Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Chapter 121 - Letian Firm's Gold Card

When Xiao Letian finished resting, it was already noon of the second day. When he opened his eyes, he saw four young beauties lying on the tatami.

"Huh?!" Where was this? Why was there a woman? What did I do last night, could it be... Heavens, it can't be, right? How could I not remember anything? Losing. What a loss.

Just as Xiao Letian was about to sneak in a sneak attack on a big-chested beauty beside him, a maid who was sleeping lightly suddenly opened his eyes. The Prime Minister woke up … "Sorry, please forgive us for being disrespectful, we should not have fallen asleep …" After which, he kowtowed.

Xiao Letian was furious, just as he was about to dig his way in through the collar, he said something that woke up all the servants. The four girls immediately kowtowed and wanted to forgive Xiao Letian.

"Forget it, why would I kowtow in such a huge matter? Where am I?" When Xiao Letian found out that she was actually living in the Shouli City's imperial harem, she was so scared that her hair stood on end.

"Someone come!" "Who's serving outside? Hurry up and die for me …" While they were talking, the Japanese sliding door opened, Dragon Lord and Luo Huo ran in, their big feet stepping on the tatami s until they were just footprints.

"Are you stupid? How can you let me sleep in the Shouli City's harem? If you were to charge me with the sin of a lecherous royalty, wouldn't those clear streams eat me? "Immediately give the order to keep this a secret, to not let anyone else know …"

Xiao Letian was still cursing when he said with a bitter face, "Ah, my lord, it's too late … This morning, Long Ma had already come to the southern palace gate to request an audience. Japanese already knew that you were sleeping here … "

Xiao Letian was furious, he was especially angry at himself for being so weak, he could not hold on for a day and a night, how could he suddenly fall asleep, this body was truly worth training. Just as he was angry, the Minister of Revenue, Lin Yuanmiao, came running over with a group of people. The Prime Minister was furious, and their faces turned pale.

Right now, Xiao Letian's position was no different than the Three Kingdoms' Cao Cao Cao's power. The Ryukyu Kingdom's imperial guards were disbanded by Xiao Letian, and like sand, mixed into the large number of Chinese people, all of the elite soldiers that followed Xiao Letian were promoted to the middle and lower ranks. Xiao Letian's control over the army was unshakable.

Furthermore, Ryukyu Kingdom urgently needed Xiao Letian's financial support right now, so the entire treasury had been completely cleaned out, and it was only worth seven hundred thousand silver. To depend on such a small amount of money to support an entire country, was simply delusional.

There was money and guns, and his prestige was extremely high. If this wasn't Cao Cao, then what else could it be? It was understandable for Lin Yuanmiao and the others to be so frightened that their faces turned pale.

"Prime Minister, why are you angry? Could it be that these lowly maidservants don't want to offend you? "I will immediately deal with it and change it for you …" Lin Yuanmiao still had not finished speaking, but he was already angered to the point of being happy.

"Bullsh * t …" Do you really treat me as a debauchee? "It's too late for me to hide from these things, aren't you guys just holding me up and roasting me …" When Xiao Letian had tactfully voiced out his worries, Lin Yuanmiao patted his head and said, "Aiya, Prime Minister is overthinking things, there's no need to be so particular about etiquette in Ryukyu, no one will recognize that. Just look at this Shouli City, there aren't even that many eunuchs.

Forget it, Xiao Letian did not explain it to him. He quickly let the servant change clothes and wash, then casually ate a few mouthfuls of food before leaving the palace to busy himself with his own matters. Before leaving, he ordered everyone to return to the Cherry Blossom House.

Xiao Letian rushed to the dock immediately. He wanted to meet with the foreign merchants from various countries, especially the American captain, Dan Nier. He had to thank him personally. Right now, the title that President Lin Ken wanted, was already in Xiao Letian's hands.

In Western politics, the chancellor is the equivalent of the prime minister, as in the case of Britain and Germany, where the royal family reigns but the prime minister reigns. This meant that the Prime Minister Xiao Letian already possessed the authority to negotiate with his own country.

Xiao Letian and Captain Dan Nier did not waste any time on words, they immediately sent Dan Nier to the Tanggu to find the Letian Firm, and the 200 thousand silver they had left over to buy the goods on the ship was actually equivalent to thanking him for the gift. If Dan Nier did not need the silver taels, he would have priority to get the most goods from the Letian Firm. He believed that he would be able to make a lot of money after shipping them to the United States.

However, there was only one condition. After arriving at the Tanggu, Xiao Letian immediately contacted Minister Hua Ruohan and quickly brought the Special Envoy and the latest intelligence back to the North America Continent. Xiao Letian was looking forward to the response from the United States and also looked forward to signing a treaty with them.

The coin machine, scissor boat s, cannons and the most advanced Gun s, these treasures that made Xiao Letian's mind wander had finally hope to be obtained. How could he not be excited?

Xiao Letian was not the only excited one, Dan Nier and Mike were also very excited now, since they had won the military adventure, now was the time to reap the rewards, as long as Xiao Letian did not fall, then the most interesting business on the route to the Ryukyu.

