"Where did those two run away again?"

In the corridor, Wu Han held a few documents and looked left and right to find someone.

He looked back and forth, and finally in the corner opposite the conference room, he saw Guo Kang and Theodora.

At this moment, Theodora pushed Guo Kangdu against the wall, and was wrapping her arms around his head, and her chest was pressed against him. For some reason, Wu Han's mind was full of what Guo Kang had just said, the scene of the ancient Slavic stone grinding......

"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" He hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness, the queen is looking for you!" ”

"Why are you again?" Theodora looked back, saw that it was still him, and said strangely.

However, Wu Han himself didn't want to come at all, so he could only mutter: "I'm just an errand ......."

"Okay, okay, you can go quickly." Guo Kang also struggled out, and persuaded again and again: "There are a bunch of business today, how can I have time to play." ”

As he spoke, he was about to leave, but Theodora was unwilling to let him go, so he took him by the hand and went to the queen together.

After arriving at the place, they found that the activities on their side were about to end. Finding Theodora is to complete the final rites and say goodbye to everyone.

After all this, the queen was free, and asked Theodora casually: "You just went to talk about fundraising?" ”

"Yes." Theodora nodded.

"How?" The queen asked.

"So-so. Most people still want to wait and see, but Javanese businessmen are very enthusiastic and want to participate in the investment. Theodora said.

"I hadn't looked at this plan in detail before, and I didn't expect it to start implementing it all of a sudden." The queen sighed with emotion: "A lot of the relevant situation is what your grandmother told me two days ago." ”

"I look at the people of the Cao family, but they are very enthusiastic. Is this plan really so profitable? She still looked a little skeptical: "I don't doubt the long-term effect, but we need to get a lot of ordinary people to do it." And most ordinary people have neither the will nor the ability to pay attention to such long-term results. The long-term interests of Rome had to have short-term results in order for them to be willing to continue their efforts. ”

When Theodora heard this, he turned his head to give Guo Kang a look and asked him to speak.

"This, in the short term, will actually have obvious benefits." Guo Kang had no choice but to take the initiative to explain: "It's not because we have any magical means, it's just because the foundation over there is really bad." Doing a little bit of it will make a big difference and benefit everyone. ”

"The minerals we want to mine are one aspect. Local agriculture itself can also be greatly improved. For example, the water conservancy facilities we plan, normally speaking, during the construction period, this kind of project has no direct output, and it has to be done for several years before it can be effective. The main goal of planning these projects is to transform the conditions of the entire region, not to benefit directly. ”

"But on their side, because there was no infrastructure at all. Most of them were covered by forests, which in turn were divided by rivers and lakes. The vast majority of Rus' people are not able to clear large areas of forest, so they can only follow the river and look for easier to manage the edge of the woodland. With a little reclamation, crops can be grown there, possibly part-time fishing. Many of their settlements were formed in this way. ”

"We're going to have to start out there, but we're going to do more than they did. Therefore, the construction of water conservancy projects itself requires cutting down trees, draining swamps, and surrounding shallows. Those big trees are all fine timber, and some people will buy them at a high price; The bogs can be dug up with peat for their own winter. For the locals, this is already much better than they usually do. It can be said that in the first year, you can get an improvement in your standard of living. ”

"They didn't even have that before......" The queen really didn't understand the local situation, and said in surprise, "but it's also." At least that's an income, and for the poorest, it's encouraging to see even a few copper coins fall into their hands. This kind of thing happened to us when we were doing charity before. ”

"It's not the same." Guo Kang added: "According to our plan, we first have to lend them money to buy food, and it is better to send it before winter, so that they can eat for nothing for a few months, lie down and recuperate, and then they can work." Therefore, the money obtained from the reclamation really can't be distributed, and it has to be repaid. ”

"Why is that? Can't you just go to work? The queen asked curiously.

"On the day of the riots, I recruited a lot of Rus' in the city to fight. Afterwards, the Church sent a number of monks to collect the victims. In order to deal with the aftermath, they also investigated the battlefield, visited the survivors, and counted their names, causes of death, and places of sacrifice. Guo Kang introduced: "As a result, the church found that some people did not die of swords, but were too hard in battle, running and wielding weapons too violently, so their bodies could not support them afterwards, so they died of exhaustion." ”

"Heavenly Father......" the queen sighed.

