Li Xiao walked to the huge map and gestured with a ruler.

The distance from Moscow to Warsaw is a little more than 1,100 kilometers, which is still a straight distance.

That is, the new bomber, if all goes well, will be able to fly to Warsaw with a full load and back.

Warsaw!

When will the Poles be the protagonists?

The bombing of Warsaw does not seem to make much practical sense!

Whatever, something is better than nothing.

I have been in this world for more than 20 years, but I didn't expect that these 20 years will be 20 years of continuous advancement in killing technology.

Thousands, tens of thousands of people huddle together and cut each other this kind of brawl war has become a thing of the past.

Now there are more than a dozen people fighting at the squad level hand-to-hand combat, and both sides use pistols.

Now, the coalition forces have also begun to learn from the Ming army and equip the front-line troops with pistols.

It can't be helped, this thing is so fucking easy to use in hand-to-hand combat.

You fight with people with a bayonet, and as long as they move their fingers, this life will be lost.

This is a naked bully!

The coalition forces don't want their front-line soldiers to be bullied!

In the beginning, it was the senior officers who assigned their pistols to the front line.

After all, they don't have to go to the front to fight hard.

And then there were these high-ranking officers, urging the mass production of revolvers in the rear.

When Napoleon was also involved, Mula really had no choice.

It was necessary to divide part of the limited industrial resources for the production of revolvers that were urgently needed at the front.

The taste of it is known only to Mula.

After chatting about the equipment, the Xu brothers left the office.

Li Xiao and Li Hao returned to the flower hall of the inner house and set up a table of wine

"The war has reached this point, and it is time for both sides to fight for money.

When will the Central Asian Railway be repaired?

There was already a shortage of supplies on the front line, and my soldiers could skip food by pulling their belts and saving ammunition.

But tanks really don't go away without fuel. ”

Li Xiao and Li Hao touched a cup, and what they said was actually about the war.

"I said, big brother, are you stunned?

All day long, I was thinking about fighting this battle, coming back, resting more, railroad affairs, logistics matters, and other trivial things.

It's not as good as your body!

You are the handsome man of our Daming, and if there is something wrong with your body, that is the big problem of our Daming.

Relatively speaking, everything else is a minor issue. ”

Obviously, Li Hao didn't want to talk about it.

"Huh!

Before returning home, I was still in Moscow hunting deer.

What does my body have?

On the front line, millions of soldiers are fighting bloodily.

They are hungry without food, and they have no ammunition to kill the enemy, which is my dereliction of duty as a commander.

During the Battle of Tsaritsyn last winter, I was told from the front that some French soldiers had cotton jackets filled with scraps of paper mixed with cotton.

This is a crime, can French soldiers keep warm in this kind of cotton clothing?

The soldiers were terrible when they were cold, and their hearts were even more terrible. ”

Li Xiao took another sip of wine, and when he thought of the so-called "cotton clothes" that he had taken from the dead on the front line, he felt panicked.

The soldiers fought hard for the country, but the state did not even give them a padded jacket to keep them warm.

"Huh!

Big brother, you are usually shrewd, but why are you confused about this matter? ”

Li Hao looked at Li Xiao with a smile.

"Am I confused?" Li Xiao looked at Li Hao with some puzzlement.

"Do you think Napoleon didn't want to dress his soldiers warmly? Do you think that the French soldiers wearing confetti cotton clothes are the black hearts of the French upper class? ”

"It's not a black heart, what is it? If something like this happens to Daming, I'll line them all up and shoot them. Li Xiao waved his hand imposingly.

"My big brother, it's not a matter of shooting or not shooting.

I believe that if Napoleon had not known about this beforehand.

When he found out, he would also line up and shoot the high-ranking officials in charge.

But I am sure that Napoleon knew about this.

Even, it was only after he agreed that the following dared to do so. ”

"Fourth uncle, no.

Napoleon is the emperor of France, France is his family, is he not ruining himself by doing this? Li Lin, who was accompanying him on the side, widened his eyes, he couldn't believe what Li Hao said.

"Silly boy!

Are you our Ming when France is our master?

Let me tell you, if it weren't for your father's trip to the Western Regions ten years ago.

Now we don't have so much cotton!

We have a total of two places in Daming that are suitable for growing cotton, one is the Western Regions and the other is Shandong.

What is Shandong like?

A province has 70 million people, and the average person has 5 cents of land per capita.

