The street fighting with the Kurds can be called the most brutal street fighting in the world.

The Kurds and the Swiss have been fighting fiercely in the small city of Baghdad for four months.

Powerful artillery fire almost razed Baghdad to the ground. Only a few ruins can still testify to the splendor and splendor of the city in the past.

But the Kurds occupied Baghdad for three years, and God knows what size of tunnels they dug underground.

The Mesopotamian civilization created Baghdad, which is an ancient city. There are many unexplainable things under the city.

The Swiss found several cave entrances and tried to go down to fight the Kurds.

But the final result was that a platoon that went down into the cave never came out. No one knew where they went, and no one knew what happened to them.

Hans Rudolf Merz!

He is now the commander-in-chief of the Swiss army. Ever since 50,000 Swiss prisoners arrived here, the Swiss have been enmity with the Kurds.

In addition, the Pope was pushing behind them to launch a crusade against the pagans. As long as they captured Baghdad, the Ming Dynasty would promise to return Jerusalem to the Christians.

The kind, militant and pious Swiss did not suspect the Pope’s lies!

With the help of the Ming Dynasty, groups of young people who called themselves Crusaders set foot on the land of the Middle East with simple religious enthusiasm.

With the continuous increase of troops in the past four months, the number of Swiss soldiers in the Mesopotamia has reached 100,000.

They devoted themselves to the war very enthusiastically, and their weapons were issued by the Ming Dynasty.

The variety can be called universal brand, because these weapons are all coalition equipment captured by the Ming army during the war.

Fortunately, the European weapons manufacturing technology comes from the United Kingdom, and it is far from reaching the point where a hundred flowers bloom. Except for a few weapons, the calibers are basically the same.

Moreover, Russian weapons also have the same caliber as theirs.

Nowadays, the ammunition manufactured by Tsaritsyn and several arsenals in the rear areas has changed from supporting the European battlefield to supporting the Middle East.

Kuwait Port has become the busiest port in the Middle East, with arms ships unloading here every day to ensure the supply of ammunition to the Swiss.

In order to ensure the military needs of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty went from producing warships like dumplings to producing transport ships like dumplings.

Moreover, these things are getting bigger and bigger. The motor and sailboats have been completely reduced to domestic trade ships, and at most they can only run around in the South China Sea.

A ship of 10,000 tons is no longer considered a big ship. The latest Nagashino launched has a maximum displacement of nearly 200,000 tons.

Moreover, shipyards in Huangdao, Lushun, Java, and Singapore are all launching projects for large cargo ships.

After Li Hao found out, he resolutely stopped these projects.

The reason is simple. You can build such a big ship, but there are not many ports that can dock such a big ship.

You can't just drop anchor in the open sea after arriving at the port, and then use small boats to transfer the goods one by one.

Except for large oil tankers, the maximum tonnage of cargo ships is set at 20,000 tons.

Moreover, the drawings are unified across the country and mass production is carried out. This saves a lot of research and development costs.

If there are problems during production and use, the next batch will be modified.

In this way, after two years of war, Li Xiaomeng discovered that the Ming Dynasty actually possessed unparalleled maritime transportation power.

In today's Ming Dynasty, there are more than 300 cargo ships with tens of thousands of tons. One hundred of them are large cargo ships with 20,000 tons!

There are also ten behemoths of 200,000 tons. Of course, these ten ships are large oil tankers. They specialize in transporting crude oil from the Middle East to Jeju Island, and the port there has been specially modified.

Not to mention berthing a 200,000-ton oil tanker, even an 800,000-ton oil tanker would be no problem.

A huge fleet brings unparalleled transportation capabilities.

Currently, there are more than a hundred 10,000-ton ships sailing in the Mediterranean Sea alone.

These ships made the Ming Dynasty's supplies come alive.

As long as the Ming Dynasty needs it, they can easily transport the manpower of the Ottoman Empire and Egypt to Marrakesh on the other side of the Mediterranean.

Countless ammunition supplies can also be transported from Sevastopol to the Middle East. Ships of crude oil can also be transported from Basra to Sochi for refining, and then supplied to the Ming Dynasty armies throughout Europe.

After the war entered its third year, Li Xiao discovered that the Ming Dynasty was bursting with vitality.

The strong production capacity accommodated a large number of Ming workers and also trained a large number of skilled workers.

If you want to build ships, weapons, and ammunition, you have to make steel.

If you want the troops to wear better clothes, you need textile factories and quilt factories.

Therefore, after the steel plant is expanded, a large number of workers will be needed to work. In this way, there will be fewer idle people in society.

After the textile and quilt factories were built, a large number of women entered the factories.

After these people work, they can receive wages every month.

Workers use their wages to buy fabrics to make clothes, meat to make dumplings, vegetables, fruits, furniture, and even houses.

This promoted the development of various industries, and actually created a booming war economy in the Ming Dynasty during the war.

This was unexpected by Li Xiao!

Can the economy prosper even if we fight a war?

The entire national economy is like a highly efficient machine, constantly circulating and growing.

The people of the Ming Dynasty also discovered that after the war for three years, their lives were getting better and better. Especially in the heavy industrial towns in the north, the wages were generous and there were bonuses at the end of the year, and life was rising step by step every year.

Moreover, some cities in the south have also begun to industrialize. Guangzhou has applied several times to build thermal power plants. The result was rejected by Li Hao!

The Pearl River has abundant water power, and it is located in the south where there is no freezing period in winter. It is a good place to build a new hydropower station.

Originally, it would be best to build hydropower stations in places like Yunnan and Guizhou, and Sichuan is also good.

Unfortunately, development there is not good.

Guangzhou is an important coastal city in the south, and the development of electric power is an indispensable link.

Of course, Li Hao has no nonsense about environmental protection. What he likes most is the low cost of hydroelectric power generation.

As long as you invest in building a dam to hold back the water, the remaining maintenance costs are nothing compared to the output.

Although the Ming Dynasty is prosperous now, Li Hao was poor since he was a child. He is definitely a person who knows how to live a good life!

Li Hao imagined that if hydropower was really feasible, how much electricity could be generated with so many large rivers in the Ming Dynasty.

The electricity bill collected every year is an astronomical figure.

This is a big sum of money, and of course Li Hao will not let it go.

At Li Hao's request, a team of scholars from Tsinghua University took an airship to Guangzhou and were surveying various places to see which places were suitable for building hydropower stations that currently only exist in theory.
Chapter completed!