I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

During clinical trials, Pfizer's technicians found that the drug had no effect on cardiovascular disease control in the elderly.

This is the case in modern drug research. It is considered good luck to have a special drug among a hundred experimental products, so the technicians are not particularly disappointed.

But when they asked the volunteers who tested the drug, especially the elderly men, to return the remaining experimental drugs, they were all rejected.

This puzzled the researchers.

It wasn't until several elderly people couldn't resist the researchers' repeated inquiries that they revealed the mystery that this drug can make old men return to youth.

Naturally, Stonewall Jackson, a 60-year-old man, also found pleasure in the drug.

As for President Davis?

Let him go to hell!

Stonewall Jackson had a ghost in his heart. He was afraid that Robert Lee would ask about the whereabouts of the medicine, so he quickly changed the topic: "Li, don't you think your recent clothes are a bit out of the ordinary?"

Indeed, even Robert Lee, who is basking in the sun today, is still wearing a pink suit, a green bow tie in front of his neck, very thin, straight flared trousers on his lower body, and a silver-gray cross hanging on his chest , with sunglasses on his forehead, a Cuban cigar in his mouth, and silver-white hair neatly arranged with hairspray.

"Also, what kind of books are you reading?"

Jackson reached out and snatched a well-printed book from his old friend, "The Godfather? What the hell is this?"

"Hehe, old man, it's time for you to develop some hobbies! There are many beautiful things in life besides fighting wars, such as studying aesthetics, reading literature..."

Robert Lee snatched "The Godfather" back, and introduced: "This is the third chapter of the "Gentleman Trilogy" by the great writer Huang He, who is now a hot all-rounder in the literary world!"

"Honestly, I have only recently become obsessed with this book. The first two parts of the "Gentleman Trilogy", stories about detectives and theologians are really not my appetite, but this "Godfather" is not much. You can even learn a lot about how to behave and how to manage your subordinates from the excellent novels you have won."

As he spoke, Robert Lee took the cigar out of his mouth and flicked the ashes, and said, "Of course, based on what I know about you, the "Detective Zhuge Watson" series may be more suitable for you."

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While the two old men were discussing literature, an indescribable fragrance wafted from the camp.

"Li, it seems that the new type of oatmeal porridge is ready, do you want to try some together?"

"Of course, that gentleman is really a generous person. He also added nutritious fish meal to the grains. From the initial discomfort, after constant adjustments by the quartermasters, he has now invented the method of making mud, baking, and boiling. Soup and other cooking methods, Yufawang's new cereal has completely conquered the stomachs of the boys!"

As he spoke, Robert Lee jumped off the camp bed, touched his buttocks and thighs subconsciously, and murmured:

"I don't know if it's an illusion. I feel that I have become stronger recently. This set of well-cut flared pants seems to be a little tight... Hey, I will drink a bowl of porridge for a while..."

"Li, can't we send troops now? It's going to be busy farming!" Jackson asked unwillingly.

"Busy farming? What I'm waiting for is busy farming!"

Robert Lee put the books away, and said with a smile, "I'm not as good as you compared to leading troops to fight, but compared to strategy, I'm afraid I'm better than you."

This is Robert Lee's conspiracy.

In this era, neither the South nor the North has the ability to maintain a professional army of hundreds of thousands or millions of people.

Many troops are the so-called "volunteer army", that is, the troops raised by the states themselves and organized by the free people themselves. The organizational structure is slightly stronger than that of the militia.

However, whether it is a volunteer army or a militia, many of them are self-cultivating farmers, and they need to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture every spring during the busy farming season.

Moreover, compared with the plantations in the south that used a large number of black slaves, the farms of the yeoman in the north were even less labor-intensive.

Therefore, Robert E. Lee was ready to attack him by surprise at this point in time, and beat the snake seven inches.

Of course, his Army of Northern Virginia was also essentially a volunteer army.

The reason why Robert Lee dared to formulate such a combat plan to kill one thousand enemies and harm eight hundred is because he now has a stable and reliable food supplier.

The freedom-loving righteous person from the Northwest Territories sent Robert Lee a steady stream of food.

That gentleman was so generous that even Robert Lee was ashamed of the low price he paid for it!

That gentleman is using his net worth to subsidize the diet of the southern boys!

Chapter 154 Steady Improvement

"Going to the ocean with a basket and a bag on my back, I was crying for my parents in a foreign land. The South China Sea was suffering so much, and tears dripped all over Qizhou Ocean. I made the hard-earned money of cows and horses and sent it back to Tangshan to raise my parents."

This is a song sung by the first generation of Chinese who went to Nanyang and entered the Americas. It reflects the living conditions of the Chinese workers from the side.

