"When the war starts, you have to protect Wang Qincha." Yang calmly gave a personal lecture to the more than 20 Qin Guards.

"Understood!" The Song people in the guard responded with the Wa people.

Wang Qincha immediately objected, "I'm here to see you fight, why worry so much." ”

"If something happens to you, I'll ......" I wanted to say 'how do I explain', but felt that this was too self-righteous, Yang said calmly: "You are injured, I feel uncomfortable." ”

Qin Cha shook his head, "The officials have always emphasized seeking truth from facts, if I am injured, I naturally won't blame you for forcibly pulling me to the battlefield." ”

Yang Congrong could only say to the guards: "You must not let the Qin Cha enter the dangerous area!" "After that, he went to the front to direct the battle.

Of course, Wang Qincha would not kill himself, and after Yang calmly left, he found a good position in a high place near the troops. From here, the entire battlefield is in full view. The target of the attack was a village, and it didn't look big. Near the village are sparse orchards, and the fruit trees look very ordinary, with sparse branches and not full leaves, which cannot be compared with those Great Song plantations that are carefully cared for. There are a few fields of farmland that have been left empty after harvesting near the grove, and the bare land is very light in color, and it feels barren just by looking at it.

A thousand troops were involved in the attack. The tall people in the queue are undoubtedly the Song people, and among those who are obviously a lot worse in stature, the ones with similar skin color to the Song people are the Japanese people, and they are running around looking more energetic. The other guys have darker skin tones, and they are soldiers of the Three Buddhas and Sinhalese. There are also darker-skinned guys who have no weapons and carry out the work. According to the arrangement at the military meeting before departure, these guys should be the Tianzhu soldiers belonging to the Li Fan Department.

The horn sounded, and the troops marched in several groups. Wang Qincha also wanted to follow, but the guards did not obey because of Qincha's identity, and they refused Qincha's order to risk his life. Wang Qincha could only watch boredly as Yang Congrong led the attacking team to disappear into the distance along the potholed slope.

To kill the boredom, Chincha chatted with the members of the guards. The guards guarding the Chin Cha were all cronies, four Han Chinese, ten Japanese and ten Sinhalese. Wang Qincha learned that the core force of Europa Province now is about 20,000 people, of which 2,000 are Han Chinese, 3,000 Japanese people, 5,000 soldiers from the South China Sea and Sinhalese, and 7,000 or 8,000 Greek locals. There are also a small number of Tianzhu people. When I asked when these people joined the province of Europa, I found that the Great Song Dynasty was quite aggressive in its use of soldiers. The Japanese were already very important deputies in the overseas forces of the Great Song Dynasty, with the Three Buddhas and Sinhala soldiers as the backbone. Even the Tianzhu soldiers can use it.

While we were talking, I heard the sound of cannons. Everyone turned their heads to look at the village, and the battle broke out. After a while, I saw that some villagers began to flee from the village. Wang Qincha didn't care at first, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became. If such a larger village is in the Great Song Dynasty, it would be good to have about 30 households. But I saw that the people in the village kept pouring out, and there were actually three or four hundred people.

When the soldiers captured all the Greek villagers, the guns in the village still rang out. Qin Cha wondered how many evil parties were hiding in this village. With several loud explosions, the gunfire became even more intense. Not long after, two correspondents came running and jumping along the potholed road, panting and stopping in front of Wang Qincha to report: "Report, our side has broken through the fortress of the thieves. The battle is almost over. ”

Hearing that the gunshots were only occasionally ringing at this time, the Chin Cha asked the correspondent, "How are the thieves?" ”

"The thieves will resist stubbornly and will never surrender. We wanted to reduce casualties as much as possible, and it took a lot of effort to break through the fortress. ”

"Let's take a look." Chincha was very interested in seeing the real Greek folk.

The guards couldn't stop Qin Cha, so they could only protect him forward. Passing by the captured Greek people, the Chincha stopped to watch. I saw that they were dressed in sackcloth, and they exuded the feeling of using poor words as their heads. After walking a little further, I realized that the village was actually not small, but it was hidden by the hillside, and the Chin Cha could not see the whole picture at first.

Walking on the dirt road in the village, flanked by low houses, the smell of feces fills the air. Behind this low, broken stone house, there is an all-stone fortress. At this time, the outer wall of the fortress had been blasted with two large holes, and it looked dilapidated. Stop outside this five or six meter high fortress, look at the fortress, and then look at the low dwellings of the civilians, and fully feel the huge gap between the two.

The footsteps sounded, Yang calmly ran over, and said a little complainingly: "You wait a little longer." ”

"I want to see it too, but I can't help it." Qin Cha laughed.

Yang calmly explained the rest of the matter to his subordinates, and he accompanied Qin Cha to visit the fortress that had been searched. When I entered, I found that the fortress was not high, the internal area was very large, and the structure was quite complicated. Various layouts are aimed at the combat characteristics of the era of cold weapons. The color and texture of the stones used to build the fort vary greatly, and the texture of the stones is quite consistent in different areas, and it seems that the fort was originally not large, and it was accumulated over several generations to have its current appearance.

