When the ship passed through the Zhedong Canal, Hao Kang fell into the pain of falling out of love. It wasn't until the ship sailed near Fuzhou that Hao Kang reluctantly let himself out of the hatch and go to the deck to blow the wind and take a look at the scenery. When the ship arrived at the Ruisong Strait at the southern tip of the Indochina Peninsula, Hao Kang was finally able to admit that he had fallen out of love.

The ship sailed into the Tianzhu Ocean, and the Great Song Dynasty sailed according to the laws of the Tianzhu Ocean, and the journey was smooth sailing, and soon arrived at the Egyptian Canal. When the ship sailed into the Egyptian canal, the students on board were on deck. Looking at this canal, which has not been built for a few years, Hao Kang, who was next to the guardrail, couldn't help but sigh: "When I read the newspaper, I still doubted that the canal could be dug in the desert, but I didn't expect it to be true." ”

The classmates next to him nodded again and again after saying this, and someone sighed: "This is completely different from the canal of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

In order to increase the knowledge of these international students, Yuan Guo arranged many itineraries for them. They once traveled by boat across the Zhedong Canal, and also by boat from Hangzhou along the canal to the Yangtze River. Many trees were planted on the banks of the canals, and a considerable number of them were laid with stone berms. No matter how sticky the soil is, it will peel off when soaked in river water. The water in the canal is not turbulent, and the stripped soil will settle on the bottom of the canal, making the river gradually shallow. The canal water depth is shallow to a certain extent, and the shorter the dredging time, the better.

The canals of Egypt are completely different from those of the Great Song Dynasty. Instead of woods, the banks of the canal are a vast desert. As far as the eye can see, the desert is not in sight. No matter how careful the young men were, there were no embankments on either side of the canal, so that they began to wonder if the soft sand could withstand the current better than the solid rocks.

But until the gang had walked the entire canal, they didn't have a chance to take a closer look. Although there were many boats in the canal, they did not stop, and the boats passed through the canal slowly but without stopping. Sailing from the calm Red Sea to the Mediterranean, which is much quieter than the Pacific Ocean and the Tianzhu Ocean, Hao Kang became excited again. Judging from the map, they have completed more than ninety percent of their journey, entered the most stable section, and in a few days they will be able to return to their hometown of Yuanguo.

It was not only Hao Kang who was excited before returning home, but also other international students. Everyone was still a child when they went to the Great Song Dynasty, and in the first year or two, they would cry when they thought of home. However, Hao Kang didn't expect that the journey back to his hometown would change a lot. The ship had just left the Mediterranean, and he was still wearing a long-sleeved shirt. When the ship arrived in Constantinople, it added a waistcoat to its shirt.

As the ship entered the Black Sea, the oncoming north wind carried a chill. Looking at the sail shadows on the sea in front of and behind, Hao Kang wondered for a moment whether he had returned to the coast of the Great Song Dynasty, only the coast of the Great Song Dynasty had such a dense number of voyages. Standing at the bow of the ship at this time, I felt the chill brought by the north wind. The whole ship wore the thick coats worn when Da Song boarded the ship. Then head north and arrive at the Odyssey in the southern seaport of the Yuan Kingdom. Hao Kang: They were placed at the quarantine station with the best local conditions.

There was a fire in the quarantine room, and through the small window above the wall, you could see the white snow covering the mountain peaks in the distance. Hao Kang rubbed his hot hands and sighed, "I finally saw snow at this time." ”

It also snowed in the Great Song Dynasty, and sometimes the first snow fell in Hangzhou at the end of October in the Song calendar. However, there is not much snow in the south, except for the cold spring, the snow has melted in February of the Song calendar. The roommates also nodded. After living in the Great Song Dynasty for so many years, I finally regained my sense of the north at this time. The classmate sitting opposite Hao Ren couldn't help but recite a poem by Cen Shen in the Tang Dynasty, "The north wind sweeps the ground and the white grass folds, and the snow flies in August." Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom. ”

Hao Kang couldn't help but tighten his lips. This word 'Hu' made him more sensitive, in the eyes of the Great Song Dynasty, the Hu people were barbarians, and the Hu people killed people and set fire to rob the Han people. But in Hao Kang's opinion, he and his family originally lived in the capital, but it was the Song ** team that went all the way north, they captured the city, and they killed people and set fires. Every day, a large number of 'Hu people' are killed, and every day, a large number of 'non-Han people' are purged and executed. Han people will think that the Hu people are terrible, and Hao Kang thinks that the Han people are much more terrible than the Hu people.

