After all, Li Xiao still did not personally kill Luo Yangxing. There are many people in this world who want to kill Luo Yangxing more than Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong, such as Li Yongfang, who is always worried about Luo Yangxing.

Li Yongfang didn't talk nonsense to Luo Yangxing, and threw Luo Yangxing directly from the roof. The external explanation was that he slipped and fell, and people can't speak after death anyway. If he wanted to complain, he could only go to the King of Hell.

Luo Yangxing died, and Jinyiwei was further abolished. Thousands and hundreds of households that had been Jinyiwei for generations were dismissed one after another, and they all went to good places. Bicycle factories, tire factories, light bulb factories, thermos bottles factories, etc. They are state-owned enterprises anyway, so they must be.

I can't make you hungry, kid.

You can keep the Feiyu suit if you like. Anyway, this thing will no longer be a national uniform in the future. Just because you wear it out does not mean you can enforce the law. The embroidered spring knife must be turned in. According to the latest regulations of the Ming Dynasty, this thing is a controlled knife.

No one is allowed to wear swords on the street, even decorative ceremonial swords. Private possession of guns is a serious crime. Anyway, as long as you have a gun in your hand without a gun license, the minimum sentence is three years.

Prison life is no longer dark, and prisoners need to work to support themselves. Exile to the army is completely prohibited. Being a soldier is an honorable thing and cannot be snatched away. Letting prisoners join the army is an insult to soldiers.

Damn, the days when good men didn't serve as soldiers have long been a thing of the past. Nowadays, no matter how many good men want to be soldiers, they can't.

No one expected that the Jin Yiwei, which had been rampant in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, would come to an end.

Of course, the security of the country cannot be left unattended. After Zhang Huangyan’s strong recommendation, Xiao Zhan became the new Minister of Public Security. Sun Chengzong and Zhang Huangyan both found the name Ministry of Public Security very novel. When Li Xiao explained what public security was, they both

I think the word Li Xiao is very appropriate.

Xiao Zhan had little awareness of protecting cultural relics. Within a few days of taking office, he demolished the Jinyiwei Town Fushi Yamen, which had existed for more than 200 years. The new plan was to build a reinforced concrete building on it, which was said to be a six-story building.

It is one level higher than the Office of the Ministry of National Security.

Li Xiao knew that this was a secret competition between the ministers.

There is no need to worry about these people, they are all caused by the desire for power. Speaking of which, people who do not have the desire for power cannot survive in the cunning officialdom.

The area from Tian'anmen Square East Road to Chongwenmenwai Street has long been planned as the embassy district. All countries in the world need formal diplomatic channels to do business in the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning, various embassies were still scattered throughout the capital. It was a bit like Ming Dynasty's overseas hometown associations, and some embassies from Christian countries were simply located in churches. I don't know whether it was to save money or to express their respect for God.

of piety.

Li Xiao carved out the embassy area and named this street Dongjiaomin Lane. No one knows why Li Xiao named it this way, not even Li Xiao himself. Anyway, the word popped into his head.

The embassies of various countries have small plots of land and build their own houses. If you dislike the small size of the embassy area, it's easy... spend money to buy the surrounding land. As for the style of the house, there is no requirement, whether it is Gothic or Roman.

It doesn’t matter whether you use stone or wood. Even if you don’t build a house, it’s no problem to build a shack. Anyway, it’s your country that is embarrassed, not the Ming Dynasty.

The Spanish Embassy District is quite grand, with walls made of huge stones that look like castles, red clay tiles, arc cornices, red pitched roofs, hand-plastered walls, cultural stone exterior walls, horseshoe windows, curved walls and one-step

Balconies, as well as ironwork, pottery, round arches, corridors, hollows, etc. are the basic elements of Spanish architecture, harmoniously integrated into the facade, building structure and detailing.

It is worthy of being a country that has robbed the Inca Empire for thousands of years. It is a wealthy country in building an embassy. The only country that can compare with it is Portugal, which is just across the door.

Compared with others, the French Embassy seems a bit shabby. It is a two-story Chinese-style building, with offices downstairs and staff dormitories upstairs. There is a kitchen and vegetable garden in the backyard, a restaurant across the east courtyard and huts across the west courtyard. There are only a few

As an individual, I live my life happily.

Joseph walked out of the gate of the French Embassy and quietly got into a black carriage. Today he was going to meet Li Xiao secretly, which was related to the future of the Bonaparte family and France.

"Dear Marshal, I'm glad to see you again. This time, I brought greetings from my brother Napoleon Bonaparte and this scimitar." After saying that, Joseph took out a scimitar from his entourage.

