For the sake of money, Hengliwen decided to let Hu Xueyan go. "Okay, I have 30 million taels of silver in hand. You can help me exchange it for shares of various high-quality assets within seven days..."
"Impossible!" Hu Xueyan slammed the table and stood up. The sound was so loud that the other foreigners in the restaurant were frightened.
"Thirty million taels? Are you dreaming! Do you know how many companies we have to negotiate with? I need to know if the other party is short of money. If they are short of money, do they need your foreign money? If they need money, how much will it cost..."
"These things have to be done by people. Even if a waiter doesn't eat, drink or sleep, how many stores can he negotiate in one day? Seven days? Thirty million taels, your mind is going dizzy!"
"Watch your tone, Mr. Hu... This is a place for gentlemen, please be polite!"
"Fuck your politeness, politeness means eating raw beef with a silver knife and fork? Drinking human blood in a suit? You are a lunatic, I am not. Don't tell me whether I can do this in seven days, even if I can do it, Thirty million taels of silver suddenly hit the market in Jiangnan, how can you hide it from the commander-in-chief?"
"You are not afraid of beheading, I am! If you have the ability, find someone else. I will not serve you anymore..." After saying this, Hu Xueyan turned and left.
This general, Heng Liwen, was speechless. How dare he let Hu Xueyan go? On the surface, he could still maintain a stable attitude, but in his heart, he was already angry!
There has been no news about the Russian fleet in Ryukyu. Now there are more and more pessimistic judgments. Hengliwen has not slept well for half a month. Every time he closes his eyes, he dreams that he is bankrupt, kicked out by the European head office and reduced to the streets of London. beggar.
He originally thought that his group of foreign businessmen would win the Jiangnan Qian Piao Battle, but he did not expect that there would be so many accidents and many incredible interferences during the execution.
As a last resort, he could only put down his face and meet with the Manchus. He hoped to use the power of the Beijing court to tide over this crisis. For him, this money battle was indeed a crisis, related to his life and death.
Just now, he wanted to calm down Hu Xueyan's momentum with deception, but he opened his mouth and angered the other party. Hu Xueyan stood up and stopped playing. Now Hengliwen was panicked.
"Oh oh oh! Dear Hu, why can't you make a joke? This is not the temperament that a good businessman should have. Come on, come on... How about we change a bottle of good wine and continue chatting? Now tell me Tell me, how many shares can you give me at most within seven days?"
For the sake of the interests of the family and the court, Hu Xueyan has to be a ninja even if he is angry. No matter how annoying the other party is, he has to sit down and continue chatting, "Okay, let me tell you the truth. I will contact you four times at most in seven days." One million taels to five million taels of shares, no matter how much it is, it will be difficult to comply with the order, you can find someone else..."
"This is for the sake of the imperial court. If there is no secret order, I will not risk offending the commander-in-chief to help you..."
Hengliwen's face became more and more ugly. The expensive red wine had no mellow taste in his mouth. The more he drank, the more it tasted like vinegar. Four to five million shares are not enough for him to survive the crisis. Without collecting about 20 million shares, he will not be able to make a profit that satisfies London in the next ten years.
He clenched his hands under the table and cursed in his heart, "These damn Qing people, damn Zeng Guofan, damn Xiao Letian... Without them, my plan would have been successful long ago..."
While he was competing, there was suddenly a burst of noise on the street, and then the ladies and gentlemen in the restaurant also stood up and looked out of the glass window.
"What's wrong?" Hengliwen asked the waiter angrily, but he never expected that the waiter would say in horror, "A broken American ship came outside the Huangpu River Estuary... There is already a commotion at the pier, Ryukyu's treasure The island was captured by the Russian expeditionary force, and dozens of tons of gold were robbed..."
"Ah!" Heng Liwen and Hu Xueyan knocked over the table with a clang, leaned on the windows and looked down. Sure enough, an injured clipper ship on the Huangpu River was slowly approaching the dock under the tow of a steam steamer. , the mast is the American flag.
Before the ship entered the dock, countless people on the shore were shouting loudly, "Where are you from? Have you encountered pirates?" and the American sailors on the ship said with disbelief, "No, we were accidentally injured in a naval battle. Yes! The hidden gold island of the Chinese is Amami Oshima, which produces rum and brown sugar. Now it has been captured by the Russians..."
"There are four Chinese treasuries on Amami Island. Dozens of tons of gold and silver are hidden in them. All of them have been robbed by Tsarist Russia..."
One stone stirred up thousands of waves, and the whole dock suddenly screamed. Countless Chinese people couldn't believe their ears. They shouted loudly, "Liar! It's impossible, the prime minister is invincible! They are lying..."
But regardless of whether you accept the news emotionally or not, the news of the defeat began to spread uncontrollably from Shanghai to the inland like a virus.
All the telegraph machines in Shanghai were in operation, and countless people sent messages to Ryukyu for confirmation, but without exception, no reply was received. It seemed that the telegraph control in Naha continued.
Immediately afterwards, telegrams began to spread to various cities in the Qing Dynasty, especially the commercial towns along the Yangtze River Basin, which received the shocking news immediately.
The sky is falling, the earth is sinking! The most feared scene for countless people in Jiangnan appeared. The moment the dice cup was opened, the world was turned upside down.
Facts have proved that human beings are more sensitive to fear than belief. Even if kind people no longer want to believe the news, fear itself is invincible.
I would rather believe it or not. Nan Piao has almost tormented the people of Jiangnan in the past few months. At this moment, a negative news appeared. They obviously couldn't accept it emotionally, but they still couldn't control their hands and feet. All The man ran away to his house.
While running, he was still crying, "Prime Minister! Why did you lose? Why did you lose... Everyone, go home quickly. Convert all the banknotes in your hands into cash... Even some copper coins will do. ! Now it’s really a waste of paper..."
Thousands of people were running on the streets. At that moment, the city of Shanghai was as if the Knife Club was fighting again. Clouds more terrifying than war enveloped the city.
Heng Liwen's heart tightened at that time. He grabbed Hu Xueyan's sleeves tightly as if he was afraid that he would run away. "Mr. Hu! Forget what I asked just now. Don't think about shares. I only have one request now. Help me with a large amount of money." Eat paper money..."
"Hurry, hurry, hurry...it'll be too late if it's too late!"
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