"Brother, how are you?" Seeing the lively eldest brother lying bloodless on the bed, Tagawa Nanzaemon felt like his heart was cut by a knife.

"Isn't that what it is? I got shot in the right chest and I can't die!" Zheng Sen couldn't move, so he could only smile at Tagawa Nanaemon.

In the past few days, Zheng Sen felt that his injury was getting better. However, he always had a numb and itchy feeling in his heart. This feeling made him very bad. Thinking of the backward medical technology in Europe, Zheng Sen felt even more uncomfortable.

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But fortunately, these European doctors did not chop off the feet for leg injuries and the hands for hand injuries as they did in the past. Otherwise, I might have lost an arm now.

"The medical environment in Magdegeburg is still a bit poor. Once your injury stabilizes, our airship will send you back to Crete. The hospital there is much better than here. He even has penicillin.

No!" From the moment he came in, Tagawa Shichizaemon was very dissatisfied with the conditions of the Royal Prussian Medical College.

Especially among the doctors, Tagawa Nanzaemon even saw some with beards. This would never be allowed among the Ming doctors.

In the corridor, there is no smell of disinfectant that often lingers in Daming Hospital.

The nurses were conscientious and took good care of Zheng Sen. But seeing the two lumps on their chests..., Tagawa Nanaemon was worried that his eldest brother wouldn't be able to bear the nosebleeds.

What was most intolerable to Tagawa Shichizaemon was that when Zheng Sen was unconscious, the Prussians actually found Gypsies and used some kind of incense therapy to treat Zheng Sen's illness.

What the hell kind of therapy is aromatherapy? I’ve never heard of it!

Who doesn't know that the Gypsies are a nation that combines chaos and filth. Tagawa Nanaemon, who has some medical knowledge, is afraid that those Gypsies who are full of stench will pass some unknown diseases to Zheng Sen.

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Now that he is here, he must send Zheng Sen back to Crete for treatment.

"No, I still have things to do here. Just ask Crete to send some doctors and nurses to take care of me here. Since the commander has sent you here, I will tell you about Russia

Ideas." Lying in bed these days, Zheng Sen thought about things in Russia.

Looking at it now, the main target of the Ming Dynasty is Russia. But Russia is a big country, and its huge territory makes it difficult for foreign enemies to deal with it.

It is simply impossible for the Ming Dynasty to eat Russia. The Ming Dynasty and Russia are separated by the distant Siberian Icefield. Food cannot be grown there, and the climate is cold and harsh.

The people of Ming Dynasty who are accustomed to comfort will never want to live there. Even if they are given free money, they have to think twice about that kind of place.

In addition, Central Asia is now also the sphere of influence of the Russians. The general said that the Ming Dynasty only wanted to occupy the entire Ili Valley. Li Xiao had no more ambitions for Central Asia.

The reason is that it can still be defeated, but it is too far away from the Ming Dynasty to implement effective rule. In fact, there is already such a problem in the Ili Valley now. The Ming Dynasty has already felt that it is unable to rule a place so far away from the center.

Then there is only one way to deal with Russia, and that is to use European countries.

In order to prove its loyalty, the new loser Ottoman Empire has been at war with Russia. The purpose of coming to Europe is to organize a European coalition to attack Russia.

Use the power of European countries to completely defeat Russia and dismember the polar bear into many countries. Anyway, what Li Xiao means is that the smaller the countries in this world, the better. It is best to be like Belgium or Luxembourg in Western Europe, where one city is a country.

Dismembering the huge Russia and eliminating potential strategic competitors is the main purpose of this suppression of Russia.

"Brother, I think that in fact, there is no need to go to war like that to deal with Russia." Tagawa Nanzaemon said hesitantly when he saw his elder brother talking about Russia.

"Oh! Do you have your own opinion? Tell me?" Zheng Sen was very happy that this younger brother, who had been dull since childhood, had his own opinion. But I want to see how much knowledge Tagawa Nanaemon has gained in the past few years.

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"The traditions of European countries are different from ours! People of the Ming Dynasty prefer farming, and people of countries affected by the Ming Dynasty, such as Korea, Japan, and Jiaozhi, all like to farm and use the output of the land to support themselves.

But Europeans are different. Their ancestors did not farm. They preferred trade! In Egypt, I checked a lot of information. I found that two to three thousand years ago, trade around the Mediterranean was very prosperous.

The reason why they like trade is very simple, because in many places in Europe the land is very barren and it is difficult to grow food to survive. They have to rely on trade to make money to support themselves!

Although Russia has a vast land, they own Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe. It is the birthplace of the Slavs!

If European countries need to trade to purchase food, then Russia is actually the main supplier of food.

Over the years, Russia has provided large amounts of grain to European countries every year in exchange for money to support their domestic industrial development.

I heard a horrifying thing. Last winter, because the food requisition was too harsh, it led to a famine in Ukraine. More than a million Ukrainians starved to death, and there was even a case of cannibalism in Ukraine.

