When the international situation is turbulent, the days of leisure are always short-lived, and while the seeds buried deep in the ground are quietly germinating, Hal in a bomber jacket returns to Kent Farm.

Bruce opened the door, and when he saw the look on Hal's face, he knew that he had brought good news.

As soon as Hal saw Bruce, he immediately stepped forward and shook his hand vigorously, and then hugged him again, Hal patted Bruce's arm hard and said, "Bruce, thank you so much this time." ”

"Come in, it seems, you have good news to say."

Hal hesitated, he looked inside, and Clark came out, he reached out and opened the door a little wider, and said, "The spring ploughing is nearing its end, and my parents have gone to the town to hand over the rented equipment, because there are too many trivial items to sort out, they will stay in the town for three days, and now we are the only ones here." ”

Hal looked at Diana's face again, and Bruce also glanced back at Diana and said, "She's our own for the time being, or rather, she and you are also our own people." ”

"You mean she's ......" Hal gestured with his hand in a flying position, and Bruce nodded and said, "You shouldn't know, but Oliver knows for sure that Amazon women have special abilities, and Diana has fought in two world wars." ”

Hal was still a little skeptical, but after a while, he walked in anyway and said, "Since it's your guarantor, it's okay to let her join, don't blame me for being too suspicious, after all, the stakes are high." ”

Hal smelled the smell of food as soon as he entered the house, Clark reached out and pointed to the kitchen, Diana was washing her hands, Clark said, "There's only one person here who doesn't know how to cook, I don't say it, you should know it." ”

Bruce rolled his eyes and walked to the table to sit down, but Hal raised his eyebrows in some surprise and said, "You actually admit it, it seems that your mental illness is indeed much better, if in the past, you would have to learn a hundred and eighty dishes to prove that you are not worse than them." ”

Soon, Diana came out of the kitchen and said proudly with her hands on her hips, "I made two Amazon specialties that will definitely burn your tongues." ”

Clarke, wearing gloves, brought out a bowl like a basin with a whole fish in it, he put the dish down, clapped his hands and said, "I don't know how this compares to Martha's secret grilled fish, but I think it's pretty good." ”

"In your opinion, it should be incomparable, there is no food in this world that can compare to the taste of mother." Diana shrugged and smiled.

Hal looked at the pot of fish but was stunned, he subconsciously said, "Roast first and then steam, how is this a bit like my father's way of dealing with fish?" Westerners don't usually do that, do they? ”

Hal immediately picked up the fork, he stretched out a hand and said, "Sorry, I'll taste it first." ”

After saying that, he inserted a piece of fish meat into his mouth, Diana frowned slightly, as if he thought his action was a bit rude, but soon Hal showed a shocked expression, looked at Diana and said, "Do you know a pilot named Steve Trevor?" ”

When she heard the name, Diana's face changed, and after a while, she suddenly realized, looked Hal up and down, and said, "What's your last name, Jordan?" Are you Jordan's son or nephew? ”

"If you're talking about Jordan as Martin Jordan, then, yes, I'm his son." Hal nodded and said.

Diana immediately walked to the table with some anxiety and asked, "Is he okay?" ”

"He's fine, except for being old and having a little bit of a problem, everything is fine."

Looking at Clark's somewhat dazed expression, Hal spoke: "My dad is also a pilot, and he once told me about World War II, when he had a commander and his comrade-in-arms, named Steve Trevor. ”

"Once, they had a major accident in the air, and it was Steve who saved him, otherwise he would have died, but then, they were transferred to different departments, and my father used some methods, but he didn't contact Steve, and for so many years, he wanted to save his life."

"But it's a pity, he's just an ordinary pilot, there is no room for promotion, and there are no connections, during the war, everyone can only protect themselves, my father doesn't have the energy to look for it, but after the war is over, he can't be contacted, he can only take a group photo every day to miss his old comrades."

After saying that, Hal glanced at Diana's young and beautiful face again, touched his chin and said, "Are you Steve's daughter?" But you don't look like you, I've seen pictures of him, or are you any of his other relatives? ”

Diana lowered her head and took a deep breath, then shook her head slightly, and Bruce tugged at Hal's arm, who still didn't react.

"Is he okay?" Hal asked.

"He's dead." Diana blinked softly, then her lips pursed into a line, turned her back to the others, and said in a somewhat complicated tone, "That was a long time ago. ”

The atmosphere in the room became a little silent, and just as Clark was about to speak, Hal rushed ahead of him and said, "When my father misses Steve, he often says that he is a man with 'great love', I don't quite understand what it means to be a great love, but I know that he is a good man." ”

"He actually risked his life to save my father, and this kindness will never be forgotten by the Jordan family, and no matter what, there will always be someone who will remember Steve Trevor."

Diana finally couldn't hold back anymore, her eyes turned a little red, and Clark stepped forward and hugged her, patting her lightly on the back.

After a while, the princess, who had always been strong, finally relented a little, and when everyone sat down at the table again, their relationship was pulled in, and they not only shared secrets, but also emotions, which made them confirm that they were in a group and that there were no outsiders here.

