Since the beginning of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty has been declining all the way and has entered the curve of sinking. First, he was beaten on the ground by his own hunting dogs. And then there was being bullied by the Mongols in the north. Even the savages in Lingnan began to move.

The famous Qi family army was wiped out, and the famous white pole soldiers were wiped out. The famous generals in the three major expeditions of Wanli, Juniper and Liu Ting have fallen one after another. The Jurchen Later Jin Dynasty launched a ferocious attack on the Ming Dynasty.

Soon, a large area of land outside Shanhaiguan was lost, and millions of Ming people were reduced to slavery.

Everything began to change when the Blue Flag hit the Grass Valley, and they slaughtered a small village called Ivory Village. Nurhachi never dreamed that this time Tu Village would open a huge Pandora's box.

There are no monsters in the magic box, only a person named Li Xiao.

Over the past 12 years, Li Xiao has been constantly fighting against various forces. The Liao army he formed was exported with all its might, and almost all enemies were wiped out. The fierce Houjin Jurchen was now left with Dolgon and Zilharang to survive under the wings of the Mongols.

The Donglin Party, which leaned towards the Ming Dynasty, has now completely turned into underground activities. I can only occasionally post some of the same things in the tabloids to win the attention of the people and achieve the purpose of advertising more in exchange for money.

North Korea is very well-behaved! is really as well-behaved as a pug, as long as Daming coughs, the whole of North Korea will tremble.

During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty was beaten in North Korea and had a blue nose and swollen face, and now he has become a thug and accomplice of the Ming Dynasty. Eighteen thousand of the fiercest warriors of the Wa Kingdom were heading south with Li Xiu's fleet.

The process of conquest is actually like a pyramid scheme, and if Ming wants to make sure that he stands at the top of the pyramid, he must have a large enough base. Under this premise, it is very necessary to raise some second devils.

In order to quickly make Daming rich, Li Xiao used almost all the countermeasures he knew. Li Xiao, who has a military mentality, is not clear about what these internal affairs measures will bring. All he knew was that this was what the future generations did. If Li Xiao is allowed to govern the country, it is estimated that the politics will soon collapse, the people's livelihood will wither, and then there will be various peasant uprisings.

The thinking of military personnel is different from that of politicians, and military men prefer something direct. And politics is a soft knife, and most of the time it has the hidden attribute of killing people invisibly.

Lucky! There are two thousand-year-old foxes who have become fine to help Li Xiao, Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan, who can be said to be the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty. They organized the land reform proposed by Li Xiao, and they organized the officials and gentry who proposed Li Xiao to pay grain and work as errands.

They supported the development of banks, railways, roads. In the various factories of Daming, countless goods are produced every day. These goods were quickly sold to Daming and even around the world through coastal ports.

Today, the people of the capital. To be exact, in the newly built residential buildings in Tongzhou, outside the capital, there is another major event.

"Can I close the brake?" Zheng Sen looked at Li Xiao.

"Hey!" As Li Xiao snapped together, Zheng Sen immediately pushed the electric switch up.

The whole building, the entire Tongzhou, lit up in an instant. Everyone covered their eyes, and the light bulb in the dark was so bright that there was a huge black spot in the eyes, and it was impossible to see clearly for a while.

Despite seeing electric lights, Zheng Zhilong was still dazzled. The two eyes of Sun Wukong kept blinking!

"Oh! Now I can see things much more clearly, much better than under the candlesticks. Sun Chengzong picked up a piece of music, put on reading glasses and looked at it, and was very satisfied with his new table lamp.

There was a huge cheer in the streets, and everyone poured into the streets to watch the shining street lamps on thigh-thick telephone poles.

As a new city outside the capital, it is the first to use electricity. The power plant is ten miles away on the edge of the canal!

Li Xiao has considered this, and there are wooden buildings everywhere in the old city of Beijing. If the wire is ignited, one will catch fire if you are not careful. The capital city that has been built since the Yuan Dynasty has been expanded by the Yongle Emperor and repaired by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

The entire Jingshi city wall is a cultural relic, and later generations demolished the Jingshi city wall for economic development. Even the city gate building was demolished, causing immeasurable cultural damage.

With this in mind, Li Xiao simply built a new city in Tongzhou.

