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The Holy See turmoil continued to be noisy until July, and the news of the Pope's visit was still one of the topics of conversation among the residents of Fujian after tea and dinner, and it also set off a wave of Roman fever.

In the early Middle Ages, when the region was becoming isolated, many people did not even know where Rome was, and the arrival of Eugene I not only added freshness to the Min people, but also broadened their horizons.

The world is so big.

Although the Pope left by ship in July, by mid-September, many tea guests were still proud to tell a complete history of the struggle of the Roman Empire, what Caesar, Augustus, the Triumvirate, Spartacus, have become familiar figures, and even some people compare Spartacus, Leonidas and other Western generals with the Central Plains Guan Yu, Dian Wei and other generals and other generals.

There are also good things in the scholar published the album "Ancient and Modern Chinese and Western Famous Generals and Fierce Generals", mixed with Chinese historical materials and Western historical materials, and it made up for the likes and dislikes of the Persians in Central Asia.

On the street, in the fields, the Persians with high noses and deep eyes driving the flocks of sheep and the blackened Tianzhu people with hoes and black skin were arguing about who had a brighter mind between Hannibal and Zhuge Liang, and who could fight between Alexander and Cao Cao.

But as the time came in September and October, the sweltering months of leisure in Khorasan were gone, and a small half of Central Asia was in a restless hustle and bustle, from the cities to the countryside.

After the second year of tuntian, the entire Persian agriculture has returned to the appearance of ancient victory, and it is really blessed by the gods, this year there were several major floods in northern Tianzhu, Khorasan actually did not have a, the Caspian Sea, the coast of the Persian Gulf and the tuntian area near the Hindu Kush mountains have obtained a bumper harvest.

Walking along the official road of Fujian, there are gratifying wheat fields on both sides of the road, and the huge and fine ears of Iranian wheat hang their heads heavily.

Even if it is divided with the government, this bumper harvest is enough for the whole family to survive the next harvest season, and there can be a surplus, which can be sold to the government for some new clothes, buy two trinkets for the daughter-in-law and daughter, and receive the sickle from the hands of the tuntian lieutenants of various village communities.

At this end, the stone mill in the north is driven by the river, spinning wildly, and the Zhuang Zhuang in the Tuntianzhuang is filled with a rich wheat fragrance, and on the other hand, the major ports along the Persian Gulf coast are even more busy and dizzy.

On the Iranian side, under the auspices of Laiji, a bumper harvest has also been achieved, and the wider territory of the Iranian Governor's Office has not only achieved a bumper harvest of grain, but also a bumper harvest of figs, pomegranates, dates, tobacco and cotton.

Fresh pomegranates were picked from the trees, loaded directly into wooden boxes and transported to Tianzhu, and instead of using a large but slow fortune ship, they were replaced with sail oars and a small fast sailing ship unique to Persia, which was delivered to the north Tianzhu as quickly as possible.

In such a hurry, on the fifth day, fresh pomegranates were placed on the dining table of the small households in Beijing.

Moreover, Li Jie came from later generations, and a kind of thing that made consumers gnash their teeth in later generations was also brought to ancient times by him.

Some high-quality pomegranates, figs, etc., are selected and thinly coated on the surface of the fruit with whale brain wax rice caught in the fishing industry, so that the fruit can be preserved for at least two or three months.

This batch of fruits, Li Jie is very obscene to export, to the west to Arabia, Byzantium, to the east to the Himalayan passes, sold to Tibet, Chang'an, Li Jie is very looking forward to Li Zhi holding the waxed fruit to gnaw a packet of addictive looks.

In addition to pomegranates, another crop that is very important to Fujian is also dates.

This thing is also called Persian dates, dates, and has the shape of a coconut tree, but it grows a fruit like a date.

The 35-metre-tall date palm trees are covered with large strings of small red lantern-like dates, and at harvest time, local date farmers climb the tall date palm trees with their bare hands by tying a rope around their waists, as dexterous as apes.

Bunches of dates are thrown directly on the ground, the date palm tree is quite abundant, a date palm tree can produce about dozens of catties of dates, these treasures given by God in addition to a small amount of fresh market, most of them have been stored by Fujian.

Not far from the date palm production area, Fujian built rows of shade houses similar to the later Turpan grapes, bricks into porous shade houses, washed date strings directly in it, under the hot sun, the air continues to flow, and it becomes a good dried date in a few days.

The significance of these things to Fujian is not just as simple as eating.

Dates are rich in fructose, protein, and contain a variety of vitamins, Fujian can be so strong, because it put the Eurasian and African continents together the commercial route, and half of this wealth has to pass through the sea, now there are more than 20,000 military and civilian ships floating around Fujian, more than the Netherlands of the sea coachmen in later generations.

With so many fleet sailors, food at sea has become a top priority, and the long voyages, on the one hand, catch marine life as fresh food, and on the other hand, prepare a large amount of non-perishable food, and in the Age of Discovery, the sea food prepared in large quantities by various countries is almost all dried meat.

