"When the war begins, you must protect the imperial envoy Wang." Yang Congrong personally gave a speech to the imperial envoy's guards of more than 20 people.

"I understand!" The Song people in the guard responded with the Japanese.

The envoy Wang Qin immediately objected, "I came here to see you fight, why bother so much?"

"If something happens to you, I..." I wanted to say 'How can I explain', but I felt that this was too self-righteous. Yang Cong-chan said calmly: "You are hurt, I feel uncomfortable."

The imperial envoy shook his head, "The Ministry of Personnel has always emphasized seeking truth from facts. If I am injured, I will naturally not blame you for forcing me to go to the battlefield."

Yang Congrong could only order the guards: "You must not let the imperial envoy enter the dangerous area!" After that, he went to the front to command the battle.

Of course, the envoy Wang Qin would not seek death. After Yang Congqing left, he found a good location at a high place near the army. From here, the entire battlefield was in sight. The target of attack was a village, which looked small. Near the village were sparse orchards. The fruit trees looked very average, with sparse branches and not full leaves, and there was no way to compare with those Dasong plantations that were taken care of with all their heart. There were several empty farmlands near the Shulin Garden. The exposed land was light in color, and it felt barren just by looking at it.

A thousand troops participated in the attack. The tall ones in the queue were undoubtedly the Song people. Among those with significantly different figures, the Japanese people with similar skin to those of the Song people were the Japanese people, who ran around and looked more energetic. Others had darker skin, and were the soldiers of Sanfoqi and Sinhala. Some of the guys with darker skin had no weapons and carried out transportation work. According to the arrangements at the military meeting before departure, these guys should be Tianzhu soldiers of the Lifan Division.

The horn sounded, and the troops were divided into several teams. The Commander Wang also wanted to keep up, but the guards did not obey because of the Commander's identity. They refused the Commander's order to take risks. The Commander Wang could only watch Yang Congrong lead the offensive team to disappear into the distance along the bumpy slope.

In order to get rid of the boredom, the imperial envoy chatted with the guards. The guards guards who guarded the imperial envoy were all close friends, four Han people, ten Japanese people, and ten Sinhalese people. Wang Qinshi learned that the core force of the Europa Province is about 20,000, including 2,000 Han people, three thousand Japanese people, five thousand foreign soldiers from the South China Sea and Sinhalese, seven or eight thousand Greek locals. There were also a small number of Indians. When asked when these people joined the Europa Province, they found that the Song Dynasty used foreign soldiers very radically. The Japanese were already very important deputy in the overseas forces of the Song Dynasty, and the Sanfoqi and Sinhalese soldiers were backbones. Even the Indian soldiers could use them.

As we were chatting, we heard the sound of cannons. Everyone turned to look at the village, and the battle broke out. After a while, they saw villagers starting to escape from the village. Wang Qinzhang didn't care at first, and the more they looked, the more surprised it became. If such a large village was in the Song Dynasty, it would be nice to have about thirty families. However, people in the village kept rushing out, and there were actually three or four hundred people.

After the foreign soldiers captured all the Greek villagers, the sound of guns and cannons in the village continued to sound. The imperial envoy was suspicious of how many evil parties were hidden in this village. With several huge explosions, the sound of guns and cannons became even more intense. Not long after, two correspondents ran along the bumpy road and stopped in front of the imperial envoy panic and reported: "Report, we have broken through the fortress of the thief party. The battle has basically ended."

When the imperial envoy heard that the gunshots only sounded occasionally, he asked the correspondent: "Are there many thieves?"

"The thief party is in a desperate situation and will never surrender. We want to minimize casualties as much as possible, and it takes a lot of effort to break through the fortress."

"Let's go and have a look." The imperial envoy was very interested in going to the real Greek folk.

The personal guard could not stop the imperial envoy, so he could only protect him forward. By the captive Greek people, the imperial envoy stopped and watched. He saw them wearing linen clothes, exuding the feeling of using the word "poverty". He continued to walk forward for a while and found that the village was actually not small, but was covered by the hillside. The imperial envoy could not see the whole picture at first.

Walking on the dirt road in the village, there are low houses on both sides, and the air is filled with the smell of drowning. Behind this low broken stone house, there is a fortress full of stone. At this time, two large holes have been blown up in the exterior wall of the fortress, which looks dilapidated. Stop outside the fortress, which is five or six meters high, look at the fortress, and then look at the low residences of civilians, and fully feel the huge gap between the two.

With the sound of footsteps, Yang Congqing came over calmly and said with a little complaining: "You can wait a little longer to come."

"I want to see it too, I can't help it." The imperial envoy smiled.

