Li Hao walked out of Piaoxiang Courtyard and walked into an alley. After a while, several men appeared in the alley. Some were tall, some were short, some were fat, some were thin, and they were wearing different clothes. If they have any common characteristics,

, that is, he has no characteristics and is the kind of person who cannot be found in a crowd.

"Fourth Master! You didn't send a signal, so my subordinates didn't...!" A short and thin man in the lead bowed and saluted.

"I don't want you to show up, but I want to know where these people are from. Now I know it's the nails left by Dorgon. Let's ignore these things and tell Li Yongfang to let him worry about it.

." Now that he has heard the truth, Li Hao doesn't need to bother anymore.

Others may be afraid of the certificate of surrender, but Li Hao is not afraid. His backing is strong enough. If Li Xiao is really unwilling to be lonely and declares himself emperor one day, Li Hao, a proper prince, will not be able to escape.

Who the hell would cause rebellion in his own family!

"No!" Several men bowed and saluted, then turned and walked out of the alley.

A smile appeared on Li Hao's lips. How could Mr. Li be caught so easily?

Walking to the Drum Tower, Li Hao's old servant was waiting under the Drum Tower. After getting on a carriage, Li Hao raised his head and glanced at the Drum Tower. The Tang Dynasty was once so glorious, but in the end it was reduced to ashes. I just didn't know that my eldest brother would kill Li Hao.

Where will the family take the Ming Dynasty? Will it also disappear in a thousand years?

Li Yongfang's hair stood up when he received the telegram from Xi'an. He couldn't imagine what his three violent brothers would do if something happened to Li Hao.

There was no time to take the train, so he rushed directly to Xi'an by airship. Although the huge noise and vibration of the airship would shatter his old bones into pieces, he couldn't care less now.

Li Xiao was lying on the beach next to the huge rock at Tianya Haijiao. The last time he came here, he was selling various tourist souvenirs. This time, there were not many people around him. There were sentries standing guard as far as five miles away. He didn't dare to break in without a pass.

Those guys will definitely be beaten into pieces.

There were two behemoths spitting black smoke on the sea in the distance. Although Li Xiao said that he did not need the protection of armored ships in Hainan, Li Xiu still took two ships from the fleet to protect Li Xiao.

Ironclad ships often clean up, and there are actually no pirates left in the South China Sea. When these gangs of murderers and pirates encounter the navy, they are simply desperate. If they want to escape, the ship is not as fast as others. As for fighting..., the pirates don't even think of it.

Who the fuck is crazy, holding a sword, a spear, and a firecracker to deal with a warship equipped with machine guns and artillery? If someone fires a shot, the waves will overturn your ship. If you are unlucky and hit the target..., then he

Damn, I can't even find a complete body.

The sea is getting more and more difficult. In the past, when there were five-masted ships, you might be able to rely on your familiarity with the sea conditions and rely on the maneuverability of the small boats to drill into the rocks. As long as you enter the waters with dense reefs, the five-masted ships can

Stop and continue the pursuit.

But things are different now. There is something called an airship in the sky. When a bomb comes down, the sea water explodes twenty feet high. The machine gun on the airship is simply a nightmare for all pirates.

The Navy is very interested in pirates. Once they meet them, they are like a cat meeting a mouse. After drifting on the sea for so long, they finally have a chance to eat more. Catch the pirates, follow the clues to find their lair, and then use the wealth that the pirates have accumulated over the years.

Sweeping it all away, this can be regarded as a wise way to get ill-gotten wealth.

After half of it was handed over to the navy, the rest became the spoils of war for the officers and soldiers.

Those old pirates have a strong family background. As long as one of them is eliminated, everyone can make a fortune.

Although the captain distributes the money, according to Navy rules, all money is shared equally by everyone. In other words, the captain gets the same money as ordinary sailors.

With material support in place, naval officers and soldiers have become extremely enthusiastic about exterminating pirates. The days are coming when the bandits are desperate, and now the pirates are turning to land to farm. The sea is very dangerous, so it is better not to get close.

The pirates that once plagued the South China Sea have disappeared. Nowadays, single merchant ships dare to sail in the South China Sea without worrying about those elusive guys. Even if there are ships on the sea, they are only fishing boats. When the merchant ships approach, they will also exchange seafood with the merchant ships. This

There is no such thing as a fishing boat in this era. Fishing boats generally fish in offshore waters. Those who claim to be engaged in offshore fishing business will most likely be pirates.

