Thousands of miles away, the blue sea and blue sky, Xiao Xie stood on the helm, looking at the mountain on the left like a boulder, flawlessly pulling up the land, towering on the coast, and then looking at the sea on the right, a giant ship with sails, also like a mountain, the shadow covered his turtle warship. He stood in front of a great door, his mind wandering, and he did not know what kind of world he would see when he opened the door.

Farther ahead, the sea closed and was enclosed by the approaching land, a strait comparable to that of Malacca, which, as the Portuguese envoys Sir Sousa and Lang Shining put it, was the gate to Europa: Gibraltar.

It's really Europa...... How many times I got lost, how many times I was windy, I thought I couldn't get through it anymore, but I still survived.

Xiao Xie let out a sigh of relief, and poured out all the anxiety accumulated from more than nine months of sailing, and at the same time felt a trace of admiration for Europa's gang of white máo. It is said that two or three hundred years ago, these guys dared to run around the earth in small boats, and they were bold enough and tenacious enough. Dealing with such people can be refreshing.

was gathering his heart, but he heard and incomprehensible conversation, that is, the commander of the fleet, Lu Hanshan, and the liaison guān sent to the ship by the Britons were talking, and the two sides were communicating with the interpreter guān who passed through the communication hall, but the reason why the conversation was puzzling was that the problem seemed to lie in the interpreter.

"Stocker Father Seven Ratio"? What Stock? Stocks?

What kind of inventory is that? ”

"Uh,...... It's Stock, not inventory, it's another meaning, well...... Banknotes, yes, treasure ......"

"Treasure money? The Britons are so busy with their treasures that they can't even look down on our silk tea? Hey, isn't your brain burned out? ”

"That's not a treasure either...... That's ......"

The interpreter only understands Britannica, does not understand the details of business, and is scratching his head in a hurry, Lang Shining comes to relieve the siege. He talked to the British junguān for a while in fǎ, and then explained that what a stoke was the proof of the principal of the public secretary.

"The principal of the company? What kind of public office is so popular that Britons are in a hurry to join the gang? ”

Although Lu Hanshan is not clear about this kind of business affairs, he still has a vague understanding, after all, in Yinghuá, there are more and more "public offices" that gather everyone's wealth for business, so that everyone mentions "public affairs". "It's all about business, not the kind of community groups that used to be.

"South...... Nanyang Corporation? ”

Lang Shining also widened his eyes while translating Junguān's words, Nanyang Gongnan?

The contact guān explained that everyone suddenly realized that it was the Nanyang here, not their own Nanyang.

"It's not our Nanyang Public Prosecutor's Division, it's called the Nanhai Public Corporation......"

Xiao Xie said casually, and said in his heart that we are not here to come to Europa, and it has nothing to do with us.

The fleet, which had traveled thousands of miles, originally consisted of one Portuguese merchant ship and three sea warships, but now there were only two sea stacked warships left, and at this moment they were being escorted by a battleship of the British Sea Jun's Gibraltar detachment, sailing to the port of Gibraltar to replenish supplies

"How did the principal of the Gongsheng Division come about?"

Xiao Xie didn't care anymore, but the members of the mission from the Ministry of Commerce took the interpreter and grabbed the Briton and asked him non-stop.

"Everything is new here, and of course, to the Europa, we ourselves are also very new, so why be so impatient, ......"

Seeing the sea junguānbīng staring at the huge battleship again, unwilling to let go of any detail, Xiao Xie shook his head, and said in his heart that this was the beginning.

When Xiao Xie's mission arrived in Europa, the British South Sea Corporation, which specializes in dealing in debt and financing the British government, had just submitted a proposal to the British Ministry of Finance, preparing to purchase the British government's redeemable and term bonds worth a total of £31.6 million in the British government, which covered all the debts except the Bank of England and the East India Company.

It is naturally profitable to contract debts with a company, but with the financial resources of the Nanhai Company, it is difficult to do this. So the company came up with an idea, after the War of the Spanish Succession, the Nanhai Princesse obtained the South American trade spring from the Spanish government, which could be used for slave trade and other business. According to the agreement, this business is really just a licensed trade spring for three ships a year, but who can know these details? This era is a great era of maritime trade. As long as they make this route profitable, and at the same time they are financing the zhèng government, and the credit is very good, then their own stocks will definitely rise with a whizz, so that they will not have the money to take this plate? ,

Naturally, Nanhai Gongsi could not have imagined that with this idea, their background in the Zhèng government, and the unscrupulous bribery and lobbying to achieve their goals, the income from the company's stock would far exceed their profits from taking on debts. They would never have imagined that the whole of Britain would also be dragged into this "South Sea Bubble" by them. "In the end, countless people were hit by missiles and bankrupt.

