The slender bone knife cuts through the cream cake, and the faint creamy sweetness of the air is mixed with the wheat aroma of cereal baking. In the heat of May in the Western calendar, the smell seems a little sweet and greasy, but not to the point of being annoying. The thirty-year-old middle-aged couple across from Sheila had involuntary smiles on their faces.

Seeing this expression, Sheila kindly continued to cut the cake and put a large piece in front of both of them. The middle-aged man cut several pieces with a knife and put them in his mouth to eat, and the smile on his face was even stronger. Taking a sip of black tea, the middle-aged man spoke, "Miss Sheila, thank you for the cake." I was impressed by what you said yesterday on His Excellency Zoe's side. ”

Sheila didn't respond. Yesterday she had been invited to visit Lord Zoe, and had brought with her a cake that was bigger, more delicate and tastier than the one she had entertained the two opposites at home. It didn't turn out as well as Sheila had hoped. There were seven or eight nobles who came to Lord Zoe's mansion, and almost all the talk was about how much of a franchise Sheila owned and whether it could be distributed.

The nobles ate, drank, chatted and laughed, and the more Sheila listened, the more angry she became. The old guys were talking about nothing to do with farming, but how to distribute the concessions. According to the Great Song Europa Provincial Office in East Rome, Sheila is the general distributor, and the old guys want to be the regional general distributor. The old guys don't grow peppers themselves, and they want to divide Sheila's share and each of them gets a part of the concession. As for where they got the peppers, Sheila, the general distributor, doesn't care.

Seeing that Sheila didn't speak, the thirty-year-old middle-aged man was afraid of being cold, so he hurriedly continued his topic, "Miss Sheila, our family has a thousand eugram land, and I am willing to plant two hundred eugram peppers first." ”

The ugram was an ancient Roman unit of area, which was fully standardized in the Middle Ages. One yugram is equivalent to 2 acres, which is equivalent to about 12 acres in the Great Song Dynasty. Sheila was amused by hearing this number. She sighed: "Your Excellency Yi Sifan, I have grown one-twentieth of the yugram peppers in my garden at home, and I am so tired that I want to vomit blood, how many farmers does Your Excellency have?" ”

"More than a hundred strong men." Yi Sifan, a thirty-year-old middle-aged aristocrat, replied.

"If Your Excellency had listened to me yesterday, you should have known that it would take at least six strong men to take care of a field of eugram peppers. Even if you have 180 strong men, you can only take care of 60 eugram peppers for the first time. Don't you need people to plant other land?"

Yi Sifan's middle-aged eyes were even brighter after listening to Sheila's digital description. He looked at his wife beside him. Mrs. Yi Sifan took over, "Miss Sheila, you have worked really hard. How many peppers do you suggest we plant. ”

"The first time I tried to grow a eugram pepper. If it can be managed well, it will be expanded next year. ”

"Will it be too little?" Yi Sifan asked a little greedily in middle age.

"The concession in Europa is for those who are willing to grow peppers from seed to planting to acquisition, and these special help will be eliminated when pepper cultivation becomes widespread. The price of chili peppers is now five times the price of cereals, but did you ever think that the price of chili peppers will continue to fall as the amount of cultivation increases? The time for this special help is about five to ten years, and you are in a hurry to expand the planting area, so it is better to form a professional production team. If you don't make money, you lose money, and the first planting of a yugram pepper is probably a more suitable area for the first planting. ”

"Ten yugrams." Yi Sifan said decisively in middle age.

"Okay." Sheila could only agree.

Seeing Sheila's agreement, Yi Sifan said happily in middle age: "Miss Sheila, I like the taste of chili peppers very much, but what made me decide was your speech yesterday. Expect us to help you grow the peppers. ”

Sheila remembered yesterday's speech, annoyed and embarrassed. She herself didn't know where she got the courage at that time, and after hearing enough of the discussion of the 'concession' by a group of old men, she said loudly: "The concession of the Song Kingdom is not a license that allows you to pinch all the production in your hands, but a concession to help the producers who sweat beads and fall eight petals to master the technology as soon as possible." Your Excellency may continue to deliberate on how to divide it, and I will follow my authority to find out who is willing to really bury their heads. ”

Saying 'sweat beads fall eight petals' in Chinese resonates with Sheila, and she only feels like life is worse than death when she sweats like rain against one-twentieth of the size of a yugram. It's weird to say in Greek, and it's even funny. At least the Lords looked surprised and mocked. Sheila didn't expect that Yi Sifan, who was sitting in the corner at the time, would come to ask to join the house. Yi Sifan didn't squeak from beginning to end when the old men were talking, if Yi Sifan was a few days late in middle age, Sheila wouldn't have remembered that she had seen this person.

Sending away Yi Sifan's middle age, Sheila only felt exhausted. In Eastern Roman rule, the nobles left the specific business to the stewards or vassals, and the nobles only discussed how to divide the management rights, how to collect taxes, and how to pay customs clearance fees. The reason Sheila was so annoyed with the old fellows was precisely because she knew the rules of Eastern Rome.