Life in the epidemic prevention center is very boring, especially for young people. Fortunately, Hao Kang and the others are all shouldering heavy responsibilities, and everyone is preparing how to report their studies, and the days have passed quickly.

Out of the quarantine station, the people sent by the Yuan court were already waiting outside. Hao Kang and the others got on the boat and went up the Dnieper River. Looking at his home country so closely, Hao Kang felt a burst of emotion in his heart. The riverside is a dense forest, not an artificially cultivated forest like the Song Kingdom, but a truly native forest. Sometimes, outside of the dense forest, all you can see is snow. The town can only be seen from those where the boat is parked. All this is completely different from the densely populated Great Song Dynasty, where you can always see villages and towns, and farmland one after another, near the main transportation corridors of the Great Song Dynasty. The country of more than 90 million people has a seemingly endless number of people.

After a few days of scenery, Hao Kang and his ship arrived at their destination, Kiev. Looking at this capital of the Yuan Kingdom, Hao Kang felt a little regretful in his heart. When he left here, all he could remember was his parents and younger siblings. Such memories are full of warmth, and during the Great Song Dynasty, Hao Kang sometimes recalled his hometown, and remembered the big mansion with hot springs.

Now back in Kyiv, Hao Kang only feels strange. This is neither the Great Song Dynasty nor the Great Capital, but a place that makes Hao Kang's impression weak. He was even wondering if he really set off for the Great Song Dynasty from here. Shouldn't his home be Dadu?

It didn't take long for Hao Kang to see a familiar figure. That's the mother's pity for the weak. Everything around him became unimportant, and Hao Kang stepped forward quickly and hugged his mother with open arms. At this time, Hao Kang finally felt that he was back home.

Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan Kingdom, was the son he saw in the palace, and Hao Ren was also very excited that his son could return. While he was talking to his son, someone came to report it, "Great King, an envoy from the Kipchak Khanate has come." ”

"Keep them waiting!" Hao Ren said angrily.

I just drove one away here, and soon another one came, "Wang, the Ministry of Agriculture Shangshu asks to see you." ”

"Dad, you're busy with yours first." Hao Kang hurriedly said.

"Good! You go talk to your mother first, she has missed you very much in the past few years. Hao Ren replied.

Watching the eldest son leave, Hao Ren sighed slightly, and then called into the Ministry of Agriculture. Entering March, spring ploughing is about to begin. Since the Yuan State took the Great Song Dynasty as its teacher in the system, Chun Geng did not send a few people to the field casually. This required a massive mobilization of livestock, the preparation of farm tools and manpower. At the sound of an order, a large amount of manpower and material resources must be invested in the fields. Its scale is much larger than that of a military operation. Military operations can mobilize less than 10% of the population of the Yuan State at most, and spring plowing requires more than 50% of the manpower of the Yuan Kingdom.

Before such mass production, of course, careful investigation and evaluation are required. The Minister of Agriculture did not produce all kinds of detailed data, but produced statistical data. Even so, the situation in different regions is presented in a thick stack of pie charts and a long table under the charts.

Although there are many data, the Ministry of Agriculture Shangshu is in high spirits, and after talking about the arrangement, he said proudly: "King, this spring ploughing will definitely be able to plant these 30 million acres of land." In addition to the 30 million mu and 60 million mu of cultivated land and pasture land that have already been planted with winter crops, our 500 people in Yuan will definitely be able to eat well this year. ”

Hao Ren couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this. The number of 60 million mu of land seems to be very large, but according to the measurement unit of the Great Song Dynasty, one hectare is fifteen mu. 60 million acres of land is 4 million hectares. Four million hectares is 40,000 square kilometers. Hao Ren's current territory is probably more than one million square kilometers, and the seemingly exaggerated number is actually very limited.

On the other hand, in the Great Song Dynasty, in the latest intelligence, Zhao Guanjia proposed to keep the red line of 2.2 billion mu of farmland. This alone made Hao Ren aware of the huge difference between the two countries. The Yuan State did not dare to brag that it could reclaim 2.4 billion mu of farmland, as long as there were 240 million mu, the Yuan State would already be the most powerful country in the whole of Europa and even Mongolia.

Encouraging the Ministry of Agriculture to work hard, Hao Ren listened to the Ministry of Agriculture Shangshu say: "King, how many new Mongolians will come this time?" ”

"This ...... I don't know. Hao Ren couldn't answer the question. He thought that the Mongols would not come too much, and the 100,000 would probably come to an end. After all, the Yuan State was only a cold northern country, which was much different from the warm territory directly under the Great Khan. Unexpectedly, since the death of Kublai Khan, many poor Mongols have come to the Yuan Kingdom. Now the tide is getting bigger and bigger. In just two years, more than two million impoverished Mongolians have arrived. To Hao Ren's surprise, he had thought that at most 800,000 people had come from the Great Khan's territory, but in fact this was the case. More than a million other Mongols came from the Ögedai Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Kipchak Khanate.