Li Xiao looked around and saw that there were only a few people around except seagulls. The so-called few people were all beauties at the level of disaster. They were wearing very cool clothes. Although they didn't know what a bikini was, they seemed to like the one designed by the handsome man.

This costume.

Li Xiao had seen the Haitian Feast last night. To be honest, it was really boring. If I used one word to describe it, it would be tiring. When a man has to deal with a group of women, there is actually no pleasure at all. This

Coming down at night is more tiring than digging a vegetable cellar.

The sun umbrella only covered my head, while my body and thighs were exposed to the sun. The sunshine of thirty-nine days was actually not too explosive. It seems that the sunshine of this year was not as violent as that of later generations.

A weak body requires calcium supplementation, and sunbathing is a good way to supplement calcium. Of course, eating some oysters last night also contributed to the situation.

Shunzi ran over and handed Li Xiao a telegram!

Li Xiao sat up after reading the beginning, but when he saw the end, he lay down again.

"Damn Dorgon, how many nails did he bury when he escaped from Guanzhong? Why are there still remnant activities after so many years? Tell Li Yongfang that this matter must be investigated to the end. Such people are very dangerous. Once they attack

Tampering with electric railway facilities will cause great damage.

Not only Guanzhong, Beijing, Liaodong and other places must also be strictly investigated." Li Xiao said while Sun Xing beside him took notes.

"The caller informed us that this case needs to be strictly investigated, including Beijing, Liaodong and other important places. Especially railways and electric power facilities. If they are destroyed by criminals, it will be extremely harmful. Remember! Remember!

Commander! Is that what you mean?" After Li Xiao finished speaking, Sun Xing read the message he had compiled.

"Yeah!" Li Xiao nodded and covered his face with the straw hat again.

Sun Xing turned to leave, and Li Xiao suddenly said: "Let me come to Hainan for a few days to recuperate. Ming Dynasty was not built in a day. The preliminary exploration of the railway from Guanzhong to Shuzhong has been almost completed. The remaining things are

, and it has little to do with him.”

"No!" Sun Xing agreed, turned and walked away.

"No more! Go to Wuzhizhou Island." Before Sun Xing could go far, Li Xiao took off his straw hat irritably and threw it far away on the beach. The beauties in bikinis were so frightened that they knelt down on the beach.

The marshal is the marshal, and he left without any hesitation after giving the order. The small boat carried Li Xiao, who was wearing a vest and trousers, onto the armored ship. The beauties on the beach looked at the departing marshal with extremely sad eyes.

What makes Li Xiao irritated is that the fisherman dragged his sick body and worked hard to improve the steam engine with the Xu brothers. The technology of internal combustion engines has made breakthrough progress, and it is estimated that in three or two years, a factory can be built for large-scale production.

Production.

But the Ming Dynasty's current oil reserves can only meet very limited expenses. Some new airships even need to be grounded in order to use oil for experiments. No wonder it is said that controlling oil means controlling energy.

It’s not that oil doesn’t exist. According to Li Xiao’s knowledge, it exists in Daqing, Heilongjiang. However, the current oil production technology is immature, and oil wells can only be drilled to a depth of thirty to fifty meters underground. To deal with the Daqing Oilfield, this drilling technology is really difficult.

There is more than enough but not enough strength.

Of course, there are oil fields in Brunei and Java. But those are oil fields in the sea. With the technology of this era, you ask me to build a drilling platform?

To solve the problem of oil consumption in the Ming Dynasty, we must need the oil fields in the Middle East. As far as Li Xiao knows, there are many oil fields there, and the oil layers are very shallow, and there is no problem in extracting them with existing technology.

Go to the Middle East! India has always been a stumbling block on the way forward. There is nothing we can do about it, the geographical environment of these Asans is too damn good. The entire Indian subcontinent is like a wedge piercing the Indian Ocean. The warships attacking from Mumbai

, it doesn’t take much voyage to cut off the Ming Dynasty’s maritime trade routes.

Although the Indian Navy is not yet a rival to the Ming Dynasty's navy, the Bombay Shipyard will continue to manufacture new ships, and they can also receive support from the British Navy. The latest intelligence says that the relationship between Wu Sangui and the Queen of England has been greatly improved.

For this reason, Wu Sangui even took the initiative to hand over an entire shipload of gold.

