"The Ming Dynasty is building a railway in Central Asia, a railway to Russia." This was a Hebrew reception, and all the people who were eligible to attend were the leading characters in the Hebrew world.

Like little Rothschild, and Ben. Gurion and other Israeli dignitaries.

"The Ming Dynasty built a railway in Central Asia, is the news reliable? At such a long distance, there is a desert area in between. It's a huge undertaking, and even after it's done, the maintenance costs are staggering. ”

Little Rothschild took a sip of golden champagne and said with some disdain.

Although he has become the prime minister of Israel, Rothschild Jr. is still a businessman at heart.

Businessmen should pay attention to the return on investment when investing. In Rothschild's view, the construction of such a railway was the least commercially viable.

Railways are not just built and finished, but also require a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain them.

In particular, the Central Asian railway has to pass through the arid, water-scarce, desert and Gobi region, and the maintenance problem is even more serious.

More importantly, Central Asia was still in the age of tribal politics. Along such a railway, it is not known how many tribes.

As long as these tribes secretly oppose the Ming Dynasty. With such a long railway, accidents will happen everywhere.

For example, pick up a railroad track in the middle of the night and derail a train that is running normally. Or some other sabotage, it's a nightmare for the train to run.

If you send an army to protect the road, how many troops will be needed for thousands of kilometers of railway. The annual military expenditure is even more astronomical!

Hearing this news, Rothschild's first impression was that it was not cost-effective! Extremely uneconomical!

"Yes! Such an uneconomical thing, why did the Ming court do it? Isn't that suspicious? ”

Root. Gurion shook the champagne in his glass and said thoughtfully.

The last war with Austria-Hungary fully demonstrated the full malice of the Ming Dynasty towards the emerging Israel.

It can be said that the Ming Empire was Israel's worst enemy.

But fortunately, the Ming Empire is thousands of miles away. Despite their fleet, they came to the coast of Israel for a walk.

Airships are always annoying to fly around on their heads, but the Ming Dynasty has no further military action.

This makes Ben. Gurion was a little puzzled, according to the character of the Ming people. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and the Ming army should go bare-chested and attack Sevastopol directly.

Definitely not this reaction now, Ben. Gurion couldn't figure out what he thought.

Israel's wariness of the Ming Empire is strong, every time the Ming warship cruises in the coastal waters, every time the Ming airship flies overhead. Gurion's heart tugged.

He was afraid that this was the beginning of the war, although Israel had been building at an astonishing pace in the past two years.

But compared with a powerful force like Daming, it still seems a little inadequate.

Even if Israel is thriving now, if the Ming Dynasty really attacks, Israel will not be able to defend it.

This war will be a war between giants and gnomes.

Root. Gurion is not arrogant enough to claim to be King Solomon!

All Israel can do now is endure! Until the day when the national strength surpasses the Ming Dynasty.

"Will the Ming army want to attack us? Their ships and airships, roaming around us all day long.

Yesterday it was only ten kilometers away from the coastline, the size of their warship. The waves almost capsized my boat! ”

"The Ming army, whether in equipment, training or numbers, surpasses us. However, their interests are global, and they need to deal with a huge sea area from the mainland to Gibraltar.

I heard that they have recently set up a base at the Cape of Good Hope as well.

Deploying troops on such a huge land requires a very large amount of military strength. Don't look at the Ming Dynasty has so many troops, but in fact, their army is not enough.

At least, there is no way to further satisfy the ambitions of the Ming people. I think this is the Ming people, although they are hostile to us. But the reason why we haven't done it for a long time! "It was the new Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Moses. Dayan.

In the last war, Moses. Dayan's troops fought desperately and bloodily, Moses. Dayan was blinded by shrapnel in one eye.

Moses now. Dayan became a one-eyed dragon with a black blindfold on his left eye all day, making his whole person look eerie.

is worthy of being the chief of staff of the Wehrmacht, and he hit the weakness of the Ming army in one sentence. Today's Ming army, precisely because of the expansion in all directions, appears to be insufficient.

"If they don't have enough troops, why are they building this thousands of kilometers of Central Asian railway?

It seems that they don't have that many troops to protect the railway. "Ben. Gurion still couldn't figure out Da Ming's intentions.

"I don't know what their intentions are, but I think as long as it's a matter of Daming, we have to make some trouble for them." Little Rothschild said proudly.