"I'm here to tell you the good news, and although you'll be on the news in a few days, I think it's important to tell you the results of Oliver's efforts as soon as possible."

Hal cleared his throat and said, "The battle in western Guadalajara, Jalisco was a great victory, we occupied about 200 square miles of land in the Ameca River basin, repelled the drug lords who had been entrenched there, and completely took back more than 70,000 acres of high-quality arable land from them. ”

"How much?!" Clark stood up from his chair in shock.

"70,000 acres! High-quality arable land! ”

Clark gasped, and Diana looked at him and asked, "How old is Kent Farm?" ”

"About 3,000 acres."

Diana gasped as well, and Clark raised her voice and said, "Wait a minute, Hal, I'm going to make sure it's prime arable land, not total area, right?" ”

Hal nodded, and Clark's eyes were about to pop out, and he said: "The 3,000 acres of Kent Farm is including woodland, water veins, roads, barns and other uncultivated non-arable land, as well as a large area of housing land. ”

"Moreover, not all arable land can be called high-quality arable land, according to the standard of large farms in the United States, Kent Farm has at most 1,000 acres of high-quality arable land, and 1/3 of these high-quality arable land is resting, that is, the actual output of high-quality arable land is more than 700 acres."

Keeping a shocked expression, Clark slowly sat down and said, "And now, they have 70,000 acres of high-quality arable land, oh my God!" ”

Hal sighed and said, "But in fact, this amount is not much, and it can even be said that it is a little small, because the Ameca River basin is close to the central and western part of Mexico, and it is the Guadalajara radiation area, and the arable land conditions there are not as good as those in the northwest." ”

"Mexico has a lot of arable land, excellent natural conditions, and a lot of high-quality arable land, but most of the high-quality arable land is concentrated in the northwest of the border with the United States, where the terrain is flat, agriculture has a long history, and large-scale mechanized agriculture is mostly practiced."

"That is, the place you occupy is not the plain?" Diana asked.

"No, the area we occupy is also a plain, and the water veins are still abundant, but the reason why it has been occupied by drug lords for a long time is also a problem left over from history."

"Is it the Mexican government's problem?" Clark asked, frowning.

Hal had a laughing expression on his face, and he glanced at a few people and said, "You must think that the government is to blame for the bad situation in Mexico right now, but that's not the case." ”

"As you should know, Mexico's agriculture has had a long period of glory and is known as a model of agricultural development in a third world country."

"In the 10-20s, Mexico began to carry out large-scale land reform, confiscating all the land of large manor owners and large farmers and distributing them to farmers, and at the same time establishing village communities in units of 20 households, also known as cooperative farms, arable land was allocated to individuals, and other production land was owned by the collective."

"Beginning in 1940, the Mexican government began to develop the northwest and build water conservancy to solve the problem of irrigation conditions, and agricultural production in the northwest increased rapidly, and the central and southern regions also benefited from various agricultural policy subsidies."

Clark's eyes widened slowly, but Diana, a history major, touched her chin as if she remembered something and said, "I seem to remember, it's true, I remember learning when I was studying agricultural history, Mexico is one of the few countries in the world that has explored collective ownership." ”

"In that case, how did they end up like this now?" Clark asked.

"The problem lies in the process of industrialization." Hal took a deep breath and sighed, saying, "The success in agriculture has made the Mexican government feel that it can accelerate the pace of industrialization." ”

"Mexico wants to become an industrialized country, but their approach is not right, the pace is too fast, and the previous agrarian reform has not actually solved the fundamental problems, and the development has been completely rigid now."

"In less than 30 years, the Mexican government has abandoned many of its agricultural policy preferences, and in less than 30 years, the share of agricultural output in GDP has fallen from 15 percent to about 7 percent, which is a direct cut in half, and the consequences will be disastrous."

Clark opened his mouth, and the expression on his face changed several times, as if he felt that this ending was a bit too ridiculous, but Bruce saw it more thoroughly, and he said directly: "America's wrong example." ”

Bruce forked a piece of fish with a fork and put it on a plate, and as he cut it, he said, "The whole world wants to restore the glory of the United States, and wants to take a golden road, but there is no gold on this road, only a mouth full of sand." ”

Hal nodded and said: "It is not possible to copy the rigid formula, and the development route of complete industrialization is a waste of Mexico's superior natural conditions, as well as the fruits of previous reform and development." ”

"The hasty reforms have left the people in confusion, not knowing whether they should stick to their fields or follow the wave of industrialization, and this confusion has given the criminal industry an opportunity to take advantage of it."

"But because of the failure of the transition, the acuteness of internal contradictions, and the outbreak of the economic crisis caused by wrong decisions, the Mexican government is even less able to fight crime, so the country has gradually slipped to where it is today."

Diana said with some sighs: "We should not deny the meaning of exploration because of failure, let alone ignore the suffering of the people in this land, drug crime is the enemy of the world." ”

Hal nodded vigorously in disapproval, he glanced at the eyes of several people again, pinched his fingers and said with some hesitation: "I have another mission this time, and that is to ask you for help, Oliver is in unsolvable trouble, and it is a big problem. ”

"What's the trouble?"

"We don't farm!"