: "Prince, let's do it." At present, all armies are very angry, and the will of the army can be used by the people. ”

Hao Kang couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, what came to his mind was not the third brother Hao Rui, but his mother Bao Xiweak. It was okay to flee to Odessa to avoid trouble, and he raised troops to fight his third brother, which was to make his mother die of sadness. As for the generals who defected to Hao Kang's side, they wanted to go on the Northern Expedition as Wei Jingwang said. After staying in the Mongolian court for so long and getting used to seeing people's hearts, Hao Kang knew that these people were so excited only because they were dissatisfied with Bao Xi's weak killing of Jiang Guangtou. The generals thought that Jiang Guang would not die if he surrendered, and he did not have the courage to fight against the imperial court by himself, so he naturally chose to defect to Hao Kang's side to participate in the confrontation against the imperial court.

Silence, silence, Hao Kang was caught in a dilemma and couldn't extricate himself.

"It's really unpleasant." Xie Song sat in the rest room of the office building of the province of Europa in Constantinople and said, opposite sat Li Tiantian and several other main cadres, and soft and hard side dishes such as dried meat, peanuts, and shredded chicken were placed on the small table, and the situation in the northern Yuan Kingdom was also used by them as a snack to taste. There was obvious dissatisfaction in Xie Song's tone, "If these people drag it out any longer, it will drag on until the rainy season, and then they will stare at it until next year." It would be better if the winner was now decided, and we could at least send people to discuss the matter of importing grain while winning the war. Fight for another year until next year, and you don't have to think about anything. ”

The others nodded one after another, and Li naturally sighed: "The Eastern Roman grain depot is already mostly empty, and according to the reserve standards set by the Eastern Roman as we know, it will not be possible to put grain out of the grain depot immediately." It's hard! ”

The cadres did not look good, and the latest of them to serve in the province of Europa was also in the year of the establishment of the Quadripartite Alliance, and everyone understood that Eastern Rome would soon return to normalcy before the formation of the Quadripartite Alliance. In the year when the Quadripartite Alliance was formed, the price of food in Eastern Rome was five times that of today. The Eastern Roman Empire did not have any existence called a treasury at all, and the standard of living of the Eastern Roman Emperor's family was not as good as that of the great nobles of the Eastern Roman Empire.

As a large amount of grain from the Yuan Kingdom entered the Eastern Roman Empire, the Eastern Roman Emperor ordered the formation of legions to pay military salaries with grain. The population of Constantinople, which was less than 50,000 people, increased rapidly, and after several years of explosive growth, the population of Constantinople now exceeds 400,000 people, and the total number is still growing. It is said that the city's population reached one million at its peak, and the Great Song Office thought it was nonsense. Chang'an covers an area of 36 square kilometers and has a population of one million. The office measured that Constantinople was only 16 square kilometers in size, so why did it live in a million people. The claim of half a million is more reliable.

More than 400,000 people meant that the city had a great deal of power to shock all parts of Eastern Rome. 400,000 people also means that the city needs to import huge quantities of food, and the current situation is bound to be a big problem.

More than a kilometer away from the office, Sheila's house sat in front of her father, looking unhappy. Her father's expression was serious, and his tone was just as serious, "Sheila, we must help our former neighbors. This is morality. ”

Sheila pursed her lips inadvertently, morality is a word she heard from her father since she was a child, and Sheila knows what it means. Now that she's calculated how much money she's needed to support morality, even if it's just to provide morality to her former neighbors, Sheila has to pull out all the money she has in her pocket. How Sheila wished she hadn't told her father that the war had stopped exporting grain to the Eastern Roman Empire, and she said it was only because she had found a way to buy enough food for her family for a year and a half. The Song Kingdom had many insect control techniques, such as first smoking the storage room with pyrethrum, sprinkling peppercorn grains in the storage room, and storing grain in a very well-sealed glazed clay pot. Chinese porcelain is famous all over the world, and glazing is just a piece of cake for them. No matter what the price of food will change in the future, Sheila's rations lie peacefully in the shady cellar storage room. Even the food needed for the banquet was prepared.