Here comes the knife.

Shunzi took the scimitar and handed it to Li Xiao with a bow.

Li Xiao lowered his head and looked at it. The handle of the knife was inlaid with various gems. The scabbard was made of gold. When he took it and weighed it, it felt very tight. He pressed the spring and pulled it out with a "clang" sound, and the whole body was covered with snowflakes.

steel knife!

It was a standard Damascus scimitar with a certain curvature. When I put my hand on the back of the knife, I felt the cold air. I casually slashed it out, and the table immediately lost a corner. The gap was neat and there was no trace of sawdust.

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"Good sword! Thank you Napoleon for me." Li Xiao returned the sword to its sheath and handed it to Shunzi. Now this kind of thing is a ceremonial thing, so there is no need to worry about it. There are so many Japanese knives sent by the Japanese country that they are almost piled up.

A warehouse.

When you are polite, you must ask for something. After spending so much money, you don't know what trouble you are going to make.

"We...we need better cannons. It would be better to have rocket launchers and...and howitzers." Joseph seemed to know that his request was a bit excessive, and he hesitated when speaking out the request.

"Why do you need so many cannons? As far as I know, Wu Sangui is having a hard time now. The weapons given to the Egyptians are very limited. Don't tell me that you can't even defeat the Egyptian natives armed with simple weapons." Li Xiao looked at him doubtfully.

Joseph, it's understandable that you want rocket launchers. After all, the indigenous Egyptian chiefs couldn't defeat them and they knew how to use human sea tactics. Napoleon, who didn't have machine guns, still needed weapons of mass destruction.

But why do you need a howitzer? Howitzer shells have a parabolic trajectory and are basically point-to-point precision strike weapons.

"Uh...!" Joseph wiped the sweat from his forehead. Last time, Li Hu helped him support the scene, but this time there was no one standing behind him.

Li Xiao sat down on the sofa, knowing that there might be a story this time.

"There was turmoil in our Paris, and Napoleon decided to bring his troops back to quell the turmoil. The royalists are supported by many foreign countries and are more likely to attract British intervention. So we need a lot of artillery, especially rocket launchers and howitzers. Please also ask

You approve!"

"Oh...!" Li Xiao let out a long oh. It turned out that France had launched the Great Revolution. Napoleon went back to seize power. Think about it, what is it called? By the way, the Fog Moon Coup!

Li Xiao's "Oh" made Joseph's expression even more ugly. The word "Oh" was really difficult to judge what the other party was trying to do.

The problem is that after saying "oh", Li Xiao picked up an orange and started peeling it. The quality of the oranges shipped by air from Guangxi is guaranteed.

"Would you like an orange?" After peeling an orange, Li Xiao handed it directly to Joseph.

"Uh...!" Joseph didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Now that we are discussing such a big matter, what's the point of handing over an orange?

"Okay! Okay!" He took the orange from Li Xiao. It was sweet in his mouth but bitter in his heart. His words were interrupted and he didn't know how to start again.

"I heard that you organized people to dig canals in Egypt?" Li Xiao asked as if chatting while continuing to peel oranges.

"Oh! I listened to Mr. Hu's suggestion and it was indeed a good thing to build a canal in Suez. So...!"

"So you stole my brother's idea, drove him away with the help of the Egyptians, and then did it yourself. It's really a good plan. Tell your brother, I admire his method." Peel the orange.

, Li Xiao threw one in his mouth, Guangxi citrus indeed lived up to its reputation, just like a small honey pot.

"Where! Where! We will definitely not forget Mr. Hu. Napoleon means to give Mr. Hu half of the shares according to what he said before." If you still don't understand, Li Xiao is making a condition. Joseph can go directly back to France to raise him.

Pig.

"Isn't this good? If you take half of the shares without doing anything, you will suffer too much." Li Xiao pulled a tissue and wiped his hands casually. Then he handed the tissue box over. Seeing Joseph in a daze, he directly

He drew one and handed it over again.

"Oh! Thank you so much, Marshal!" Only then did Joseph realize that the paper was originally for wiping his hands. He quickly took it with both hands. After wiping his hands, he didn't know where to put it, so he could only hold it in the palm of his hand.

The situation has cooled down again. You are willing to give away half of your shares. What else do you want? You can't say that we worked so hard to catch the Egyptians to dig the canal, and you still want it all when you have nothing to give.

Fortunately, Li Xiao did not let the silence last too long: "It's better to hold 30% of the shares, but let's make an agreement first. My Ming Dynasty merchant warship wants to cross the canal without any fees."

