Bismarck doesn't know how to use chopsticks, so Li Xiao intimately prepared it for the old guy...... Tweezers.

Take a piece of mutton with tweezers and put it in the hot pot and soak it a few times, and after the meat changes color, dip it in sesame sauce and leek sauce and put it in your mouth.

Old Bismarck chewed with his eyes closed, unlike any food he had eaten in the West.

The spicy sensation exploded like a grenade in my mouth, but soon the sensation turned numb again. At one point, Bismarck even felt that he was poisoned.

"This is a delicacy of Daming, called spicy hot pot. Eating in winter is the best way to ward off the cold! Li Xiao saw Bismarck's appearance and explained with a smile.

He was curious about the old man, and what made him remember the name Bismarck was the famous battleship. For good or evil, the rich legend of that battleship is fascinating enough.

In particular, the spirit of the German Navy that regarded death as if it were home and the loyalty of the Prussian soldiers still infected Li Xiao today.

"There is no such cuisine in the West, and it is ...... There is no such cutlery. Bismarck glanced curiously at the tweezers in his hand.

Li Xiao was speechless, and he didn't seem to have the habit of eating with tweezers in the East and the West.

"Hahaha! We all use this thing called chopsticks, but unfortunately this kind of thing needs to be learned before it can be used. Li Xiao picked up the chopsticks in his hand, skillfully sandwiched a piece of black fish fillet, and soaked it in the soup pot before coming out of the pot.

"Oh, it's amazing!" Bismarck nodded, he also felt that he could not do it himself with two small bamboo sticks.

"I heard that in the last war, your army suffered 60,000 casualties in one day?" Ao Ye still had doubts about Li Xiao's words, and suffered 60,000 casualties a day. Almost half of the first division has been filled in, and this kind of casualties will continue to fuck and fight? There's clubbing ...... in my head!

"Yes! The next day, however, 80,000 people were killed or wounded. The third day was much better, and we had 50,000 dead. Bismarck followed the example of Li Xiao, and sandwiched a piece of black fish meat with long-legged tweezers, blanched it, and put it in a bowl.

It can be seen that the old guy likes this tender fish very much.

"Eighty thousand...... 50,000 ...... 60,000 ......! Ao Canghai pondered for a moment and looked at Bismarck in surprise: "You mean...... your army will be close to 200,000 people in three days?" ”

"Yes! At that time, both sides committed millions of troops to fight, and after the war, the total casualties on both sides were 1.1 million. Bismarck nodded.

"One hundred and one thousand?" Ao Ye, who was used to fighting, was also frightened by this casualty figure.

There were 1.1 million casualties alone, so how many people did both sides participate in the battle?

"What is the population of your country?" Ao Ye is very curious, how many people in this country can be like this.

"All of Prussia combined, there are about forty-five million people." Bismarck looked curiously at the stout general in front of him, and it was very impolite to interrogate him in Prussia in such a continuous manner.

"Of the 45 million men, you will send one or two million of them to war?" Ao Canghai's eyes were as big as a cow's egg.

You must know that the total population of Daming today has exceeded 300 million. But the total number of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, which has 300 million people, is only 1.1 million, and this includes the more than 500,000 marines stationed overseas.

Even in the domestic military, most of them are security forces responsible for maintaining local security. Ao Ye even thinks that those are not armies, because most of their weapons are revolvers.

An army with only 300 rifles in a division is worthy of being called an army?

Ao Ye can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, but the battles he has fought really don't have the kind of large-scale battles of a million troops. For Bismarck to be able to lead a battle of this scale, Ao Ye was very envious.

"The battle of life and death, I have to give my all." Bismarck nodded, his face a little desolate.

"A toast!" Ao Ye picked up his wine glass and walked over to clink glasses with Bismarck.

He also wanted to lead an army of millions, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance. The first division was already the largest division in the Ming Dynasty, and after a round of compression, it became 80,000 people.

"Mobilizing millions of people to fight in war at every turn is the greatest damage to national strength. In your life, don't think about it. Of course Li Xiao knew what Ao Ye was envious of.

