The Ming took almost everything they could, leaving Suleiman II with twenty years of debts and countless broken families. Almost all the men of Constantinople, including Suleiman himself, became widowers.

It's not that Ai Husheng wants Suleiman to make an IOU, but that Constantinople really doesn't have anything of value to take away. There is no choice but to let Suleiman II owe it first.

However, if you owe it, Ai Husheng will never pay interest. So with interest, Constantinople's twenty years of taxes were just enough to cover the debt.

This is no longer the interest of the donkey rolling, this is the interest of the whale turning over.

Suleiman II had no choice but to agree, and this was the price after giving Ai Hu two beautiful slave girls and a bag of precious stones.

The Ming army began to retreat, and the Constantinoples who had gone north began to rebuild their homes. The city of Constantinople was not actually damaged, except for the megalithic walls, which were badly damaged.

There are more than a dozen openings 20 meters long. The megalithic walls took hundreds of years to build, and now it is not a day's work to restore them.

Besides, now that Constantinople lacks food and clothing, and the people are hungry and cold, the most important thing is to feed the people.

Ahmad estimated that if the Turks wanted to restore the glory of their ancestors, they would not have to think about it for two hundred years.

The Ming army retreated, but the Ottoman Empire was already in pieces. Last year, it was the largest empire in the Middle East, but now it is falling apart.

In just half a year, the Turks lost more than seventy percent of their population. To the east of Ankara, the Turks were largely wiped out.

From the old man to the milk doll in his arms, no one is spared!

Li Xiao didn't care about this, he only knew that he got everything he wanted. The cost of the expedition of the great army has been settled, and the oil fields of the Middle East have been settled.

Both the Ottoman Empire and the Egyptians recognized the Ming Dynasty's ownership of the Suez Canal. As for the French, they are now about to offer Li Xiao.

Although the anti-French alliance was defeated, anti-French forces throughout Europe were still ready to move. Napoleon needed to rely on the advanced weapons of the Ming Dynasty to defeat those hostile forces.

He even wanted to pay for the Ming fleet to help France cross the sea to attack Britain. It's a pity that he was rejected by Li Xiao on the grounds of fatigue of the army.

Li Xiao's proposition is that the more broken the world, the better. It's better to split into 10,000 countries, so that the Ming will be a behemoth.

Such a behemoth, no matter what small country it faces, is an absolute power. Li Xiao will not be stupid enough to help the French unify the European continent, in fact, Li Xiao did not give the French the ladder to be regarded as benevolent and righteous.

There is no morality, fairness, or illusory friendship between nations. Between countries, there are only naked interests.

It seems that Churchill said this, and Li Xiao thought so.

Let him continue the war in Europe, Lao Tzu will go home anyway. It's been almost two years since I left Daming, and I have to go back to see it.

Otherwise, if you lay a big territory in the air, and finally the backyard catches fire, it will be very unbeautiful.

Because of relying on the port, the Ming Dynasty marched very quickly. When the troops were withdrawn, they were also very fast. The Great Army quickly withdrew from Constantinople. Then concentrated on Crete, Joseph came to Crete several times, wanting to let Daming participate in the battle for hegemony in Europe, but Li Xiao refused.

Under the deterrence of the giant ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty, the Italian Navy, the overlord of the Mediterranean, was obedient to stay in the port like a cat. Britain mediated many times, and the Italian navy had no intention of intercepting French maritime transport.

Damn, your British Empire claims to be the supremacy of the navy. Why don't you fight with Da Ming, and let Lao Tzu fight with the battleships like the mountain. Then the fuck didn't fight, only to be killed. That's a one-sided slaughter!

The ships of the Ming Dynasty haunted the entire Mediterranean with impunity. No one dared to stop it, and even the Daming steamer docked at the port, which would be welcomed by the locals.

There is only one reason for everything, and that is to be strong.

The strength shown by Daming made European countries feel suffocated. No one wants to fight against this behemoth, and the Ottoman Empire is just a baby.

Such a huge empire became history in just half a year. If there is such an empire in the Middle East, it is estimated that a very large number of people will have to die, and it may not be possible to do it.

The Great Paester was busy all day carrying away mountains of loot from Crete. Because of the limited capacity, it can only be shipped back to Egypt first. Then in Egypt, they will be transported to Xinjiapo on a giant ship, and when they get there, more Daming sailboats will move these things back to Daming like ants moving.

