In the past three or nine days, the happiest thing is to gather around the hot pot and invite three or five confidants to drink two glasses of wine. Drinking too much and bragging, what a good way to live.

Now Li Xiao is living such a comfortable life, and the clear soup in the copper hot pot is boiling and the water is surging. Spread a layer of fatty slices inside, cover it with a layer of sauerkraut, and throw two small red nails into it, and the bottom of the pot will be considered alive.

"Let me tell you a good job, the sesame sauce dipping sauce in the pot can't be too thin. The meat fished out of the pot will inevitably carry the soup, and after a while, you can drink the sesame sauce soup. The dipping sauce for the barbecue needs to be thinner, and there is no soup for that thing. Ao Ye stood on the side, guiding Man Ye and Sesame Sauce.

Man Ye was holding a pestle for pounding garlic in his hand, and he was in a basin with sesame sauce, and he didn't know that he thought this guy was a miscellaneous guy in a hot pot restaurant.

"Bang dang!" Man Ye threw the pestle into the basin and looked at Ao Ye with his arms in his arms.

"If you don't work, you talk a lot, you are good at cutting meat." Li Xiao had no choice but to find the spoon that served the rice and handed it to Master Man. Throw half a lamb chop to Ao Ye!

Some people eat sheep and love to eat lamb legs, some people eat sheep and love to eat blood necks, and Li Xiao prefers lamb chops.

In fact, it doesn't matter what the animal is. Generally speaking, the ribs are delicious everywhere!

"Hey, hey!" Ao Ye sneered and touched his nose. patted Man Ye on the shoulder: "Cut meat, cut meat." I cut the meat, you continue and puree. ”

Man Gui snorted angrily and snatched the spoon from Li Xiao's hand and continued to talk to the sesame sauce.

Li Xiao picked up the knife and began to chop the green onion and coriander.

In fact, eating hot pot is simple and simple, and complex is complicated. To put it simply, cut some meat and mix some sesame sauce, and set up a pot to shabu the meat.

More complicated, there are more than a dozen kinds of side dishes alone.

Ao Canghai and Man Gui are two carnivores, and today the brothers have prepared two sheep, and they will eat nothing else.

In Ao Ye's words, what to eat shabu mutton and what to eat. Still eat two heads of sugar garlic to relieve greasy? Then the fuck the lamb is not enough garlic to make up!

The mutton is enough to eat, who does all the fancy work.

Today, let's eat mutton.

It's all uncles who can't be provoked, and Li Xiao has to be careful now. Man Ye is very unhappy today, the reason is that the First Cavalry Division is going to be reorganized.

"If the cavalry has no horses, it is still called cavalry?" Man Ye angrily threw away the wooden spoon in his hand.

"There are so many brothers, many of them were brought out of Phi Island. They don't know a lot of words, but they are the best knights. Now that you say that the reorganization will be reorganized, you will not be afraid of chilling the hearts of your brothers. Man Gui sprang up and pointed at Li Xiao and questioned viciously.

Li Xiao unhurriedly chopped chopped coriander and green onions, trying to cut them evenly and consistently. I haven't worked for a few years, and my hands are very raw.

"Your brother is very good at me, there are more than 500,000 silver dollars in the bank, and there are various dividends every year. I can't spend it until my grandson dies, but what about those brothers.

For more than ten years, they are either fighting or on their way to the battlefield. Fight the Jurchens, fight the Nanming, fight the Mongols, fight the Rakshasas, which time did we ride a division behind others.

They have been fighting for more than ten years, and they will not know anything but war. Now you let them go home and pick up the children, how can they live! ”

Man Ye was very dissatisfied with Li Xiao's practice of unloading the mill and killing the donkey!

Li Xiao put the chopped green onion and coriander into a huge bowl. It's really greasy to eat mutton, and you still have to eat a little bit of green onions, coriander, and so on.

"Finished?" Li Xiao put the bowl on the table and began to peel the garlic.

"Times are changing, and in the future, cavalry will have no other purpose than patrolling the border."

"You're ......!" Man Gui jumped up with a burst of fire, and he was about to start when he picked up the bench.

"Hey! It's not possible. Ao Ye threw down the cleaver and snatched the bench from Man Gui's hand.

"The barrel made of special steel, newly developed by the Changxing Island Iron and Steel Plant, has supported the general-purpose machine gun to fire 400 rounds per minute.

Let's not talk about Makqin, let's talk about general-purpose machine guns. Do you think a couple of general-purpose machine guns can take out your 1st Cavalry Division? The cavalry withdrew from the stage of history, which is also something that cannot be helped. Li Xiao threw the garlic into the bowl and picked up another clove and began to peel it.

