C1256 intricacy

Yi Cong's power in the imperial court was weak, so it was actually very correct for him to choose his sixth brother, who held the authority over the imperial court. According to his thinking, his sixth brother should first speak to the empress dowager, then convince the court officials to change his strategy towards Jiangnan.

This way, the imperial government would at least stop selling the Jiangnan Notes and even start to eat a lot in the market.

How many hundred million? Yi Cong couldn't calculate it. Even if it was at least 300 million, how many things could he buy? Will the new army be able to double in size? Can a big ship like the foreigners buy fifteen or sixteen? He could even buy two or three of those legendary warships that Xiao Letian owned.

It was great to have money! Of course, even if Yi Cong were to sell Yang Zhi, Li Tuo and the others, if the imperial government were to mess things up like this, he would be able to earn fifty to sixty million yuan, and in the end, only a third of it would be worth it.

However, Yi Cong was after all, a descendant of the Xiluo's family, and he still loved the imperial government at critical moments.

Yi Cong's manor was not within the Beijing, but was rather northwest of the Beijing. It was relatively close to the Yuan Ming Yuan and Summer Palace, and in fact, Yi Cong's home was the place where the later generations of Tsinghua University were located. In that era, the university area within the Beijing was where the nobles resided.

Inside his own Duke Palace, Yi Cong began to give orders to his own weak but very loyal team. Li Tuo didn't go to work today, instead, he helped Yi Cong manage the teleportation messages, including the zingiberis radix.

On the other hand, Yang Zhi ran over to the Western Mountain Printing House and followed the officials who had pledged their allegiance to him to start embezzling the capital's money, trying to find a way to use the North Ticket to exchange for the southern tickets in the market.

Yang Zhi and the others would never have thought that King Dun would have already sold them, and Prince Dun would never have thought that he would have been sold by his own sixth brother. From the start, he did not remind anyone that after sending Fifth Brother away, the Prince had found an excuse to leave the city to meet with the officers of the new army.

Not only that, Yi was even prepared to place two bets. He had his own power in Jiangnan, and the officials loyal to him had also received orders to secretly pay for the tickets to the south. Of course, Yi wouldn't eat too much, he was like a cautious gambler who was trying to make a profit on both sides.

The question of who would win the battle between Xiao Letian and Sha Russia had become extremely complicated. Not only was Xiao Letian a confrontation between the Chinese and Russia, the situation in the three provinces of Japan, Korea, the Far East, and the East had also changed.

Among them were the diplomatic relations between the Qing Dynasty and other nations, and even the scheming and scheming inside the Manchu was exposed. As expected, it was as Xiao Letian had said, the war was just like a long shit-stirring stick. The war stirred the seemingly peaceful pond, but the result was a pond full of smelly sand and feces.

The black fish hiding underwater had all begun to move. It seemed like the one who had benefited the most was none other than the Ryukyu Telegraph Company that controlled the entire Asia.

This telegraph company, which mainly used Xiao Letian's funds and absorbed the shares of the four powers, Britain, France, the United States and the Qing Dynasty, could be considered to have struck gold recently.

The telegraph company was a private company, even if the imperial government sent a telegram they would still have to pay. This was an iron rule, whoever dared not to accept Xiao Letian would have the right to cut off people's contact with the world on the high seas.

Although the telegraph line had entered various embassies, Head Office, Beihai and other places, the politicians who sat in the office reporting had to settle the accounts with the Ryukyu Telegraph Company every month.

Furthermore, the telegraph industry of that era was extremely profitable. During the busiest time, they actually sent thousands of words of telegraph messages every day for one silver dollar each, which was more than ten thousand silver coins.

It was impossible not to spend the money. Now that Asia was in a state of war, all forces were watching the war closely. Everyone hoped that they could make a profit from it. Now was not the time to worry about telegraphic money.

What was even worse was that the various ambassadors of the various countries and the various powers in the imperial court all used secret messages to hide their important information. Other than the Qing Dynasty who stupidly sent out the report in plain language, even Yi Cong had used secret language to send the message.

One by one, purchase orders were delivered to Jiangnan. People knew that it was impossible for Yi Cong to purchase a thousand silks, two hundred kilograms of spring tea, five hundred kilograms of raw silk, and six hundred pieces of white porcelain … These were all the most primitive cryptographic telegrams, only Yi Cong's direct line of descent could understand the way here.

It was the same with Yi. His messages were mixed with the letters and messages of his friends. It seemed like only poems and texts were being casually discussed. However, when he opened the text, orders were being sent back and forth.

As for the foreigners, the rich and powerful people wouldn't care about the telegraph money. Their coded messages were as long as footcloths, and they spent their money like running water.

To give a simple example, in just a day and a half, the British Embassy in the Beijing sent out over 90,000 words of messages, half of which were telegrams to Europe.

In one and a half days, the British Embassy spent a total of 420 thousand silver! Is it expensive? To the commoners, this was an astronomical figure, but to an empire, this amount of money was nothing.

The British were about to go crazy, they were crazy not only about the war on the sea, but also about the battle for the Notes in Jiangnan. The Bankers in Shanghai were crazily pressing the Minister of Power of Beijing, London, for Britain to go to war, and must go to war.

British Minister Ai Liguo and Counsellor Wei Tuoma had been forced to the point of almost finding a hole to hide in. Even though they were noble British Minister, they could not endure the pressure collectively exerted by the Bankers in the country.

Without the support of the Bankers, the political path of politicians could not go far. Furthermore, Britain was a mercantilist country, and the status of merchants and Bankers was already very high.

But these greedy vampires were asking for too much. Their demands far exceeded what the minister could give them.

"Fight? Damn vampires, are they going to risk their lives for their hundreds of millions of south tickets in Jiangnan? "What a bunch of madmen …"