It is really dry meat, dry to a certain level of meat, and even the knife cutting is constant, it needs to be cut with a saw, and it can be soaked in water for a long time before it can be eaten, and many craft souvenirs in the British Navy in later generations are actually carved out of dried meat by sailors.

It is not only the bad marine weather that threatens the life of the crew, but also diseases, especially scurvy, a large amount of dried meat, lack of vitamins, the crew is easy to get scurvy, nearly half of the crew members of Columbus who discovered the New World died of scurvy, another great navigator Magellan himself almost died of scurvy, scurvy has plagued the European navigation industry for hundreds of years, and countless crew members have died of scurvy.

The Fujian State, which had just set foot in the sea, did not pay attention to this problem at first, and carried dried meat such as Jinhua ham as the main food of sailors and sailors, and as a result, of course, they paid a large amount of tuition, and many experienced sailors with seafaring experience had bleeding gums and died miserably, which attracted the attention of the Min Palace.

The earliest solution was green tea, and the green tea pressed into tea cakes was drunk by each sailor a day, and the probability of disease was suddenly reduced to a controllable degree, and after the Fujian Kingdom became the master of Tianzhu, dates appeared in front of various shipowners and maritime merchants.

Dates are rich in vitamins can become a good remedy for alleviating scurvy, and the taste is also very luscious, one of the most imported goods from the Arab Empire is dates, and now, completely mastered Khorasan agriculture, Fujian itself can also have a vast date planting base, this good thing of course to a large number of reserves.

In particular, Liu Renliang, the admiral of the naval division in Suez, and the Roman expeditionary force farther away all sent requests for supplies of dates, and the officials of various ministries and households paid special attention to this.

The last specialty is pistachios, this kind of crispy and raw snack after salt baking is very popular in Fujian, and even a plate is placed on the table of the king of Fujian.

It's a pity that no one seems to have the heart to enjoy the food on this day, on the side of the Bosis Palace, in the cool water pavilion next to the Taiye Pool, Li Jie, Li Ji, the secretary of the military department, and a large group of ministers of the military department are all frowning.

In front of them, a large map of Asia, Europe and Africa, in the west and north of Khorasan, with countless red arrows pointing here.

In the past, Khorasan was beaten into a pot of mud by the Arabs, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, and the Fujian country, and there were not many people who cared about it, but now in the past two years, Khorasan has once again had the atmosphere of the ancient great empire under the toss of the Fujian country, and became rich, which can't help but attract the wolves in the west and the north to be eager to try again.

From the time of the Pope's visit to Khorasan, the number of Arab tribal cavalry invading from the western frontier had increased twelve, and by the harvest season it was even more frequent to the point that Arab cavalry came every day, and even Mesopotamian Persians came to steal and plunder, leaving the leading guards on the left and right of the long border of the Saudi Arabian River exhausted.

Moreover, to the surprise of all the important ministers of Fujian, Belus in the north not only did not die, but returned to the Central Asian steppe after losing all his strength, but he received the support of various tribes in Central Asia, forming a force that seriously posed a threat to northern Khorasan.

Among them, the actions of a large force played a pivotal role, and after being driven to Central Asia, a large Turkic tribe became stronger, the Turkish Khanate.

Behind this, there is the shadow of the four towns of Anxi and even Chang'an.

Even if Fujian is a big country, it still feels a headache in the face of a two-sided attack, looking at the offensive line on the left and right, the first assistant Wang Xuance was embarrassed for a long time, and then he put his finger on the map with difficulty.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is still necessary to attack the Arabs, at present our defense line in the Hindu Kush Mountains is basically perfect, and last year Belus suffered heavy losses in Khorasan, the whole army was wiped out, and the population was more than 100,000, even if it has the support of the Turgish and the nine surnames of Zhaowu, Belus will not be able to pose any threat to our northern defense line in recent years."

"Except for a few bunker cities on the western front, there is not much natural danger to be defended, and the left and right leading guards guarding the huge national border from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea are indeed a bit overburdened, so the minister thinks that it is the best policy to gather the left and right military guards, and the Guanning iron cavalry and the left and right leading guards to drive away the Bedouin tribes gathered near our court."

Wang Xuance's words couldn't help but make a few important ministers nod secretly, especially the most bitter Laiji with a suffocating face, and his head was almost the same as a dustpan, for no other reason, Wang Xuance's plan cost the least, don't look at the wealth of Fujian, the expenses are also large, and it costs money everywhere, so he, the big housekeeper of the household, has to hold his money bag tightly.

Seeing that Li Jie was also about to nod slightly, he didn't expect that another crisp voice that was cold and full of mockery came from a distance.

"Such a small fight, what do you mean and the king of Min mean to wait for the enemies in the north and the west to grow from insects to big tigers, and then spend a lot of money, sacrifice more than ten times the name, and then fight an uncertain war?"