Chapter 895

The Capitol, a solemn place, is playing out a bloody and tearful scene. A French girl named Hannah choked up and told the Ming Empire parliamentarians about her tragic experience. How miserable? Let's talk about her family, because of Protestantism, her grandparents were killed by the army of the tyrant Louis XIV, her mother was raped by soldiers, and her father was arrested and imprisoned. After killing hundreds of thousands of Protestants, the tyrant turned his persecution to the common people, paying heavy taxes and devastating names. This young girl, after her family was persecuted, entered the home of a Ming merchant to work as a maid. Originally, her life had improved because of this, and she had to stop going hungry. But the tyrant of all evils once again shattered her hope for life.

The respected Mr. Huang was arrested, and the soldiers did something inferior to the girl when they searched for it.

The girl was pitiful, she fainted because of grief several times, and she was woken up several times before continuing to finish, and in the end she was too down. At the council scene, many people's eyes were red, but not because of the girl's misery, but because it was very exciting.

In the lounge, Chen Ping, who was holding a teacup, looked at the girl who had fainted several times, and smiled: "Not bad, very good." ”

Mira crooked her mouth and said, "This is a lowly gypsy woman, in Paris, you can sleep for a night for a dollar." ”

Chen Ping disagreed: "It's not the point, the point is that she meets our requirements." Okay, now it's my turn. ”

The Speaker's hammer struck more than a dozen times, and the scene returned to silence. Chen Ping, who came to the stage, had a sad face: "At this moment, in distant Europe, a group of heroic warriors are fighting for the interests of the empire. For whatever purpose, war is waking up. They all need more weapons and ammunition, and they need more supplies. Here, on behalf of Dafa Bank, I would like to donate 30 million yuan to the country as a ...... to pay a little respect to those warriors. ”

After his short and powerful speech, Chen Ping bowed deeply. Turn around and go. Thunderous applause rang out behind him, and there were constantly congressmen shouting from the audience: "Go to France and capture the dwarf alive." "Hey, as a member of the Daming Dongying Provincial Council, I have to remind you, pay attention to the wording!" This kind of voice is noisy .......

One after another, after despising the speaker, some parliamentarians stood up and spoke, all with the same purpose, the army must land in France. Even if only one soldier landed, it was necessary to land and fight against the treacherous Louis XIV.

In the end, half of the congressmen passed a bill to increase military spending by 50 million.

The topic of the next day's news was not a report on what Congress had increased its military spending, but about the donations made by patriotic people in the private sector. Many enterprises, led by the Dafa Bank, have donated 130 million yuan to the state for the war. This is only the first wave, followed by the second and third waves of the donation frenzy that is happening across the country. There are young people everywhere who are propagating, and there are slogans everywhere. Newspaper reports are endless. There is only one theme, "The Ming Dynasty cannot be insulted, and the people have set off a patriotic frenzy." ”

For the capitalists, this money is the process of moving from the left hand to the right hand, and military spending has turned in a big circle, and eventually it will be turned into arms and supplies. into the pockets of the capitalists. But along the way, many small and medium-sized enterprises have benefited a lot. Because of the war, the industrialization process of the Ming Dynasty took a more solid step. Especially in heavy industry, the annual output of new rifles has increased from 100,000 units in just one year. The annual production capacity of 300,000 was exposed.

This time, the navy received a small half of the military expenditure, less than 50 million yuan, but it proposed to build a new type of warship with a displacement of 70 million tons. Using the latest steam engine and steam turbine technology, the latest metallurgical achievements, and new forging technology, we will build a giant at sea.

In fact, according to the current course of the war, the construction period of this warship is two and a half years, and it is impossible to catch up with this war. But people just made it, and whoever dares to oppose it is unpatriotic, and the people of the whole country can drown you with saliva. Therefore, public opinion is a terrible thing, and once it is used, it is a scourge.

When the country was in a hustle and bustle, Mira was very quiet in Jingshi's house, a young man in a black coat, sitting calmly opposite Chen Ping and Zhang Guangde, looking like he was a European, but he could speak fluent Ming Mandarin.

"This time, there are special warships to escort you to Suez, and then go to the Mediterranean Sea and land on the French coast. You have three days to memorize the content of this material, and when you arrive in France, contact the people on the list, and naturally someone will help you go to the place you want to see and meet the people you want to meet. Do you understand? Cold Hawk? ”

The man looked at Zhang Guangde, who was explaining the task, and left and right, a European born in the Ming Dynasty, who had been adopted by a special agency since he was a child, received various trainings, and waited for the day when he would play a role.

