After leaving Lushun, Hu Zhen received information that the allied fleet was still grinding along the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, and could not advance eastward. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

They simply went to Weihai to inspect first, and then followed the coastline south to Qingdao, Lianyungang, Nantong, and Shanghai, and inspected coastal defense fortifications, port construction, railway planning, and industrial enterprises all the way.

In Shanghai, Hu Zhen, under the protection of the guards, secretly came to the concession to inspect.

At this time, in the Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and other concessions, the Oros and Mi concessions had been completely and completely recovered, and the Hubei army in the concession, in front of the powerful Huaxia army, hundreds of Hubei troops in the concession did not even dare to fire a single bullet, and obediently all became prisoners.

This is in stark contrast to the past when Qing court officials groveled in front of foreigners.

However, due to the fact that it has not yet torn its face with European countries such as England, France, and Germany, the Chinese Empire still acquiesces in the maintenance of the concessions of these countries, but these concessions are watched by the Chinese army and police, and as long as the high-level of the Chinese Empire gives an order, they will immediately rush into the concession.

Hu Zhen watched outside for a while, which was very different from what he saw in the film and television dramas of another time and space, and he immediately lost interest, and ordered the military and police stationed here to be strictly guarded, and not to let the people inside come and go casually.

The foreigners in this concession immediately felt the pain and immediately protested to the local officials of the Chinese Empire through the Ministry of Industry Bureau, the management agency of the concession.

However, the Chinese Empire and the Qing court were completely different, and the officials sent from Nanyang showed a very tough attitude, taking out the Qing court's concession agreement, saying that even if the Chinese Empire inherited the concession agreement between the Qing court and other countries, it still had the right to protect its own control of the territory, and the foreign concession did not have any power to interfere.

Looking at the guns of the Huaxia Army on the edge of the concession, the Ministry of Industry of the concession authorities did not dare to say anything, so they had to retreat in a gloomy manner, looking forward to the arrival of the European Combined Fleet to support them.

This was a trivial matter, but because the contrast with the Qing court was too obvious, it caused a great shock in the minds of the people, and they all said that the emperor of the Chinese Empire was a hard bone and was not afraid of foreigners at all.

Hu Zhen didn't pay much attention to this, this small concession in the weakening of China, the energy was huge, almost influenced the economic trend of China, the foreigners entrenched there, easily obtained the economic benefits of the Chinese people, the rise of many super-rich, such as the famous HSBC in the later generations rose in Shanghai, more than 100 years later, still in the world financial market hegemony.

But at the time of the strong rise of the Chinese Empire, the concession was just a remote corner land, not even a fart.

Seeing this, Hu Zhen remembered the matter of the European financial market, so he asked the attendant civil officials to inquire about the European financial market.

Hu Zhen had two attendants around him, one was the military attache Zhang Dajiang, and the other was the civilian official Luo Tian, Zhang Dajiang was in charge of military affairs, and Luo Tian was in charge of civil affairs and economic affairs.

These two people are Hu Zhen's absolutely reliable people, Zhang Dajiang turned out to be an orphan bought by Hu Zhen in Singapore, and Luo Tian was a Chinese youth saved by Hu Zhen in Qingyan Village, and both of them were loyal to Hu Zhen.

At this moment, Hu Zhen found the attendant civil official Luo Tian.

Hu Zhen asked: "How are the preparations on the European side?" ”

Luo Tian replied respectfully: "Report to the emperor, after Wang Yuanshan arrived in Switzerland, he has already arranged the layout with Frodo and Ou Lang according to the emperor's requirements, first of all, to spread the optimistic news of the European United Fleet's expedition to Asia from all sides, and then the next step is to vigorously push up the stock market and bond market, and secretly prepare funds, just wait for us to defeat the European United Fleet on the battlefield, and then start to short the European financial market and cut the wool of the whole Europe in one fell swoop!" ”

"Our intelligence department didn't find anything out of the ordinary, did it?"

Many of Hu Zhen's subordinates were worried that Frodo and O'Lang would be in a big situation, and they were very worried that these two people would sprout away from Hu Zhen and embark on their own road, and Hu Zhen was also relieved of his subordinates, so he asked the intelligence department to set up an economic intelligence department, which was specifically responsible for monitoring the two major enterprise groups.

"Your Majesty, so far, our economic intelligence department has not found any signs of abnormality, but even if these two people are loyal to the emperor, I am afraid that they will inevitably make some mistakes.

Your Majesty, instead of being so worried, we should make arrangements in advance to disperse the forces of the two major enterprise groups, so as not to make any mistakes at that time! Luo Tian's suggestion was the result of his long-term deliberation.

Hu Zhen has been focusing on military affairs for several years, ignoring this aspect of matters, handing over almost the economic interests of almost the entire Europe to the Irish Orang and the gypsy Frodo, and putting all his eggs in two baskets, which is actually a risk, he heard it and felt that this made a lot of sense, so he nodded and said:

"Okay, things really can't continue like this, after this financial war against Europe is prepared, we will make another arrangement, but don't do anything before that, but you have to have a plan in mind first, so as not to be caught off guard! You know, this must be kept secret, and absolutely no news can be leaked out! ”

"Yes, the emperor, the ministers must obey the emperor's decree!"

Luo Tian continued: "Your Majesty, I suggest that we should also strengthen the financial attack on the rice country!" ”

"That's right, this rice country has a vast territory and a huge market capacity, and it is really the biggest threat to me and the Huaxia Empire, so we must fight it. I have already talked to the Jews Neta Shamattei to ask them to quickly withdraw from the rice market and turn to invest in the Chinese Empire, I wonder if they have taken action? ”

"The Jews have made some moves, but the pace is still not fast enough, many business tycoons are still very hesitant, and some people even leak out the news of the contact between the Jews and the emperor intentionally or unintentionally, which makes the people of the United States suspicious!"

"This is inevitable, there are too many rich Jews in the United States, and it is difficult to keep them completely secret, this is something I have long expected, but this is also good to cause a kind of psychological panic to the people of the United States!

But we can't care about the hesitation of these Jews, and this financial blow to Europe will also include the United States in the scope of the blow, and we must beat them out of breath and earn us more than a billion pounds of wealth! ”

Hu Zhen thought fiercely in his heart, the Eight-Nation Alliance in another time and space took away one billion taels of silver in Huaxia, which was about 200 million pounds at the exchange rate at the time, so they would be taken away here to reach more than five times the wealth.

"Your Majesty, according to the results of Frodo's and Ou Lang's repeated calculations, the profits of this large-scale financial attack on the major European powers are at least 1.3 billion pounds!"

"Really? That's more than the total GNI of many countries! If I do exceed my predetermined performance targets, these two guys will have to increase their bonuses again! In fact, Hu Zhen is still quite satisfied with the performance of Frodo and Ou Lang so far. (To be continued.) )