[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

Inan did not punish Gurwin, nor forced him to keep the secret, but sent him to the farm outside Babylon to promote this new irrigation method.

She doesn't have high demands on Gurwenti. Within a month, as long as there is a farmer who can accept this irrigation method, she will spare Gurwen and will not be held accountable.

So Gurwin could only let go of his airs as a prince's adjutant, and persuaded him from door to door.

"This is 'drip irrigation', a new irrigation method, which is different from our previous method of flood irrigation. It saves labor and prevents soil erosion..."

All the farms felt very pleasant to hear, but after careful questioning, they realized that they had to purchase a large number of custom-made pottery pipes and natural asphalt.

None of the farmers are very happy about such a large project.Someone even asked directly: "Are you a babysitter from the pottery yard?"

Guerwen: ... I am Prince Saar's deputy, and I need to be a babysitter for the brick factory?

But in this way, there is no way to do business in front of Princess Media.In desperation, Gu Erwen finally purchased a complete set of this kind of "drip irrigation" equipment for his family's farm at his own expense. After installing it, he went to Yinan to report the news.

Yinan heard that a farm had installed a full set of "drip irrigation" equipment, so he nodded and let Gurwin go, and left a message, saying that if the farm had any technical problems, he could come to the Summer Palace for advice.

Gurwin was even more puzzled: Could it be that the other party really wanted to spread this technology in the land of Babylon?

After the Guerwin family installed this "drip irrigation" equipment, it didn't take long for them to feel the difference.

First of all, there is less time to do farm work——

The water source near Babylon comes from the great river Euphrates.For many years, the Babylonians have built canals to divert water from the Euphrates River to the vicinity of farms, and then use tools such as water wheels to introduce water into the fields for irrigation.Irrigation is the most labor-intensive daily farm work—fertilization, weeding, and insect repellent are all a step behind.

But now that "drip irrigation" equipment is installed, farmers in the village spend significantly less time on watering.Moreover, the crop root soil in the field can obviously keep moist for a long time, and there will be no dry roots.

Gradually, the Gurwin family was able to let go and do other work: raising livestock, weaving and weaving, and making various handicrafts.

When summer comes, this advantage becomes even more obvious.

Others have to water twice a day in the morning and evening, and loosen the soil frequently to prevent the soil from compacting.

The Gurwins can't stop watering once in the morning, and it lasts the whole day.

The crops grown in his field are even better than others.

The Gurwin family was very excited about this.They sent representatives to the summer palace to meet the "Princess of Media", and asked them about some problems in drip irrigation technology.Yinan asked the female officials to share their experience with these farmers, and they actually solved the problems encountered by the Guerwen family.

The Gurwins' estate grew steadily more prosperous, and soon attracted the attention of the neighbors.When they learned that this was the drip irrigation technology that Gurwin "sold" from door to door earlier, people began to be skeptical again.

It wasn’t until someone in Gurwin’s family inadvertently revealed that this was a “secret method” brought from the Kingdom of Medes. At this time, the Babylonians were really interested: it is said that the Kingdom of Medes is rich in products. In recent years, a lot of food in Babylon comes from Imported from Midi—for a while, there was an endless stream of people ordering materials from the pottery yard.

However, Gurwin himself didn't know about all this, he only helped Prince Saar take care of several major projects in the country.

When someone from Gurwin's family came to deliver a letter one day and told them that every family was very grateful to Gurwin, the prince's deputy was surprised.

Telling Prince Saar about this matter, Gurwin thought that the other party would also be surprised.

Who knew that Prince Saar nodded slightly, and said, "Well, she doesn't look like a princess who only knows how to dress up and have fun."

Saar was not surprised at all. He seemed to believe that Princess Inan from the Kingdom of Medes would not hide her secrets, but would take the initiative to promote the technical ideas she had mastered.

"Since she likes to farm, let her do it." Saar said casually.

Women who like to be independent, make money and spend on their own—Sar is very respected.

——But it's just respect.

Unexpectedly, Gurwin was still worried, and reminded the prince: "That princess is really special. You may need to be more careful."

