C3420 The matter with the Western Region Bank had been settled!

Xiao Letian's scheme to rob the Western Regions was not really anything special, he just used money to buy it!

However, there was also a way to buy with money. Since ancient times, trading in the country was a very dangerous action. If one was a little bit careless, they would encounter a situation where they took advantage of others.

Taking out tens of millions of silver to firmly control such a large territory of the Western Regions in the hands of the Chinese people was indeed a good deal, but it was also because it was too good that all sorts of risks would arise.

The biggest risk would be that Zuo Zongtang would take the money but not give you the land.

Therefore, Xiao Letian changed the plan and learnt the first successful experience of colonizing the entire world from the Dutch.

I'm not paying alone, I want to issue more than 40 million shares to raise funds from tens of thousands of citizens to attack the Western Regions. How many people will own this 40 million shares?

The business class should have at least several million people, the average surplus of citizens should be close to ten million, right?

It was the smallest number. Fifteen million people owned the shares of the Western Investment Bank, and these fifteen million people were all of high social status.

Of course, it had to be a bit higher. Even if the people were rich, they still wouldn't necessarily be able to buy stocks with money. Even if they did have that money, they still might not be able to do so!

Only the middle class or even higher in society would dare to try these new things!

Fifteen million people, and behind her were fifteen million families, or even more families … This was too big of an impact!

I, Xiao Letian, am not afraid that you, Zuo Zongtang, will go back on your word, and even less afraid that the Manchu dynasty would come back to pick the fruits. As long as you have the guts to offend all fifteen million families, all of these society elites will be offended.

If you dare to do it, if you dare to dig your own grave, then what else is Xiao Letian not willing to part with the silver?

This was the benefit of a share system. If Xiao Letian were to pay for it himself, then the imperial court would only offend him in the end. If this was put together with the entire society's fifteen million families, ordinary people wouldn't dare to offend him!

Having more people meant that they had more power!

They would gather the funds from all walks of society and use it to wage a national war. In the end, they could even gather a hundred thousand of Zuo Zongtang's soldiers with this amount of funds!

The joint-stock company had an annual dividend. It was destined to become an iron rice bowl for the future lives of 100,000 soldiers and even for their children.

The money had not been given to them by the imperial government, but rather by the investment banks of the Western Regions. Do you really think the commoners are stupid? Do not believe in the Great Qing Dynasty for hundreds of thousands of years?

One could imagine that after this war, all the garrison troops in Xinjiang would be the beneficiaries of the investment banks in the Western Regions, thus becoming the gatekeepers for the investment banks.

The local administration in Xinjiang would lean towards investment banks and gradually allow the Chinese to infiltrate in. They would first use economic means to strangle the people here and then carry out cultural education in the secular world.

Slowly, until the moment when the world changes, I am afraid the does not even need to come to fight, the garrison here will change their ways.

The nameless bodyguards under Li Hongzhang understood everything, but when the plan came out, no one could break it!

Why? It was simple, because Xiao Letian could afford it. had three hundred million silver taels as compensation for the battle.

Xiao Letian could guarantee that no matter what the shares of the investment bank were sold for, he would be able to carry out the final market promotion.

So what if the imperial court had a righteous reputation? Aren't you going to pay 2 million silver in the end? You want to flatten the entire Western Regions with this little bit of money, are you trying to lie to me?

Ever since you authorized Zuo Zongtang to raise his own army, you have dug a hole for yourself!

What is the plot? The only way you can go is if the situation forces you to choose!

The two evils were much less, and the only one who could solve the problem of military expenditures for Zuo Zongtang was a foreign bank, while Xiao Letian was the other.

None of them were good people, and all of them were ambitious. However, compared to taking the lesser of the two evils, Xiao Letian's trap was still a little more pleasing to the eye.

Just close your eyes and jump in!

Zuo Zongtang made his choice, and this choice wasn't unexpected. Ceng Guofan could guess, and Jiu Shuai could also guess, which made Li Hongzhang nod his head helplessly. Even the Qing Dynasty didn't know what to do.

It was not that they did not understand, it was that the world had changed too quickly. It had already been seven years since Xiao Letian had appeared, and the changes that had occurred during those seven years were equivalent to the changes that had occurred in the past hundred years.

Zuo Zongtang made a choice that Chinese scholars should make. In the ice and snow in October, Great Marshal Zuo had actually moved the middle troop and brought the three thousand elite riders to the northwest side of the city.

Along the long, ancient Gansu road, they traveled from Lanzhou to the faraway Chinese border.

Fan Jin received Zuo Zongtang's consent and immediately released the carrier pigeons towards Jiangnan and Xi'an. The news spread to all the northern and southern telegraph network in Henan and they quickly sent it to Shanghai, Su Zhou, Ryukyu and other important Chinese City cities.

After that, in June 1872, after more than half a year of preparation, the Western Region Investment Bank officially went on sale in all the major markets in Jiangnan.

Before it was released, the people of Jiangnan had artificially instigated a wave of fever in the Western Regions. Countless literati began to dig deep into the history of the Western Regions and spread knowledge among the populace.

Under the influence of these pens, the Western Regions became a large but sparsely populated golden land. It could be said that there were opportunities everywhere, as well as wealth everywhere. However, due to historical reasons, it had never been developed.

Nowadays, Chinese investment banks needed to use the latest Western technology for their development. Not to mention other industries, just digging up gold, silver, and jade would never lose money for this joint stock company.

The only bad thing was, this company would only be able to see the profitability after Zuo Zongtang settled in Xinjiang, and when would Zuo Zongtang be able to level up in Xinjiang?

Two years? Three years?

Nobody knew that in the real history, when Zuo Zongtang had collected enough military funds and Arms and ammunition, it had only taken him a year and a half to defeat Xinjiang.

Xiao Letian firmly believed that with his own powerful interference in this world, the time would be greatly reduced. He had enough money, enough firearms, and it would be enough to pacify Xinjiang for two years!

No one would have thought that in just half a month, the shares of this Western Investment Bank would be sold out. The stock that was made up of one round and one round would be sold off to two sides!

The huge profit margin made countless of people crazy. In the end, not to mention eating, Xiao Letian still had to purposely sell his funds to suppress the share price.

He did not want the first super large Chinese stock to turn into a huge bubble in history. He really hoped that this stock would be a century-old Chinese store!

With the support of over tens of millions of soldiers, Zuo Zongtang's battle in the Western Regions was much smoother than it had ever been in real history!