Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangguang, is now complaining, the news has just come from the front line, the Cantonese army led by Wu Kui has been deflated in Shanxi, the telegram is unknown, and it is not clear how to win or lose, but it is an indisputable fact that the Gui army retreated without authorization and lost the fort, but fortunately, there was an agreement with Qin Kai that although more than 1,000 people were lost, they did not suffer major losses when they withdrew, but their morale was frustrated.

Today, Master Han and Master Hu hurriedly came to see him early in the morning, saying that Qin Kai, the minister of Nanyang and the governor of Guangdong, had issued a new silver dollar in Guangdong, and he didn't care about this matter, after all, this silver dollar was not an easy thing, and the minting expenditure of the household mint had increased year by year over the years, and even to the point that the more money was minted, the more the loss would be, and the fire consumption was amazing.

As the governor of Liangguang, he has the appropriation of the imperial court in his hand, and Qin Kai promised that his oil mill is now a daily income, so he specially sent his honest henchmen to take care of it carefully, which is a great affection.

After getting the Nanyang Bank Ocean and Copper Dollar that Master Han had exchanged for Huàn, he held it up in front of him and looked through it carefully, and then took out the copper dollar minted by Yingyang and the Hubu Mint General Factory next to him and compared it, and was amazed, he turned his head and asked Master Han, "Where was this silver dollar of Qin Armor minted?" Do you have any news? ”

The two masters are here to report the news, as for the silver dollars minted there, they naturally don't know, the people who know the news, there are only a few people in the Mawei Ship Administration, they all shook their heads, Master Han said: "My lord, this Qin armor is a coin, such a big thing, why don't you come and inform the adults."

Liu Kun took a look at Master Han, his staff was naturally loyal, and he guessed that there must be great benefits in this, and with the strength of the Hunan army and horses in the border between the two Guangzhous, there were no benefits in it, and the two staff members were naturally a little disappointed, and pondered for a while, before they gave a tael of silver, Qin Kai raised an oil mill over there, and of course he also gave the name of an empty Guangdong sailor, but when converted, how could he also make a lot of money

Now to ask for this benefit, it is somewhat broken rules, but it seems that he is not interesting enough, but for such a big matter, he, the governor of Liangguang, has not received benefits, and it is indeed a little unreasonable, thinking of this, he opened his mouth and asked: "Master Hu, how much do we have the balance this year?" ”

"My lord, the business of the oil mill has been good in the past two months, and we have nearly 600,000 taels of silver on hand."

Liu Kun sighed and smiled slightly, "In this way, you take me to see Qin Kai, this Nanyang Bank is newly built, we have to support it, and this silver will be transferred from the Westerner's bank to the Nanyang Bank."

The two masters hurriedly surrendered their hands, this method is still our Lord Liu, just move the silver, and don't let this Governor Qin give some benefits

Sure enough, Master Hu didn't have time to go, so he rushed back to report with a smile and went to see Qin Kai, the minister of Nanyang, who was naturally full of face of the governor, and he had already ordered that as long as the 600,000 taels of silver arrived, according to the silver dollar to huàn, the full amount of 6 percent more was calculated to be 36,000 taels

At this time, the two masters were also very satisfied, and immediately went home to transfer the family's silver from other silver numbers to the newly opened Nanyang Bank, which is a good thing that only existed in the past two days, and it was necessary to have a great face

In the governor's yamen, Sun Fu was fighting over what Master Hu had come to do, but although the bitter master Qin Kai had just been blackmailed by Liu Kunyi for a large sum of silver, he seemed to have no anger at all at this time, and he was still trying to persuade Sun Fu, "Brother Sun, to be honest, I was still thinking about how to pull Liu Kunyi's money, and the value of this silver is worth it, you will know another day."

Sure enough, the next day, the spacious hall of Nanyang Bank was made of copper bars on the side of a column plate, on which were written a few large golden characters -- "Distinguished customers of the Bank", and below were a piece of elaborate bronze medals, the first of which was "the Yamen of the Governor of Guangzhou", and the second was naturally the "Yamen of the Governor of Guangdong", and there were a bunch of famous merchants in Guangzhou......

