In Li Xiao's mind, there is a concept of racial equality that is scarce in this era.

Officials, soldiers, and even beggars from the Ming Dynasty stubbornly believed that the Ming people were the most noble race in the world.

There is no such thing as a one!

Although Li Xiao has preached a few times, it seems that these people should be afraid of Li Xiao's authority, rather than really believing from their hearts that those black guys are qualified to get along with them on an equal footing.

I have to say that these black guys really don't have long faces.

When we describe the excellent qualities of our nation, we always like to talk about hard work and bravery.

So much so that Li Xiao felt that this was a bit of a suspicion of boasting.

But after knowing what these Foreign Legions did, Li Xiao really felt that being diligent and brave was really an excellent and valuable quality.

Those black guys just lack such qualities.

"In that case, simply confiscate their weapons and dismiss them.

It will not let them continue to ruin the reputation of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Daming's reputation is very valuable, but he can't let these black charcoal heads be ruined.

"Handsome!

Severance is too cumbersome, and there are severance costs.

It is better to sell to the mines in Yunnan and Guizhou, as well as the mines in Australia, which also require a lot of manpower. ”

Chen Tingjing has cultivated an economic mind in Huating, he doesn't like spending money, he likes to make money even more.

The slave trade, an ancient business, has always been a favorite thing for the Ming government.

Development requires resources, and if resources are needed, a large number of blood and tears mines are needed.

Li Xiao knew these things, and he also knew the miserable situation of the miners in the mine.

But Li Xiao has no choice, there is nothing in the development process that does not pay the price.

Britain had sheep eating people, and the United States had a large number of plantation slaves.

This is the price that must be paid in the development process!

Either the blood and tears of these foreigners, or the blood and tears of the Ming people.

Today, the development of the Ming Dynasty requires a large amount of coal.

With the price of coal rising, coal mines have sprung up on the land!

These coal mines are unrestrained and digging wantonly!

Landslides, wells, and even gas explosions happen almost every day.

Every time it happens, it's a dozen, or even a dozen, of lives.

If you don't need foreign prisoners of war to do these jobs, you can only rely on the people of the Ming Dynasty.

If that's the case, the story of "The Blind Well" may be brutally staged!

Li Xiao didn't want Daming to stage such a human tragedy, so he could only rely on the bones of prisoners of war to accumulate the development path of Daming.

Although it's a bit inhumane, it's also a choice that can't be helped.

The Ming Dynasty is so rich that in the capital, you can see people in their thirties.

With a bird cage in his hand, he played Tai Chi in the park early in the morning.

After eating breakfast of soy milk fritters, I will ride my bicycle to work.

Wander around the factory for eight hours, and eat a free lunch in the cafeteria at noon.

Wandering home at night, sitting on the side of the street after dinner, drinking tea and bragging, under the street lamp, there is always a group of shirtless men playing chess.

In the mosquito-infested summer, a dozen packs of blood are still fighting.

As for playing mahjong, a group sport that men, women, and children like to see, there has been an irrepressible trend.

In a neighborhood, the place with the highest concentration of people may be those mahjong parlors that crackle all day long.

In Chengdu, when it's hot, people simply move their tables to the creek.

Soak your feet in the cold stream to relieve the heat, and the mahjong will be played correctly.

The Ming Dynasty is heaven for the Ming people, but it is hell for the aliens, especially these slaves.

"Dashuai, there is also a shortage of labor in the rubber plantations in Java.

These people were born in the tropics, and they are adapted to hot climates. They should be sent to Java, the strategic value of rubber is too important, and the current production is somewhat insufficient. ”

Sun Zhijie had spent some time in Southeast Asia, and he was familiar with the situation there.

These two seem to be killing talents, and they don't treat these black people as human beings at all.

Intentionally or unintentionally, they always want to turn these black guys into white silver dollars.

There is a reason, there is motivation, and there is the ability to have this impulse!

If it weren't for Li Xiao's obstruction, the slave trade would have been the most prosperous business in the Middle East.

"You can do this.

The imperial court's finances are tight, and we owe you something in the past two years.

You are responsible for selling these foreign army prisoners of war.