Relying on farming, I can't even eat chaff.

That is, it was stained with your father's light, and he built many factories around Jinan at the earliest.

The most densely populated place of our Daming factory is Liaodong, followed by Shandong, which is more than the factories in Beijing.

That's why Shandong has fed so many people. ”

"Fourth uncle, let's talk about the French wearing fake cotton clothes, where are you going?" Li Lin was a little stunned by Li Hao.

"I mean, Shandong can't grow much cotton, and now the main production area of Daming cotton is in the Western Regions.

In France, where the fart is bigger, there are 80 million people.

How much richer do you expect their land to be than the people of Shandong?

They also have nowhere to grow cotton, and a small part of their cotton comes from the Mediterranean coast.

Your second uncle made a fuss in the Mediterranean, almost cutting off communication between the North African coast and France.

It is said that even French fishing boats are not allowed to go to sea in the Mediterranean.

In this case, the transport of cotton from the Mediterranean is cut off.

Now, their cotton comes mainly from the United States.

But cotton in the United States costs money, and it is expensive.

The French don't have that much money, what to do?

It is better to stuff some cotton into the cotton clothes and stuff the paper into them, than to be scolded without cotton clothes.

I'm sure Napoleon knew about it, and nodded in agreement.

Otherwise, no one would dare to do it publicly.

Do you really think that Napoleon will not shoot people?

Let me tell you, when Napoleontown suppressed the rebellion in Paris, the methods were ruthless, if you don't believe it, you go and ask Zheng Sen.

He was running slower, maybe even killing him. ”

“……！ Can that be the case? Li Lin looked at his father blankly.

Li Xiao smiled and patted Li Lin's shoulder: "Silly boy, this is true."

Our brothers are singing and saying this in harmony to tell you.

Hearing is false and seeing is believing, and sometimes, what you see is not necessarily the truth.

When you encounter something, you have to think with your own brain.

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were 10,000 taels of gold, and I was very rich.

Land and human resources are not inferior to any European country.

Even now, we have industrial capacity, and I am not afraid of the whole of Europe combined.

Gu Ke Rao is like this, I still have to take it.

You always say that the troops are insufficient, in addition to logistical reasons, the biggest reason is that with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it is too difficult to support an army of five million people.

If you think about it, these more than 5 million people are young adults.

Our Ming Dynasty now has a population of just 400 million, assuming that there are half men and half women.

That's 200 million men!

Of these 200 million people, we are going to go to those over the age of thirty-five.

And to remove those under the age of eighteen, how many people are in this age group?

I'll tell you, just over 20 percent.

That is, just about 40 million people.

Today, our total strength has exceeded three million.

In other words, almost one out of ten young adults went to the battlefield.

If we were to match the strength of the coalition forces, we would have to recruit about three million men.

They all went to be soldiers, what should they do at home?

Workers are needed in the factories, farmers are needed in the land, and young laborers are needed everywhere. ”

"Then ......, the French and Prussians, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Spain, and the countries of Northern Europe, how did they get so many soldiers?"

Li Lin looked at Li Xiao puzzled, since Daming can't pile up so many soldiers, how did European countries do it?

"They ......! Hehe, men from sixty to sixteen years old, were sent to the battlefield.

Austria-Hungary, which had spread to the age of sixty-five to fifteen.

Men of the right age, not of the right age, were sent to the battlefield.

Relying on the little national strength that has been accumulated, it can be maintained for one or two years.

But for three, four, and five years, ......, they're still a fart.

Hungry and starved to death!

You see, that's why, Prussia was not willing to fight, and France wanted a quick victory.

said that it was a coalition army, but in fact, they all had their own plans in their hearts. ”

"Then let's ......!"

"We'll drag it until they run out of gas.

We will not only destroy Europe's military capabilities, but also break Europe's backbone.

And we're going to drain their marrow.

In this way, it is possible to ensure that the Europeans will not be able to surpass us for at least one or two hundred years.

Your geography teacher tells you that there are five continents in this world.

But in reality, there are seven continents in this world.

Asia is the most populous place, and Europe is less populous than ours.

Africa, South America, and North America are still mostly wilderness.

The rest, one is called Antarctica, in the far southernmost part.

It's covered in snow and ice all year round, colder than the Arctic, and no one lives there at all.

As for Australia, it is now under our control.

Almost eighty percent of the iron ore we use for war comes from there.

