Li Hao walked out of the Piaoxiang Courtyard and walked into an alley. After a while, several men appeared in the alley. Some are tall, some are short, some are fat and some are thin, and the clothes they wear are also different. If there is any characteristic they have in common, it is that they have no characteristics, and they belong to the kind of people who cannot be found in the heap of people.

"Fourth master! You didn't send a signal, so your subordinates didn't ......! The first short, thin man bowed down.

"I don't want you to show up, I want to know where these people come from. Now I know, it's the nail left by Dolgon. Let's not care about these things, tell Li Yongfang and let him worry about it. Now that he heard the truth, Li Hao didn't need to dwell on it anymore.

Others may be afraid of the vote, but Li Hao is not afraid. His backer is hard enough, if Li Xiao is really unwilling to be lonely one day and declares himself emperor, Li Hao, a proper prince, will not be able to escape.

Who the fuck would make their own rebellion!

"No!" A few men bowed, then turned and walked out of the alley.

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Hao's mouth, how could Fourth Master Li be caught so easily?

Walking to the drum tower, Li Hao's old servant was waiting under the drum tower. After getting into a carriage, Li Hao looked up at the Drum Tower. How glorious the Tang Dynasty was, but in the end it was still in ashes. I just don't know where the eldest brother will take the Li family and Daming, and whether it will be wiped out in a thousand years.

Li Yongfang received a telegram from Xi'an, and his hairs stood on end. He didn't dare to imagine what Li Hao could do if something happened to him.

I didn't have time to take the train, so I rushed to Xi'an by airship. Although the huge noise and vibration of the airship would shake his old bones to pieces, he couldn't care about it now.

Li Xiao was lying on the beach next to the boulder at the end of the world, and the last time he came, he was selling all kinds of tourist souvenirs. This time, there weren't many people around. Five miles away, there are sentries standing guard, and those who dare to break through without a pass will definitely be beaten into a sieve.

There were two behemoths spitting black smoke on the sea in the distance, and although Li Xiao said that he didn't need the protection of ironclad ships in Hainan, Li Xiu still pulled two from the fleet to protect Li Xiao.

There are often ironclad ships to clean, and there are actually no pirates in the South China Sea. These murderous guys are simply desperate when they meet the navy. If you want to run, the boat is not as fast as anyone's. As for fighting ......, the pirates didn't even have the idea to do so.

Who the fuck is crazy, with a big sword and a spear and a firearm, against a battleship with machine guns and artillery? When someone shoots down, the waves can overturn your boat. If you're unlucky and hit the target ......, then you can't even find a fucking corpse.

The sea is becoming more and more difficult to mix, and when there were five-masted ships in the past, they might be able to rely on their familiarity with the sea conditions and rely on the maneuverability of small boats to drill into the reef piles. As long as they entered the reef-dense waters, the five-masted ship did not do anything and continued the pursuit.

But now it's different, there's something in the sky called an airship. When a bomb comes down, the sea is twenty feet high, and the machine guns on the airship are simply the nightmare of all pirates.

The Navy is very interested in the pirate species, and it is like a cat meeting a mouse. After floating on the sea for so long, I finally have a chance to add food. Catch the pirate and find the lair. Then sweep away the wealth that the pirates have accumulated over the years, which is also considered an ill-gotten gain.

After handing over half to the navy, the rest became the trophies of the officers and men.

Those old pirates have a lot of money, and if they kill one, they can make a fortune.

Although the money is distributed by the captain, according to the rules of the navy, all the money is divided equally among everyone. In other words, the captain received the same amount of money as ordinary sailors.

With material support, the officers and men of the navy were extremely enthusiastic about exterminating pirates. The days of bandit life have come, and now the pirates have switched to farming. The sea is dangerous, so it's better not to get close.

The pirates who once plagued the South China Sea are gone, and now even a single merchant ship dares to sail in the South China Sea, and there is no need to worry about those elusive guys. Even if there are boats on the sea, they are fishing boats, and when merchant ships approach, they will exchange seafood with merchant ships. In those days, there was no such thing as a fresh boat, and fishing boats were generally fishing in the offshore waters. Eighty percent of those who claim to be engaged in deep-sea fishing will make a cameo appearance as a pirate.

