The young man in front of Hu Zhen is named Zhang Suan, who turned out to be a descendant of a family of bookkeepers in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and has been a bookkeeper for a firm in Shanghai since he was sixteen years old.

But unfortunately, the owner of this business fell into the hands of European foreigners, the business of the business failed and went bankrupt, Zhang Suan was forced to work to do manual work, but was sold to the merchant ship as a coolie, when the merchant ship arrived in England, Zhang Suan was already dying.

Fortunately, Hu Zhen appeared at the most difficult time for Zhang Suan and saved Zhang Suan. Zhang Suan has since become Hu Zhen's loyal follower.

In the carriage, Hu Zhen nodded to Zhang Suan and asked, "Are you here, have you released the last batch of Russian ruble banknotes that you have arranged?" ”

Hearing Hu Zhen ask this question, Zhang Suan suddenly became excited: "They have all been released according to your request, sir!" ”

"There's no problem with security, right?"

"These three million rubles were released through the local gangsters, according to the old rules, we only collected two million rubles equivalent to gold for three million rubles, and the transaction process was the same as before, we did it very carefully and secretly, there was no problem with security, and no one could find out that we released it!"

"Very well, we will not put this kind of banknote out for a long time to come."

"Why? Sir, although the banknotes printed by you yourself are said to be fake, the paper is more beautiful than the real thing, and the printing pattern is exactly the same as that of the anti-counterfeiting mechanism. Not to mention ordinary people, even those minting experts can't recognize it at all. The dealers love the banknotes we put out, and they are still hoping that we will give them more. Now we have earned 50 million pounds by releasing the British pound, the American dollar, the French franc, the Spanish peso, the Dutch guilder in the Netherlands, the German mark, and the Italian lira, and we can continue to earn more money, which will help us a lot. Why stop now? Zhang Suan felt that it was a pity to give up.

Of course, Hu Zhen knows that the paper materials he brought from the 21st century are more exquisite than any country's banknotes, and the quality of the banknotes printed from the 3D workshop is even better than the real money, but the fatal weakness cannot be concealed. Hearing Zhang Suan's question, he could only sigh lightly and give the reason:

"Even if we can do it completely unrealistically, the code on the banknote may be exposed, and this disadvantage does not prevent countries from knowing that there are a huge number of counterfeit banknotes circulating on the market. More than 50 million pounds! The sun never sets on 70 percent of the British Empire's annual revenue, which at the current exchange rate has exceeded 340 million taels of silver, or nearly 1,000 tons of gold, which is more than four years of the Qing Dynasty's fiscal revenue, and is enough as the start-up capital for our cause. Besides, we can drive Oron and Frodo to make ten or even a hundred times more money in the business field. ”

There is another thing in this, Hu Zhen can't tell Zhang Suan now, that is, the banknote printing paper he brought from the 21st century, with one less one, in the foreseeable ten years, it is still difficult to have the technology to make such a fine coinage paper, these coinage paper should be kept at the most critical time, and the future enemy country to carry out a secret currency war.

"Alright then!" Hearing Hu Zhen say that he couldn't put more real banknotes than real money, Zhang Suan was very disappointed, and reluctantly responded, and then asked: "Then what's the next step?" ”

Hu Zhen looked out of the carriage and saw that the streets were full of Western-style houses, and the pedestrians on the road were white-skinned Europeans, and said slowly: "This is not our place after all, we should go back!" ”

"Go back? Is it going back to our homeland? ”

"I can't just go back there yet!"

"So where are we going?"

"Let's go back to the territory of the Chinese in Nanyang first, first find a place to stand, establish our military and industrial strength, and then wait for the opportunity to go north and overthrow the incompetent Manchu court!" Hu Zhen already had a huge plan for the rejuvenation of China in his heart, and even the time node had been calculated, but it was not convenient to inform Zhang Suan and others now.

Hearing that the Manchu court was going to be overthrown, Zhang Suan was very excited and jumped up: "Okay, overthrow the corrupt and incompetent Qing court and create a rich and powerful Huaxia, I have long been looking forward to that day!" What can I do now? ”

"How's the progress of the three hundred and fifty tons of gold I asked you to prepare?"

"So far, almost all the circulating gold in the markets of European countries has quietly fallen into our hands, but only 300 tons have been raised, and the remaining 50 tons are difficult to raise. It will take some time to raise the volume of three hundred and fifty tons. ”

Three hundred tons of gold, converted at a price of one to twenty, more than 120 million taels of silver, is equivalent to the financial revenue of the Qing Empire for one and a half years, which is an astonishing astronomical amount.

"That's enough, okay, just three hundred tons! You don't want to buy gold, where are Liang Kunri, Ouyang Yu, and Su Wenzhen? ”

"According to your arrangement, I have informed Liang Kunri, Ouyang Yu, Su Wenzhen and more than 200 of them to take the merchant ship purchased by our Pacific Shipping Company, according to the travel time, they should arrive at the London docks this afternoon, and they can leave for Nanyang at any time!"

It turned out that in the past year or so, in addition to making a windfall in the European market, Hu Zhen has also made arrangements in many ways, and he spent a large amount of money to redeem and rescue more than 9,000 Chinese slave laborers who fell into European countries, and sent them to schools and factories in various countries to learn advanced European technology.

Liang Kunri, Ouyang Yu, Su Wenzhen and more than 200 other people spent a huge amount of money to get through the German upper-level relations, and directly sent them to the German military academy for training to learn military knowledge, and in one year, they completed the four-year course in the German ** school. Liang Kunri, Ouyang Yu, and Su Wenzhen are the best of this group of Chinese military cadets, who have both military skills and strategy, and were selected as the leaders, and are now leading Hu Zhen's earliest military team to meet in Britain.

Hu Zhen was very happy when he heard this: "You hurry up and arrange to greet them, I'm going to see them tonight." Oh, and also, hurry up and make arrangements to inform us that those scattered in Europe are going to follow me back to Asia on a large scale! ”

"Yes, I'll do it right away!" Zhang Shuan got up and was about to jump out of the carriage.

Hu Zhen still has something to say later: "Slow, in addition to informing those who have learned something, the action to save Chinese slave laborers in cities in various countries cannot be stopped, and we must also extend the action to the United States, where at least hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers are building railways, they have experience and certain skills, and they are all talents who will build our own industrial system in the future." In addition, we have to go back to our hometown to find the best young people to send to Europe and the United States to study, learn other people's advanced technology for our use, as long as the establishment of a strong industrial foundation of China can have hope! ”