On the roaring airship, Li Xiao looked out of the hanging window. The sun hung brightly in the sky, and under his feet were continuous white clouds.

White clouds form various shapes, like cotton, spread under the airship. The scene gives a strong illusion, as if an airship is sailing in some unknown world. It even made people think of going down and taking two steps!

Maybe this is the origin of the legend of the Heavenly Palace, but the problem is. Before they made hot air balloons and airships, how did people know about the sky world?

No one can answer Li Xiao's question, and Li Xiao himself can't answer it.

If you don't have a parachute, you will fall like a scale. Now the height is 4,500 meters, and if you fall down, you will die. Whether you fall on land or water, with the weight of a person and the acceleration of falling, there is no difference between a person on the water and a person on a concrete floor.

Junzi found a reclining chair so that Li Xiao could lie down and enjoy the scenery in the sky.

The clouds were blocking the sun, and it must have been cloudy below, perhaps still raining. But you can laze in the sun, which is the advantage of standing on a high place. Maybe the gods in the sky are also lying down at this time, looking at themselves is no different from looking at ants.

Who knows!

Those who can live the days of war willingly, it is estimated that there is no one else but himself. Oh! That's right! Ao Canghai should be counted as one, and Man Gui should also be counted as one. Like them, they all belong to the kind of life that never stops fighting.

Counting from the day I came into this world, it seems that I am either at war, or on the way to war. Anyway, for Li Xiao, war is the norm, and peacetime is the exception.

The most incredible thing is that in a state of war, the population of Daming is growing year by year. The national strength is getting stronger year by year, and the factories are becoming more and more year by year. The number of hungry peasants is decreasing every year.

It is said that war is cruel and extremely damaging to the progress of human civilization and productive forces. But Li Xiao didn't think so, on the contrary, Li Xiao felt that war had a very good role in promoting human civilization.

For example, on the basis of Li Xiao's formula, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty concocted more powerful explosives. Used on the battlefield, it is a sharp weapon to kill the enemy and plunder people's lives. Explosives play an active role in mining, tunneling, and demolishing old buildings.

In this world, everything is a double-edged sword. The same thing, if it falls into the hands of a person with a bad heart, it is a weapon of murder that harms people.

But in the hands of people with pure hearts and helpful intentions, it is a good thing for adult beauty.

The same war is also a double-edged sword, on the one hand, it destroys faith, degenerates morality, and destroys humanity. But on the other hand, both sides of the war are desperately piling up science and technology and desperately developing productive forces to cope with the consumption brought about by the war. This is very obvious for the promotion of productivity!

The reason why the Ming Dynasty was in a state of war was that it could still maintain a high degree of economic growth. In addition to the fact that the foundation of the Ming Empire was too trendy, it was also a very important reason to meet the needs of the war.

Of course, Li Xiao was very restrained in maintaining the minimum number of troops, which also played a role in fueling the flames.

Seven years ago, after the Liao Army formed the Fourth Division for the last time. The Liao army has not expanded its army on a large scale, and has only expanded two marine divisions in formation over the years.

Counted, the Ming Empire with a population of hundreds of millions. The total number of regular troops is only 730,000! The garrisons in various places are basically at the level of a public security joint defense force. Even many small counties with a population of hundreds of thousands were garrisoned by only 100 garrisons armed with firearms.

And with the increasing stability of the Ming Empire, the garrison is still being dismantled. For example, in Jinan, the capital of Shandong, the total number of garrison troops was no more than 500 people. Today, the population of Jinan City has exceeded 3 million.

The Jinyi Guard, which has been transformed by Xiao Zhan, has now gradually taken over the task of maintaining local law and order. This situation is becoming a common phenomenon in the northern region.

This shows that the people in the north of the Ming Dynasty are now living a prosperous life. Not interested at all, to engage in a rebellion.

It is true that the Ming Dynasty has always been in a state of war, but the war is far, far away from the Ming Empire!

If the soldiers fought in distant India, if Li Xiao's previous strategy was followed, maybe the soldiers would just stay in the barracks for training, and the Indians would be either the Japanese people, or the Jiaozhi people, or the Mongols. If the North Koreans weren't that weak, there might still be them.

Well, now the Mongols are at ease grazing sheep on the steppe. The money from the sale of livestock every year is enough for them to live a prosperous life.

The Jiaozhi people are still fighting a civil war, and the Ruan brothers are doing the bloodiest battle to unify Jiaozhi. It's been five or six years of fighting, and a lot of people have died, but no results have been achieved at all, and it seems that it will have to fight for another five or six hundred years.

The Japanese people are now farming in the Japanese country, and some of them are flexible and participate in the vigorous commercial activities of the Ming Dynasty. Others, set up a boat to fish and touch shrimp at sea. There are even people who bury their heads in gold and silver mines, making a lot of money in a muffled voice.

Anyway, the whole country is a country with a prosperous economy. Children don't have to go to school, they run around the streets bare-bottomed, and spend the happiest hours of their childhood.

The men lingered in the Fengyue place and enjoyed it, and the women, in addition to waiting for the men, mainly spent their energy on choosing clothes, pants and shoes. And, of course, the traditional kimono.

In a way, they are happier than North Koreans. The whole country, almost unarmed. Even those professional samurai now wear more ceremonial swords than family heirlooms.

The matter of pulling a knife on the street seems to have become a distant legend.

In short, this is a happy island country, an island country full of strong commercial atmosphere, and an island country in Li Xiao's mind.

India is already on the verge of a tumultuous death, and it only takes Li Xiao and a division to kick open the decaying door of Mumbai, and the whole house will collapse.

Li Xiao has already envisaged that in the future, India will be composed of many small states. The word India will only appear in the history books in the future. Because as far as Li Xiao knows, historically, Indians have never relied on their own strength to complete the reunification of the country.

Now it is more in the interests of the Ming Dynasty to break up India into many small countries. An elephant is surrounded by a large group of monkeys.

Elephants, of course, are not afraid of monkeys, they will eat the rubber from the monkey's hands and throw the monkey into the sky. Usually at this time, everyone's gambling game is considered to be the beginning.

Li Xiao felt that after gaining a foothold in the Middle East, the Ming would pause the expansion process. With warships there is oil, and with oil you can control the future of mankind.

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