He will never let go of any opportunity to make trouble for Daming, especially such a good opportunity as the Central Asian Railway.

The long railway of thousands of kilometers, as long as you find a random place to destroy it, it will cause great trouble to the Ming Dynasty.

It is better to derail a speeding train, which can cause huge damage. Israel is also laying railways, and Rothschild Jr. knows too well how fragile long railway lines can be.

Because of their railways to Azerbaijan, they were often harassed by the Ossetians and Turkmen.

In just one month, the Hebrew army lost more than 200 casualties.

Today's cocktail is over, Moses. Dayan was to take his army and personally sweep away the newly conquered Georgia.

Although there are no crops produced there, Georgia has many mineral deposits. Especially coal and iron ore, which are minerals that Israel desperately needs.

And in order to bring these minerals back to Sevastopol, a railway had to be built there.

The thought of a steady stream of coal, as well as iron ore, sent back to the Crimea, made Rothschild Jr. feel better.

"I also don't think we can just let them fix the railroad like that. Even if it is repaired, it will not make them comfortable to use. "Ben. Gurion nodded.

"Huh! It's simple, when I did pre-war scouting. Discover Georgia further east, in the middle of the Caucasus Mountains there is an ethnic group called the Chechens.

These men are warriors by nature, and the Grozny region is in the mountains, and they are poor, very poor.

Just give them food, and some weapons. It doesn't take much money for them to be willing to give us their lives.

I have found a leader of the Chechens called Dudayov. His tribe was very powerful in the local area, and I had intended to use them to conquer Georgia.

Otherwise, we hired them to cross the Caucasus Mountains to deal with the Ming people. Destroying that long Central Asian railway, such a long railway, the Ming people did not have so many troops to protect.

I promise, it will definitely make the Ming people not idle for a moment. Speaking of the men he had bribed, Moses. Dayan is very confident.

"This is a feasible solution, we don't have to go head-on with the Ming. And it doesn't seem to cost much. For such a cost-effective activity, Rothschild Jr. naturally raised his hands in agreement.

"Hmmm! It's best not to clash head-on with Daming

After all, our strength is still weaker than that of the Ming people. Moreover, Constantinople was still under the control of the Ming people.

They control the strait, and as long as the Bosphorus and Dardanelles are cut off, our merchant ships will not be able to cross.

Constantinople, this is our throat.

But now that we are being pinched by Daming, he doesn't let us breathe, we can't breathe. It's too restrictive! "Ben. Gurion said with some annoyance.

The war against Austria-Hungary, Israel could have won much more. In the end, it was the Ming Dynasty who took action and used the blockade of the Bosphorus Strait as a threat, asking Israel to accept it when it saw it.

There is no way, Israel can only abandon Kyiv, which is close at hand. And to retreat fifty kilometers from the current front, as a military buffer zone.

This incident is a pain in the hearts of Israelis, and almost all Israelis hate Daming to the core.

But in the face of the powerful Ming, they had no choice.

In particular, the Ottoman sultans, who were supported by the Ming Dynasty, occupied Constantinople. It was a position that controlled the entrance and exit of the Black Sea, the throat of emerging Israel.

"Making trouble for Daming is actually just a few small means. Our most important thing is Constantinople.

Only by taking Constantinople will our cargo ships be able to freely enter and leave the Black Sea. We can't let Da Ming pinch our necks like this anymore, they can only pinch us if they want us to give in.

In this way, will we Hebrews be subject to the Ming people for the rest of our lives? "Ben. As he spoke, Gurion suddenly became agitated, and threw his wine glass against the wall with a flick of his hand.

"Hey! Gurion, don't do this.

We all know what is going on with the Ming people, and I think things will take a turn for the better.

My father had already united with other Hebrew consortia. Through Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, as well as Italy and Portugal, orders were placed with the Ming government.

We're going to procure Navy ships, including battleships, you know. The Ming Dynasty has now opened up its weapons to friendly countries in Europe.

They can buy those warships as huge as a mountain!

As long as we have these warships, plus the destroyers that we made in the UK. In five years at most, we will have a large number of ships.

Gurion, what you should be thinking about now is how to train naval officers and sailors. Don't have a boat when we finally have a boat, but there is no one to drive it.

