Compared to Liuqiu Island, autumn on the Shandong Peninsula has a more autumn flavor. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the air was not yet cold, the blue sky became extraordinarily high, and the trees on the distant mountains turned a light yellow.

The autumn harvest of the entire Shandong Peninsula has basically come to an end, and the rest is small work.

Captain Bao Wei and Captain Guo Beyu were dressed in neat military uniforms and stood in the military command post in Jiaozhou City, looking at the autumn scenery outside through the celluloid glass window.

The Jiaozhou City Military Command Post is the tallest building in Jiaozhou City, with a total of four floors, fifteen meters high, and more than 30 independent rooms.

They were waiting for their partners to meet in the largest conference room.

Through the window, they saw that there was no white cotton wool left on the plants in the cotton field outside.

Picking cotton is the most annoying farm work, not to mention picking it several times, and it is very trivial, and it is better than it to cut wheat!

Bao Wei said with a sad face: "I heard that the owner of Zhang Island still thinks that the cotton production is insufficient------ and he still wants to reclaim the cotton fields." ”

Guo Beyu added with a sad face: "------Don't forget, you have to add another reclamation of sugar beet fields!" ”

The two of them were suddenly annoyed, and scolded in their hearts, the movement of those boys gathering for a meeting is getting slower and slower!

In fact, this is much better than before, they at least have war horses to help plow the land, help transport, and maybe even act as a "biological power"!

Of course, this is only possible when farm work is stressful.

They observed the movements of the Mamluk cavalry helping to use the horse-drawn plough, and found that they were also very skilled in farm work, and they were all poor boys.

There were rumors that slave soldiers like the Mamluks were castrated, and that such soldiers were more loyal, what a lie.

From a distance, it is a field, and you can faintly see white sheep grazing among the grasses, and after a while, it is the time to store green fodder.

Fortunately, they used to have to help them get silage, but now they don't need it, and the farmers who basically raise livestock will prepare it themselves, and they have taught them the technique a few years ago.

Last year they just taught the Mamluk muffs how to silage.

The Mamluk Mafu was amazed that these oriental warriors did not hesitate to feed the war horses food------ there were many kinds of food that he had never seen, but everyone could eat it, it was really a luxury.

Therefore, the war horses here are fat and strong, and they rarely get sick.

The boys finally arrived within the specified time------ originally they were twenty good friends, but due to the different division of labor, now there are a total of fourteen people on the Shandong Peninsula, and all of them have arrived.

This time, it is a technical and tactical style of play led by the army and supplemented by the navy.

Captain Bao Wei commanded the army to take the three cities of Jinan City, Zibo City and Laiwu City, and it was not a robbery but a construction, this smelting base belt must be taken down, only in this way can the further development of the flow industry be completed.

Iron is also the hard currency of this time and space, not just a weapon that sells well.

If it is said that the rope armor and plate armor are high-end products and make a lot of money, but its market is limited after all.

The Lu group is so rich and powerful, and it is only then that it has smashed out a team of 300 pro-soldiers with full body plate armor.

Unless the Great Song Dynasty military department is lured to take the bait and let them build a pure ironclad army of 10,000 people------ Liuqiu Island will make money, and the level of industrialization can be further improved.

But ordinary steel tools are the products that the whole world eats.

Even a knife of ordinary quality, a hammer or a shovel can be exchanged for a big cow, this is not new.

It's a pity that this market has made the officials and businessmen of the Great Song Dynasty rise up in vain!

But don't be afraid, they can go a little further------ officials and businessmen are wealthy, but they are slow to react.

There are also many merchants who are dissatisfied with the official and business behavior of the Great Song Dynasty.

The commercial and trade relations with the Tianzhu region and the Arab region that have been established for decades and hundreds of years have hurt the rampant of the officials and merchants of the Great Song Dynasty!

The cost they paid has invisibly increased a lot------ so they can only run faster and go deeper into the people.

