Li Xiao knew about the trouble between France and Russia earlier than Dorgon expected. However, more than three months had passed since the incident. Looking at the biting cold wind outside the window and the constant drifting

The falling snowflakes, maybe Napoleon is wailing in the ice and snow of Russia now!

Compared with what happened in the Ming Dynasty, a dog biting a dog with a hair in his mouth is nothing. As for Joseph being locked up and raised like a pig, this kind of happy thing should be worth a drink.

In fact, Li Xiao would have wanted to do this if he were not concerned about diplomatic etiquette.

Napoleon was finished, well... to be precise, it was probably not finished. Only by truly experiencing Waterloo can the fall of a generation of military genius be verified.

When it comes to war, no one can say for sure. Maybe when they get to that place called Waterloo, Napoleon might go against the odds and kill Wellington.

Of course, the premise is that Li Xiao doesn't help.

Li Xiao didn't want to help, but based on France's remaining shares in the Suez Canal, Li Xiao had to help. A rapid reaction force has been established and left the ends of the earth by boat this morning.

They are all elite members of the Marine Corps and have only one mission. That is to rescue a big shot from a certain island!

Li Xiu felt that it was unnecessary for his elder brother to do this. As long as he sent the Changbai Mountain to the place called Elba Island and fired a few shots at the shore with the 460mm cannon, the defenders on the island would probably wet their pants.

After all, not everyone can withstand the bombardment of a 480mm cannon. What's more, Ming Dynasty has just improved a new type of explosive. The explosive power is several levels higher than the previous explosives!

The person who participated in improving the formula was a chemist from Cambridge, named Nobel. I heard that he was from Sweden, but I don't know if he is the same person as the Nobel in Li Xiao's mind.

Today's Ming Dynasty scientific community often has some strange people mixed in. For example, there is a person named Franklin who is very powerful in electricity. This guy comes from the independent North American territory.

There is also a Frenchman named Charlie who, with the encouragement of Wu Ciyou, successfully separated hydrogen. It is said that this guy wants to try to use it on an airship, so that the airship can save more than 50% of fuel!

Li Xiao has always been encouraging towards such exploratory scientists. Although hydrogen is dangerous and may explode if not handled properly, Li Xiao is still encouraging.

It’s just that Li Xiao put hydrogen balloons into production rigorously and also tested them in densely populated areas.

The Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty has unparalleled financial resources in the world. With this financial resources as the backing, the science of the Ming Dynasty has truly become an academic without boundaries.

On the more closed Jeju Island, there are many teams of scientists of different nationalities. An Englishman named Maxwell and a Prussian named Hertz are studying something called radio.

Li Xiao has given a huge amount of funding to this project, and it is said that it has already begun to take shape. In another year or two, Li Xiao feels that he will be able to use a wireless station.

I have to say that this is another successful business for Li Xiao. Because this Prussian named Hertz was exchanged by Li Xiao for fifty light machine guns with a high-ranking Prussian official named Bismarck.

Fifty light machine guns, plus 200,000 rounds of ammunition. This is nothing to the Ming Dynasty. No one knows the future role of radio around the world better than Li Xiao.

The King of Sweden was much smarter than the Prussians. At least the Nordics asked for ten more mortars and five thousand more artillery shells. After these items were unloaded in Stockholm, Li Xiao got the Nobel as he wished.

This is how the Ming Dynasty recruited talents. The ignorant European kings are still focusing on the impact of the war brought by Napoleon.

After all, scientists cannot directly defend the country, and the threat from Napoleon is real. Now the whole of Europe is crawling and trembling at Napoleon's feet.

But Napoleon's bastard won't be strong for long, and the severe cold in Moscow will become his biggest enemy.

Even if Li Xiao was killed, he would not tell Napoleon that although the French army's tin buttons sparkled in the sun were beautiful, in Russia at minus 30 degrees, they would shatter like plastic that had been exposed to the sun for eight hundred years.

At minus 30 degrees, keeping your arms open is not an attitude to keep warm. A small button can be the lifeline that leads to the destruction of an army.

The army of the Ming Dynasty has begun to change their uniforms. Buttons no longer exist. They are replaced by metal zippers. Since a Cantonese man named Zou Boqi invented the sewing machine, the production of garments in the Ming Dynasty has entered a new era.

Ready-made military uniforms are divided into summer clothes, winter clothes, and autumn clothes. Winter clothes are divided into temperate zone winter clothes and cold zone winter clothes. The difference is the amount of cotton filling in the clothes.

Buttons have gradually been replaced by zippers. Steel metal zippers are far from comparable to those tin buttons. Even in the Arctic, they will not be frozen to pieces!

If the plastic technology was not up to standard, Li Xiao would have used lighter plastic without hesitation.

The troops no longer have clumsy things like robes. They only have pants and clothes. What they wear on their feet is no longer cotton shoes, but more sturdy land combat boots.

