A sinister smile appeared on the corner of Duke Bit's mouth, and he replied: "Yes, good idea, immediately send a telegram to the Governor of Malaysia, Cross, asking him to leave for Japan immediately and personally communicate this matter with Emperor Mingxiao of Japan, I think Emperor Mingxiao will be happy to ......"

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A few days later, when Emperor Mingxiao met with Cross, he was completely stunned by the pie falling from the sky, tens of thousands of rifles, almost half sold and half sent, where in the world to find such a good thing? And a hundred artillery pieces, a hundred, enough to arm three artillery battalions! Once such a powerful force is mastered, the shogunate forces have nothing to fear, and the great cause of unification can be completed in a short time!

Emperor Mingxiao personally walked in front of Cross, bowed to the ground, and said excitedly: "Cross-kun, thank you, thank you so much, I would like to express my great gratitude for the affection of your country!" The friendship between the British Empire and the Japanese Empire will last forever, just like Mt. Fuji! ”

Cross waved his hand and replied: "Your Majesty the Emperor, although we will sell this batch of arms to you at a huge discount, it is still a lot of money, 40,000 rifles, worth 1 million taels of silver, 100 pieces of artillery, worth 450,000 taels of silver, and cannonballs and bullets, adding up to 600,000 taels of silver, this batch of ammunition is worth more than 2 million taels of silver!" My Government hopes that your country will be able to provide us with cash, and that we will continue to sell more arms to your country at preferential prices in the event of your unification. ”

Forehead......

Emperor Mingxiao's face was stunned, not to mention the arms trade in the future, just the two million taels of silver in front of him are not what he can afford now, if it is said that before the Qing army extorted it, it can still be made up, but now it has been extorted by the Qing army More than one million taels, where is there so much silver in the treasury?

"This, this, Cross-kun, you also know that the Chinese and Americans extorted millions of taels of silver from us in one breath half a month ago, where do we still have so much silver? Even if there is, some of it will be left for the use of the monarch's army, Cross-kun, and please be able to spare some time......"

Emperor Mingxiao said astringently.

Cross's face changed, and he said in a gloomy voice: "Your Majesty the Emperor, you also know that our British Empire has done its best to your country, and in the past, the price of an arms transaction with your country alone, just a musket, would exceed forty taels of silver, and now we only sell you twenty-five taels of silver!" An artillery piece was originally worth nearly 1,000 taels of silver, and now it only charges you a price of 450 taels, you know, we can't even recover the cost of this price, just to support you, the loss part needs to be paid by our British Empire to the arms dealers, if you can't even take out this bit of silver, then how can we maintain a close relationship? ”

Actually, Cross is talking nonsense, the previous arms were sold very expensive, but those are all new guys, even if they are old-fashioned guns, the weapons are very new, these are completely eliminated, the cost of a musket is only a dozen taels of silver, and a cannon is only more than three hundred taels of silver, the British Empire still has a lot of profits, but where can these current little Japan figure it out, Emperor Mingxiao is not much different from the dead Emperor Xianfeng, they are all toads at the bottom of the well, and they have never seen anything in the world, It's easiest to be deceived.

"This ...... This one! ”

Emperor Mingxiao's face turned red in a hurry, buy it, right? I can't take out so much money by myself, even if I hollow out the treasury, I don't have more than two million taels; Don't buy? God-given opportunity, this is an opportunity given by the British Empire, if you don't grasp it, then you will really become a stupid hat, a real stupid hat!

Maki Baochen on the side said in a low voice: "Mr. Cross, our monarch really wants to complete this deal with your country, but helplessly, we really can't come up with such a large amount of silver, please be able to forgive some time......

"Grace for some time? Mr. Maki, you must understand that the war between our four countries against China is about to begin, and when the time comes, the British Empire and France will send 30,000 elite armies to seek justice for your country, but what about your country? Is it just waiting to eat ready-made? Isn't it too unjust? Where is the free lunch in the world? What's more, in the big war, no one can say how many soldiers will be killed or wounded! If you want to get compensation, your country must send troops, but you don't even have a decent gun now, how can you go to war? ”

Cross said with a feigned dissatisfaction.

Maki Baochen's face turned red, it's true, if you don't send troops, why should people give you the compensation they want to come? Isn't that daydreaming? The Japanese monarchs and ministers looked at each other and fell into great distress.

Alas......

Cross sighed and said, "Forget it, you elm heads, I have convinced you, well, in order to be able to complete the important task entrusted to me by our Majesty, I am also willing to give you a loan of one million pounds in the name of the British Empire, and all one million pounds will be provided by the British HSBC Bank, this loan, in addition to paying for the cost of this munition, the rest will be used for your country's unification war, with the help of this loan, I think, Your finances won't be so tight, will they? ”

One hundred thousand pounds! Converted into silver, that's a huge amount of seven million taels of silver! It's going to be a big buck, a real big deal!

"Thank you, thank you, Mr. Cross!"

Emperor Mingxiao burst into tears with excitement, and the ministers on both sides were also excited, with this money, it would be easy to eliminate the shogunate forces!

"Your Majesty the Emperor, although I am willing to help you, but this loan is interest-bearing, 10% per annum, and it will be repaid in 20 years, in addition, your country must provide a mortgage, after all, this money comes from our commercial bank, and in business, there is no bank that will provide interest-free loans......"

"Forehead ......"

Emperor Mingxiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Mortgage, what can we use as collateral?" ”

"It's very simple, customs duties, I need you to use customs duties as collateral, your country's customs need to be managed by our British, within twenty years, customs revenue must be directly transferred to the HSBC bank account for loan repayment, if there is any excess, we will return a lot of money to your government!"

Emperor Mingxiao's eyes wandered, obviously weighing the gains and losses, but things have come to this point, and now this is the only chance!

"Good! Mr. Cross, I, on behalf of the Empire of Japan, have agreed to your terms! ”

(To be continued.) )