Sal raised his head and said directly, "What are you guarding against? Preventing her from passing better technology to the Babylonians? Preventing her from gaining a good reputation for you?"

Gulwin rolled his eyes, wondering why the prince's words sounded so sour?

He was stunned for a long time before he said: "No... no, you think... as the princess of the Kingdom of Medes, she came here for marriage, but she can live in the summer palace safely and securely for so long ...You have to pay attention to what she will say, what she will do, and who she will meet..."

"The point is, her Babylonian language is so good, if she didn't know her identity in advance, she would never have thought that she was from the Kingdom of Medes." Gu Erwen reminded.

Salman still remembered how she stretched out her hand and said "make friends" with a smile; but she had to admit that what the deputy said made sense.

He ordered casually, making people stare at Xia Gong secretly.If the people inside have any special actions, leave the summer palace or something, report it immediately.

Then Saar turned his head and continued to stare at the renovation project of the walls and gates of Babylon.

At this time, the north gate of the city of Babylon, and the most important gate, the Ishtar Gate, was nearly renovated.A few days ago, the king of Babylon came to see it in person, and he was very satisfied, and praised Saar's hard work.

"The eldest son of the king, he can fight when he is on a horse, and he can rule a country when he is dismounted. Babylon will surely rise! The Kingdom of Babylon will surely be glorious!"

The king was never stingy with words of praise for his cherished eldest son.

However, Saar knew very well that several technical difficulties encountered in the renovation of this city gate were solved by craftsmen in Judea.

Ever since he was accused of "wasting manpower" and "reckless waste" in the street, Saar has paid attention to finding artisans with outstanding skills among the Judeans, providing them with relatively favorable living conditions, allowing them to maintain their beliefs, and at the same time Their families were freed from hard slavery and engaged in lighter work.

At the beginning, Judaean craftsmen still had lingering fears about the Babylonian prince who trampled their homeland.

But over time, they still felt the respect of Thrall.

Furthermore, the Judeans firmly believed that the "Babylonian captivity" was God's punishment for the Judeans.Although Prince Saar acts as a devil-like "destroyer", he is to a certain extent the "spokesman" of God.

Now that Sal has asked the craftsmen of Judea, and he has an attitude of correcting after knowing his mistakes, the craftsmen of Judea dare not fail to fulfill their responsibilities.

The Ishtar Gate was successfully built, and Prince Saar was very excited.

But he also cannot forget who gave him that revelation.

He had returned to the vicinity of the labor market several times, wanting to see if it was possible to see that masked face and those bright big eyes again—another "encounter".

He may not really want to thank the other party, but he just wants to find an opportunity to express to the other party: You are very reasonable, and I am not the kind of person who does not listen to opinions.

But surprisingly, the masked woman never appeared again.

Sal used some people to find it, and even found the skinny old man who confronted him that day, but no one knew the whereabouts of the masked woman.

No one knows where she came from.

This huge city is like the sea, and the woman is like a fish that swims into the sea, never to appear again.

The prince was a little unhappy about this: he didn't even realize it, but he really wanted to prove himself in front of that woman, and he felt very uncomfortable when he failed.

But at this moment, news came into the city: the princess of the Kingdom of Medes, who had been living in the summer palace, dressed up as a woman from the Kingdom of Babylon, had entered the city of Babylon through the gate of Babylon.

"Prince! Look—"

The expression on Gurwin's face clearly read: I knew this woman was not that simple.

Conspiracy theories emerged one after another in Gurwin's mind: Is this woman a spy sent by the Kingdom of Medes to inquire about the secrets of the Kingdom of Babylon? ...The prince once promised that welcoming this woman into the city is tantamount to acknowledging the marriage. Did she want to...appear suddenly by the prince's side to confirm the marriage?

Saar frowned, stood there for a moment, suddenly thought of something, waved his hand, and said, "Let's go!"

There were several people staring at Princess Medes, and the prince immediately asked someone to take him to find her.

Gurwin followed triumphantly, as if he had been a hero who had solved the riddle.

The group of people hurried through the cobweb-like streets and alleys of Babylon, and came to a very small store.