Li Xiao looked left and right, and there were few people left except for the seagulls. The so-called few people are all beauties at the level of calamity. The clothes are very cool, although they don't know what a bikini is, but they seem to like this costume designed by Dashuai.

Haitian feast, Li Xiao saw it last night. To be honest, it really doesn't mean much, if you use one word to describe it, it's tired. When a man has to deal with a group of women, there is not the slightest pleasure at all. This night is more damn tiring than digging a vegetable cellar.

The umbrella only covers the head, and the body and thighs are exposed to the sun. The sunshine of the thirty-nine days is actually not too bursting, as if the sunshine of this year is not as violent as that of later generations.

Weakness is the need for calcium, and basking in the sun is a good way to supplement calcium. Of course, eating some oysters last night also played a role.

Junko ran over and handed Li Xiao a telegram!

Li Xiao sat up after reading the beginning, but when he saw the end, he lay down again.

"Damn Dolgon, how many fucking nails were buried when you escaped from the gates. Why for so many years, there are still remnants of the sin activities. Tell Li Yongfang that this matter must be strictly investigated to the end. Such people are dangerous, and once they do anything to the electric railway facilities, the damage caused will be very large.

Not only Guanzhong, but also places like Beijing and Liaodong must also be strictly investigated. Li Xiao said while Sun Xing beside him recorded.

"Call to learn! This case needs to be strictly investigated and dealt with, and important places such as Beijing and Liaodong are also strictly investigated. In particular, railways and power facilities are extremely harmful if they are destroyed by traitors. Remember! Remember!

Handsome! Is that what you mean? After Li Xiao finished speaking, Sun Xing read the telegram he had sorted out.

"Hmm!" Li Xiao nodded, took the straw hat and covered his face again.

Sun Xing turned around to leave, and Li Xiao suddenly said: "Let the fourth child also come to Hainan for a few days to recuperate." Daming was not built in a day, and the preliminary exploration of the railway from Guanzhong to Shuzhong has almost been completed. The rest of the things have little to do with him. ”

"No!" Sun Xing agreed, turned around and walked away.

"No more! Go to Wuzhizhou Island. Sun Xing hadn't gone far, Li Xiao took off the straw hat irritably and threw it far away on the beach. The beauties in bikinis were so frightened that they knelt on the beach.

A handsome man is a handsome, and he didn't drag the slightest bit when he gave the order. The dinghy carried Li Xiao, who was wearing a vest and pants, on the ironclad ship, and those beauties on the beach looked at the handsome man in the distance with extremely sad eyes.

Li Xiao was irritable that the old fisherman dragged his sick body and worked hard with the Xu brothers to improve the steam engine. Breakthroughs have been made in the technology of internal combustion engines, and it is estimated that in three or two years, factories can be built for large-scale production.

But Daming's current oil reserves can only meet a very limited amount. Even for the sake of experimental oil, some of the new airships need to be grounded. No wonder it is said that if you control oil, you control energy.

Oil is not nothing, according to Li Xiao's cognition, it is available in Daqing, Heilongjiang. However, the current oil production technology is immature, and oil wells can only be drilled to a depth of 30 to 50 meters. To deal with the Daqing Oilfield, this kind of drilling technology is really more than enough but not enough.

Of course, there are oil fields in Brunei and Java. But that's the oil field in the sea, this year's technology, you let Lao Tzu build a drilling platform?

If you want to solve the problem of Daming's oil consumption, you must need Middle East oil fields. As far as Li Xiao knows, there are many oil fields there, and the oil layers are very shallow and can be exploited with the existing technology without the slightest problem.

Go to the Middle East! India has always been a stumbling block in its way. There's no way to do it, the geography of these Ah San is so fucking good. The entire Indian subcontinent pierced the Indian Ocean like a wedge. The warships attacking from Bombay did not need much range to cut off the maritime trade routes of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Indian Navy was no match for the Ming Navy, the Bombay shipyards were constantly building new ships, and they were supported by the English Navy. The latest intelligence says that the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Queen of England has improved greatly. For this reason, Wu Sangui even took the initiative to hand over an entire shipload of gold.

Bombay! Now it is a nail in Li Xiao's eyes, it is very uncomfortable, but he can't pull it out if he wants to.

Although the Indian Navy did not have the strength to defeat the Ming Navy, it had the strength to defend Mumbai. Li Xiao can't even launch a landing battle like last year's now!

