France and Russia were a little bit of, and Li Xiao knew about it earlier than Dolgon expected. However, more than three months have passed since the incident, looking at the cold wind and the constant snowflakes outside the window, perhaps now Napoleon is wailing in the ice and snow of Russia!

Compared to what happened in Daming, the dog-bit-dog hair-eating thing is nothing. As for Joseph being locked up and raised like a pig, this kind of pleasant thing should be drunk.

In fact, if it weren't for the scruples about diplomatic etiquette, Li Xiao would have wanted to do this.

Napoleon is finished, uh...... To be exact, it should not be over, only by truly experiencing Waterloo can the fall of a generation of military geniuses be verified.

Who can say for sure that there is such a thing as a war. Maybe in that place called Waterloo, Napoleon played against the sky and killed Wellington.

Of course, the premise is that Li Xiao does not help.

Li Xiao didn't want to help, but based on the plot to calculate Lancy's remaining shares in the Suez Canal, Li Xiao had to help. The Rapid Reaction Force has been formed, and this morning it left the ends of the earth by boat.

All are made up of the elite of the Marine Corps, and there is only one mission. That's to rescue a big guy from an island!

Li Xiu felt that the eldest brother was playing like this, as long as he sent the Changbaishan to the place called Elba Island, and the 460 mm cannon fired a few shots on the shore, it was estimated that the defenders on the island would pee their pants.

After all, not everyone can withstand the bombardment of 480mm cannons. What's more, Daming has just improved a new type of explosives. The explosion is several levels more powerful than the previous explosives!

Involved in improving the recipe was a chemist from Cambridge called Nobel. I heard that it was a Swede, and I didn't know if it was the same person as the Nobel Prize in Li Xiao's mind.

In today's Ming science community, some strange people are often mixed in. For example, there was a guy named Franklin who was very good at electricity, and this guy came from the North American territory that had become independent.

There is also a Frenchman named Charlie, who succeeded in isolating hydrogen with the encouragement of Wu Ciyou. It is said that this guy wants to try it on an airship, so that the airship can save more than 50% of fuel!

For this kind of scientist with the spirit of exploration, Li Xiao has always been encouraging. Although hydrogen is dangerous and will explode if it is not done well, Li Xiao still has an encouraging attitude.

It's just that Li Xiao is rigorous about putting hydrogen balloons into production, and there are also experiments in densely populated places.

The Daming Academy of Sciences has the unparalleled financial resources in this world, and with this financial resources as the backing, Daming science has truly become academic without borders.

On the more closed island of Jeju, there are many teams of scientists of different nationalities. An Englishman named Maxwell and a Prussian named Hertz were working on something called radio.

Li Xiao has given a huge amount of funding to this project, and it is said that he has already gained a small eyebrow, and in another year or two, Li Xiao feels that he will be able to use the radio station.

I have to say that this is another successful business for Li Xiao. Because this Prussian named Hertz was exchanged by Li Xiao with fifty light machine guns and a high-ranking Prussian official named Bismarck.

Fifty light machine guns, plus two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition. This is nothing to Daming, and no one knows better than Li Xiao the role of radio in the world in the future.

The Swedish king was much more shrewd than the Prussians, at least the Norsemen asked for ten more mortars and five thousand shells. After these things were unloaded in Stockholm, Li Xiao got the Nobel Prize as he wished.

This is how the Ming Dynasty recruited talents, and the ignorant kings of Europe are now also focusing on the effects of Napoleon's war.

After all, scientists cannot directly defend the country, and the threat of Napoleon is real. Now all of Europe is trembling prostrate at Napoleon's feet.

But Napoleon's bastard won't be great for long, and the bitter cold of Moscow will be his worst enemy.

Killing Li Xiao will not tell Napoleon that the tin buttons of the French army glittering in the sun are beautiful, but in Russia at minus 30 degrees Celsius, this thing will shatter like plastic that has been dried for 800 years.

Thirty degrees below zero, with an open heart is not a warm attitude. A small button has become the lifeline to the destruction of the army.

The Ming army has begun to change its clothes, and the button thing does not exist anymore. Instead of metal zippers, Daming's ready-to-wear production has entered a new era since a Cantonese named Zou Boqi invented the sewing machine.

Ready-to-wear military uniforms are divided into summer clothes, winter clothes, and autumn clothes. Among them, winter clothing is divided into temperate winter clothing and cold winter clothing, and the difference is how much cotton is filled in the clothes.

Buttons have been gradually replaced by zippers, and steel metal zippers are far from being comparable to those tin buttons. Even in the Arctic, it won't be frozen!

If it weren't for the plastic process, Li Xiao would have used lighter plastics without hesitation.

The troops no longer have such clumsy things as robes, except for trousers, which are clothes, and the feet are no longer wearing cotton shoes, but stronger land combat boots.