Mumbai! It’s a nail in Li Xiao’s eye now. It’s very uncomfortable, but he can’t pull it out even if he wants to.

Although the Indian Navy does not have the strength to defeat the Ming Dynasty's navy, it does have the strength to defend Mumbai. Li Xiao can't even launch a landing battle like last year!

There is a villa owned by Li Xiu on Wuzhizhou Island. The quiet life did not calm Li Xiao's irritable mood. The sound of the waves sounded like war drums to his ears, and Li Xiao was in a state of anxiety. Several times, Li Xiao

Xiao will find a Maxim heavy machine gun and scan the sea frantically to vent his anger.

Just when Li Xiao was feeling irritable, Li Xiu came back. He had done some work at sea two months ago, and Jingyuan and Laiyuan were injured. Li Xiu was going to send them back to the shipyard in Hainan for repairs.

"Why come to Hainan instead of being close by? If it can't be built in Xinjiapo? Or it can't be built in Java?"

"Uh...!" Li Xiu was surprised. He didn't expect Li Xiao to speak in such a questioning tone when they met.

"The Jiyuan shipyard is being built in the Singapore Shipyard. Java is going all out to build new ships and there is no manpower available. We can only go back to Hainan to repair it. If it were three years ago, we would not have to go back to Lushun to repair it."

"Oh!" Li Xiao nodded. The shipyards in Xinjiapo and Java were finally put to use. It was not in vain that the imperial court had invested a mountain of money there in the past three years.

"Brother! What's wrong with you?" Li Xiu discovered that Li Xiao, who was on vacation, not only did not have a red face, but his face was very ugly. There were big bags under his eyes, as if he hadn't had a good rest for a long time. This is not

The state that a vacation should be in, what happened to the boss?

"It's not that bastard Dorgon who caused the trouble, you still don't know. The fourth child was almost tied up with the nails he left in Xi'an not long ago. Damn it, how many years has it been?

, why the nails and hidden piles he left behind can never be pulled out completely.

Last month, Mr. Yu wrote a letter saying that internal combustion engines have made great progress. What needs to be solved now is the problem of large-scale production. Once this problem is solved, we will be able to produce internal combustion engines with greater output power.

But now that we have an internal combustion engine, what about the oil? The little oil we produce in Daming is enough for what we can do!

Besides, oil is a non-renewable resource. We don’t have much of it in Ming Dynasty, so we have to leave some for future generations. Even if future generations lose their fortunes, it can only last a few more years.”

"Damn it! What does Li Yongfang do for a living? He hasn't been arrested all these years. If something happens to the fourth child, I will never fucking spare him." Li Xiu was furious when he heard that Li Hao was almost kidnapped.

The veins in my forehead were popping.

"Li Yongfang has been quite diligent over the years and has solved a lot of cases. If it weren't for him, Jinzhou Power Plant would have been blown up long ago, let alone building a train track. Do you know what happens after a train derails?

Is it difficult? It’s not his fault, I just think that people like damn Wu Sangui and Dorgon are hiding in Mumbai but we can’t do anything to them.”

"Brother, since you said it, I will complain. Our navy's military expenditures have never been sufficient. We only build two ships a year, and at most three. But do you know? At the Mumbai Shipyard alone, one year

Construction of five ironclad ships began at the same time.

They spent all their money on the armored ships, but what about us? The court just refused to allocate more money.

In the past few years, we have built the Xinjiapo Shipyard, Java Shipyard, and Hainan Shipyard. However, the imperial court also took back the Huangdao Shipyard, Jinzhou Shipyard, and Tianjin Shipyard. The Lushun Shipyard was retained after I fought hard.

.

The abolished shipyards have all been rebuilt into civilian ships. We have made a lot of money, but the shipbuilding capability of our navy has declined. You see, the Indian navy will surpass us in terms of numbers in less than three years. Now we can no longer

Going to the sea off Bombay, in three years we may only be able to defend around the island of Ceylon.

I can't guarantee that the long supply line from Singapore to Ceylon is smooth." Li Xiu began to complain to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao didn't know Li Xiu's difficulties, but the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were only so much in a year. Use more here and use less there. The increase in taxes is far less than Li Xiao's ambition.

The Ming Dynasty was in a period of growth after the war resumed, and Li Xiao did not dare to increase taxes rashly. Some of the newly opened financial resources, coupled with the huge trade deficit, were all used up by massive infrastructure construction.
Chapter completed!