There was trouble when sleeping at night. Xiaoyu had to hold her brother to sleep. No matter what Sister Qiao tried to persuade, the elder girl could not sleep with her brother. Xiaoyu just hugged Li Xiao and refused to let go. Counting it all, it would take another two months.

At seven years old, she is not actually a big girl.

Any threats and intimidations seemed pale and powerless in front of those big watery eyes. Sister Qiao raised her palm several times to scare her, but when she saw those pitiful eyes, she couldn't let her slap fall down.

"Let her sleep here!" Li Xiao reluctantly picked up Xiaoyu and walked into the bedroom, followed by Tokugawa Chiki's daughter-in-law. He tried to take Xiaoyu from Li Xiao's arms several times, but Xiaoyu refused.

Li Xiao remembered that one night four years ago, he hugged Xiaoyu like this. There was a fire burning in the dilapidated house, but it was still very cold. At that time, Li Xiao was still thinking about how to survive in this troubled world. Looking back now

When I got up, I was really innocent at that time. I took my brothers and sisters and fled to Guanli, and even fled to the south of the Yangtze River.

According to the historical trend in my mind, the Ming Dynasty can survive for at least more than ten years.

The idea is so ridiculous, like an ostrich with its head stuck in a hole in the earth. In more than ten years, the Tatars will not be able to herd horses southward? In more than ten years, there will be no Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong?

What should we do when that time comes? Keep running south, to Hainan Island, to Southeast Asia? Thinking about the suffering of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia, Li Xiao knows how naive his ideas at that time were.

Taizu said that there is endless joy in fighting against heaven, against earth, and against people.

Although he doesn't like fighting, Li Xiao also admits that only by fighting can he carve out a world for himself.

After four years of fierce fighting in Liaodong, he now has his own small foundation. Although the population under his rule is only 200,000, which is not as large as the population ruled by Hou Jin. However, he is still a prince who can stand on his own.

At least at this time, Li Zicheng was still making a living in the northwest, and Zhang Xianzhong was still a small policeman.

"Brother, Xiaoyu is happy to hear this." Xiaoyu pulled Li Xiao's pajamas and muttered softly.

"Okay, let's talk about joyful things. Let's talk about the green grassland...!" The story is a bit long, and Li Xiao doesn't know where it broke. Anyway, the one who coaxed people to sleep fell asleep, and Xiaoyu who was coaxed did not fall asleep.

Know!

When I woke up in the morning, Xiaoyu was gone. Tokugawa Chiki was standing by Li Xiao's side and saw Li Xiao open his eyes. She immediately found slippers for Li Xiao, and Li Xiao ran into the bathroom wearing the slippers. After a burst of flood discharge,

My whole body shivered with comfort.

The curtains were opened, and dazzling sunlight came in. There was a large ship unloading goods on the dock. It looked like a tobacco ship coming from Yizhou. A cigarette factory was built on Changxing Island, and Daqianmen cigarettes were rolled out from here and then packed.

Put it into cigarette boxes and transport it to the capital. This item is now in short supply. Everyone in the capital, from the emperor to the cabinet members, likes to smoke a few puffs.

When the emperor summoned the cabinet minister, a mysterious thing like an ashtray quietly appeared on the table.

The current price of a pack of cigarettes is fifty taels of silver, and they are still out of stock for a long time. Those who can afford to smoke in the capital are considered successful. I heard that there are already one hundred taels of silver on the black market.

I don’t know if the high price of the box is real or fake. Li Xiao thinks it is very credible.

There were several medium-sized cargo ships also unloading, and Li Xiao knew that they were gunpowder ships from Pidao.

Almost all the facilities on Phidao have been moved here, except for the gunpowder factory. The secret of nitrocellulose is now Li Xiao’s top secret. In order to keep it secret, the factory is located on Phidao. People inside are not allowed to go in and out, and the fisherman controls

His apprentice Big Hammer stayed there as the leader of the gunpowder workshop.

He is a tough, big-shouldered guy who doesn't like the excitement and only likes silence. A place like Phi Island is the best for him. According to him, he gets upset when he sees a lot of people.

In addition, there were cotton and cloth from Shandong. Li Xiao had actually wanted to set up a weaving factory for a long time, but had to give up due to limited manpower.

There are currently more than 300 female workers in the quilt factory, and they have to support nearly 20,000 quilts. The pressure is still very high.

At the dock on the other side, various goods are being shipped out. There are cigarettes, quilts, and other items, as well as various weapons and ammunition. Most of Yuan Chonghuan's people are recruits who have enlisted this year. Although the shelves are set up, the equipment has not yet been distributed. The arsenal

The production speed of fire gun is still too slow.