However, local Arabs must not be harassed.

As for their weapons, I will order the Indian side to form five more Indian divisions.

It's used to help you keep the law and order! ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!" Sun Zhijie immediately bowed down.

He was plagued by a lack of troops, and now he had five Indian divisions, all of whom were overjoyed.

Whether it is the Gurkha or the Sikhs, the combat effectiveness of these people, although not as strong as the Ming army.

But it's okay to blow up those blacks in the Foreign Legion!

And in terms of loyalty to Daming, there is no way to compare.

In India, there are countless strong stick boys, who want to achieve leapfrog development of their family status by becoming mercenaries for the Ming army to gain military exploits.

"Sun Zhijie, do you think we have to use how many troops we need to completely suppress the Kurdish rebellion."

The Kurdish issue has always been a source of trouble in the Middle East.

The Kurds, supported by coalition forces, have access to weapons and ammunition from numerous smuggling routes along the Black Sea coast.

And they themselves are a warlike people!

Sultan Mokomo of Constantinople was sent by Li Xiao to attack the Kurds three times in a row.

But in the end, the Ottomans were beaten to the point of losing their armor.

Hundreds of thousands of people were lost, but the Kurds could not be exterminated.

On the contrary, the Kurds are becoming more and more noisy after gaining a large number of battlefield captures.

Now, it has occupied Baghdad for a year and a half.

As for their old nests of Deir ez-Zor and Mosul, it is an anti-Ming stronghold.

Realizing that continuing to force the Ottomans to attack the Kurds was no different from directly supplying the Kurds with weapons, Li Xiao had to give up the idea of using the Ottomans to exterminate the Kurds.

Since the Ottomans could not be relied on, they had to rely on themselves.

"According to our intelligence, the total number of Kurds is around five million.

Very different from the Arabs, their tribes are very united with each other.

Usually when a tribal militant is attacked, the Kurds in the vicinity rush to their aid.

In the past, when fighting with swords, only adult men were warriors.

But now, basically men, women and children have become warriors.

I've seen it on the front line, eight or nine-year-old dolls with guns, shooting at our troops.

It can be said that as long as the Kurds can hold a gun, they are all fighters on the battlefield.

I can't even say how many troops they have.

I can only say that it is very much, twenty or even thirty times the existing garrison of Basra of our army.

It is simply impossible to exterminate the Kurds with the existing forces. ”

Li Xiao was helpless, he didn't expect the Kurds to be so difficult.

Millions of people, almost all of them warriors.

How can this be fought!

Suddenly, Li Xiao thought of a more dehumanizing tactic.

"In addition to the five Indian divisions, I can give you five divisions formed by the Caucasians."

"A division formed by the Caucasus?" Sun Zhijie was a little surprised.

The Ming never fought with the Caucasians!

Even in the process of building the Central Asian Railway, the Ming Dynasty exterminated Grozny in the Caucasus.

Sun Zhijie was also a participant in that battle, and he didn't understand why the marshal wanted to arm the Caucasians, and one was armed with five divisions.

If possible, Sun Zhijie prefers the Korean teacher, or the Japanese national teacher.

At least, the Koreans and the Wakoku were more obedient.

Especially the Japanese people, fighting a war.

You let them charge, and they will charge until they have the last man left.

"That's right!

It's the Caucasians!

Both the Caucasians and the Kurds follow the same religion, but they are different sects within the religion.

The Kurds follow the Ten Pages, while the Caucasians follow the Twinni.

These two denominations have a history of denominational conflict that has lasted for thousands of years.

The hatred between them can only be described as a sea of blood feud.

Especially the Cossacks, with their iron blood and bravery, it would be a pity not to take advantage of some.

You are to use the Indian division as a skeleton and build a large number of pillboxes in various places.

Each bunker is a stronghold, where large quantities of food are stored and water is to be stored.

Then, rail and road were used to connect the bunkers.

In addition to transporting supplies, the railway also had armored trains.

And the Cossacks in the Caucasus, it was the mobile units responsible for the protection of these railways.

Such ten divisions can control a large area.

You're going to kill every Kurdish in the area, the old man Paul and the confinement doll.