All the streets in the new town are concrete roads, and the houses on both sides are all brick houses. Every ten meters, a street lamp illuminates it. There are no courtyard houses in the capital, and some are just three- or four-story buildings.

These small buildings are no longer the kind of tube buildings that can live in many people, but serious residential communities. Each community has a property management company, which is responsible for taking care of the community's green spaces and public facilities.

There was a doorman at the door, but it wasn't an old man, but a good guy in a straight uniform. Carrying a rubber stick in his hand, he wandered around the community all day long.

Zheng Zhilong noticed that many of these people had tattoos on their bodies. After careful inquiry, I found out that most of these were bastards in the capital. This made Zheng Zhilong very worried about the safety of his new villa, they are all big families, and there is real money in the house, if it is stolen, it will be bad.

After a period of observation, Zheng Zhilong found that these gangsters were very well-behaved. If there is any strength to work at home, they will roll up their arms and sleeves to help. To Zheng Zhilong's surprise, when they found something like wallet jewelry, they would actually put up a list to find the owner.

"No one is at ease to be a villain for life! There are a few gangsters who have a good end. Being able to have a decent job is actually more cherished by gangsters than ordinary people. "It's hard to imagine that these words came out of the mouth of the fifth master.

As the first wave of people who were mixed with Li Xiao, the fifth master was undoubtedly the first to fall behind. He is now the big proprietor of Wuzhou Construction Company, and he bought almost half of the land in Tongzhou.

Following Ai Husheng's example of building Tsinghua Garden, he hired some of Li Xiao's original old buddies to build houses in Tongzhou.

Because the business philosophy is far more advanced than others, the community made by the five masters sells very well. In Tongzhou, where housing prices change three times a day, it definitely belongs to the most expensive Naboer. There is a garden in the community, and a few quaint wooden poles are hung on swings, allowing children to swing around.

There are also small stone roads paved on the green space, and there are fountains gushing out of the magnificent square at the entrance of the community in summer. No matter how hot the day is, you will feel cool when you walk to the door of the community.

Zheng Zhilong's house was bought in the Jinghua Garden built by the fifth master, although the name sounds like a brothel. But it's really comfortable to live in. In the summer, taking a fishing rod to the small pond to fish is Zheng Zhilong's favorite thing to do. For a while, Zheng Zhilong even thought about retiring and living here for a few days to live comfortably.

Li Xiao did not live in Jinghuayuan, although the fifth master strongly asked to give Li Xiao a set, but Li Xiao still refused. If you are handsome, can you miss a set and a half house? Although I don't know how much money I have, I know that I am worth a lot of money by looking at Tokugawa Chihime's busy appearance every day.

Li Xiao lives with Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan. Detached three villas with guard barracks standing guard on all sides. Junko wants to build turrets at the four corners, so that in case of accidents, he can rely on these turrets to resist them.

The drawings were given to Li Xiao to see, and when Li Xiao saw the drawings, he immediately tore up the drawings and sent them back. Damn, does Lao Tzu live in a villa or a prison?

"Handsome! This is the latest intelligence from the Northwest. "Li Yongfang has replaced Lao Chen Fu as a new generation of intelligence leaders, Lao Chen Fu retired with honor, lived in the building behind Li Xiao, and played Tai Chi in the courtyard all day long. If you have nothing to do, you will take the guards and go to Baiyangdian to hunt ducks and fish, so happy.

The children and grandchildren are also sensible, and several of them graduated from the Shanhaiguan Military Academy. The most powerful one has become the battalion commander under Ao Canghai, and two others have learned the craft from the fisherman, and they are now the chief stewards in the shipyard.

Zhiyuan and Yuanyuan are from their hands.

Li Xiao unfolded the information, and after reading it, his eyebrows were twisted.

"So many, the English and the Rakshasas and the Mongols, they seem to have been allied?"

"And the Tibetans. Mongolians believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and Geldan, the son of Batur Huntaiji, studied in the Potala Palace for several years. ”

"Hah! It's really my heart that doesn't die! "The territory of the Ming Dynasty does not include Tibetan areas. In fact, the roof of the world has never been included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Even if it is as strong as the Tang Dynasty, it has not included Tubo in its territory.

"Two months ago, in the arsenal presided over by Dolgon, a fixed-charge bullet had already begun to be test-fired. Meticulously stealing one back at the risk of death, the same recipe we used. In addition, the English gave the Mongols some artillery. It is said that it was produced in India, and it is almost no different from our mortars.