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"No way! The Russians have done so well, don't they know that without the people, they will never have taxpayers in the future?" Zheng Sen's eyes widened in surprise when he heard Tagawa Nanzaemon's words.

How much water must this Russian empress have in her head to do such a thing?

Those who died were all those who paid taxes to her. Only if there are more and more people like this, will she become richer and richer. This is the development idea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, so if a Ming Dynasty person gives birth to a child, the government will ring a gong.

The drummer brings rewards.

If there are many children in the family, the court will also allocate money and food every month to support the family's expenses.

The most popular thing Li Xiao said is that everything is people-oriented!

Under this idea, the population of Ming Dynasty grew rapidly. The number of registered residents has already exceeded 200 million, and it may not take many years to exceed 300 million.

More than once, Zheng Sen saw Li Xiao losing his temper while looking at the huge map. The northwest plains of Longxing, the land of the Chinese nation, needed a population. The places in the southwest where Han and barbarians were mixed also needed Han people.

The vast Western Region, which had just been conquered, still needed people.

But there were only a few people in the Ming Dynasty, and except for Shandong, the land everywhere seemed very abundant.

As a result, people from Shandong have become the main targets for immigration. Immigration officers go through the streets every day to encourage people to go out and make a living. As long as you are willing to leave, they will immediately bring a pile of directions to where you want to go.

The vast black land in Northeast China is seriously lacking people to cultivate. It is also the main immigration target of Shandong people!

No one wants to go to the remaining northwest, western regions, and southwest.

The imperial court had no choice but to encourage people from Jiangnan to immigrate. However, a few people were willing to leave the beautiful mountains and rivers of Jiangnan and continue living in the border areas.

The Ming Dynasty had attached great importance to population to this extent, so why was Russia still killing its own people? No matter what, Zheng Sen could not understand what the Russian Empress Catherine was thinking.

"I have an idea, that is, to expose this matter and let European countries unite to impose economic sanctions on Russia. In other words, everyone unites not to do business with Russia.

Anyway, in recent years, Russia's purchases from European countries have all focused on machinery and technology. This kind of thing is easy for governments to control." Tagawa Nanzaemon's idea is very consistent with the current thinking of Japanese people. That is, no war.

And the conquering soldiers!

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" has a profound influence on the Japanese country. In recent years, Li Xiao has intentionally or unintentionally kept the Japanese country away from war. The collapse of the samurai class and the rise of the emerging wealthy class have had a huge impact on the young people of the urban Japanese country.

Nowadays, the people of Japan no longer pay attention to the honor of warriors, but are more envious of those who have money. Even if you make a fortune through flesh and blood business, it is not a shameful thing in Japan.

Japanese people now believe in no-contact war. Trade wars, or economic blockades, have become the main means by which Japan sanctions other countries.

Zheng Sen was very interested in this new method introduced by Tagawa Nanzaemon.

Tagawa Shichizaemon is right. As long as the Europeans unite to block Russia, Russia will definitely be struggling economically. After all, Russia relies on exports to exchange for the equipment, technology, and talents they need.

"You have been in the Middle East for a long time and know Europe better than I do. If we cut off Russia's exports, who should the Europeans buy food from?" After all, Zheng Sen has been in the capital of the Ming Dynasty all year round and knows far more about Europe.

Not as many as Tagawa Shichizaemon.

"This is easy to handle! Egypt has large areas of fertile land, and the Tigris and Euphrates river basins are also famous grain-producing areas. A little further away is India, not to mention that our Ming Dynasty has more grain than we can eat every year.

If the corn we feed our pigs is shipped to Europe, it will be good business. Not to mention, on the other side of the Atlantic, the North American territories continue to encroach on the Indians' land.

They purchased a large number of black slaves from Africa, planted food and cotton in the manors, and engaged in rubber tapping. In this way, the food problem was no longer an issue.

Don't think that if you leave Ukraine, people across Europe will be hungry. There are many places to find food around the world.

We can also collect some rice at low prices from countries such as Cochin, Siam, and Myanmar and sell it to European countries."

"But the rice in those places tastes so bad that people in the Ming Dynasty used it to feed pigs." Zheng Sen immediately rejected Tagawa Shichizaemon's words. Zheng Sen hated the rice in those places.

Eating those damn rice at the bottom is not much different from eating wood residue.

"Europeans have very rough mouths. They can eat almost anything. Believe it or not, there are still people in Magdegeburg who eat raw meat? I guess in the whole of Europe, only the French have a bit rougher mouths, and the rest

It’s all like that. The further north you go, the more it becomes like this.”

This is the advantage of Tagawa Shichizaemon. Due to climate reasons, the economy of Northern Europe is not very developed. Those who do business here all year round are all Japanese merchants. Ming merchants rarely set foot in such a place where profits are thin.
Chapter completed!