"The battle is not good!" Li Xiao put down the battle report in his hand, and only five of the sixty-person commandos survived in the end.

Although there were not many deaths, it was definitely a fiasco in terms of the proportion of battle losses. Such a battle loss ratio was only experienced by Ao Ye in the face of the desperate blue flag.

"Those baby soldiers of the Marine Corps are a big egg, if I go to Lao Ao, I will give you a proper beating." Ao Canghai chewed fennel beans in his mouth and took a sip of old rice wine. I don't know why, this guy recently fell in love with old rice wine and said that this thing is healthy.

"Huh! Your first division is an army, and now it is a landing operation at sea, so you still forget it. But in the case of the Army, the situation of the war has changed.

You look at the battle between Napoleon and Wellington at Waterloo, where Napoleon won first and then lost. In the end, I had to rely on trench warfare to see how the coalition forces were dragged down.

Nie Dahu watched the entire battle as an observer, and in his words, it was a meat grinder. The Prussian army and the British coalition fought a major battle with the French army on the Somme.

At the end of the day, the British army alone suffered 60,000 casualties. The commander, General Haig, is called the butcher!

The middle of the battlefield, almost filled with corpses. Barbed wire coupled with machine guns is simply a nightmare for any army. When the soldiers climb over the trenches, they face a battlefield full of bullets.

As you know, Makqin is now simply shooting with coverage. The muzzle of the gun was pointed in the air, and the bullet shot a parabola. The bullet fell from the sky, even if you crawled on the ground. ”

"And! What is our Liao army doing, fighting this thing, artillery goes first. There is no target in sight, and there is an airship in the sky to guide you. A cannon bombarded past, what barbed wire machine gun positions, all fucking rest. Ao Ye seemed quite unimpressed.

"Cannons? You know that the Battle of the Somme, which is not yet over, was fought for seven days before the artillery fire began. All kinds of shells are counted in millions of rounds, and rockets are bombarded almost non-stop from day to night.

As for airships, don't think about it, the British had anti-aircraft guns. The prototype was seized in India and taken out after being improved. The ten old airships that Napoleon and we bought had just flown over the house and were beaten down before they could drop their bombs.

It was so big in the sky and so slow, it was a live target. But fortunately, the airship is full of French, and there are no sons of ours. ”

"Fuck me! Without airships, this battle is really not going to be good. Ao Canghai put down the wine cup in his hand and finally began to face up to the war that took place in Europe.

"Why don't I go to Europe tomorrow and have a good look. I knew it would be like this, so I went myself. ”

"It's late! I suspect that the French and coalition forces will soon have an armistice. Li Xiao picked up a fennel bean, not to mention that the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes.

"Don't fight? Why? Ao Canghai's eyes widened.

"I can't afford it, the French are going to give us our pants. I believe that Napoleon's treasury was empty enough to run mice! The British are no better, we occupy Gibraltar, and the British don't dare to fart.

One is that we can't beat us, and the other is that we really don't have the money to fight. ”

"That's not good? We're getting rich! "Ao Ye is vulgar now, so he can't listen to the word money.

"It's developed now, but after they finished the war, they all became poor ghosts, who are we selling the things produced in our factory?" Li Xiao was very worried about the sales of manufactured products in the future.

"That's why you sold your luggage factory stock?" Ao Ye is now very economically minded, and a few days ago, Tokugawa Chihime just sold a luggage factory in Li Xiao's hand by auction.

The fierce Sister Qiao defeated countless opponents by frequently raising cards, and finally won the factory. Since Sister Qiao bought the factory, she has been chattering in front of Ao Ye all day long. Tell me how much money I earned for my family!

Ao Ye has been suspicious for the past few days, with the temperament of an iron rooster like Tokugawa Chihime, why would he buy the chicken that can only lay golden eggs.

Everyone knows that now luggage is selling like crazy in Daming and overseas.

Nowadays women don't know what's wrong, they just like bags. When young men chase girls, they have to save half a year's salary to buy a bag.

When they went abroad, those ladies were simply desperate when they saw the bag. No matter how much money you pay, buy and buy!

Many foreign ladies finally had the opportunity to go to Daming, and they sat down in the luggage store and began to sweep the goods. Not only did I buy it for myself, but I also had to give it to seven aunts and eight aunts, and kiss my best friends. Anyway, as long as a woman comes to Daming, bags must be a must-buy.

