"This thing is amazing." Li Xiao watched as a box of 600 rounds of ammunition was finished, and the two soldiers next to him wore thick gloves. With a hard twist of a circlip, the smoking water gun barrel was successfully removed.

A brand-new sleeve was pressed on the gun base, and the new sleeve barrel was successfully installed with a "click". Li Xiu said that one minute was definitely a modest statement, and Li Xiao looked at his watch. At most, it's twenty seconds, which is not worth mentioning compared to the ultra-high rate of fire.

"It's just that how do you carry this thing? I won't let the soldier carry it, I think this thing plus a few barrels, to say the least, it will be 200 pounds. And that's not counting the ammunition! Li Xiao scratched his head and remembered another thorny question.

"Huh! Big brother, look. Li Xiu pointed to the side, and Li Xiao immediately had nothing to say.

Where Li Xiu pointed out, there was a wheelbarrow that was extremely common in the north.

This kind of car is known for its simple structure, strong pushing capacity and low road requirements. An ordinary farmer, pushing something more than 100 catties is like playing. Two wheelbarrows, one for pushing heavy machine guns. The other one pushed the barrel and ammunition, and the machine gun of five people pushed it in shifts, and it was estimated that it would be no problem to travel sixty or seventy miles a day.

Li Xiao nodded, this is the greatest comfort to him since the failure of the AK project and the MG project. Blindly climbing the science and technology tree really doesn't work, the design keeps up, but the materials needed can't be smelted, unless Li Xiao brings Baidu to Daming.

"This thing is good, tomorrow Ao Ye will come to Jinzhou, you can take the opportunity to slaughter him. This guy recently poured smuggled salt into Mongolia, and opened a winery in the Great Northern Wilderness to brew and burn pots, making a lot of money. ”

"Really!" Li Xiu immediately smiled. I have long been unaccustomed to seeing Ao Canghai relying on the emperor to make money on the edge of the Heilongjiang River.

Needless to say, this is the traditional money-making project of the Liao army. It's not the same with roast pot wine, this kind of high-purity thing, but some people like it to death. It was also given a name called Laolongkou, which is very marketable in Hebei and Shandong. Not everyone has the money to buy two bottles of Wuliangye, Laolongkou has seized a large part of the bottom market with high alcohol content and low price.

Nowadays, when you go to the food stalls on the street, you can often hear: two lamb kidneys, a bottle of old dragon's mouth and the like.

Ginseng and deer antler velvet in the Northeast are trafficked to Guanli in truckloads, and the price is extremely high. After making Ao Canghai pay a tax ruthlessly, Li Xiao turned a blind eye to Ao Ye's business.

"Big brother, come and see this thing again." Li Xiu happily walked over with a bamboo pipe and shook it in front of Li Xiao's eyes.

"What the hell?" Li Xiao took the bamboo pipe and saw that there was a spring and a nail in it.

"I don't know, this is the latest mine." Li Xiu was smug, and the corners of his mouth were about to reach the back of his head.

"Landmines?" Li Xiao turned it upside down, his eyes were almost seeing the mosquito coil circle, and he didn't find how this thing could be connected with a mine.

"Add this and you're done." Li Xiu smiled evilly and pulled out a bullet.

"This thing just slammed a pestle into the ground and stuffed a bullet into it. As long as someone steps on it, the spring is the primer that bounces up and drives the nail to hit the bullet. Whoever steps on this thing, this foot ......! Hehe, if you load a shotgun, half of the ball of your foot will be blown up. No matter who stepped on it, a proper cripple couldn't run away.

Moreover, this thing has a simple structure and is inexpensive, which is suitable for mass production. The weight is not heavy, a soldier can bring twenty or thirty, and they are densely inserted into the ground, and whoever rushes up is unlucky. ”

Li Xiao took the "landmine" in his hand and turned it over again. How do these boys' heads grow, how can they not think of such a simple and easy thing.

On the battlefield, it is far more advantageous to kill a soldier than to kill a soldier. A wounded soldier usually needs two people to take care of. In this way, the opponent can lose three effective combat power in an instant. Moreover, the miserable howls of the wounded soldiers can cause indescribable psychological pressure on the locality.

Low cost, high efficiency! This thing deserves to be promoted by the whole army!

"You're a good thing, Huzi is fighting in the northwest, and he needs this thing. You find someone to make 10,000 or 20,000 to send to Huzi! Li Xiao threw the things in his hand to Li Xiu, and walked over to the Xu brothers with his hands behind his back.

