"Damn you, arrogant man. You have no idea what Gilgamesh means!"

Rasputin looked at Li Xiao's back fiercely!

From Li Xiao's eyes, he saw complete contempt.

right!

Just contempt!

The kind of contempt that is the most contemptuous and extremely contemptuous.

This made Rasputin very angry, very! Very! Very! Angry!

Rasputin, who was out of anger, still had endless fear in his heart. His knowledge of magic originated from the Tibetan Bon Religion Tantra.

I have an instinctive fear of water.

Therefore, except for what he had to drink, he could not and did not dare to take a bath.

Li Xiao's prophecy about being thrown into an ice cave and struggling underwater for ten minutes really frightened him.

Subconsciously, Rasputin even imagined that horrific scene.

In the end, intense fear and extreme anger made Rasputin completely hate Li Xiao.

This arrogant Ming Dynasty must pay the price for despising himself.

Li Xiao had no idea that such an inconspicuous stickman could actually cause huge waves.

As agreed in advance, Li Xiao rested for half an hour and then began his meeting with Ekaterina.

To be honest, Li Xiao already disliked the greedy and weight-increasing woman in front of him.

Compared with a few years ago, Ekaterina's weight has increased significantly.

The chin is no longer two layers, but stacked into three layers.

Because of obesity, the skin on the face has no wrinkles. Those wrinkles are completely flattened by the fat under the skin!

Moreover, Yekaterina's heart-to-heart talk became more and more serious, even reaching the point of embezzling military pay.

Everyone in the entire Russian Empire had a reason to be corrupt, but not Ekaterina.

Li Xiao didn't understand, this country belonged to her, why would she embezzle the money?

Although he was unwilling to do so, Li Xiao still had to sit down and talk with Ekaterina.

no way!

Now the Ming army cannot do without the Russian army on the Western Front. If it loses the support of the Russian army, the Ming army will have to add at least 1.5 million more troops.

The military expenditure required for 1.5 million people is not a small amount of money.

"Your Excellency, Generalissimo, try the coffee brewed in our Kremlin kitchen.

Have a drink every afternoon, very refreshing!”

Li Xiao curled his lips, Ming Dynasty did not produce coffee locally.

In Asia, where it is mainly grown in Java, people in the Ming Dynasty do not have much demand for this thing.

Therefore, the cultivation of this stuff in Java is not large. In fact, it was the Ming army that purchased the most of these things.

Because many people have found that drinking this stuff can refresh them.

The Ming army purchased these items and would grind them into powder and distribute them to those working the night shift.

However, ordinary Ming army soldiers did not like these hard things.

They stubbornly believe that this thing is medicine.

On the contrary, Europeans like this thing better. When they drink coffee, they like to add sugar and milk to it.

"Thank you!" Li Xiao shook his head. He didn't like drinking coffee, which is easily addictive.

"A general headquarters has been established on the southern front, and all actions of our Ming and Russian armies are under the mobilization of the general headquarters.

We are preparing to take the same action on the northern front. General Shi Dewei, the Chief of General Staff of the Ming Dynasty, will serve as the commander-in-chief.

Marshal Kutuzov will serve as deputy commander-in-chief." Li Xiao did not want to be in contact with Ekaterina anymore.

Your soldiers are all eating black bread with sawdust added, and some people are stealing the beans that Ming Dynasty feeds their horses.

As a queen, she actually holds a reception and drinks coffee here.

"Your Majesty the Grand Marshal..., drink coffee, drink coffee."

Ekaterina did not expect that Li Xiao would raise the most sensitive issue of command right from the very beginning.

The Ming Dynasty had already taken away the command of the troops on the southern front, and now it was thinking about the command of the northern front.

Although Russia cannot do without the support of the Ming Dynasty, any king is extremely sensitive to military power.

Now, Li Xiao is teasing Yekaterina's most sensitive nerve.

I thought that Li Xiao would at least be polite, but I didn't expect that Li Xiao would ask such a pointed question as soon as he sat down.

Ekaterina drank coffee to cover up her panic.

She didn't want to hand over her army, but she couldn't lose Ming's protection.

The brain is running at full speed, thinking about how to reject Li Xiao without offending Li Xiao.

Li Xiao glanced at Ekaterina and knew that this old Russian woman was thinking about how to reject him.

Li Xiao was not afraid of Yekaterina's rejection, because Yekaterina had no choice.

The war has been going on for half a year, and the Russian army's combat power has been completely exposed to the world.

Without the support of the Ming army, they would be crushed to pieces by the coalition forces.

Only by following the Ming army did they win the Battle of Kursk. In the defense of Tsaritsyn, although the Russian army suffered heavy losses, the backbone of the battle was still the Ming army.

The war has wiped out the so-called family ties between the Russian royal family and other royal families.

What's even more fatal is that both the Pope in Rome and the Catholic Orthodox Church have regarded Russia as a heretic.

Ekaterina has no way out now, and now they can hardly even feed their own soldiers.

"Your Excellency, Generalissimo, you know that Russia is in a difficult situation right now.

Our military strength on the battlefield has exceeded 2.3 million. It can be said that all Russian men of suitable age have gone to serve as soldiers.

There were only some women and old people left in the rear, and even our children aged fourteen or fifteen were sent to the front line.

Russia has sacrificed everything for this war.

Our soldiers are hungry, and the elderly, children, and women in the rear are all hungry.

As the King of Russia, I am very sad."

Li Xiao looked at Ekaterina's crocodile-like tears, and his nose almost became crooked.

You can hold two less banquets and drink two less bottles of Maotai.

And there is steaming hot coffee on the table.

How about being so fat that she looks like a grandma?

Damn it, this old lady actually has the nerve to say that her people are starving.

What Ekaterina said is true. All the strong laborers went to the battlefield, leaving only the old, weak, sick, and women in the rear.

In addition, Russia has winter for half of the year, and there is only one growing season for food crops.

The most serious problem plaguing Russia now is food. Soldiers on the front lines are eating black bread mixed with sawdust. You can also imagine what the people in the rear are eating.

Li Xiao even suspected that people had started cannibalism in some places.

The famous Ukrainian famine in history killed three million people.

"From now on, Ming Dynasty will allocate 400 tons of sweet potatoes, 300 tons of potatoes, and 150 tons of corn to Russia every month.

In addition, we will also be responsible for the future food supplies of the Russian army.

We will distribute the food for the Russian army, and you will distribute the food for the people yourself."

Li Xiao was also helpless, and he did not want to hand the two rooms into the hands of corrupt officials.

But there is no other way, if not to them, who else can we give it to?

Ming Dynasty had no remaining strength and came to Russia to distribute relief food door to door.

The Ming Dynasty had a bumper harvest of potatoes and corn this year, but people mostly ate fine grains.

The shrewd businessmen of the Ming Dynasty have begun to purchase potatoes and corn to process into feed for pigs.

People in the Ming Dynasty are now living a better life, and traditional pig raising can no longer guarantee market supply.

Second Brother's prices are rising rapidly, and now large-scale pig farms have appeared.

In this way of raising pigs, it is impossible to use pig grass to solve the feed problem.

The shrewd businessman of Ming Dynasty fell into the lucrative industry of feed processing with precise vision.
To be continued...