Li Xiao felt that he had the key to ending the war, and that was Israel.

This empire created by the Hebrews is also the only Hebrew political entity in the world today.

Since the birth of this country, the Hebrews have invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

It is this country that is always at the forefront of conflicts with the Ming Dynasty.

They do not have the traditional Chinese humility, nor do they understand what it means to keep a low profile and bide their time. They are a group of naked profit animals who only know profit.

There is no need to tell them about kindness, these people don't understand.

If they understood traditional Chinese philosophy, they would not be driven out of their ancestral land and become a wandering nation.

For two thousand years, they have lived as servants, housekeepers, and prostitutes. The most awesome thing they have ever done is loan sharking!

The monarchs in European countries treat these people like clowns. If they have no money, they will borrow it. If they borrow too much, they will not be able to rob them. By the time they find out that these clowns have taken control of the national economy, it is too late!

Li Xiao's decision to destroy Israel is to tell the Hebrew plutocrats who control the European economy not to follow my example.

Violence cannot solve all problems, but it can physically solve the entire Hebrew nation.

Zuo Liangyu took out the battle plan that had been drawn up long ago. This plan did not involve the participation of the Russian army and the Ming army.

Now we have to make a new plan, because a lot of the work has already been done by the Ming Army and the Russian Army.

This allowed the Marines to concentrate their forces more on Sevastopol, and they were accompanied by 80,000 Ottoman troops in the attack.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Ottoman army is very questionable, it is still much better than having no one at all. At least maintaining order, guarding the prisoners, or serving as cannon fodder are all good options.

When Zuo Liangyu was re-drawing the battle plan, Li Xiao suddenly proposed to go to Basra for a visit.

And we’re going by airship!

This made Zuo Liangyu fly to the sky, and it was a full 1,500 kilometers from Nicosia to Basra.

On the long route, if there is an anti-aircraft gun somewhere, it happens to shoot down the airship...

No matter how good the situation on the battlefield is, Ming Dynasty will always face the danger of collapse.

Tell the developing Ming Dynasty that there are too many hidden dangers. However, this empire emerged during the war. Under the background of ensuring the victory of the war, there was no time to sort out the paralysis in the country.

If Li Xiao is defeated, the Ming Empire may fall apart before our eyes, and even the troops fighting on the front lines will be pulled back into the country to join the civil war that is about to begin.

This is not alarmist. In the history of China, the turmoil surrounding every regime change will be caused by large-scale civil war.

Every civil war is accompanied by astronomical losses of human life and property.

No one could afford to take this risk. Zuo Liangyu said that if Li Xiao dared to get on the airship, he would commit suicide immediately.

Those who are willing to dare such a thing with him include his chief of staff and almost all his staff.

In other words, if Li Xiao continues to insist on his own way, he will lose the entire Marine Corps command including the Marine Corps commander.

There was no other way, so Li Xiao had no choice but to board the Kunlun Mountain again and cross the Suez Canal one kilometer to Basra.

In order to supervise Li Xiao, Zuo Liangyu left the battle plan to Ou Zhang and followed Li Xiao to Basra.

The Suez Canal seems busier than before the war!

All kinds of ships and sailing ships were plying the Mediterranean Sea, and there seemed to be more of them than before the war.

There are huge freighters from the Ming Dynasty, as well as smoking steamships, and even more steam engines and sailing ships.

Most of these steam engines and sailing ships are small cargo ships, which generally cannot reach the Suez Canal.

It can be seen from the crew and flags above that these are Egyptian or Greek ships, and some are ships from North African countries.

For example, in countries such as Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco, there is a very strange phenomenon. There are not many black boatmen on the ship, and most of them are white boatmen.

Seemingly sensing Li Xiao's doubts, Zuo Liangyu pointed to the ships and said: "Many French, Italians and Spanish people, in order to avoid military service, went to sea and worked as boatmen.

Although this work is more tiring and not very safe, the advantage is that the wages are high and it is easier than making a living in their own country."

"Why are there so many ships on the sea? Aren't our trade with Western Europe cut off?" Li Xiao looked at the scene of a forest of masts with some surprise.

"Our trade with Western Europe has been cut off, but Western Europeans still need our things.