The prince's people had been waiting here for a long time. When they saw Prince Saar, they hurriedly greeted him and said, "Not long after I left, some brothers have already followed me."

"She... how did she get into the city?" Saar changed his normal routine and only consulted these trivial questions.

"Princess Medes?" His subordinates followed the prince all the way into the city. Seeing the prince asking, she quickly answered, "She changed into a Babylonian costume and covered her face with a scarf. Then... you also You know, she speaks the language of the Babylonians, just like someone who was born and raised there..."

As soon as Sal heard this sentence, he immediately said, "Quick, which direction is she going? Take me there quickly."

Gurwin responded, and was about to follow, but Saar gave an order: "Gurwin, you stay here, don't follow."

After the prince finished speaking, he quickly followed his men to follow up.Gurwin froze in place, he didn't quite understand why the prince ordered him to stay where he was and not let him follow.

This order made Gurwin, the adjutant, very embarrassed. After all, there are several confidantes of the prince by his side.

After a while, Gurwin raised his head and found that there was such a small shop in front of him.

So the prince's adjutant strode into the store, coughed heavily mercilessly, and caught a glimpse of a twenty-sided dice on the owner's table.

"The woman who just left this store, what is she doing here?" Gulwin asked rudely.He just lost face with the prince, and now he wants to make up for it in front of the shopkeeper.

Seeing that it was the person next to the prince, the shopkeeper quickly got up and greeted him with a smile.

"That lady just now, she is a customer in the store, and she just came to withdraw money."

"Bringing money?" Gurwin frowned, "She came all the way from the Kingdom of Medes not long ago, before...cough, she should have never been to Babylon, right? Where does she have property, and the Babylonians help her keep it? "

Gurwin asked rudely, and the shopkeeper was not angry, and responded gently: "Babylonians value contracts, and you know that. The money that the lady drew was a piece of property that was kept in the shop a long time ago. It is said that it is ... left by the gods."

Prince Saar's men are very efficient, and there are people keeping reports at every turning intersection.Saar quickly passed through the small half of Babylon without any effort, and in front of him was the Ishtar Gate that was about to be completed.

"Your Highness, she...she is right in front."

Seeing the eagerness on Prince Saar's face, his subordinates hurriedly pointed to a woman in the front who was wearing a Babylonian-style robe and a turban on her head.The woman was standing in front of the Ishtar Gate construction site when guards stopped her.She was facing Saar with her back, looking up to the height of the city gate.

- That's right!That's her!

Sal didn't even have to turn her head to make a conclusion.

It was only after he had made up his mind that he realized that the "she" in his heart was not only his fiancée who was rejected by him thousands of miles away, but also the masked woman who once stood up for the slave artisans in Babylon.

These two images actually merged into one.

For a moment, Sal didn't know what he was feeling: should he be suspicious or angry? ...Or just like what I had imagined, I stepped forward quickly to prove something to her.

Sal stood on the spot, clenched his fists, but hesitated under his feet, not knowing how to move forward.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Guerwen came panting, and said loudly to Prince Saar: "Your Highness, Your Highness...that Princess Medes, she, she is..."

Gurwin wanted to say: She is a rich woman who is so rich.

"Your Highness... If you don't want to, don't want to..."

Gurwin wanted to say: If you don't want to work hard, you can rely on your wife!With the popularity of the prince and the wealth of the princess, when the two are added together, the throne of the Kingdom of Babylon will definitely be able to sit firmly.

Be a soft rice prince? ——Actually, it’s not bad!

Gurwin actually wanted to say: If you really don't want to eat this soft meal, can you let the princess live?After all, people in this world who want to eat this soft meal can line up all the way from Babylon to Phoenicia—for example, Guerwen, he is very eager to eat this charming "soft meal"...

But Thrall's angry eyes finally made Gurwin shut up.

The deputy's loud voice startled the people in front, and the woman who covered her face with a headscarf finally turned around and looked curiously at the people behind her.

"His Royal Highness Prince Saar, Guerwen."