After sending off Dan Nier and Mike, Xiao Letian urgently discussed the details of the military expenditures with all the merchant ships that had provided firepower support. He never thought that the captains of these armed merchant ship would actually ask for so much, to the point that each ship would cost twenty thousand gold.

Damn, it's really dark, Xiao Letian had already counted more than 40 merchant ships that had fired their cannons, so this was equivalent to an army of 800,000 gold, robbing would not be as fierce as them.

"Mr. Xiao, you have to consider our difficulties, we are just merchants who provide you with firepower support, and we have to take a very big risk. We will even be judged when we return, and 20,000 is already the lowest amount, it is very worth it for us to exchange this much money to get rid of the Japanese's slaves."

"Mr. Xiao, you should be clear that our armed intervention can give you extra points at the negotiation table. This world belongs to the west, and with our support, what can you not do?"

Arrogant, really arrogant, but the foreigners had their reasons. The world was under the control of the West, as they said. There were no more colonies on earth, and the Western powers were unbeatable.

He had no choice but to lower his head when faced with the short wall. However, Xiao Letian really did not have that much money on hand right now. The seven hundred thousand from the Ryukyu's treasury was not even enough for him to spend. As for how much Tanggu could send them, that was not certain.

Xiao Letian couldn't leave these foreign merchants' support for the time being, but he didn't want to spend so much money, so he came up with a compromise.

"Gentlemen, I will give everyone two choices. The first is according to the twenty thousand silver military expenditure that you have mentioned, I will use my Mexican eagle to pay. The place to pay is the Tanggu of the Great Qing province …" But the second method is a little special, I will create a batch of Letian Firm's "V" Gold Card, from today onwards, the ones who hold this card will be my Letian Firm's important customers … "

Just as Xiao Letian finished speaking, the group of captains started whispering to each other, a few merchants looked at them with disdain and said, "Mr. Xiao, your Letian Firm has just been established, right? How much strength could he possibly have? "I'd rather choose cash …"

Most merchants still chose cash, but there were exceptions. Amongst the forty armed merchant ship, the six French merchant ships and the four British merchant ships had unexpectedly chosen the second option, causing Xiao Letian to be stunned.

"Mr. Xiao, we are very familiar with Captain Ke Xijia. On the day he left, we drank together …" With just a hint, Xiao Letian naturally understood that it was Ke Xijia who had leaked the news to them.

Those short-sighted merchants would regret it very soon. When they saw that the members who had the Letian Firm Golden Card could easily borrow money from the foreign banks, and did not have to queue at the Tanggu Pier, and could always get those tight items the fastest, their intestines would turn green.

Twenty thousand taels of silver might be a lot of money, but to Ocean trade, this amount of money was nothing.

After taking care of these foreigners, the sky started to darken. When Xiao Letian got off the merchant boat and returned to the dock, he found Sakamoto Ryoma and his bodyguards standing there obediently, waiting for him.

While Xiao Letian was still confused, the Dragon Lord said in a low voice, "This Japanese has already been standing here for more than four hours, no matter how hard we tried to coax him, he still hasn't left. "He is also an emissary, we cannot use violence …"

Xiao Letian walked in front of Sakamoto Ryoma, and what he got in return for that was the other party's respectful ninety degree bow: "Mr. Xiao, I wonder if I have the honor of inviting you to dinner. I spent one day preparing, and hope that you can show me some respect!"

Xiao Letian looked at him for a long time. "If I don't agree, do you want to continue standing? Do you want to put pressure on me by putting on such a bitter show in front of the foreigners? "

Sakamoto Ryoma said softly, "Indeed, I had such a plan before, but now that I think about it, in front of the Master of Western Studies, I am not even qualified to brush my eyes. Today, I will treat you to a meal as a scholar and a loyal reader of the《 Journey to the West》. I assure you, this is not a negotiation. "

Xiao Letian did not even need to turn his head to know that the deck of the merchant boat behind him was definitely filled with foreigners. Seeing the Japanese envoys waiting humbly, they would definitely raise their evaluation of him, and perhaps this little story would spread along with the foreigners and spread through the whole world, even to the continental Europe.

To fawn over and kill, this was an unavoidable attempt to fawn over and kill. However, this kind of scheme was unsolvable, this Japanese was truly cunning.

"It seems that I have no choice but to give you face. If I don't go today, you might encourage tens of thousands of Japanese citizens to go to my house and kowtow and cry. Are you trying to kill me?" "You want to roast me over the fire in the official field …"

Before Xiao Letian could finish speaking, Xiao Hexin had already thought it through, "Damn, this Japanese is too evil. He wants to use the blade to kill people and let the imperial government harm you!" With one sentence, he roused the surrounding guards from their stupor. With the sound of weapons being drawn, the Japanese was about to be chopped into minced meat in the next second.

Sakamoto Ryoma was not afraid at all, nor did he want to resist. He only looked at Xiao Letian calmly and said, "I've read Mister's masterpiece, I believe in a Unparalleled National Scholars's moral standards, if you want to make a move then please do it …"

Aiyo, this is just a piece of roasted meat! Xiao Letian was convinced. He was truly worthy of being known as the famous scholar in history, he was already worthy of respect for his courage and scheming.