As the construction of the Pacific Railway required more and more Chinese laborers, there are now more and more piggy ships in the Pacific Ocean.

And on this kind of ship, the death rate of the Chinese workers is at least [-]%, and sometimes it is not impossible for more than half of them to die.

It was precisely in order to change this situation, at least to prevent Daming's background from being stained with the blood of too many compatriots, that Zhu Fugui went to great lengths to acquire ten ocean-going transport ships.

For the time being, these ten ships also belonged to the navy order, commanded by Zheng Baoguo, the admiral of the navy.

These ships are "Fuyu", "National", "Culture", "Peace", "Self-discipline", "Ping An", "Gongde", "Law", "Aimin", "Salute" Number".

As for the "Sincerity" and "Friendship", there are already design drawings. They will be the first and second sea-going ships independently designed and built by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty.

The average weight of these ten transport ships is 2000 tons. They are mainly steam-powered wooden hull ships, supplemented by sail power, and try to save coal as much as possible during the oceangoing process.

And today is the day when this fleet sails.

"I would rather think of a pinch of soil in my hometown than ten thousand taels of gold in another country..."

"Sleepy Lord, I understand!"

Donald wisely picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, threw it into the Coke, and gulped it down.

Zhu Fugui stared at all this in astonishment.

To be honest, I feel that it is not good to feed my courtiers soil every time, so Zhu Fugui specially prepared black coffee this time as a substitute.

But Comrade Tang is so active, it's hard to refute his elegance.

Zhu Fugui shook his head, and sprinkled coffee on the cokes of Zheng Baoguo, Wang Zhonghuang, and Morishita Noichiro.

During Donald's business trip this time, he was naturally negotiating with Minister Tian Bei as Washington's special envoy, trying to prostitute those Taiping soldiers for nothing.

In fact, along the way, the Deming Fleet will ship Citigroup of the United States, and various procedures are also using false certificates from the US government.

In addition to the ten transport ships, the "Yangzhou" and "Jiading" will escort and break away from the formation on the return journey, attacking the Russians on Kodiak Island, and actively firing the first shot in the Ming-Russia naval battle.

Gunboat escort is necessary.

This is the first long-distance voyage of the Ming Dynasty transport team, and they will encounter various unexpected problems along the way, so they must be fully prepared.

Especially according to the plan, the fleet will also stop at Kagoshima in Satsuma, Japan.

It is well known that the Japanese in this era are more fond of terrorist attacks than they are, and they assassinate and explode foreigners stationed in Japan at every turn, which is completely different from those wastes of later generations.

Therefore, Ming's fleet must also beware of Japanese attacks.

As for pirates...

Zhu Fugui had never heard of such a force existing in the Pacific Ocean in this era.

However, to be on the safe side, the Daming navy was dispatched in full for the first voyage.

In terms of gross tonnage, the fleet sailed this time, and it is likely to be the largest ocean voyage in the Chinese civilization circle since Zheng He's voyages to the West.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Fugui to be a prodigal like Zhu Di.

That's right, Zhu Di's maritime policy and strategy had many problems to turn such a profitable business as sailing into a money-losing product. It's no wonder that Liu Daxia and other courtiers avoided the word "voyage to the West" 100 years later.

Of course, it is not realistic to learn from the triangular trade of Western colonists and roll up population, precious metals, coffee, and sugar to obtain hundreds of times of excess profits.

On the transport ship bound for the east, it carried industrial products produced by Daming, mainly rich gold watches produced by Daming Watch Factory itself, Daqianmen cigarettes, and... several thousand catties of American ginseng...

American ginseng belongs to Araliaceae and Panax genus, and is a close relative of ginseng.

In the eighteenth century, two French missionaries saw the worship of ginseng in the Far East, and then thought about whether they could find similar plants in other places, and then made a fortune.

Finally, they inquired about a kind of herbal medicine called "Galanta group" for treating headaches and trauma from the Indian population in Northwest North America and southern Canada.

This is the later famous American ginseng.

This plant has made a lot of money for Citigroup's trade with China for more than a hundred years. The Americans even added American ginseng to the Pharmacopoeia in 2005, even though they never use it themselves.

Zhu Fugui is not very proficient in the ancient and profound Chinese medicine, but regardless of whether this thing is effective or not, anyway, the territory of Daming happens to be a high-yielding area of ​​American ginseng.

If the money is not earned by himself, it will be earned by the Americans. Zhu Fugui can only dump medicinal materials to the motherland with tears in his eyes.

Speaking of which, for a long time, Zhu Fugui had no idea that there was American ginseng nearby.