At the same time, the weapons of the Arabs were collected.

As long as there are weapons and ammunition in the family and they are not handed over, once they are searched or reported, the whole family will be killed.

Arabs should be encouraged to report to each other, and those who report should be protected and rewarded.

Then, you'll get a large security zone. ”

"Then, we can replicate that method. It is known to cover the entire Kurdish area, up to Deir ez-Zor, and Mosul.

When the Kurds were turned into security districts, the Kurds, like the Dzungars, ceased to exist. ”

Sun Zhijie's eyes widened.

Da Ming has done this kind of thing once!

As a result, the Dzungar Mongols, who had a population of more than 3 million, disappeared.

Hearing Li Xiao's words, Sun Zhijie knew that the marshal was ready to let the Kurds disappear as well.

"Give you three to five years to get this done.

Can it be done? Li Xiao looked at Sun Zhijie and asked.

"No!

The subordinates must live up to their mission and complete the entrustment given by the commander. ”

Sun Zhijie intervened to give a gift!

Now he finally understood, why use the Cossacks of the Caucasus.

These guys already have a grudge against the Kurds, and now that the Ming will give money, they are naturally happy to have their knives stained with the blood of the Kurds.

For the Ming Dynasty, it was just that the butcher's knife was changed from the Wa Kingdom to the more bloody and cruel Cossacks.

The battleship Yanshan sailed on the Suez Canal, and the Kurds could not have dreamed that their way of life would be ruthlessly deprived in this way.

The Kurds, a people who have been circulating for thousands of years, will eventually be slaughtered and exterminated, and it will become another legend in history.

Sun Zhijie and Chen Tingjing accompanied Li Xiao to dinner on Yanshan Mountain, and gave a detailed introduction to the changes in the Middle East in the past two years.

Li Xiao left the Suez Canal and did not follow Zuo Liangyu to Cyrenaica, but went to Cairo by airship.

Cairo is still a place of squalor and chaos.

The dark green sewage bubbled in the scorching sun, giving off a suffocating smell.

Even so, there are people who continue to pour sewage into the clogged ditches.

It was as if the Egyptians had decided that the ditches were clogged because there was not enough water.

Everywhere you go, there was dust, and there were tons of flies.

Li Xiao felt that the number of flies here should be hundreds of times that of humans.

The bare-bottomed children scurried around like rats, they were about the same size, and they all had a big head and a big belly.

His arms and legs were as thin as toothpicks, and he looked malnourished.

The wounds of the turmoil two years ago have not healed today.

The Ming merchants lost their trust in the Egyptians, and all the shops with Ming backgrounds were withdrawn.

Without Daming Capital, Cairo can be said to be withered, and the people at the bottom are struggling with hunger and survival.

Extreme hunger even led the Egyptians to lay hands on the ferocious Nile crocodile.

On the banks of the Nile, there are no Nile crocodiles basking in the sun.

As long as any crocodile dares to do this, it won't be long before they appear in the Egyptian pot.

Li Xiao just watched, did not speak, and did not express any opinions.

He just walked and watched all the way!

The corruption of law and order caused by social unrest will certainly force capital outflows.

There's no way around it!

Ming businessmen also know how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages.

He didn't have the energy to care about how the people of Cairo lived.

Riding an airship and flying over the pyramids, Li Xiao also saw a huge sphinx.

There are too many eternal questions about these two things, and Li Xiao can't explain them anyway.

After going around Cairo, Li Xiao went to Alexandria again.

This is Egypt's most important port on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, and there is no such thing as one of them.

This is also the most important material transit hub in Daming!

Alexandria's situation was much better than Cairo's.

In any case, the employment of the population brought by the port was very successful in boosting Alexander's economy.

People here are not like Cairo, who are listless all day long.

They work hard, in the mornings and hot afternoons, there are very few people walking on the streets, they all use running.

The whole of Alexandria, like a spinning top, is rotating around the supplies needed by the Navy and the Marine Corps.

There are also many more Ming people here than in Cairo, and the agglomeration effect of population obviously also affects the agglomeration of capital.

As long as there is a lot of money to invest, Alexandria's economy is not going to be bad.