All the machines and factories in their country are used to manufacture military supplies, and civilian supplies have almost stopped.

One is that there are no raw materials, and the other is that there are no man-hours.

There is no other way, their people can only use ours.

The Egyptians, Greeks, and Tunisians took advantage of this loophole. They smuggled all our stuff to Western Europe in motorized sailboats.

In the past, piracy was rampant in the Mediterranean, and cargo ships were easily robbed by pirates.

Well now, they are all powerful motor-driven sailboats, and pirate sailboats are not as fast as this ship.

Moreover, now our navy often cruises around the Mediterranean, and when it encounters pirates, it directly kills them.

Navigation is much safer now than before.

These cargo ships make a lot of profit every time they make a trip! Guess, Commander, what is the most smuggled item?"

"What the hell?"

"Refined oil!" Zuo Liangyu said with a smile.

"Refined oil? Didn't they create coalified oil? Why are they still smuggling our refined oil?"

"Commander, there are too many impurities in the coalified oil, which causes a lot of damage to the engine.

And that thing doesn’t seem to be very easy to use, much worse than our gasoline and diesel.

In this business, the most profitable ones are the Hebrews."

"Hebrews?" Li Xiao was shocked. These guys who are good at doing business are really good at doing business. No wonder they have been able to prosper in Europe for two thousand years. This is the skill of doing business in their genes.

“They have good relations with governments of various countries and are marketable!

During the two years of war, the Hebrews in various countries made a lot of money. I heard that in France, a bar of soap cost one franc.

These heartless people are drawing the blood of the French people."

"Haha! If you keep doing this, Napoleon will be finished sooner or later." Li Xiao sneered.

No wonder the morale of the French soldiers on the front line was low.

There is not enough to eat on the front line, and with these Hebrew profiteers taking advantage of the enemy in the rear, morale is still at a loss.

"The Hebrews are quite powerful. They can make money whether they fight or not.

Our intelligence services have heard that some people seem to be earning more than they did before the war.

You see, these are all ships bound for Italy.

They docked in Italy and unloaded the contraband.

They used to be unloaded on the French coast, but now the French Mediterranean coast has been bombed into ruins, so they are unloaded in Genoa.

Some even sell contraband directly to the UK through Gibraltar."

"It doesn't matter, you have to pay back everything you do for fooling around. Even if they are having fun now, if the war is lost in the future, they will still have to spit out what they have eaten." Li Xiao smiled.

"If these people are moved, Western Europe will be in turmoil for a long time." Li Lin next to him thought more deeply than Zuo Liangyu.

I guess I spent a lot of time with Zheng Sen during this period, and I also understood some of the problems of Europeans.

"No, in fact, as long as Ashe takes the lead in this matter, the whole of Europe will follow suit."

"Will Axi be obedient?"

"Yes, he hates the Hebrews. Moreover, he also has extraordinary execution ability."

Li Lin looked at his father in confusion. Neither the Naval Intelligence Department nor the External Intelligence Department of the Supervisory Council could figure out Axi. Why did his father have so much confidence in him?

Li Xiao did not answer his son's question. Of course he would not doubt Axi's execution ability.

After all, in his world, this was a fierce man who had killed six million Hebrews.

As soon as the Kunlun Mountain appeared, those motorboats and sailboats stayed away from the ship.

Under the escort of two destroyers one after another, the Kunlun Mountain sailed majestically into the Suez Canal.

The canal zone seems to be more prosperous than before. The land is filled with golden waves of wheat, and countless Egyptians are harvesting their harvest in the land with their bare backs.

"Do these people pay taxes to us?" Li Xiao suddenly thought of an extremely important question.

"Pay tax, but it's very light, just 10% of the harvest." Zuo Liangyu said.

"Not bad!" Li Xiao nodded, thinking that this was a long-lasting tax rate, and couldn't help but take a long puff of his cigar.

"The local chiefs want half of it!" Zuo Liangyu followed.

"Cough cough cough cough cough...!" Li Xiao choked and coughed violently.

"You collected so much?" Li Lin was also shocked.

"The chiefs here are so greedy, and the riots a few years ago did not teach them a lesson.

These people are working hard to save money and then move their families to Greece.

There are just a few stewards here."
To be continued...