The Ming Dynasty will never use more than the national strength to use the army, this is the experience that Li Xiao has summed up over the years.

For so many years, Da Ming has actually been taking the elite route.

Don't look at the fact that the real field army of the Ming Dynasty is less than 300,000 people, but its combat capability is indeed the world's top level. Even Prussia, a country with a million armor, did not dare to go to war with the Ming Dynasty.

However, on the basis of the regular army, the Ming Dynasty also has a huge militia system. Every year, the militia conducts a half-month exercise.

This is used to ensure that once the war is consumed. The Ming Dynasty can mobilize reserve troops at any time to carry on the war, so that the elite will not be lost in the war of attrition, and it will become useless.

"War and even murderous things, it distorts human nature, destroys faith, it tears apart families, it destroys countries. Any catastrophe is dwarfed by it.

We don't want to!

We also don't want to mobilize so many people to fight. Young men have gone to war, the fields are all women's work, and the children are working in the factories.

But what can we do? If we are defeated by France, we will lose our land and our children will have to speak French from now on. The French will kill our men and possess our women.

The winner will have everything, and the loser will lose everything. This is war!

The Germanic peoples have come to this day by endless wars. The Romans bullied us, we fought, the Tatars bullied us, we fought the same.

Our ancestors, with their lives and blood, retained our right to speak German and the land on which we depend.

Perhaps one day, it will no longer be us Germanic people who will live on this land. But the land cannot be thrown away in our hands.

We have to be worthy of our fathers, our grandfathers, our ancestors. The heroic spirits inside the Martyrs' Shrine are watching us, and we have to take up arms and fight.

For victory, for Germania, for Prussia! ”

Excited hearts, trembling hands, blood-red eyes, impassioned words. All of them prove that this old bastard is drunk.

"We are also fighting bloody battles for these, with the Jurchen Tartars, with the Mongols, with the Russians. We are also here to keep the land of our ancestors and the right of our children and grandchildren to speak Chinese.

For our Chinese nation!

For victory, for China, for the ancestors! Ao Ye was obviously moved by Bismarck's words.

Picked up the wine bottle on the table and blew a bottle in one go.

There was a long hiccup and poured backwards like a whale squirting vomit.

Old Bismarck actually picked up the bottle and began to blow on it.

Fifty-two degrees of Wuliangye, this old guy looks no more than sixty or fifty. Li Xiao was very worried that the old guy would drink to death.

I want to reach out and stop it!

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......!" A heart-rending cough was heard.

Fortunately, the old guy's skills are far less profound than Ao Ye's, and he had to give up this heroic move after a few sips.

The three major irons of men have drunk wine together, carried guns together, and ...... together!

Since attending this banquet, Ao Ye and Bismarck have become friends. Traveling around with the old guy all day long, the capital let Bismarck visit it all over!

Large airship equipment factory, train and locomotive factory, as well as weaving factory, steel mill ......! Wherever Bismarck wanted to go, not only did the Zheng family give the green light. Even Ao Ye gave the green light, and he even invited Bismarck to visit his first division barracks.

In addition, he observed a military performance organized by Ao Ye especially for Bismarck.

Li Xiao was very worried, in this way, the spy would not have to steal, and he would just send an envoy to Daming. If Bismarck came today, it is quite possible that Napoleon will come tomorrow.

Fortunately, King Arthur Alexander's people have been dead for too long, otherwise they might have formed a group to come here to drink and drink.

Li Xiao gave a strict order to the Zheng family and Ao Ye, not allowing them to bring Bismarck to Jinzhou.

Most of the important industrial cities in the Ming Dynasty are in eastern Liaodong. The important scientific research bases are Jinzhou and Changxing Island!

As long as Bismarck doesn't go to Liaodong, no matter how long he walks in the capital, he will be a dog watching the stars. Li Xiao didn't believe it, the old guy visited the power plant once, and he was really able to drum up electricity.

For half a month, Bismarck was shocked almost every day.

When you wake up in the morning, you will be mentally prepared to accept any form of shock. But when he really got to the place, Bismarck's eyes straightened.

