The street fighting with the Kurds is arguably the worst in the world.

The Kurds and the Swiss have been fighting fiercely in the tiny city of Baghdad for four months.

Powerful artillery fire, which almost leveled Baghdad. There are only a few ruins and ruins, which can still attest to the splendor and glory of the city in the past.

But the Kurds occupied the city of Baghdad for three years, and God knows what size of tunnels they dug underground.

The Mesopotamian civilization created Baghdad, an ancient city with many inexplicable things underneath it.

The Swiss found several holes and tried to go down to fight the Kurds.

But in the end, a platoon that went down to the hole never came out. No one knows where they went, and no one knows what happened to them.

Hans Rudolf Merz!

Now the commander-in-chief of the Swiss army, the Swiss have been at odds with the Kurds since the arrival of 50,000 Swiss captives.

In addition, the pope pushed them to launch a crusade against the infidels. As long as they take Baghdad, the Ming will promise to return Jerusalem to the Christians.

The kind, warlike and pious Swiss did not suspect the Pope's nonsense!

With the help of the Ming Dynasty, groups of young people who claimed to be crusaders set foot on the land of the Middle East with simple religious zeal.

In the past four months, the number of Swiss soldiers in the two river valleys has reached 100,000.

They were very enthusiastic about the war, and their weapons were issued by the Ming Dynasty.

The variety can be called a universal brand, because these weapons are all allied equipment captured by the Ming army in the war.

Fortunately, the European weapons manufacturing process originated from the British, and it is far from reaching the point where a hundred flowers bloom, except for individual weapons, the caliber is basically the same.

And Russian weapons, too, are consistent with their caliber.

Now the ammunition manufactured in Tsaritsyn and several arsenals in the rear has changed from supporting the European theater to supporting the Middle East.

Kuwait Port became the busiest port in the Middle East, where arms ships were unloaded every day to ensure the supply of ammunition for the Swiss.

In order to ensure the military needs of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has gone from producing warships like dumplings to producing transport ships like dumplings now.

And this thing is getting bigger and bigger, and the sailboat is completely reduced to a domestic trade ship, and at most it will run on the South China Sea.

A 10,000-ton ship is no longer a big ship, and the newly launched Nagashino has a maximum displacement of nearly 200,000 tons.

Moreover, the shipyards in Huangdao, Lushun, Java, and Xinjiapo are all launching large cargo ship projects.

After Li Hao found out, he resolutely stopped these projects.

The reason is simple, you can build such a big ship, but there are not many ports that can dock such a big ship.

It can't be said that after arriving at the port, you will anchor in the open sea, and then use small boats to transfer them ship by boat.

With the exception of large oil tankers, the maximum tonnage of cargo ships was set at 20,000 tons.

Moreover, the drawings are unified across the country and mass production is carried out. As a result, significant R&D costs have been saved.

If there is a problem in production and use, the next batch is modified.

In this way, two years after the war was waged. Li Xiaomeng's discovery that Daming actually has unparalleled maritime transportation power.

Today's Daming, there are more than 300 cargo ships with tens of thousands of tons. One hundred of them are 20,000-ton large freighters!

There are also ten behemoths of 200,000 tons, and of course these ten ships are large oil tankers. Specialized in transporting crude oil from the Middle East to Jeju Island, where the port has been specially renovated.

Not to mention a 200,000-ton oil tanker, even if it is 800,000 tons, it is no problem.

A large fleet of ships brings unparalleled transport capacity.

At present, there are more than 100,000 tons of ships sailing on the Mediterranean Sea alone.

These ships brought the supplies of the Ming Dynasty to life.

As long as the Ming needed it, they could easily transport the manpower of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt to Marrakech on the other side of the Mediterranean.

It is also possible to transport countless ammunition supplies from Sevastopol to the Middle East. It was also able to transport a shipload of crude oil from Basra to Sochi for refining, and then supply it to the Ming army throughout Europe.

After the war entered its third year, Li Xiao found that the Ming Dynasty was bursting with vitality.

The strong production capacity accommodates a large number of Daming workers and also trains a large number of skilled workers.

If you want to build ships, make weapons, and make ammunition, you have to make steel.

If you want the troops to wear better, you must have textile factories and clothing factories.

As a result, after the expansion of the steel plant, a large number of workers were required to work. In this way, there are fewer idle people in society.

After the textile factory and the quilt factory were built, a large number of women entered the factory.

These people are paid every month after they work.

Workers use this money to buy cloth to make clothes, buy meat dumplings, buy vegetables, buy fruits, buy furniture, and even buy houses.

This promoted the development of all kinds of industries, and the war actually caused the vigorous war economy of the Ming Dynasty.

This is something Li Xiao didn't expect!

Can you still prosper the economy if you go to war?

The entire national economy is like an efficient machine, constantly circulating and endless.

The people of the Ming Dynasty also found that the war lasted for three years, and their lives were getting better and better. Especially in those heavy industrial towns in the north, the wages are good, and there are bonuses at the end of the year, and the days are rising step by step.

Moreover, some cities in the south have also begun to industrialize, and Guangzhou has applied for the construction of thermal power plants several times. The results were all vetoed by Li Hao!

The Pearl River has abundant water power, and it is located in the south, and there will be no freezing period in winter. It is a good place to build a new type of hydroelectric power station.

Originally, it was best to build a hydropower station in a place like Yunnan-Guizhou, and Sichuan was not bad.

It's a pity that the development there is not good.

Guangzhou is also an important coastal city in the south, and the development of electricity is an indispensable link.

Of course, Li Hao doesn't have any bullshit environmental protection concepts, and what he likes most is the low cost of hydroelectric power.

As long as you invest in a dam to hold back the water, the remaining maintenance costs are simply not worth mentioning compared to the output.

Although the Ming Dynasty is prosperous now, Li Hao has been poor since he was a child. Definitely someone who knows how to live!

Li Hao fantasized that if hydropower was really possible. There are so many big rivers in the Ming Dynasty, how much electricity can be generated.

What an astronomical amount of electricity bills collected every year?

This is a lot of money, and of course Li Hao will not let it go.

At Li Hao's assignment, a team of scholars from Tsinghua University came to Guangzhou by airship and were surveying various places to see which place was suitable for the construction of hydropower stations that only exist in theory.