The provinces of Europa, which owned the bank, did not practice feudal feudal system, and they insisted on two basic requirements for their trade partners: whenever goods were sold to the province of Europa, the province of Europa would pay the sellers in all directions. As long as you have the Quartet Bill, you can buy all the goods sold in Europa Province from the Europa Province.

In order to increase the volume of trade, all cooperation in the Europa provinces is directed at direct operators. Sheila had been unhappy since she was granted the trade concession, and now that she had to carry a hoe and plow the land like a farmer, the anger that had built up in her heart had reached its peak. When she went to meet the old guys yesterday, what Sheila wanted most was to rent the land directly from the old guys, and Sheila hired someone to grow the peppers directly. When she left the meeting, she finally realized that she was not facing the province of Europa, but the rules of Eastern Rome.

I went listlessly to the pepper orchard to see that the pepper seedlings planted under the guidance of the technician were growing well, and they were even stronger after applying the mixed fertilizer made of earthworm soil phosphate rock powder. Although the small green pepper looks immature, you can smell a few spicy smells when you smell it closely. The technicians of the Great Song Dynasty said that one-twentieth of the land the size of the eugram is calculated according to the unit of acres of the Great Song Dynasty, and that the harvest of half a piece of land in the Great Song Dynasty is enough for a family of four to eat for a year, and the chili peppers of the six-point land are enough for half a street of families to add spicy flavor to the kimchi.

After taking care of the vegetable patch, Sheila dragged her tired body to the office. Xie Song was still not there, and even Sheila, who was tired, felt a little surprised. Shezon had disappeared since attending the banquet of the Eastern Roman Emperor, and if it hadn't been for the fact that the office hadn't gone to see Shezon, Sheila suspected that the guy was missing.

After getting through the work hours, Sheila went home to rest. The next morning, Yi Sifan came to visit again, this time it was not a discussion of interest at the tea party, Yi Sifan was middle-aged to formally discuss how to cooperate. Sheila originally thought that this guy was just a whim, but she didn't expect Yi Sifan to really talk about it. She invited Yi Sifan to the office. First, the deputy director in charge of this aspect came out to meet him, and then Xie Song, who disappeared, appeared.

May is the deadline for planting peppers, and if it's too late, you'll have to wait until next year. Xie Song quickly arranged the matter, and the technicians and transportation personnel were arranged. Sheila had to go with her, too. Then Xie Song called in to introduce to everyone, "This is Mr. Altai, and he is responsible for protecting your safety on this trip." ”

The style of the office is to do what it says, and the team was soon organized, everyone went home and gathered for the package, and the team put the package into the mule cart and marched. Walking on the flat road in the office area, Yi Sifan looked left and right in middle age, and everything was fresh. He pointed to the Chinese characters on the wall and asked Sheila, "Miss Sheila, what is this?" ”

"Chinese." Sheila replied in an unhappy mood.

"What is written?"

"Labor is the most glorious." Sheila narrated the slogan in Greek. Seeing Yi Sifan's dumbfounded appearance, Sheila felt a little relieved in her heart.

After a brief shock, Yi Sifan continued to ask, "What is that sentence?" It seems longer than that. ”

"Failure is more glorious than cowardice."

"Hmmm! Well said, well said! Yi Sifan praised it.

Sheila doesn't overthink this thirty-year-old middle-aged man, these slogans are many of the rules of the province of Europa. Failure is more glorious than cowardice, and in order to determine whether the result is a success or failure as soon as possible, Sheila has to set out with her team in a hurry, crossing the Bosbrus Strait to the eastern part of Eastern Rome in the shortest possible time. The land owned by Yi Sifan is over there. Yes, failure is more glorious than cowardice. So Sheila, a little girl, has to travel thousands of miles with a group of old men. Looking at the slogans, Sheila remembered a slogan that everyone had heard and admired in the office but had not been able to put on the wall. This golden sentence is one word less than 'failure is more glorious than cowardice', 'money is hard to earn, is hard to eat'.

The team not only carried luggage, but also a lot of steel farming tools. The office pursues efficiency, and the steel guy can greatly increase productivity, and if you can sell these farm tools to the laborers, it will be the perfect ending. The fellows were temporarily placed on deck, and Sheila stood beside the bundled farm tools, and walked up and down the ship as if Altai had taken the wrong medicine. She couldn't help but grasp the handle of a hoe.

These days, Sheila has begun to get used to using farm tools, especially when it comes to taking care of the land. Whenever she was so tired that she wanted to cry, she threw the face of the Altai guy on the ground in her mind, and the next hoe cut through it was no longer the land, but the head of the dog of Altai, the culprit. Sheila had strength again. If Sheila hadn't believed the lies of Altai, the king of the eight lambs, she probably wouldn't have suffered so much. The imagination of chopping up the dog's head sustains Sheila's courage.

Altai shuddered suddenly, and turned around suddenly. I saw Sheila behind her look coldly, and then turned her face away and walked to the side of the boat on the other side. Altai looked at Sheila's footsteps, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that this was just an ordinary little girl, but Fang Cai's murderous aura was so fierce. Even the most powerful Assassins did not put such pressure on Altai.

Watching Sheila walk to the side of the ship on the other side and look into the distance, Altai could only continue his action of inspecting the ship with confusion.