Samuel's expedition was no ordinary expedition. It was backed by British government funds, and Zai Chun also had a hand in it, so the Qing government would eventually reimburse them a lot of expenses.
Such expeditions were large in scale, collecting too many specimens of animals, plants and minerals along the way, and also purchased many rare and precious commodities in Europe.
Central Asian embroidered carpets, precious jade and jewelry, beautiful gold and silver handicrafts... These Central Asian fine products that were intended to be placed in European museums have now become garbage discarded in rivers.
Rolls and rolls of embroidered carpets were purchased locally with gold coins. Those gold and silver drinking pots and quilts were left shining on the road after being trampled by horses.
The crystal clear gems and jade are as beautiful as the stars!
The expedition's generosity silenced all those who doubted it. The herdsmen and businessmen were silent. They said in their hearts that these British people really had money to waste!
"It's hard to give up good money! Do you really want money at the expense of your life?" Guan Lu stood up and roared loudly, but the people around him just lowered their heads and fled without talking to each other.
After all, Sir Gordon was a high-ranking nobleman of the British Qing Dynasty. His vision and mind were certainly different from those of ordinary people.
When Sir Gordon saw that things were not going well, he immediately shouted to Samuel Baker, "They are reluctant to part with it, but we are willing to give it up! Spend money to buy it, buy all the herdsmen's livestock, and buy all the merchants' goods!"
"Use all the funds of the expedition team to buy them all! Money is the most worthless thing in the world! The most important thing is to survive and complete our historical mission!"
"If God wants me to die, I will never die in the hands of these Cossack soldiers! Remember, we have a more important mission to complete!"
"Gentlemen, stop being a miser at this time!"
Gordon opened the leather bag on horseback and took out a stack of Bank of England's cashier's checks from it. He ordered the translator to shout loudly, "Which of you knows the Bank of England's cashier's checks? Each of them here is a large amount of one hundred thousand pounds." Tickets! I’ll buy your cattle, sheep and goods!”
"Do you know anyone?"
Samuel Baker also risked his life. He opened his suitcase and took out handfuls of pounds in cash. "I have pounds here, enough to buy all your cattle and sheep! Come and trade with me... We order you to sell your cattle." All the sheep are driven back!"
This scene was really embarrassing. No matter how loudly the two British big noses yelled, no one answered them. In the end, Dora yelled angrily, "What are you thinking about? What are you thinking about?"
"This is the Ili Valley, this is Kapchagai. Who can recognize the Bank of England's cashier's check? Who has used pound notes?"
"Look for gold and silver! The herdsmen here are serious about gold and silver!"
"I have silver coins here! Silver coins with dragon patterns cast by the Chinese, do you want any silver?"
At the critical moment, it was the exquisite dragon-patterned silver coins cast by Xiao Letian that saved his life. These silver coins with the same specifications and weight as those taken advantage of by later generations have established very strong credibility in Asia.
The silver content is high and the stamped pattern is really beautiful. It is much more detailed than the Mexican Eagle Ocean in the past. Every scale on the dragon's body can be clearly seen.
Herdsmen and businessmen have all seen these beautiful silver coins, but few can actually own them. Occasionally, there are one or two, which are even regarded by herdsmen as lucky silver coins when their children are born, and are kept in their infancy. It has become a talisman.
Today Guan Lu and Duoluo took out all the more than 20,000 silver dollars that the guards carried with them. This was the cash they had withdrawn from Manager Ermao when they left Zaichun.
I never thought that this money could save lives!
When the merchants and herdsmen saw that the white silver coins were still the kind of silver coins that could be blown, they no longer pretended to be deaf and dumb. "I'll sell it to you! I'll sell it to you..."
A group of herdsmen gathered around. The price of livestock here is really low. In Sijiu City, one silver dollar can buy at most half a lamb rib, but here one silver dollar can buy an adult ram. .
Four silver dollars equaled a cow or a horse!
After more than 20,000 silver coins were given out, thousands of livestock were driven back by the herdsmen, and the Cossack cavalry rushed over while staring at them.
"There's not enough money, there's still not enough cash..."
Samuel Baker's heart skipped a beat, "Forget it, take out the gold coins we packed at the bottom of the box and exchange them with the herdsmen!"
Samuel Baker planned to collect gold coins minted by various Central Asian khanates and the Kingdom of Afghanistan. There were tens of thousands of them and he took them back to Europe. Now he took out all of them.
"Gold! If you have gold, I will have cattle and sheep, and we will give you all our goods..."
There is no bargaining, everyone knows that this is to save their lives, and except for a few people, everyone else sells out at cost price.
Not only that, Guan Lu even took out a handful of Qing Dynasty silver notes from his fur coat in the end!
"Is there anyone who can collect the tickets? Ticket offices in Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Beijing issue Tianzihao leading tickets!"
"Grandpa, I promise with my life that everything is true! Emperor Tian Bodhisattva is watching. If I fool you with lies, I will be struck by thunder!"
After all, the Ili Valley is still the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and people here are more familiar with the Qing Dynasty. No one recognizes the Bank of England's promissory notes, and no one wants pound notes.
However, the banknotes issued by the merchants in the Central Plains of the Qing Dynasty were actually known to people tens of thousands of miles away, on the Central Asian grasslands beyond the Tianshan Mountains.
Of course, these people are all businessmen. They took the banknotes and looked at them carefully, "Friend, we are doing business with you! We used these banknote papers in Northern Xinjiang!"
"We believe in you..."
Oops... I have passed the test. Guan Lu and Doluo almost fell off their horses in excitement. "My dear, you must know the goods. We have 300,000 taels of silver notes here..."
"Buying all your goods, including carriages and horses... buying them will save your lives!"
"Are you selling it?"
There are Kazakhs, Mongolians, pro-Qing Hui tribes, and of course Han merchants... Businessmen of all ethnic groups bowed to these guards with serious faces.
"Of course we will sell it, and we will sell it to you even if we lose money... You are saving all of our lives, so of course we will sell it! We will sell it all to you..."
Kapchagai made the largest business in history. The expedition team spent a total of nearly 700,000 taels of silver in various currencies, buying the livestock of the entire city's herdsmen and the goods of all merchants.
They used money to pave a road of escape in the Ili Valley!
The Cossack battalion commander would never forget the scene that happened tonight. When they were about to catch up with the large group of refugees, the color of the world suddenly changed in front of them.
The ground shook violently, and tens of thousands of livestock rushed towards them like a flood!