"King, how many people do you think will come?" The Ministry of Agriculture Shangshu asked with anxiety and expectation.

"Who knows." Hao Ren could only answer like this.

Sent away the Ministry of Agriculture, Hao Ren sent the envoys of the Kipchak Khanate to come to the audience. The envoy knelt on the ground and saluted, and after getting up, he said, "My lord, my Khan sent me here to ask him to return the fugitive slaves of our Kipchak Khanate. Please also ask the prince to let people go back. ”

Hao Ren didn't answer immediately. On the orders of Kublai Khan, he led troops to quell the rebellion between the Kipchak Khanate and the Ögedai Khanate. The khans and nobles of these two countries at that time were captured by him and sacrificed to Kublai Khan, many of whom were executed by order of the Great Khan. So Hao Ren is also worried about not mixing with some enemies here.

Hao Ren didn't know if there were any enemies here, but he knew that the reason why people from these tribes came to the Yuan Kingdom was poverty. If the ordinary people of the Yuan State are taken as the standard, more than ninety percent of the population of the entire Mongol Empire is poorer than the ordinary people of the Yuan State. Not only are the incomes of many middle- and low-level officials lower than those of the ordinary people of the Yuan Kingdom, but the annual income of the tribal leaders above the middle level is not higher than the income of ordinary families in the Yuan Kingdom.

Thinking of this, Hao Ren said: "We have already sent some people back, what else are you going to do?" ”

The envoy replied solemnly: "Lord, you have only sent back a few hundred people, and our Khan's subordinates alone have fled to your side with tens of thousands of herdsmen, and other nobles have escaped even more." There are also many tribes that originally raised horses and grazing for our khans and nobles, and their entire tribes have fled to your side. The prince has to give us an explanation. ”

Hao Ren couldn't help but roll his eyes, and wanted to say directly to the envoy of the Kipchak Khanate: "Your men are fleeing and doing my bird business!" ”

And Hao Ren also felt that he was completely justified in saying this. The poor Mongols came from the territory of the Great Khan, and it was the Great Khan who took the initiative to throw their burdens over. Hao Ren did not go to the territory of the Kipchak Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Ogedai Khanate to recruit rebellions. Now the envoy of the Kipchak Khanate has an expression of asking for guilt, in fact, he should first kneel down and tell Hao Ren that their Kipchak Khanate did not manage the country well and caused trouble for the Yuan State!

Thinking of this, Hao Ren said coldly: "If we want us to help you capture the fugitive slave, how much hard money do you prepare for a fugitive slave to give us the Yuan Kingdom?" How many animals in exchange for a fugitive slave? Besides, we don't know where those people came from, so why are we sure they're your fugitive slaves? ”

After hearing this, the envoy showed a strange smile, which looked in Hao Ren's eyes, and he couldn't help but be alert. Then he heard the envoy of the Kipchak Khanate say: "Lord, who in the steppe does not know the wealth of the Yuan Kingdom under the rule of the prince. Where do we have something to redeem the fugitive slaves. I don't think it's better to do this, two sheep for one person, and those of us who fled to the rule of the prince here, the prince only needs to give us two sheep each, and this person's affairs are over. ”

"You're beautiful!" Shang Shu, who had been sitting next to him, couldn't help but shout angrily. According to the Great Song system, the country's diplomacy and military were in the hands of the official family. At the level of the Yuan Kingdom, they had no choice but to copy. Since Lord Hao Ren personally received him, the foreign minister was a companion. In fact, the foreign minister's family also had to arrange spring ploughing, and he didn't really want to come. The reason for this is that the Mongolian dialect spoken by Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan State, is very poor, and the Mongolian accent of the Kipchak Khanate is very different from the Mongolian accent of Dadu. The Minister for Foreign Affairs wanted to work as a translator.

Now, listening to the envoys of the Kipchak Khanate make such excessive demands, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs naturally cannot accept them.

Hao Ren felt that he was very satisfied with the reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Hao Ren was in a happy mood when he saw the insulted expression of the envoy of the Kipchak Khanate. Raising his hand to stop the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from continuing to curse, Hao Ren himself asked, "Do you know how many people have arrived in the Yuan Kingdom?" ”