Under questioning, Yang calmly told the history of the Duchy of Athens. The country was founded by the Crusades when Athens was seized from the Eastern Roman Empire and the Latin aristocracy was founded. Now that central and southern Greece were owned by the province of Europa, the local power of the former Duchy of Athens changed from aristocracy to local underworld.

At this time, the two of them walked up to the highest tower and looked out condescendingly. In the barren land, the dwellings of the civilians looked even more shabby and short. Qin Cha asked Yang Congrong, "What are you going to do with those people?" ”

"There's our plantation right around here, where we grow olives and cherries. Send them all to the plantation. ”

"What to do here?"

"After research, we will do new uses. But the locals had to move away. ”

"I see." Chin Cha couldn't help but nod. Yang Congrong's methods were similar to those of the Great Song Dynasty, which recovered the Central Plains and the north, and also built a new order through migration. Zhao Guanjia made it clear at the meeting of the society that such a large space was suddenly vacated, and of course the locals would not be allowed to take advantage of the advantages of the local snake to expand wantonly. The Chin Cha continued to ask, "Will the local people resist?" ”

"Initially they will cry, and after a few months they will start to get used to using money, and these people will be obedient."

"Haha. I see. Chincha laughed like a joke.

Yang calmly didn't answer, but just looked at his old classmate with a little surprise. Sure that the old classmate really thought it was funny, so he laughed, Yang was surprised in his heart. He initially did this out of experience, and found that the more countries and regions that use money in large quantities, the easier it is to communicate and cooperate.

In his correspondence with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang calmly agreed with the Foreign Ministry's proposal to establish a monetized cooperation system as much as possible. Yang calmly even consciously carried out classification experiments in different plantations based on the concept of monetization. Thirty plantations in each of the control groups on both sides, estates where labor is paid not in kind but in kind, and no amount of money is given will really satisfy the people working in the estate.

The plantation workers, who were paid in money, were also not satisfied. The work on the plantation is not easy, the income is more than double that of the previous poor life, and no one is really satisfied. There is a lack of 'hope' in estates where money is paid but in kind. At least some of the workers are willing to go to great lengths to improve their abilities and work more efficiently in exchange for more monetary rewards.

For example, in a money-paid plantation, three times as many Greek laborers were able to communicate with plantation managers in Chinese than in kind.

Judging from Wang Qincha's reaction, Yang Congrong felt that this old classmate did not understand this management concept. So Yang Congrong continued: "Since Europa Province is the land of the Great Song Dynasty, of course the land must be state-owned. It's just that now that we have just gained a foothold here, we can only gradually eradicate those thieves. ”

Chincha nodded again. The province of Europa has a population of one million, divided between four large islands and a small piece of land. There are now 390,000 people registered in the hierarchy. With more than 20,000 armed forces, the other 600,000 people were completely brought under the control of the government, and the only way to do this was to take one step at a time. "Is the thief party here really the mastermind who plotted to assassinate you?" ”

"I will know after the interrogation." After Yang calmly finished speaking, he felt that his tone was full of malice.

The nobles here dared to look at each other angrily when they were first interrogated, and after less than ten minutes of torture, the nobles confessed with tears in their eyes. Two waves of people lobbied for him. There are members of the royal family who have fled to the Duchy of Athens in the Holy Roman Empire, hoping that they will cooperate with the Holy Roman Empire's counteroffensive to attack Athens.

This nobleman is a nobleman after all, and he knows the truth that if you don't see a rabbit, you can't scatter an eagle. Since the royal family of the Duchy of Athens fled, there has been no news for several years, and of course it cannot be believed.

The second wave arrived at the Eastern Roman Empire, where the Cantacuzenus family sent people to persuade him to carry out assassinations. The two sides exchanged several times, and finally it was revealed that they were preparing to assassinate the emperor in the Eastern Romans. Now the Eastern Roman Emperor re-established the imperial court and civil service system in the Eastern Roman country, and once again formed the Roman legions composed of local Romans. The rebellious aristocracy was constantly eliminated, the land of those nobles was nationalized, and the land was pacified by building plantations and then contracting the land to local peasants. If the Eastern Roman Emperor is not removed, the Eastern Roman nobility will be wiped out sooner or later.

The Cantacuzenus family assured that the assassination would be easier to succeed if the province of Europa could be thrown into chaos and the Eastern Roman Emperor would lose important allies.

This suggestion was very attractive, but it was not enough to impress the nobleman. It wasn't until the peasants under the rule of the aristocracy began that some people fled to work on the plantations of the Great Song Dynasty, and they kept coming back to bring other farmers to the plantations of the Great Song Dynasty. Seeing that the serfs in the territory had changed their minds, the nobles finally had murderous intentions.