As for those Turkic women, Li Xiao had no intention of bringing back the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty lacks a population now, but still doesn't want hybrids.

Although Li Xiao knows that scientists have proven that genetics for this thing are predominantly male. But Li Xiao still firmly believes that after decades of Mongol rule, only three points of the Han family's bloodline are left and cannot be confused.

Those Turkic women, auctioned in Egypt nearby. Many chiefs in the Middle East have been doing business with the Ming all year round. At a time when there was no Suez Canal, their ships disembarked in the Red Sea, and then again in Alexandria. I don't know how much closer it is than a detour to Africa!

Over the years, these Arab gentlemen have really made a lot of money. The most commendable thing is that these people like to use Daming silver coins as trading currency.

This is more pleasing to see, with these silver coins as a deposit, Ai Husheng set up the Daming Central Bank in Suezburg, Suez Branch.

In the future, the silver ticket of the Ming Dynasty can also be passed here. This was very attractive to the Arabs, as no one wanted to carry a boatload of silver coins to trade with others, and the possibility of encountering pirates was very high.

Especially the Arab sailors on board, you don't know which is the pirate's eyeliner. Floating corpses often appear on the vast Red Sea, and those floating corpses are not all Indians or Egyptians who died in war.

That part of Somalia is inhabited by pirates all year round. In addition to not daring to rob the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, they have a great interest in merchant ships anywhere.

It is said that a guy named Sea Dragon King there is a Ming person, and he is also a descendant of Zheng He's sailors in the West. In Somalia, there is also a place called Zheng He Village.

For some unknown reason, the Ming Navy, which is addicted to banditry, never goes to Somalia to suppress bandits. Perhaps Li Xiu felt that Somali pirates were very concerned about maritime rules. Even the lone Ming merchant ships have never been plundered.

Sometimes, when the Ming merchant ships were shipwrecked, these pirates would even come to the rescue. The rescued Daming seamen were well fed, drunk, and entertained, and finally sent to the Ming warship by the fishing boat.

This has happened more than once, so much so that the Ming ships saw the pirates as if they were relatives. If some supplies are allowed, they will also give the pirate some wine and meat to show their favor.

Li Xiao ignored the trivial things of pirates, and took a boat from Crete to Egypt. After crossing the Suez Canal, Ai Husheng took him to Dammam.

This is the first batch of selected oil fields in Daming, and the kowtow machine transported from Daming is already working.

"Sir, those oil wells over there have already started to produce oil. The oil layer here is very shallow, and it is easy to get oil. It's much easier than digging oil wells in Sichuan! Shi Dongjian pointed to the oil well not far away and introduced it to Li Xiao.

This is the leader of the next generation of Shi Kefa's family, for the energy cause of the Ming Dynasty, he once drilled oil wells in Sichuan for five years. He is the most experienced person in drilling oil wells in Daming!

When he came to the Middle East to drill oil wells, the first thing Shi Kefa thought of was him.

"Are you still used to coming here from Daming?" Li Xiao is very much like a great leader of later generations, patting Shi Dongjian on the shoulder and being amiable.

"It's okay, it's just that I'm not used to eating. People here eat beef and mutton, and they want to eat pork. But there is no pork within a radius of hundreds of miles, and I don't let you think of raising Shangshu by yourself.

There was no way, so the brothers were hungry and asked the ship's cook to make it and send it over. I'm hungry for pork knuckles right now! ”

Li Xiao pouted, it was really a big problem.

Eating pork in the place of the Arabs, can cause a lot of problems. After all, the religious people here are far more religious than the Uighurs of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, this place is not too far from the pilgrimage to the holy place of the Mai family, and it is indeed not suitable for raising pigs here. Although Da Ming is not afraid of the True God Cult, he is not a master who has nothing to provoke.

"As for eating pork, we can just find an island nearby to raise pigs." Li Xiao thought for a while, since it is not suitable to raise pigs on land. It's better to find an island, I'm afraid that the vast sea can't find a few islands suitable for raising pigs?

"Thank you, handsome! Thank you, Dashuai! Brothers, the handsome man said that he could find an island to raise pigs, and we could eat big elbows. Shi Dongjian shouted to the workers not far away.