Xu Erjue and Xu Ermo, Xu Guangqi's two most powerful grandsons. Li Xiu's top scientific and technological talents dug up in Xujia, Jiangxi!

"You made the thunderbolt?" Compared with weapons, Li Xiao prefers talents.

"Gadgets, not worth mentioning." Xu Erjue immediately bowed down and replied. Xu Ermo's eyes are always looking at the machine gun, the mine is made by the eldest brother, and the machine gun is his work. And painstaking work!

For the sake of machine guns, the lad did not know how many nights without sleeping.

"The machine gun is not bad either!" Li Xiao patted Xu Ermo on the shoulder, he has been a handsome man for so long, and he has long known how to get close to these young boys as soon as possible.

"Thank you, Dashuai!" Xu Ermo hurriedly bowed and saluted.

An ominous premonition immediately surged into Li Xiu's heart.

"The two little guys are good, Xi'an is going to set up an arsenal, and there is also a need for an independent weapons laboratory to make some weapons suitable for use in the northwest, I don't know if you two brothers have ......!"

"Big brother! You can't dig into my wall, I've finally got the Navy Arsenal up in the way. As soon as this has achieved some results, you have poached people, what will we do with the weapons of our navy in the future? Li Xiu immediately quit, in the matter of grabbing talents, the eldest brother has no face.

"Don't be stingy!" Li Xiao snorted, his eyes were shy, and he looked at the two young scientific and technological talents with the eyes of his father-in-law looking at his son-in-law.

"No! You can do anything, but you don't want to give it. Li Xiu also lost his temper.

"Do you really want to give everything?"

"Hmm!"

"Get a hundred machine guns out first and send them to the Northwest Front."

"Big brother...... You...... You're yin to me. After listening to Li Xiao's request, a feeling of being fooled arose. This time, he was tricked by his eldest brother.

Li Xiao smiled "hey" and "hey" evilly, messing around with super old foxes like Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan all day long, and he had long cultivated into a young fox. Li Xiu's Taoism is still a lot worse.

"What is the yin or not, Huzi is very difficult to deal with the Mongol cavalry in the northwest, and can only rely on some terrain advantages to offset the cavalry's mobility ability. The airship is easy to use, but we have too little fuel to go out at full duty. Second, the weather in the Northwest also changes frequently.

A sandstorm directly caused three airships to fall. None of the people on the boat survived, which is not bad. The wreckage has been found, and if it is found by the Mongols, it may be possible to copy it. At that time, we didn't have the slightest advantage. ”

"Just the Mongols? A guy who was born as a sheep herder can also build an airship? Li Xiu was dismissive of the industrial prowess of the Mongols.

"Don't underestimate these Mongols, with the craftsmen that Dolgon brought over, they can already produce guns. Of course, Wu Sangui must have supported a lot of machinery.

Westerners still have a very good understanding of machinery, and Li Yongfang sent back the news that they have come up with something similar to a machine tool. Although it can't catch up with our machine tools, it can already produce guns. Haven't you seen it in the South China Sea, there are a lot of rifles, mortars, and rocket artillery.

Now Hong Chengchou is defending the strait with two garrison divisions, and there are 18,000 Japanese people. I always felt that the defensive strength was still insufficient. Your Marines need to train as soon as possible, and next year they will lead four ironclad ships out of the strait, and this time we will occupy Ceylon.

And to rely on Ceylon, constantly harassing India. India is the largest territory of the British, and we occupy Sri Lanka to constantly harass India. Let Wu Sangui have no time and energy to do things! This guy is so annoying, and now I regret that I didn't kill him sooner. When it came to Wu Sangui, Li Xiao hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched. But there was no way, Li Yongfang organized several assassinations, all of which failed without exception.

After all, there are not many overseas Ming people in these years, and a pair of oriental faces appear in foreign lands, and they will soon be recognized by others. Now Li Yongfang has also noticed this and has begun to train foreigners. The last time I went to his training base, there were still several black people, and I don't know where this guy was recruited.

"Okay! For the sake of Huzi's hard work in the northwest, it's not impossible to get them a hundred. But I have to let Cao Wenzhao spend money to buy it, and my machine gun is not blown by the wind. To build a factory and recruit qualified workers, you have to make real money. ”

"Cao Wenzhao is in the northwest where he is bitter, what real money can he get. The Ministry of War allocates money to you, which is counted as the money for this hundred machine guns. When Li Xiao was talking to Li Xiu, he found that there was a guy sneaky not far away.

