Li Xiao always heard people say that Russia is a fighting race, as if when God created man, the innate skill of Russian people was to fight.

However, in this era of horseback fighting, the Mongols should be counted as a fighting race. Temujin led the Mongol cavalry across Central Asia, and his descendants created a vast empire unparalleled and unprecedented.

The empire was so vast that it took a year to ride a horse from east to west.

In a world ruled by iron and sword, the Mongols' reputation for being warlike resounded throughout Eurasia.

The blood of the ancestors is running in Man Gui's body, this guy naturally likes war. He loved war more than anything. There was no fighting, or rather, it was reduced to an auxiliary service. It was torment for him, and there was nothing more uncomfortable than watching people fight.

In order to have a fight, Man Gui even began to pick up the books he hated the most. Dragging the old fish to ask word by word, when a general starts to read the military book, this proves that he is improving. It's just that Li Xiao felt that he should ask Mao Wenlong, not Yu Lao.

As an excellent skilled worker in the Ming Dynasty, the old fisherman knows words as an outlier. Discussing the art of war with him is definitely a kind of physical and mental destruction.

The thinking of skilled workers is very strange, and these people are quite reasonable. Not only the fisherman, but also many guys from the craftsman's camp are like this. They can lie in the workshop all day long, experimenting with all kinds of things. But I don't like to chat with people, and drinking two sips is already my only hobby.

Li Xiao often sees such a scene, Man Gui chases the fisherman and asks questions. The old fisherman was annoyed, but it was not easy to drive this man away. The impatience on his face can be seen clearly as long as he is a person, but Man Gui doesn't care.

According to his words, learning! Which is so easy to learn in the stomach!

Looking at Man Gui, who loves to learn, Li Xiao's heart moved. Always train officers among the soldiers, although it is now possible. But it will not last long in the future, after all, these soldiers were farmers with hoes a year or two ago.

Now it is a bit difficult for them to not only pick up a gun, but also pick up a brush to do their studies.

"Master, you can get Man Ye away quickly. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have been able to study this teapot properly. The teapot on the stove was steaming, and the sledgehammer and Zhao Tiezhu were staring at the moving lid. His eyes were full of doubt and confusion!

The old fisherman no longer looked at this thing, and was complaining to Li Xiao. Man Gui's entanglement all day long has made the old man irritable. He's tempted to get rid of this ass behind his ass right now!

As long as it doesn't hinder himself from doing research, Li Xiao will send Man Ye to the moon, and the old man will have no opinion.

"You figured it out?" Li Xiao looked at the confused Zhao Tiezhu and the big hammer, and wondered if the old man really understood the truth of the steam engine.

"Still don't understand? Isn't it just boiling water, which will produce white gas. You blocked the spout, of course there has to be a place for the gas to come out. When the white gas inside gathers too much, the lid of the pot can be lifted. This is the power of white gas! You see, some of the gas is leaking out of the rim of the lid.

So you've got rubber again, just stick a layer of rubber to the edge of the lid. It is possible to keep the white gas in the pot until the power of the white gas can hold the lid up. ”

Looking at the old fisherman, Li Xiao repeatedly confirmed that this guy was not a traverser. I immediately decided in my heart that this old guy was a genius.

As long as the white gas is replaced by water vapor, this old guy's explanation is the most primitive steam engine principle.

This old bastard is a genius, and Li Xiao now wants to hug the old guy and kiss him. It's so rare that there are such smart people in this world.

As far as the old fisherman's brain is concerned, there is more than enough to do it for the Ministry of Industry. Li Xiao felt that he was much stronger than the pug in the capital who only knew how to help the emperor repair the palace.

"Is this really what you want to understand?" Li Xiao couldn't believe that this was true.

"What's this! It's pretty much the same as the dam wheel. ”

"What's a dam wheel?" Li Xiao's head turned around eight times, and he didn't understand what that thing was.

"It's to build a dam in the river and leave a sluice gate under the dam. When there is too much water, the floodgates are opened and the water is released. The water flows against the water wheel, and you can pull the mill and lick the rice. This thing is not only found in Shandong, but also in Henan. I've heard that there are quite a few in Guanzhong! ”

"Uh......!" Li Xiao was speechless, this old guy seemed to be talking about a hydroelectric power station.

"How did you tie these two things together?"

"It's not a reason yet, just make the spout smaller. When the water comes out of one place, the strength is greater. You're just turning water into gas. If you don't change the soup or the medicine, if you can't understand it, the old man will live to a dog at this age. The old fisherman put his hands behind his back and looked disdainful.

Li Xiao felt that he had reason to despise himself, as a modern person. I only know such a principle, as for how to drum up the steam engine, there is really no spectrum!

