Da Ming is like a huge spider web, and Green Pearl is the largest spider in the middle of the spider web.

Li Yongfang is old, and he no longer cares about the affairs of the Intelligence Bureau. Luzhu inherited her father's legacy and became the top leader of the Intelligence Bureau after the reorganization. Her years of experience as an agent made her a legend in the Ming Dynasty.

Many people only know that the intelligence chief of the Ming Dynasty is a stunning beauty, but few people have actually seen Lu Zhu's appearance.

Now, this stunning beauty is sitting opposite Li Xiao, and the two of them are drinking grape wine from France.

"Napoleon was flattering enough. The French suffered heavy losses in this European war. If you hadn't revealed your words, Commander-in-Chief, Ming Dynasty would have joined the war if they attacked Paris.

This time Napoleon will surely perish!

The anti-French alliance paid a huge price, with more than 900,000 people disabled in Britain alone. The death toll reached an astonishing more than 400,000, and the casualty ratio actually reached one to two.

I think the British Empire will be licking its wounds for a long time!”

"Is it just Britain that has been so severely traumatized?" Almost all European monarchies have participated in the anti-French alliance, and Britain has suffered such heavy casualties. Doesn't it mean that the casualties in other countries are even more serious?

When did the French have such strong fighting power!

"The British were tricked. Except for the Prussian casualties of hundreds of thousands, the rest of the casualties were basically taken by the British! The reinforcements from Russia and Austria-Hungary only stayed in the Alps for a while and then withdrew.

The total number of troops sent by Sweden was only 9,000. Switzerland remained neutral, and no southern European country participated in the war.

The Danes were even more insidious. They teamed up with the Norwegians to attack Corsica. After plundering a large sum of money, they withdrew and even claimed to have raided the French.

Napoleon's hometown was robbed from top to bottom, and he was so angry that he almost went crazy. But there was nothing he could do. The French army's army was just fine, but there was nothing he could do about the navy.

All we can do is shout verbally and the problem will be solved!”

"You just watched Napoleon's hometown being robbed? As far as I know, the Ming Dynasty is the overlord of the Mediterranean. When will it be the Danes and Norwegians' turn to be heroes!" Li Xiao was very surprised. There is not much difference between the Mediterranean Sea and the Ming Dynasty's inland sea.

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The small countries along the Mediterranean are all extremely honest. The Italians only focused on the goods of the Ming Dynasty, and the shrewd Venetian merchants tried their best to get the goods of the Ming Dynasty back to Europe.

The Ming Dynasty's flour, cotton cloth, and various industrial products can be sold easily as long as they are transported to Europe.

Especially for Ming Dynasty cotton, there is not a decent weaving factory in the whole of Europe. There is not even a decent loom in the whole of Europe!

The Ming Dynasty's cotton cloth was dumped in. The Ming Dynasty cotton cloth was cheap and good, and it instantly destroyed the fragile European cotton spinning industry.

Lu Zhu didn't speak, and Li Xiao didn't speak either.

After a long time, Li Xiao nodded. He understood that there was something fishy going on here. There could only be one reason for the fishy nature that even Lu Zhu was unwilling to participate in.

That second master Li Li Xiu who controls the Ming Dynasty Navy!

Looking at the Ming Dynasty, only Li Xiu could make Lu Zhu worry so much.

"There will be no peace in the country in the past few years. Please pay more attention to the country. After all, those in the Supervision Department are not as capable as you. Although many of them are your old subordinates, you should help those who should help.

As for foreign countries, countries with good development momentum will promote to them the same tactics that the North American territories are currently playing. Such lofty words as democratic civilization and so on.

If we want democracy, we must overthrow the current tyranny.

It won't be long before the people of those countries themselves will mess up the country without us taking action. At that time, our money will be used to buy high-quality assets in those countries, and it will be our Ming Dynasty that will make money."

Li Xiao took a sip of wine. Although it was authentic Bordeaux wine, Li Xiao didn't like drinking this red wine at all.

Mr. Ao was even more direct, saying that this thing was just water in the pot.

Li Xiao sneered at Ao Ye's statement, as if he had drank pot water.

"When it comes to making money, Commander, you still have a way." Lu Zhu said it sincerely. Compared to Li Xiao's military talent, Lu Zhu felt that Li Xiao's ability to make money was stronger.

The Liao army has grown from more than a hundred people to the current army of one million.

Others only see the changes in the number of people, but only those who are knowledgeable know how many silver coins this well-equipped army of one million needs to swallow every day.

Without a good economic support, the country would have been overwhelmed by this money-hungry army.

"There is no way, money is needed everywhere. Bridges need to be built on the Yangtze River, and roads need to be built on the water network in the south of the Yangtze River. This requires building countless bridges, not to mention building railways.

This is just the south of the Yangtze River. The Ming Dynasty wanted to occupy the Western Regions for a long time. Railways and roads must be built in the Western Regions to connect the scattered places.

There is also the Southwest. If you want the barbarians in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to surrender, you have to let them live a good life!

But that is the southwest, where the sky is always sunny and the ground is not even three feet flat. To develop it, the manpower, material and financial resources invested are even more valuable.

There is no way! If Ming Dynasty wants to develop, it needs resources, and it needs as many silver coins as a mountain. It is a little slow on our own, so we can only grab it from all over the world.