After 20 years of hard work, I am the only one in Asia who has become the only one who has a bright future.

The only one who can compete with my Ming is Europe.

So, we are going to conquer Europe.

Note that we are not sending troops to occupy Europe.

It's about disarming them and then using the economy to plunder them.

Make them feel accustomed to unfair trade, and make them think that this is how their lives are. ”

"This is the one who gathers the most wool and hears the least sheep.

If our generation suffers a little, future generations will be able to lie down and live comfortably.

As for the future generations of losers, then the great karma we have created can also make them lose for two more years. ”

Li Xiao and Li Hao looked at Li Lin and smiled meaningfully.

"The red sun is rising, and its path is bright. The river flows out of the subterranean and flows into the ocean.

The hidden dragon soars into the abyss, and the scales and claws are flying. The milk tiger roars in the valley, and the beasts are terrified.

The falcon tries its wings, and the wind and dust are sucked up. The first child of a strange flower, the emperor.

The cadres will be hairy, and there will be a man. The sky wears its blue, and the earth wears its yellow.

Through the ages, there are eight wildernesses. The future is like the sea, and the future is long.

Dad, fourth uncle, this is the spirit of my Chinese young man who swallows all over the world. Energetic as the rising sun! ”

"Okay, my Li family has a son like this, and three generations of a hundred years are worry-free." Li Hao clapped excitedly.

The words that Li Lin just recited were indeed uplifting.

"Big brother, there's one more thing I want to tell you. Shi was overjoyed, and asked Doctor Li to check the pulse, saying that eighty percent of them were baby boys. ”

Li Hao said with a smile.

"Oh, that's a good thing. What a good thing! Li Xiao was also very happy to hear the news.

Since Li Hao's assassination in Jiangnan, he has been a little depressed. Shi has been married for many years, but there is no news.

Li Xiao once wondered if Li Hao had a problem in that regard.

Now that Li Hao has descendants, he also has descendants.

This is really a happy thing, Li Xiao picked up the wine glass, tilted his neck and toasted the wine in the glass.

"Big brother, you are uncle. It's the patriarch of our Li family again!

When a child is born, you must give it a name. ”

"Oh, this is your first child.

You have to think about it, you can't drink some wine and pat your head and give it up.

Let me think about it! ”

"Then I don't care, anyway, I'll leave this matter to you. How to start, that's your uncle's business.

Even if you have a dog leftover, then he will call it a dog leftover. ”

"You're lying to me."

"I'm going to lie to you!"

"Hahaha, happy event, do it!"

The two brothers drank and drank to their heart's content, and Li Lin was also surrounded by them, and it didn't take long for the brothers to drink too much.

Li Lin sent Li Hao back to his mansion, while Li Xiao returned to his backyard.

The last time I came back was for the Chinese New Year, and the branches were still bare.

When I came back today, the peach blossoms were blooming.

In just two months, it was the most tragic two months of the Ming army's campaign in Russia.

Li Xiao flew around the front line all day long, and finally resisted this wave of attacks by the coalition forces.

When I got home, I was also physically and mentally exhausted.

"After drinking so much wine, it's better to wash and relax your body." Tokugawa Chihime, who was majestic outside, returned to the appearance of a little daughter-in-law.

The women of the Japanese country have the habit of waiting for men to take a bath, and Li Xiao was not very used to it at first.

But later, I felt very comfortable.

Every time he came back, it became a custom for Tokugawa Chihime to wait for Li Xiao to take a bath.

Today's Li family has long abandoned the bathing bucket that the Japanese people like.

The Li family has a super luxurious bathroom with black gold bricks on the floor.

This thing is not marble, but the gold brick of the Ming Imperial Kiln. In the three major halls, this is what is paved.

Gold brick making is an ancient traditional handicraft skill.

This unique gold brick in the world is produced on the outskirts of Suzhou. Because the soil of Suzhou is delicate and colloidal, rich in gelatinous body and strong plasticity, the gold bricks made of Suzhou are hard and dense.

At that time, the Yongle Emperor personally named the gold brick with the imperial pen.

In the Ming Dynasty, this is one of the symbols of imperial power.

The pool is filled with authentic mutton fat jade, and the water of the whole pool glows with warm light under the reflection of the light.

It can be seen that Geng Zhongming, the governor of the Western Regions, is very apprehensive to this first lady.

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