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The news of the founding of the Tang Empire did not attract much attention from the international community, and even in Britain, the Times only mentioned it in a corner.

Although Downing Street felt a trace of concern about the Chinese controlling the Tongan regime, with the arrival of Sir Justin in London, in his capacity as High Commissioner for the Central Pacific, he made a report on the coup d'état in Tonga and the establishment of the Tang Empire in the House of Lords, and elaborated on the terms of the Tang Empire's continued recognition of the Tang Empire's continued recognition as a protectorate of the British Empire, ensuring that the interests of the British government and British nationals in the Tang Empire were not violated, and being willing to assume the relevant obligations of the Commonwealth members.

These are the real concerns of the British Parliament, and it is clear that Justin grasped the main points and expounded on them, and blocked any measures against the Tang Empire in the first place before the Parliament made a decision.

On the other hand, Zhang Meng also sent people to follow Justin to London, and quickly launched a money offensive, winning the sympathy and support of most of the members of the House of Lords.

Since the Central Pacific is not the core focus and core interests of the British Empire, and the term of office of British Conservative Party leader Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will end on June 5, the Labor Party and the Conservative Party are engaged in a Zuihou contest, and there is no time to deal with the affairs of a small island country in the Central Pacific, and Zhang Meng knows that this election will be won by the Labor Party, so Zhang Meng sent someone to provide a huge private campaign sponsorship of 500,000 US dollars to the Labor Party candidate Ramsey MacDonald, won the favor of MacDonald and the Labor Party, so that on June 6, the day MacDonald was elected prime minister of the United Kingdom, the first order signed was to recognize the legitimacy of the Tang Empire to replace the Kingdom of Tonga, and welcome the Tang Empire to remain in the British Commonwealth.

The reason why Zhang Meng allowed the Tang Empire to remain in the Commonwealth was mainly based on the advance defense against the very likely military invasion of the Japanese army, under the banner of a member of the British Commonwealth, at least the Japanese army would not dare to attack the Tang Empire easily before declaring war on Britain, so that Zhang Meng would have more time to prepare.

It can be said that every step is carried out according to Zhang Mengjihua. So far, everything has gone smoothly, and nothing has happened beyond Zhang Meng's control.

However, Zhang Meng did not dare to relax, he knew that there were more severe tests waiting for him in the future.

Low-key, it has to be low-key.

The timing of Zhang Meng's choice to establish the Tang Empire was very favorable, because he knew that in two months the United States would have the largest economic crisis in history. At that time, the focus of the whole Shijie will shift to Wall Street in the United States, and no one will pay attention to the Tang Empire in the Central Pacific.

Zhang Xinhai enthusiastically participated in the grand coronation ceremony of the emperor of the Tang Empire held in Chang'an Daxing Palace, although the old man is over sixty years old, but he is still full of energy.

At the coronation ceremony, in addition to their own families, only nearby Fiji, New Zealand and other countries sent representatives to attend, and other Commonwealth member countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada only sent a telegram to symbolically congratulate them, which shows their contemptuous attitude towards the Tang Empire.

If they sent someone to Chang'an in person, if they were interested in visiting the large-scale urban construction of Yanjing, they would definitely not despise this nascent Tang Empire, but it was a pity that they missed an excellent opportunity to explore the hole cards of the Tang Empire.

But Zhang Meng was happy, the more the international community did not pay attention to the Tang Empire, the more beneficial it would be for the Tang Empire.

After Zhang Xinhai became the emperor, he set January 1, 1930 as the first year of the Tang Empire, restored the year name and the year method, called the Tang Dynasty, and set June 6, 1929, the day of the establishment of the Tang Empire, as the National Day. Zhang Meng was named the Minister of National Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the National Defense Force, Zhang Jiajun was renamed the National Defense Force of the Tang Empire, and Zhang Wei was named the Princess of Changping and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Rites. Zhang Meng's appointment is naturally beyond reproach, but Zhang Wei's appointment as a foreign minister as a woman is a bit shocking.

Fortunately, Zhang Meng strongly supported it, saying that there is still a Wu Zetian in Datang, since the new era advocates democracy, women are also allowed to participate in politics, and Zhang Wei got her wish. In this regard, Zhang Wei is naturally very grateful to Zhang Meng.

Zhang Xinhai Jihua formed a responsible cabinet, he looked down on the members of the original Tongan noble parliament on the island, Jihua found some talents from the national government to return. But no one was willing to come, which made Zhang Xinhai angry.

Zhang Meng then suggested that he didn't need to worry, after all, the Tang Empire was small and had a small population, and there were basically no major national affairs to deal with. Zhang Xinhai thought about it and couldn't help sighing.

After that, the arrangements for the officials of the three provinces were basically directly nominated and appointed by Zhang Meng, and the members of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Zhongshu Provincial Congress, as well as the candidates for the justices of Menxia Province, were basically Zhang Meng's henchmen and officers from the Zhang Jiajun system, of course, in order to take care of the interests of the original Tongan nobles and aborigines on the island, a few seats were also arranged for them.

As for the other officials of the Sixth Department of Shangshu Province, Zhang Meng temporarily took charge of the military with the Military Committee, because he now wanted to concentrate on the military construction of the Tang Empire, in order to make the military Liliang of the Tang Empire as strong as possible before the outbreak of World War II, so that he could have the opportunity to start a war with the Japanese army.

Although there are no talents in the government of the Tang Empire at present, fortunately, the small population of the country is small and there are no international activities, so there is no problem for Zhang Meng to nominate Zhang Fulai as the prime minister of the cabinet.

