In Ding Yuntong's view, this visit fully demonstrated the cunning of the Japanese.

Seeing that North Korea refused to build a railway, Japan thought that China was obstructing it, so it wanted to pour ecstasy soup. In the previous life, the Japanese were polite and full of Confucian culture, and they played Chinese intellectuals around. This life is different, history is the most haode teacher.

Ding Yuntong thought to himself: "Okay, let them come, visit Beijing here, and my fleet will also visit Nagasaki over there. It's a pity that the history of the previous life has made enough spoilers, and he has just mastered the hole card of Japan to build a secret fleet. Let's look at the acting skills of the Japanese, choose a few Oscars for Best Actor, Supporting Actor, etc., and I will also have the addiction of awards at that time. ＂

Thinking of this, Ding Yuntong mischievously issued an order, asking the Armament Institute, an institution in the palace that specializes in preparing weapons and equipment, to immediately forge a few small gold statues according to his own requirements, of course, not real gold, but to plate the small iron man with copper. The golden figure is a naked man, with his hands crossed over his chest, holding a long sword, standing on a grinding plate, and his lower body is burdensome. Each portrait is also engraved with different words on the base: Royal Academy Award, Best Actor, and so on. He wanted to provoke the Japanese with this kind of subordination, so that Japan would use all its strength to develop armaments in a short period of time and squeeze out a trace of its potential.

Ding Yuntong proudly showed these insulting things to Wang Xuehui, making Wang Xuehui so upright that the two laughed, without the appearance of a monarch.

Fun is fun, and business can't be delayed.

On May 4, 1882, after full deliberation and discussion over the past few years, as well as public opinion preparations, the Ministry of Finance officially issued the on the abolition of the two taels and the replacement of the currency with the original silver currency. Stipulation: From May 11, "all silver dollars will be used, and silver taels shall not be used again". Since then, the circulation of silver has been completely abolished, and the silver system in China for nearly a thousand years has ended, which is commonly known as the .

The order stipulates that all receipts and payments of public and private funds, deed instruments and all transactions shall be converted to silver coins, and no silver taels shall be used. Those who were originally scheduled to receive and pay in silver taels should be received and paid in silver coins at the standard of 7 silver taels and 1 cent and 5 cents converted into 1 silver coin. If you hold both silver, you can have silver coins minted by the mint under Huaxia Bank.

At the same time, the was promulgated, stipulating that the silver standard coin should be named "Renmin Yuan", with a weight of 26.6971 grams, a fineness of 88% silver, and 12% copper, that is, 23.493448 grams of pure silver. Prior to the issuance of these orders and regulations, the Huaxia Mint had already begun minting new silver coins in April. The obverse of the new coin features a bust of Ding Yuntong, and on the reverse is the Tiananmen Square pattern, surrounded by three flowers: peonies, plum blossoms, and chrysanthemums.

This reform measure has been planned for a long time, and experts have reached a consensus that the conditions for the implementation of the gold standard are not yet ripe for the implementation of the silver standard, and the silver standard can only be strengthened and improved.

For a long time, the currency in the Chinese market was extremely chaotic, with both silver taels and silver dollars, and dozens of foreign silver dollars circulating in the market.

The early Spanish silver dollar, commonly known as the Benyang, was a silver coin minted by Spain using Latin American silver mines. After Mexico became independent in 1821, the Mexican silver dollar began to be minted in 1824, commonly known as the eagle ocean because of the pattern on the surface of the coin. Due to its good fineness and stable proportion, the Mexican silver dollar has become the main currency in China, with nearly 400 million coins on the market. In the First Opium War, China's reparations to Britain were actually used by Eagle Ocean. Other foreign silver dollars include: the British trade silver dollar, because the coin is cast with a standing statue of a British goddess holding a staff, commonly known as Renyang; Japanese silver coins, because of the dragon pattern on the surface of the coin, commonly known as dragon ocean; Others include the U.S. trade dollar and the French Annan dollar.

There are so many types, and the various forms and weights of silver dollars are uneven, the fineness is different, the market price is also different, and the exchange standards are even more chaotic. It is a great obstacle to the development of the economy and the regulation of the financial market.

