Being rich or having no money is actually a relative concept, not an absolute concept. In the eyes of the poor, a landlord is already rich if he can eat polished rice and white noodles every meal, and the landlord envies the high-ranking officials who eat bird's nest and shark's fin every day. Ying Ying Yan Yan.
People at every level actually think that they are poor, because everyone at every level of society has their own troubles, and no one can avoid this.
The destitute small farmers will worry about dinner, the homesteaders will lament taxes and corvee, and the landlords and giant businessmen will also worry about where to get the start-up capital for the next big business, and there will never be enough money.
People of different classes have different issues to consider and have different ideals. Xiao Letian's crying for poverty is just pretentious in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of these die-hard subordinates, it is just a matter of worrying about the humiliation of his ministers. What a shame.
With a cash reserve of 20 million taels, this is such a huge wealth. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is as rich as anyone in the country. What's more, with a cash reserve of 20 million taels, Xiao Letian's total assets must reach two to three hundred million taels. The total size of silver.
The title of the richest man in Asia cannot be escaped. It is indeed pretentious for such a person to cry about poverty, but no one can forget that Xiao Letian has such a huge wealth and the responsibilities he bears are even greater than ever before.
If you want to rely on Ryukyu, an emerging power group, to maintain the security of China's coastal areas for at least ten years, such a huge responsibility is placed on you. Is 20 million taels enough? It is far from enough.
Five years to prepare for war, five years to rebuild, and a total of ten years to allow China to complete the rebalancing of domestic forces, rally people's hearts, and then fully promote the industrialization process.
This is the limit of what Xiao Letian can do, to give all Chinese nations a ten-year period of safe reorganization. During this period, Xiao Letian can grit his teeth, vomit blood, and do everything he can to save some for the selfish guys in the country. China's vitality, and ten years is really his limit.
Once the armored battleship model is popularized for ten years, the money consumed by the arms race is not something Ryukyu can afford. It must be built together with the national strength of all China.
Think about the First World War 46 years later. Within 4 years and 3 months, 33 countries participated in the war, and more than 1.5 billion people were involved in the war. Both sides mobilized 65.4 million troops, and suffered more than 30 million military and civilian casualties. , direct war costs were US$186.3 billion, and property losses were US$330 billion.
This is simply not a game that Xiao Letian can afford to play alone. All human beings and all nations are involved in that flesh and blood millstone in order to survive. It will not be complete if the last piece of bone and slag is not crushed.
"I, Xiao Letian, can only protect you for ten years. After ten years, I will relieve myself of all responsibilities... If China's national destiny does not return to the glorious path that should belong to us by then, I swear, I will tear it to pieces with my own hands. All my vows, I will give up the ideal of saving the fate of the country with the least blood..."
"Don't think that I, Xiao Letian, can't kill people, don't think that I am really a terminally ill patient with Mary's disease. If this thief God still proves to me ten years later that he wants so many lives as flesh and blood sacrifices... then fine, I Xiao Letian will do it himself and let me bear the sin of massacring hundreds of millions of people alone."
No one has ever seen Xiao Letian's face so ferocious and terrifying. None of the important ministers in the attic is a god of murder who has experienced hundreds of battles, but in the face of the terrifying murderous intent released by Xiao Letian, the wine glasses in their hands were shaking.
No one heard clearly what Xiao Letian was talking to himself. They seemed to have heard about ten years, oaths, sacrifices, killings, etc. However, these important ministers who knew Xiao Letian best felt the influence of the Prime Minister's temperament. Dramatic changes occurred.
If Xiao Letian in the past was strong with a hint of cynicism, no matter how difficult the situation was, it would be difficult for him to get truly angry. Yes, even if Xiao Letian scolded and jumped higher, people could feel him at that time. Hidden beneath the surface of anger is control over everything.
Although Xiao Letian was just mumbling to himself today, people could feel that Xiao Letian really encountered a big problem, and his vague control ability seemed to be weakening.
How did they know that the time traveler's dividends will be used up one day? The more he changes, the world will deviate more and more from the past trajectory. When everything goes away, the time traveler's pair of The divine eye that sees through the fog of history will gradually lose its luster.
The road ahead will become increasingly difficult, and the confidence to win will fade little by little. This sense of powerlessness will be fatal to the travelers.
How could it not be fatal? Xiao Letian knew very well that the steel giant that he and Bismarck had worked so hard to build was 20 years ahead of this era, but it was not really 20 years ahead of the world.
As long as the secret of the Zhiyuan is revealed to the world, Britain will definitely be able to copy a better warship and form a combat effectiveness within two years. In this way, what Xiao Letian is fighting for is actually just a two-year generation difference.
What followed was a crazy naval arms race. Britain didn't even have to go to war with Ryukyu directly. It could bring down Xiao Letian just by depleting its national power.
Fan Qian couldn't see his uncle's anxious and angry expression. He slapped his thigh, "Uncle, don't worry about money. It's just money. I'll collect it for you... We also have gold and jewelry in our secret vault. I'll give them to you." You become money..."
"I can manipulate the bonds issued by Jiangnan. I think the extra issuance of more than 20 million taels will not cause a credit collapse. As long as Hu Xueyan and Marshal Zeng don't undermine us, we can still get through it..."
"As long as the crisis you mentioned has passed, uncle, we can secretly repurchase the bonds, and then the holes will be filled up by unknown sources. Don't worry, there is no obstacle in the world that you can't overcome... Don't scare me with that face. .”
Xiao Letian quickly gave his father-in-law a toast with a wry smile, "Father-in-law, Lao Taishan, things are really not that simple. You think that the gods and ghosts are unknown. You think that you are safe after taking care of the Jiangnan Consortium represented by Hu Xueyan and Marshal Zeng."
"How can foreigners just give up? What they are best at is shearing sheep. If I guessed correctly, they have already set their sights on Jiangnan's bonds, and now is the time to slowly buy in..."
"Maybe a few years later, the moment when the sky collapses and the earth collapses will occur. We will not only face the enemy's foreign guns, cannons and warships, but we will even encounter bankers shearing sheep and eventually destroy our economy..."
"What evil have I done? Why did I use credit currency to create something like this..."
The people present were all the elites among the elites, and the window paper was pierced in many things at the slightest moment, and there was a dead silence in the attic. Only then did they realize that the gap between the Qing Dynasty and the Western powers was so big and deep.
"Ah." Luo Huo couldn't stand the depressing atmosphere in the attic. He suddenly opened the window and let the cool sea breeze blow into the house. "It's suffocating me to death. I'm suffocating it to death... Why are you thinking so much? We came all the way to rely on each other. What is it, isn’t it just a person with a clear conscience?”
"Let's just fight the enemy when he comes. Why are you thinking so much? It's going to rain, but the mother is going to get married. People will die and birds will not die for tens of millions of years. Why have you all become so dull and depressed in these years?"
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