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"Hey, George, my old friend, why don't you invite us to sit down? As George was stunned, a voice came, in English. George came back to his senses and saw that it was Kang Jiwei, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, who spoke, and immediately smiled and continued: "Please, please sit, please sit." William, prepare the coffee. ”

"No, no! I like to drink tea. ”

"Oh, yes, I'm sorry, old man. Replace it with tea, by the way, with Daming tea leaves. George turned to his secretary William, and then to Kang Jiwei, "Old man, you ...... this."

"Oh, let me introduce you, this is my Daming Hubu Shangshu Dai Deli Dai, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Ma Debang Mada......" Kang Jiwei introduced George one by one, George shook hands with the Ming officials one after another, and then asked: "Then what are you coming to me for?"

"Oh, old friend, isn't it like this, didn't I borrow $150 billion from your country? According to the agreement signed at the beginning, this loan is for 20 years, and it will be repaid in 80 installments with interest in a total of 20 quarters, and we are here to repay the loan. ”

Hearing this, George suddenly understood that people were going to repay the money, and people didn't say that George really didn't know that there was such a thing. You must know that the entire high-level of the United States, including Obama, did not expect Daming to be able to repay this batch of loans, and Obama also counted on Daming to not be able to repay it, so it is reasonable to use Daming as an excuse to occupy Xuanzhou Island.

"I also want to ask your country, how did I repay the loan in the Ming Dynasty, is it a US dollar, a gold dollar, or a gold reserve? It must have been not clear when the agreement was signed at that time that it must be paid in US dollars, and it must be, old friend, you also know that at present, I am Daming, whether it is a Ming gold dollar, a dollar or a gold reserve, it is quite abundant. ”

At this moment, George's mind was a little confused, and when he came to Mingming, Mr. President did not say anything about the loan, let alone the payment method of repayment.

"Sorry, old man, I can't do this, I need to contact the White House. George apologized and left the office.

Leaving a group of officials staring at each other, Dai Deli asked: "What do you mean by muttering for a long time? Is he asking for money or gold?"

Kang Jiwei smiled and arched his hand: "Lord Dai, don't be anxious, you adults don't have to worry, there will be a natural reply later." ”

Dai Deli and the others also nodded, and Deng Cichao, the governor of the central bank, said: "Your Majesty said that you can use gold reserves as much as possible to repay the loan." ”

"I still don't quite understand, why did His Majesty decide this way?"

John Steven, however, did not understand why His Majesty the Emperor had repeatedly proposed to use gold reserves to repay the loan, considering that all countries in the world included gold in important capital reserves, and it was an important resource to compete for, and its value even exceeded that of oil reserves.

Everyone present laughed, which made the British immigrant even more puzzled, and finally Deng Cichao gave the answer: "Some time ago, you went to Japan, so it is not clear, my Ming exploration team found a large number of gold sources in the volcano in the central and eastern part of Yingzhou, south of Chixia Lake. In the last two sentences, Deng Cichao almost put John's ear and said, "There is not only a large amount of gold but also a lot of precious stones, the preliminary estimate of gold stocks is 40,000 to 50,000 tons, and the rest of the gemstones of various colors are also 10,000 tons." ”

John was completely shocked! The stock of gold is 40,000 to 50,000 tons, which is more than the world's largest gold mine, the Rand gold mine in South Africa?

You know, South Africa's Rand Gold Mine. The mine was discovered in 1866 and was put into mining shortly after its discovery. More than 35,000 tonnes of gold have been mined for more than 140 years, and there are still 18,000 tonnes of gold reserves, still accounting for 52% of the world's total gold reserves. In 1970, the mine produced 1,000 tonnes of gold, the highest annual output in history, and has since maintained an annual output of between 650 and 700 tonnes, accounting for half of the world's gold production.

