Emperor Guangxu waved his hand and said, "You all go out!" ”

Lin Yuan and Guangxu were left in the room, Lin Yuan pointed to the door and said, "Close the door." ”

Where did Emperor Guangxu do such a thing as closing the door, usually eunuchs did it, Emperor Guangxu looked around, there was no one, so he had to get up and close the door, and while closing the door, he thought to himself: "Okay, you Lin Yuan, I have become your eunuch!" ”

When Emperor Guangxu closed the door and returned to Lin Yuan to sit down, Lin Yuan smiled and sat up straight on the bed, Emperor Guangxu saw that Lin Yuan did not look sick, and saw that Lin Yuan's expression changed suddenly, and said in surprise: "Are you not sick?" You were pretending just now? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "If I don't pretend to be sick, will you come?" After Lin Yuan said this, he saw that Emperor Guangxu's face was about to change, and he thought, "I can't wait for you to turn your face, I have to divert your attention!" So Lin Yuan said: "I brought you to me because I have a shocking secret to tell you." ”

Lin Yuan thought that Emperor Guangxu would take the opportunity to ask him what this secret was, but he didn't expect Emperor Guangxu to slap the table and say angrily: "You led someone to break into Yuan Aiqing's house without permission, not only injured the guards, but also arrested the expert I relied on the most, do you know how big this crime is?" What are you doing? Are you crazy? ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I'm doing this all for the sake of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

Emperor Guangxu was even more angry, "Teng" stood up, and said loudly: "I have won the Central Plains in the Qing Dynasty for nearly 300 years, all of them are silver and money, the price of silver money changes from time to time, illegal profiteers profit from it, and the people are unbearable. ”

When Emperor Guangxu said this, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Lin Yuan's nose and scolded: "You! But you, Lin Yuan, you have taken all the people away from me, which has angered the masters, how can we build a bank, issue paper money, make thousands of countries pay tribute, and all countries will come to court? ”

Emperor Guangxu spoke Chinese is an authentic Beijing dialect, in his own time accustomed to listening to standard Mandarin Lin Yuan listened to Emperor Guangxu as if listening to cross talk, usually Lin Yuan can not help laughing, today I heard Emperor Guangxu as the emperor, actually said the word "you Ya", "flutter" laughed.

Lin Yuan laughed and thought to himself: "Guangxu, Guangxu, you think about the establishment of a bank too simply, the premise of financial independence is sovereign independence, if I don't drive away all the enemies and safeguard the sovereignty of the country, how can you establish a bank?" ”

Emperor Guangxu saw Lin Yuan laughing and said angrily: "What is ridiculous about you? ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "The shocking secret I want to talk about has something to do with those foreign experts!" ”

Emperor Guangxu heard Lin Yuan mention the "earth-shattering secret" twice, and he was also a little curious, so he asked: "Then you can tell me, what is the earth-shattering secret?" ”

Lin Yuan put away his smile and said awe-inspiringly: "The foreigners helped me to start a bank in the Qing Dynasty, on the surface to help us, but secretly they harbored evil intentions and wanted to kill my Qing Dynasty!" ”

Emperor Guangxu smiled disdainfully and said, "Talking nonsense, why are they harboring evil intentions?" ”

Lin Yuan took out a stack of documents from a cabinet on the side and said, "Foreigners have been running banks in Shanghai for more than 50 years, and you can get a glimpse of the whole picture from the foreigner banks in Shanghai!" Lin Yuan said and took out two documents, and said to Guangxudi: "I think you already know that the two important affairs of the Bank are deposits and loans, and these two tables are the detailed table of the number of deposits obtained from foreign banks and the statistical table of loan interest rates. ”

Emperor Guangxu took the document, only to see that it was full of numbers, he threw the document back to Lin Yuan, and said, "If there is anything on this form, you can just say it." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let's look at this deposit table first, which shows that more than 80% of the deposit amount comes from my Daqing Dynasty, some are large merchants, and some are small people in the market, so most of the deposits in the foreigner bank are put in by our people, in other words, we are the bank that feeds the foreigners." ”

"Let's take a look at this statistical table of lending interest rates, there are two columns on both sides, the left column is the loan interest rate of Daqing merchants, which is five thousandths per year, and the compound interest is calculated, do you say this number is high?"

Emperor Guangxu shook his head blankly, and Lin Yuan said: "This number is not low, I visited in Shanghai, and the annual interest rate of private loan sharks is not more than ten thousandths!" ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded, Lin Yuan pointed to another column and said: "Look at this column again, it is the interest rate of foreign merchant loans, and the annual interest rate is not more than one thousandth, do you see the problem?" ”

Emperor Guangxu hesitated and said, "Isn't it that the interest rate of foreign merchants' loans is lower than that of Chinese merchants?" ”

Lin Yuan said in a tone of hatred that iron is not steel: "Why don't you understand? Isn't the foreign bank using the money of our ordinary people to help foreigners do business? To put it more bluntly, our common people are tired of making money, but the last money is taken away by the bank and given to foreign businessmen! This time you should understand, right? ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded lightly, Lin Yuan then took out the newspapers in Shanghai, which were all reports on young girls and opium, Lin Yuan said: "You must have seen these things in the newspapers, those foreign businessmen take the money of the Chinese people to do serious business, but they still do so many things that hurt the heavens and reason, and they change their tricks to scavenge blood and sweat on our people!" ”

Emperor Guangxu frowned and said, "These foreigners' banks are indeed hateful. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Emperor Guangxu is a little moved!" So Lin Yuan took a brown paper bag again, and buckled it on the table in front of Emperor Guangxu, and Emperor Guangxu saw a lot of pieces of paper of various colors falling out of it, and there were numbers on the pieces of paper, so he couldn't help asking: "What are these things?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "These are banknotes issued by various banks, and I know according to the seized bank information that HSBC alone has issued nearly 50 million banknotes worth nearly 50 million in the more than 40 years since its establishment, and these banknotes are used to exchange for silver in the hands of ordinary people!" Therefore, we don't know how much silver in our country is robbed by them every year! ”

Emperor Guangxu said: "But can't we exchange silver back with paper money?" How can they say that the money has been robbed by them? ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "The people of the market, they are used to using convenient banknotes, where can they be exchanged for silver?" So the silver was smuggled abroad by foreign banks! They traded with us with this silver, and exchanged it for our tea, and for cotton, and for ore, and for cattle and sheepskins, and we had silver, but they exchanged it for paper money, and then they took it away, and then they exchanged it for the wealth we produced, and so on! It is equivalent to them just printing out a bunch of paper and taking away the blood and sweat that our people have worked so hard for. ”

Emperor Guangxu understood this time, he frowned, slapped the table heavily, and said angrily: "This foreigner's bank is so shameless!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "It seems that my plan is almost complete!" Lin Yuan continued: "The foreigner bank harbors evil intentions, and those high-ranking people who come are precisely from the foreigner bank!" In this way, can we still trust them? ”