Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

"Really? Had the French really begun to transfer weapons from the colonies? "Shasper rifle?"

Prussia had never slacked off on French intelligence. There were more than a hundred thousand Prussian spy in France and spies in almost every major police department in Paris.

The French Crown Prince Eugén. Bonaparte had been authorized to take over the military's full authority on an ad hoc basis, and only twenty hours later had passed before the news had reached Berlin.

Xiao Letian and Bismark had not expected that French Emperor would actually take the risk to get their son to become their commander at such a crucial moment.

"It's not easy!" "I really didn't think that this young crown prince would be so capable to actually discover the difference in rifles …"

"How is our Mauser production? Are you sure you can't change your clothes all at once? " Xiao Letian asked.

"The Chief of Staff shook his head." The empire's finances are already at its elbows, if not for the large amount of secret funding provided by Britain, I'm afraid we wouldn't even be able to sustain Krupp's artillery production!

"The last bit of the empire's war potential has been completely squeezed dry. All the tourism capital in the country has been drained, and the total number of War bond bought by the people has exceeded 150 million!"

"The commoners' riches have been poured into the furnaces of war. The empire no longer has any money, no more …"

Xiao Letian frowned, he knew that the Chief of Staff was not lying. The entire Prussian nation had been kidnapped by this war, all the dissolvable funds on the market had been borrowed, the cash in the hands of the citizens had already become War bond. The war funds provided by the British City and the British royal family had also been turned into all kinds of supplies.

There was also a commercial market in the financial market, and only the last bit of money was left to maintain the flow of business. At the moment, neither banks nor businesses could make large financial transactions, and they could only use debits and other means to trade.

Even this cash crunch affected the lives of ordinary people, and in many villages, the original barter model of bartering even appeared.

In the end, money was locked onto precious metals like gold and silver in this era. Even the King could not print money without any limits. After the war, the Gold-Eating Beast, had eaten up 90% of a country's cash market, money was unavoidable.

Bismark also sighed, "The Prussia's real industrial productivity is close to that of Britain now. As long as the funds are available, there will be no problem to produce another 300,000 yuan in three months!"

"But where is the cash! At this moment, the Empire no longer has any excess funds to purchase supplies. All the weapons factories in the Empire are only consuming the raw materials they purchased before. Once these raw materials are produced, the production of these enterprises will probably be halted! "

"War is a gamble. If we lose, Prussia will never recover from it. But if we win, we can use the flesh and blood of France to feed our economy!"

"I can't afford to lose! The Empire really cannot afford to lose! "

Xiao Letian's hand was covered with sweat, these were things that were not recorded in the textbooks from his previous world. He never thought that Prussia's rise to power would be so difficult, it was the people who squeezed out the last copper coin and won this war when everyone was in trouble together.

"Is it so tight already? Will it affect our future battles? "

Lao Maoqi put down the red and blue pencil in his hand and said proudly, "This leader asks you to be at ease, the empire is only lacking cash, and money has long been turned into all kinds of war supplies, lying quietly in the warehouse!"

"The money spent has become bullets, shells, Soldier rations, first aid medicines, horse fodder... including the coal needed for the railway, and even the cigarettes and alcohol used for the soldiers' quota! "

"Once the war breaks out, these supplies will be put into the army in a planned manner! "The military has prepared a budget. These supplies are enough for our troops to fight for three months!"

"Three months …" Xiao Letian started to ponder. If history did not change, three months of ammunition would be enough, because from the start of the Franco-Prussian War to the final battle, he had not even used two months.

But would history really continue as it had before? Only the heavens knew what kind of unforeseen event this Transcender had brought upon himself. Even the Crown Prince of France, who should not have gone on the stage, had jumped to the front line. What else could not happen?

As soon as the Crown Prince showed his face, he realized the huge gap between the two parties' rifles. If this young man managed to get enough of a new rifle, wouldn't that create another variable?

"Prime Minister, Chief of Staff... Can you think of some way to get the French crown prince off the stage? If he really managed to get his hands on two hundred thousand new rifles, the consequences would be unthinkable! "

Bismark and Lao Maoqi looked at each other and laughed, "Haha … "Chief, you are overthinking it. That crown prince of France is indeed very arrogant, but reality will teach him a lesson!"

"If the internal injuries in France were so easy to treat, the French Emperor wouldn't have to worry so much for so many years.

"Napoleon III was successfully restored with the full support of the old aristocrat capitalists and the Church. The supporters of these emperors naturally controlled countless of powerful departments in the empire!"

"That's a huge group that even the French Emperor can't easily shake. The little crown prince wants to change everything? Chief, just you wait and see a joke! "

The truth proved that Bismark and Lao Maoqi's judgement, Ou Ren. Bonaparte had only been in charge of the logistics of the French army for half a month when all sorts of incredible and bizarre events came crashing down on him. The young Crown Prince was completely stupefied.

"What did you say?" Three accounts in the logistics department were burned down by candles? Just yesterday? "

"I gave the order five days ago to give all military factories and Steel plant … "Why can't the Ministry of Finance afford to provide bread subsidies to the workers who are linked to the production of rifles?"

"What about the book surplus? You clearly have a huge surplus on the books, why can't you take out some money? "

"Who can tell me why the Marseille military port could not hire a merchant ship? "Why are all the merchant ship owners unwilling to provide transport services to the military?"

"My God! Why would any merchant ship owner come to me with an 1864 promissory note? "How do you owe all this money!"

"And here …" "Look carefully, last month, I ordered a battalion of Qatari soldiers to return home, how come they still say in Qatari that they have not received a telegram?"

"Who can explain it to me? Who can tell me what exactly is going on in this empire! "