"Most of the Rus' people may be in a better situation. They're back home, I suspect it's worse than these people. Guo Kang said: "At the beginning, it was the time to establish credit. We can't just start and exhaust the people who come to us to death so much. ”

"Of course, there is also the good thing that the Rus' life situation is so bad, so a little more help can make a huge difference in their lives. I have heard that even in the Grand Duke's army, they can only eat some oatmeal or buckwheat porridge, or simply throw all kinds of messy grains they can find. Therefore, we don't have to spend money to buy them serious rations, so that people can fill their stomachs, which is enough for now. ”

"Oats, aren't they eaten by horses?" Theodora was a little surprised: "They even have cronies like this? ”

"yes." Guo Kang shrugged: "Didn't Plonsky introduce some last time?" That's how they do it every day...... Hard. ”

In fact, according to Guo Kang's knowledge, this oatmeal paste was the military food of the Rus' army until the First World War. In this day and age, I'm afraid it's even rarer than it was then.

In the eyes of the Romans, oats were fed to horses. If you let the legionnaires eat this, they will have to turn the pot and mutiny. However, for the Rus, this is really good.

"We don't have to pay too much upfront. At the beginning of the pilot, it didn't have to be on such a large scale. And, I don't think there will be too many people willing to take the initiative in the beginning. Theodora also explained:

"A lot of people there have been abused by various nobles and gangsters for many years, and basically don't trust anyone outside the neighbors in the village. Before Brother Kang, he seized a rare opportunity to have such an obvious effect. Under normal circumstances, it's hard to be believed. I can only recruit as much as I want, and I took my time. ”

"Yes. We'll have to investigate in more detail. Guo Kang also nodded.

He doesn't have an idea of how much he needs to add yet. In his world, people's knowledge and detailed investigation of the Rus region are generally from the late 19th century onwards, and do not necessarily represent the current situation.

According to the calculations of later generations, by the end of the 19th century, the daily energy intake of the average Rus' peasant was about 2,600 calories, which can be said to be very ...... Weight loss. But these people must also engage in heavy physical labor.

As a result, on weekdays, farmers literally lie flat and are free every day to minimize any additional caloric expenditure. Only when it is critical, will they go to the field and work hard. Only in this way can the probability of direct exhaustion be minimized.

This kind of labor mode naturally does not want to have any efficient output. Oats, rye, etc., which are suitable for "free-range", have become the first choice. In addition to this, the locals will also grow some more convenient crops to minimize the amount of exercise required to take care of the fields. For example, they have long been popular in planting horsetails.

This kind of thing is also called horsetail grass, which is somewhat similar to dog tail grass, and both are close relatives of grains. In Seris, this thing is considered a field weed, but in the land of Rus, it is indeed a crop.

The horse's vitality is more tenacious and it doesn't need much care - it's a weed, after all. Its output is also similar to that of those undomesticated grass crop ancestors 10,000 years ago, roughly at the level of weeds. Since no matter how much the staple food is planted, it will be harvested about the same, and there is not much difference. And there is no shortage of space in the land of Rus. Therefore, this kind of grass, which is completely effortless, but somewhat producible, can still bring some extra income. And that's pretty good.

Locals gather their grass seeds and process them with tools that have gone to ancient times. Their agriculture has been in this strange state for a long time.

Although there is no direct understanding of it, after Guo Kang explained it, the queen also felt that it made sense, so she did not object. She thought for a moment and asked, "In that case, is there anything else you need help with?" ”

"That's pretty much it." "We have to change the customs of the locals and make them really 'Romanized' as well," Guo said. And this kind of thing can't be done overnight. So, the rest, can only be left to time. ”

"We have to support him all the time to get this done." Theodora also took the opportunity to say to his mother: "This kind of plan depends on whether the implementation can ensure the stability of the policy." If you can do this, maybe it will be more useful than giving more money. ”

"When you say this, Konstantin is not an outsider." The queen smiled, "Why don't we support him?" ”

Theodora looked happy, hugged her mother passionately, and kissed her.

