"Whoa!" Nian Qianyao listened to Li Xiao's instructions and personally opened the Pope's handcuffs.

"Sit!" Li Xiao pointed to the sofa next to him, and the tongue man immediately translated his words in Italian.

The Pope was not polite, and sat straight on the sofa, separated from Li Xiao by a large coffee table.

There was some fruit on the coffee table, as well as two snacks.

This was originally intended for Li Xiao, but the Pope is not even a fart here, and he will not prepare food for him.

"Look at the tea!" As soon as Li Xiao waved his hand, a guard brought a cup of tea to the Pope.

The Pope was not interested in tea, but was interested in the bananas on the table.

Pick up a banana, peel it like a monkey and bite it.

Li Xiao didn't speak, just watched the Pope gobble up bananas.

Strangely, he only eats bananas and doesn't move at all other fruits.

I don't drink a sip of tea, and I don't even look at pastries.

Could it be that he loves bananas?

Anyway, he is also a Christian pope, so he won't be so bad.

"This old bastard is afraid that we will poison him.

I really don't know how this pope was chosen.

Could it be that bananas can't be poisoned? Li Xiao said with a smile.

"It turns out that the Pope is so bold." Nian Qianyao looked at the Pope like a wolf and smiled evilly.

His smile was very mad, and the helpless Pope put down the banana peel under the gaze of Nian Qianyao.

However, there are too many bananas in the mouth, and they are piled up in the cheeks, which looks no different from a large marmot.

Naturally, the tongue man would not be stupid enough to translate Li Xiao's words to the Pope!

Therefore, the Pope looked at this group of Ming people surrounding him in confusion.

"I heard that you asked someone to bring me a message? So I'm here, what do you want to tell me? After Li Xiao finished speaking, he made a gesture to the tongue man.

The tongue man immediately translated the words into Italian!

"You're the Generalissimo?" Listening to the words of the tongue man, the Pope was obviously stunned.

He didn't expect that the generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty would be so young.

Looking at this, he should not be forty years old.

The tongue man translated the Pope's words to Li Xiao!

Li Xiao nodded, indicating that he was the generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Excellency Generalissimo, I didn't expect us to meet in this situation." The Pope blushed a little.

He also wanted to negotiate with Daming on an equal footing.

He even fantasized that he proposed to meet in Mosina, and the time and place were decided by Daming.

The Pope also discussed with the captain of the Swiss Guard how to arrange the security at that time, so as not to fall into the prestige of the Christian Emperor.

But now it seems that this is all wishful thinking on his part.

Da Ming was not prepared to have an equal dialogue with him at all.

"Oh, I've thought about it for a long time. So, I sent our Captain to bring you over.

We are all soldiers, and our methods are a little rude, so you should bear more. ”

Li Xiao's words once again caused a burst of laughter.

At this time, the Christian emperor did not have the slightest dignity, and the Ming people did not even give him the least respect.

The Pope was indignant, but there was nothing he could do.

Now, he is no different from a sheep that has fallen into a pack of wolves.

"Well, I would like to talk to His Excellency the Generalissimo about the current war." The Pope made up his mind.

After all, it is a Christian emperor, a man in his sixties. Although I have not experienced such a scene, I can be regarded as a person who has experienced wind and waves.

Anyway, there's still a bit of a foundation.

"Hehe, this current war. Okay, how to talk, what you want to talk about, say what you want! Li Xiao looked generous and open-minded.

"Your Excellency Generalissimo, the war has been going on for a year, and many people have died on both of us.

War is so cruel that the Lord does not like to see such a tragedy on earth.

God loves peace, and we want to bring equality, freedom, and fraternity to the world, not war. ”

The Pope's tone was frustrated, and although it sounded like a duck with a short tongue, it was still a bit of a bearing.

Seeing that the old guy brought up the magic stick, Li Xiao was angry and didn't fight anywhere.

Fuck this sermon with Lao Tzu!

"I'll give you a correction, it's you who have died a lot.

Last year, we killed more than 683,000 coalition troops.

