The news that Zeng Guofan sent troops to lock up the Shanghai Daotai instantly shocked the entire Jiangnan, and then flew to all parts of the country at a rapid speed, after half a year of construction, now on the eastern plains, Qing Sanye has laid a section of telegraph cables, the longest of which actually reached 500 kilometers.

Don't look at the intermittent telegraph network, but it is still very helpful for information transmission, and it only took five days for the news to shake the Jingshi.

The two powerful princes of the prime minister's yamen couldn't believe their eyes, and the words on the telegram and newspaper were smashed into their hearts like a sledgehammer, and they now understood that the Hunan army had taken refuge in the emperor, and the queen mother and prince in the capital had all become bullshit.

"Eleven-year-old child, just like that, he was overshadowed by two Cao Cao, does he still think he is pro-government......?

"No, we have to go to see the Queen Mother, if we go on like this, the country will definitely be in chaos!"

The two princes hurriedly entered the palace door to hand over the sign, but they didn't expect Cixi to already know the news, so they didn't say a word and directly sent the matter to the Empress Dowager of the East Palace.

"The mourning family is just a queen mother of the West Palace, her shoulders are too narrow to bear the military affairs, go and let my sister make a decision!" After speaking, he turned his head and went to the imperial garden to see the flowers.

The two princes looked at each other, and could only bite the bullet to see the Eastern Empress Dowager Ci'an, who was fishing on the shore of the North Sea, after listening to the report of the two princes, sneered, "Do you think it is unruly? The mourning family also feels unruly, but what can you do if you don't conform to the rules? Now tell the mourning family what do you want to do?"

The imperial court ordered that the emperor's will was illegal and invalid? Said that Xiao Letian and Zeng Guofan's actions were illegal and rebellion? Isn't that a slap in the mouth, and you say that they rebelled, then they should suppress it?

With the little strength in the hands of the imperial court, who can beat it?

"It's not me who is a sister-in-law who said you, the two of you have been a little confused in the past few years, and you won't do such an obvious thing?"

"Why don't you hurry up and take that damn Daotai lock into Beijing, even if we want to kill or chop it, we have to do it ourselves! Let the Criminal Department take the blame, kill him to make Your Majesty and the two bigwigs angry...... Anyway, you have to send the taxes from Jiangnan, and you also have some money to train the new army......"

"I really don't let me worry, the imperial court will never be able to harden without the waist pole of the new army...... If you really can't do it, contact the foreigners to see if you can lend a little money, and you have to get through the situation......"

The two princes were reprimanded, their faces were red and their necks were thick, and after they left Jingshan, one of them spat on the ground, "What is it, full of peach blossoms, we don't know what ugly thing you did?" With the power of the two devils to ascend to power, what are you...... Let's go!"

The Manchu court was still in a state of scolding, and they wanted to change in the face of the future but were always reluctant, half a year had passed, and the new army of the imperial court had not even set up a shelf, and the Eight Banners were competing for the limited number of officers, and people's heads were all beaten out of the dog's head.

But in their eyes, if the official's shelf is not poked, how can they stuff soldiers into it? The Eight Banners are all a family, and the fat water cannot flow into the fields of outsiders, and my boy has nothing to do, do you want to give the official position to the Han people? Grandma......

Without Xiao Letian's Jingshi, it was a loss to return to the old road of the past, and the nine cows couldn't pull it back.

In stark contrast to the prosperity of the Ryukyus, the four-story Lotte Bank building has been hung with photos of Lotte Bank, merchants from all over the world bring gold and silver to deposit here, and the branch in charge of Hu Xueyan in Jiangnan also sends gold and silver here one after another.

Boxes of silver were piled up in the hall, and the guys of the foreign bank, under the protection of the new army with loaded guns, began to weigh "Jiangnan Yongxing has 1 million taels of silver and 20,000 taels of gold...... This shopkeeper, how many silver coins do you want to exchange, and how many deposit receipts do you want? Oh understood, give the Yongxing 500,000 Yingyang ......."

"This shopkeeper, we have a new kind of silver coin in the Ryukyus, called the dragon coin, you see, the front is printed with the four big characters of the dragon and the four squares, and the back is a coiled dragon, you see how exquisite......"

Countless shopkeepers touched the exquisite dragon coins stamped out by the machine in their hands, and they couldn't put it down, they were all experts, and they could see the clue with a little twist in the palm of their hands.

"Oh, it's the same size as Yingyang, why do you feel a little pressing?"

"Hey, this lord, you are really an expert, there is nothing wrong with it, this dragon coin is originally a new process, and the purification technology of silver is better than that of Yingyang, how can this silver be pure without pressing your hands...... If you look at this tiny jagged edge, it's just in case someone steals the silver slag with a file, and you don't want to exchange some of this beautiful, equivalent silver coin......"

"Okay, I want all these 500,000 silver coins for dragon coins, such silver coins must be popular......"

Xiao Letian and Fan Yao, the old shopkeeper, stood on the top floor of the bank and looked at the bustling crowd outside the square, grinning to the root of their ears.