On Wuzhizhou Island, there is a villa of Li Xiu. The quiet life did not calm Li Xiao's irritable mood, the sound of the waves sounded in his ears like the sound of war drums, and Li Xiao's whole person was in a state of anxiety. On several occasions, Li Xiao would find a Makqin heavy machine gun and scan the sea frantically to vent his anger.

Just when Li Xiao was in an irritable mood, Li Xiu came back. After a dry job at sea two months ago, Jingyuan and Laiyuan were wounded, and Li Xiu was going to send them back to the dockyard in Hainan for repairs.

"How can you come to Hainan from near and far, and the new home slope can't be repaired? Or can Java not be repaired? ”

"Uh......!" Li Xiu was taken aback, he didn't expect Li Xiao to speak in such a questioning tone as soon as they met.

"There is Jiyuan in the Xinjiapo dockyard, and Java is building new ships with all its might, and there is no manpower at all. I can only go back to Hainan to cultivate, if it is three years ago, I can't say that I have to return to Lushun to cultivate. ”

"Oh!" Li Xiao nodded, the shipyards in Xinjiapo and Java can finally come in handy. In the past three years, the imperial court has invested as much money there as a mountain.

"Big brother! What's wrong with you? Li Xiu found that Li Xiao, who was on vacation, not only did not have a red face, but his face was very ugly. There were big bags under the eyes, as if they hadn't rested for a long time. This is not the state that a vacation should be, boss, what's wrong?

"You didn't let that Dolgon bastard mess with it, you don't know yet. The fourth child was almost tied up by the nail he left behind in Xi'an some time ago. Damn, how many years have this been, why the nails he left behind are always not clean.

Last month, the old fisherman wrote that the internal combustion engine has made great progress. Now the problem of large-scale production is solved, and once this problem is solved, we can produce internal combustion engines with higher output power.

But with the internal combustion engine, what about the oil? What is the little oil produced by our Daming!

Besides, oil is a non-renewable resource, and we don't have much in the Ming Dynasty, so we have to leave some for future generations. Even if the descendants of the future generations are defeated, they can lose for a few more years. ”

"Damn! What is Li Yongfang doing to eat, he hasn't arrested anyone all these years. If something happens to the fourth child, I won't fucking spare him. Li Xiu heard that Li Hao was almost tied up, and his head jumped with anger.

"Li Yongfang has been diligent over the years, and he has solved a lot of cases. If it weren't for him, the Jinzhou Power Plant would have been bombed a long time ago, let alone something like picking up a train track. Do you know how hard it is to get around after a train derailment? It's not his fault, I just think that damn Wu Sangui and Dolgon, these people, we can't help them when they hide in Mumbai. ”

"Since you said it, big brother, I'll complain a few words. Our navy's military spending has always been insufficient. We build only two ships a year, at most three. But did you know? The Bombay shipyard alone started construction of five ironclad ships at the same time in a year.

They threw all the money on the ironclad, but what about us? The court just refused to allocate more money.

In recent years, we have built Xinjiapo Shipyard, Java Shipyard, Hainan Shipyard. But the imperial court also recovered the Huangdao Shipyard, Jinzhou Shipyard and Tianjin Shipyard. The Lushun shipyard was preserved by me with all my might.

The shipyards that have been dismantled have all been rebuilt with civilian ships, and a lot of money has been made, but the shipbuilding capacity of our navy has declined. Look at it, in less than three years, the Indian Navy will surpass us in numbers. Now we can't go to the sea off Mumbai, and in three years we may only be able to defend around the island of Ceylon.

The long supply line from Xinjiapo to the island of Ceylon is not guaranteed to be clear. Li Xiu began to vent his bitterness to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao didn't know Li Xiu's difficulties, but there were so many taxes in a year in the Ming Dynasty. Use a little more here, and use less there. The increase in taxes is much smaller than Li Xiao's ambitions.

The Ming Dynasty was in a rising period after the resumption of the war, and Li Xiao did not dare to rashly increase taxes. Some of the new financial resources, coupled with the huge trade deficit, have been used up by massive infrastructure construction.

In order to support the navy, Li Xiao even stopped the pace of army expansion. Ao Ye and Man Ye have expressed their dissatisfaction more than once, and the palms and backs of their hands are full of meat, which makes Li Xiao very embarrassed.