In the factory building that is more than 30 meters high, a large row of steel skeletons is erected. Workers are mounting pieces of skin on top of a steel skeleton.

The construction of an airship is relatively simple, with a large airbag encased in numerous small airbags. It's like a huge beehive with countless hives.

In order to reduce weight, except for the skeleton parts, steel is absolutely not used for the remaining parts where aluminum can be used. The pods, in particular, are almost entirely made of aluminum.

Except for the large glass windows in the front cab, the rest of the space is full of round portholes.

Rounded turrets line each side, and the twin two-five rapid-fire guns shoot out deadly steel to wipe out any enemy that dares to resist.

There is also a huge space inside the pod to store a large amount of ammunition and bombs.

Of course, this is a combat airship. Now the cargo airships produced in the airship factory are not so complicated. It's just a huge hanging basket, everything that can be simplified is simplified, just to ship a lot of goods.

"Huh! Although the Ming Dynasty is building railways every year, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi are still not connected to trains. There is no way to do it, there are no sunny days in those places, and the ground is not three feet flat, and it is too difficult to build a railway.

And Gangnam!

The Yangtze River is still a moat, and the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge, which we have repaired for several years, has still not been repaired. It was too difficult to build a bridge over a moat.

But fortunately, our airship, cargo airship actually carries a lot of cargo.

Where the railroad can't be repaired, we use airships. It doesn't take much to land on this thing, and it can land safely. After loading and unloading the cargo, you can continue to fly to your next destination.

Now the anti-aircraft artillery is so powerful that we don't use airships much in military affairs. Ao Ye proudly introduced the airship.

"Hey......! In the last war, we suffered a big loss from airships. Later, the task of emptying was all given to the British. No less let the British reap the benefits! Bismarck looked at the huge line of airships, and almost went crazy with envy.

Only those who have experienced the downpour of fire on the airship can understand the pain of being beaten and not fighting back. In the last war, Prussia played such a role.

And the airships flying in the sky are either French or English.

Bismarck dreamed of having an airship, but ...... Neither France nor England sells it.

For Prussia, the airship is still a high-precision weapon, but the Ming Dynasty has been eliminated on the battlefield.

What a gap!

"The British are all crumbs, and when we were in India, we were beaten up. Airship technology, or stealing our Ming. Do you want this production line? If you want, I'll get you one? Ao Ye squeezed his eyes at old Bismarck.

"Are you willing to sell this?" Bismarck's jaw was about to fall to the ground.

Airship production line, this is the top secret in any country. belongs to the kind of leakage that will be beheaded, but Da Ming actually ...... Willing to sell?

"I still have some face, you can ask the Zheng family to help you talk about it. I don't think it's a big problem. But this matter has to be nodded by the handsome.

Looking for Zhang Huangyan's old guy, he didn't dare to call the shots. Ao Ye patted his chest with a big bag.

"Uh-huh! You must help with this matter, brother, as long as you can do this, brother will definitely be rewarded. Bismarck immediately made up his mind.

He dreamed of being in the Prussian sky, seeing Prussia's own airships.

These days, I mess with Ao Canghai every day and learn a lot of Ming habits. Including meeting older than him called the elder brother, and younger than him called the elder brother.

However, the average age of Ming officials is so low that Bismarck pats people on the shoulder everywhere these days and calls them "brother". As the first Chinese vocabulary Bismarck learned, the old guy spoke it quite well.

But then, when Ao Ye accompanied him to visit the weaving factory, the glass processing factory, and the bicycle factory, Ao Canghai said this everywhere.

This made Bismarck a little suspicious, and he suspected that he had been fooled by Ao Canghai.

The word flicker is another Chinese word Bismarck recently learned.

"Mr. Zheng, I want to buy a Ming airship production line, I wonder if you can help?" Hesitating, Bismarck still told Zheng Zhilong.

He felt that Ao Ye's guy who ran the train with his mouth full after drinking was extremely unreliable. And Zheng Zhilong, an old guy, looks a little respectable, and he should be somewhat accurate in his speech.