There's nothing to say, the little thing in my stomach is understood by people. It's better to leave early, and you will be embarrassed in front of the real craftsman.

arched his hand, Li Xiao raised his leg and left. Li Xiao believes that it will not be long. The steam engine is here!

Regarding Yu Lao's scientific research ability, Li Xiao no longer doubts.

During this time, the production in the Phi Dao Arsenal was very high. A total of more than 20 bronze cannons were produced, and they were lined up on the sea as majestic as they were.

Under Li Xiao's order, all of them were loaded onto the captured Dutch warships.

Now this ship is a real big killer, and Li Xiao believes that with just one salvo, he can take out the same Dutch warship. The main thing is the power of the flowering bullet, which is much more powerful than the solid iron ball.

Mortars, because they are simple and crude, and the technical requirements are not high. More than a hundred were produced, and a huge number of shells were produced.

This time, Li Xiao's heart can be regarded as bitter, and his mother's money is like running water. Those bronze cannons, then it's not a cannon, then it's fucking money.

The old fisher found that instead of working hard to buy copper with money, it was better to directly refine copper coins. It's all new money minted by the Money Bureau!

In the past, the money made by the money bureau was minted in a ratio of copper six lead four, and the color was inevitably obscure. The Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, and the Household Money Bureau was in order to tie up the new emperor. A new coin of copper and lead two was specially minted, which sparkled in the sunlight like a gold coin. With such a high copper content, it is really cheaper than buying copper.

Buy pyrite, iron ore, and all sorts of ores. Plus military salaries, cotton clothing was purchased. Coal, grain, etc., etc., are used on the island. This flowing water cost made Li Xiao feel a little breathless.

Ai Husheng has not slept seriously in the past few days since he came back. He was checking the accounts over and over again every day, because he found that the money that Li Xiao had worked so hard to get back would disappear in a short time.

After checking the accounts for several days, Ai Husheng had a pair of panda eyes and reluctantly admitted. This small island is simply a gluttony for money.

There are no mistakes on the books, and the fifth master, who was born as a bastard, has clean hands and feet. There is a lot of money on the books, but it is necessary to fill the development of Yizhou. I still have to pay this year's military salary, and at the end of the year, the money left is really limited. Especially when I heard that Li Xiao was going to recruit troops in Shandong again. Ai Husheng's heart began to suffer!

The production of muskets was much more efficient, and the barrels of the guns that had been captured by the Tartars and returned in exchange for the help of Lobaishan had been repaired. It's being repaired one by one!

I have to say that the craftsmanship spirit of the Ming people is still quite high.

Although there are a lot of guns, they look like they have been thrown in the field for a long time. But after repair, it is not much different from a new barrel. It's just that it's harder to get something called rifling!

But it's okay, after all, there is no need to worry about the difficult barrel. There are tens of thousands of such barrels, and since the Jurchens don't know how to use them, then Lao Tzu will use them. It also saves the guns that these Ming craftsmen worked so hard to make, and in the end they can only be in the wilderness. Together with their owners, become a relic of history.

Looking at the thick roster, Li Xiao's eyes widened. Because he found that he had more than 6,000 men under his command.

This is not counting the Mongols brought by Mangui, those Mongols were selected by Mangui and only formed a cavalry of 1,200 people.

After receiving a year's worth of food, the rest began to become self-reliant. Cultivate land on Changxing Island and graze cattle in Lushun.

Man Gui swore that after this year, everyone's life will be better. After all, there is no need to pay taxes under Li Xiao's command.

As long as there are no harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, who will have a bad life?

"Brother Xiao, you said that this soldier is noble, what does this mean? Does it mean that it takes money to raise soldiers, and it takes a lot of money. Raising soldiers is a very expensive thing? "Man Gui couldn't find the old fisherman, so he came to Li Xiao with a book.

"Your ......!" Li Xiao listened to Man Gui's words and almost vomited blood.

"It's not your way, it's a trick! In other words, fighting a war is a matter of heart. Li Xiao looked back at the ledger.

It seems that what Man Gui said is quite right, raising soldiers is really a fucking expensive way. I am now spending money every day!

If it weren't for robbing the gold of the Nine Ghosts Jialong, plus making a fortune in Macau. Now on my own account, it's going to be ugly.

"Oh! That's it! You Han people are fighting, but there are too many twists and turns. Like us Mongolians, fighting a war is one word, do it!

If he is far away, he will shoot with a bow and arrow, and if he is near, he will be slashed with a saber. The same also cut out a big Yuan Dynasty, this writing is so powerful, but the first sentence is wrong. ”

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