When his father heard the news, he did not praise Sheila's cleverness, but he solemnly demanded that Sheila pay for more food. The grain is not to be hoarded and resold, but to help neighbors in times of food shortage. Dad didn't like to drink before, but in the past two years, he will drink a little bit every day, and the scholar's bloodless and pale face has become a lot more ruddy. Sheila had to wonder if Daddy had had a few more drinks before she came up with this nonsense. Then Sheila listened to her father talk about morality.

Hearing the word again, Sheila said almost pleadingly, "Father, I have spent all my money on food. Please, don't be righteous. ”

Sheila herself didn't know why she was persuaded by her father, maybe not convinced, but she couldn't stand her father's chatter several times a day, so she gave up resisting. Now Sheila's pocket is empty, including the prize money she has just signed for a few cooperation projects and the advance has been smashed in. For the first time in years, Sheila was so penniless. If Daddy continued to say this, Sheila felt like she was going crazy.

"Helping others is not about asking for something in return, because giving back is your own business. Sheila, I'm glad you're willing to help you. But I also have to tell you that when it comes to helping others, you must not be on top, and that becomes charity. You have to help because you feel everyone's pain, otherwise all your help will only provoke resentment from others. ”

Hillary stood up, turned and left. When she walked to the door, she couldn't hold back anymore, turned around and shouted to her father, "I paid for it, I contributed my strength." On the contrary, I was wrong! Where...... Where...... Where can this be ......?"

Facing Sheila, who was so aggrieved that she choked, Daddy did not soften at all, he still said in a tone that was so serious that it was almost impersonal: "Charity is an insult, if you treat people with the attitude of charity, you are wrong!" ”

Woo-woo-woo-woo...... Sheila pushed open the door and ran to her bedroom crying. Throwing herself on her bed, Sheila burst into tears.

The next day, Sheila went to the office listlessly, signed in, wrote the attendance list, she still listlessly went to the appointed place, the task given to her by the office was to inquire about the bottom line of the big nobles selling grain, and this matter was not finished yet.

Entering the mansion, Sheila's mood was much better. Elegant decoration, elegant arrangement, even if it does not change the mood, it will not make the mood worse. Several members of the nobility naturally greeted Sheila, and someone immediately said, "Sheila, I heard that the Dahl family signed a contract with you to farm the land?" ”

"Yes." Sheila replied, feeling a little unhappy in her heart. Many nobles knew that Sheila had reached an agreement with some eastern nobles, and although the eastern nobles were generally considered to be dirt buns, the earth bun nobles were also nobles. Being able to sign an agreement with the nobles of the eastern buns means that Sheila has the 'concession' in her hands that the great nobles crave. So many big nobles are talking to Sheila so sour now.

The nobleman smiled and said, "I heard that the kid of the Dahl family is abnormal, and the land rent he collects is less than that of other people's families!" ”

Sheila couldn't help but blink so she wouldn't roll her eyes to the person opposite. She wanted to say in her heart, 'You're not normal, your whole family is not normal,' but she only said it in her heart. The reason why the office agreed to cooperate with the Dahl family was because the land rent of the Dahl family's children was small, and Xie Song said that the more farmers get, they will believe that they can reap more if they work harder. If you only have that little income no matter what you do, who has to work hard.

As far as Sheila knew, the powerful Great Song Dynasty had eliminated the landlords, and the country's agricultural tax was only 30%. Thirty percent of the land rent, and the Dahl family is also far behind.

These aristocrats joked and were measured, and after a few words, it was over. They began to talk about something else, and while they were talking, a man ran in, rushed in and shouted with joy, "Hey! The imperial court had already informed the legions that only seventy percent of the food would be given for the next month. ”

"Oh!" "Haha" The nobles immediately erupted in cheers. In the midst of joy, some people couldn't help shouting: "The world has been suffering from importing grain for a long time!" ”