Previously, the "miracle doctor" of Ming Dynasty was too strong, and the Yin people were embarrassed to present "Galante group" to Zhu Fugui, which made him miss a lot of business opportunities.

Fortunately, the conditions of the new mercenary group are relatively difficult, and they are still using this ginseng-like medicine to treat trauma. They were accidentally discovered by a Chinese instructor and reported it immediately.

This is how lumberjacks searched for American ginseng all over the mountains and plains, and Yin Weasel led people to visit several major tribes of the Sioux to exchange flour for American ginseng.

In short, these are wild ginseng.

Whether it is the Far East in the second half of the 21th century when ginseng disappeared, or China in the [-]st century, these things are very valuable.

This time, Zhu Fugui also took some of the goods to Shanghai to explore the market. If the market is ideal, selling it in this era and exchanging it for gold is the most cost-effective and the most economical value of civilization.

Otherwise, it can only be sold on the platform.

In addition to American ginseng, the tobacco company is also a new key project in Fengdu Industrial Zone.

To be precise, tobacco is not only an industry, but also agriculture.

Like the flour mill, because the Production and Construction Corps has not yet been established, and the Xinjin Agricultural Reclamation Area has not yet landed, the cigarette factory is actually a factory that processes incoming materials.

While selling clothes through the British channel, Daming also purchased agricultural products such as cotton and coffee from the southern states, including tobacco leaves.

It is well known that the profits of cigarettes are astonishingly high, and they are also large taxpayers.

In the future, the annual cigarette money of Chinese smokers is enough for the country to pack military expenditures, and help the poor by the way.

And objectively, smokers are also contributing to the country's fight against population aging.

It can be said that the smoker is full of treasures, and we should love him.

In Zhu Fugui's era, it is pure nonsense to promote that smoking is harmful to health.

The average life expectancy of a person is less than 35 years old, so let’s get comfortable before we wait for the harm to occur.

So Zhu Fugui still supports the development of the tobacco industry.

At present, Daming Royal Cigarette Factory has two main brands, one is the high-end brand Zhu Baolu, and the other is the mass brand Daqianmen.

Zhu Baolu is divided into mixed type and flue-cured type, but Daqianmen only has flue-cured type.

Chinese people still prefer flue-cured cigarettes, so the Deming fleet mainly brought Daqianmen, with only a small amount of Zhu Baolu, which was mainly handed over to Donald instead of Huazi to establish a good relationship with the American minister.

As for the last product - Fugui watches, although the quantity is not much, it is the first precision industrial product of the Ming Dynasty.

New China established several watch factories in Shanghai and other places, and created many brilliance, but most of these factories have been silent today.

In fact, except for high-end mechanical watches, the entire mechanical watch industry has already faded away. With the ubiquitous mobile phones, many people find it troublesome to even have an electronic version, let alone a mechanical watch.

Zhu Fugui bought the obsolete mechanical watch production line and factory building design drawings online without spending much money.

In fact, compared with the "gold watches" that were installed by the Ming Dynasty Navy and Army and purchased from later generations for 100 yuan, Fugui watches do not have any cost-effective advantages.

However, in order to upgrade the industry of Ming Dynasty, from a logging empire to an industrial powerhouse, independent production is a must.

Including parts production and even steelmaking further upstream in the industrial chain, these will be gradually implemented in the first five-year plan.

But before that, through entry-level industrial exercises such as cigarette factories, flour mills, and watch factories (to be precise, assembly factories), the quality of industrial workers in Daming is steadily improving.

Chapter 155 Why Isn't Mi Jun Coming?

Since the power of artillery has become more and more powerful, the traditional city walls have gradually become useless.

Therefore, Ming's Zhuqinuo Line of Defense is not a traditional fortification like the Great Wall, but a modernized military defense belt.

As the name suggests, Zhuchino does have many similarities with the famous Maginot Line in World War II, or he stole from the French.

Anyway, if there are too many lice, it will not itch, and if there are too many debts, you will not worry.

Zhu Fugui, who had already studied under Da India, Chang Kaishen, and Yuan Datou, simply gave up on himself and learned advanced experience from Faji.

Although the daily milk method was one of the few pastimes in Zhu Fugui's lonely emperor's life, the Maginot Line itself was absolutely qualified as a barrier against the enemy.

In 1928, France built a defense line about 390 kilometers long along the border in order to defend against German invasion.

This line of defense spent half of the French defense budget, about 40 billion francs, and was hailed as a line of defense that could never be breached.

That's exactly what happened.

Due to Belgium's cheating behavior, and the Germans unexpectedly broke through the Ardennes Forest with 250 million elite main forces, Nac's peak of soldiers was approaching Paris.