At the current rate, it will probably take ten months to have one gun per man.

The most disturbing thing is the production of nitrocellulose. The number of troops has increased. However, the production volume of nitrocellulose has not improved qualitatively due to manpower and the quality of pyrite ore.

What Li Xiao's army needed most was not firecrackers, but grenades, mortar shells and the copper cannon shells used by Li Xiu.

Li Xiao had no choice but to ask Zu Dashou to set up a gunpowder workshop in Jinzhou to make traditional gunpowder. However, Li Xiao added diatomaceous earth in a ratio of five to one to the traditional gunpowder. This thing can significantly increase the power of gunpowder.

Diatomaceous earth is not difficult to obtain. There are a lot of them in North Korea. In some places, you can even dig deep into the mountains to get this kind of diatomaceous earth. It is even easier than coal mining!

Of course, Li Xiao would not tell the Koreans what diatomite was used for. The diatomite was crushed in Changxing Island and then sent to Jinzhou. Of course, Li Xiao would not tell Zu Dashou what these things that can increase the power of gunpowder are.

Where did it come from.

Enough artillery shells and grenades must be stocked before winter. Due to the arrival of Li Xiao, the battlefield in Northeast Asia has been turbulent and has actually entered the era of hot weapons.

The battlefield is full of explosives, from landmines to grenades and shells. Although Hou Jin's Eight Banners soldiers were brave, they could not stop the power of chemical explosives. Nurhaci's recent defeats were not so much a defeat to Li

Xiao, might as well just be defeated by technology.

After watching the busy dock for a while, Chitose Tokugawa walked in holding ironed clothes.

Japanese women are really good at serving men. The most striking feature is their attentiveness. They wear snow-white socks and snow-white vests. Their clothes are straight yellow-green half-sleeved military uniforms. Li Xiao always feels that there is something missing from this military uniform. Now thinking about it, maybe

There is no rank designation.

Let’s wait for the matter of military rank. We have to go to Mr. Yu’s place. Because we just arrived yesterday, there was a talisman like Xiaoyu. That’s why the old guy didn’t bother me. I guess now the old guy has transformed into a hundred thousand whys, and there are many questions.

Waiting for your own answer.

This is a true craftsman, the kind of person who gets upset and can't sleep if he doesn't understand something.

After getting dressed, Li Xiao found that Li Hu was already waiting in the hall. His small building was in the yard next to him. He probably didn't do anything good last night. When he saw Li Xiao just called "big brother", he faced the table

I chased down the steamed dumplings one by one.

Tokugawa Chiki brought rice porridge to Li Xiao. Li Xiao sat down and took a bite of a small steamed bun filled with prawns. He then ate another steamed bun filled with mackerel.

Helpless Li Xiao curled his lips, this is not how Xiaolongbao is made. But there is nothing we can do now, food is a luxury. The majority of the people are only as full as they can be. If anyone feeds pigs with food, they will probably drown in saliva.

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In fact, pigs can be raised by weeding pigweed, but the growth rate and fatness of pigs are far inferior to those of pigs eating grain. Even in the army, you can only eat pork dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Everyone eats them.

Most of them are sheep, which are raised by many people in Liaodong.

In addition, Li Xiao also purchased some from the Mongols, and the tribesmen in Mangui also contributed some. Guarding the Bohai Bay, what people eat most on weekdays is fish.

A shipload of freshly harvested potatoes will arrive in a few days. Li Xiao wonders if the Lushun side should plant them first. When harvesting in the fall, not only can we add another vegetable to everyone. The potatoes with an amazing yield can not only be made into vermicelli, but also

Large-scale pig farms can also be established.

It’s Chinese New Year, no matter what, everyone must have pork stewed with vermicelli to eat.

"If you squeak again, I'll have you stewed." I really couldn't stand Li Hu's squeaking problem. He said it several times but still didn't change it. Li Xiao hit Li Hu on the head with chopsticks, and this guy finally calmed down a little.

. Chewed the steamed dumplings for a few times with his mouth closed, and then started to drink the porridge like a dike.

After breakfast and lunch, Li Xiao took Li Hu out of the house and went straight to Yu Lao's weapons testing site.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Mr. Yu’s grandson Xiaoyu lingering at the door carrying a food box and not daring to go in.

"What's the matter? You haven't eaten yet?" Li Xiao looked at the bright sun above his head. Most of the people on Changxing Island were eating now. Why was this kid holding a food box at the door and not daring to go in?

