Vol. VIII 1256 The English Minister of the Great Pressure

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Minister Ai Liguo had been working in the Qing Dynasty for seven years, he was already old, and his counselor, Wei Tuma, was his successor, and the top brass in London also acquiesced in his act of formulating a successor.

Wei Tuoma himself was also very familiar with the Great Qing Kingdom, and was willing to continue working here, and the replacement of the old and the new should have been very smooth. But I never expected that at the most critical moment, the Jiangnan money ticket crisis broke out.

Wittoma knows very well the faces of the European bankers in Shanghai, who can sell their souls to Satan for the sake of profit, let alone crush a country's economy.

In the ensuing war between the Chinese and the Russians, the British and French bankers must have wanted to make a fortune from the war, and this time they bet on the victory of Tsarist Russia.

This group of vampires was desperately building momentum before the start of the war, releasing the powerful news of the Russian expeditionary force in the market, and reporting the location of the fleet's course to the Qing people at any time.

Then came the outbreak of the Bai Layi tragedy, as well as the sudden appearance of various negative rumors in the Ryukyus, and the battle to defend the Jiangnan money ticket officially began.

Xiao Letian alone is really no match for the madness of the entire market, once confidence collapses, it will be difficult to recover, no matter how much silver and grain Xiao Lotian mobilizes as a tool to stabilize the credit of paper money, it is a drop in the bucket in front of the huge economy in Jiangnan.

The news of Bai Layi's fire and the burning of 2.4 million quintals of rice completely shattered Xiao Letian's efforts to save the city, and the credit of paper money was completely smashed to zero, and there were no less than 300 businessmen in the Jiangnan area who committed suicide, not to mention those small people who were threatened by usury and lost their lives, and the number was even more numerous.

Ai Liguo and Wei Tuma deeply regretted what happened to the people of Jiangnan and Qing Kingdom, but as British ministers, their butts must sit very upright, and morality is reserved for their own nation-states, and for other nations and countries, morality can't be given too much.

They knew that the moment the credit of Nanpiao collapsed, it was when these bankers swept away the real capital, land, factories, valuable goods, docks, and shop land...... These non-renewable resources are the real wealth.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when these bankers were about to make a move, Zeng Guofan, the king of Jiangnan, suddenly made a move, he was arrogant and unreasonable to carry out the behavior of locking the disk, it was too unreasonable, he actually forbade the government to transfer the property for 'normal' business activities, and if the transfer could not be made, the transaction could not be legalized, which locked the hands of all the merchants.

Unconvinced, the bankers began to slander Tsang, desperately exerting pressure on the envoys in Beijing to send telegrams, and they even protested to the Manchus, and viciously even clamored for a military attack on the Qing state.

Anyway, there was a war for the opium trade back then, not to mention the interests of such a large plate in Jiangnan now, and Zeng Guofan must be taught a lesson.

The merchant shouted fiercely, but Eliguo and Wittoma were calm, because they knew that this crisis was completely different from the situation during the First Opium War.

At that time, the Qing Empire completely closed the door to trade, and Britain could not open the country without war, which was a helpless move without any other choice.

And what is the current crisis in the south of the Yangtze River? Zeng Guofan has only been locked up for a few months, and this is the power of others, so how can Britain mobilize troops? Besides, even if it does, it will be too late? The whole world has mobilized troops, and it is estimated that a year will have passed when the assembly is completed.

At that time, I am afraid that Zeng Guofan's ban will have been contacted a long time ago, and if there is no excuse to send troops, what will happen to the assembled army? Are these stinky merchants of yours supporting themselves out of their own pockets? Isn't it up to the empire to wipe their butts.

The calm minister did not pay attention to the banker's clamour, but reminded them not to go too far, anyway, it was a few months, and it would be over after a while.

The anger in the Shanghai concession was temporarily suppressed, and those bankers were eager to pinch the villain and curse Xiao Lotian to death, but at that time they still stubbornly believed that Xiao Lotian would definitely lose, even if it dragged on for a month, Xiao Lotian was still destroyed by the Russians in the end.

Die early or die sooner or later, Xiao Lotian is the tail of a rabbit, and he can't grow!

But I never expected that while everyone was waiting for the news of Xiao Letian's defeat and surrender, the plot changed in a twist and turn. At the mouth of the Minjiang River, Xiao Letian and His Majesty, the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, actually took the Zhiyuan to carry out a perfect surprise attack on the enemy.

The naval battle at the mouth of the Minjiang River stunned the entire Shanghai concession and the entire Jiangnan economic circle.

The lifeless market suddenly came alive, with teahouses, restaurants, green buildings, and opera gardens...... All the places for entertainment were overcrowded at once.

"Long live the emperor! Minjiang Estuary defeated the Rakshasa Ghost, sank two enemy ships unscathed, and wounded countless people......."

"Holy Monarch, really Holy Monarch! I haven't seen such a powerful Holy Monarch for many years, the young son of heaven is heroic, and the Qing Dynasty has saved ......"

"If you don't get drunk, you won't return, everyone won't get drunk and won't return! If you want me to say, it's not certain who will die in the end, Your Majesty is the holy monarch, and the prime minister is a famous minister through the ages like Jiang Taigong, and the two masters and apprentices are the nemesis of foreign devils......"

"Cheers, cheers! I still have some South Tickets at home, this time I won't sell them, I'll keep them, I want to see if I can return in the end......"

After a dose of stimulant, the Jiangnan banknotes suddenly rose by 30% against the huàn market, and even some radical firms began to collect southern bills again, so that the liquidity of southern bills actually began to recover.

Others may not have a deep understanding, the lame beggar willow bug is the most deeply experienced, his shack is full of more than a dozen sacks of banknotes, before it was purely used as a bed under the body, and these days he suddenly found that with paper money can buy steamed buns to eat.

Although a steamed bun costs a 100 yuan banknote, anyway, this banknote is starting to be asked for again!

Now the bankers of Europe were dumbfounded, how could this cooked duck start to cheat again? This is really a magical Asia, an incredible Asia, an unimaginable Qing Dynasty!

No, this kind of thing must not happen! The European bankers, who had just calmed down, once again collectively attacked, this time asking the minister to put pressure on the country and use the colonial armies of Hong Kong, Nanyang, and India to wage war on the Ryukyus to help the Russians defeat Xiao Lotian.

Billions of big business, money has been charming since ancient times, they have no care about anything in order to get rich, and some telegrams are the threat of Chiguoguo, a personal threat to Ai Liguo and Wei Tuma.

There is one meaning in and out of the words, if you two don't meet our requirements, then I'm sorry, we will use all the energy in Europe, and we will try our best to end your career, we have that ability!