A Zhili Iron and Steel Company can pull 50 million taels of silver on the ground of Zhili, which is already the limit. If it weren't for the fact that Zhili was the economic, political and military center of Beiyang for decades, gathering a large number of domestic wealthy people here, Wang Chenhao would not have been able to achieve this kind of great war results.

Looking at the whole country, except for Shanghai and Guangzhou, other regions do not have this kind of rich foundation, and it is impossible for such a good thing to raise a huge sum of 50 million taels of silver.

After thinking about it, Wang Chenhao believes that power can make money, and wealth can also help him fight for greater rights, and the two are complementary and indispensable. After the fall of Li Hongzhang in history, Yuan Shikai was able to develop from a small role to the commander of Beiyang in the future, which has a great relationship with the fact that he successively bribed Rong Lu, the governor of Zhili, and the prime minister, Yixuan.

Especially this Yixuan, in the last ten years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he was greedy for money, lustful, and inactive, and he was the first in the country, and even Yuan Shikai gave him one million taels of silver, and he was willing to force the Empress Dowager Yulong and Emperor Xuantong to abdicate.

Now the appearance of Wang Chenhao has changed history, and the existence of Li Hongzhang makes it impossible for Rong Lu to become the governor of Zhili, but Yixuan will definitely take over the class in the next few years, and he has to pay attention to it. Wang Chenhao knew that Li Hongzhang and Prince Gong had no more than a few years to live, and if they wanted to develop in the future, they would have to rely on the greedy and lustful Prince Qing Yixuan, and if they wanted to firmly control him, they only needed silver.

The best way to deal with [***]'s Qing Zheng axe is to bribe money, so Wang Chenhao took precautions, and if he wanted to develop his career more, he would need a lot of money as a backup.

The country was too poor, and Wang Chenhao had to turn his goal of collecting money abroad. After taking into account the current domestic and international environment of various countries, the United States on the other side of the ocean is finally locked.

In 1895, the United States surpassed China in terms of economic aggregate to become the world's largest and the most potential emerging market power, just like China in Wang Chenhao's time, which had a fatal weakness - extreme scarcity of gold.

With the rapid development of the US economy, a large amount of US dollars need to be circulated in the market, but the huge financial loopholes left by the US implementation of the gold and silver standard for the international bankers can be exploited.

In the fall of 1894, the U.S. treasury suffered an unprecedented gold run. In October, the US fiscal deficit soared to $13 million, while gold reserves fell to $52 million. In January 1895, the situation accelerated and $26 million of gold flowed from the United States to the outside world; $45 million in gold was withdrawn from the U.S. Treasury to pay fiat currency. The Treasury has only $40 million left in its gold reserves, and it is also flowing out at a rate of $2 million a day.

The massive outflow of gold has led to the collapse of the US gold and silver standard, and the US dollar will face a crisis of large-scale depreciation without the support of gold. Correspondingly, US bank stocks will fall sharply.

However, Wang Chenhao knew that the US political axe would compromise with the international banking syndicate headed by the Rothsjend family and ask for help to solve the crisis. In mid-to-late November 1895, the stock prices of most banks in the United States would have bottomed out, but after January 1896 the stock would recover rapidly, and two months later it would violently return to the pre-gold run levels, after which it would fluctuate normally according to the laws of finance. At the bottom of the valley bank stock average 25 cents per share, after returning to normal $12 50 cents per share, a 50-fold increase, this is a huge opportunity to make a fortune.

Wang Chenhao used the 50 million taels of silver obtained by the Zhili Iron and Steel Company, removed the 20 million taels of silver needed for the first phase of the project, and left 30 million taels in his hand, plus the wealth obtained from the shipwreck on the seabed, there were also 5 million taels, a total of 35 million taels of silver, Wang Chenhao was ready to speculate in the US stock market.

Wang Chenhao told Wang Shizhen and several other aides about this plan, excluding Zhang Peilun and Yang Shixiang. Because Zhang Peilun is Li Hongzhang's son-in-law, Wang Chenhao is afraid that he will reveal it to Li Hongzhang, and Yang Shixiang has always had an ambiguous attitude, not knowing whether he is towards Wang Chenhao or Li Hongzhang, so he also hides it from him.

Wang Shizhen, Zhang Feng and other shogunate personnel are Wang Chenhao's people who were pulled up by one hand, through this period of investigation, it can be seen that they are already their own people, so Wang Chenhao found Wang Shizhen and Zhang Feng to discuss countermeasures.

After Wang Shizhen and Zhang Feng listened to Wang Chenhao's plan, they couldn't help but be surprised, every cell on their faces conveyed a message, that is, unbelievable.

"My lord, is this true? The United States is the world's largest industrial power, how can there be a gold shortage crisis? ”

"Yes, my lord, the Yankees are richer than the British now, and their bank stocks won't fall to the bottom, right?"

Wang Chenhao said with a smile: "This kind of thing, the political axe and the banking circles in the United States must strictly block the news, otherwise the situation of causing panic among the people and social unrest will be out of control." Do you know the Rothschild family? ”

Both shook their heads and said they didn't know.

Wang Chenhao smiled, took out a copy of last year's "Chicago News" in the United States, and pointed to the above report: "The Rothschilds, with $1.6 billion in gold (about 2,194 tons), are known as the Sixth Empire."

Wang Shizhen and Zhang Feng were both stunned when they saw it, and almost said in unison: "There is such a family? That's an astronomical amount of $1.6 billion! ”

Wang Chenhao smiled faintly, "What is public is always just the tip of the iceberg, the actual number will be more than that, and people in the industry generally believe that the Rothscaild family has 6 billion US dollars (8,227 tons of gold)." ”

The two of them gasped again, their shock unexpressed.

Zhang Feng exclaimed: "No wonder it is known as the Sixth Empire!" ”

Wang Shizhen asked: "Then what does this family have to do with the financial crisis in the United States?" ”

Wang Chenhao said: "There is a typical cartoon in the Western world, and its title is 'British Octopus: Eat Only Gold', under which is a map of the world. The tentacles of the octopus stretch from the United Kingdom to all continents of the world. And the Rothschilds are the most profitable Jews, and their headquarters happen to be in England. ”

It is well known that Jews are the most profitable people in the world, and until the end of World War I, the Rothscaild family, known as the Sixth Reich, was the home of the Jews, the real leaders of the Jewish nation.

The Rothsjend family has an unrivalled wealth of gold and is based in England, and anyone who is a little smarter knows that this family is actually the gold-eating octopus.

Wang Shizhen suddenly understood what Wang Chenhao meant, and said: "My lord is saying that the current crisis in the United States was secretly planned by the Rothschilds, and the purpose is to force the United States to comply, so as to achieve the goal of controlling American finance. ”

Wang Chenhao nodded, noncommittal.

Zhang Feng said again: "So, adults want to take the opportunity to speculate on the stocks of the American banking industry, buy them at the lowest time and sell them at the highest, and make a net profit?" ”

Wang Chenhao smiled: "That's right, that's what I mean?" If you don't want the money given by foreigners for nothing, you will be struck by lightning. ”

Wang Shizhen and Zhang Feng were stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood what Wang Chenhao meant, and laughed out loud.