Just as Xiao Xie thought in his heart, this matter had nothing to do with his mission's trip to Europa, but in another hemisphere thousands of miles away, his family was also stepping into such a bottomless and dangerous sea like the British.

"Guān's family, the court should measure people, how can they build up debts? Isn't it enough that the land of the five provinces of my dynasty is already level with the north when I enter it? ”

Huangpu Wuya Palace, Shangshu left servant shot Li Zhu Gong and said with a glare, Tang Youzeng, Yáng Chongdou and even Liú Xingchun and others all nodded in agreement, accounting for almost more than half of the Xiangyi present. Originally, during this time, the city was extremely jubilant, everything was going on, and Fan Sihai's matter was even more annoying. They all pointed to the emperor to come forward and make a decision, but they didn't want the emperor to come out, but they threw out a shocking plan to raise a debt of 10 million taels, no wonder Li Zhuyan, who had raised the prime minister's belly, was also expressing dissatisfaction.

The more nature you have, the better, but you can't just catch fish. Besides, the 20 million people now are already well-off, and they even have extra money to study in Yungui and Guizhou. The emperor's earlier promise of the Wengong loose rank compensation has been fulfilled, and now there are fifty or sixty taels of silver a year from the nine pins guān, and the knighthood system is still in full swing, and what kind of "Zhishi gets knighted" to be implemented.

At this time, he suddenly borrowed 10 million yuan, and everyone thought that he was going to deal with some big crisis, but unexpectedly, the emperor said with an uncertain face: "I haven't figured out how to huā." "Let everyone stumble.

Even though their thinking had shifted to the principle of truth, it was still difficult for Li Zhuzhu and others to understand the emperor's thoughts, and in their opinion, the court was not a business, and it could do as much as it could in taxes. I borrowed a debt once before, three million in three years, it doesn't matter if I make a small fuss, but now I want to issue a debt of 10 million at once, isn't this going to be a long-term life?

Péng Xianzhong coughed and said: "At present, the money in the court is moving, and there is a tendency to drag it out of the control of the court. The previous case of Cochin is a successful example, but this time it is just a bigger scale and more extensive. What's more, leading the capital in China with debts is also a strategy that the court will be accustomed to in the future. ”

The truth stands straight and difficult to refute, but everyone has no bottom in their hearts, how to get this 10 million, and how to go?

Li Shi spoke: "This time I raised debts, focusing on coming, not going." ”

These words are mysterious, but with the explanations of Péng Xianzhong and Gu Xiyi, everyone gradually understood, and when they understood the overall plan, they were all shocked, what a big game of chess!

The debt is just an introduction, and the real plan is to let a number of companies take over the debt, including Nanyang Corporation and Bo Ni Company. For this reason, the court authorized these companies to increase their share capital, and the share capital could be liú tong mǎimài, and set up a share capital trading market in Huangpu, which was used to identify the credentials to which the share capital belonged, which was called stocks.

The other public offices are all like goods that accompany the prince to study, focusing on the Nanyang Public Offices and the Bo Ni Public Offices. Although these two have also been in xīna share capital, they are both zhēn to large wealthy merchants. Because of the large upfront investment, it is difficult to see benefits for a while, and there is not much progress.

However, the profit prospects of these two companies are quite solid, because all of their Funan and Boni and industrial and commercial tax springs belong to them, and the Nanyang companies also monopolize the maritime trade on the Nanyang side. The increase in share capital, the introduction of scattered silver, is enough to support the market, back to 10 million debts. Although the profits generated in this process are scattered among the public companies and shareholders, they are tightly attached to the debts.

As for how to make this 10 million debts, it will be invested by the court, and part of it will be used in the most profitable places, to pay interest, and to subsidize those investments that cannot make money, such as the Xiangxiang Avenue project that Li Xi has always wanted to implement, and the big project of completing education and advancing towards education for all.