Other than that......! ”

"What else?" Li Xiao sat behind the chair, such bad things have happened, there can be no worse things.

"They have developed rockets and conducted secret test launches, the time is unknown, and the power is unknown. As soon as the news of our work came back, it was discovered and killed by the Mongols. ”

"You just say they have nothing to do but the steam engine." Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. Xiao Yu, this kid, never dreamed of what kind of secrets he leaked. Pity! For a dead man, Li Xiao can't do anything.

"Except for steam engines and electricity, there is not much difference between them and our army in terms of weapons. It's just that because the test launch has just been successful. It may take about a year to form large-scale production, so let's use this year to ......! ”

"Impossible! In the war in the northwest, the most important thing is money and food. Now there is a big construction all over the country, and money is being used everywhere. To build dams, railways, and roads, the household department is already stretched.

Moreover, you think you got the Mongols. The English would not have produced in India, and the Rakshasas would not have produced in Europe? Now, we don't have the strength to strike at India and the Rakshasas. The only way to do this is to speed up the construction of the Guanzhong Railway, as long as the country's money and grain can be quickly sent to Guanzhong by train. in order to hold Guanzhong, and then plot the Western Regions.

To put it bluntly! Daming has been making trouble for so many years, and his family has long been tossed. This mess needs to be cleaned up, and it will take years to clean up. For the Mongols in the northwest, at least for now, it is not possible to get their hands dirty. ”

"Brother Xiao is right! The most important thing in the Ming Dynasty at present is to cultivate life and recuperate, which is not suitable for large-scale wars. The Navy has already spent more than half of this year's military spending. There was really no money, so let the army continue to advance westward. Sun Chengzong also shook his head helplessly.

He also wants to fight to the Western Regions now, but unfortunately now the Ming Dynasty has just been decided. There are occasional rebellions and things like that in various places, and it's really not a good time to move troops.

"Can we also arm the Khalkha Mongols. As the same Mongols, the combat effectiveness should be not much worse. The last defeat was partly due to a surprise attack by the Mongols of Zungar. In part, the Dzungar Mongols were armed with advanced muskets. Even though it's just a flintlock pistol, it's much better than a bow and arrow. Zhang Huangyan thought about it for a while, and then carefully brought it up.

"Not my race! His heart will be different! The Mongols are all wolves that are not well raised, what if that guy from Geritu turns around and bites us, what will we do then? Sun Chengzong asked with a frown.

"We can control them with the economy. The Mongols live by raising cattle and sheep, and their property is only cattle and sheep. But they also needed cloth, cotton, and all kinds of daily necessities. They also need some grain and tea, after all, people can't always eat grain.

The Ming Dynasty could exchange tea and grain for the cattle and sheep of the Mongols, and those cattle and sheep could eat meat after they were slaughtered. Wool can be spun into wool threads to make sweaters, or fabrics. Cow and sheepskin can also be made into all kinds of things, and we sell these things to the Mongols, and the money paid will go back to the Ming Dynasty again.

Once we come and go, Khalkha Mongolia can't do without us.

Besides, the Khalkha Mongols and the Dzungar Mongols are feuds. Hatred has existed since the early ages, and it is almost impossible to resolve it. Not to mention the raids of the Dzungar Mongols on the Khalkha Mongols two years ago. Let Ge Ritu's vitality be greatly damaged, and the old hatred is not finished and the new hatred is filled. Even if Gritu wanted to unite with the Dzungars, his men would not agree.

And! If you are not of my race, you must not say it in front of Man Gui. Most of the officers and men of the 1st Cavalry Division were Mongols. They fought on the battlefield for the Ming Dynasty, and they were already no different from Han soldiers. Your words will break their hearts. ”

“……！” Sun Chengzong didn't expect Zhang Huangyan to say this, and he couldn't think of what to say for a while.

"I also think it's a good idea to arm the Khalkha Mongols, the Mobei Mongols are too big. We Han people don't like to live on the grassland, so a large area of land is unguarded, and the pressure on my Ming is quite great. Not to mention anything else, if the Great Wall is breached. The cavalry can run to Jingshi City in two days! Li Xiao thought about it and immediately supported Zhang Huangyan's opinion.