No relatives in heaven! This sentence always holds true!
The reminiscences and childhood memories between Yi Pei and Yi Xin did enhance the relationship between the brothers in a short period of time, but how long can that kind of thoughtful touching last?
It's just time for a pot of tea. At this moment, the pot of tea has gone cold, just like the brotherhood that has gone cold due to the distribution of rights!
Yi Pei wants more, but Yi Xin doesn't want to give it. The dispute between the two parties must eventually reach a balance. You, Yi Pei, want the veto power of the noble council. This right can only be possessed by the emperor. Is it given to you? You are an uncrowned emperor, an emperor who is not an emperor.
Even if I don't name you the regent, you are still the actual regent. It's amazing that your political appetite is too big!
Want to separate Shanxi? This is even more impossible. Shanxi is known as the backbone of North China and is located in a commanding position. If you retreat, you can block the Eighth Route of Taihang. If others want to attack you, they will be out of reach.
But what if you want to go to war? You can attack the hinterland of the capital by following a wave of condescension. You can attack however you want!
If these two rights are given to you, who am I, the Guangxu Emperor? Can you still maintain a stable position?
Yi Xin was so angry that he spoke rudely and his eyes became cold, but Yi Pei didn't care at all. "Haha, brother is right, you have to ask me why! Why do I have to come in?" …”
Upon hearing this, Yi Xin was so frightened that he immediately took out the pistol hidden in his waist. He thought that Fifth Brother was secretly hiding a killer!
Could it be that the search was not done carefully during the previous photo search? Did something slip through the net? This is serious. It was agreed that one person would lead ten guards. Could it be that Yi Pei ambushed too many people?
Just when Yi Xin was about to fall out, a familiar face walked in from the side hall, which made him breathe a sigh of relief and let go of his hand holding the pistol.
"Haha... Yang Zhi? I didn't expect... Yang Zhi, you have also taken refuge in the Fifth Master, hahaha, okay, okay..."
The person who walked in was none other than Yang Zhi, the most mysterious central bank governor in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who controlled the new fiscal power of the Qing Dynasty!
Yang Zhi came in without saying a word, knelt down, bowed his head to the two princes, and said respectfully, "Prince Gong, why do you ask? My subordinates can answer, that's the reason... open it!"
Bah! Bah! Bang...several wooden boxes were opened by his men. The glittering gold inside was all dazzling gold.
"Hiss...gold? Yang Zhi...could it be you? Could it be you?" Yi Xin stood up in fright.
"Hahaha... That's right, Prince Gong, you guessed it right, it's gold... All the physical gold saved by Emperor Tongzhi is under my control. This treasury is the fifth prince's confidence!"
ah! Yi Xin sat back in the chair, looking at the gold greedily, reaching out to grab it, but Yang Zhi raised his hand and stuffed a huge gold ingot into it.
"So that's it...the golden yuan coupons! The golden yuan coupons...it turns out they are waiting for you here...didn't you use them to buy arms from the Chinese?"
In order to fight this civil war, Emperor Tongzhi had no choice but to purchase arms from the Chinese. It would be easy to solve the arms trade if Xiao Letian was here, but if Xiao Letian left East Asia and went to the Indian Ocean, there would be a problem.
The Chinese National Assembly refused to support Emperor Tongzhi in fighting the civil war and refused military assistance. In order to open a gap for diplomatic breakthrough, Yang Zhi, Li Tuo and others offered a vicious plan to Emperor Tongzhi.
That is the capital’s famous gold exchange plan, commonly known as golden yuan coupons!
It means collecting gold from the royal family and the people, exchanging it forcibly, and using the gold to find the Chinese to buy arms!
This incident was actually a major failure of Emperor Tongzhi's governance. The last bit of public support in the capital was destroyed by this cruel policy. The people who were forcibly exchanged for their gold, can you not be cruel to you Zaichun?
The people's support has been lost. Wouldn't it be easy for the Japanese Sixth Army to enter the city again and start various civil uprisings?
Later generations of historians said that the golden yuan coupon policy was the last handful of earth to bury Zaichun. That is not an exaggeration at all!
The gold was forcibly exchanged, and the whereabouts of the gold became a mystery. Yang Zhi was the person in charge of executing the gold coupon plan and the commander behind the scenes. He controlled the entire gold exchange operation.
But no one thought, the key is that Emperor Tongzhi himself didn't think that Yang Zhi was not loyal to him, and that Yang Zhi had actually defected to the command of Fifth Master Yi Pei a long time ago!
In fact, people like Yang Zhi are the real losers. If Emperor Tongzhi did not show his weakness and was always strong and able to control the government, then Yang Zhi would not betray him.
But as long as Zai Chun shows signs of failure, how can we expect the loyalty of people like Yang Zhi? That’s the big spring and autumn dream!
"Prince Gong! There are a total of fifteen tons of gold stored in the capital's treasury! May I ask, Your Majesty, is this negotiated price enough?"
"Ah!" Yi Xin was dumbfounded. "So many? How is it possible..."
In Yi Xin's mind, the number of royal nobles and private gold reserves in the capital is already 5 tons. How could there be as much as 15 tons...
"Haha... Poverty limits your imagination. How did you know that China is so rich in resources?"
"Population...time...you have to take these factors into account! Thousands of years of civilization, can this heritage be cleared up in a few wars?"
"When the Qing Dynasty entered the country, no matter how ruthless the enclosure was and no matter how fierce the robbery, it was just on the surface. Do you know how much gold is hidden in tens of millions of square kilometers of land?"
"Besides, it has been 200 years since the Qing Dynasty entered the capital. The population has grown, people have created wealth, and gold has been accumulated gram after gram..."
"Also, do you know how greedy the royal nobles of the Qing Dynasty are? Haha, the iron hat kings went to secretly dig gold mines outside the pass. It's not like you, Prince Gong, have never done this before!"
"It's just that other people's greed is greater than you can imagine!"
Yi Xin almost collapsed on the chair, and a chill surged up in his heart. Politicians and ordinary people looked at problems differently. When ordinary people saw so much gold, the first thing they felt was greed.
And what Yi Xin could immediately think of after his short-term greed was the corruption of the Qing Dynasty!
Obviously there is so much wealth among the people, but the national tax revenue has been reduced year by year. There is too much money accumulated among the people but they cannot be collected. Is this a sign of the decline of the imperial court?
And how much of this amount of gold was collected from the homes of royal nobles, civil and military officials, and merchant tycoons? Where did their gold come from?
What a plunder! The level of corruption is more serious than I thought!
Yi Xin let out a long sigh, "Fifth brother, you are great! You won...what else is there to say? The gold will go to the treasury. From today on, you will be the regent of the Qing Dynasty!"
Yi Xin knew that he could not bargain. Fifteen tons of gold in his hands could solve the crisis in power and arm hundreds of thousands of Western-style troops!
With this money, the country will be stable forever!
But unexpectedly, Yi Pei shook his head, "No... I still can't give you this gold!"
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