C892 Promise of Ten Years

Being rich or not was a relative concept, not an absolute one. In the eyes of the poor, the landlord was already a rich man, and the landlord envied the high-ranking officials for their daily necessities.

People at every level actually think they are poor, because everyone at every level of society has their troubles, which no one can avoid.

Small farmers in extreme poverty would worry about dinner, farmers would lament about taxes and corvette workers, and landlords and mega-merchant would also have a headache over where to start a big business.

If a person's social class is different, the problems they consider will be different, and their ideals will be different as well. In the eyes of the common people, Xiao Letian crying poverty was an act of pretence, but in the eyes of these strong men, it was the greatest humiliation.

A cash reserve of twenty million silver taels, just how much wealth was that? It would not even be an exaggeration to say that he was as rich as a nation, not to mention that he had a cash reserve of twenty million silver taels, Xiao Letian's total assets would be around two hundred to three hundred million silver taels.

Asia's wealthiest name is not going to escape, this kind of people to cry poor really feel very pretentious. However, no one can forget that with such a huge fortune that Xiao Letian possessed, the responsibility he bore was even greater than ever before.

To rely on the Ryukyu, a newly established power group, to ensure the safety of China's coastal areas for at least ten years, with such a huge burden, would twenty million silver be enough? Far from it.

Five years to prepare for war and five years to rebuild it. For a total of ten years, China will try its best to rebalance all the forces in the country.

This was the limit of what Xiao Letian could do, giving the various races of China ten years of security and reorganization. During this time, Xiao Letian could clench his teeth, spit out blood, and do everything he could to protect some of the vitality of China for the selfish people in the country.

Once the Iron-armored battleship pattern was popularized for ten years, the amount of money needed to achieve an arms race was not something a single Ryukyu could afford. It had to be built using the combined power of the entire nation of China.

Think of World War I, 46 years later. In four years and three months, there were 33 countries and more than 1.5 billion people involved in the war. The two sides mobilized 65.4 million troops, 30 million civilians and soldiers died, the direct cost of the war was $186.3 billion, and the damage to property was $33 billion.

This was not a game that Xiao Letian could play alone. All the races of the human race were involved in the meat grinder in order to survive.

"I, Xiao Letian, will only be able to protect you for ten years. After ten years, I will unload all of my responsibilities … If at that time only China's national fortunes had not returned to the glorious path that should have belonged to us, I swear! I will tear apart all my oaths with my own hands, and I will give up my dream of saving the country's destiny with the least amount of blood … "

"Don't think that I, Xiao Letian, don't know how to kill people. If this bastard still proves to me ten years later, that he wants so many lives as a sacrifice … That's good, then, I, Xiao Letian will personally handle this matter, and let me shoulder the sin of massacring billions of people! "

No one had ever seen Xiao Letian's face so sinister and terrifying. All of the heavy officials in the pavilion were gods of death who had experienced hundreds of battles before, but in front of the terrifying killing intent released by Xiao Letian, the wine cups in their hands were trembling.

No one could hear what Xiao Letian was saying to himself. It was as if they had heard ten years, oaths, offerings, killings, etc. However, these officials who understood Xiao Letian the best felt that the prime minister's demeanor had undergone a drastic change.

No matter how difficult the situation was, it would be difficult for him to truly anger Xiao Letian. That's right, no matter how fiercely Xiao Letian scolded him, at that time, everyone would have been able to feel that his angry appearance was concealing his control over everything.

As for the Xiao Letian today, although he was only mumbling to himself, everyone could feel that Xiao Letian had really met with a huge problem. That kind of faintly discernible controlling ability, seemed to be weakening.

How could they know that the Transcender's dividend would come to be exhausted one day, and the more he changed, the more the world would deviate from its past trajectory, and when everything had drifted further and further away, the Transcender's divine eyes, which could see through the mists of history, would gradually lose their luster.

In the future, it would be harder and harder to travel. The confidence in his victory would fade bit by bit. This feeling of powerlessness was fatal to transmigrators.

How could it not be fatal? Xiao Letian was very clear that the giant steel ships that he and Bismark had painstakingly created and surpassed this era by a whole 20 years were actually not able to lead this world by 20 years.

As long as the secret of the Zhiyuan Warship was revealed to the world, Britain would definitely be able to duplicate a better battleship within two years and form a fighting force. In other words, what Xiao Letian was striving for was only a substitute for two years.

Britain didn't even need to directly start a war with the Ryukyu, just relying on their national power would be enough to drag Xiao Letian down.

Fan Lian could not bear to see his Young Master's anxious and angry expression. He slapped his thigh and said, "Young Master, don't worry about money, isn't it just money? Let me bring you together... "Our secret treasury still has gold and jewels. I will turn them all into money for you …"

"I can change the bonds issued by Jiang-Nan from the inside. I believe that with an extra 20 million, it won't cause our credit to collapse. As long as Hu Xueyan and the Great Marshal Zeng still don't take us down, we can pass it."

"As long as the crisis you mentioned, Young Master, is over, we can still secretly buy our bonds. When the time comes, the gods and ghosts will unknowingly fill up the hole. Don't worry, there are no obstacles that can't be bridged under the heavens …" Don't put on that kind of expression to scare me! "

Xiao Letian hurriedly and bitterly laughed as he toasted his father-in-law, "Father-in-law Mt. Tai! It's not that simple, do you think the gods don't know? Do you think that it will be safe after we settle the Jiangnan consortium and the Great Marshal Zeng with Hu Xueyan as our representative? "

"How can the foreigners just let this go? They are good at cutting wool, and if I'm not wrong, they have their eyes on Jiangnan's bonds. Now is the time to slowly eat them …"

"Perhaps in a few years, when the world collapses and the earth collapses, not only will we have to face the enemy's Gun cannons and battleships, we might even encounter the Bankers who will cut off our wool and destroy our economy …"

"What kind of sin have I created?!" "Why did you bring out credit …"

The people present were all elites amongst elites. Many things were broken just by a little bit of paper, causing the entire pavilion to be deathly silent. It was only then did they realize that the gap between the Great Qing and Western Powers was so huge and so deep!

"AHH!" Luo Huo could not stand the oppressive atmosphere in the attic, he suddenly opened the window, allowing the cool sea breeze to blow inside the house. What's the point of thinking so much? What did we rely on all the way here? Isn't it just a clear conscience! "

"Since the enemies are here, let's fight!" Why think so much? If the sky wanted to rain, the mother wanted to marry. If a man died in the sky, the bird wouldn't die for tens of thousands of years! "How come all of you have become so depressing over the years?"

"My Prime Minister, where was your arrogance back then when you burned off Yongzheng's Tomb?"