The current Daming luggage industry can basically be under the monopoly of the Li family. There is no open-eyed argument with the Li family, Sister Qiao can knock into such a wedge, and specially brought a heavy gift to Xie Dechuan Qianji.

Ao Ye, who has been happy for a few days, now feels a little bad.

"The luggage factory has sold it to your family, who made your sister Qiao pay more, this is not to say. However, it is clear that the brand cannot be sold to your family.

Look, or I'm really, most people won't tell you about this loophole. When your factory can't support it, buy it back and take advantage of it. Well, enough brothers. "Li Xiao took advantage of it, and now he is ready to sell it.

"You kid, you're a monkey with your hair sticky. Both of you are monkeys, how can that stupid mother-in-law of our family be your opponent.

But......! Hey! As soon as he thought of his foresight, Ao Ye couldn't help but laugh.

"Ao Ye! What makes you laugh out loud? Curious Tight! Zhang Huangyan walked in with square steps.

"We have talents in the first division, and after retiring from the army, we researched a backpack at home. You can put all the soldiers' quilts inside, and tie a few straps horizontally and vertically to spread the power throughout the body.

It will not be tiring to walk thirty or fifty miles with thirty or forty pounds of things on his back, and he will use the latest type of canvas, which is strong and durable.

When it was sent to the Quartermaster Department, the gang was blind and no one knew the goods, and they laughed at a big-headed soldier for his whimsical thinking, saying that the Ministry of War did not have this budget. I couldn't see the retired soldiers under my command being angry, so I bought it for a thousand silver coins.

Now I have bought your factory, and the workers are ready-made, and they are producing this thing. Even if it is not used in the army, it must be no problem to sell it to Napoleon.

The French army now has more than 600,000 people, and one person and one Lao Tzu will be issued. Hahaha! Ao Ye was very willing to watch Zhang Huangyan take a deflated, and his smile became more and more unscrupulous.

"The little officials below are shallow, so that they let good things bury the people. The little official in the military department has been fired, and in the final analysis, it is still the old concept that is at work. They felt that it would be nice to let the soldiers pack their backpacks. Why spend any more money on a backpack for every soldier.

A rucksack costs two silver dollars, which is enough to buy hundreds of catties of rice. The little family is angry! The old man is here, and I apologize to Ao Ye. Zhang Huangyan listened to Ao Ye's words and knew that he was taking the opportunity to sue in front of Li Xiao.

But there is no way, the patent has fallen into the mouth of the tiger. Now it may be difficult to extract teeth, and in desperation, Zhang Huangyan can only come to Li Xiao. With his old poisonous eyes, how could he not see the convenience that this thing brought to the march of the troops.

"Two silver dollars and a rucksack are actually not expensive. You must know that there is a supporting steel bar inside the rucksack, which is specially forged, strong but lightweight.

There is also a canvas for sewing rucksacks, which is also a new product. The cost of this thing itself is at least more than one silver coin, plus various costs such as labor and transportation, in fact, Ao Ye does not make much money.

We must respect the work of veterans, Ao Ye! How about you give 10% of the proceeds to that veteran, and the Ministry of War will place an order from this year to gradually equip the whole army with this kind of backpack? ”

This is a little different from what Zhang Huangyan thought, Zhang Huangyan thought that Li Xiao used his authority to snatch the patent. Unexpectedly, Li Xiao directly gave the order to Ao Ye, and also brought the lucky bubbling veteran Yicheng of the income.

"Of course, he will share the good things that his soldiers have figured out. We are not like some people who always want to use power to take advantage of it.

Fortunately, this patent was bought by my old Ao, if it was still in the hands of the big soldier, I am afraid that it would have been bought out by someone for hundreds of silver dollars. Ao Ye snorted and looked at Zhang Huangyan with slanted eyes.

In these years, who can get mixed with the military department is not a human spirit. Even a small official can see the profit in it. They rejected the veterans in order to buy the patent rights for hundreds of silver coins.

For a veteran who has just been discharged from the army, three or five hundred silver coins is definitely a lot of money.