As long as we have a fleet, we can suddenly kill Constantinople. Quickly deal with the Ming fleet there, and then the army will attack and occupy Constantinople.

Of course, that's just what I think. The specific battle plan has to be made by your army. "Little Rothschild splashed two drops of wine on him, but when he saw this. Gurion was furious, and could only explain to him in a reluctant voice.

"But I can't wait for a second, Constantinople is in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, which makes me feel suffocated." Root. Gurion roared like a lion.

"I have a great idea, Gurion." Moses. Dayan said suddenly.

"Speak quickly!" Root. Gurion looked at his chief of staff angrily.

Moses. Dayan walked up to the huge map, picked up a wooden stick in his hand, pointed at the map and said: "We have defeated Austria-Hungary, and the northern border has been pushed to the line of Kiev.

Due to the intervention of the Ming Empire, our front can only advance here at present.

But we have another direction, and that is eastward.

We have occupied Tbilisi and we can go all the way south. Marches into Armenia, Azerbaijan, and then Tehran.

As long as our influence reaches Persia, then we have access to the sea. Moreover, we are strategically oriented southward, new exports.

This place not only perfectly clamped down on the Ming Dynasty, but also in the future, after our navy is strong, we can station a fleet in Persia, ready to cut off the trade routes between the Ming and Europe at any time.

According to intelligence, the Ming Dynasty is still implementing the policy of enriching the people. The taxes they collected from the people were very low, and the northern part of the Ming Dynasty, especially Liaodong, was already full of factories and the people were very wealthy.

The South is also developing rapidly under the policy of low taxes.

They built a bridge over a large river called the Yangtze River that runs through the Ming Dynasty, and it is said that the bridge is more than ten kilometers long.

Moreover, they have more than one bridge to build.

In southern China, they continued to build railways and roads. At the same time, they are building super-large ports in Huating and Lingnan.

To the southwest, their railroad is advancing into Sichuan Province, surrounded by mountains. And the northwest, as you all know, is going to be connected to the Central Asian railway in the future. ”

"Moses, what the hell are you going to say?" Root. Gurion heard Moses. Dayan babbled and became a little impatient.

"Don't worry about Gurion, I see that Moses is right, continue to talk about Moses." Rothschild Jr. stopped Ben with interest. Gurion.

"What I want to say is that Daming collects such a small tax and builds so many large-scale projects at the same time.

So where does the money come from?

There is only one source, and that is the trade of the Ming Dynasty to Europe.

Every year, the Ming were able to make a lot of money from trade with Europe. And all this money was used by Daming for domestic construction.

As long as we control Persia, station a navy in Persian ports. You can cut off the trade route of the Ming Dynasty at any time, that is, cut off the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty.

They threaten us with Constantinople, and we can threaten them too.

When two people fight, they can only sit down and have a good talk when the blades are against each other's necks.

Although I don't know why the Ming are hostile to us, I think that at that time, they had to withdraw their hostility towards us. ”

"You said it very well, Moses! However, will the Ming give us control of Persia as we wish? "Ben. Gurion felt Moses. Dayan was a little whimsical.

With the vigilance of the Ming Dynasty against Israel, he will never allow Israel to attack the city like this.

"So! The process has to be fast, and we have to win over the locals for us. Only in this way can we effectively alleviate the problem of insufficient troops.

This war will be a war in which co-optation is the main focus and the war is secondary.

We give money to the tribal elders to support us. I think the money to buy them is much less than the cost of war.

And we can also take advantage of ethnic hatred, when the Ottomans massacre Armenians on a large scale.

These hatreds are all means that we can use.

As for Tehran, the king of Persia had hundreds of thousands of troops. But they are all old-equipped, poorly trained troops.

Moreover, I heard that the king of Persia and his crown prince had a very unpleasant quarrel. The Persian dynasty already had signs of civil war.

As long as we support one side, things will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. "Moses. Dayan said the plan he had been thinking about for a long time.

For this plan, he had already sent people to these places several times to inquire about the news. He said that the Persian Empire was about to have civil strife, and it was his subordinates who bought off the family of the Persian prime minister that they got important information.

"Huh! Moses, you're doing a good job. It's up to you, and we'll give you our full support. Rothschild Jr. stood up and took the lead to Moses. Dayan applauded.

Glancing at the map, Ben. Gurion also stood up and applauded.