In the dark night, people could feel a lot of prying eyes. They were sentries from the tribes around Andijan. They knew that there was a war here and came to inquire carefully.
They were very vigilant and never got too close. As soon as they saw Qing troops or Tsarist Russian sentries, they would immediately break away from contact and flee.
"Hey... I'm afraid this massacre will be remembered by Central Asians for a hundred years! This valley will turn into gold in the future!"
Fan Jin glanced at the valley in the distance with disgust. There were more than 20,000 headless corpses lying there, and the sky had attracted countless vultures flying back and forth.
The howling of hungry wolves echoed from the end of the valley to the surroundings of the camp!
Doro stirred the bonfire, "These beasts have eaten human flesh, and they may become extremely ferocious in the future. The herdsmen here may suffer in the future!"
"We can't control that much anymore. Since they have raised wolves like Aguba, they have to pay a price now! No one can say that they are innocent!"
"I don't believe it. When Agubai went rampant in the Western Regions, they didn't applaud him? He's not my kind..." Guan Lu cut off a piece of mutton leg meat, rubbed it in a salt bowl and stuffed it into his mouth.
Fan Jin was so alert that he said, "Do you think these local natives will attack us at night? After all, we killed 20,000 of them, and there were four to five thousand herdsmen who killed good people and took credit..."
"Haha... No, no, the emphasis here is on the weak and the strong. They have been frightened by this massacre!"
"The nomads are very concerned about preserving the strength of their tribe. Their life is extremely cruel. If you are not careful, the entire tribe will be wiped out!"
"So this is how the nomads always fight. As long as they gain the upper hand, they will never leave you a way to survive. It won't be considered complete until you kill them all!"
"But once they are at a disadvantage, they will quickly escape or surrender. Survival is their only mission!"
"Hey... Whether it's Central Asia or Mobei, it's actually like this. Every year, small tribes cannot survive, or they are annexed by large tribes or killed to death!"
"Some even had a white disaster, and they all froze to death in one winter! It's hard to live..."
There was a brief silence around the campfire. Today's killing made people feel very heavy!
"Tell me something else..." Doro cut a piece of roasted mutton for Fan Jin. "The head of state spent five million in one go. What a generous sum!"
"I do admire the head of state's courage, but seeing these Rakshasa ghosts taking so much money makes me feel really uncomfortable. They are coming to invade us, and in the end we have to hire them to kill these rebels. Alas..."
Fan Jin tore off a piece of meat and threw it in his mouth to chew. He thought about it and said with a smile, "Actually, you can't look at this matter this way. The head of state does not think about problems in such a superficial way!"
"We did pay out five million today, but these five million are not given directly to them in cash, but in deposit certificates. They have to take them to a bank in Moscow or St. Petersburg before they can exchange them!"
"According to normal understanding, do we have to deposit five million more cash in the bank in Tsarist Russia? It doesn't have to be cash, it can also be exchanged for the same ruble currency..."
"Actually, that's not the case. Most of the bank's trade transactions are just account movements. We don't need to transport money directly there at all!"
"After this war is over, Tsarist Russia's Far East trade will soon resume. The three important trade ports of Chektu, Heilongjiang and even Ili will soon be restored!"
"How do you think those Tsarist Russian businessmen and even Tsarist Russian ** need to pay for supplies they purchase from us?"
"Suppose that the Tsarist Russians in Kyakhta and Heilongjiang seize a batch of ammunition, tools, steel, medicine... and other goods from the Chinese, worth five million silver dollars!"
"Can we let them deposit money directly into the Chinese banks in Moscow? In this way, the Russians will get the goods they need, and our banks in Europe will get the much-needed cash!"
"These Cossacks, after returning to Moscow, took the deposit certificates to get the money. On the surface, they took the money from our bank, but the money was actually paid by the Russian tsarist government, and they deposited it! "
"Is it a bit chaotic? In fact, it's not chaotic at all. In this kind of trade, we can make money!"
"Although we paid five million silver dollars in deposit certificates to these soldiers, it seems that we lost money, but we also gained victory on the battlefield and so many cultural relics!"
"The absolute value of these cultural relics sent to the head of state's museum is not such a small sum. We have already made a profit from the value of the cultural relics alone, and the head of state will not suffer!"
"Following this, we have to make more money from Tsarist Russia through trade. They purchased five million of our goods. Don't we make a profit from these goods?"
"Five million is the selling price, not the cost! Nowadays, the profit of industrial products is very high. For a payment of five million, our actual cost is only more than two million!"
"Goods worth more than two million yuan were sent to the border and sold to Tsarist Russia. Then Tsarist Russia deposited five million in cash in our bank in Moscow. Finally, these Rakshasa ghosts went to Moscow to collect the money!"
"So how much does it cost us? Isn't it just over two hundred!"
"In a trade war, what we need to study here is deficit and surplus. From ancient times to the present, the party that can produce things will always take advantage!"
"So one of the Chinese national policies is very important, which is to develop and liberate productivity. Only when you have stronger productivity can you have a future!"
"When we compete with the national destiny of Tsarist Russia, we, the Chinese people, will definitely win. There is no doubt about this!"
"Because here in Asia, we have all the right time, place, and people! The productivity will always be on our side, so the people, government, and army in the land of Tsarist Russia's Far East... they all need commodities for their food, clothing, housing, and transportation!"
"Their own productivity is not strong enough, so they can only ask us to import. The more they import, the more we will make!"
"Today's five million is actually just a few turns on the account. In the end, we are still the winners, the one with the last laugh..."
"Who told them to need our products, our industrial products! They are just needs and there is no way to save them!"
Doro and Guan Lu were dumbfounded. Although they had been exposed to new things in Europe, they definitely had not learned so deeply!
When Fan Jin explained this truth, both of them were stunned. "So...it turns out that this is what the head of state does?"
“Although I don’t understand it very well, I feel like it’s very powerful…it’s really powerful!”