"Excuse me, what are you talking about? My name is Joseph! The young man didn't seem to hear anything, and replied with a blank face. Zhang Guangde smiled and looked at Chen Pingdao: "Is there anything else you want to explain?" Chen Ping's face was grim: "The stakes are very high, and success or failure determines the interests of the Ming Empire in Europe in the future." What the country needs is not a weakened France, but a France capable of bringing Europe to an anti-French coalition. Therefore, we must grasp the issue of scale. ”

This time the young man stood and nodded: "I understand!" Chen Ping said: "Your last hole card is that Da Ming can give up his claim to France, but this is his hole card." Do you understand? The young man nodded solemnly, picked up the materials, turned and walked into the inner room of the study, and closed the door. Chen Ping stood up and said, "Let's go, there will be no problems with me." ”

"The shadow has been deployed in Europe for many years, why don't you ask Xiangye for help about this matter?" When Zhang Guangde raised this topic very seriously, Chen Ping's brows furrowed slightly, and he said after a long time: "This is not something that a daughter should worry about, and what should be avoided should be avoided." Besides, how do you know that my father doesn't know what I'm doing here? ”

Zhang Guangde sighed and said: "If you know, you know, whether you reported it or not is another matter." Chen Ping shook his head: "You can't live under your father's wing for the rest of your life, right?" That's it this time, don't persuade. ”

In the Cabinet Prime Minister's Office, in the study, Chen Xie, who was facing the lamp, did not raise his head and said, "Got it." The person on the other side quietly retreated, and Chen Xie, who put down the pen, smiled bitterly and said to himself: "The fangs of capital are exposed, subverting a country, history is always repeating itself amazingly." There is no doubt that Chen Ping's actions did not escape the sight of the Flying Eagle internal guards, and even Chen Xie knew about it when he began to adopt European orphans in that courtyard ten years ago.

This action exposed not only the problem of capital, but also the ambition of the consortium headed by Chen Ping. The problem is that Chen Xie doesn't know how long he can stay in this world, so what he can do is to lay out, quietly layout, and one day in the future, after he leaves Daming, there will be a force in this country to balance this consortium.

Chen Ping got up early in the morning, and after a walk in the yard, he returned to the dining table, where Mira had carefully prepared breakfast and a stack of today's newspapers. The first newspaper to read every day is not "Ming Pao", but the official mouthpiece of the Ming Dynasty, "Kyoto Times". Don't look at the fact that this newspaper is not the most influential, it is indeed the direction of the entire national policy.

"The Ministry of Finance announced the financial status for half a year,......。" After reading the official article at a glance and ten lines, and was about to change the topic, suddenly Chen Ping's eyes burst forward, staring at a sentence in the report. "It is proposed to revise the currency issuance plan and submit it to the National Assembly for deliberation." What's the solution? What's the content? How could there be such a sentence?

As the president of the bank that has the right to issue Daming currency, Chen Ping knows what this means? After watching it over and over again, he finally closed his eyes in pain, shivered, and leaned back weakly.

Regardless of the final conclusion of this plan, Chen Ping knew that his father was going to carry out new reforms. This time, the reform will start with finance, and the first thing to bear the brunt of is the right to issue currency. The current currency of the Ming Dynasty was the gold and silver standard, and the gold and silver reserves were always sufficient due to the large-scale harvesting in the overseas colonies. But there is one problem that Chen Ping has never given up paying attention to, and that is the reserve of gold. The right to manage Dafabet's gold reserves is not in Chen Ping's hands. In other words, the currency in circulation in the market is only legally stipulated to be exchanged for gold of corresponding value. In fact, a small amount of exchange for private funds can be solved, and a large amount of exchange is to be arrested and interrogated, whether there is any bad intentions. Many gold and silver jewelry stores in the private sector operate gold from the people, and once the gold enters the treasury, it cannot come out.

Few people know how much gold the Ming Dynasty has now. With Chen Ping's status, he doesn't know the specific number. I only know that in a secret place in Liaodong over the years, a large amount of gold has been stored. In the vault of the Dafa Bank, the amount of gold stored is only 50 tons, which is really a small amount compared to this secret storage place.

With the prosperity of overseas colonization, the massive inflow of silver from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty was circulated in the market in the form of paper money. Because of some national policies, the currency of the Ming Dynasty has been relatively stable, but Chen Ping knows very well that after he took over the affairs of the bank, the currency has been in the process of depreciation. The purchasing power of silver is now nearly half of what it used to be. The whole process took only about 20 years. Because paper money is now popular among the people, the reserves of silver in the private sector are relatively stable.

So what if the Cabinet were to take back the right to issue money and replace the silver standard with the gold standard? (To be continued......)