"Now everyone is bearish on silver, and with a lot of indemnity, I'm afraid the price of silver will be lower, if you're bullish, it's the opposite trend, and we don't have enough capital to affect the Japanese market." When Countess Laura said this, the momentum that had been a little sluggish rose again! In this regard, she is an expert and cannot easily be questioned by others!

"Do you know how much Japan spent on this war?" Ruprecht asked rhetorically.

"Ugh." Neither Her Royal Highness Princess Mary nor the Countess could answer the question, how much did the Japanese spend on this war? I guess the Japanese don't know about this thing, right? Even if there is an estimate, it is top secret! How is it possible for the average person to know?

Ruprecht can't say clearly, there are N numbers for this thing in history, the Japanese government announced more than 200 million yen, and the Japanese people estimate it to be 233 million yen. And if we carefully deduct how much of Japan's war fund reserves and temporary appropriations are saved by Japan, and how much is borrowed, then it will be even more endless!

But one thing Ruprecht is sure of is that Japan spent more money on this war than it has ever done in history! Not to mention anything else, just to deal with the aftermath of the Toshima incident, the Japanese government smashed 2.5 million pounds on the bright side! Of these, £1,500,000 was for reparations to Germany, and £1,000,000 was for the naval shortfall.

If you take into account the losses caused by the German fleet's breakthrough and the Japanese army's military expenditure in Korea in a few months, then this price is even greater! After all, when the army is stationed abroad, the cost is the same as running water, because of Ruprecht, the Japanese spent a few more months overseas, and it is not too much to say that the whole incident cost Japan an extra 6 million pounds! How many yen is 6 million pounds? 50 million yen is out!

This is not the end, if this matter is like this, the Japanese government will push the Qing army to death in the next wave, then it can still make a lot of money, but because of the relationship between the Blue Army and the Mainz armored cruiser, Japan's military spending has suddenly increased a lot! The Blue Army and the Russian army pinned down at least half of the Japanese army, which slowed the progress of the Japanese in Liaodong. And the Beiyang Fleet, joined by the Mainz, collapsed the Japanese before dying! Spelled out almost half of Japan's navy.

The Japanese are really poor this time, and although Ruprecht cannot have an exact estimate of how much Japan has spent on military spending, it is documented how much money Japan has in reserve for war money! However, 160 million yen, after such a toss, the hole will be even bigger! From Roosevelt, the Japanese issued another war bond, the amount of which reached about 100 million yen! And the subscription of this bond is not good, some Americans still have questions about the outcome of the war, although the Qing State is vulnerable, but if Russia and Germany support the Qing State, what is the difference between the Japanese winning and losing?

And the news from the British shows that the Japanese ordered two Centurion-class battleships in Britain this time! O centurion! The second-class battleship, although the performance is not bad, but in terms of tonnage, it is undoubtedly worse than the two first-class battleships that Japan bought at the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War in history! The Japanese are out of money! Otherwise, 2 battleships of the 2nd rank would not have been bought!

Ruprecht may not be very good at finance, but when it comes to the arms market, it is clear! If you can make a mistake by doing this yourself, then you might as well find a piece of tofu and kill it! According to Rupprecht's estimates, now the pre-war reserves of the Japanese government should have been exhausted! Now it's all about borrowing money to fight!

"If the Japanese really only have 160 million yen in war reserves, they are already overspending, about 30 million yen, and Japan's foreign debt will rise by at least about 15 million yen every month it drags on!" After comparing the intelligence of various aspects, as well as the combat consumption of the Russian Legion and the Blue Legion in the northeast, Ruprecht's uncle, Prince Leopold, gave Ruprecht an estimate!

"I'm rubbing, the Japanese are miserable! Now even the Liaodong Peninsula has not been completed. If Liaodong and the Shandong Peninsula are defeated as they are in history, it will drag on for at least half a year! This famine will bring down about 120 million yen! "Ruprecht probably counted, and he was happy!

In this case, in order to make up for the shortfall, even if the Japanese received a large amount of silver from the Qing Kingdom, they had to exchange it for foreign currency to repay the loan. The bonds issued by the Japanese in the United Kingdom and the United States are all pounds and dollars! You'll have to exchange the silver for the country's currency before you can pay it back! In this case, there will be an error in the estimation of silver in Japan, for example, if it was originally thought that there might be an inflow of 50 million taels of silver, but now it suddenly changes to 20 million taels, then there will be a price difference! If someone else fuels the trouble, the impact will be even greater!

And what is even more terrifying is that Ruprecht, who made the Japanese spend a lot of unjust money, does not intend to stop! Who is Ruprecht? Come out and walk around, and if you can't catch it, you will lose money! Since the reduction in the inflow of silver into Japan helps to make money on its own! Then let it flow in less! The so-called open source and throttling expenditure, Ruprecht has already made Japan's capital flow hemorrhage, so it is inevitable to block it again at the source!

The Japanese still want to get 200 million taels of silver from the Treaty of Shimonoseki? Do you want to get another 30 million taels of silver through the ransom fee? What do you want? Did the Japanese ask Russia, Germany, and France what their attitude was? Do you know what people think? As for the future post-war situation, Russia and Germany have already thought that the Japanese cannot get too much benefit from the Qing state, otherwise, rich Japanese businessmen will definitely become enemies of Russia and Germany. And if the Qing State is too weak, to whom will Germany sell arms.

Historically, in fact, when the Three Kingdoms intervened and returned to Liao, Japan was the weakest, and the British made it clear that they were neutral, and the Three Kingdoms had 120,000 tons of warships in the Far East! 4 ironclad ships, the Japanese Navy dare to jump? Tens of thousands of Russian troops began to deploy to the Far East, could the Japanese navy be confronting Russia after fighting the Beiyang? Isn't that looking for death? The key to the Japanese being able to get the ransom fee was the acquiescence of the three countries. To put it mildly, let Japan even spit out Taiwan, and it doesn't matter if the reparations are cut in half! The British will not give the Japanese a guarantee of safety!

"The Japanese government cannot receive more than 150 million taels of silver! And could not acquire any territory from the Qing state. "This was a condition negotiated by the representatives of Russia and Germany when they met in private, and in return, some German products entered Russia with lower tariffs. And the Russian grain sector can also allow German companies to intervene to a limited extent.

With such a consensus, Ruprecht is already very sure that the significance of Japan's victory in this war is very limited! Even financially because of the war, there will be a huge burden! And the Japanese are weak, and the British will have to pay a greater price if they want to use this chess piece, which is also very meaningful to Germany and Ruprecht, and there is a Boer War behind it, and Ruprecht is now ready to blet the British!

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