C801 He who has an insider in his house laughs like a ghost

In the end, Zai Chun still accepted his master's suggestion and chose to shut his mouth, thus the conflict later on would be between Xiao Letian and the imperial government.

Of course the Beijing denied Xiao Letian's accusation, and even ignored the evidence of Xiao Letian's confession. In this spy war, the Beijing had chosen to shamelessly and wisely reply, no matter what you, Xiao Letian, say, we are just denying it.

We did not take out the money nor did we send out any spies. Everything was done by you, Xiao Letian. The so-called spies and testimonies were all forgeries, and the court refused to acknowledge them.

Xiao Letian saw that he could not do it, what a shameless act! It was said that if the matter was not resolved properly, the Ministry of Revenue's bond program would be put on hold indefinitely, and your court would do whatever it wanted.

The imperial court was even more enthusiastic this time, thinking that Xiao Letian had already invested a few million into the early stage anyway. If you stop the plan now, no one will return the money to you.

If he got the silver, he would not care about the life and death of others. According to the rumors, Xiao Letian smashed a set of porcelain teacups after knowing the attitude of the imperial government.

Xiao Letian was furious, the imperial government had laughed. After fighting with Xiao Letian for so many rounds, this was the first time they had seen him lose, it was as if the imperial government had won a war, everyone had eaten two bowls of dry rice.

What made the conservatives even more satisfied was that Zai Chun had obediently shut his mouth during this conflict. This made the conservatives feel very gratified, looks like the Emperor still lost the blood of the Manchu, and was reliable at critical moments.

The only thing that made the imperial government unhappy was the British attitude. Yang Zhi and the other two were detained by the British the moment they arrived in Hong Kong. The imperial government negotiated for three days before letting them go.

Only Yang Zhi and the other two knew that three days were enough for the British to pry open Yang Zhi's mouth.

The tyrant also did not use torture, he only calmly analyzed the situation with Yang Zhi. Xiao Letian was unstoppable in the middle of the day, there was no problem taking Yang Zhi's life, but Qing Dynasty could protect him for a while but he could not protect for a lifetime.

Whose thigh is thicker now? Not to mention that Britain had already taken over 90% of Australia's land, with each person sharing 1000 acres as their manor, Yang Zhi would give a bit more than 2000 acres. After that, he would open three accounts at the Standard Chartered Bank, two guards would each receive 10,000 gold and Yang Zhi would each be given 50,000 gold.

Not to mention the British, the purchasing power of the nineteenth century was linked to gold. A skilled seamstress in London would earn only twenty pounds a year, while a male civilian would earn between one and two hundred pounds a year. The average miner and blue-collar technician would earn only about seventy pounds a year.

Fifty thousand pounds was a huge sum of money for that era.

How could Yang Zhi dare not agree, he knew that if he said half a word, let alone that he did not have any more money, he would probably be tortured to death. The reason he betrayed the Ryukyu was not to suffer.

Yang Zhi happily told the British everything he knew about the crafting process, and the British promised to keep it a secret for the three of them, protecting them at critical moments.

No one knew that Yang Zhi had already sold the notes' craftsmanship to the world's most powerful country, England. If Xiao Letian knew about this, he would probably be digging Yang Zhi's grave.

In truth, Xiao Letian was mostly just pretending to be angry, Xiao Letian was very open-minded about the issue of counterfeit currency, you could just treat fake currency as inflation that came out from a normal process of issue.

This was a parasite in the normal flow of the economy, a leech. Let alone the imperial government, Xiao Letian himself was secretly pushing up inflation.

With the 1 million in bonds in his hands, Xiao Letian could secretly print out the 1.2 million in bonds. That 200 thousand was inflation, a reasonable inflation.

Now that there was an extra person to snatch food from, the imperial government would also have to share a piece of it, which meant that there was a high probability that the 1 million yuan of household debt would be printed out with 1.5 million paper dollars. Of that, the imperial government had given 300 thousand yuan in inflation, which was equivalent to the imperial government stealing away 300 thousand yuan for nothing.

However, the meat was still in the pot, and the money was still in the pot. In the end, Xiao Letian still had to travel back and forth between the economic circles in East Asia. He even earned back the promotion of all sorts of new technologies.

Isn't money created for mobility? As long as it flows, it can create wealth. Why worry about who it belongs to, as long as you can grasp the pulse of technology and walk in front of others forever, then the control over the wealth will be firmly held in your hands.

But now that the British had joined in, it was the devils who had come into the village to take a look. This was troublesome. After drinking so much blood, this leech was going to vomit back to Europe.

Furthermore, with the British money making technology, with their national power, the counterfeit currency forged in the United Kingdom might even be more beautiful than the Ryukyu's real currency.

Yang Zhi, the traitor, for his own personal reasons, had caused great losses to the entire Chinese nation. It was hard to estimate, maybe he would lose 10 million, maybe even 1 billion.

Indeed, there was an insider's laugh in the family!

Naturally, Yang Zhi and the other two would not tell them what was happening in the imperial court. They also knew that the situation was getting out of hand, so after arriving in Guangzhou, they did not look for women nor did they eat banquets. Soon, they contacted the General of Manchuria and sent some troops north towards the capital.

It was now the end of November 1867, the year of Tongzhi's sixth year. The Ryukyu's winter temperature was extremely cool and suitable for people to live in, the north had long since been covered in snow, and the capital city was filled with smoke.

Xiao Letian and the imperial government had been fighting for more than a month already. Fortunately, there was already a portion of the telegraph line contact between the Ryukyu and the capital, which made it possible for the two sides to curse at each other from a thousand miles away.

Xiao Letian began to dig for spies and threw pieces of new evidence into the imperial government. The imperial government was still the same as before, they just wouldn't admit it, they just won't admit it, what can I do? I even said your evidence was false.

Therefore, the lives of ordinary citizens were not affected in the slightest, they should eat and drink to their heart's content. In any case, this year, the imperial pay and salary had been greatly replenished, the people's finances had loosened, and the laughter of the capital had increased by quite a bit.

Everyone thought that Xiao Letian had no other choice this time. Just as the imperial government was about to win this round, at the 8th of the 8th month, Xiao Letian began to retaliate. The imperial government finally paid the price.