Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

The news of Ceng Guofan sending troops to lock up the Shanghai Road Altar shocked the entire Jiangnan in an instant, and then, it quickly flew to different parts of the entire nation. After half a year of construction, the Qing San Ye had already laid many sections of telegraph line cables on the Eastern Plains.

Although it was an intermittent telegraph network, it was still very helpful in transmitting information. In just five days, it had already shaken the capital.

The two kings in power, Head Office, couldn't believe their eyes. The words on the electric newspaper were like a hammer smashing onto their hearts, they finally understood that the Xiang Army had already sided with the Emperor and the empress dowager and prince in the capital were all bullsh * t.

"A eleven year old child, yet he was blown away by two Cao Cao. Did he think he was doing this for the sake of his own family?!" "He's making someone else use it as a gun …"

"No, we have to go see the empress dowager. If this goes on, the kingdom will fall into chaos!"

The two princes hastily entered the palace to hand over the signboard, but they did not expect that Ci Xi had already known about this news, so he directly sent the matter over to the Eastern Palace Empress Dowager without saying anything further.

"I is just an empress dowager of the Western Palace. His shoulders are too narrow, and he can't afford to shoulder the burden of military matters. With that, she turned around and went to the imperial garden to look at the flowers.

The two princes looked at each other, they could only muster up the courage to see Empress Dowager of the East Ci An who had a drastic change in personality. Ci An, who was fishing at the edge of the North Sea, laughed coldly after hearing the two dukes' reports, "You think it's against the rules? I also felt that it was against the rules, but so what? Now, tell I what you want to do. "

The two princes were stunned by that question. Yes, what could they do? The court ordered that the emperor's decree was illegal? That Xiao Letian and Ceng Guofan's actions were against the rules and rebelling? Wasn't that beating his own mouth? If you say they revolted, then you should just go and suppress them.

With just the small military power of the imperial court, who could they defeat?

"If it wasn't for me, the sister-in-law, you, you two would have been a little muddled in the past few years. You don't even know how to do something so obvious?"

"Hurry up and bring that damned Dao Tai Lock to the capital. Even if we have to kill him or cut him to pieces, we have to do it ourselves! He wanted the Ministry of Justice to take the blame for killing him and vent his anger on His Majesty and the two big bosses … "In any case, you guys should at least send over the taxes of Jiangnan. At least you guys should get some money to train the new army …"

"If I really can't take it easy, the imperial government will never be able to get tough without a new army to back it up …" "If it really isn't possible, then contact the foreigners and see if we can borrow some money. We have to tide the current situation over …"

The two princes were scolded to the point that their faces and necks turned red. After leaving the Jingshan, they spat on the ground, "What the hell are you doing, all covered in peach blossoms, do you think we don't know what you did? Relying on the power of the Second Demon, who do you think you are … "Let's go!"

The Manchu dynasty was still in a state of invective, they were unwilling to change their plans in the future. After half a year, the new army did not even have a chance to show off, the Inside Eight Flags was fighting for the limited number of places as officers, and their heads were beaten like dogs.

But in their eyes, if the official's airs were not jabbed up, how would they be able to cram troops in? Eight flags are a family, you can't let fat water flow into foreign lands, my boy has nothing to do, do you want to give your position to the Chinese? Grandmother …

Without Xiao Letian, the capital's capital had returned to its old path. The nine bulls could not even pull it back.

The fourth floor of the Letian Firm Building had already been hung with photos of the Letian Bank. Merchants from all over the world had brought gold and silver to deposit in here, and the branch that Jiangnan Hu Xueyan was in charge of was also sending ships of gold and silver to this place.

A box full of silver taels was piled up in the hall. Under the protection of the armed and heavily armed New Army, the shop assistant of the Foreign Bank started to weigh the silver taels. "Jiangnan Eternal Xing has 1 million taels of silver and 20 thousand taels of gold …" This shopkeeper, how many silver coins do you want and how many certificates of deposit do you want? "Oh, I understand. I'll give Eternal Xing 500 thousand eagles …"

"This shopkeeper, our Ryukyu has a new type of silver coin. Look, it's called Dragon Coin, with the four words' Dragon Soaring Sky 'printed on the front. Behind it is a coiling dragon, look how beautiful it is …"

Countless shopkeepers were touching the exquisite dragon coins that the machine in their hands was producing, as they loved each and every one of them. They were experts at this and were able to see through it with a slight flick of their palms.

"Aiya, he's the same size as Ying Yang, why does it feel like he's holding back a little?"

"Aiyo, you are an expert. There is nothing wrong with it. This Dragon dollar is a new technology, its purification skills are much better than Ying Yang's. How can this silver not be superior?" "If you look at the edges of these small sawteeth, it's to prevent anyone from stealing the silver from the files. Please don't change these beautiful silver coins for something of equal value …"

"It's done. I want all 500,000 silver coins in dragon dollars. Silver coins like this are definitely popular …"

Xiao Letian and old shopkeeper Fan Lian stood at the top floor of the bank, watching the bustling crowd outside the square, laughing so hard that their mouths almost reached their ears.