Through the issuance of new silver dollars, Ding Yuntong Jihua completely unified the currency, squeezed foreign silver dollars out of the market, standardized finance, and laid a good foundation for the future issuance of paper money and the establishment of the gold standard.

In order to establish a gold standard, Huaxia Bank needs to have a large amount of gold reserves, where do these gold reserves come from? Ding Yuntong felt that this glorious mission could only be entrusted to Japan. Even before the war began, he was already looking forward to the reparations he would receive from Japan in the future.

Ding Yuntong was thinking about this, when Xu Jingcheng, vice minister of foreign affairs, asked to see him, and came in to report that King Rama V of Siam hoped to personally lead a delegation to visit China.

Ding Yuntong was quite surprised when he heard this: I really have a heart, I just wanted to give Phongsali in Laos to the Jews, and the king of Siam is about to visit.

He knew that this Rama V was a great monarch, and that in his previous life, there were only two Asian countries that were not colonized, one was Japan, and the other was Siam, which was the future Thailand.

This Siam was able to maintain its independence not because of its military liliang, at this time Siam trained a new army with new rifles, a total of only 2,000 people, and the navy of less than 1,000 people.

In the previous life, it was able to maintain its independence for three reasons: first, Britain and France used it as a buffer zone between the two colonies, which was the most important reason.

Secondly, King Rama V did make some reforms, all in order to show the West that he was also a "civilized country", and King Rama V himself even hired an Englishman as a teacher and spoke fluent English. For this reason, Hollywood in the previous life also made a movie Anna and the King, although the story is made up blindly, but Chow Yun-fat and the king himself in it are really a little similar.

zuihou is thanks to Siam's invincible diplomacy and the ability to shake the past and the present. There is also evidence here that during World War II, Siam followed Japan and declared war on Britain and France. At the end of World War II, seeing that Japan was finished, Siam declared its original declaration of war null and void, and it actually took it back! What's even more terrifying is that Britain and France actually accepted it! What kind of diplomacy is this!

Now that the King of Siam is going to visit China, it is obvious that this "Chow Yun-fat" is about to carry forward his diplomatic skills.

Ding Yuntong was very emotional: The world is really snobbish, Siam did not dedicate this hospitality to China in his previous life, and in this life, he saw that China won France, and he immediately came to pull relations. It can be seen that the world is hot and cold, people are warm and cold, people and people, countries and countries, all of which are the same thing.

Thinking about it, it won't be long before the Japanese delegation and the Siamese delegation come to Beijing, and the matter is getting more and more lively.

Ding Yuntong waved his hand: "Come on, let them come." I just wanted to talk to Chow Yun-fat about Laos! ＂

Xu Jingcheng was a little confused: Who is the emperor going to talk to?

On May 11, 1882, a Japanese delegation arrived in Beijing.

The lineup of the delegation can be called luxurious, led by the right minister Iwakura Gushi, and Senator Kiyotaka Kuroda; Daizo Daisuke Matsukata Justice; the new Minister to China, Takehiro Enomoto; Liberal Prime Minister Itagaki withdrew; Senate member Katsu Haizhou; Foreign Affairs Daisuke Yamaguchi Naoyoshi and others, including some economic and trade figures, such as Yataro Iwasaki, founder of the chaebol Mitsubishi Group; Zenjiro Yasuda, the head of the Yasuda chaebol, and reporters from major Japanese newspapers, including the famous thinker Yukichi Fukuzawa.

Ding Yuntong believes that China and Japan have not torn their faces for the time being, and the basic etiquette is still needed. Let the Japanese delegation stay outside Fucheng Gate, on the east side of Yuyuan Pond, the newly completed Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.

On the 12th, the Siamese delegation also came to Beijing and was arranged in the Shuangqing Villa in Xishan.

On the 14th, in the Hanyuan Hall, the main hall of Yingtai, China and Japan launched the first round of talks. The Chinese delegation is still led by Foreign Minister Zeng Jize, as well as Minister of Construction Li Hongzhang, Vice Foreign Minister Xu Jingcheng, and the new Minister of Military Aircraft Zhang Zhidong.

On the same day, Ding Yuntong met with King Rama V of Siam at the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai.

Surprisingly, on the first day of talks, China and Japan talked very happily and spoke harmoniously. And the Siamese side quarreled all at once.