"Brother Xiao is right, the course of the Battle of Moscow has been brought back by the fine work. The Russians learned from the British to build the Maxim, and the 1st Cavalry Corps of Mula died a miserable death.

Four thousand people were killed in one charge, and guess how long it took?

Fifteen minutes!

Fifteen minutes! Four thousand men and horses turned into four thousand corpses, and Napoleon's elite cavalry was lost in Moscow. This was an important reason for his defeat! ”

"Bang dang!" The sesame sauce basin was thrown in front of Ao Ye: "You are the one who is with the mud, you are with you!" ”

Man Gui snorted angrily and snatched the meat cleaver, only the brothers were in the greenhouse today. Otherwise, Man Gui's action just now would have been beaten into a sieve by bullets.

"Good, good! I'm coming, I'm coming! The furious Man Gui couldn't be provoked, Ao Ye took the sesame sauce basin with a smile and began to talk to the sesame sauce.

"The shape of war has changed, and the cavalry can no longer keep up with the needs of war. But they are all old brothers who follow us, and they can't make the brothers feel cold.

I pondered for a moment, we need to organize some border regiments on the grassland. The main task was to garrison the steppe, and there was also to contain the Mongols. They had no machine guns and were all cavalry. With the current equipment, we still have an advantage.

Then there is the Western Regions, and the Western Regions will set up thirteen agricultural reclamation divisions. Externally known as the Production and Construction Corps, these 13 divisions are half peasants and half soldiers.

In the past, the people of the Western Regions always said that the Han people were floods, and the people of the Western Regions were stones. After the flood has passed, the stones always have to come out of the water.

Now, I'm going to organize people to settle in the Western Regions. Whether it is planting cotton, potatoes or sweet potatoes. As long as they can be self-sufficient, the blonde and blue-eyed people of the Western Regions will also admit that they are authentic Chinese Miao descendants in a hundred and ten years.

After the 1st Cavalry Division is abolished, your people will either be promoted to the border regiment and continue to be pure soldiers. You can also go to the farmer and be a hunter on one side.

It should be a good place to go, and no one will complain about you. Li Xiao peeled two heads of garlic and felt that it was enough to eat, and walked to the sink to wash his hands.

When peeling garlic, it is inevitable that some garlic will get into the inside of the nail cover, and the smell will be very unpleasant.

"Oh!" Man Ye's voice was much quieter, and he began to concentrate on cutting meat. The slices of mutton, which are of the same size and thickness, were cut off piece by piece by Man Ye and placed on the plate.

"Oh what! You don't want to ask, what are you going to do! Learn from my Lao Ao, and after returning to China for more than a year, many of Lao Tzu's subordinates have been broken up and transferred to the local government.

Those young people who graduated from the Army Academy stuffed Lao Tzu into it one by one. Once when I went down to the army, there were two regiment commanders who had never seen me. What did I say!

Brother Xiao is interesting enough, if you change it to Zhu Hongwu, your bones can beat the drum. "Man Ye hummed while with sesame sauce!

Li Xiao knew that the two warlords were very unhappy with the dismantling of their army.

It's a pity that there is no way to do it, the expansion period of the Ming Dynasty has passed, and now what the Ming has to do is to sort out the changes that the war period wants to do without time and conditions.

Most of the local official positions are held by those Donglin parties. Li Xiao has been in the situation for a while, and there are no cadres who can send him out.

Many of the imperial court's decrees are actually misinterpreted by local officials.

There was no way, Li Xiao could only transfer the officers of the Liao Army to different jobs and place them in a large number of local posts. In this way, it will inevitably have an impact on the troops. This is also something that cannot be helped, and for a long time to come, the army will hardly have a war to fight.

Officers can only vent their excess energy with military exercises!

Li Xiao wanted to say that he had no intention of seizing military power. But in the face of the facts, all justifications are pale and weak, and the cadets of the Army Military Academy have entered the army in batches.

The veteran officers of the unit left the barracks in batches to work in the localities.

Ao Ye is very open to this kind of thing, because he found that although his influence in the army is small, his influence in the local area is greater.

Now wherever you go, there are soldiers led by Ao Ye everywhere. The hospitality of the old subordinates made Ao Ye very face-saving.

"I've been tired for so many years, and you two are resting. There is almost no war in the country now, and there is basically no possibility of war. Let you do the training, I guess you don't have the patience to do so.

Rest first, the northern border from the Xing'an Mountains to the Qilian Mountains requires more than 20 border regiments. These places mainly deal with the Mongols, and these border regiments are under the control of the Manye. ”

"Yo he! Where is this land of thousands of miles, I am afraid that it will be more than tens of thousands of miles. Lao Man, you have copied it this time. Ao Canghai smiled and congratulated Mangui.