"Thank you, handsome! Thank you, Dashuai! Long live the handsome! Long live the handsome! ”

Li Xiao couldn't cry or laugh a little, but he didn't expect that the first time he was shouted long live, it was actually because of raising pigs.

Shi Dongjian's face was so excited that even his neck turned red.

"People are small and big!" Li Xiao kicked Shi Dongjian, and then continued to inspect the Daming Oilfield. Shi Dongjian rubbed his buttocks, didn't even wipe the dust on his pants, and continued to walk with Li Xiao.

This is not the afterlife, the word long live is not easy to shout, Shi Dongjian not only shouted it, but also shouted it in front of so many people. Li Xiao seemed to have seen the old fox behind Shi Dongjian's smiling face.

"By the end of the year, how many wells can be drilled?" Daming Energy is about to begin its transformation, and ships, as the main force of shipping, will gradually be replaced by internal combustion engines.

Because diesel has a better combustion ratio than coal, it can produce more surging power. After Newton's men were transported back to the Ming Dynasty, the first task given to them by Li Xiao was to study gasoline-powered cars.

When Newton's team was in Mumbai, they had a deep study of gasoline engines, and the theoretical research has been gradually completed experimentally. If it weren't for Li Xiao's conquest of Mumbai and interrupting Newton's research process, perhaps the gasoline engine would have been made by now.

But it doesn't matter, when they get to Daming, they will have more skilled craftsmen. There will also be more abundant resources for research, as long as the gasoline engine is made. It's not far from the time when the four-wheeled guy galloped on the Daming Highway!

Today's Daming, the road conditions are much better. Because of the gradual abundance of oil resources, in some major cities in Beijing, there are already asphalt roads.

There are a lot of tricycles in the big cities, some of them pull people and some of them pull goods. Apart from tricycles, the main means of transport is horse-drawn carriages.

The advent of the automobile will be the end of the carriage. Because the car can pull more things, it can also cooperate with railway transportation more powerfully, and become the backbone of the Ming transportation force.

However, after the emergence of gasoline engines and diesel engines, the demand for petroleum energy will rise significantly. Now these oil wells are coming out of oil, and it won't be long before all that comes out of these wells is money, silver coins spent in vain. No one understands the importance of oil to a country better than Li Xiao.

"Now the workers are working overtime every day to drill wells, and it is estimated that by the end of the year, more than 50 wells should be drilled. If more equipment arrives next year, more than 100 oil wells will be drilled. Shi Dongjian patted his chest with confidence.

"Hmmm! Well, it's important to drill oil wells. If you need anything, tell Ai Shangshu, if Ai Shangshu can't solve it, then tell me, I'll solve it for you. ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!"

"Brother Xiao, you said that this thing will be very valuable in the future?" Ao Ye leaned over and whispered in Li Xiao's ear.

"Hmmm! From now on, these will be black gold, and this blowout will bring out more money than you can catch in a battle. ”

Ao Ye looked at Li Xiao and saw that Li Xiao didn't look like he was joking. Immediately a few steps behind without a trace, and muttered to Shi Dongjian while Li Xiao and Ai Husheng were talking.

Seeing him happily patting Shi Dongjian's back, Li Xiao knew that there was probably an oil well surnamed Ao here.

Li Xiao didn't stop it, it was better for people like Ao Ye to make money from overseas than from within the Ming Dynasty.

The Han people often demand the moral standards of saints to officials. In fact, this is not true, greed is the original sin of man, but it is also part of human nature.

Now there is no way to prevent Ao Ye from making money, and Li Xiao knows that in fact, many disabled soldiers are relying on him to feed. Although Da Ming looks rich on the surface, he also wants to be right.

Today's Ming Dynasty is far from being rich enough to the level of later generations. Years of war and turmoil, many people die on the battlefield every year. The imperial court did not yet have the ability to give a huge pension to each victim.

Although the pension standard has been raised again and again over the years, the price of goods in the market has also risen again and again. Having lost the main labor force in their families, many disabled soldiers did not live well.

The Liao army is not like other armies, it can eat empty money and drink the blood of soldiers.

Every year, the Liao army has a strict verification system, and it frequently goes out to fight. It's not easy to eat short!

As for drinking the blood of soldiers......! To fight a war is to rely on the soldiers to fight bravely, and the commanders of the grassroots companies get along with the soldiers like brothers. Who is willing to exploit them!