The discovery of the gold mine, this has to be said to be God's favor for Daming, with the gold mine, Daming can completely let go of his hands and vigorously develop, no longer have to worry about a little money. As an official of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the position of a squire in the Ministry of Works, John can better understand the difficulties in the development of the Ming court. Now, the appearance of the gold mine has greatly relieved him for Daming.

After relieving himself, John cautiously asked, "Has Your Majesty ever explained whether this gold mine will be mined by the imperial court or returned to the royal family?"

"Shhhh......h John nodded immediately, and then the ambassador's secretary William led the embassy staff to walk in lightly, only to see William smile and say to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, please drink tea, Mr. Ambassador has explained, all of them are Daming tea." ”

"Hmm. He spoke in Chinese, and everyone in the audience could understand it, and they all nodded. Especially Ma Debang, he said with a natural face: "As soon as you smell this fragrance, you will know that it is the rain mountain tea of the Ming Dynasty, and if the tea is transported from Huaguo, it will be far away." As he spoke, he picked up the tea bowl, slowly scratched the tea with the lid of the bowl a few times, tasted it, and his face was a little amazing, "Is it Yushan Mother Tea?"

The rest of the people, except for John, who couldn't taste tea, bowed their heads one after another, and then everyone looked at each other, and finally Kang Jiwei smiled and solved the mystery, "I think this Yushan mother tea is the small pot of tea that the Prime Minister gave to Ambassador George." ”

Maybe he also guessed this result, and the rest of the people also nodded one after another, and some shook their heads, that was Ma Debang, I saw him sigh and said, "It's a pity that it's such a good tea!"

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In the embassy chamber, George pulled out a copy of the loan agreement, along with Obama's power of attorney to George to accept the loan.

After the Ming officials looked at it one after another, they nodded one after another. When George saw that everyone had seen it, he said, "Alright, my lords, now I have full authority to take over this loan. First of all, I want to say something. ”

George spoke slowly, his secretary William was on the side as an interpreter, and when the translation was over, George said: "The original loan agreement did not clearly state that the loan must be repaid in dollars, and your country is deliberately inclined to use gold reserves, and our government has also given clear instructions that it is acceptable for your country to use gold to repay this loan, do you have any objections to this?"

After William finished translating, several members of Daming discussed in a whisper, nodded and said, "There is no objection." ”

"Well, according to the agreement, China's total loans to Ming are 150 billion US dollars, of which 50 billion US dollars are interest-free loans, and only 1% of the handling fee is charged, that is, 500 million US dollars, and second, 100 billion US dollars are low-interest loans, with an interest of 5%, including the handling fee, the total is 6 billion US dollars. Let me do the math...... With interest, the Ming Kingdom needs to repay a total of 156.5 billion US dollars to our country, which will be repaid in 80 installments every quarter for 20 years. ”

Speaking of this, George looked at the officials, and after seeing the Ming officials nodding, he said: "The loan will be repaid in the first month of each quarter, until the total of eighty installments in twenty years, my lords, and the repayment of each installment is 1,956.25 million US dollars, right?"

Dai Deli looked at Deng Cichao, Deng Cichao nodded, and Dai Deli said to George: "That's right." ”

"Well, according to the international gold trading price in the last week, the lowest point is 1380 US dollars / ounce, the highest point is 1700 US dollars / ounce, we take the following average, 1540 US dollars / ounce, that is, about 49.5 US dollars / gram, you need to pay about 1,956.25 million US dollars, 99% purity gold 39.52 tons, if you have no objection, we will officially sign and start trading. ”

There was no objection from the crowd, which was less than the 40 tons of gold that had been negotiated in advance, and finally it was jointly signed and sealed by the two Shangshu and the governor of the central bank.

Subsequently, this batch of 39.5 tons of gold was paid by the Daming Central Bank, and the United States sent a destroyer and members of the Marine Corps to escort them back to China, and from beginning to end, the Ming court deducted 782.6 million gold yuan (of which 100,000 was the handling fee) from the central bank's imperial account account.

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