In fact, the wealth of the Chinese Empire is really not comparable to that of other small countries. Feng Yunshan knew this in his heart. In terms of the war reparations paid by the Manchu Dynasty to the Western powers and Japan in the previous life, it actually amounted to 1.3 billion taels of silver, and such a huge indemnity was converted into today's Shengyuan, which was nearly 2 billion Shengyuan. In fact, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and the wealth of the people is far more than that. Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan became even more determined in his thoughts.

technology, in this era, there is not much sense of secrecy. Even if Europe has begun patent protection, but as a newly rising power of the Chinese Empire, patent protection has not yet begun, and it is impossible to talk about those Westerners' inventions that want to apply for patents, and even if the empire is ready to start applying for patents recently, Feng Yunshan is also ready to explain to Xu Shou, vice minister of science and technology, that they will not protect those patented technologies that have a significant impact on the empire, and European patents, if they want to apply in the Chinese Empire, must see that they are not in the interests of the empire.

Moreover, with their own presence, and then continue to tap some technical talents to come over, plus their own great superiority beyond this era of hundreds of years, are you afraid that the technology is not advanced enough? Even, in the future, only the Empire will consider blocking the possibility of other countries stealing technology.

And capital, the Chinese Empire actually has no shortage of funds at all. Think about it, the wealth accumulated by successive dynasties for thousands of years, plus the huge wealth created by hundreds of millions of people together for hundreds of years, is still in the Chinese Empire. And his entire newly established imperial court, what he got from laying down the country was actually only a small part of it, and most of it, Feng Yunshan believed that it was still in the hands of the squires from all over the people.

Just from the various treasure hunting programs in later generations, we can see how huge the wealth of the people is. In fact, today's Chinese Empire has not experienced a series of wars and reparations like the Manchu Qing Dynasty in history, let alone a series of consumption such as the dissolution of dynasties, warlord melees, and Japanese invasions like later generations. Feng Yunshan has reason to believe that according to the means of stock speculation by the whole people in later generations or raising funds to set up industrial companies, one-third or half of the wealth can be concentrated to surpass the wealth of the Rothschild family. After all, the population base of the Chinese Empire is there, even if there is only one squire landlord among a hundred people, and each squire landlord only has a property of 2,000 saints, and when combined, a population of 500 million is 10 billion saints!

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan smiled slightly and said, "Your family is indeed strong!" However, I am rich for most of the world, own the entire Chinese empire, and am not short of money. On the contrary, you know, my empire is four times the size of Europe, 1.6 times the population of Europe, and in terms of natural resources, it is incomparable to the small size of Europe. Therefore, although your family is amazingly wealthy and influential in Europe, it cannot replace the whole of Europe. And I don't lack money at all, I don't lack people, the only thing I lack is only the technology that I can master sooner or later.

"Mr. Leonel, if you don't have any other good reason, I think you won't get the result you want!" Feng Yunshan said with regret on his face.

Hong Renji, who was next to him, didn't expect the emperor to say this, and wanted to persuade Feng Yunshan to say a few words to promote cooperation with the Rothschilds, but seeing the emperor's solemn face, he couldn't help but feel timid, stopped and didn't dare to speak, and turned to see what Leonel would say.

Leonel was also very surprised, he was originally very confident, thinking that Feng Yunshan would readily agree, and he even connected the detailed negotiation steps and conditions had been drawn up, but he didn't expect that the emperor of the East would refuse. This emperor has already made it very clear, if he doesn't say anything that can actually move him, I'm afraid that he will be driven out directly.

But Leonel was ambitious and tenacious, he was not a person who easily admits defeat, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, I have to admit that I didn't show enough sincerity just now. Since Your Majesty is not satisfied, on behalf of the entire Rothschilds, I will show our first sincerity in exchange for cooperation with your country: the Bank of England, which I control, has the right to decide and price the issuance of British government bonds, and I know very well the accounts of the whereabouts of the British national debt and the government's annual budget.

Also, didn't your country recently defeat Tsarist Russia and occupy the region east of the Ural Mountains? If Your Majesty is interested in occupying the whole of Tsarist Russia, our Rothschilds are willing to provide an interest-free loan of 100 million pounds to your country as war funds, and at the same time, we can exert pressure through parliament to make all the European countries such as Britain, France, Austria, Italy and Prussia all noisy, and stay on the sidelines and not interfere in your country's troops! ”

Feng Yunshan smiled and said, "This is your so-called sincerity?" I'm sorry, but I don't want to annex all of Tsarist Russia. I have no interest in any of the British budgets or any of the like. Now that Britain has lost the war under my men, and China and Britain have also signed an armistice treaty, the indemnity has been ceded, and Britain has done almost the same, and I don't want to completely push Britain to the extreme. Therefore, I am not interested in the sincerity you say. And the war funds you mentioned, I don't want the empire to have wars all the time, it's time to make peace and seek development! ”

Leonel was stunned again, this emperor of the East really didn't follow his idea at all. In desperation, he had no choice but to go further: "Your Majesty, we can provide your country with a large number of British technologies, such as steelmaking technology, shipbuilding technology, munitions technology, locomotive technology, and steam engine, machine building technology, and other technologies. Of course, in exchange, we also want to obtain your country's petroleum refining technology and be able to become the general agent of your country's oil companies in Europe. ”

Seeing Feng Yunshan's unhappy face, Leonel hurriedly said: "Of course, if your country is in trouble, we will not force the sales of oil in Europe, or the companies in your country will sell it themselves." We have heard that your Royal Academy of Sciences has developed a mysterious new machine to replace the steam engine, and we are interested in that. I don't know if we can work together to develop this kind of machine, but we are willing to contribute money and steel and other raw materials, and your country will provide the technology, and then we can share the profits equally. ”

Feng Yunshan's face was extremely unhappy, and he refused directly: "Mr. Leonel, I'm very sorry. None of what you said could impress me! The Empire will not cooperate with you, the Rothschilds, on the homeland of the Chinese Empire. Unless you can be on our overseas territory and have better projects and ideas. ”

Leonel didn't know what he said wrong, after he heard Wu Chongyao's translation, he knew that the emperor in front of him seemed to be very angry, and hurriedly defended something, but Wu Chongyao didn't translate for him, and directly ignored him.

Hong Renji, who was next to him, hurriedly interjected: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks he can consider cooperating with them." Just now, Leonel said that they were willing to contribute raw materials to help our Chinese empire build a railway, and the conditions were not harsh at all, but only required land rights and mineral exploration rights within 5 kilometers along the railway, as well as the cost of the railway for 30 years. ”

"Shut up!" Feng Yunshan's face turned pale!