The things in this whole set of plans are too new for the old guys to digest for a while, and the sensitivity of the people who have controlled the 囯zhèng in the past few years still made them notice, among them a monster named "stock", and after growing up, they don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse for the 囯囘 family. ,

Li Shi shrugged: "Mō crossed the river with stones, and if you don't cross the river, the people will jump into the water by themselves." ”

What he said is also true, futures and stocks, once the business matures and the capital becomes an adult, it will multiply by itself.

Europa's stock system has already taken shape. At this time, the trade between England and Europa flourished, some rudiments of bills of exchange and futures had appeared, and the people were speculating on the debts issued earlier.

If the family doesn't do it, the people will also make it out themselves.

Now it is time to face it, and take advantage of the current opportunity of capital restlessness again, so we will start testing the waters by pushing stocks with bonds. Even the reform of the monetary system can also lay the foundation from this step.

Tang You once asked carefully, earlier when he was in the north, he also saw people speculating on things like mài cloth tickets, and in the end, the value of the tickets was not relied on, and many people lost everything, will this stock also follow in the footsteps of this matter?

Li Xi seemed to deliberately avoid this question, and moved on to another topic that everyone was concerned about, that is, the Fan Sihai case. Earlier, Fan Sihai received the title of Yipin in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he also had the order of Guān, the governor of Fujian water and land when he went to sea, and this case was a Jun matter, which should be transferred to the Privy Council for trial. As for the victims, after the trial was concluded, the court would compensate for the seizure of Fan Sihai's property, and the court would compensate for the shortcomings.

After Li Xian's explanation, Shi Yi let out a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as throwing away this Tuo shǐ "The others are also thoughtful." Earlier, Fan Sihai's son Fan Liuxi, together with the Spaniards, harassed the waters of Dongshan Island in Fujian Province and was captured by Haijun. There was a danger that Fan Sihai's case would evolve into a dispute between Britain and Spain, and the emperor had to come forward to make a statement. And this hand is quite skillful, but it is necessary for public opinion to shout a noble sword.

yáng Chongdou was not taken away by Li Xian, he returned to his earlier train of thought, and asked directly, how can the court compete with the people for profit and borrow money to operate Li Xian smiled, looked at Fan Jin, Fan Jin said in a deep voice:

"At present, the court does not run private businesses, but there are some businesses that the people cannot operate."

Fan Jin opened his mouth, and the answer was revealed, but it was not only what everyone expected, in addition to Jun Machinery, Fan Jin also said two words: "War ......"

There was silence in the hall for a while, in this great era of the tide of thought and capital at the same time, the court and the high people felt that their thinking had fallen behind, and the new things, the new principles, were really endless.

In the office of the general director of Foshan Manufacturing, there is a report on the copy, and Guan Fengsheng is holding another report in his hand, frowning, and there are words in his mouth.

"The cannons passed through the planks of the ship, and there were few injuries. If you can combine the opening of the huābào crack and the effect of the penetrating plate into one, it can be called perfect...... If you want to be beautiful, you can take care of both ends, but you don't like both ends! ”

"The breech design is cumbersome, the fire door is in the rear, and the gun body is easy to jump when firing the gun...... Isn't that the breech group crying and shouting for a ride, and it's not good to take the four pages of the cannon, so I have to take the four pages of this small cannon. It is both the breech and then the fire door in the gun body, and the gas is even more serious. ”

"The cannon is too small, the power is not enough" ......, and I don't want to think about how difficult it is to get the shallow rifling of this rifled gun? The scrap rate of the three-inch gun is - seventy percent! Xiao Sheng asked for thirty two-inch cannons for the sake of my face, and one for six hundred taels was a gritted tooth. Tell him that a three-inch cannon costs 2,000 taels and 1 gun, and a cannon costs 2 taels of silver, and I'm afraid that my face will be swept away! ”

After reading the report sent back by the gunners of the two-inch rifled gun, Guan Fengsheng sighed helplessly, the actual combat of the two-inch rifled gun has not achieved any results, and it seems that this year's research budget for the rifled gun has to be cut off.

In the age of dogs, where new things and new theories are emerging, there are not only monsters whose hideous faces are not clearly seen, but also gold and jade buried in dead leaves. Even Li Shi, who has known for three hundred years, is difficult to see all, after all, there are too many things he has to see, and at this time, the situation in his eyes is so big that it is difficult to pay attention to these details.

(To be continued) [This article is written by Qihang Liuxiangxiang 571 for if you like it, please click on the top or return to the Qihang Book Club YY52448 welcome your arrival]) landlord

Headache in the landlord.