Yang Congrong gave the following to his subordinates, and accompanied the imperial envoy to visit the searched fortress. After entering, he found that the fortress looked not high, with a large interior area and a complex structure. Various layouts were aimed at the combat characteristics of the Cold Weapon Age. The color and texture of the stones in the fortress were very different, and the texture of the stones in different areas was quite consistent. It seemed that the fortress was not large at first, and it was accumulated by generations to look like it.

After asking, Yang Congqing told the history of the Principal of Athens. This country seized Athens from the Eastern Roman Empire during the Crusades and supported the Latin aristocracy to establish the country. Now the central and southern Greece belong to the Europa Province of the Great Song Dynasty, and the local forces of the former Principal of Athens have changed from aristocrats to local evil forces.

At this time, the two of them walked up to the tallest tower and saw it from a high point. On the barren land, the residences of the civilians looked even more shabby and short. The imperial envoy asked Yang Congrong, "What are you going to deal with those people?"

"We happen to have our plantation nearby, planting olives and cherries. Send all these people to the plantation."

“What should I do here?”

"After investigating and researching, it is necessary to move away."

"So that's it." The imperial envoy couldn't help but nod. Yang Congqing's methods were similar to those of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty revived the Central Plains and the North and built a new order through migration. The Zhao official family made it clear in learning social discussions that suddenly such a large space was vacant, and of course it would not allow the locals to use the advantages of local tyrants to expand arbitrarily. The imperial envoy continued to ask: "Will the local people resist?"

"At first, they would cry, and after a few months they would become accustomed to using currency, these people would be obedient."

"Haha. So that's it." The imperial envoy laughed as if he was laughing.

Yang Congrong didn't answer, but just looked at the old classmate with a little surprise. He was sure that the old classmate was really funny, so he laughed. Yang Congrong was surprised. He initially adopted this approach, and he struggled in Europe and found that the more money the country and region used, the easier it was to communicate and cooperate.

In the document exchanges with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang Congrong agreed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' suggestions and established a monetized cooperation system as much as possible. Yang Congrong even consciously conducted classification experiments on different plantations based on the concept of monetization. The two sides' comparison groups had thirty plantations each, and the manors that did not give money but paid labor remuneration in kind. Even if they were given more physical objects, they would not really satisfy the workers in the village.

The people in the plantations that use money to pay are not satisfied either. The work in the plantations is not easy, and their income is more than twice as much as their previous poor life, but no one will be truly satisfied. In the manors that pay in money, there is a lack of "hope" in the manors that pay in kind. At least some workers are willing to do their best to improve their abilities and exchange more efficient labor for more monetary rewards.

For example, in a monetary payment plantation, Greek workers who can communicate with plantation managers in Chinese are three times more likely to be paid in kind.

Judging from the reaction of Wang Qin Chuang, Yang Congrong felt that this old classmate did not understand this management concept. So Yang Congrong continued: "Since the Europa Province is a territory of the Song Dynasty, of course it must have land. But now we have just gained a foothold here, so we can only gradually eradicate those thieves."

The imperial envoy nodded again. The population of Europa Province is roughly one million, divided into four large islands and a small land area. Now the population with a registered household registration is 390,000. The other 600,000 people are completely under the control of the government with more than 20,000 armed forces, and they can only do it step by step. The imperial envoy asked: "Is the thief party here really the mastermind who plans to assassinate you?"

"I'll know after the interrogation." Yang Congqing said, feeling his tone full of malice.

The nobles here dared to angrily face the interrogation. After less than ten minutes of torture, the nobles burst into tears. Two waves of people came to him to lobby. There were members of the royal family who fled to the Holy Roman Empire, hoping that they could cooperate with the counterattack of the Holy Roman Empire to attack Athens.

This nobleman was a nobleman after all, and he knew the truth that he would not show off his eagle without seeing a rabbit. Since the royal family fled in the Principal of Athens, he had not heard the news for several years, so of course he could not believe it.

The second wave came here was a great figure in the Eastern Roman Empire. The Kantakuczenus family sent people to lobby him for assassination. The two sides communicated several times, and finally revealed that they were preparing to assassinate the Eastern Roman Emperor. Now the Eastern Roman Emperor rebuilt the imperial court and civil service system in Eastern Roman, and once again formed a Roman legion composed of local Romans. Continuously eliminated the rebellious nobles, nationalized the land of those nobles, and comforted the place by building plantations and then conquering the land to local farmers. If the Eastern Roman Emperor was not eliminated, the Eastern Roman nobles would be destroyed sooner or later.

The Kantakuczenus family promised that if the assassination could cause chaos in the Europa Province and the Eastern Roman emperor lost important allies, the assassination would be easier to succeed.
Chapter completed!