Chapter 100: Social Survey in Seleucia (Final)
Anna in the shoulder is enlightened, but not very thorough, today's parade really made her gain a lot, and also understood a lot of truth, this great barbarian's insight is very strange, sometimes he does not know anything about the etiquette system of the empire, but in some aspects of the human world is insightful, and even rode a horse beside the side of Gawain, and openly said to her, "Don't you want to take the Mut Valley and Alalmanburg in the future?" Then this group of stewards and deacons can be regarded as one of the keys to solving the problem. ”
"Really?" Anna's eyes flickered, and she leaned one hand on the armrest, thoughtful with the slight jolt of her shoulder.
"What, Gawain and that little dot are here together!" In the synagogue of Lum Town, the female consul who was discussing summer and autumn farming with the elders was shocked, I don't know why, but think about it carefully, after passing through the "Women's Association" in Karon City, Anna didn't take much advantage of her confrontation, there was no need to mess with herself, and she wanted to use the "wisdom of the female fox", so she hurriedly asked Luchios and Philus to take the believers to meet her first, and she hid in the inner room first, looked in the mirror, and saw that her face in it was bright and lovely, if she went out, it would not look like being Gao Wen at all" The appearance of "defiling and destroying" will arouse the jealousy of Anna, a narrow-minded little bite, because Gawain mentioned to her in a private word on the couch: Although Anna is almost fifteen years old, Gawain has never been touched by chastity.
"The princess is too young, and that would be extremely harmful to her health." That's how Gawain explains.
So that's it? Leave yourself aside, and be intimate with Anna all day long like a father and daughter with a strange demeanor!
Thinking of this, Cabeamia hated and pushed the mirror down.
"Your Excellency the Consul asks us to greet the Princess in Purple and General Stratigos on our behalf. In order to avoid some bad memories of pain, she has taken refuge in her private room. Then the reception of the patrol. We'll take care of it. Philus and Lucios fell in front of the chariot and said.
Gawain looked embarrassed. But in my heart, I thought that it was wise for the holy sister to do this. In the midst of the battle, Anna and Agnes were disappointed, as if they were an army that had come ready, but they had not found a target to attack, so they could only pounce on each other.
After dark, they and their companions slept in the square hall in the town of Rum, with Anna and Agnes sleeping in the inner chamber. Gawain and his subordinates stayed in the halls and courtyards.
The next day it was another sunny day, and when Anna had freshened up and walked out of the hall, she saw the Paulicians walking in a long procession, carrying wicker baskets and heading in the direction of Hardy's high ridge, while Gawain stood in the middle of the courtyard, asking the same confusion as she had in her heart.
"We have planted crocus and absinthe on the slopes of the high ridges." This is the answer of Phelus.
"The former is a precious herb. The latter can be used to make wine. Gawain explained to Anna that both were highland crops, and that the fact that the Paulites could spare men to cultivate them showed that they were producing food in the settlements. It's already secure.
This is exactly what happened, and the four market towns under the leadership of Kabeamia, as well as the surrounding farmland. The Paulicians, together with the emancipated tenant farmers who remained, mingled harmoniously in the fields and ridges. "The consul's field has a two-nursery system!" Agnes said that she saw that the fields were neatly divided, and that half of the fields were left idle after the wheat was cut. The other half is being sown with rye. Rye and oats are both effective "emergency crops" with short ripening cycles and effective relief from famine.
On the steep slopes in the distance, many people are laboriously digging out and carrying the miscellaneous trees and stones from various tools, including iron hoes and pickaxes, and leveling the slope "in preparation for the terraces on it and the harvest in this area." The excavated stones, after simple polishing, were used to build aqueducts and levees. Luchios pointed to the sight and introduced them.
"What is the biggest difficulty?" Gawain asked.
"The lack of draft animals makes it very inconvenient to plough and carry them, and many tasks have to be done by manpower. We now have no cattle, only a few small donkeys and mules, and the big landowners in the valley of the Mut have many cattle in their families, but they never borrow them, not even to rent them. ”
"I'll figure it out, but in return, you believers will need to pay a lot of taxes, especially absinthe and crocuse, which can be used as tribute in the autumn in lieu of taxes." Gawain said in a somewhat wicked tone, Luchios and Philus both lowered their eyebrows, respectfully, and said in succession that they depended, in fact, in the hearts of these two believer elders, they already knew from the consuls that Gawain had secretly converted to their sect, and now he was not equal to their "male consuls".
Behind her, Anna frowned, thinking that Gawain was so close to an ordinary heretic, there must be some ulterior behind it.
"This kind of two-toothed hoe can effectively dig deep soil." After a while, at the edge of the farmhouse, Gawain began to check the tools sent by Paul, and then he picked up the flail, "This is an effective threshing tool, and the catcher also uses it as a weapon, and the tenant farmers are still threshing with stones on the Jinat estate in the valley of the Mut River just now. ”
"What is this?" Anna whispered to the other side of the farmhouse, where a number of women were gathered, each holding a branch and cutting something.
Gawain walked over, and as soon as the girls saw him, they lowered their heads to each other, cheerfully showed their white teeth, looked at him and laughed, "What is this?" Gawain asked, bowing his back.
"Shrub branches, cut them down and bury them in the ground to fatten." Several girls rushed to answer, and then leaned back against each other, giggling.
"It's a type of green manure, I think." Gawain turned back to Anna.
"Indeed, Agnes, the Paulicians were far superior in agriculture to the village fairs of the Genates, for what they had was, as far as I know, except for the taxes and the synagogue which was paid to the elders of the gospel, the rest was their own, so that, according to Gawain, the peasants were able to unite against disasters and enthusiastically innovate technology, and to build water conservancy and increase production under the supervision of the leader." Anna came to a conclusion, and then she continued to Agnes, "We can't afford to lose, you are a descendant of Minerva of Prani, and you are on the ground of Seleucia, and I want to see the new instruments you have invented come to fruition." ”
"This is inevitable, please leave it to me with peace of mind, Your Highness the Princess." Agnes swears. (To be continued.) )