And the guy in the store is a stack of carefully made small pieces of paper, printed with the words Nanyang Bank, business descriptions and other words, and the reverse side is also this list of distinguished customers, just a few days, the old ladies in the Guangzhou neighborhood know that this Nanyang Bank is already the first class big money village in Guangzhou.

If the idle man and the eighth woman raised the slightest objection, it would immediately attract a scolding, "The governor and the governor of the city have put the silver in the Nanyang Bank, and the largest merchants in the city have deposited their silver in the Nanyang Bank, and all the silver numbers have begun to use the Nanyang (the abbreviation of the Nanyang Bank), you don't know",

After the doubter was refuted like this, the only thing he could do was to hide his face quickly, how could he be so closed to the news

As soon as the signboard of the governor's yamen and the governor's yamen came out, this effect directly surprised Lu Yijin, who had been operating the silver account for many years, and in just seven or eight days, the treasury bank of Nanyang Bank had surged rapidly from the initial investment of 5.5 million taels to 7.5 million taels, and the merchants who came to deposit money still had a tendency to intensify.

With the use of the southern ocean minted by horsetails for all major silver horns, this kind of silver dollar, which is thick and sophisticated, and almost difficult to counterfeit, soon occupied the market in Guangzhou, and soon, the copper dollar of Nanyang Bank also entered the circulation field silently, and quickly began to run the market for those old copper coins and bad coins.

In just one month, the newly established Nanyang Bank has transformed into one of the few financial predators in the south, with an astonishing inventory of 13 million taels of silver, a scale of expansion that even Qin Kai could not imagine.

Soon, something that shocked the eyes of all domestic money banks happened again, and the Far East branch of Deutsche Bank sent a note to all European banks in China a month after the establishment of Nanyang Bank, and Deutsche Bank had signed an agreement with Nanyang Bank on mutual recognition of each other's bank bills, and the two sides stipulated that the settlement would be made every two days to ensure the safety of the treasury bank.

In this matter, Lu Yijin did not make any effort at all, which made Old Man Lu inexplicable, but the benefits are undoubtedly huge, among so many silver accounts in the Great Qing Kingdom, including the giant level of Fukang, Yuan Fengrun and Yishanyuan, these tens of millions of big silver accounts have no way to obtain the exchange agreement of any foreign bank

Just when the business circles and money houses in Guangzhou were taken aback by the dazzling news of the Nanyang Bank, Qin Kai suddenly came to visit Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangguang.

After arriving at the house politely, Liu Kun asked with a smile, "Gale Wind, there must be something to do today, otherwise you have been busy like that recently, and you will come to see me, a bad old man."

"Lord Liu is really joking, but there is indeed an important matter today," Saying this, Qin Kai took out a few pieces of letterhead and a telegram from his arms and handed them to Liu Kunyi, "This is the news that I just got the news, the United States just passed this so-called "Chinese Exclusion Act" last month, this is the specific content, my lord, you are the mainstay of the imperial court, so I am here to discuss with you, how should we deal with it"

In the past four years, with the completion of an astonishing innovation in the construction of railways, the railway construction mileage of the United States has completed more than 50,000 kilometers, accounting for more than 50 percent of the total mileage of railways built by countries around the world during the same period.

In the past few years, such a huge infrastructure has greatly promoted the development of heavy industry in the United States, and the direct result is that the steel plants of American heavy industry have stepped into the world's advanced level in terms of technology and output.

However, the construction of this long railway line across the United States also burst the bubble of the American economy at once, far exceeding the domestic demand for the railway line, triggering vicious competition between parallel railways and reducing freight costs, making the railway companies unable to make ends meet...... The thirteenth economic crisis in the economic history of European and American countries broke out.

