In late summer, after noon, the capital was shrouded in gloomy dark clouds, the streets were empty, the cool and wet wind swept away the sultry heat, and the rain was coming.

In such weather, even the desperate people who can't open the pot will not wander around on the street, God knows when the heavy rain will come, but at this moment there are countless official sedan chairs are rushing from all directions to the direction of Beihai, and the nobles in the sedan chair who are trotting all the way are crying bitterly, and even the housekeeper who is accompanying him is tired of sticking out his tongue.

But no one dared to complain, because it was Ci'an, the last powerful Empress Dowager in Beijing, who summoned everyone, and it was the first time that the Empress Dowager took the initiative to summon important ministers after the New Year's court.

Minister of Military Aircraft, Minister of Prime Minister Yamen, Princes and Nobles of the Eight Banners, and Leader of Hanchen...... Although it is not a serious court, it brings together proper people with real power.

Of course, the two brothers Prince Gong and Prince Yi Xun are indispensable, just like the better, the two sedan chairs entered the newly renovated South Gate of Beihai almost at the same time, and the damp and cold wind hanging from Beihai just ran in opened the sedan curtain.

"Do you know why you summoned us?" asked a little knowingly.

"Why else, isn't it the assassination of His Majesty, there is no other topic in the entire Sijiu City for more than a month, and it is about to collapse into the sky!" Yiyun's eye sockets were deeply sunken, and a pair of panda eyes showed that he, the Admiral of the Nine Gates, was really busy enough in the past few days.

The two were silent and side-by-side, looking at the chaotic construction site outside the sedan chair, and the old willow trees, pine and cypress trees that had been transplanted from where they were being planted were busy with the eunuchs, and the ropes were fixed.

Many of the newly built palaces were being tiled, and craftsmen were stepping down from the shelves to secure the sundries with ropes and tarpaulins. The painting boat on the North Sea returned to the harbor, and the wind whipped up waves and crashed on the stone steps of white marble.

"Damn, how much money does this have to waste? Why does that Fuqing have so much money!" Yi twisted the pearl on his neck fiercely, and his eyes were full of vicious resentment.

He is absolutely opposed to the project of rebuilding Beihai and Jingshan, and he is distressed about the silver on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is still afraid that the Empress Dowager will pull up her own forces on this Jingshan.

Chinese politics is very ceremonial, and many things are based on people's speculation rather than black and white documents like in the West.

Don't look at it as a trivial matter as the Empress Dowager East moving the palace to Jingshan, but in the eyes of discerning people, this is a political signal to divide the boundary with the Empress Dowager West, and living away from the Forbidden City is also obviously supporting the reformers within the Eight Banners.

You see that the queen mother of my country does not live in the Forbidden City, and I take the lead in disobeying the rules, so the people below will naturally understand and look down on those courtiers of the reformers.

Moreover, officials and students across the country are also watching, if the Qing Dynasty does not even invite the Empress Dowager to return to the Forbidden City, it means that the control of the traditional forces over the situation is no longer good, and there will naturally be people with ulterior motives who will use their brains crookedly.

So from the very beginning, they were resolutely opposed to Ci'an living in Jingshan, and the lack of money in the treasury was a very reasonable excuse.

I didn't expect Ci'an to be more shrewd, and directly made his attitude clear, isn't your treasury without cash? You give me IOUs, and then I Ci'an take these IOUs and go directly to the governors of various places to ask for accounts, this is always okay, right?

Not to mention that this is a joke, there was a very special situation in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the power of local governors rose sharply, and everyone had financial power.

After a Taiping Rebellion, the local forces of the Han Dynasty were already too strong, and although there were no rebellions, they did not listen to the central government financially.

The provincial centigold, that is, the local commercial tax, as well as the provincial land tax, has never been fully paid, and this year it will be discounted by seven, and it will be discounted in half next year, and the reason is very simple: the place is not quiet, and there are too many rebels.

If one or two governors can't pay the money, the court can still deal with it, but if the governors of the world can't pay the money, the court will have to stare at it. In the end, it was formed, the local government owes Beijing, and then Beijing owes hundreds of officials, and finally the appropriation is uneven and has to owe the local government, which is a bad debt that cannot be sorted out.

Ci Anming said, you just say how much money to allocate to me, the Ministry of Industry will make a project budget, and then let the courtiers discuss together, if you don't object, let the household department give me an IOU, as for how the mourning family wants this money, then none of you care.

When the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty heard this, it was feasible! Let's not talk about the problem of more money and less money, you have a budget of 10 million taels, or if you don't get money, it will be in vain.

In the end, the Ministry of Industry generously budgeted out a plan of six million taels of silver, and let Style Lei draw detailed drawings, just looking at the beautiful scenery on the drawings, just thinking about how exquisite the future garden is.

The Ministry of Industry made a budget, the ministers of military aircraft nodded and agreed, the queen mother of the two palaces used treasures, and finally the household department issued a white note, to put it bluntly, it was to use the IOU of the local governor.

The household department was also very meticulous in its work, and actually divided the 6 million taels of silver into various provinces, of which 500,000 taels in Jiangsu, 500,000 taels in Zhejiang, and 500,000 taels in Guangdong were the largest provinces, and the remaining eight provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Anhui, Zhili, Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi took a total of 2.5 million taels.

