Mo Li grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to scream. This little girl is so ruthless, wait, one day my brother will definitely make you cry very rhythmically. Mo Li thought in his heart.

"Mr. Moli," Lei Luo said dissatisfiedly, "May I ask why you caught us here?" We are legitimate businessmen, please let us go. ”

Mo Li hurriedly said: "Mr. Lei Luo, you misunderstood, this is not a catch, it is an invitation!" We would like to ask you to be our military instructors! ”

"Please? Is this please? Tie it up with a rope, is that please? Relo was still angry.

Mo Li smiled awkwardly and said, "Mr. Lei Luo, I'm sorry! It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! Come on, come on, drink and drink! Forget about this unpleasant thing! Haha"

As soon as Lei Luo picked up his wine glass, he suddenly reacted and said, "Wait! What did you just say? Please ask us to be military instructors? ”

"That's right! We cottage ...... Oh no, our Renaissance Army has just been established, and now is the time when all kinds of talents are needed to join, Mr. Lei Luo, during the day, I see that when you fight against those bandits, your command is determined, and you are not chaotic in the face of danger, and the shooting action is also very standard, and the marksmanship is very good, Mo Li admires! Dare to ask where Mr. Lei Luo used to be? ”

Lei Luo listened to his words to flatter himself, and his heart was also a lot more comfortable, and when he asked about his background, he couldn't help but say with some pride: "Mr. Mo Li is polite, I used to serve in the Royal German Army, and I was a lieutenant colonel before retiring. The tone was quite proud, and the address to Moli had changed.

"Oh! It turned out to be Lieutenant Colonel Lei Luo, disrespectful and disrespectful. Mo Li arched his hand and said, "As far as I know, the German Army is the strongest army in Europe!" Even if you look at the world, I am afraid that you will not be able to find a few opponents, and Mr. Lei Luo can become a lieutenant colonel in the German Army, which shows that he must have extraordinary talents and skills! ”

Lei Luo squeezed out a modest expression and said, "Where, where, Mr. Moli has won the award." But as far as I know, your government's regular army isn't dressed like you, is it? ”

"Hahaha......" Mo Li was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "That's right, we are indeed not a regular army now, but we will definitely be the best and most outstanding army of the Ming Dynasty, because we have instructors like Mr. Lei Luo!" ”

Lei Luo shook his head and said, "Mr. Moli, forgive me for being rude, we German soldiers will not cooperate with bandits. ”

Mo Li laughed and said: "Mr. Lei Luo, we are really not bandits, although we are not recognized by the Ming government now, but it won't be long before the Ming Emperor will be impressed by us!" Because it won't be long before the Manchu Tartars will invade the Ming Dynasty in the south, and the Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid that only our army can resist the Manchu Iron Cavalry! ”

"You guys? Is it just a hundred or dozens of you? Lei Luo and Fred looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh contemptuously. Before Fred and Lei Luo had talked about the situation of the Ming Dynasty, and also talked about the situation in Liaodong, knowing that the Manchu army had besieged Jinzhou City before, the veteran Sun Chengzong sent Zu Dashou to lead the army to the rescue, and then the Qing army retreated to the north of Yizhou.

Fred has lived in China for a long time, and he also understands the conflict between the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming State has been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the Qing State for more than ten years, and the Ming State has a huge territory and a large population, and it is not easy to say who will lose for a while, so he will discuss with Lei Luo to send a batch of flintlock pistols and grain samples from Europe, hoping to persuade the Ming court to buy their flintlock pistols and miscellaneous grains, with the Ming country's land and army number, Lei Luo and Fred have every reason to believe that this will be a very profitable business.

Mo Li knew that they looked down on him, indeed, he was really a bandit in a small cottage now, but he was ashamed to say that he wanted to repel the Tatar cavalry known for his bravery, which was incredible to any normal person.

However, Mo Li's face was not ordinarily thick, and he smiled slightly: "Yes, we do only have about a hundred people now, but what I want to tell you is that China has always lacked people, do you know how many people there are in the Ming Dynasty?" More than 100 million! ”

"Oh God!" Lei Luo was stunned, his blue eyes widening. 100 million people! What is this concept? At that time, the world's population was no more than 400 million, right? Is there really so many people in the Ming Kingdom? "But what does this have to do with your current resistance to the Manchus? Even if the Ming country has a population of 100 million, it is a fact that there are only about 100 of you now. ”

The size of the population of the Ming Dynasty has been disputed. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, because of the war, most of the people were left behind, but the number of households that could be checked still reached 50 million, so it was conservatively estimated that the population of the Ming Dynasty at that time was about 7,000 to 80 million.

Experts generally believe that the population of the Ming Dynasty was about 100 million, and some scholars believe that the population was about 150 million, and even more set at 200 million.

The population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time was about 50 or 600,000, and the number of soldiers was about 100,000. Such a huge country was ravaged by no more than 100,000 cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that the Han people were enslaved to the point that they completely lost their blood, Mo Li felt incredible every time he thought about it, and at the same time he was indignant.

"Mr. Fred, you have been in Daming for a long time, so you must also know the current situation of the people in Daming, right? There is a saying in China that ugliness should not be publicized, but I think that we must face up to our own shortcomings at all times and make targeted corrections in order to improve and strengthen ourselves.

I'm not afraid to tell you that today's Ming Dynasty seems to be very powerful, but in fact, the interior has long been decayed, natural and man-made disasters are continuous, people's livelihood is withering, and there are hungry people everywhere who can't eat and can't survive. Mo Li said in a moment's time.

"What are you trying to illustrate?" Lei Luo and Fred glanced at each other, both a little shocked in their hearts.

"Potatoes and sweet potatoes are food crops that reproduce quickly and have a high yield, as long as you find a piece of land and throw it down, you can grow it, and you can grow two to three crops a year! Now with this wagon of potatoes and sweet potatoes that you gave us, I don't think we can feed more than 100,000 people in a year!

As I said earlier, there are hungry people everywhere now, and as long as we can provide them with food, I think there will be many, many people who will be willing to die for me.

If we are equipped with a large number of advanced muskets and other weapons, do you still think that our strength is very weak? You must know that the entire tribal nation of the Manchu Tartars is only five or six hundred thousand people! Mo Li spoke eloquently.

"How do you know that sweet potatoes can be grown two or three times a year?" Lei Luo couldn't help but ask curiously.