Volume VIII 1255 is intricate

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Yi Cheng's power in the court is weak, he chose the sixth brother who leaned towards the government and the opposition to speak is actually a very correct thing, if according to his idea, the sixth brother to the queen mother and then persuade the important ministers in the court to change the strategy of Jiangnan.

In this way, the imperial court will at least stop selling Jiangnan money tickets, and even start to eat large sums of money in the market, so that the imperial court will have to earn hundreds of millions of yuan in southern tickets.

How many hundred million can there be? Yi Cheng can't figure it out, even if it is at least 300 million, how many things can be bought? Can the new army be doubled? Can a foreigner buy 15 or 6 big warships? Even the kind of legendary-class warship in Xiao Letian's hand can be bought two or three.

Of course, even if Yi Cheng's actions were to sell Yang Zhi and Li Tuo, if the imperial court made such a disturbance, the original plan to make a fortune of 50 or 60 million yuan would be regarded as burning high incense in the end.

But after all, Yi Cheng is a descendant of the Aixin Jueluo family, and he still loves this court at a critical moment, and he can't watch his family suffer a big loss in the world.

Yi Cheng's palace is not in Sijiu City, but in the northwest direction outside Beijing, close to the Old Summer Palace and the Summer Palace, in fact, Yi Cheng's home is the location of Tsinghua University in later generations, in that era, the university district of Beijing City was the back garden of the nobles.

In his own palace, Yi Cheng began to issue orders to his own weak but loyal team, Li Tuo did not go to work today, including Lao Jiang was helping Yi Cheng deal with telegram messages.

Yang Zhi ran to the Xishan Banknote Printing Factory, and began to embezzle the money of the imperial court with those small officials who took refuge in him, trying his best to exchange the northern bills for the southern bills in the Huàn market.

Yang Zhi and the others would never have thought that Prince Dun had already sold them, and Prince Dun would never have thought that he had been sold by his sixth brother, so Yi didn't remind anyone at all, and after sending the fifth brother away, the prince found an excuse to go out of the city and go to the officers of the new army to secretly meet with the officers of the new army.

Not only that, Yi is even ready to bet on both sides, he also has power in Jiangnan, and those officials who are loyal to him have also received orders to secretly eat into the south ticket, of course, Yi will not eat too much, he is like a cautious gambler, trying to make profits on both sides.

The question of who will win and who will lose the war between Xiao Letian and Tsarist Russia has become extremely complicated, not only because of the fate confrontation between the Chinese and Russia, but also because of the changing situation in Japan, Korea, the Far East, and the three eastern provinces.

Among them were diplomatic relations between the Manchus and other countries, and even the intrigues within the Manchus were exposed. As Xiao Letian said, the war is a long-stirring stick, and the war stirs and stirs in the seemingly calm pond, and the result is a pond of stinking sediment and feces.

The blackfish hiding under the water have all started to act, and it seems that the one who benefits the most is none other than the Ryukyu Telegraph Company, which controls the whole of Asia.

This telegraph company, which was mainly based on Xiao Letian's funds and absorbed the shares of Britain, France, the United States, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, can be regarded as making a fortune these days.

The telegraph company is private, even if the imperial court sends a telegram, it has to give money, this is an iron rule, whoever dares not to accept Xiao Letian has the right to cut off people's connection with the world on the high seas.

Therefore, although the telegraph line was pulled into various embassies, as well as the Prime Minister's Yamen, Beihai and other places, the politicians who sat in the office and sent the report still had to settle the Ryukyu Telegraph Company on a monthly basis.

Moreover, the telegraph industry in that era was absolutely profitable, and when the business was at its busiest, it actually cost a silver dollar for a word, and a telegram of thousands of words and tens of thousands of words a day was sent to thousands of silver coins.

Now that Asia has entered a state of war, all forces are watching the war in front of them, and everyone hopes that they can finally profit from it, and now is not the time to worry about telegraph money.

What's even worse is that the ministers of various countries and all the forces of the imperial court have consciously used ciphertext to cover up their important information, except for the Manchu Qing Dynasty's stupid use of plain language to send reports, even the people's Yicheng telegrams are in code.

One purchase order after another was sent to Jiangnan, and people knew that it was impossible for Yi Cheng to buy a thousand pieces of silk at one time, two hundred catties of spring tea, five hundred catties of raw silk, and six hundred pieces of white porcelain.

And Yi is the same, his messages are mixed with the correspondence between friends, and it seems that the conversation is poetry and classics, but in fact, the words inside are passed back and forth with commands.

As for the foreigners, not to mention, the big and wealthy powers would not care about the telegram money, and their coded messages were as long as footwraps, and the money was spent like running water.

To give a simple example, from the afternoon of the outbreak of the Battle of the Minjiang Estuary to the whole day of the next day, the British Embassy in Beijing sent more than 90,000 words of telegrams, half of which were transoceanic telegrams to Europe.

In a day and a half, the British embassy spent a total of 420,000 silver dollars on telegrams! Is it expensive? This is an astronomical amount for the common people, but for an empire, this amount of money is just a drizzle.

The British are really going crazy, they are crazy not only because of this war on the sea, but also because of this battle for money tickets in Jiangnan. The bankers of Shanghai sent a telegram to the minister in Beijing like crazy, putting pressure on London, and they demanded that Britain enter the war, and they must enter the war.

British Minister Ai Liguo and Counselor Wei Tuma were forced to find a crack in the ground during this time, don't look at them as British ministers, but those bankers in the country collectively put pressure on them and they couldn't stand it at all.

Without the support of bankers, politicians would not have been able to go far in politics, and Britain is still a mercantilist country, and the status of businessmen and bankers is already very high.

But these greedy vampires are asking for more than the minister can give.

"Joining the war? Damn vampires, do you want the emperor to take risks for the hundreds of millions of southern tickets they have in Jiangnan? It's just a bunch of crazy people."

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