In order to divert the public's attention from the economic depression and find an excuse for the great increase in national unemployment, the local governments and Congresses of various states in the United States went so far as to forcibly pass the Chinese Exclusion Act on the grounds that Chinese workers were poor, their hygiene habits were poor, they could not integrate into the free United States, and the national unemployment rate had risen due to the influx of Chinese workers.

Liu Kunyi didn't know about this thing, but he knew about the "Sino-US Treaty of Puanchen", and the agreement on free immigration between the two sides was included in it as black and white, and now the US government has unilaterally canceled the treaty agreement and forced the expulsion of Chinese workers in the United States, which is undoubtedly a provocation to the majesty of the Qing Dynasty.

After reading these letterheads and telegrams, Liu Kun was naturally quite angry, and the people of Great China were once again completely discriminated against overseas, although these people were also worthless coolies in the eyes of the officials, but this is a major matter involving the national system, and the crimes listed in the eyes of the Chinese people are absolutely completely unwarranted. ,

The two hit it off, and this matter of regaining face for the Qing Kingdom was naturally provoked by a big man like Liu Kunyi, and Qin Kai, the cutting-edge governor, naturally seconded the proposal together, and Liu Kunyi was also a colleague in Guangzhou for a few months, Qin Kai had already figured out Lao Liu's style, and whenever he invited him, the bigwig of the Hunan army, to come out, first of all, there must be benefits, and secondly, there must be remuneration.

However, for such a straightforward and slippery man, Qin Kai felt that it was better to get along, if he was asked to discuss some things with Li Zhongtang, there would be no way to talk around the bush first and negotiate with Zhou Fu and others Now Lao Liu Biao is definitely on the vigorous and resolute side, the reason for this, Qin Kai thinks that the main reason is that he does not constitute his opponent of Lao Liu at present, and is more of a target for use.

Sure enough, after Lao Liu was willing to be the barrel of this gun, he immediately issued his conditions, "Gale Wind, I have heard, you are the proud protégé of Governor Ding, what you are doing is to engage in that cannon, now the war in Vietnam is tight, and the defense of Guangzhou is also very tight, and I have long been thinking about resting the forts in the port, but the court has not allocated two silver ......."

Qin Kai's face was black, the cost of repairing the fort was not low, Lao Liu Gang transferred hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to his own Nanyang Bank, and he was crying poor here, and then he said with a resolute face that his own family was also poor, and he had not even earned the interest on the new money, and the silver invested in it was a genuine thing.

After some bargaining, Qin Kai finally sold the account to this Hunan army boss, this person talked about it anyway, it was a tune, this silver is not not not given, and it will be given in the future, how much will it be given? When? Looking at what this big guy meant, he always felt that it was enough.

However, the transformation of the Huangpu Port Fort, Wuyong Fort, and Niushan Fort was originally beneficial to him, since Liu Kun proposed to transform it, then there would be some blood, of course, I would have to get some dividends back! At the moment, he negotiated with Liu Kun again, and a special wharf for the Nanyang Naval Division was specially opened behind the Huangpu Fort, and naturally the Mawei shipping was also stained.

This special wharf is definitely the biggest benefit for the shipping company, Liu Kun doesn't do this business, naturally he doesn't understand this, he can let Qin Kai use the silver to transform the fort, then he will achieve his goal, he is the governor of Liangguang, and he is responsible for defense to get this money-burning fort without spending money, and both of them are very happy.

On 19 September, when Liu Kunyi's accusation of discrimination against the Chinese in the United States was still floating on the sea, Fujian Xinbao fired the first anti-American shot, and the headline on the front page was Zhang Peilun, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, who sprinkled a big argument refuting the "Chinese Exclusion Act" in the US Congress.

The full text of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States was attached later, and the students of the Mawei School who were responsible for interpreting it excerpted and collected those obviously discriminatory words, and then supplemented the content of the Sino-US "Anson Treaty" on free immigration, and then attached some exaggerated news provided by Qin Kai about the miserable treatment of Chinese workers in the United States.

The introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States heralded the arrival of a dark age, and a new industrial power actually formulated a special bill for a nation and a country, which is an unprecedented major event in the entire history of the West, which means that the West's awe of this eastern power has disappeared......