And there were more than 900,000 captives who served hard labor in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the war that has been going on so far this year, in just last month we have killed more than 197,000 coalition troops.

At the current rate of casualties among the coalition forces, in another two or three years, you will have no army.

Or maybe you don't have many adult men in Europe. ”

Li Xiao said arrogantly to the Pope.

A person who is very good on the battlefield is the capital that has to shout.

What you can't get on the battlefield, you won't get easily at the negotiating table.

This can also be said in reverse, that is, what is obtained on the battlefield, and it will not be easily lost at the negotiating table.

Li Xiao is like this now, and the military victory makes him very confident in speaking.

Although the coalition forces still have an absolute advantage in numbers.

But this absolutely superior coalition army, under the blow of the Ming army, could only hide in the hot and humid trench bunker full of mosquitoes, flies and bedbugs.

And the Ming army, now there is no hurry to advance the front at all.

Advance thirty or forty kilometers during the day, and withdraw thirty or forty kilometers at night.

Pulled back and forth, the coalition forces were cut off one stubble after another like leeks.

"Also, don't tell me about your preaching.

Negotiation is about interests, don't talk to me about equality, fraternity, freedom!

Everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, don't talk to Lao Tzu about fasting. ”

Li Xiao saw that the tongue man finished translating, and added another sentence.

"Uh......!" The tongue man is a little helpless, how the hell does Lao Tzu translate. The most feared thing about being a tongue man is to translate this kind of words.

In the Ming Dynasty, everyone can understand this, but for the Pope to understand, it requires a very high level and the ability to react on the spot.

It took a long time to translate without a stomach, so that the Pope could understand what a thousand-year-old fox was and what was a fast.

Li Xiaocai doesn't care about this, this is an unfair negotiation, as a strong man, he has to get something that he can't get on the battlefield at the negotiating table.

Isn't it to reduce the casualties of his soldiers, Lao Tzu and you have to talk about wool?

Li Xiao's words made the Pope speechless!

He knew that the situation on the battlefield was not good, and the coalition forces were now passive.

But he didn't know that the losses of the coalition forces would be so great.

There are reasons why the coalition forces deliberately concealed the casualties, and there are also reasons why the coalition forces did not carefully count the casualties at all.

In the statistics of the coalition forces, only those who find the body and are confirmed dead by their comrades are considered dead.

The rest are all listed as missing.

But the problem is that many coalition forces have been annihilated in formation.

What are the witnesses!

Therefore, there are many casualties here in the coalition forces, and they are all treated as missing.

As a result, the number of casualties counted by the coalition forces is very different from the actual figures.

"We have suffered so many casualties, and I think the general's men will have some casualties.

It's not as many as we are, but it's true that a lot of people have died. "The Pope still wants to stick to his point of view!

"Last month, the month we killed almost 200,000 of you.

The total casualties of our troops were 5,313, of which 1,320 were killed.

3,992 were injured and 735 are missing.

That's all we had killed and injured last month!

One thing I want to remind you is that my Ming Dynasty's logistical support system is far more perfect than yours.

When soldiers are injured, they receive the best possible treatment.

If the injuries are serious, we will use the airship to send them directly back to Daming for treatment.

Therefore, the recovery rate of our wounded soldiers in the Ming Dynasty is very high.

This is different from you, once your soldiers are injured, it is really a life and death.

To tell you the truth, we have a population of 410 million in Daming.

Now we have only mobilized three million people, which means that they are not using all their strength.

A million people can be mobilized at any time to fight directly if we wish.

Note!!

This is still sent without damaging the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, and I guarantee that everyone is between twenty and thirty years old.

How old are you in the conscription?

As far as I know, France has achieved universal military service.

That is, adult men, from the age of fourteen to sixty, are combatants.

Germany is better, but not much better.

As for the waste wood of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it has even reached the point of madness from the age of thirteen to sixty-five.

How are you in Italy? Or fifteen to fifty-five?

The men went to war, and the women and children toiled in the fields.

Even large animals have gone to war, and you don't even have livestock to work in your fields.

