"If we withdraw from France like this, aren't we giving France to the Hebrews?" Zhang Huangyan took the manuscript of the telegram sent by Li Xiao to Zheng Sen and went to Li Xiao angrily.

"Haha! The nature of the Hebrews is greedy. Let them run France, and they will only suck France dry.

They are suitable for running businesses, not for running state power.

We have sown the seeds of resistance in France. Do you think those who were killed by Murat have no relatives?

There may be ten people behind one person. This time Murat killed tens of thousands of people in Paris. Tens of thousands of people were exiled!

So tell me, how many people hate him now?

France is not the Ming Dynasty. Our Ming Dynasty only has a population of 77 million people in Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei.

The entire population of France, including octogenarians and children in confinement, amounts to just over 18 million people.

Next, we will continue to carry out anti-French propaganda based on Prussia and England.

People are ignorant and their vision is narrower than you think.

As long as we continue to indoctrinate them, they will hate their own government. Coupled with the greedy nature of the Hebrews, the French government's taxes will become higher and higher.

Coupled with our economic blockade, it will make the French economy increasingly difficult.

Just wait!

After a few years of this, the French themselves will be in chaos."

Li Xiao looked at Zhang Huangyan calmly!

Listening to Li Xiao's words, Zhang Huangyan moved his lips a few times but said nothing.

The ideas Li Xiao mentioned were very fresh, and Zhang Huangyan couldn't understand them for a while.

"Mr. Zhang, Zhang Shoufu!

Times have changed. Things that used to require long guns and cannons can now achieve similar goals by just spending a little money.

This saves a lot of money than fighting!

To be honest, I don’t want to use such a despicable method. But this method is simple, efficient, low-cost, and the most important thing is to save money.”

In fact, what Li Xiao cares about most is saving money!

When the cannon goes off, gold is worth ten thousand taels. After many wars, all the top leaders of Ming Dynasty realize that war is just a waste of money.

Relatively speaking, the method used by Ming Dynasty now is very economical.

For Zhang Huangyan, the cheaper the better.

"If you follow what the commander said, it is indeed the case. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many such tricks appeared.

It's just that at that time, we mainly sent agents to spread rumors. But now, we have newspapers and people from enemy countries who envy the Ming Dynasty.

If a thousand-mile embankment is destroyed in an ant nest, the internal chaos will be much less costly than if we force our way in." Zhang Huangyan is also a person who is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, vivid examples were laid out there.

"Oh, by the way! Tell the domestic merchants that starting from this year, we will import a large amount of French wine!" Li Xiao thought for a while and suddenly said to Zhang Huangyan.

"Commander! You didn't say you were going to impose a trade blockade on France, so why...!" Li Xiao's words made Zhang Huangyan a little confused.

"You said, if the price of wine is very high, will the French know how to grow more grapes?"

"That's natural. Ten kilograms of grapes can only produce six to eight kilograms of wine." Grapes are an important crop introduced in the Western Regions. Hami alone can produce tens of thousands of kilograms of raisins every year.

Although these things are not valuable in the Western Regions, if they are transported to the inland via railway, they are worth money.

Nowadays in Beijing, every New Year comes, as long as the family is well-off, everyone has to weigh a pound.

Raisins are already three or four times more expensive than mutton in the capital. Even so, they are still in a priceless market.

Zhang Huangyan, who pays attention to the economy of the Western Regions, naturally knows something about this kind of thing. Last year, Zhang Huangyan just issued an order prohibiting people in the Western Regions from using grapes to make wine.

The reason is that wine wastes grapes, so it is better to make raisins and sell them for money.

Li Xiao felt that the brain circuits of these people were really amazing!

Grapes are wasted in making wine, but grapes are not used in drying raisins?

There is no way to understand these people, so Li Xiao simply doesn't understand them. Anyway, these things belong to civil affairs. Since they are civil affairs, Li Xiao follows the principle of not interfering with them if he can.

"The French are sanctioned by our Ming Dynasty, and all industries will be in a temporary depression.

If the wine industry flourishes, then many farmers will naturally plant grapes to make wine."

Zhang Huangyan suddenly realized: “Making wine requires a lot of grapes, and eventually all the land in France will be turned into grape plantations.

Then suddenly we stopped importing wine…so…!

Haha! Guan Zhong is so wise and so handsome!"

"right!

When French wine production increases year after year, and finally reaches the point where there is no more liters left, that will be the peak of French grape cultivation.

