Love, love, love, these may really not be suitable for an emperor and a powerful prince who is a minister in the Ministry of War.
The two of them had not been in the dormitory for a while when an urgent border report was handed to Jun Chenyuan.
What's going on?
This matter seems to have something to do with Qi Bao'er.
The second prince of Silan Kingdom, oh no, we should call him the king now. After killing another prince half a month ago, this guy completely lost his opponent and became the king very smoothly.
The newly ascended King of Slan has caused trouble again.
Perhaps because he felt that the Qi Family Army was difficult to attack, he colluded with the fourth prince stationed at the border of the Mentar Kingdom, and unexpectedly launched an attack on the Western Army of our town seven days ago.
The Zhenxi Army was still stable and did not ask the court for help, but reported the matter to the emperor urgently.
Qi Bao'er read the emergency report and returned it to Jun Chenyuan, saying in a word, "It's considered a fight."
The reason why Qi Bao'er made such complaints was actually because of the Mentar Kingdom's army, or to be precise, the fourth prince. He was so shameless that a normal person would want to give him a few big bucks.
The urgent report was written by General Zhenxi himself. The urgent report stated the real reason why the Mentar Kingdom and the Silan Kingdom went to war against our country.
It's not a grab for land, nor a grab for people's money and food, but a grab for the potatoes and sweet potatoes that are being grown in the border/military garrison areas across the Great West.
Yes, they were looking at crops that seemed to have nothing to do with the war.
I'm angry because I'm angry, but actually it's not difficult to understand when you calm down and think about it...that's bullshit.
To the west of Qilin Kingdom, close to the border, there are already deserts or Gobis everywhere. Further to the west and north, the geographical environment of Mentar Kingdom and Silan Kingdom can be imagined.
But this does not mean that the two countries are completely in the desert and the Gobi. People definitely need water to survive. To be a country, it is not just a matter of having only a few, hundreds or thousands of people. Naturally, the water source will not be too large.
Only small things can ensure the normal survival of ordinary people.
If there is a water source, there will be trees and forests, and planting will be possible.
However, the problem of poor soil quality and low crop yields in these two countries has always existed.
In the past, they used money or special minerals to purchase or exchange them with the surrounding countries that had food. The Qilin Country, which has a vast territory and rich resources, was their biggest seller.
The reason why this incident has become such a big deal is that the source of the incident is really not a big deal, at least not to the point of a fight between countries.
When King Silan was watching the battle between the first army of the eldest prince and the Qi Family Army, he paid special attention to the food and grass supply of the Qi Family Army. After paying attention, he discovered that the staple food of the Qi Family Army was not rice and flour.
But I don’t know what the size of the pimple is.
I sent someone to steal a few and came back to try them. I found that they were a good thing. They tasted sweet, soft and delicious, and they made me very hungry.
Qi Jiajun taught the people in the surrounding villages to grow potatoes and sweet potatoes together. King Slan was not a fool. He would not confront Qi Jiajun himself, so he turned his attention to those who grew these two crops.
village.
The villagers were less knowledgeable and less defensive, and these two crops were already in the surrounding villages. They were no longer novel enough to warrant keeping their cultivation secrets. King Slan's men disguised themselves as poor people passing by and easily misunderstood the villagers' words.
Got hooked.
It can be planted in sandy land and the yield per mu can be as high as 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms!!!
King Slan almost went crazy when he heard the news.
What would it mean if they, the Islamic Republic, could get this crop?
It means that the people of Silan Kingdom will no longer go hungry, and it means that Silan Kingdom will no longer be controlled by other countries for food; especially Qilin Kingdom, which takes half of Silan Kingdom's treasury almost every year.
King Silan is not saying that he does not want to buy the seeds of these two crops from Qilin Kingdom, but he knows that buying this disguised form will make Silan Kingdom have no worries from now on, and Qilin Kingdom will no longer be able to earn money from Silan Kingdom.
For food treasures, the price they have to pay will definitely not be small.
He may even be unable to bear the price. After all, the civil war in Sri Lanka has just ended, and the internal losses are not even one or two, so he won't be able to spend much money anymore.
In other words, the country of Silan is now very poor, and King Silan knows that he cannot afford the seeds of these two crops.
As for stealing, he didn't even dare.
The Silan Kingdom is now full of holes. Unless he wants to destroy the country, how can he dare to provoke the Qilin Kingdom who has increased its military strength?
It just so happened that the fourth prince of the Mentar Kingdom was squeezed out by other princes and forced to move to the border to become a general guarding the border. The other princes just wanted to keep him at the border, so many years after the fourth prince arrived at the border
The army here has never been fully paid.
Some troops stationed at the border were starved to death. Can you believe it?
But something happened in the Mentar Kingdom that was equivalent to destroying the Great Wall.
Utler, the fourth prince of the Montal Kingdom, has been worried about food for many years. This guy has no choice but to be a shameless scoundrel. The villages near the border area between the Qilin Kingdom and the Montal Kingdom are
There was no one who had not been beaten/robbed by Utler's army.
They were small groups of small groups pretending to be bandits who came over the mountains, robbed and ran away.
The reason why the two countries didn't fight over this matter was because the other side never really hurt anyone.
This is where Utler is smart. As long as no one is injured and his soldiers are not caught on the spot, it is not easy for a country as big as Qilin to send troops to Mentar for no reason.
Therefore, Utler's army is like a bed bug in the eyes of the Zhenxi Army. It does not hurt people but is disgusting.
The imperial court's attitude towards the Mentar Kingdom was that of a hostile and thieves.
But just as Utler had planned, there was nothing he could do against them. Uttler's soldiers were almost full of skills when it came to escaping.
"King Slan has done a good thing."
There is a food shortage in Sri Lanka, but not as much as in Utrecht.
If he wanted to get the seeds for free, the first person King Slan thought of to cooperate with was Utler.
But this person is a special thief, he likes the kind of villain who always only does things behind his back.
He would not expose himself by sending an envoy to his door, but instead used a method to spread the news about these two high-yielding crops owned by Qilin State to Utler's ears.
Utler sent someone to check and happened to see that the Zhenxi Army Company was clearing wasteland in the middle of winter. After further inquiry, it turned out that the Zhenxi Army had already harvested one crop, and the yield per mu was indeed astonishingly high.
Who can I have who is willing to be a bandit all the time and be called a mouse?
Moreover, if he has such high-yielding crops in his hands, it will no longer be a dream to grow a large amount of food in a few years, lead troops/attack back to the capital for revenge, and then win the throne.
But Utler and King Slan also faced the same problem: they were poor and couldn't afford seeds.
Then just grab it, it’s not like they haven’t grabbed it before anyway, this is their strength.
The difference is that in the past we only robbed the people of Qilin Kingdom, this time we want to rob their military.
Fortunately, there is no army stationed at the planting place, so as long as you run fast enough, you can get the seeds.
