Intelligence warfare is an asymmetric war. Information transmission has always been very difficult for mankind since ancient times. Even with the advent of telegraph technology, it is not optimistic.
The early telegraph companies were comparable to the most profitable IT and Internet companies in later generations, and definitely comparable to Microsoft and Internet.
Ordinary people simply cannot afford such high-tech products, and only those big businesses may be willing to spend money to deliver messages. In fact, the most important customers of the telegraph network are government officials.
In fact, the transmission of information between Europe and Asia is still very closed. Some major military events, such as the victory or defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, will of course be transmitted to Asia in time.
However, no one wants to popularize the specific details of this kind of victory, because no one is willing to use telegrams to send detailed battle reports.
A battle report has tens of thousands of words. Calculated based on one tael of silver per word, it costs tens of thousands of taels of silver. Who do you think is willing to give it?
This is the case in Asia right now. Everyone in the market knows that the head of state has won, but how did this victory come about, how hard was the fight, and what were the details of the negotiations after the end of the war?
All questions have no answers, because the most detailed cables will always be in the CIA's safe, and people on the market will never know.
Xiao Hexin, the left-behind official, and a large number of Chinese elders, took advantage of this asymmetry of information to formulate plans bit by bit.
A lot of blockbuster news cannot be thrown out casually. This kind of news is used to shake up the situation, just like right now.
The credit crisis of Chinese banknotes has always existed, because the rules of the game formulated by Xiao Letian itself are to borrow money from the future to do things now.
Gather the power of the whole society, overdraw the society's financial resources, and then concentrate on industrialization and military modernization, and go out to fight a big war!
After winning, the Chinese nation's national fortunes soared, and the dividends from the war and the industrial revolution could easily make up for the overdraft!
After losing, they broke up. Xiao Letian took his wealth and went into exile overseas, leaving behind a China that was riddled with holes. Let’s slowly use time to repair it!
Xiao Letian sounds a bit evil when he says this, but in fact he is such an evil person!
This Zamboanga plan against the Spaniards is to restore the Han family's historical rights to the South China Sea. This is a tough battle that must be fought.
The First World War in Borneo had shocked the Dutch colonists, the Franco-Prussian War had knocked down France's arrogance, and London's difficult diplomacy had made Britain neutral.
Who is left in the end? There is only one Spain, and there is only one Spain left in Southeast Asia. If Spain is eliminated, at least in the South China Sea, the Chinese will be the well-deserved boss.
To fight against the outside world, one must first secure the inside. Xiao Hexin cannot issue a general offensive order in the first step, and then a run on banknotes will occur in the second step!
If you want to start a war, you must stabilize the hearts and minds of the currency market. As long as you stabilize the hearts of these Chinese Gods of Wealth, then the wave of bank runs by the little foreign devils will not be a concern at all.
The currency market is about real money and silver, and it is also a battlefield about confidence. A clear expectation is too important for these businessmen.
This blockbuster news dropped by Hu Xueyan directly shocked all the God of Wealth present!
Tanggu, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Naha... On this day, the compensation details of the Paris peace talks draft were also thrown out. The amount of compensation of 50 million taels of silver shocked everyone present speechless, and the venue was deathly silent.
Ancestor Huangtian! Winning the battle isn't the end of the story, do we have to pay compensation in the end?
Oh my God! After so many years, we have heard that we Chinese people have gone out to compensate big-nosed people. How much money have we ever seen come back?
Someone in the crowd screamed, like a cat that had stepped on its tail, "Really or not? The French will give us money? When there was a lesson plan in Tianjin in the summer, Marshal Zeng even apologized to the French!"
"It's only been half a year, but the French have to apologize to us? I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"
Liu Henzhen smashed a cup of hot tea with a bang. "Shut your mouth! Can the treaty signed by France, Prussia, and the Chinese be fake?"
"Then Paris was heavily surrounded by our coalition forces, and even the French Emperor was captured alive. Is this also false?"
"Then what are the French waiting for if they don't surrender? Millions of people have been cut off from food. If they don't surrender, will the whole city starve to death?"
"Beijing, Shanghai, Naha, Hong Kong... all have British embassies. Don't you open your mouth? Don't you have legs? Do you dare to ask?"
After the great British Bodhisattva was brought out, the doubts present disappeared immediately. Seeing that the big boss on the stage was so sure and confident that he even asked them to go to the British to confirm, this shows that the compensation matter cannot be fake at all.
"Fifty million! Not to mention fifty million. The head of state can cut out ten million pieces of flesh from French devils. He is the first person in our country!"
"You fart! What kind of country is the first person in the country? The head of state is the head of state of the Chinese people, not the head of the Manchu people! Long live the head of state!"
With a bang, the man gave himself a big mouth: "My fault, I should be beaten! Fifty million! We also saw foreign devils cutting flesh one day, hahahaha!"
The crowd suddenly went crazy. Now no one doubted the credibility of the banknotes. They were so distressed that they were bleeding when they thought about the banknotes that had been exchanged on the black market at 1.8 times.
If I directly depreciate 80% of the value and exchange it for silver, am I being cruel? Am I mentally retarded?
Still trying to strike while the iron is hot, Hu Xueyan stood up and said with a smile, "Everyone, everyone...be quiet. I received a telegram from the commander-in-chief from Zhili last night!"
"The commander-in-chief said that all the Hunan troops in the south of the Yangtze River, including this year's military pay in the future, should still pay Nan Piao! There is no need to prepare silver coins, all use Nan Piao!"
Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. Zeng Guofan was directly supporting Xiao Letian. The Hunan Army of 500,000 people in the world all recognized Nan Piao. What a great friendship.
All the businessmen present stood in awe, and collectively raised their hands and saluted upward, "Please rest assured, the head of state, please rest assured, gentlemen... Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world!"
"In the war against the West, Chinese businessmen all over the world will not dare to disobey the orders of the head of state! We will defend Nanpiao's credibility to the death!"
The news of the 50 million taels of compensation was flying in the skies of Asia as if it had wings. In all cities that received the news, the credit of Chinese banknotes was immediately stabilized, and the price of banknotes on the black market rose rapidly.
The people's eyes are sharp. Fifty million taels of silver are more than the Qing Dynasty's current treasury. This is an extra treasury for nothing!
Nanpiao's credit is as indestructible as it has been cast by molten iron!
At this point, the foreign businessmen in Europe were dumbfounded. To be honest, they had been away from Europe for a long time. They were not much better than the Chinese businessmen in terms of information transmission.
These people also did not know the latest information about the Franco-Prussian War. When they learned about the French government's compensation of 60 million gold francs.
These crowds of people who were rushing suddenly disappeared one by one with frowning eyes, and the bank workers behind them continued to ridicule!
"Uncle Smith...it's your turn, why are you leaving?"
"Don't go, uncle... uncle, come and play again!"
"Bah...a bunch of short-sighted foreign devils!"