In terms of internal affairs, Zhang Meng was relieved to hand over to Zhang Xinhai and Zhang Fulai, and now it has entered August, and Zhang Meng knows that the US stock market will reach its highest point in another month, and in October, the US economic crisis will erupt, which will trigger the largest and most devastating global economic crisis of the 20th century.

Zhang Meng knew his chance had come.

That's right, he's been waiting for this opportunity to come.

Now he's going to get moving.

The stock index of the New York Stock Exchange will reach its peak on September 3, after which it will fall at an average rate of 14 points per day.

In addition to setting aside $100 million in funds for the construction of urban infrastructure and military facilities in the Tang Empire, Zhang Meng also had $1 billion in funds to speculate in the U.S. financial market.

However, Zhang Meng was careful not to put hard currencies such as gold and silver directly into the US financial market, because that would likely be targeted by the Japanese, which would expose the origin of the huge amount of gold in his hand.

Before, Zhang Meng was still worried about how to put the billions of dollars in his hands into the American market without arousing the ideas of the Japanese, but with the establishment of the Tang Empire, Zhang Meng suddenly thought of a way - Tang Yuan.

That's right, it is the new currency stipulated by the government of the Tang Empire - Tang Yuan.

After the establishment of the Tang Empire, it was natural to abolish the original Tang Yuan and change it to Tang Yuan.

Since Tonga was previously a British protectorate, Tonga was pegged to the British pound. Since Tonga did not have the strength, the Bank of England branch set up by the British in Tonga was responsible for printing and issuing the soup dollar, and the exchange rate of the pound to the soup dollar was 1:10.

After the establishment of the Tang Empire, Zhang Meng naturally wanted to set up his own central bank, and it was impossible for the British to control the financial revenue and expenditure and financial reserves of the Tang Empire.

After several rounds of negotiations between Zhang Meng and Zhang Wei and the British authorities, Datang Bank was officially established, and imported advanced money printing machine equipment from the United States and hired professional banknote experts to design it.

According to the requirements, the designer produced two categories of Tang Yuan banknotes and coins, a total of 15 sample patterns, submitted to Zhang Meng for review.

According to Zhang Meng's requirements, the pattern of the currency must be representative and have the characteristics of the Tang Empire. It is complex and difficult to imitate, and it is easy for the people to distinguish the real from the fake.

Since Zhang Meng considered that he would soon have to use Tang Yuan on a large scale, he didn't have time to be too picky about the pattern, anyway, each set of currency would be replaced with a new currency after a period of time, so he selected a few sets of Tang Yuan plans and immediately asked for the master engraving.

Tang Yuan finally finalized the sample three days later, the pattern on the front is the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Shimin, Empress Wu Zetian and other emperors according to the amount from large to small, as well as bust portraits of some famous ministers, surrounded by various divine beasts, Rui beasts, exotic flowers and plants, etc., the north is the national emblem of the Tang Empire, and the background map is the current territory of the Tang Empire. In order to increase the complexity of the banknotes and prevent them from being counterfeited, the banknotes are marked with Tang Dynasty seal characters, Arabic numerals and English, which increases the complexity of the banknotes hundreds of times, but it is not lost and exquisite. In particular, the use of professional dyeing pigments, coupled with exquisite painting work, makes various patterns lifelike, and has a strong artistic appreciation value.

Tang Yuan is divided into 1000 yuan, 100 yuan, 50 yuan, 20 yuan, 10 yuan, 5 yuan, 1 yuan, there are 5 jiao, 2 jiao, 1 jiao, and then 5 points, 2 points and 1 point.

In addition to printing banknotes, the mint also produced auxiliary coins of less than 1 yuan, minting 1 yuan in two full taels of silver, and the other coins were minted at an equivalent value according to the exchange rules.

Since the Tang Empire is currently within the British Commonwealth, it must continue to adopt the gold standard with the United Kingdom.

Zhang Meng knew that Britain would abolish the gold standard in 1934, so he was not worried about currency devaluation at the moment, but in the midst of the imminent global economic crisis, Zhang Meng could use the gold standard to exchange funds between Britain and the United States for gold and transfer back to the Tang Empire.

After the establishment of the gold standard, the Zhongshu Province of the Tang Empire quickly approved the currency exchange law, stipulating that 1 Tang Yuan contained 1.50463 grams of gold, which was the same as the gold content of the US dollar, that is, 1 Tang Yuan could be exchanged for 1 US dollar, or the equivalent of 1.50463 grams of gold, and the exchange rate with the British pound was 5 Tang Yuan to 1 British pound.

According to the gold and silver reserves in his hand, Zhang Meng decisively ordered all the money printing machines of the Datang Bank to print banknotes day and night, and the first batch of 2 billion Tang Yuan was printed.

However, according to Zhang Meng's calculations, he Jihua made a lot of money in the imminent outbreak of the US economic crisis, and two billion Tang Yuan did not seem to be enough, but in order not to attract the attention of the great powers, it could only be done temporarily.

Of course, Zhang Meng knew that this was a rare opportunity to make a fortune, so he quickly sent someone to get in touch with the international banking syndicate and asked Datang Bank to join the International Banking Syndicate Club, so that Zhang Meng could use the international banking syndicate to exchange currencies from different countries and conduct Tang Yuan transactions separately, so as to cover up the fact that he printed Tang Yuan on a large scale.

Since Zhang Meng had real gold reserves in his hands, he was not worried about Tang Yuan's strength at all.

If you put it another way, Tang Yuan is purely a tool used by Zhang Meng to launder money, and the money he stole from the devil's bank was unknowingly bleached.

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