Indeed, Mangui's power seems to be a little greater than before. Originally, there were only nine regiments in the entire 1st Cavalry Division, but now it has suddenly become more than 20 frontier regiments.

The number of troops suddenly increased more than three times, and Man Gui was indeed in power.

Only Man Gui knew in his heart that the First Cavalry Division was the main division. A variety of weapons are equipped with several kinds of distribution, and that is the highest priority level of the entire Liao army.

Border Regiment! Proper second-line troops, there is nothing else to do except patrol all day.

No matter how he patrols, Geritu will never have the idea of picking quarrels and provoking trouble. The Mongols are now like sheep, and they spend their days grazing sheep on the steppe, waiting for the wool to grow and shave it.

Every year, the money from the sale of cattle and sheep is enough for the herdsmen to spend, and all kinds of grain are bought back to the grassland in a truckload. The Mongols no longer had to carry sabers and rush to the Han to rob and get by.

Who wants to rob with money and food, don't put their brains on the waistband of their pants to rob, and the strength of the Han people is in full swing. A terrifying thing like a general-purpose machine gun, two can kill hundreds of cavalrymen who come forward.

Man Gui already knows that his biggest possibility in the future is to eat and wait for death.

"The capital wants to set up a garrison, and all the garrison troops are selected from the first division. In the future, no other troops will be allowed to enter the capital, and the defense of the capital will be completely controlled by the garrison.

Man Ye is guarding the country outside, and Ao Ye is guarding the capital at home. You both have a heavy load! Li Xiao washed his hands, and the brothers sat down at the table together.

"Isn't that Lao Tzu the Admiral of the Nine Gates! Hehe, that's amazing. Ao Ye grinned, and his forehead lines were happy.

"The garrison is not only within the capital, but also in the entire capital, including Fangshan Mentougou, which is your defense area. No other troops will be stationed in this area.

As long as you see an organized army entering Beijing, no matter where it comes from, as long as you don't have my warrant, you can kill it first and then report it. ”

Listening to Li Xiao's words, Man Gui's eyes were full of envy. Compared with his own bastardization and waiting for death, Ao Canghai can be regarded as a real power.

The wine in the wine glass was full, the wine was full of cinnamon until the glass was dry, the dish did not move, and the wine was dried three times in a row.

"Master Man, don't think that you have nothing to do when you get to the grassland. According to reliable information, the people of the Rakshasa country have developed rapidly in the past two years. It had recently defeated France and now known as the Russian Empire.

The lord of the Rakshasa Kingdom is now a woman named Catherina. This woman can be described as a generation of heroes, and in just three years under her rule, Russia's national power has grown considerably.

Master Man, you are responsible for the north gate of the Ming Dynasty. The future is the place where war is most likely!

The grasslands are vast and vast, and they are also the most suitable places for cavalry activities. In the future, if Russia wants to attack our Daming, your 20 or so border regiments will be the first barrier.

You have to buy enough time for the Kannai troops to react!

In the vast grassland, more than 20 frontier regiments are really undermanned. But this is also something that can't be helped, although the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is in full swing.

But these days, Mr. Sun showed me the fiscal balance, and there are only five provinces in the entire Ming Dynasty that can really have a surplus, and the rest of the provinces are all in deficit except for Jiangsu, which can balance their payments.

At present, the Ming Dynasty has to devote all its energy to economic construction, and the military expenditure for the troops is very limited. Most of the military spending also has to be prioritized for replenishing overseas marines and naval ships.

This is something that cannot be helped, after all, the Navy and the Marine Corps guarantee the overseas interests of the Ming Dynasty. You can't save that money! It can't be saved!

In the future, you will have to train the most elite soldiers with the least amount of money. It's hard for you! Li Xiao picked up his wine glass and toasted to Man Gui.

"Rakshasas? Or is it an empress, they have the audacity to attack our Daming? You don't have to worry about it, I'll take people and go directly to destroy them. Back then, Genghis Khan sent Jebe and Subutai to ......! When Man Gui heard about the Rakshasa Kingdom, he was immediately excited, and finally there was a target worth hitting.

This kind of good thing has to be taken into your arms quickly.

"Master Man! As I just said, Daming has no expansion plans. After all, our Ming Dynasty now has a population of more than 200 million, and even if Moscow is captured, no one wants to live in that alien bitter cold land.

You fought hard and fought hard, and in the end, after you withdrew your troops, it was still occupied by the Russians, and the gains outweighed the losses! You can't be stationed in Moscow, and I can tell you, more than half of Napoleon's army froze to death, not died in battle. ”