"Damn, megalomaniacal. You have no idea what Gilgamesh means! ”

Rasputin looked at Li Xiao's back viciously!

From Li Xiao's eyes, he saw outright contempt.

Right!

It's contempt!

The kind of contempt that is most despised, extremely contemptuous.

This made Rasputin very angry, very! Very! Very! Wrath!

Out of anger, Rasputine still has endless fear in his heart, and his ability to learn comes from the Tantra of Tibetan Bon.

There is an instinctive fear of water.

So, in addition to what he had to drink, he couldn't and didn't dare to take a bath.

Li Xiao's prophecy about him being thrown into an ice cave and struggling underwater for ten minutes really scared him.

Subconsciously, Rasputin even fantasized about the horrific scene.

In the end, the intense fear and extreme anger made Rasputin completely hate Li Xiao.

This arrogant Ming man must be made to pay the price, to pay the price of despising himself.

Li Xiao didn't expect that a despised god stick would be able to set off a huge storm.

According to the prior agreement, Li Xiao rested for half an hour and then began to talk with Catherine.

To be honest, Li Xiao already hates the woman in front of him who is greedy and gaining weight day by day.

Compared to a few years ago, Catherine's weight has increased significantly.

The chin is no longer two layers, but stacked into three.

Because of obesity, the skin on the face has no folds. Those folds are completely flattened by the subcutaneous fat!

And Catherine's heart-to-heart conversation became more and more serious, even to the point of embezzling military salaries.

Everyone in the entire Russian Empire had reason to embezzle, but Catherine did not.

Li Xiao didn't understand that this country was hers, why did she still embezzle all that money.

Although he was reluctant in his heart, Li Xiao still had to sit with Ekaterina and talk.

No way!

Now the Ming army is inseparable from the Russian army on the Western Front, and if it loses the support of the Russian army, the Ming army will at least increase its troops by more than 1.5 million people.

The military expenditure required by 1.5 million people is not a small amount.

"Your Excellency, Generalissimo, try the coffee brewed in our Kremlin kitchen.

A drink every afternoon is very refreshing! ”

Li Xiao pouted, Daming does not produce coffee.

In Asia, where it is mainly cultivated is in Java, and the Ming people do not have a large demand for this thing.

So the amount of this thing is not planted in Java, in fact, it is the Ming army that purchases these things the most.

Because many people have found that drinking this stuff can be refreshing.

The Ming army purchased these things, which would be ground into powder and distributed to those on night duty.

However, ordinary soldiers of the Ming army don't like these bitter things.

They stubbornly believe that this thing is medicine.

Europeans, on the other hand, like to add sugar and milk to their coffee.

"Thank you!" Li Xiao shook his head, he didn't like addictive things like coffee.

"The General Command has been established on the Southern Front, and all the actions of our Ming Army and the Russian Army are transferred by the General Command.

We are prepared to do the same on the Northern Front, where the Chief of the General Staff of the Ming Dynasty, General Stilwell, will be the commander-in-chief.

Marshal Kutuzov, who will serve as deputy commander-in-chief. "Li Xiao is reluctant to ink with Catherine again.

Your soldiers are all nibbling on black bread with sawn foam, and the beans that Daming fed to the military horses are all secretly eaten.

As the empress, she still holds a drinking party here and drinks coffee.

"Generalissimo...... Coffee, coffee."

Catherine did not expect that Li Xiao would raise the most sensitive issue of command as soon as she came up.

The Ming Dynasty has taken away the command of the troops on the southern front, and now he is thinking about the command of the northern front.

Although Russia is now inseparable from the support of the Ming Dynasty, any monarch is extremely sensitive to military power.

Now, Li Xiao is teasing Catherine's most sensitive nerves.

I thought that Li Xiao would at least be polite, but I didn't expect Li Xiao to ask such a sharp question as soon as he sat down.

Catherine drank coffee to hide her panic.

She didn't want to hand over the army, but she couldn't lose the protection of Daming.

The brain is telling the operation, thinking about how to reject Li Xiao and not offend Li Xiao.

