C3487 Tons of silver

"Foreign Legion Ling Mutai brought two hundred and thirty returning Expeditionary forces s and saluted his Majesty!"

The voice of knife drawing team Guild Leader Ling Mutai sounded from the scissor boat. Two hundred and thirty warriors who had returned to their countries early, lined up in neat rows and saluted towards the flagship of the Tongzhi Emperor.

Tongzhi felt a surge of hot blood gushing out from his heart. That feeling came again, the feeling of following his master and rushing through Asia and Europe.

At that time, he wasn't the emperor. He was just a soldier by the head of state. However, that feeling was even better than the feeling of being an emperor!

was very familiar with Ling Mutai. Back then, when they were fighting in the Osaka City, Ling Mutai had once been his guard for him for a period of time.

Who would have thought that he would be the first to return!

Zai Chun stood at the bow of the ship and gazed into the distance. He could vaguely see Ling Mutai's figure, but he was unable to clearly see his facial features.

However, when he raised his arm halfway, he saw that bright yellow color. The golden dragon embroidered with golden threads had revealed his true identity.

Sigh … Tongzhi could only sigh deeply as he turned the military salute into a wave of his hands, paying his respects to his comrade-in-arms who had once fought together with him!

"Send a message to Ling Mutai, ask him … What kind of mission is he on? Why would he return home so soon? "

"If you don't violate the rules of secrecy..." After saying that, Tongzhi quickly added.

The two fleets were currently advancing parallel to each other, but Ling Mutai's scissor boat s were clearly faster than Tongzhi's fleet. The two of them could only talk for around ten minutes.

The standard-bearer waved her arms at each other across the ocean. Ling Mutai quickly reported the mission to Tongzhi.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this mission's secret level isn't very high. Only the secret level has been completely unlocked after the fleet entered the South Sea. The mission I'm currently carrying out isn't a secret …"

"The two hundred and thirty brothers and I returned early, mainly to escort a batch of European antiques to the Führer. 320 tons of European silver! "

"AHH!" The surrounding people exclaimed, these three scissor boat s actually brought back 320 tons of silver? Could this be the first French war reparations?

The expressions of the people present were abnormally complicated. Of course, the officials of British Navy had seen a lot of things, and they were relatively calm, but most of the British mariners were just ordinary citizens. When they heard that there were 320 tons of silver, their eyes lit up.

This was the disease that had been left behind when they stole the Spanish treasure boat. They could not allow precious metals such as gold and silver to be stored on the ship.

Upon hearing this, they wanted to rush up to snatch it. Quite a few sailors began to whistle excitedly!

Of course they did not dare to snatch it, but it did not stop them from drooling. What they drooled over were the people following beside Emperor Tongzhi as well as Shen Baozhen and the other officials accompanying him.

Lin Zexu's Young Master's eyes were completely blue. Was the silver in Xiao Letian's hand measured in tons? How many grams could this be converted into? How many taels? "How many silver coins …"

The group of officials even pulled out their abacus and started to calculate. They quickly came up with the answer and calculated according to the weight of the newest Chinese Dragon-striated Silver Coin.

This one hundred and fifty tons of silver could cast and suppress eleven million Chinese Dragon-striated Silver Coin!

"So rich!" This Xiao Letian is way too rich … " The surrounding Qing Dynasty officials' eyeballs were about to fall out.

Tongzhi had seen the prosperity of Europe, he did not lose his composure and immediately asked: "This money will be returned to Ryukyu?"

"No …" The destination of the first batch of silver was Shanghai … The President of the Chinese Central Bank, Old Sir Fan Lian, is waiting for this silver to stabilize the market! "

Ling Mutai didn't hide anything from the emperor and told him directly why I returned home early and escorted a group of silver back in order to stabilize the Jiangnan paper money market.

As long as this silver was sent to Shanghai, and the merchants of Jiangnan could see it for themselves, then all the commotion would be over. If the entire Jiangnan trusted paper money, the money markets of Great Qing would not become a mess.

With the mission on, Ling Mutai would not slow down the speed of the boat, and very quickly, the scissor boat, under the protection of the Ryukyu Navy's battleship, overtook Tongzhi's fleet and sped towards the north.

Tongzhi watched Ling Mutai's fleet disappear from his sight without a word for a long time. Hun Er could see what the little emperor was thinking, "Your Majesty …" "Rather than being envious of the fishes, it's better to just put a net around them!"

"The leader worked hard to get his career done …"

"Don't say anymore, I understand the logic …" I am just a little rueful, just tell the British to speed up and head north! "I don't want to see any more preposterous etiquette!"

"What I want is the country's wealth, the people's strength, what I want is reform!" Ten thousand kowtows and you might as well get this country under control! "

"He's gone, all the officials behind him are gone …"

still had the British's alms money in his pocket, and just with this money, he had used a lot of his future rights to build the rail line as well as open port to exchange for it.

However, Xiao Letian could already receive French war reparations. Every time he thought of the figure of 290 million silver, Zai Chun would feel extremely disgusted. He was very clear that his master's compensation could completely change the financial order of Asia.

In the future, the Chinese would become the largest creditor in Asia. At the very least, in the Great Qing Dynasty, they would pay countless loan interest to the Chinese.

All of this happened too fast and too magical. When the telegraph message regarding the amount of compensation in Europe arrived in Jiangnan, the Chinese and Jiangnan's merchants were shocked at first, but then they were shocked and in disbelief.

Because the happiness came too suddenly and too big, the sum of the compensation exceeded the market's expectation by too much, because too much overtaking made the result become unreal instead.

After a short period of stability, rumors spread all over Jiangnan, and the stock and ticket markets fluctuated strangely, which directly reflected the human heart's impetuousness.

Fan Lian brought Liu Chouchu to personally take charge of Jiangnan to comfort people, one city after another. They brought all the newspapers from Europe to visit all the merchants.

Including Hu Xueyan, some of the more enlightened merchants had also joined in the ranks of the more stable ones, which could be considered as the top of the market.

For the sake of the stability of the market, these leaders did not even hesitate to break down gold and silver from the Fusang Bank to set up a market!

It wasn't as if Liu Chouchu and the others hadn't thought of making money through these mental fluctuations, they even had a plan!

It was to intentionally release some pessimistic and false information while people were being impatient that the European newspapers could mislead the news.

At that time, short notice would definitely go all out to sell. Countless small and middle-sized merchants and commoners with poor information would go all out to sell their stocks and South Ticket.

The price of the shares plummeted, and the ratio of gold to silver would collapse!

After a period of collapse, the Chinese Central Bank would investigate further. In the end, the Europe and the Silver City would turn against the people's will.

However, such a bold decision had met with strong opposition from Fan Lian, Xiao Hexin and the other seniors who were left behind. Even Monk Long Gui, who had been in closed door cultivation all this time, was alarmed.

This top statesman who left Xiao Letian's blood strongly opposed this plan!

"Is money more important or are people more important? Destroying the money earned by the people of Jiangnan Province is undoubtedly drinking poison to quench thirst! "

"Which one of you dares to do this … Don't blame me for being merciless! "

In the end, there was even a battalion of Foreign Legion s who, without Xiao Hexin's command, started a long distance defense!

Far Eastern Haishenwai, the third first group of Foreign Legion.