No one dares to complain about the practices of the Great Song government, unless they don't want to mess around in the Great Song Dynasty.

The types of goods they chose had to increase, so the iron tools produced on the island were relatively sought-after, especially some useful tools.

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, was very supportive of this kind of business behavior that directly helped him improve his industrial processing technology and scale, and slowly became famous for his iron tools.

In this way, the demand for pig iron on Liuqiu Island has increased significantly, and it also relies on its own relatively advanced steelmaking technology, and they have slowly stepped into the high-end of the smelting industry.

Pig iron, the Great Song Dynasty is not lacking, but good iron, their production is not as good as the flow of demand!

Captain Guo Beyu's navy was responsible for landing and taking Mizhou City in Shandong and Xihaizhou City, which was still part of the Great Song Dynasty, and then sent his team members to march towards the Zaozhuang area that Wang Defa's family head said.

The 14 of them first talked about how to determine the basic actions and goals, and then formulated a detailed plan.

But Da Song seems to be in a hurry.

Those core figures of the Great Song Dynasty immediately made a second move, sending out high-ranking officials who they thought were really different.

A four-rank fellow Privy Councillor, dressed in civilian clothes, set foot on the port of Badaohe.

He was greeted by Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang.

The four-rank high-ranking official looked at the Badaohe port and was dizzy, and the tall port booms that swayed back and forth made him look confused.

There is such a place overseas!

The four-rank high-ranking official got into his usual four-wheeled/horse-drawn carriage, and Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang sent him to stay at the Liuqiu Hotel.

Zhang Guoan instructed the island owner to treat the other party according to normal diplomatic methods, and Minister Hou Dongfang still represented him with full powers.

The basic bottom line of Liuqiu is that it is okay to fight for the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty must pay the corresponding price.

Zhang Guoandao said earnestly:

"You have seen the history of diplomacy before the Great Song Dynasty, and you have also seen how the Tatars engaged in diplomacy----- this is an era of national pragmatism, use first and hand first, and change at any time with the change of interests, and it is even possible that today you are friends, and tomorrow they will scold you as enemies.

The last time we let the Great Song Dynasty make peace alone, we suffered this big loss, and we suffered a big loss at the diplomatic level!

Of course it's not your fault, I'm solely responsible.

But you have to learn this lesson, with national pragmatism, you have to respond with the same means, or they will laugh at us stupidly behind our backs! ”

The young Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang nodded firmly in agreement, he understood what the island owner Zhang meant, he could let the Great Song government use him, but it was up to them to see what price they could pay.

It is said that middle-aged people are stubborn, but if young people are stubborn, they are even better!

The two of them argued in the Liuqiu Hotel, got up and sat down, sat down and stood up again.

During this period, Foreign Minister Hou Dongfang also led him to visit the city of Badaohe, which may be the only city of the same scale in the Great Song Dynasty without a city wall.

The fourth-rank high-ranking official looked at the unique scenery here, he stroked his beard and said, "You are not afraid that a large number of pirates will come?" ”

Hou Dongfang, the young foreign minister, said seriously: "I have been here several times, and now they are all digging sulfur and burning cement in the upper reaches of a river. ”

The fourth-rank high-ranking official sneered and said, "What if the Tatar naval army formed thousands of ships and thousands of sails to pounce?!" ”

"No matter how many captives we have, we can settle them------ we are too short of labor here! Your Excellency saw that even the natives were helping us sift through the river sand. ”

The fourth-grade high-ranking official was speechless for a while, but scolded in his heart, what an arrogant young man!

However, no matter how different the conditions are, as long as you talk with your heart, you can negotiate with you, as long as both sides sincerely want to negotiate it.

The young foreign minister, Hou Dongfang, flexibly conceded a few steps, and the senior official of the fourth rank also compromised a little, and the two sides finally reached a draft, only waiting for the approval of the heads of both sides. (To be continued.) )