We can immediately cut off the French wine trade, and at the same time we buy grain at high prices throughout Europe and the world.

Haha! Guess what effect that will have?"

"France is bound to have a great famine, and people will starve to death all over the land. Coupled with the fact that the Hebrews are crushing bones and sucking out marrow, France will become a real hell on earth."

Zhang Huangyan shuddered, not expecting that the consequences of the trade war would be so terrible.

"That's it! This is called a trade war. From now on, we can use this method more often to attack our enemies." Li Xiao laughed.

trade war……!

Zhang Huangyan suddenly widened his eyes and murmured: "No, maybe the Hebrews have already used the same method on us."

"What?" Li Xiao's eyes widened. Starting last year, Ming Dynasty began to expel foreigners comprehensively.

All foreigners who can stay in the Ming Dynasty must have special passes. The Ming Dynasty issued no more than a hundred special passes, which means that there are no more than a hundred Westerners living in the Ming Dynasty.

With just over a hundred people, how could there be waves?

"Half a month ago, something happened in Jinan. A middle school kid jumped off a building for no apparent reason.

As a result, a few days later, a newspaper in Jinan announced that the student was beaten and humiliated by a Taoist master, and then jumped off a building in depression and committed suicide.

Recently, this matter has been the most heated. Many people came to the school gate to demonstrate.

As for the people watching the fun, it was even more crowded.

The local government station reported this matter, and I have ordered the Jinyi Guards to investigate.

Now it seems that this is similar to the method we used in France." Zhang Huangyan said suddenly.

"Is there such a thing?" Li Xiao also narrowed his eyes.

"That's true, because I don't think it's a big deal. It's a local case, and Jin Yiwei should be able to handle it, so I didn't inform the commander."

Zhang Huangyan explained!

Indeed, such small local matters are generally not reported to Li Xiao. Li Xiao is in charge of the army, and he is very troubled by military matters every day, so there is no time to deal with such matters.

"Yesterday Jin Yiwei reported that there was something fishy about this matter. Those who made trouble at the school gate were not locals from Jinan Prefecture. Many of them were from Henan and Lankao!

As you know, Lankao is a famous poor place in Henan that has been flooded nine times in ten years. Jin Yiwei suspects that someone hired and organized these people to go to Jinan to cause trouble."

"Haha! I didn't expect that those Hebrews really learned and applied it. They learned it so quickly and used it in our Ming Dynasty.

We want to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty, haha! The political power is still in our hands, so we are afraid of what they will do.

Let me ask you something, has the Jin Yiwei ever found out whether it was as rumored that he was humiliated and forced to death by the Taoist master?" Li Xiao's eyes were shining like a wolf.

Zhang Huangyan has no doubt that if what happened is true, then the Taoist priest is dead, and the young master who caused the trouble will probably die as well.

"Jinyiwei reported that this matter is completely false. Master Daotai's son is already eighteen years old this year.

He is not in junior high school, but has already attended high school.

Jinan High School and Jinan Junior High School are not in the same school at all. Moreover, classrooms and students jointly testified that the young master from Daotai did not leave the school at all that day."

"You really never left?" Li Xiao looked at Zhang Huangyan and asked, he knew the principle of officials protecting each other.

Zhang Huangyan has been living in Shandong for many years, so there is no guarantee that this Daotai master has nothing to do with him.

“Jinan High School is a boarding school, with two days off every ten days. When there are no holidays, all students’ accommodation is in the school.

The son of a village chief was somewhat involved in this matter. But it was just a quarrel with the deceased a few days before the incident, and three days before the incident.

The Li Chief's father died of illness, so the Li Chief's son naturally went home to attend the funeral. He was not in Jinan at all on the day of the incident."

Zhang Huangyan quickly explained!

"So that's it!" Li Xiao nodded, sure that there was something fishy behind it.

However, Jinyiwei has now been reduced to handling ordinary criminal cases. Such matters related to national security naturally require Luzhu to take action.

"Hello! Pick up the Guoan Yamen." Li Xiao picked up the phone and ordered to be put through the Guoan Yamen.

"Uh...! I will go back now, find out the matter, and order the local government to send away the troublemakers." Seeing that Li Xiao was looking for Luzhu, Zhang Huangyan immediately resigned.

He knew that when Li Xiao explained things to Lu Zhu, they were usually the only ones in the office.
To be continued...