Standing on the castle tower of Osaka Castle and admiring the scenery of the Japanese market in summer, this special dish of tonbori is placed in front of you, and you have a sip of chrysanthemum sake, and the breeze blows into the castle tower with a faint smell of flowers.

It's been more than a month since the end of the war, and since the shogun and the four feudal lords of the southwest reached a secret agreement with Xiao Loten, the reconstruction of Osaka Castle has begun.

Refugees who fled to the four corners returned home one after another, the destroyed ruins began to rebuild, and cooking smoke began to rise in the castle town, and the long-lost popularity replaced the previous Xiao Killing.

The Southwest Coalition and the Shogunate had begun to retreat in batches, and now each side retained a symbolic army of 2,000 troops, and the camps of the eastern and western armies were divided by the Ryukyu marines.

The most difficult moment had long passed, when Emperor Tongzhi was assassinated and Tokugawa Keiki came to ask for guilt with the four feudal lords, their compensation plan was completely rejected by Xiao Letian.

Just when they were disheartened, Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea once again showed his mercy and pulled back the daimyo who were already on the edge of the cliff.

Tokugawa Qingxi didn't expect such a good thing in the world at all, and originally thought that he had to give the little emperor a huge amount of compensation in order to get the Qing Emperor's understanding, but Xiao Letian didn't ask for a penny, but came up with a very novel compensation plan.

Rakuten Bank, the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Southwest Four Feudatories jointly invested in the establishment of Fuso Bank. Among them, the Japanese side occupies 60% of the bank's shares at the cost of mining rights in Iwami Ginzan and Sado gold mines, but the agreement specifically emphasizes that the management of the bank will always belong to Rakuten Bank.

How to divide the 60% of the shares in Japan is a private negotiation between the shogun and the daimyo, and the remaining 40% of the shares, Aisin Kakura Jae-chun, owns 25% in his personal name, while Rakuten Bank only owns the last 15%.

Rakuten Bank has the smallest shares, but it has the management rights it owns, which seems unreasonable, but everyone has no objection at all.

First of all, no one else has any experience in running a bank, and no one knows how much money Fuso Bank can make by relying on so many gold and silver mines whose resources are about to be exhausted.

Second, if the old mines in Japan want to increase production, it is absolutely impossible to do without high-tech transformation, and this investment is all prepared by Rakuten Bank. Since everyone eats ready-made, there are not so many opinions.

In the end, a very important reason is, of course, because of Xiao Letian's army, so a strong army is stationed in Japan, not to mention the management of a bank, even if a few national policies are formulated for Japan, the shogunate and local daimyo have to obey honestly.

Why did Xiao Lotian prepare to build the Fuso Bank, in fact, what he valued was not those silver mountains, but the coinage rights of Japan, which is the inexhaustible gold mountain for all eternity.

Since the establishment of economic and cultural ties between Japan and the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, Japan's coinage rights have been controlled by mainland civilizations.

Tang money, Song money, Ming money, including the copper money of the Qing Dynasty, are the mainstream currencies in the Japanese market, and Japan has not minted a few strings of its own qualified coins for thousands of years.

It is conceivable that if a country does not have the right to mint money, then their economic activities can only become vassals of the party that provides the currency. In many cases, the Japanese used their own limited goods such as gold and silver, saltpeter, sulfur, and tai knives to pull them to China, and did not buy any Chinese goods, but used them in exchange for copper coins minted in China.

There is no way, the commercial circulation in Japan needs copper coins, which are small denominations, so how can ordinary people settle accounts with gold and silver, their only choice is copper coins.

The more the market needs copper coins, the more valuable copper coins will be, and the more valuable things the people will be, the more people will like to collect, but the more they collect, the more scarce this money becomes? This is a vicious circle.

Xiao Lotian has long seen the core of the problem, and the current situation of Japan's copper, gold, and silver is actually because of the serious lack of small circulating currency in the market. It can be said that whoever can solve this problem will be able to control Japan's economy.

Since the Fuso Bank has developed gold and silver mines in Japan, it is natural that it has the right to mint gold and silver, and whether the gold and silver are minted into gold ingots or silver ingots is my freedom. Even if I stamped it into a Ryukyu dragon-patterned silver coin, as long as I don't lack catties and short taels, no one can care if I'm not.

Well, since the Bank of Fuso can mint gold and silver, is it possible to issue banknotes on the silver standard at the same time? It is not impossible, since the bank has a large amount of gold and silver reserves in the safety line, why can't paper money be issued!

The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, Xiao Letian's killing knife is actually very deep, as long as the banknotes are issued smoothly, then a large amount of gold and silver will definitely accumulate in his treasury, and the money will not sleep much, and a lot of basic investments can be carried out secretly.

Just as Xiao Lotian was looking forward to a bright future, there was a sound of footsteps outside the castle tower, and Long Ye walked in to send an urgent message to the prime minister.

"Prime Minister, the latest information has come from Jingshi, the imperial court is ready to forcibly apportion the debt of 10 million taels of Lotte Bank, and now the third master is grinding hard with the old shopkeeper in Tanggu...... The old shopkeeper has never let go!"

Xiao Lotian was stunned for a moment: "Send another 10 million debts? Do they really have the courage to cross the sea to fight Japan?"

Long Ye smiled and said, "Chun Thirteen Niang has already found out in Beijing, in fact, it is all under the pretext of His Majesty's assassination, and the real purpose is still for money......!

This news was not sent in the form of a secret telegram, many officials saw this information, and after a while, the news reached the ears of Emperor Tongzhi.

The little emperor didn't understand the trick here, so he hurriedly trotted all the way to find his master.

"It's so unbelievable! How can the imperial court be so nonsense! Master's money is also the benefit of countless investors in the world, and Lotte Bank is related to the interests of millions of people, so how can it be said that if you want money, you want money? It's so unreasonable......

Xiao Letian watched Zaichun sitting on the tatami mat and acting hard, laughing and not saying a word, and in the end, the little emperor couldn't hold back, "Master, you dissipate your anger, if you can't do it, I'll give an order to Jingshi to stop them from messing around......"

"Is it really nonsense? I've heard that the household department is now empty, and even the ballast silver is gone, and some provinces have received money and grain taxes for 20 years, and some people want to raise taxes......

Zaichun's face turned red, "Yes, I also heard that the imperial court has been fighting for a long time in the past few years, and it really has no money......"

"Since the apprentice has filial piety, then I won't worry about it, I'll send a telegram back to Tanggu and let them ...... meddle with their affairs."

"Don't ...... Don't!" Jae-chun was in a hurry all of a sudden, "That...... If you can really help that master, you can help it! Don't say 10 million taels, or you can solve 7 million taels......

"Six Million ......"

"Four million is always ......"

"Oh, my good master, even if you feel sorry for your apprentice, can't you solve three million......"

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