The cows, horses and sheep made of paper look lifelike, and there are pig's heads, sheep's heads, and cow heads in the plate. These offerings are at the front of the procession for the Spring Ploughing Festival. Hao Ren, the lord of the Yuan State, and the civil and military officials of the Yuan court followed these tributes on foot, and the mighty procession went straight to the Temple of Heaven in Kiev.

The embassy staff of the Great Song Dynasty in the Yuan Kingdom was also in this team, all the way to the front of the Temple of Heaven. Hao Ren ascended the platform and led hundreds of officials to kneel on the ground, and the people who watched the ceremony and the staff of the Great Song Dynasty embassy watched the ceremony together. They don't have the right to go up.

"Minister Hao Rencheng is terrified and fearful, and he respects the God of the sky and the gods of the Quartet, since the minister succeeded to the throne, he will abide by the will of the people of the Quartet......"

The sacrifice of astronomy has already been announced, in the eyes of the embassy personnel of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no difference from the sacrifice of the Han emperor, and the degree of sinicization of the Yuan State is like this, which is also the reason why the Great Song Dynasty is willing to cooperate with the Yuan State. If Hao Ren was just a Mongolian prince, the Great Song Dynasty would not have any trust in him at all. According to the time, spring ploughing has already started on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, and the climate of the Yuan Kingdom is colder than that of the Great Song Dynasty, so the time will naturally be a little later.

“…… In order to repay the blessings of God and the gods of the four directions, they offered Cangbi, Yugui, three animals, sake, and five grains, and burned the above gifts, begging God and the gods to feast together. ”

After reciting the prayer, it was the same, not too long. Hao Ren stood up, and the ministers who knelt behind him also got up. The paper-tied livestock, the real three animals and other things are put into the Dading together with the five grains and incinerated, and the sacrifice to heaven is completed.

After informing the heavens, Hao Ren and the others continued to the farm on the outskirts of Kyiv. The preparation for spring ploughing is not a formality, and those cows, horses, and farm tools have been prepared at the edge of the field. Hao Ren personally helped the plough to plough. In preparation for spring ploughing, the sharpened iron plough cut through the dark earth and ploughed the ridges under the traction of the horses. Amid the sound of gongs and drums, the officials began to do the same. Throughout the Yuan Kingdom, local officials held spring ploughing festivals, and countless people began to cultivate immediately after participating in spring ploughing festivals of various scales.

Hao Kang was also in the procession of worshipping the heavens, as a student majoring in water conservancy, and when the spring ploughing festival parade was over, Hao Kang returned to the Ministry of Water Resources. Spring ploughing occurs once a year, and the irrigation system, the water conservancy system, works all year round. Some of the Great Song technicians invited by the Yuan State have already produced a map of the rivers of the Yuan Kingdom, as well as a map of the rivers of the entire Great Plains in the middle of Europa. Hao Kang looked at it for a while, and his gaze extended along the main river. Judging by the drawings, ships could depart from Odessa on the Black Sea and sail along those large rivers in central Europa all the way to the Baltic Sea in the north. If you look back, you can see that Kiev's location is like the Kaifeng of the Great Song Dynasty, on the transportation hub of central Europa.

Seeing this, Hao Kang remembered that before he left the Song Kingdom, the Great Song Dynasty had announced that he would return the capital to Kaifeng. If it was a simple move of the capital, the Great Song Dynasty could have done it more than ten years ago. The capital has not been moved until now because the Tongji Canal has not been restored. Last year, the water conservancy department completed the final repair of the Tongji Canal and the commissioning of navigation. The canal connected the Yangtze River and Huai River with the Yellow River, and the ships of the Great Song Dynasty could sail all the way from Ningbo harbor to Chang'an City. Kaifeng is no longer only the capital of the Central Plains, but also a transportation hub connecting the north and the south.

Undoubtedly, Kyiv also has such a place. If you also take the vast expanse of land east of Kiev into view......

"It is now established that the Dnieper is fed mainly by winter snowmelt, and other rivers are similar." The technician's words interrupted Hao Kang's train of thought, and Hao Kang began to listen carefully to the comments of the Da Song technician. This is also the basic research path of water conservancy in the Great Song Dynasty, first determining the source of the river. Unlike any of the major rivers, the amount of water gushing out of the ground is maintained, and the determination of the source of surface precipitation is the determination of the entire river. To achieve this level, it is necessary to conduct a large number of field surveys and observe them over a long period of time. I didn't expect Yuan Guo to complete such a survey work.

There are no mountains in the Great Plains that block the air currents, and the Dnieper River is very seasonal. Da Song technicians said that if they wanted to solve this problem, they had to rely on building dams to raise the water level and flood the dangerous shoals. The cost of relying on manpower to transform the rocky beach is too high, so high that it is impossible to achieve it.

Hao Kang remembered all these things in his heart, and when he came home in the evening, he saw his father Hao Ren sitting at the dinner table full of exhaustion. Seeing Hao Kang come back, Hao Ren asked, "How did you listen?" ”

"I understood what the Song people said."

"Hmm. You just walk along the Dnieper. Take a look at it in the field. ”

"Why?" Hao Kang asked incomprehensibly. As soon as I got home, I was sent out again, which was too unkind.

"When I was so old with you, I was already a thousand sailors, and I went south to attack the Song Dynasty. At this age, you have to bear the burden. Hao Ren used his own experience as an analogy.