As for the last two million taels, they were shared by other poor provinces, and the least Yunguichuan only shared more than 300,000 taels of silver, and the Ganshan Hui Department was at war, so they didn't bear it, in short, in the end, all the six million taels of silver were actually divided, and it was fair that even the provinces had no opinions.

The economic situation of the provinces is on the table, if Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong provinces can't even take out 500,000 silver, no one will believe it.

Just when everyone in the Beijing court was waiting to see the joke, they never expected the Fuqing of the Prime Minister's Yamen, Qing Sanye actually said that he had bought all the six hundred taels of white strips, and the Lotte Bank behind the third master accepted all the money raising work of the Empress Dowager Ci'an's Beihai Project.

This can scare the imperial court dumbfounded, everyone knows that Lotte Bank is Xiao Letian's industry, is this guy rich and boundless?

In the Qing Dynasty, one tael was equivalent to 35 grams of Western grams, and a Ryukyu stamped dragon pattern silver coin weighed 27 grams, which was converted to 1 million taels of silver, which was equivalent to about 1.3 million Ryukyu dragon pattern silver coins.

6 million taels of silver, that is, a full 7.8 million dragon pattern silver coins, all the merchants of the Qing Dynasty were speechless with such a large amount of wealth. Shanxi Gang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Gang, Hui Merchants, compradors in Shanghai, and the Thirteen Lines of Guangdong...... All the top businessmen in China were stunned by this stroke.

"Xiao Letian is really the illegitimate son of the old dragon king of the East China Sea, what is the matter with the treasure house of the East China Sea being left to him?"

In the midst of people's doubts, the silver transport team of Lotte Ocean Bank drove into Beijing in a mighty way, and the silver cars that could not be seen at a glance pressed over the stone road, and the people on both sides of the reason were dumbfounded.

When the young men opened a mouthful of silver boxes in front of the people of Sijiu City, everyone was dazzled by the light of the silver taels.

Clean, brand new and new are all dragon pattern silver coins, and now Ryukyu has stopped privately minting Mexican Eagle Ocean, at this time the production is nominally belonging to the Ryukyu Kingdom, but the actual shares are in the hands of Xiao Letian, dragon pattern silver coins.

The obverse is a coiled dragon, and the back reads Ninety-nine sterling silver is round, and the edge of the silver coin is also stamped with zigzags, which is afraid that the common people will use files to steal silver slag.

The stamping process is much more beautiful than the casting process, the relief coil dragon is lifelike, the handwriting behind it is very clear, and pinching the center of the circle with a mouth, this silver coin can also sing.

"The East China Sea Dragon Pattern Silver Circle! It's so beautiful, it's all brand new...... My Emperor Heavenly Ancestor, how can this Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea be so rich?"

"You don't know this, Xiao Lotian in the East China Sea is not a human at all...... Haha, this is not a curse, Xiao Lotian of the East China Sea is the illegitimate son of the old dragon king of the East China Sea...... No, no, no, that's called an illegitimate dragon!"

"Everyone knows that this little son is always the most favored, and the old dragon king spoils him the most, so he is allowed to transform into a world and travel clouds and rain as that fortune boy......"

"You northerners have never seen the world, and there is a legend in our southern business district that as long as you follow Prime Minister Xiao Cheng of the East China Sea to do business, there is no reason to lose money, and you will definitely make a lot of money...... Why is that? It's because the East China Sea is the territory of the Dragon King, and Xiao Letian, the little dragon, doesn't he want anything in his own home?"

"It makes sense, what this guy said makes sense! No wonder the prime minister doesn't want to be an official of the Qing Dynasty and has to go to Ryukyu to be the prime minister, it turns out that it is someone's hometown, and this water dragon is naturally not used to going to dry land......

"That's right, that's right, and you see, this Prime Minister Xiao's economic and military layout is operated along the sea, and he has never been seen inland, it seems that he went to Shanxi when he returned to China, and I heard that he also encountered bandits......"

"What does this mean? This means that the water dragon can't stay far away from the water, and when it comes to the territory of the drought dragon, it will be bullied!"

A group of superstitious people, talking nonsense together, but never thought that this kind of superstitious remarks circulated among the people would be so marketable, three days of kung fu spread throughout the four or nine cities, half a month of kung fu throughout the whole Zhili also spread, I believe that in less than a year, the water dragon will naturally spread all over the country.

"No wonder, Your Majesty can't take anyone out, and the prime minister was easily taken away. And I heard that His Majesty especially listened to Xiao Letian's words, and sure enough, only dragons can teach dragons!"

The men and marines guarding the silver box listened to these rumors, and although they sneered in their hearts, their faces were still very honorable, and it was a great thing that their lord was recognized as a dragon.

Although they saw some familiar figures shuttling through the crowd, they still wanted to believe that their family was a dragon.

On that day, Lotte Bank escorted a total of 2.5 million dragon pattern silver coins, which shocked the entire Qing Dynasty, and in the following month, as long as there were Lotte Bank and Lotte Bank in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, they were issuing something called treasury bonds.

They panicked, although they couldn't understand what Lotte wanted to do, but they could understand by intuition alone that Xiao Letian didn't have a time to suffer.

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