Zai Chun finally accepted his master's advice and chose to shut up, so the subsequent conflict was between Xiao Letian and the court.
Of course, Beijing City flatly denied Xiao Letian's accusations, and even dismissed Xiao Letian's confession evidence. In this spy war, Four-Nine City chose a shameless and very wise response, no matter what Xiao Letian said What we are is a denial.
We don't have the technology to take banknotes, and we don't send spies. It's all your fault, Xiao Letian, who wants to accuse you. Those so-called spies and testimonies are all forged, and the court will not admit them.
Xiao Letian saw how this could work and acted like a rogue. At that time, he said that if this matter was not properly resolved, then the Ministry of Revenue bond plan would be shelved indefinitely. You can do whatever the court wants. You deserve to die in poverty.
The imperial court was more enthusiastic this time, thinking that anyway, you, Xiao Letian, had already invested several million in the early stage. Now if you terminate the plan, no one will refund the money to you. You can do whatever you like.
This is acting like a rogue. Once you get the money, you don't care about the life or death of others. According to rumors, Xiao Letian smashed a set of fine porcelain tea cups after knowing the court's attitude.
Xiao Letian was furious, and the court laughed. After fighting Xiao Letian for so many rounds, this was the first time that he was defeated. The court felt as if he had won a battle, and everyone ate two more bowls of dry rice.
What satisfied the conservatives even more was that Zai Chun was obedient and kept his mouth shut during this conflict. This made the conservatives very happy. It seemed that the emperor still bled Manchu blood after all, and he was still reliable at critical moments.
The only thing that made the court a little dissatisfied was the attitude of the British. Yang Zhi and the others were detained by the British as soon as they arrived in Hong Kong. The court negotiated for three days before releasing them, and no explanation was given in the end.
Only Yang Zhi and the three of them knew that three days was enough for the British to pry Yang Zhi's mouth open.
The British did not use torture, but calmly analyzed the situation with Yang Zhi. Xiao Letian was unstoppable at the height of his power, and Yang Zhi's life was not a problem for him, while the Manchu Qing Dynasty could protect him for a while but could not protect him for a lifetime.
Whose thigh is thicker now? Of course it belongs to the British. Not to mention that the British have now occupied 90% of the land in Australia. Each person is given a thousand acres as a manor. Yang Zhi gives a little more two thousand acres, and then Open three accounts at Standard Chartered Bank, and each of the two guards will be given 10,000 pounds, and Yang Zhi will be given 50,000 pounds.
Not to mention the stinginess of the British. In the 19th century, the purchasing power of the pound was linked to gold. A skilled seamstress in London earned only 20 pounds a year, and a male clerical white-collar worker only earned 100-200 pounds a year. Between ordinary miners and blue-collar skilled workers, the annual salary is about 70 pounds a year.
Fifty thousand pounds was a huge sum of money for that era.
How dare Yang Zhi refuse to agree? He knew that if he said no, let alone saying that the money was gone, he would be tortured to extract a confession immediately. He did not betray Ryukyu just to suffer.
Yang Zhi happily told the British all the craftsmanship he knew, and the British promised to keep the three of them secret and protect them at critical moments.
No one knew that Yang Zhi had sold the craftsmanship of banknotes, and sold it to Britain, the world's most powerful country at the time. If Xiao Letian found out, he would probably dig up Yang Zhi's ancestral grave.
In fact, most of Xiao Letian's anger is fake. Xiao Letian is very open-minded about counterfeit currency. You can treat the so-called counterfeit currency as the extra inflation caused by the normal currency issuance process.
This is a parasite in normal economic circulation, just a leech. Not to mention the court, Xiao Letian himself is also quietly promoting inflation.
With 1 million bonds in his hand, Xiao Letian can secretly print out 1.2 million bonds. The 200,000 is actually inflation, a reasonable inflation, because the Qing Dynasty's economy is really too big. This kind of inflation People don't feel it at all.
Now that there is one more person fighting for food, the court also wants a share of the pie, which means that it is very likely that the debt of 1 million yuan in the Ministry of Household Affairs will eventually be printed out 1.5 million banknotes, of which the court has stuffed 300,000 yuan for inflation, which is also It is equivalent to the imperial court stealing 300,000 yuan of wealth in vain.
But whether the meat rots in the pot or not, the money still circulates in the economic circle of East Asia. Xiao Letian can definitely make money back with arms, telegraph companies, shareholding reforms... and even the promotion of various new technologies in the future. .
Isn’t money created just for flow? As long as it flows, wealth can be created. Why worry about who belongs to it? As long as you can grasp the pulse of technology and always be ahead of others, then the control of wealth will be firmly in your hands. in your hands.
But now the British have joined in, and the Japanese have come to the village to take a look, and they don't want to shoot. This is troublesome. This big leech drinks enough blood, and will eventually vomit it back to Europe.
Moreover, with the British coinage technology and their national strength, the counterfeit coins produced by the British are likely to be more exquisite and beautiful than the genuine Ryukyu coins. This is how bad coins drive out good coins.
Yang Zhi, a national thief, has caused immeasurable losses to the entire Chinese nation for his own selfish interests. It may be a loss of 10 million, or a loss of one billion.
Sure enough, there is a thief inside the family and a ghost outside.
Of course, Yang Zhi and the others would not tell the court what happened. They also knew that the matter was a bit big, so after arriving in Guangzhou, they did not find a woman or have a banquet. They quickly contacted the Manchurian general and sent heavy troops to start heading north. Capital.
It is now the end of November in 1867, the sixth year of Tongzhi. The temperature in Ryukyu is cool in winter, which is very suitable for people to live in. However, the north is already covered with snow, and the capital is already filled with soot.
The war of words between Xiao Letian and the imperial court has been going on for more than a month. Fortunately, there is now some telegraph line between Ryukyu and the capital, which makes it possible for the two sides to curse thousands of miles apart.
Xiao Letian began to dig deeper for spies, and new pieces of evidence were thrown into the court, but the court was still the same as in the past. It is shameless and refuses to admit it. I will not admit it to my life. What can you do? Even your evidence I said is Fake.
But the strange thing is that both sides fought relatively restrainedly. They fought internally at the imperial court level, and the whole world did not make a fuss about it. Therefore, the lives of ordinary people were not affected at all. They could eat and drink as they should. Anyway, this year the imperial court paid silver and flags. The salary supplements were abundant, people's pockets were loosened, and there was a lot more laughter in the capital.
Everyone thought that Xiao Letian was completely helpless this time. When the imperial court won a game, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Xiao Letian began to fight back, and the imperial court finally paid the price.