"How lucrative! This is how we do things! As long as we have the right to forge coins, we will never lose any money!" The old shopkeeper said with a smile.

"Father, you can decide. As long as we have more gold and silver in our warehouse, our army will become stronger. The stronger our army is, the more gold and silver we will be able to obtain in the future …"

"The underground vaults that we hid on the Pacific Islands have almost been constructed. In the future, we'll need to hide a large amount of gold and silver, especially gold. We absolutely cannot spend it outside …"

"Why? They saved gold, but when they come back for gold, we didn't even give them one? "

"That's right. If I don't take any gold, I can only take the gold in and not out!" Xiao Letian said resolutely: "Master father, as long as we save gold, we can only give him 10% of it in the future. As for the rest, we will give them all the equivalent amount of silver coins.

"I secretly told Father that you need to keep this a secret. In the next few hundred years, Earth's silver ore production will gradually increase by several folds. This isn't a problem, but gold and silver is a trend …" "Now the Europeans are using silver to trade for our Chinese gold. For thousands of years, it has been difficult for us to amass some gold. It is our duty to protect this people!"

"AHH!" "So that's how it is. Alright, I'll give you an order. In the future, we'll give a discount to any merchants who settle accounts with us with gold. I won't be earning any more money, so I'll help you save enough gold …"

Xiao Letian knew that before the introduction of the Oil Dollar, gold was the root of a country's economy. Whether or not the currency was strong depended on the amount of gold stored.

After the Opium War, China's silver was in a state of net inflow, while its gold was in a state of net outflow. The reason for this was very complicated.

So if Europeans wanted to buy Chinese goods at that time, they had to go around the world fighting for silver, and then trade with the Chinese, while a large amount of gold was left in Europe.

After hundreds of years of trading, it had become a law for money, silver, and gold to flow eastward.

However, they did not expect that in the eighteenth century, when silver mines were found in large amounts in the colonies of nineteenth century and Europe, and when the silver mines of North America, Central America and South America were mined in large amounts, the international prices of silver would drop by a thousand miles.

Unfortunately, China does not have a colony. China is a poor gold and silver mining country. The purchasing power of silver inside China is still very high.

How could astute European merchants give up such a good opportunity to make money, trading cheap silver for China's domestic equivalent of silk, tea, porcelain and even gold?

The merchants of late Qing were all grinning from ear to ear as they held the silver in their hands. In fact, they did not even know that what they were holding in their hands was a piece of goods that had gone through a crazy devaluation.

But at that time, Chinese businessmen were unaware of the changing international financial situation, and they rarely engaged in large amounts of international trade. They just felt that they were getting more and more expensive to buy from foreigners, and didn't know that it was due to the decline in the purchasing power of silver.

On the one hand, and on the other, Europe's economic plundering of China was more frenzied than a few wars.

Now that the knowledgeable Xiao Letian is here, he has to protect the limited gold reserves in China. Since you guys like silver, then I will exchange it with you, of course, in the beginning I must do it secretly, I don't want any guns, I definitely can't alert Europeans, especially the founder of the gold standard, Britain.

"Before this daddy has a powerful navy, I will not let you know where my gold is hidden. You Europeans can plunder silver, but not gold.

Just as the old man and young woman were calculating the details of the gold and silver exchange, the Dragon Lord suddenly knocked on the door and said, "Prime Minister, today is the end of His Majesty's military training. He had been looking forward to see if you could teach him the spear since the three hundred guards from the capital have arrived at the pier.

"Aiya, I'm so busy that I forgot, I'm going now. Zai Chun has performed too well in the past half year, it's really inappropriate to not praise him!"

The Three Treasures, Doro, and Ma Qun... The eight banner guards that came from the Beijing walked down the ship in a long queue, and under the lead of Eunuch Man Shun and Jiang Lie, they stepped onto the land of the Ryukyu.

"Everyone has... Two columns, according to the formation I taught you on the road, ready to enter the city! " Company Commander Jiang roared out.

"You stinking brats, all of you think that you are already great under the's Son. Let me show you what a true flourishing city looks like now …" "Their eyes are all wide open, one two one …"

As they walked on the streets of the city, the Three Treasures Eyes were no longer sufficient. There were gantry cranes, pulleys, mountains of goods, and even a large group of Kunlun slaves among the people of various colors.

All sorts of hawking noises rang out. They did not recognize many of the goods in the world, but what made them even more astonished was the cleanliness and wealth of the city. Entering and exiting the streets were statues made of pure copper, as if showing off some important deeds.

There was not a single piece of debris on the stone path. There was even a pure stone road. Only the heavens knew how this stone was dug out.

However, a young kid in a suit on the street mocked Duo Luo's question ruthlessly, "Are you from Qingguo?" "We don't even know the water gate. This is cement, water mixed mud …"

What? Don't lie to me when I'm learning less. A group of Eight Flag disciples glared at him.