Unexpectedly, the veteran actually found Ao Ye. The patent was bought by Ao Ye, how dare these little officials offend this big Buddha. can only use the cost of prevarication, Li Xiao only needs to look at Zhang Huangyan's constipation-like face to guess the joints.

"Those are all old officials, and those who are officials are all oiled. The biggest one is a layman, who has now been dismissed from the military department and will never be used. Seeing Li Xiao's eyes, Zhang Huangyan knew that this matter needed to be explained to Ao Ye and Li Xiao.

"It's right that such people never use it! Over the years, officials' salaries have risen tenfold. On average, the salaries of officials are also considered to be in the upper middle of the average income.

Think about the apocalypse and Chongzhen years, how much rice and grain can be bought by a foreigner's husband. The emperor, who lacked virtue, also paid his salary with the same treasure money as a white stripe.

The officials in those years were not greedy, and they really had no way to live by their salaries.

Now it's different, a month's salary as an official can not only support the family, but even have spare savings. After saving for some years, it is not difficult to buy a house and land.

It is understandable that officials are greedy when salaries are meager. But now that the salary is so high, they are still greedy, that is, the sin is unforgivable.

Mr. Zhang, I'm going to go and see Mr. Sun in a few days. Now that the war is over, it is time to put the country in order. ”

Although Li Xiao just said a sentence, Zhang Huangyan heard the bloody wind and rain from it.

A few years ago, local officials were forced to use most of the officials of the Donglin Party. This is also something that cannot be helped, as long as the people have read and read, they basically have one way or another connection with the Donglin Party.

After all, in those days, if you wanted to read and write, you had to go to a private school. When I was older, I entered the academy to study. At that time, the academy was basically in the hands of the Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party's officials' strategy towards the imperial court was basically non-violent non-cooperation. The policies formulated by the imperial court must all change their tone when they come to them, and the so-called policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

For a while, the decrees of the imperial court simply did not work in good and far-flung places. They knew in their hearts that if they wanted to rule the world, they had to rely on them. has the ability to fire all the old men.

In the past two years, the situation has changed somewhat, that is, a large number of retired officers have been flooded into local official positions. These people are the people who are most loyal to Li Xiao, and as soon as they take office, they will work against the original officials.

At present, the local internal friction is very serious, and as long as the officers want to do it, those people in the Donglin Party will desperately stop and destroy it.

This kind of thing happens not only locally, but also in the capital.

In the past, the Liao army needed to have a stable rear. Now that there's no fighting, it's time to clean up the gang.

"The main charter is that the Ministry of Supervision will take the lead, and will work with the Dali Temple to review corrupt officials. As long as the evidence is conclusive, the trial by national law will not be tolerated.

Of course, with thunderbolt means, you have to uphold the heart of the Bodhisattva. They are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are not extremely evil, they must be killed carefully, and people's heads will never grow again. ”

Li Xiao's last two sentences, Zhang Huangyan's hanging heart can be regarded as letting go.

The meaning is obvious, most of the non-violent and uncooperative guys will be driven home. Their positions will be filled by demobilized military officers. There are also petty clerks or pen clerks, who are just graduates.

Only those guys who are going to be taken out to look like babies will be pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market to "click" and be the chicken that scares the monkeys.

In the past, Li Xiao was all about military power, and he didn't have time or heart to take care of local and court affairs. Now that Da Ming is not ready to fight anymore, Li Xiao has set his sights on government affairs.

As a result, the civil servants were unlucky.

What a clever calculation, today's move is from three years ago. First of all, the system of guards that had been handed down since the Hongwu period was abolished, and the military households of the Ming Dynasty were completely abolished, and the military households became ordinary people.

Since then, there have been no other military organizations in the local area except for the Liao military system, even paramilitary organizations.

Then there was the beginning of the downsizing of the troops, placing a large number of military cadres in the local government. At the same time, a large number of young people who have graduated from schools are promoted.

Through the three-year assessment, the Ministry of Supervision must have mastered a large number of qualified personnel. Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Ao Ye, the shareholder, is blowing up, and the last position of the Great Ming Doctor will also be solved like a devastating one.

Since then, there have been fewer and fewer people in the Ming Dynasty who read the Tao of Confucius and Mencius. The soil on which the Donglin Party depends for its survival will be completely eradicated.