Listening to Senior Li Nature's statement of self-reliance and self-improvement, Director Xin's expression immediately became resolute. Over the past 20 years, the Great Song Dynasty has relied on its own bloody struggle to create today's situation, and the province of Europa has also started from scratch for more than ten years, relying on itself to build today's prestige in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Seeing that Director Xin's expression changed so quickly, the ambassador wanted to remind him again, but finally said: "You must not let Hao Kang become a party to the formal alliance now, it is still too early." ”

Li naturally nodded in agreement, "We, the Europa Province, signed a contract with Hao Kang alone, isn't this what Hao Kang wants?" If he wants to ask for East and West Rome, why should he contact us? ”

"Okay." The ambassador has nothing to worry about. The province of Europa was not afraid of the Mongols, and after the death of Hao Ren, the Yuan State completely cut off its aid to the Mongols, and Boyan was busy in Western Rome. If Mongolia became an enemy of Europa again because of Hao Kang's affairs, the Great Song Dynasty could only reluctantly accept the two river valleys.

The decision was made here, and the province of Europa immediately sent people to Damascus to contact Hao Kang. Hao Kang's side immediately signed a contract with the province of Europa, and the envoy of the province of Europa returned to Constantinople with a long list. The upper echelons of the office couldn't help but laugh after reading the previous contents, and Director Xin nodded and praised: "It is worthy of being a student from the Great Song Dynasty, this vision is really completely different." ”

Li naturally laughed a few times and agreed, "I remember that this kid should have graduated from a water conservancy major." Yes, yes, I know that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads, have fewer children and grow more trees. ”

The ambassador didn't laugh, he was quite concerned about the matter. He picked up the list again and looked at the contents. It is divided into three categories, the third category is military equipment, Hao Kang hopes that allies will provide a certain amount of muskets and artillery and corresponding ammunition. The second group was transport and communications, which wanted to help with lighthouses and telegraphs. The first category is production, which is aimed at tree species in saline-alkali areas.

Further down, Hao Kang ensured that Damascus provided port and trade services to the province of Europa and to East and West Rome. The two sides can also cooperate in various ways on intelligence. Hao Kang also said that his territory will abide by this agreement, and he also hopes to get monetary support from the province of Europa.

Mongolia was a barbaric country in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Yuan State was not necessarily so. Every time he saw Hao Kang, the ambassador couldn't associate barbarism with Hao Kang. This young man with an admirable appearance is a Song man no matter how he looks at it, and his speech and demeanor make people think of the Mongols. As for the content of this agreement, it is already an exchange between civilized countries, and the degree of civilization is more civilized than that of Eastern and Western Rome. is worthy of a guy who has received a complete education in the Great Song Dynasty, this is the level that it should be.

Thinking of this, the ambassador was even more puzzled. The reason why the imperial court made such a decisive decision should be that it has more in-depth information. Who gave such information to the imperial court? Providing information to the imperial court behind the back of the ambassador is not authentic.

Here, Li naturally continued to discuss Hao Kang's list of help, "I don't think the others need to be given first, but poplar trees, poplar trees, the companion forest of poplar trees, and red willow books can be given first." It seems that Hao Kang had already planted a wave of red willows when he was the governor of Damascus before. ”

What did Hao Kang do before, Director Xin came relatively late, and the ambassador didn't care. Both said they had no idea that Hao Kang had planted red willow trees. Li naturally only had a little impression, and he didn't understand what kind of results the red willow trees planted by Hao Kang had.

With this suspicion, the province of Europa immediately took action. Originally, the province had already begun to plant several plants that were conducive to improving the saline-alkali land on the saline-alkali land on the provincial boundary, and they only needed to be shipped from the nursery for transportation. As a sign of goodwill, the ministry also sent technical personnel to help.

Technician Sun was assigned a task as soon as he arrived in Damascus, and it was not surprising that the technicians of the Great Song Dynasty received an education in school that 'where does a happy life come from, it must be created by labor'. When he saw the interface personnel, the two looked at each other for a while, and exclaimed in unison, "second" and "fourth". The two knew each other, they were classmates from agricultural school, and they lived in the same dormitory.

"Second brother, why did you defect to the Mongols?" Technician Sun asked in surprise.

The brother who ranked fourth in the dormitory smiled awkwardly, "Hehe, I was originally a northern Han Chinese. ”

Technician Sun was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he understood what 'Northern Han people' meant, and then he had mixed feelings in his heart. But the fourth child in the dormitory had already come over and stretched out his hand, and the love of classmates overwhelmed the national separation at this time, and Technician Sun also came up to shake hands. After that, he punched the fourth child in the chest of the dormitory a few times in anger.

The two brothers walked in the mangrove grove and talked about what happened after graduating from college. Hearing the difficulties of his classmates in the past few years, Technician Sun could only sigh. When he looked up, he saw that the red willow forest was also a little scaled, and he changed the heavy topic to the current matter. "Fourth, how can I not believe that Mongolians really know how to plant trees."

