Volume VIII 1383 Fatal Message

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For the sake of money, Heng Liwen decided to let Hu Xueyan go, "Okay, I have 30 million taels of silver in my hand, you can help me exchange it for shares of various high-quality assets within seven days......"

"Impossible!" Hu Xueyan slapped the table and stood up, and the loud voice frightened the other foreigners in the restaurant.

"Thirty million taels? Are you dreaming! Do you know how many businesses you have to talk about, I have to know if the other party is short of money, whether the lack of money is asking for your foreigner's money, and ......how much money will be asked if you ask for money."

"These things have to be done by someone, even if a guy doesn't eat, drink or sleep, how many shops can he talk about a day? 7 days? 30 million taels, your brain is dizzy!"

"Watch your tone, Mr. Hu...... This is a gentleman's place, please be polite!"

"Fuck your politeness, politeness is to eat raw beef with a silver knife and fork? Are you wearing a suit and drinking human blood? You are a madman, Lao Tzu, I am not, don't say if I can do this in seven days, even if I do it, 30 million taels of silver will rush to the Jiangnan market at once, can I hide it from the handsome?"

"You're not afraid of cutting off your head, I'm afraid! If you have the ability to find someone else, I won't serve you......" After speaking, Hu Xueyan turned around and was about to leave.

Heng Liwen, the general, was speechless, where did he dare to let Hu Xueyan go, now he can still hold his mind on the surface, but in fact, he has already been on fire in his heart!

There has been no news from the fleet of Tsarist Russia on the Ryukyu side, and now there are more and more pessimistic judgments, Heng Liwen has not slept well for half a month, and every time he closes his eyes, he dreams that he is bankrupt and is swept away by the head office of Europe and reduced to a beggar on the streets of London.

He originally thought that his group of foreign businessmen would win the battle of Jiangnan money tickets, but he didn't expect that there would be so many accidents in the execution, and many incredible interferences appeared.

As a last resort, he could only put down his face and meet with the Manchu Qing, he hoped to use the power of the Beijing court to get through this crisis, for him, this money war was indeed a crisis, a matter of life and death.

Just now, he wanted to deceive Hu Xueyan's momentum, but his lion's big mouth annoyed the other party all of a sudden, Hu Xueyan brushed his sleeves and stopped playing, and now Hengliwen panicked.

"Oh oh oh! Dear Hu, why can't you make a joke? This is not the temperament that a good businessman should have, come on, come on...... How about we get another bottle of good wine and continue talking? Now tell me how much you can give me in seven days?"

For the sake of the interests of the family, for the sake of the face of the court, Hu Xueyan has to be a ninja if he is angry, and no matter how annoying the other party is, he has to sit down and continue to chat, "Okay, I'll tell you the truth, I will contact you at most four million taels of shares in seven days, and I will give you a maximum of four million taels and five million taels of shares, and if you have more, you will be forgiven, you can find someone else......"

"It's still for the sake of the court, if there is no secret decree, I won't risk offending the marshal to help you......"

Heng Liwen's face became more and more ugly, and the precious red wine did not taste mellow at all in his mouth, and the more he drank it, the more it looked like vinegar. Four or five million shares would not be enough for him to survive the crisis, and without collecting twenty million or so shares, he would not be able to make a profit that would satisfy London in the next ten years.

The hands under his table clenched tightly in his heart, and secretly cursed, "This group of damned Qing people, damn Zeng Guofan, damn Xiao Letian...... Without them, my plan would have been successful a long time ago......"

While he was arguing, there was a sudden noise in the street, and then the ladies and gentlemen in the dining room also stood up, and they poked their heads out of the glass window.

"What's the matter?" Heng Liwen asked the waiter angrily, but he never expected the waiter to say in horror, "There is a tattered American ship at the mouth of the Huangpu River outside...... Now there is a commotion on the dock, and the treasure island of Ryukyu has been captured by the Russian expeditionary force, and dozens of tons of gold have been robbed......"

"Ahh

Before the ship entered the dock, there were countless people on the shore shouting loudly, "Where did you come from? Have you met pirates?" and the American sailors on board said in a mournful voice, "No, we were injured by a naval battle!" The Chinese Tibetan Gold Island is Amami Oshima, where rum and black sugar are produced, and it has now been captured by the Russians......

"There are four Chinese vaults on Amami Oshima, and dozens of tons of gold and silver are hidden in them, all of which have been robbed by Tsarist Russia......"

Countless grieving Chinese people could not believe their ears, and they shouted loudly, "Liars, impossible, the prime minister is invincible!" They are lying......

But whether or not you emotionally accept the news, the news of the defeat began to spread like a virus from Shanghai to the interior of the country.

All the telegraph machines in Shanghai were activated, and countless people sent telegrams to the Ryukyus for confirmation, but without exception they received no reply, and it seems that Naha's telegraph control continued.

Immediately afterwards, the telegram began to spread to all cities in the Great Qing Dynasty, especially the important commercial towns along the Yangtze River basin, which were the first to get this astonishing news.

The sky has fallen, the earth has sunk! The scene that countless people in Jiangnan are most afraid of has appeared, and the moment the dice cup is opened, it is the time when the world is turned upside down.

It turns out that humans are more sensitive to fear than to belief, and even if good people don't want to believe the news, fear itself is invincible.

Rather believe it or not, Nanpiao has almost tossed the people of Jiangnan in the past few months, and at this moment a negative news appeared, they obviously couldn't accept it emotionally, but they still couldn't control their hands and feet, and everyone ran home.

As he ran, he cried, "Prime Minister, why did you lose?" Why did you lose...... Let's go home, how many banknotes are in your hands...... Even if you change some copper coins, it's really a waste of paper......"

Thousands of people were running on the streets, and at that moment, the city of Shanghai was like the knife club fighting again, and a dark cloud even more terrifying than war covered the city.

Heng Liwen's heart tightened at that time, and he grabbed Hu Xueyan's sleeve as if he was afraid that he would run away, "Mr. Hu, forget what I just asked, don't think about any shares, I will make a request now, help me eat a lot of banknotes......"

"Hurry, hurry...... It's too late!"