Originally, in history, the Manchu government also summoned the American minister many times on this matter, but the American minister Ma Fen's attitude towards this matter was very subtle, and he did not talk about the possibility of changing the bill in the United States, but ignored it on the grounds that the central government of the United States had no right to interfere in the affairs of the states, and the only thing the Qing government could do in this matter was to keep protesting......

Now, the situation has undergone some subtle changes, with the momentum of the newspaper, even the teahouse building society in the capital is aware of such a thing, and they are all discussing this matter, coupled with the guidance of public opinion in the interpretation of Fujian Xinbao, the big men in the capital know that this time we are a big country in China, but we have slapped people in the face

Since the 19th, Fuzhou Xinbao has broken the conventional three-day publication cycle and published every day, and the Mawei Shipping Company has been delivered to the capital as soon as possible, and it only takes two days to deliver, and the latest news in the newspapers of Qingliu, bigwigs, and even the military aircraft yamen and the premier's yamen have been published on it for the first time.

On this issue, it is rare for the whole country to be unanimous, and even the conservative aristocracy is clamoring for the United States to apologize for this matter. ,

And the Prime Minister's national affairs yamen, recently but busy turned the day, Prince Gong looked at his four major generals with a sad face, yesterday he was called into the palace by the Queen Mother, and I don't know which damn lack of virtue ghost delivered the newspaper into the palace, although the things on the newspaper are indeed very new, but that rhetoric, who looks at who is on fire......

In the eyes of the Empress Dowager and these princes and nobles of this Shangguo Kingdom, although the Chinese officials were excluded from the treaty, the Americans forgot that the entire Manchu people, these yellow belts, red belts, and their children and grandchildren, which were also Chinese people, were also included in the object of exclusion, among which the various shortcomings of the Chinese mentioned in the debate in the US Congress explained by the newspapers were exhausted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The Queen Mother didn't give a clear statement on this matter, but just said, "Prince Gong, since the founding of Taizu, our Qing Dynasty has never been despised by the Yi people, whether it is the Yi people of that country, or our China, then we have to follow the rules of the Qing Dynasty, this matter, can not be done by the Yi people so nonsense"

At this time, Prince Gong looked at the following people with big eyes and stared, and asked, "How do you think this matter should be handled?" The meaning of the Queen Mother couldn't be clearer, our Qing Dynasty is decent, but there is no room for flaws."

Shang Shujing Lian of the Grass Soldier Department on the wall saw that the others were silent, and he also knew that this matter was inextricably linked to these big guys, and these people wished that this matter would get bigger and bigger, anyway, it was a matter of mouth, and if it got bigger, it would be more capable.

He raised the newly obtained "Fuzhou New News" in his hand, coughed, and said lightly: "Sixth Prince, look at the newspapers of the past few days, the governors of all provinces have been in the newspapers one by one, forcing our Prime Minister Yamen to issue a note Chen Bu to hand over this matter to Zeng Hou to deal with?" ”

Marquis Zeng...... Hereditary first-class Yiyong Marquis Zeng Jize? Prince Gong also knew that this kind of thing dealing with foreigners was extremely cumbersome, and it was time-consuming and laborious, and the people who were able to do so were only one or two people, so he turned his head and asked Li Hongzao, the secretary of the ministry, "Lord Li, on the French side, has Zeng Hou been able to negotiate?" ”

These days, the war in northern Vietnam has started again, the military aircraft department naturally hopes to negotiate a settlement, and has long ordered Zeng Jize to negotiate with the French minister Delphigu, and the two sides are now in the middle of the bargain, at this time the front-line war The French took Xuanguang and Shanxi, but lost thousands of troops in Yong'an, and the Qing army stuck to Hanoi had both the elite Qingzi battalion of the Huai Army, as well as tens of thousands of Guangdong troops and Gui troops, and there was also a variable, which was also the protector army of Qin Kai, the minister of Nanyang, who Zeng Jize pinned his hopes on.