"Foreign Legion Tai Suzuki and his 230 returning expeditionary troops salute His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty!"
The voice of Suzuki Tai, leader of the sword-fighting team, sounded on the clipper ship. Two hundred and thirty soldiers of the expeditionary force who had returned home early arranged in a neat formation to salute Emperor Tongzhi's flagship in the distance.
Emperor Tongzhi felt a rush of blood bursting out from his heart. That feeling came back again, the feeling of following the master's men galloping and killing in Asia and Europe.
He was not the emperor at that time, he was just a soldier beside the head of state, but the feeling was even better than when he was the emperor!
Emperor Suzuki Taitou was very familiar with him. When he was fighting in Osaka Castle, Suzuki Tai served as his bodyguard for a period of time, and the Fuso Batto team members always protected him.
Unexpectedly, he was the pioneer of the head of state's return to Asia!
Zai Chun stood on the bow of the boat and looked into the distance. He could vaguely see Tai Suzuki's figure but couldn't see his facial features clearly. Subconsciously, he wanted to return a military salute.
But as soon as he raised his arm halfway, he saw the bright yellow color, and the golden dragon embroidered with gold thread told him his true identity.
Alas... Emperor Tongzhi sighed in a low voice and could only change the military salute into a wave of hands to pay tribute to the comrades who had fought with him!
"Send a signal to Suzuki Tai and ask...what mission did he perform and why did he return home so soon?"
"If it does not violate the confidentiality discipline..." Emperor Tongzhi quickly added another sentence.
The two fleets are currently advancing in parallel, but Suzuki Tai's clipper ship is obviously faster than Tongzhi Emperor's fleet, and the two can only talk for more than ten minutes.
The flag bearers waved their arms to each other across the sea, and soon Tai Suzuki reported the mission to Emperor Tongzhi.
"Your Majesty, the secret level of this mission is not high. It is only E-. When the fleet entered the South China Sea, the secret level has been completely released. What I am performing is not a classified mission..."
"Two hundred and thirty brothers and I returned to China early, mainly to escort a batch of European antiques and cultural relics to the head of state and... 320 tons of European silver!"
ah! People around were exclaimed, these three clipper ships actually came back with 320 tons of silver? Could it be said that this is the first batch of French war reparations?
The expressions of the people at the scene were extremely complicated. Of course, the British Navy officials had seen the world, and their expressions were relatively calm. However, the average British sailor was an ordinary civilian. When he heard that there were 320 tons of silver in front of him, his eyes suddenly lit up. stand up.
This is the overflow of pirate genes in the blood of the British Royal Navy. It was left behind when they robbed Spanish treasure ships. They were not allowed to put gold, silver and other precious metals on ships.
As soon as I heard it, I wanted to grab it, and many sailors whistled excitedly!
Of course, we didn't dare to rob, but it didn't stop these British people from drooling. But the ones who really drooled were the entourage around Emperor Tongzhi and the accompanying officials such as Shen Baozhen.
Lin Zexu's uncle's eyes turned blue. "Tons? Is the silver in Xiao Letian's hand measured in tons? How many grams can this be converted into? How many taels? How many silver coins..."
A group of civil servants even took out a small abacus and began to calculate, and soon came up with the answer, which was calculated based on the weight of the latest Chinese silver coin with dragon pattern.
This 150 tons of silver can be used to mint and stamp more than 11 million Chinese dragon pattern silver coins!
"He's rich! This Xiao Letian is so rich..." The eyes of the Manchu officials around him almost dropped.
Emperor Tongzhi had seen the wealth in Europe. He did not lose his composure and then asked, "Will this money be sent back to Ryukyu Naha?"
"No...the destination of this first batch of silver is Shanghai...Mr. Fan Lian, the president of the Chinese Central Bank, is waiting for this silver to stabilize the market!"
Taiya Suzuki did not hide anything from the emperor, and directly told Emperor Tongzhi why I returned to the country in advance and escorted a batch of silver back to the country in advance, in order to stabilize the banknote market in Jiangnan.