It is also said that there are people who do not have headaches.

But there is only one kind of person who does not have a headache, and that is men.

So to this day mentioned the landlord

There is not a single woman who does not have a headache.

Night. Moonlight.

A latrine, ten pits, and a lamp hung on the broken walls.

The lights are eerie, like ghost fire.

The woman squatted like this.

Uniform breathing, solidified air.

There is a dilapidated plastic bucket on the pit.

A few yellowed pieces of straw paper inside the bucket

It's even more bleak.

But that's not the point.

for there were stains of blood on the ground

The red blood stains appear light and graceful, like red plums blooming in the snow.

The woman's hand holding the sanitary napkin is as fast as a throwing knife.

There was a gust of wind blowing under the crotch

She's fast, really fast, but menstruation comes faster than hers.

She couldn't move at all.

Drops of blood ran down her legs

Splashed on the ground

A lamp.

Although the light is dim, it can show the paleness of a woman's face.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the latrine.

A white-faced scholar appears in front of a woman.

He even had a smile on his face.

It's just a pity that no one looked at his face

Because he didn't wear anything on his lower body

It was indeed a very large pen, as thick as a wrist

But that's definitely not a brush

Because not a single hair can be seen

His pen is pointed at the woman

It's not that he's holding the pen at all, it's the pen that's holding him.

The pen has no hands, and only people have hands.

The landlord has hands.

Outside the window, the night was getting darker, and the woman had been squatting for ten minutes.

Legs gradually become numb.

But she didn't dare to move.

Because she knew she had encountered a pervert

The landlord who was thousands of miles away and took menstrual blood

The landlord put down the pen.

As soon as he put it down, the tip of the pen dragged on the ground.

The woman let out a long breath.

Hope returned to her eyes.

Everyone who meets the woman of the landlord is faced with two choices:

Leave the scriptures, or leave your life.

The action is all in action. The night is getting deeper, and the slanting moon is already hanging in the treetops.

Even the moon is peeping, and what about people?

Except for the landlord, he pulled a broken bowl out of his pocket

Mottled blood stains are clearly visible on the notch on the bowl.

The landlord handed the bowl to the woman

Women know what they have to do

The blood was still dripping

The portion size is different from month to month

It seems that this time there are more and stronger

In fact, women are not idle.

Everyone who knows her on the rivers and lakes has heard of her nickname: Princess Furong

But the landlord didn't know who she was

The blood in the broken bowl quickly dripped full

An imperceptible sneer suddenly appeared on the woman's face.

The landlord didn't notice her smile

His eyes were always on the bowl

Landlord: It's full

Woman: It's full, are you sure you want to drink?

The landlord picked up the bowl full of menstrual blood

He didn't want to waste a drop.

Ever since he practiced the Big Dipper God Fist ten years ago, he had to drink women's menstrual blood every day to maintain his life.

And after drinking blood for ten years

The landlord's skills have increased greatly

The power of the small universe is getting stronger and stronger

Even Brother Chun, who had reached the ninth layer of the Thirteen Taibao, the Golden Bell Jar, and the Iron Cloth Shirt, was defeated in his crotch

Brother Chun was killed by the landlord after three days of blood

Since then, he has become famous

When the rivers and lakes heard the name of the landlord, they were all frightened

The landlord craned his neck and poured the blood from the bowl down his throat

Bang dang

The broken bowl fell to the ground

The landlord stared at the woman with red eyes

The woman slowly stood up from the pit

And the landlord's breathing is becoming more and more difficult

Something in his throat stuck in him

So that he can't breathe

WOMAN: I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT THE FAMOUS LEWD THIEF WOULD BE DEFEATED ON ONE OF MY YIN HAIRS

Landlord: You~~ Who the hell are you??

Woman: Can you still find a second one on the rivers and lakes who can kill people with YIN hair?

Landlord: Furong !!

Woman: I plucked a hair and put it in the bowl just when I was collecting blood, and your time of death has come

After speaking, a white shadow flew straight from the woman's hand to the main door of the building

It just sticks to the landlord's nose

It's too fast~ It's so fast that you can't see what it is

Only the woman herself knows

The landlord has fallen~

HE NEVER BELIEVED THAT HE WOULD DIE IN THE LATRINE, AND IT WAS A YIN MAO THAT KILLED HIM

The next day, someone else found the body of the landlord in the manure pit

He had a white strip on his face

Three small words were written on the white strip: "Anerle"