The soldiers wearing camouflage helmets, camouflage combat uniforms, and streaks of oil paint on their faces are not much different from Li Xiao's later appearance.

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The difference is that the Ming Dynasty's joint land training center was located in Zhangjiakou, not Zhurihe on the grassland.

Unlike the scientific community, the Ming Dynasty's army is still very pure. At least the main army is like this!

All troops come from Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei. The basic strength of the troops remains at 300,000, with the First Marine Division stationed near the capital still being the most important.

As for the local government soldiers, the source is more complicated. They are recruited from all over the country, but there is a basic requirement that no one is allowed to serve within 500 kilometers of their hometown.

In other words, the soldiers from Shaanxi may serve in the south of the Yangtze River. The soldiers from the south of the Yangtze River may be in the southwest, while the soldiers recruited from Yunnan and Guizhou will appear in the northwest.

Moreover, the sources of soldiers in an army are mixed. In an ordinary infantry squad, there are likely to be people from Henan, Sichuan, Anhui, and Shaanxi.

In some units, you may even meet comrades from Yizhou.

The sources of troops are mixed and they are discharged every three years. This means that military power will not fall into the hands of a certain local force.

The most important thing is that modern troops are inseparable from large-scale supplies. As long as they fight, they will need various supplies such as ammunition, food, and uniforms.

Providing these supplies is already a systematic project.

The Shanhaiguan Army Academy has established a logistics branch in the city. More than 8,000 professional officers have graduated and have been integrated into the logistics systems of various places.

The Naval Academy in Jinzhou has also established a logistics branch. However, their studies are more complicated and it takes longer to graduate. However, the benefits are generous and there are subsidies for serving overseas, which attracts many young men to apply.

Building a modern army is a huge systematic project, which not only requires the concentration of material, human and financial resources of the entire country, but also the wisdom of the people of a country.

The Ming Dynasty did even better, and Li Xiao even borrowed the wisdom of foreigners.

As long as there are suitable foreign talents, the Ming Dynasty's ambassadors in European countries will desperately try to recruit talents. Most of these people have entered universities established in various places to give lectures and teach their knowledge and research results to Ming students.

But they were shut out of Ming Dynasty's academic research. It was obvious that science without borders was only suitable when Ming Dynasty recruited foreigners. When it was Ming Dynasty's turn:

Who dares to leak good things to outsiders, I will skin you.

As for those scientists who exchanged weapons, porcelain, and even gold and silver coins, it was even worse. They had to live a life like prisoners on Jeju Island. Although they were served by gentle Goryeo beauties, and had the best food and shelter, they could not survive.

Prisoners are still prisoners after all.

The only way for him to leave Jeju Island is to become ashes in an urn. In fact, except for people from Daming, who want to leave Jeju Island, they have to become ashes.

The Ming Dynasty's armored ships patrol around Jeju Island all day long. As long as they see a ship, they will sink it, no matter whether it is a Ming Dynasty ship or not. It doesn't matter what kind of ship you are!

The navy also throws some meat into the sea from time to time, and even carcasses from the mines. This leads to an overwhelming number of sharks in the waters of Jeju Island, let alone swimming in the sea. Even on the beach, it is sometimes unsafe.

Hungry sharks sometimes hunt in shallow seas. Whether they are men, girls, old people or children, they grab them and drag them into the deep sea, unable to pull them back.

Compared with them, Newton on Changxing Island was much better. Accompanied by Ming personnel, he could even take an airship to the capital to report on his work.

Under his leadership, after a year, the tractor was finally built. Although the weight of twenty tons is a bit excessive, once it is built, there is room for positive improvement.

Just like last year, I came full of hope and left full of disappointment.

What Li Xiao saw was a giant machine, moving on the ground like an old man suffering from asthma. Because of its heavy body, it could only travel at a speed of twenty kilometers an hour.

This is fucking highway speed, the off-road speed has to be halved.

Ten kilometers per hour is not much different from a bullock cart.

And this thing roared, not burning oil but drinking oil. Not only was the noise extremely loud, but black smoke was billowing, and the air was filled with a strong smell of diesel.

That's it, Newton had the nerve to say that this was the crystallization of modern technology. Li Xiao didn't know if it was a crystal, but in Li Xiao's eyes, this thing looked more like a kidney stone.

It completely falls into the category of useless garbage!

It seems that Daming has to wait until he wants to use a tractor.

Dr. Newton's bad news always comes with good news. He is probably afraid that Li Xiao will go crazy. The good news this year is that the fuel engine used in trains has been successfully developed. This thing is more powerful than a coal-burning engine, and there are more engines behind the train.

There is no need to hang a section of carriage specifically to pull coal.

Although it weighs forty tons, for railways, the weight of forty tons is not excessive. The naval version of the fuel engine is more than ten tons heavier than the land version. That is because Li Xiu requires more power output.

Big reason.
Chapter completed!