As long as this batch of silver is delivered to Shanghai and allowed to be seen by merchants all over Jiangnan, all the turmoil will subside. If the entire Jiangnan trusts paper money, the money market of the Qing Dynasty will not be chaotic.
With a mission in hand, Suzuki Tai would not slow down the ship. Soon the clipper ship, escorted by the Ryukyu Navy warships, quickly surpassed Emperor Tongzhi's fleet and galloped all the way to the north.
Emperor Tongzhi watched the Suzuki Fleet disappear from sight for a long time without saying a word. Er Mao saw the little emperor's thoughts: "Your Majesty... it is better to retreat and build a net than to fish in the abyss!"
"The career of the head of state was also achieved through hard work..."
"Stop talking, I understand the truth... I'm just feeling a little emotional. Tell the British to hurry up and go north! I don't want to see any more vain etiquette!"
"What I want is for the country to be prosperous and the people strong, and what I want is reform! You might as well govern the country well even if you kowtow ten thousand times!"
"Gone, any officials behind are missing..."
Comparing people with each other will lead to death, and goods will have to be thrown away. Zaichun still has charity money from the British in his pocket. This money was exchanged for the rights to build railways and open ports in the future.
But Xiao Letian has already been able to get France's war compensation. Whenever he thinks of the figure of 290 million taels of silver, Zai Chun feels sick and nauseated. He knows very well that with this compensation, the master can completely change the financial order in Asia. .
In the future, the Chinese will become the largest creditor nation in Asia. At least the Qing Dynasty will pay countless borrowing interests to the Chinese, and the financial chain will be tightly tied around their necks.
It all happened so fast and magically. When the telegram of the amount of European compensation reached Jiangnan, the entire Chinese people and the businessmen in Jiangnan were shocked at first and then in disbelief.
Because the happiness came too suddenly and too much, the amount of compensation exceeded the market's expectations by too much. Because it exceeded too much, it made the result unreal.
After a short period of stability, rumors were flying all over the Jiangnan market, and strange fluctuations occurred in the stock and Nanping markets, which directly reflected the impetuousness of people's hearts.
Fan Qian and Liu Henzhen personally sat down in Jiangnan, city after city, to appease people's hearts. They brought European newspapers to visit each merchant's door.
Some enlightened businessmen, including Hu Xueyan, have also joined the ranks of stabilizing people's hearts. These can be regarded as bulls in the market.
In order to stabilize the market, these bulls even did not hesitate to dismantle gold and silver from Fuso Bank to support the market!
It's not like Liu Henzhen and the others have never thought about making money through such psychological fluctuations, they even have a plan!
Just taking advantage of the impetuous mood and deliberately releasing some pessimistic false information can completely lead European newspapers to publish misleading news.
When the time comes, short sellers will definitely sell hard, and countless small and medium-sized businessmen and ordinary people with poor information will definitely sell stocks and stocks frantically, and a wave of bank runs will also occur.
If the stock price plummets, the exchange ratio between Nanyuan Notes and gold and silver will also collapse violently!
After the collapse for a period of time, the Chinese central bank took action to buy the bottom again. Finally, European silver arrived at the port and suddenly rebelled against people's hearts. Wouldn't this make crazy money?
However, such a bold decision was strongly opposed by the left-behind officials such as Fan Yan and Xiao Hexin. Even the great monk Longshi, who had been in seclusion, Ryoma Sakamoto, was alarmed.
This top Fuso politician with the blood of Xiao Letian is extremely determined to oppose this plan!
"Money is more important, or people's hearts? The money earned from smashing people's hearts in Jiangnan is undoubtedly drinking poison to quench thirst!"
"Which of you dares to do this...don't blame me for being heartless!"
In the end, there was even a battalion of foreign legionnaires who strangely conducted a long-distance defense without Xiao Hexin's order!
Far East Vladivostok, the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the Foreign Legion actually went south to Ryukyu to change defenses!