But now we don’t know how to rob. It’s too barbaric and the cost is too high. Besides, what kind of era are we in, and robberies need to be more civilized.”

"...!" Luzhu was speechless. Robbery requires civilized robbery. This is simply sensational.

However, the Ming Dynasty's methods of robbery seem to be much more civilized now. Perhaps another word is more appropriate, plunder!

"A country needs a lot of things to develop. Since the Ming Dynasty doesn't have us, we can only search all over the world. Human beings are selfish by nature, and small selfishness is to seek benefit for themselves.

The greatest selfishness is for the future of the country and the nation. Only when the fish in the pond of Ming Dynasty are fattened can we really have fish to eat."

"Oh!" Luzhu nodded.

Now the families who closely follow the Li family are eager to make money one by one. Compared with the traditional wealthy families of the Ming Dynasty, the wealthy families who closely follow the Li family will pay taxes honestly.

They do not take advantage of the country, nor do they take advantage of the common people. They take advantage of the whole world.

For example, the Sun family, the Zheng family, the Chen family, the Shi family, and the Li family all did this.

Li Xiao's words can be regarded as a high-sounding excuse for these families to make money crazily. Of course, the Li family is the most ruthless among these families.

According to Tokugawa Senhime, Li Xiao's inner palace now has more than 10,000 people.

Oh my God! When I came into this world naked, I never would have thought that I have more than 10,000 slaves.

"By the way, Marshal, we seem to have found traces of Dorgon." After getting the answer he wanted, Lu Zhu quickly changed the subject.

"Dorgon?" Li Xiao frowned.

The two brothers Dorgon and Jierhalang have always been Li Xiao's worry. After all, these two bastards are the only remnants of the Aixinjueluo family. Although the Aisinjueluos can no longer be like what they were in history.

Although they are all-powerful, Li Xiao still wants to crush these two guys like bugs.

"Yes! It's Dorgon. We were investigating the rapid development of the Russian military industry and found them. It is said that there are some people in Moscow with braids. They don't look like Tatars, but more like Jurchens." Seeing Li Xiao's seriousness.

Looking like this, Luzhu hurriedly continued.

"Well! The Russian military industry has indeed made rapid progress in the past two years. Dorgon...! Could it be that they brought all the things they successfully researched in Bombay to Russia?

Have you verified their affairs?" Li Xiao suddenly became alert.

"We have sent people there, but the news has not come back for a while despite being thousands of miles away."

"We must quickly verify and eradicate the root cause once confirmed. No matter how much it costs!"

"promise!"

Lu Zhu's heart trembled. This was the first time Li Xiao had given an order to do whatever it took.

Moscow!

Dorgon, who was busy working in the factory, didn't know that Li Xiao had given the order to kill their brothers. He was in the arsenal, following some scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences, studying the weapons snatched back from France.

"These weapons cannot be made with our current processing methods. Maybe they can be copied in the laboratory, but mass production is not possible." Looking at the report in his hand, Dorgon shook his head helplessly.

After several years of living, he has become proficient in using Russian and Russian. Looking through the report in his hand, he felt extremely depressed.

Things have been imitated, but large-scale production requires many industrial workers. But in Ming Dynasty, most people are farmers, and it is too difficult to find suitable industrial workers.

It is even more unrealistic to rely on those British workers poached at high prices, it is too damn expensive.

Take Jilharang to the Kremlin and meet Empress Catherine directly. This is Dorgon’s unique treatment!

"Dorgon, is there anything you can't handle?" Yekaterina asked with a smile when she saw Dorgon coming in.

She has given Dorgon full power, and she doesn't understand who else dares to stop Dorgon.

"Hey! Her Majesty the Queen, we have copied all the weapons captured on the French battlefield, including machine guns, mortars, and those very powerful anti-aircraft guns.

But the trouble now is that Russia lacks qualified industrial workers and the number of machine tools is also seriously insufficient. It is no problem to tinker with it in the research institute, which can provide large-scale ammunition and large-scale production, but... there is no way.

I……!"

"Don't say it, I don't want to know the reason, I just want to know how to solve it." Ekaterina stretched out her hand to stop Dorgon from continuing.

"At present, there are only two ways. One is to set up schools in Russia and let children from noble families with some mathematical knowledge go to study in England and France.

It’s not about studying art, but about engineering. Even the most basic lathe skills.” Dorgon’s voice became softer as he spoke, and he could only look at Yekaterina helplessly.

Yekaterina knew Dorgon's helplessness and asked the high-ranking aristocratic children to study dirty engineering. This is too difficult!

Let alone Dorgon, even if Ekaterina herself gave these orders, no one would respond.

After being stunned for a while, Ekaterina raised her chin: "Go on."

"The second is to build schools in the country. However, there are currently too few outstanding technicians in Russia. The most difficult thing to build a school is the teachers."

Dorgon paused and glanced at Yekaterina. Seeing Yekaterina looking at him with bright eyes, he hurriedly said: "The best way is to go to Ming Dynasty to invite you, but I think it is difficult to invite her.

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The people of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the training of skilled workers, and their tradition did not like to travel to distant places.

So...! So we can only go to England to invite you."
To be continued...