Listening to his father talk about going south to the Song Dynasty, Hao Kang couldn't help but think of how he had felt. In his life, the Song people were invaders and attackers, and the Mongols were only passive defense. But really counted, when Hao Kang was born, the Mongols were storming the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song court could not resist the Mongol attack and surrendered out of the city. The surrender of Lin'an had a profound impact on both Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty.

Recalling the Song general Hao Kang met before returning to China, Hao Kang became more and more unaware of what his wife was from. What happened in such a turbulent time.

“…… Don't want to go? Looking at his son's pensive look, Hao Ren asked.

"Nope. I'm willing to go. Hao Kang replied. When I was in school, my teacher told the students of the Department of Water Conservancy that the water conservancy major was a very hard profession, and they had to walk on two legs on impassable paths, climb mountain peaks, and cross deep valleys. A qualified water conservancy worker may be able to leave a legacy of immortality after death, but while they are alive, they will only endure hardship and hardship. For everything like this, he was mentally prepared.

Hao Ren sighed in his heart and said to his son, "Do it well." With that, the family began to eat. The two of them have their own hearts, and they don't say a word when they are weak. After eating in silence, Hao Ren immediately went back to work.

While waiting for the chief of the general staff to come over, Hao Ren looked at the map of the Yuan Kingdom hanging on the wall. I have read so many books, especially many new things that have been released in the past few years in the Great Song Dynasty. Hao Ren's understanding of ploughing warfare is even more profound. At the end of the Warring States Period, the population of Qin was only 5 million, and it unified the world. Hao Ren thought that by the time he died, the Yuan Kingdom would not have a population of five million. Unexpectedly, driven by poverty, when Hao Ren was not yet 40 years old, the Yuan Kingdom already had a population of more than four million. With such a population, coupled with the 60 million acres of black soil that has been carved out, Hao Ren is no longer as worried about the war with the Teutonic knights as before.

If he wins...... let Hao Kang go to the west to be the prince......

Thinking of this, Hao Ren's spirits perked up. Before he could think deeply, the attendant came in to report, "The chief of staff has arrived."

The chief of staff looked sad, and after a few words, he explained the bitterness in his heart thoroughly. The army of the Yuan State is now maintained by more than 6,000 old and weak soldiers, and the so-called defense system is maintained, and other troops, even war horses, participate in the spring ploughing. After hearing the complaints, Hao Ren smiled and said: "Three million people cultivate 30 million mu of land, and the average of one person is only ten mu. At most, it will be done in half a month. You don't have to be afraid. ”

The chief of staff thinks the same. But he couldn't help but say, "Great King, are these new Mongols reliable?" There will be spies. ”

Hao Ren did not answer. Of course, there will be spies among these two million people, and these spies are harmful to the Yuan Kingdom. But Hao Ren knew that with the ability possessed by the Yuan Imperial Court, it was impossible for them to catch this gang of spies. First of all, there is not such a large manpower to investigate 2 million people.

Looking at Hao Ren's face, the chief of staff said tentatively: "King, should we ......?"

Hao Ren looked at the chief of staff's hesitant expression and sighed: "When this spring ploughing is over, I have decided to form a commission to suppress traitors. ”

According to the information obtained by Hao Ren, the Great Song Dynasty's Anti-Traitor Committee did an excellent job in purging the 'Song traitors' and 'traitors'. However, the main target of the Great Song Dynasty's anti-traitor committee was actually the upper echelons, and Hao Ren did not dare to propose the formation of this department before.

The chief of staff was stunned, and could see that this arrangement was beyond his expectations. After Hao Ren finished speaking for a while, the chief of staff said tentatively: "The king, the commission for the suppression of traitors is the king's decision, and what the king wants to do is the king's decision." I mean, let's ...... Just attack the Kipchak Khanate. ”

"What?" Hao Ren was stunned. He did not like the Kipchak Khanate, the Mongol nobility of that country was a pure Mongol tradition, completely different from the Yuan state's system and culture, and even the demographic composition. But Hao Ren really didn't think of attacking the Kipchak Khanate.

During his lifetime, Kublai Khan established a new Kuritai Congress. The Kuritai Congress established that the Mongol Empire consisted of the Great Khan's domain and the four khanates. Hao Ren's Yuan Kingdom and Boyan's Western Roman Empire were authorized by these two heroes who had made great contributions to establish their own states.

From the point of view of the system, the status of the Yuan state was lower than that of the Kipchak Khanate. Eliminating the Kipchak Khanate may have eliminated the source of chaos, but it would inevitably lead to the intervention of the Mongol Great Khan. To raise a sword against the Kipchak Khanate was to shake the order of the Mongol Empire, which had been confirmed by the Kuritai Congress.

The chief of staff saw that Hao Ren did not agree with his opinion, and hurriedly said, "Wang, I just think so. ”

"Don't say this to anyone." Hao Ren said. The current enemy is the Semu people in the west, not a fierce infighting with the Mongol prince.

The chief of staff nodded hurriedly. He only considered it militarily, and from the available information, the population of Poland, the Teutonic Knights, and Lithuania in the west combined was about 20 million. Looking back, the population of the Kipchak Khanate to the east was only two million. Including the loss of population from the Kipchak Khanate, the remaining population of the Kipchak Khanate is less than a million.

The total number of regular troops of the Yuan State had reached 100,000, and it was easy to destroy the Kipchak Khanate.