The soldiers wearing camouflage steel helmets, camouflage combat uniforms, and oil paint on their faces are not much different from the appearance of Li Xiao's later generations.

The difference is that the Ming Dynasty's land joint training center is located in Zhangjiakou, not Zhu Rihe on the grassland.

Unlike the scientific community, the Ming army is still very pure today. At least that's the case with the main army!

All the soldiers came from Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei. The basic strength of the army remained at 300,000, and it was still respected by the 1st Marine Division stationed near the capital.

As for the local government soldiers, the source is more complicated. They were recruited from all over the country, but there was a basic requirement that no one should serve within 500 kilometres of their homeland.

That is, the soldiers of Shaanxi may serve in Jiangnan. The soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River may be in the southwest, while the soldiers recruited by Yungui will appear in the northwest.

Moreover, a unit has a mixed number of soldiers. In an ordinary infantry squad, there are likely to be Henanese, Sichuanese, Anhui, and Shaanxi.

In some units, you will even meet comrades from Yizhou.

The source of soldiers is chaotic, and he is discharged every three years. As a result, military power does not fall into the hands of a local power.

The most important thing is that modern forces are inseparable from large-scale replenishment. As long as you fight, you will need various supplies such as ammunition, food, and clothing.

And providing these provisions is already a systematic project.

The Shanhaiguan Army Academy has a logistics branch in the city. More than 8,000 professional officers have graduated one after another, flooding the logistics systems in various localities.

The Naval Academy in Jinzhou has also set up a logistics branch. However, their studies are more complicated, and it takes a long time to graduate. However, the advantage is that the salary is good, and if you go to serve overseas, you can get subsidies, which attracts many young men to apply for the exam.

Building a modern army is a huge systems project, which not only requires the concentration of the material, manpower, and financial resources of the entire country, but also the wisdom of the people of a country.

Da Ming did even more desperately, and Li Xiao even swept the wisdom of foreigners.

As long as there are suitable foreign talents, the ambassadors of Daming to European countries will desperately want to poach talents. Most of these people went to the universities founded in various places to give lectures, and taught the knowledge and research results they knew to the Ming students.

And they were rejected by the academic research of the Ming Dynasty, it is obvious that science has no borders is only suitable for the Ming Dynasty to recruit foreigners, and it is the turn of the Ming Dynasty:

Who dares to leak good things to outsiders, Lao Tzu has skinned you.

As for the scientists who exchanged weapons, porcelain, and even gold and silver coins, they had to live like prisoners on Jeju Island. Although they were served by gentle Goryeo beauties, and had excellent food and shelter, the prisoner was still a prisoner after all.

The only way for him to leave Jeju Island is to turn into ashes in the urn. In fact, except for the Ming people who want to leave Jeju Island, they have to be turned into ashes.

The Daming ironclad ships patrol Jeju Island all day long, and will sink ships whenever they see them, whether you are a Daming ship or not. It doesn't matter what ship you are!

From time to time, the Navy will throw some meat into the sea, and even corpses from the mines. This has led to a lot of sharks in the waters of Jeju Island, not to mention swimming in the sea. Even on the beach, sometimes it's not safe.

Hungry sharks sometimes hunt in the shallow sea, whether it is a man or a girl, an elderly or a child, and they will be dragged into the deep sea if they hold it, and they will not be able to pull it back.

Compared to them, Newton on Changxing Island is much better. Accompanied by the Ming personnel, he could even take an airship to the capital to report to work.

Under his auspices, after a year, the tractor was still drummed out. Although the weight of twenty tons is somewhat overweight, as long as it is made, there is room for positive improvement.

Just like last year, I came with hope and left with disappointment.

What Li Xiao saw was a giant machine, moving on the ground like an old man with asthma. Because of his heavy body, he traveled at a speed of only 20 kilometers per hour.

It's also fucking road speed, and off-road speed has to be halved.

Ten kilometers in an hour is not much different from an ox cart.

And this thing roars, not burning oil, but drinking oil. Not only is it very noisy, but there is also black smoke billowing and the strong smell of diesel fuel in the air.

That's it, Newton is embarrassed to say that this is the crystallization of modern technology. I don't know if it's a crystal, but this thing is more like a kidney stone in Li Xiao's eyes.

Completely in the category of good-for-nothing garbage!

It seems that Daming will have to wait if he wants to use the tractor.

Dr. Newton's bad news has always been accompanied by good news, probably because he was afraid that Li Xiao would go crazy, and the good news this year is that the fuel engine used in the train has been successfully developed. This thing is more powerful than a coal-fired engine, and there is no longer a need to hang a carriage in the back of the train to pull coal.

Although it weighs 40 tons, it is not too much for a railway. The fuel engine of the navy version is more than ten tons heavier than the land version, and that is because Li Xiu requires more power output.

Most of the things that have just been invented are so stupid and coarse, with a strong industrial age character.