Li Xiao glanced at Catherine and knew that this old Russian lady was thinking about how to reject herself.

Li Xiao was not afraid of Catherine's refusal, because Catherine had no choice.

The war has been going on for half a year, and the combat power of the Russian army has been completely exposed to the world.

Without the support of the Ming army, they would have been crushed to slag by the coalition forces.

It was only by following the Ming army that they won the Battle of Kursk. In the Battle of Tsaritsyn, although the Russian army suffered heavy losses, the backbone of the operation was still the Ming army.

The war had exhausted the so-called family ties between the Russian royal family and the rest of the royal family.

And even more deadly, both the Pope in Rome and the Catholic Orthodox Church have come to regard Russia as a heretic.

Catherine now has no way out, and now they can't even afford to feed their own soldiers.

"Your Excellency Generalissimo, you know that Russia is in difficulty right now.

Our strength on the battlefield has exceeded 2.3 million, and it can be said that all Russian men of appropriate age have gone to serve in the army.

There were only a few women and old people left in the rear, and even our fourteen or fifteen-year-old children were sent to the front.

Russia has given everything for the sake of this war.

Our soldiers are hungry, and the old people, children, women in the rear are hungry.

As the king of Russia, I am saddened. ”

Li Xiao looked at Catherine's crocodile-like tears, and her nose was almost crooked.

You have two less banquets and two fewer bottles of Moutai.

And on this table, steaming coffee.

As for being fat like this grandma?

Damn, this old lady still has the face to say that her people are starving.

What Ekaterina said was also true, the strong laborers went to the battlefield, and only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled and women were left in the rear.

In addition, half of the year in Russia is winter, and the growing season of grain crops is only once.

As a result, the most serious problem that plagues Russia now is food, and the front-line soldiers are eating black bread mixed with sawn foam, and it is conceivable what the people in the rear will eat.

Li Xiao even suspects that cannibalism has begun in some places.

The famous Holodomor in Ukraine killed three million people.

"In the future, Daming will allocate 400 tons of sweet potatoes, 300 tons of potatoes, and 150 tons of corn to Russia every month.

In addition, we are also responsible for the future food supply of the Russian army.

We will distribute the grain of the Russian army, and the food of the people will be distributed by you. ”

Li Xiao was also helpless, and he didn't want to hand over the two rooms to those corrupt officials.

But there is no way, who else can you give it to if you don't give it to them?

Da Ming had no remaining strength, so he came to Russia to distribute relief food door-to-door.

This year's Daming has a bumper harvest of potatoes and corn, but the people eat more fine grains.

Shrewd Ming merchants have begun to buy potatoes and corn to be processed into feed for pigs.

The Ming people are now living well, and the traditional pig breeding can no longer guarantee the supply of the market.

The price of the second senior brother is rolling upward, and now there are large pig farms.

In this way of raising pigs, it is impossible to solve the feed problem by beating pigweed.

The shrewd businessman of the Ming Dynasty has accurately fallen into the lucrative industry of feed processing.

Especially in the south of the Ming Dynasty, many places have stopped growing grain. Instead, they specialize in growing potatoes and sweet potatoes to make money.

Potatoes are fine, but sweet potatoes seem to be particularly tropical.

Especially in Guangdong and Guangxi, sweet potatoes can grow all year round, and the yield per mu can reach three or four thousand catties.

It can also produce two seasons a year!

The Ming people don't eat this thing now, at most, who can get a little bit of it.

Whoever eats potatoes and sweet potatoes every day has to make the neighbors laugh to death.

Even the most gluttonous children have to fry sweet potatoes before they eat them.

Last year, there was a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes in Daming, and sweet potatoes are falling in price at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the Ming Dynasty, a few silver dollars can buy a cartload of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and when they arrive in Russia, they are good things that can live.

To put it bluntly, the Ming is feeding the Russians with pig feed.

"Oh, thank you so much, Generalissimo, you have done us a great favor in Russia.

I thank you on behalf of all Russians! Ekaterina gracefully thanked Li Xiao.

"Then the question of the command of the north ......!"