The woman greeted them friendly, and took off the scarf that covered her face, revealing the face that belonged to "Princess Medes".

Sal's words were blocked again when he reached the edge of his mouth. He strode forward, facing the woman, and held back a sentence after a while:

"What are you doing in this city?"

Yi Nan raised a money bag in his hand, and there was a "jingling" sound inside, obviously it was coins.

She smiled and said, "I'll get some living expenses. There's not enough money at the Summer Palace."

Sal snatched the purse with his hands, threw it into Guerwen's hand, and said, "Didn't I say... If you need anything, ask me... Guerwen, add more money to the princess' purse." Two hundred gold coins, order people to send them to the summer palace quickly."

In terms of emotion and reason, he should be the one who raised her.But this woman... God, he shouldn't have expected this woman to listen to him at all.

Gurwin, standing behind the prince, took the purse.

His hands sank suddenly, and the whole person almost sat down on the ground——

This money bag... contains at least five hundred gold coins.

Gurwin was speechless, and wanted to remind Saar very much: Prince, your fiancée, is a hundred times, a thousand times richer than you...

The value of the purse directly shocked Gurwin, causing him to completely forget one fact: the princess was holding the purse lightly and deftly in her hand just now.

As for Saar, when he was excited, he didn't pay attention to the weight of the money bag at all, and together with his deputy, he ignored Yinan's "lifting the weight as if it were light".

"What else do you want?" Sal asked angrily.

He was angry with himself: he still didn't care about her life, and he had someone secretly follow her... The most important thing was that he was so stupid that he didn't connect her with the masked woman earlier.

She's so wise, so sharp, so... strong.

The princess at the gate of the city, the master who has taken over the summer palace, the women in the city of Babylon—it’s all her, it’s all her, it’s all her.

He was the prince of Babylon, and he thought very highly of himself all his life.When he was just able to mount a horse, he had been fighting everywhere with the prince, and when he grew up, he was on his own, commanding thousands of troops, and witnessing countless enemies surrendering in front of him.

But it was the first time he felt this kind of pressure: a woman, a woman who was evenly matched with him, could even vaguely surpass him.

So he could only put on such an angry attitude roughly to cover up his guilty conscience.

Unexpectedly, the woman's bright eyes only turned around on his face, as if she had seen through his disguise. There was a smile in her brows and eyes, she opened her mouth, and she even stretched out her finger to point to the city gate behind— —

"I want to see this gate."

She asked softly, her voice was like a clear spring flowing through a mountain stream.

All the fire in his heart was instantly extinguished because of this sound.

Her first request was to ask him to show her this city gate that he was so proud of.

A premonition quickly surged in Sal's heart: If he misses the opportunity this time, he rejects her, and he won't let her see this unparalleled city gate...

Then he will regret it for the rest of his life.

In other words, there was a strong impulse in his heart to let her see it with her own eyes—this seemed to be his lifelong ambition.

This strong impulse squeezed him, making him feel the pressure.For the first time, Prince Saar stretched out his hand to the woman in front of him, and made a "please" gesture.

But the woman still wanted to be sure, so she covered her mouth with her hands in feigned surprise, and challenged him in a low voice: "Is this true? Can you take me to have a closer look at this city gate?"

Sal gritted his teeth. If it was in the past, he would turn around and leave cleanly, leaving behind all those who dared to play such a trick in front of him.

But now he couldn't - he was afraid that he would regret it in a blink of an eye if he rejected her, so he had no choice but to continue to stretch out his hand in front of her.

"Then," she put her hand in his, "thank you!"

——The fingers are warm and cool, and it is very comfortable to hold.

In the distance, Gu Erwen was holding the heavy bag of gold coins, and stared dumbfounded at the changes in the two people in front of him.

A while ago, Sar, who had sworn aggressively that she would never let Princess Medes take a step into Babylon, now lowered his head and stretched out his hand, willing to use his princely status as a guide to lead people to visit the newly rebuilt Ishtar Gate in Babylon.

It turns out that the charm of Ruanfan is so great! ——Gurwin thought, and couldn't help but hugged the money bag in his arms even tighter.