Now the war has only been going on for a little more than a year, if it goes on for another three years, or even five years.

Hehe!

At that time, Europeans would starve to death in patches.

Soldiers on the front line will also face the danger of not having food, ammunition, and clothing.

I'd love to know, Your Holiness the Pope.

How will your God save the world at that time?

Can you conjure grain? Coal? Or can you conjure cotton, and always not enough ammunition?

You can't change anything, you can only watch hordes of people, old people, children and women, starved to death, killed, and even cannibalized.

Young and beautiful girls are trafficked by traffickers to sell far away.

Just like the Spaniards and Portuguese trafficked in black Africans!

Daming is very willing to accept these young girls, we have special talents, train them into qualified prostitutes, and wait for our Daming men.

As for buying a home, it's the same as buying a cat or dog.

If you like it, you can touch it twice and play for a while, and if you don't like it, you can throw it directly on the street, or kill and bury it.

I'm not kidding you, Your Excellency, but this is the fate of Europeans in the next few years.

And the reason why they are facing such a fate, you! Your Excellency, there is a great deal of responsibility.

Because it was you, the father, son, and brother who encouraged them to go to war, and let the Ming Dynasty turn them into a pile of broken flesh and bones. ”

Li Xiao said, feeling a little thirsty, and drank all the tea in one go.

The translator hurriedly translated this large passage!

The more the Pope listened, the more ugly his face became.

He knew that what the Generalissimo of the Ming Dynasty said was right.

In European countries, in order to pursue absolute quantitative suppression, the lower limit of the conscription age is generally lowered and the upper limit is constantly raised.

As a result, many of the second-line troops of the coalition army are some gray-haired or obviously children's soldiers.

There is no way to do this, relying on the numerical superiority can still hold on for a while, once there is no numerical superiority, then you can only directly declare defeat.

He was in Rome, Italy, which was still a relatively wealthy place.

Nowadays, it is also the price of food that has risen again and again.

Many poor people have begun to go hungry and have a full meal.

However, compared to the French, the Italians are not bad.

At the very least, Italian boats were allowed to go to sea to fish.

To a certain extent, this makes up for the lack of grain production.

But the French were crippled, and the entire southern Mediterranean coastline had been shattered.

Even the wharf where small fishing boats were moored was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty with cannonballs.

The fishing boats on the pier were directly torn to pieces by the shells.

Many fishermen who have relied on fishing for generations have lost their fishing boats and are unable to go to sea, and their lives are in endless poverty.

There are already many French women who choose to go to Italy to do the meat business.

There are also many French fishermen who are desperate and can only go to the front line as soldiers to become cannon fodder.

The once thriving city of Marseille, Toulouse, Toulon and other places have now almost died.

The city was abandoned because of the constant shelling of the Ming army, and people who had nowhere to go and couldn't leave could not do without them, shuttling through the city like rats all day long, avoiding the artillery fire that they didn't know when they would come and wouldn't come back.

The Pope wanted to negotiate with Li Xiao, and he also saw that war could only lead Europe to destruction.

Perhaps the only thing that still has a little bit of energy left is England.

They sent the least troops to the battlefield, but they sold a huge amount of various military supplies to various countries.

All kinds of factories in the UK are open 24 hours a day.

In last year's Times, from time to time, there was news that workers in such and such a factory were exhausted to death.

But as the war progressed, the reports seemed to have faded.

It is estimated that British readers are also tired of reading the stories of the fate of these tragic workers.

The consequence is that the upper classes of Britain have made a fortune, but the people at the bottom have lived a miserable life.

The wages are not high, but the working hours are very long.

If you don't want to resist, or if you commit a crime, you will be arrested immediately.

Then you will be integrated into the army and sent to the Russian front.

At present, almost half of the 150,000 British troops on the Russian front have come in this way.

The British were unwilling to send their good lads to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

Unlike the French, volunteer service teams have begun to be organized, and women are also sent to the battlefield.

Although it was working in a field hospital, it was not far from the front-line battlefield.