"A million profits, this is a million profits, as long as the coinage is in our hands, we will never lose money!" said the old shopkeeper with a smile.

"Father, you can take care of it, as long as we have more gold and silver in our treasury, the stronger our army will be, and the stronger the army, the more gold and silver we will get in the future......"

"The underground vaults we have hidden on the islands of the Pacific Ocean have been almost built, and a large amount of gold and silver will have to be hidden in the future, especially gold, and it must not be spent ...... out."

"Why? People save gold, but we don't give it back to take it?"

"That's right, not a penny of gold will come out, gold can only go in and not out!" Xiao Letian said categorically, "Father, whoever keeps gold can only give him one-tenth of the gold in the future, and the rest will be given the equivalent of silver coins, this is our iron law, and those who do not obey will wait for the guns of the new army, right?"

"I secretly told my father, you have to keep it a secret, in the next few hundred years, it will not be a problem that the output of silver mines on the earth will gradually increase and eventually double, and it is a general trend that gold is expensive and silver is cheap...... Now the Europeans are quietly exchanging silver for our Chinese gold, it is not easy for us to save some gold for thousands of years, and we have the obligation to protect this nation!"

"Ah! I see, that's easy, I'll order, in the future, all the merchants who settle with us with gold, we will give him a discount, and I won't earn any more interest, so I'll help you save enough gold......"

Xiao Letian knew that before the petrodollar was not promoted, the gold standard was the root of a country's economy, and whether the currency was strong depended on the amount of gold reserves.

Since the Opium War, China's silver has been in a state of net inflow, while gold has been in a state of net outflow, for complex reasons, Chinese love for silver actually comes from Zhang Juzheng's whip law, which made silver the legal tender in China.

So at that time, if Europeans wanted to buy Chinese goods, they had to go all over the world to grab silver, and then exchange with the Chinese, and gold was left in Europe in large quantities.

After hundreds of years of trade, a large amount of money and silver flowed eastward, while a large amount of gold was stored in the west, which has become a law.

However, I did not expect that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a large number of silver mines were discovered in European colonies, and a large number of silver mines were mined in North America, Central America, and South America.

However, it is a pity that China has no colonies, and China is a country poor in gold and silver mines, and the purchasing power of silver in China is still very high.

How could shrewd European merchants give up this opportunity to make money by exchanging cheap silver for silk, tea, porcelain and even gold at the highest prices in China?

The merchants of the late Qing Dynasty smiled from ear to ear when they held the silver, in fact, they had no idea that what they were getting was a crazy depreciation of goods.

But at that time, Chinese merchants did not know about the changes in international finance, and they rarely engaged in large-scale international trade, they only felt that buying foreigners' things was getting more and more expensive, and they did not know that it was caused by the decline in the purchasing power of silver.

Europe's economic plundering of China is crazier than several wars.

Now the knowledgeable Xiao Lotian is here, he must start to protect China's limited gold reserves, since you like silver, then I will exchange it with you, of course, you must be secretive at the beginning, don't shoot, you must not alarm the Europeans, especially the founding country of the gold standard, Britain.

"Before Lao Tzu doesn't have a strong navy, I won't let you know where my gold is hidden, you Europeans can plunder the silver at will, but the gold can't, I, Xiao Letian, will save it to death!"

Just when the old man and the young were carefully calculating the details of the gold and silver exchange, the dragon master outside suddenly knocked on the door and said, "Prime Minister, today is the day when His Majesty's military training has ended, and he has long been looking forward to you giving him a gun, and the three hundred guards of the Jingshi have also arrived at the dock, do you think they will also go to watch the ceremony?"

"Oops, I'm busy and forgot, I'm going to go, Jae-chun has performed so well in the past six months, it's really inappropriate not to praise it!"

The Three Jewels, the Dora and the Horses...... These Eight Banner guards from the Four Nine Cities walked off the sea ship in a long line, and set foot on the land of Ryukyu under the leadership of the Manchu eunuch Hetian cannon.

"Everybody has ...... Two columns, according to the formation I taught you on the road, are ready to enter the city!"

"Stinky boys, one by one they think that they are great at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Sijiu City, now let you see what a real prosperous metropolis is...... They all opened their eyes wide, one-two-one......"

Walking on the streets of Naha, the three treasure eyeballs are not enough, the tall gantry cranes, pulley sets, mountain-like cargo piles on the dock, and then look at people of all colors, there are actually a large group of Kunlun slaves.

All kinds of cries came and went, and they didn't know a lot of goods from all over the world, and what made them even more shocked was the cleanliness and richness of the whole city, and the streets and alleys entered the statues made of pure copper, as if showing some important deeds.

There is not the slightest debris on the stone pavement, and there is even a large road paved with pure stone slabs, God knows how this stone was mined.

But Doro's question made a young child in a suit on the street laugh fiercely, "I don't even know the cement from Qing Guo, this is cement, mud ...... mixed with water."

What? I don't have much to read, don't lie to me, a group of Eight Banners disciples glared at him angrily.

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