?

"Master, please don't let anyone disturb me when grandpa is tinkering with things. It's common for him to skip a meal or two. I've been scolded several times, and you guarded the door and interrupted me from the inside." Xiaoyu saw Li Xiao coming.

, immediately vomited his bitterness. I had been scolded by my grandfather several times for delivering food. People are the same as they get older, they are stubborn and stubborn.

"Oh!" Li Xiao stepped forward and pushed the door, and sure enough, the door was locked from the inside. He wanted to shout, but was afraid of disturbing the old guy inside. God knows what the old guy was testing, if it was explosives. His hands trembled.

, that’s not really a big deal.

"Brother, I'll come." Li Hu saw Li Xiao frowning and immediately volunteered.

I saw Li Hu pull out the bayonet from behind his buttocks, put it into the crack of the door and start to sign. The gap in the door crack was relatively large, and this guy slid it one by one, and really pushed the door open.

"How could you learn to be sneaky? It's better if you don't learn a little bit." He opened the door and was about to show off his skills to Li Xiao when Li Hu was kicked twice on the butt.

"Who let you in, get out!" The sun was shining brightly outside, but the room was a little dark. Before Li Xiao could adapt to the light in the room, he heard the angry roar of the old fisherman.

"Why are you so angry? You still have to eat this meal." Entering the room, Li Xiao saw Yu Lao and Daofu Yu who were tinkering with a machine model.

Seeing Li Xiao entering the room, Mr. Yu gave him some respect, put down what he was doing, and took Inatomi Yuzhi to sit together at the table. Xiao Yu immediately put down the food box and took out a few side dishes, a small pot of wine and

Two large bowls of rice.

Braised mackerel, stir-fried leeks with eggs, shrimp, brine shrimp, and a shredded roast chicken.

Four dishes and three aquatic products. I guess the roast chicken was a special treat for the fisherman.

"Master, you will disappear as soon as you explain the matter. We will have to tinker here all day long." The old fisherman sat down on the dining table and put his chopsticks in the air. "Mixi!"

It seems that these two old guys have become good friends.

Daofu Yu nodded directly at Li Xiao and poured a glass of wine. He took a sip of "Zi Liu" and then held his mouth shut for a long time before he opened his mouth with "Ah". Just like the Japanese in the movie,

So damn similar.

The two old guys were having a meal, and Li Xiao was not interested in joining in. What interested him was the model on the table!

The model is something like a teapot, with the spout artificially made very narrow. It seems that they are testing a steam engine, and Li Xiao is not familiar with this thing. He has taught all his knowledge about steam engines to these two old guys.

.Now, he knows no more than Yu Lao and Yu Nao Inatomi.

I was walking around the laboratory with my hands behind my back, and I accidentally saw something. It had a pointed head, a cylindrical missile body, and four tail fins.

I wiped it! Li Xiao rubbed his eyes, fearing that he had made a mistake. Did these two guys tinker with missiles?

The thing that appeared in front of Li Xiao looked like a missile. Especially the four tail fins at the back proved that this thing could definitely fly.

"This...! Did you do this?" Li Xiao now extremely doubted whether the fisherman and Inatomi Yunao were time-travelers.

"Last time you tinkered with something that can burn very violently. You also said that if you put this thing in a bamboo tube and light it, the bamboo tube will fly out.

We tested it and found that although it could fly, the bamboo tube was not heat-resistant. It was easily deformed in the air, causing the thing to move around randomly. Fortunately, we did not install gunpowder during the test, otherwise we two old guys would have died without knowing how.

This thing is made of pine wood covered with iron sheets, with an iron sheet on the inside and wood on the outside and iron sheets on the inside, minimizing the weight. It is pulled by an ox cart, and when used, it can fly out as long as it is lit. How far can it fly?

I don’t know, I’m going to test it in the next few days. Now that the boss is here, we’ll test it tomorrow.”

Li Xiao remembered that when he left Pidao last time, he gave the recipe for making incendiary agent to Mr. Yu, thinking that he was helping him tinker with the steam engine. Unexpectedly, the old guy actually thought of the military because of his explanation of gas pressure.

use.

This thing can be regarded as the most primitive missile, or a real rocket.

The sharpened head helps reduce air resistance, and the four tail fins help maintain a stable flight attitude. If a large warhead is installed, the explosive power will be considerable.

What excites Li Xiao the most is that if this thing is smaller and loaded in rows on an oxcart with slide rails, wouldn't this be a fucking Katyusha?
Chapter completed!