Guo Kang shook his head.

In this way, it makes him seem like a villain who realizes his conspiracy through Theodora's relationship. However, he felt that this was clearly the truth.

People in a region often form certain habits due to historical reasons, and it is difficult to change them on their own. Back then, Mr. Corn of the Red Horde inspected the situation of agriculture and finally found that everyone could only grow crops that were vigorous, good to plant, good to live in, and easy to harvest.

He tried to promote sugar beet on state farms, but the crop was fragile and had to be handled with care, with the result that none of the sugar beets on the farm could produce sugar. He also found that the river beaches outside Moscow were more suitable for growing vegetables, so he hoped to promote them, but the locals still only grow barley and wheat, because these crops are relatively easy to handle, and the work of fertilizing and harvesting is just a turn of the machine. And vegetables are too troublesome for everyone to grow.

Of course, that doesn't mean they don't want to eat. Due to the fact that the standard of living improved a lot, and during the stable era of the Red Horde, people were no longer worried about going hungry and began to be able to choose delicious vegetables. Tomatoes and zucchini are very popular.

However, even in Moscow, imported canned zucchini causes a rush every time. Because these vegetables need to be carefully cared for and picked regularly, and local farmers don't have this in mind. So even in that era, it had to be imported from places like Romania.

As for the most famous corn, they also do not grow well. Mr. Corn personally went to Ukraine, where the climate is suitable, to inspect the situation in the fields, and found that the fields were full of weeds and the corn in the fields was gone. I peeked around with the binoculars and saw that the farmers were all gathered together to chat, and there was no one to work. In the end, he can only recommend that everyone should grow vetch and oats. Because of the local people's level of field management, they can probably only grow these.

These circumstances led him to be so angry that he repeatedly complained in his memoirs that it "ruined the reputation of the corn and, above all, mine" (author's note: sic). It can be seen that even the Red Horde has not been able to change these too long-standing habits.

The agriculture of the Rus' people probably also had limits. Unless, they completely change these customs and stop being Rus'......

"So be it." He thought about it for a moment and felt that he still couldn't do it. Since everyone has already said so, he simply took this opportunity and proposed: "Why don't you help me more and increase the establishment of a few more professional war groups?" ”

"Something like 'Basil's Hammer'?" Theodora turned his head and asked, "Is there any need for this kind of force over there?" ”

"Not a soldier, it's a hunter and an engineer." Guo Kang said.

"I envisioned this in my previous plans. The situation of professional construction teams and engineers has been said before. Later, I found out that maybe even hunters have to be specially configured. ”

"Their villages are so small, often with only a few families. When the wasteland was cleared, some bears and wild boars rushed out of the forest, and the village could be wiped out. And I've heard that in the depths of the forest, there are some powerful beasts that may have mutated due to internal forces, and the locals are very afraid of this strange form in the forest, and they don't dare to provoke it at all. ”

"No matter how much is true, if we want to develop in depth and build a large reclamation area, we still need someone to be responsible for hunting these beasts and monsters, and by the way, we have to teach everyone how to deal with the basics. Otherwise, it would be too unworth it to rely on the Ross farmers themselves, with their rudimentary wooden forks, to die a lot. Moreover, it is also a public service that helps to make the local people accept us and even take the initiative to join us. ”

"On the other hand, hunting is actually a way of training, so it is better to formalize and militarize it. I also wrote some specific plans. He said: "I chose two random names from the mythology of the Rus' people as code names. The one who was in charge of going to the woods to hunt wild beasts was called 'Chernoborg', who was their black god, and the one who was in charge of building was called 'Beloberg', who was their white god. You can look through my previous plan and look for these two parts, I think there is. ”

"It's a good plan, but we have to change the name of our Rome." The queen reminded: "You said that the black god or something, the church is probably not happy. Let's change the way it is called, 'Black Angel'. They seem to do this a lot, so they probably won't say anything. ”

"No problem." Guo Kang didn't have any opinion on this, thanked him, and recorded it easily.

(End of chapter)