The fourth child's name is Zhang Baishou, and when he heard this, he defended himself: "Mongolians cut down trees all the time, and I am not a Mongolian." ”

Technician Sun's name is Sun Fangting, and he agrees with this statement very much, and nods again and again. The two roommates reached a delicate agreement and talked about their work together. Zhang Baishou said his opinion, "The Arabian Peninsula and the Anatolian Peninsula are considered a whole piece. This whole area is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it is now made to look like it because of wild cultivation and wild irrigation. The manager planted red willow here once before, and fortunately, the red willow is very lively, so there is finally such a little bit left. ”

"Hmm." Sun Fangting nodded in agreement. The geographical location of the Arabian Peninsula can be known by looking at the map, and the fact that the land surrounded by the sea on three sides is actually mostly desert and desert shocked the technicians of the Great Song Dynasty. The air here is very humid, and it is not that there is no precipitation, but the desert cannot hold water, and there is too much saline-alkali land, so the limited arable land is used to grow food. There is simply no room for planting trees.

"Have you seen the latest propaganda in China? There are references to the Crucifixion. Sun Fangting talked about the latest content. When it comes to technology, he forgets that according to nationality, Da Song's old classmates are not domestic but foreign. In recent years, the Great Song Dynasty has developed the Huanghuai Plain and attached great importance to soil and water conservation and long-term development. There are examples of the two river basins and the Arabian Peninsula that can be used as negative examples of barbaric reclamation.

According to the Cruciform scriptures, not long after the Ichirael crossed the Red Sea with Moses, he lost faith and complained because the water of Marat could not be drunk. Later, Moses threw a tree into the water, as Jehovah had instructed, and the water became sweet.

This story was supposed to be about a miracle, but the focus of the Great Song Dynasty's agricultural department was, 'Thousands of years ago there was a forest here, why is there no longer it now?' The reason for this is that the land has become salinized due to deforestation and brutal reclamation, and the forests that were once used up have been depleted and cannot be regenerated.

After listening to the 'domestic' propaganda, Zhang Baishou nodded again and again, "I also think so." Damascus has a lot of farmland, but no forests. Thinking about it, this shouldn't be what it should be, so we chose a tree that could grow in large numbers at this time. It is hoped that the feed will be available as soon as possible. ”

"You use leaves as fodder?" Sun Fangting became interested.

"If you don't use leaves as fodder, then what do you use as fodder? Although alfalfa is good, the saline-alkali land here is no longer suitable for the good growth of alfalfa, and if you want to stop alfalfa, you have to use poplar trees to pull the soil from the soil for a few years. ”

Walking through the sparse red willow forest, the old classmates walked and chatted, and gradually entered the working state. In the days that followed, everyone began to rush to work. Damascus also has a Mediterranean climate, with warm and rainy winters, so plant cuttings for the winter.

The work is naturally hard, and Sun Fangting has to make various records every day, which is part of his work. Every six months, these records are compiled and submitted to the intelligence services by intelligence analysts. The Great Song Dynasty does not engage in confidential intelligence spying, as long as it finds out how much land Damascus has and what output it has. can estimate the local food production. How much food, how much population, can judge the approximate number of troops that the other side can organize to fight.

According to the information gathered so far, Hao Kang can organize no more than 40,000 troops to conduct defensive battles in the local area at most. In the case of an expedition, the size of his expeditionary army was about 10,000 men for four months of continuous fighting. This point of strength is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is also very weak compared to the countries of the Quadripartite Alliance.

This does not mean that Hao Kang's efforts are to grow crops on saline-alkali land, and the technical department believes that Hao Kang has really seized a few opportunities. The arable land is already full, and the native plants on the saline land can barely be gnawed by camels. Many plants with extremely bitter juices do not even dare to be disturbed by camels. The saline-tolerant plants introduced by Hao Kang can provide fodder for livestock, the leaves of red willow trees can be fed at least sheep, and the leaves of poplar trees can even be eaten by horses after treatment. Obtaining new output from saline-alkali land that could not be used in the first place will face the problem of a relatively long time period, but it is a solution to the root of the problem.

The upper echelons of the province did not discuss the matter, but everyone's opinion of Hao Kang leaned a little towards the good side. It is not easy for a young person not to rush for quick success. At this time, another young man who was not in a hurry to make a quick profit had already fulfilled the wish of Europa, and a real estate agent whose background no one discussed officially launched a food stamp mortgaged house. The mortgage service for the real estate agency was provided by the Constantinople Bank, which was jointly funded by the province of Europa and the Eastern Roman Empire.

The Constantinople Money House is located in the Golden Horn and has three tall flagpoles in front of its gates. The tallest one in the middle hangs the flag of the Eastern Roman Empire, with low flagpoles on both sides, and the white flag with the logo of the Constantinople money bank painted on it. In the crisp autumn wind, three brand-new flags flutter in the wind, and you feel alive just by looking at it.

Ge Song

Ge Song