Joseph breathed a sigh of relief. This condition was still acceptable. Ming merchant ships did not enter the Indian Ocean very often, and all goods were unloaded directly at the Xinjiapo Pier. Even if the canal is built in the future, most of the ships entering and exiting will be European ships and Arab ships.

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"Yes! Yes! We can completely accept this condition." Joseph had been tortured by Li Xiao to the point of losing his temper, and completely lost the composure that a diplomat should have.

"In this case, we can support some rocket launchers. In addition, we can also support you with some cannons. The prices are easy to talk about, and they are all at the lowest price. I don't think there is any need for howitzers!

You don't have howitzers there, so you don't know that the gunners of howitzers need special training. The soldiers who operate the guns in Ming Dynasty were all trained in the artillery school. Now even if I give you the guns, your soldiers won't know how to use them.

If you want to operate a howitzer well, at least your artillerymen must graduate from junior high school."

Joseph was a little dumbfounded. Rocket launchers are easy to get, so the main purpose this time is the howitzer. The howitzer is not an ordinary cannon, but a cannon that bombards the opponent's artillery. With the howitzer, the opponent's artillery will probably be killed after one round.

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Although Napoleon had never fought a battle like the Liao Army, he already had a clear understanding of artillery. Especially after sending people to inquire about the battle for Ceylon Island between the Ming Dynasty and India, he was even more convinced that artillery would definitely dominate the battlefield in the future.

The artillery was knocked out at the very beginning, and the battle was basically lost.

"Your Excellency, Marshal! You...!"

"Stop talking about this question. I'm not lying to you. Our soldiers need to learn a lot of knowledge before they can control howitzers well. We can support you with some cannons. These cannons are also very powerful, especially when dealing with the opponent's strong fortress with direct aim and accuracy.

The sex and bombardment effects are quite good.

When we were on the Island of Ceylon, we encountered many Indian fortresses. They were all reinforced concrete buildings. Do you know what our soldiers called cannons? Can openers! I, a Ming soldier, opened the Indians one after another as if they were cans.

's fortress.

If you want to return home to fight, you will definitely encounter such a battle. Believe me, a cannon with direct aim and level fire is definitely what you need. It is much better than a howitzer that is not easy to control!" Li Xiao pointed to the trash can at his feet and motioned to Joseph.

Throw away the tissue paper that is almost warm.

"Thank you, Generalissimo!" Throwing away the tissue, Joseph's train of thought was disrupted again.

"Our soldiers can learn!" Joseph was nervous and wanted to make a final effort.

"I have already said that it is impossible for your soldiers to learn without studying for several years. Do you know how long it takes to study to graduate from junior high school? Nine years! A nine-year-old child must study in school until he is eighteen years old.

." Li Xiao was a little impatient and waved his hand irritably.

"That machine gun...!" Howitzers require highly educated soldiers to operate, so your machine gun will not be the same.

"It's impossible to give you machine guns. You have to know that even in our Ming army, not everyone can be equipped with machine guns. Besides, with the current production capacity, our main army has not yet been equipped with machine guns. How can we give you priority?"

?”

"...!" Joseph had nothing to say. Li Xiao sealed his mouth tightly, leaving no room for him.

"I would like to ask, I heard that you chopped off the head of the French Emperor? Or in public? Is it a bit too much for you to do this? The Emperor is the Emperor after all, and you are rebelling."

In order to prevent Joseph from making further demands, Li Xiao simply rambled on. He didn't care whether Louis XVI would behead him or not, he just wanted to stir up a conversation. He would find a reason to end the conversation and finish the conversation.

Business is done.

Without spending a penny or a single person, it owns 30% of the shares of the Suez Canal. Moreover, ships from the Ming Dynasty passed through the Suez Canal for free, and by the way, they made an arms business.

The rocket launcher is easy to say, it's just a large drill monkey inside a broken cannon barrel. The technical requirements are terrible. Even if he doesn't give it to Napoleon, he can just get one from Wu Sangui and go back to ponder over it.

Because the army was equipped with howitzers, a large number of cannons were eliminated, and they were worried that they had no place to digest them. Now it is much more cost-effective to package them and sell them to the French than to recycle them themselves.

"They were all those mobs. They stormed the Bastille. Then they held a meeting and publicly executed His Majesty the Emperor. They were actually rebelling! In the past two years, they have been fighting for power in Paris and killing each other endlessly. My brother Napoleon went back

, just to end this situation.”

"What happens after it's over? As far as I know, your emperor and his family have all been killed."

“We don’t know yet!”
Chapter completed!