This guy is not good-looking, and he is wearing an olive green training uniform. Standing on the sidelines, he didn't look like a worker in a factory, nor did he look like a soldier standing guard. This is a bit strange, and now on the occasion of Li Xiao's appearance, security measures must be strictly implemented.

The security level is strict enough to reach the point where no one is allowed to enter. How could there be such a lewd guy standing on the sidelines?

"Who's that man?" Li Xiao looked at the guy who shrunk his head and turned to ask Li Xiu.

"Oh! That's it! King Liao! Li Xiu said disdainfully.

"King Liao!"

Li Xiao smiled secretly in his heart, he was another prince with a fast head.

The country cannot be without a king for a day, but the Ming Empire has not had an emperor for more than a hundred days now. Although there is no His Majesty the Emperor, the imperial court is operating as usual. The new recruits were replenished from among the low-level officials, after a brief period of confusion. Under the supervision of the officials of various ministries, he quickly became familiar with his business. These days, the imperial court is running as usual. It seems to be running a little more smoothly than when there was an emperor.

There is no emperor in the country, and those princes are naturally alive. Although everyone knows that the current emperor is just an idol-type tablet. But the emperor is the emperor after all, and how many princes dream of making a tablet.

Since the accession to the throne of Emperor Zhu Yihai of Longwu, the preferential treatment regulations of the imperial family have been reduced one by one. Zhu Yuanzhang's last words, the Zhu family's descendants are not allowed to engage in business, was also canceled by the Zongren Mansion.

Seeing that the income is getting smaller and smaller, the princes dare not speak out. The powerful ministers are in power, and even the emperor is just a tablet, not to mention these princes whose status is far inferior to that of the emperor.

Now the princes are thinking that their children can become emperors. At the very least, I can take care of myself in the future. Especially those close princes, the little abacus in their hearts is very exquisite.

When Li Xiao was in the capital, these princes sent people to give gifts. I didn't expect that when I arrived in Liaodong, I could still see His Royal Highness the King of Liao, and I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the King of Liao was dressed so plainly that Li Xiao didn't recognize it.

"Didn't he escape to the capital by luck when the Tartars captured Liaoyang, when did he come back?" Li Xiao thought about it for a long time, but he didn't expect when this prince would return to Liaodong.

"I've been back a long time ago, but I've been in Shanhaiguan all this time. Although he is still a prince, Liaodong engaged in land reform relatively early, and his fief has long been confiscated.

Now that he has long been mixed up, he has long lost the prince's shelf, and he is no different from an ordinary mechanic. Seeing that his stomach was still a little inky, Mao Wenlong spoke again. I let me do a job in the arsenal, that is, to manage the warehouse. Don't say it, this old guy is serious. The treasury was well managed by him, and the old guy was very popular, and he often drank a little wine with those workers, and he didn't come out as a prince. The workers in the factory all called him Lao Zhutou. If it is called white, it will be called an old pig's head. ”

An approachable prince, as well as Mao Wenlong. These two key words are firmly in my head! This time he came to Qinhuangdao, and another purpose was to go to Shanhaiguan to meet Mao Wenlong.

Chen Jisheng didn't confess to Mao Wenlong until he died, but Li Yongfang, like a hunting dog, had already found some clues. There are many threads that can already implicate Mao Wenlong!

This guy is in charge of the Army Military Academy, and it can be said that the future low-level officers of the main division are all his students. Let such a person continue to be the principal, not only Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan are not at ease, but Li Xiao also feels a little unsteady.

But after all, the old guy who has been following Li Xiao since Phi Dao is now at this age. Li Xiao felt that it was better to read some incense and let him take the initiative to retire. Get him a villa in Tongzhou, so that this old gentleman can retire quietly.

Now that there is a Liao King popping up again, Li Xiao has a big alarm bell in his heart.

"The turmoil in the capital has not completely passed, you have to watch this Liao King. I discussed with Mr. Sun and Mr. Zhang, and the throne is temporarily vacant. Anyway, we are now in the Ming Dynasty, and we will still turn without the emperor. ”

Li Xiao and Li Xiu were talking, and suddenly Junzi ran over and panted and said, "Dashuai, something is wrong." ”