"Command can be given to General Stilwell, but Marshal Kutuzov, must be involved in operational decisions."

Catherine lamented in her heart, since she couldn't keep the command, it was better to honestly exchange some food.

This can also be regarded as maximizing the interests of Russia!

"Excellent! This matter was thus settled, and from next month, Daming will deliver these grains to Russia.

However, these grains need to be exchanged by Russia for the corresponding timber.

Every month, Russia will provide the Ming with 150 wagons of timber. ”

Russia has nothing left now, and Li Xiao has no choice but to search for timber that is not very valuable.

Russian wood, grown in the cold zone, is very good. In Daming, it is also very popular and can be sold at a good price.

"Uh......! This one......! ”

Despite the preparations in her heart, Catherine was still a little annoyed.

Daming is such a philistine country, if you give you something, you will inevitably take away the same amount of things.

Over the years, Russia has almost lost all of its mineral deposits in Central Asia.

Now, the idea of timber has been raised.

It is estimated that after this war, even the Kremlin will be theirs.

"Your Majesty!

Your Majesty! A chamberlain ran over in a panic, ignoring etiquette.

"Something happened, so panicked." Catherine frowned and looked at the chamberlain.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't know why, nosebleeds keep flowing. Check it out! The chamberlain said with a crying voice.

"What?" Catherine stood up in shock.

Crown Prince Paul suffers from a strange illness that cannot be stopped as long as the bleeding is unstoppable.

Every bleeding is life-threatening.

"I beg your pardon, Your Excellency, that I need to go and see Paul.

Oh! My poor Paul! Catherine bowed deeply to Li Xiao, and surrounded by a group of minions, followed the chamberlain to the depths of the Kremlin.

Li Xiao opened his mouth helplessly!

Hemophilia patients, it's really a delay.

But Li Xiao can't help it, after all, Paul is the crown prince of Russia, and he doesn't want a valuable status.

Catherine trotted to the bed of Crown Prince Paul regardless of her manners!

"Did you hit somewhere?

How did you take care of the crown prince, if you let me know that it was your fault, you would all be dead. ”

Before he entered Paul's dormitory, Catherine's roar had already been heard.

In the crown prince's bedroom, the attendants and nurses turned pale with fright.

Catherine wasn't just talking, she was really going to do that.

The last group of people who did not take good care of Crown Prince Paul are now buried in the cemetery.

Crown Prince Paul was lying on the couch, the front of his shirt soaked in blood. The face is full of hematoma scars!

Paul's face was even paler because of excessive blood loss.

The attendants, palace maids, and nurses next to them all stood trembling and at a loss.

"What are you doing stupidly, go and ask Rasputin." Ekaterina roared furiously.

"I've already gone to please, it should be there soon." The nurse with a higher status said tremblingly.

"How did this happen, how did Paul become like this.

You deserve to die, you all have to die! Catherine roared hoarsely.

Paul is the only child of her and her husband and the only heir to her throne.

Now something happened to this big baby, which suddenly made Ekaterina panic.

"Forgive these men, my majesty!" Rasputin walked in with the guidance of his attendants.

"Look at Paul, he's having a hard time!" Catherine grabbed Rasputin's hand and said with no master.

"Don't worry about my majesty, I'm here!" Rasputin patted Catherine's hand.

"Don't gather around here, you've been forgiven." Rasputin waved his hand at the attendants.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! The palace maids and attendants immediately dispersed, and every look at Rasputin was full of gratitude.

Rasputin pulled a black pill from his bosom and stuffed it into Paul's mouth. Then he sat cross-legged next to Paul's bag, muttering words in his mouth.

Strange to say, about twenty minutes passed.

Paul's face is beginning to normalize, and the hematoma is disappearing at a visible rate.

There is no more blood coming out of the nose either!

After half an hour or so, Paul's breathing became steady. After a while, I actually fell asleep peacefully.

"It's all right, my majesty!" Rasputin stood up and looked at Crown Prince Paul, who had slept peacefully.

"Thank you!

I don't know what I would have done without you. Catherine saw Paul sleeping peacefully, and hugged Rasputin with tears in her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks.