Uncle has been living in Guangzhou since Daoguang came to China for 15 years, during which he returned to China in a hurry, he is not very familiar with the domestic situation, he does not know much about the domestic economy, and he has little understanding of financial currency and the banking industry.

After a little muttering, he said: "The stock market in Guangzhou and Shanghai has also fallen sharply, will it cause the stock market to collapse, and then cause an economic crisis?" ”

Is this still the heart to care about the economy of the Qing Dynasty? Yi Zhishu reacted after a while, the other party was worried that the economic crisis would also break out in the Qing Dynasty, which would aggravate the degree of the economic crisis in the United States, and he immediately shook his head slowly, "My country is not qualified to break out of an economic crisis at present.

Moreover, China's listed companies are quite different from your country, the threshold for listing is very high, and only companies with high growth, high profitability, and a certain amount of capital can be listed for financing to further expand the scale of production.

To put it simply, there is no bubble in China's stock market at present, and the reason why it plummeted is because of the panic of the war, because of the fear that Yuanqi will close down because of the war, and we have a way to quickly restore confidence in the market ........ ”

Bo Jia asked, "Yuan Qi is confident that he can win this battle?" ”

"It's not that I have confidence in the war, I have a way to convince the market that even if it is defeated, Yuanqi will not go out of business." Yi Zhifen smiled: "If the Federal Bank of your country can also be as financially powerful as Yuanqi Bank, you can also try, and after a while, you should know." ”

After a while, the economic crisis in the United States is afraid that it has broken out on a large scale, and Uncle Jia secretly slandered himself in his heart, but he no longer asked, he knew that the domestic federal bank would never have such a strong strength as Yuanqi, and the status of Yuanqi in the Qingguo banking industry could not be compared with the federal bank.

Seeing that he was silent, Yi Zhishu gently knocked the cigarette ash and said in a deep voice: "I think the only thing I can help is to import a large amount of grain, but I have the conditions to call all my country's ocean-going merchant fleets under the names of several major Far East trading companies in your country." ”

It is common for the two countries to fight, capture or sink the merchant ships of the hostile countries, and the British have not done this kind of thing, and Yi Zhi's contentment to put forward this condition is also to protect the Qing Dynasty's ocean-going merchant fleet as much as possible, but his request has the flavor of taking advantage of the opportunity.

Sure enough, hearing this, Bo Jia refused almost without thinking about it: "Your country's ocean-going merchant fleet has developed rapidly in recent years, and now the scale is not small, in this case, I am afraid that no transoceanic trading company will be willing to accept it." ”

His attitude is very normal, Britain and France declared war on the Qing State, and the Far East trade can be said to be a one-man show of the United States, and letting the Qing merchant fleet join is undoubtedly weakening its trade advantage.

Yi Zhixiang smiled and said disapprerovingly: "My proposal, although you make a suggestion to the country, I think the dignitaries and businessmen of your country will make the right choice." ”

Bo Jia glanced at him and said: "Grain trade is bulk commodity trade, but the profit is not large, and my country's grain exports have always been European ......." ”

"That was before." Yi Zhicontent said unceremoniously: "After the Crimean War, the ban on Russian agricultural products was lifted, a large amount of Russian wheat flooded the European market, the European grain market has become saturated, and food prices will fall sharply. ”

Uncle drove up with a heavy heart and said goodbye, Yi Zhizu sent him to the gate of the courtyard according to the custom, and watched the other party leave with a smile on his face, Zhao Wenlie came quickly with a stack of newspapers, saw him with a smile on his face, glanced at the back of Uncle Jia suspiciously, and couldn't help but say: "There is good news?" ”

"Good news indeed." Yi Zhizhi smiled and entered the courtyard, and he continued: "A new round of economic crisis will break out again, it can be said that God helps me to clear up!" ”

Zhao Wenlie also said: "Economic crisis? United Kingdom? ”

"It's not just the UK, it's a serious economic crisis around the world!"

Zhao Wenlie was overjoyed when he heard it, "What does the big shopkeeper mean, is it possible for the British and French four-nation alliance to choose a quick victory?" ”

"Not bad." Yi Zhixiang glanced at him approvingly, and said: "The war is about money and food, and the outbreak of the economic crisis in the country will prompt Britain, France and other countries to end the war as soon as possible, otherwise the huge war expenses will undoubtedly make them worse ......." ”

"But ......." Zhao Wenlie pondered and said: "Didn't the big shopkeeper say that Western countries have always waged wars abroad in order to pass on the domestic economic crisis? ”

"There must be a premise for passing on the domestic economic crisis through foreign wars." Yi Zhishu slowed down his pace and said slowly: "The premise is that you can finally obtain benefits through war means, otherwise, you will face a situation where you will pay a high amount but not get anything in return."

Britain and France and other countries launched wars, once they won, they often will ask for huge war reparations, which is the most direct return, but if they cannot win the war or even lose the war, the result is not only embarrassing but sad. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Britain and France both know that we are not soft persimmons to be kneaded, and it can even be said that if it were not for us being aggressive, Britain and France might not have started this war." In the event of an economic crisis at home, waging a war against a foreign country is generally a war that is sure to be won. ”

Zhao Wenlie followed the conversation and said: "The students also feel that this war is a ....... deliberately provoked by the big treasurer. ”

Yi Zhixiang did not deny it, and said calmly: "This war can provide us with a period of peaceful development for decades, in my opinion, the sooner the war breaks out, the smaller the casualties, the smaller the losses, the smaller the cost, and at this stage, we are most likely to obtain the maximum benefits at the lowest cost, for this, it is worth taking some risks." ”

For this statement, although Zhao Wenlie did not dare to question it, but he did not dare to believe it, he estimated that the other party deliberately provoked this war, it may be to use the uninterrupted war, especially this large-scale war of foreign invasion to expand Yuan Qi's strength and influence, however, this is easy to be content, he can only guess in his heart.

When the two entered the study, Zhao Wenlie took the newspaper under his arm, and said: "The outbreak of a large-scale mercenary uprising in India has been reported, but it seems that there is no boost to the stock market, the stock market is still sluggish, and the exchange of paper money shows no signs of slowing down." ”

"That's because they don't know how important India is to the UK." Yi Zhishu said in a relaxed tone: "Write another article to introduce in detail the harm of the British colonial rule in India to all strata, analyze the importance of India to the British, analyze the scale of the Indian national uprising will continue to expand, and directly point out that the British will send troops to India first to quell the ...... of the rebellion." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Wenlie smiled bitterly and said: "This article has to be written by the big shopkeeper, otherwise no one will believe it." ”

Yi Zhizhi smiled, "Cheng, sign my name." ”

Seeing that he couldn't push it off, Zhao Wenlie no longer shirked, and said with a slight sigh: "Will the scale of this civil strife in India continue to expand?" To what extent will it expand? ”

"Half of the country." Yi Zhisuff said with some uncertainties, to be honest, what impressed him most about India was the 'non-violent non-cooperation' movement, and he really didn't dare to have too high expectations for India's armed rebellion, even if he was very eager, and he also won half a year for India, creating extremely favorable conditions, but he still didn't dare to have too many expectations.

Although Yi Zhixiang did not dare to have too much expectations for the Indian uprising, the Indian uprising still spread rapidly with a spark of fire, and the mercenaries raised the slogan of supporting the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II to resist British colonial rule, which won a positive response from many local princes in India, and the uprising team snowballed.

Of course, not all Indians supported the uprising, and the Sikhs in Punjab hated the Mughal Empire and preferred to support the British rather than see the Mughal Empire restored.

Similarly, the Sunnis did not want the Shia Mughals to return to their country, and the southern part of India, which was not under the jurisdiction of the East India Company, was completely concerned about the revolt.

Even those who participated in the uprising also had their own intentions, some hoped to restore the Mughal Empire, others hoped to restore the Marat Empire, and some princes were busy fighting for power and profit, busy recovering the annexed lands.

The most fierce and positive reactions were carried out by the princely states of Satara, Nagpur, and Jhansi, which had been annexed by the British for a long time, and by the princely states that had not been annexed for a long time, namely Berar, Ode, Rajasthan, Sindh, Punjab, and the states of Central India.

In just two months, the rebels occupied Delhi, the already extinct Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II was proclaimed Emperor of India, Prince Mirza became the commander-in-chief of the rebel army in Delhi, and a leading body, Zarsa, similar to the Executive Yuan, was established.

Hundreds of princely states in the northern, central, and northeastern parts of India responded one after another, controlling hundreds of towns and cities, and the local British colonial officials and officers were either annihilated or fled in a hurry, and at least half of India set off an anti-British ** centered on the ancient capital of Delhi.

Just when India launched a vigorous anti-British **, nearly 100,000 Taiping troops crossed the Arakan Mountains like locusts crossing the border, crossed Bengal, and captured Calcutta, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and Calcutta, which is as rich as Jiangning, has long been designated as the new Tianjing of the Taiping Army by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan!

Calcutta lacked guns and ammunition, and was seriously undertrained, and thousands of religious armed forces were temporarily formed with mercenaries as the backbone, and they were drowned in the boundless red turbans without even a single wave, and the Taiping army fought thousands of miles, large and small, with rich combat experience, excellent guns, and many good generals, how could the rabble of Calcutta be able to contend with?

In less than half a day, the streets and alleys of Kolkata were full of red turbans, full of excitement, jubilant Taiping soldiers, accustomed to capturing a city and looting a city, this time the Taiping army was not busy looting, but beating gongs and drums from house to house to gather all the residents to go to the open area, of course, it is the old business - 'reasoning', the implementation of the holy treasury system, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, let people translate.

Under the gestures of translation and gestures, and above all without the coercion of bayonets, the inhabitants of Calcutta were again a few more gods, God and many of God's sons, and after they had given their possessions into the Holy Treasury with tears in their eyes, rich and poor, they turned and threw themselves into the great construction of a vigorous fortification.

Almost all the residents of Kolkata tossed and turned at night, and they couldn't understand why the same Qing army's army was so far behind.

In the Governor's Palace, an exotic government building, the forty-year-old but already full of vicissitudes of life did not bother to pay attention to the doubts of the Protestants, but stared at the large map of India hanging on the wall, and he was most worried about the counterattack of the British army.

He is indeed satisfied with the new Tianjing City designated by Yi Zhizi, which is not a little stronger than the royal city of Burma, not only prosperous and rich, not only has a large population and a vast area, but more importantly, there are railways, roads, telegraphs and factories, which makes him see the hope of the Taiping Army - the hope of getting rid of the control of Yuanqi and the future of unlimited development!

Of course, the premise is to be able to repel the counterattack of the British army and firmly control the city and the surrounding places, although he knows that Yi Zhi is content and uneasy, he is still willing! Even if it is a big price, this city is worth fighting for by the Taiping Army!

"Someone!" He commanded in a deep voice: "Hurry up and give the order, and the Winged King will come to the New Heavenly Capital as soon as possible!" ”

Although in the continuous conquest in recent years, a large number of eye-catching young generals have emerged in the Taiping Army, but the most brave and good generals are Yang Xiuqing and Shi Dakai, and now Yang Xiuqing is unreliable, he hopes that Shi Dakai will come to Xintianjing as soon as possible to preside over this battle situation that can be described as life and death for the Taiping Army.

Madras – one of the three major British military positions in India.

In the British barracks, in a beautiful building full of British style, the Commander-in-Chief in India, Inspectors Canning, sat on a chair and gently rubbed his temples, half of India fell into chaos, he was busy these days, anxious to ask London to mobilize fleets and troops from all over the country to come to India to quell the chaos.

Although he had received accurate information that the Qing army had completely withdrawn from Calcutta, because the Qing army was not far away, he did not dare to send troops to recover Calcutta, he was worried that the Qing army would kill him again, and the current troops in India could not afford to lose.

"Your Excellency." An attendant came in and reported: "Calcutta has sent an urgent telegram that nearly 70,000 Taiping troops have captured Calcutta. ”

The Taiping army has been stirring up trouble in Burma in recent years, Charles Canning is no stranger to it, listening to the news, his face was a little pale, it turned out that the Qing army evacuated Calcutta in order to let the Taiping army occupy, he couldn't help muttering, "Trouble!" ”