There was no handshake, no greetings, Liu Yun and Wen Yi were unhindered when they trusted each other.

"The troublemakers have calmed down for the time being." Wen Yi nodded to the eldest duke before speaking.

Liu Yun motioned for her daughter to walk around the crowd alone, and Qianhua left with a smile.

"For now." Liu Yun inadvertently shook the blood-like red wine in his glass.

"They're listening to what they say and what they're doing, and they're going to see which way you're going."

"I don't care which side I am, whoever dares to make trouble will make anyone look good."

"So we pushed you out to clean up the situation, hard work." Wen Yi raised his glass and said.

The crisp crash of crystal glass.

"It's all my job."

"By the way, when dealing with those guys, try not to use the Eagle Wolves and the Tiger and Par Battalion as much as possible, just solve it within the law, and the era of dealing with opponents by any means is over."

"I'm going to be a good prime minister," Liu Yun said with a smile, "Interim Prime Minister." ”

"Is it temporary?"

"Do you think I don't know the way? Let me come out and play black face this time, on the one hand, I can suppress the extremists, and on the other hand, I also have the meaning of protecting Zhang Zhigao, I don't want to get his hands dirty, he is the successor in your mind. ”

"What, you think your hands are dirty?" Wen Yi made a cruel smile.

Liu Yun smiled but did not answer.

"There are more serious things than dirty hands," Wen Yi immediately changed his tune, "After this war, Europe seems to have a tendency to unite, and if it were not for the backing of the four European banking groups, after the Bloody Sunday incident, Russia would have collapsed long ago." ”

On Sunday, June 26, 1904, shortly after the collapse of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, more than 100,000 citizens of St. Petersburg took to the streets to petition the Tsar, proposing to give the people full political power, implement the eight-hour work week, and end the Arsso-Russian War. This is known as the "Bloody Sunday Incident". After the incident, Russia fell into a great deal of passivity in terms of international public opinion, its government bonds sold in France were not taken care of for a while, and the major European banks also suspended their lending to Russia, and the Russian finances were in a desperate situation, and at the same time, there were frequent demonstrations, strikes, and national uprisings in the country, and the troops sent to suppress them fled or defected, and the empire was on the verge of collapse. However, a week later, led by French bankers, together with several large banks in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium, a group of four European banks was formed to deal with loans to Russia, and then announced a huge loan of 1 billion francs (about 40 million pounds) to Russia, which was undoubtedly a relief for the Tsar and his empire. At the same time, the people were promised a constitutional monarchy after the war, which was barely maintained. Today, although the "New York Peace Treaty" has been signed and the Asian-Russian War has nominally ended, the flames of national uprisings in Finland, Poland, the Caucasus, and other places have the potential to ignite the prairies.

Many people believe that it is not necessary to seize the opportunity to seize more land from Russia at the time of civil strife, and the government not only did not seize the opportunity to make a big advance, but agreed to make peace, and even gave up Chita and other places that the soldiers had taken by blood.

Liu Yun has a clear understanding of the above situation.

The grand Continental feast continues, the lights are bright, the songs and dances are leveling, there are no whistling shells, mutilated limbs, blood-soaked scorched earth and groaning wounded soldiers, the war is over, and now it is an era of peace, a time worth a pastime.

"Your eldest lady is very energetic today." Wen Yi deliberately or unintentionally diverted the topic.

"Yes, I've laughed the most today in a few months......" Liu Yun's face was full of relief and satisfaction.

"I'm finally getting used to it."

"Perhaps...... I think it's time to pull those defectors out and deal with them. ”

"Wait, wait until the closure of the contingent arrival point is complete, safety first...... Look, your eldest lady has a handsome young man......"

", the men present are all staring at her, I have to get over it......" Liu Yun had an expression of worry that his daughter would be eaten by wolves, he still knew very little about Qianhua's past fourteen years, and sometimes he would unconsciously fall into the time tunnel and play the role of fourteen years ago......

Here, Qianhua was having a non-human conversation with a young captain with a second-class White Tiger Medal on his neck and a seventh-class Blue Dragon Medal on his chest.

"Why are you alone in the corner?" Qianhua wasn't actually interested in him, she just asked casually on a whim.

"To get your attention." The other party seemed confident.

"Who are you?"

"Deputy Battalion Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 93rd Regiment of the Army, Li Ruishi."

"How old are you?"

"24 years old."

"It's boring to play this kind of trick at the age of 24."

"I just wanted to get to know you."

"For what?"

"You're special."

"My father is special."

"I can see from your eyes that your seemingly elegant smile today is all faked, all for the sake of perfunctory or deceiving your father."

Qianhua laughed out loud: "Do you think you are a fool or a psychopath?" ”

"I'm Li Ruishi, that's all."

Qianhua smiled bitterly and shook her head: "It's been a long time since I've seen someone like you, I really hope we can never meet again in the future." ”

"As you wish, I was only invited as a representative of meritorious officers, and tomorrow I will go to the south to take up my post."

"Very well, out of sight, out of mind, but if you have any other opinion of me, you can write to me...... Why don't you look like a person from this world at all......"

"What?"

"It's nothing, my father is here, remember, don't meet again in the future." Qian Hua threw him an indifferent but strange smile at the end, and the calculator embedded in the cerebral cortex had already calculated the use value of this person—not equal to zero, but infinitely close to zero.

Why do you start smiling?

A contrived smile, a disgusting cliché, an elegant and charming mask for all, and the only way to do business with one's own capital, in order to accumulate strength to punish one's father, for the sake of irreplaceable revenge, does it matter if she is a prostitute?

Actually, you don't want to laugh at all!

Red wines, red Ferraris, and red ...... Those wounds never scarred, suppurated every minute, the smell of decay filled the chest, and every sip of wine dissolved the cells of maggots.

Is the reason why you want to live is to get revenge?

Take revenge on him, does everything make sense?

In any case, you have to accumulate strength first, and without enough strength, anything that you think is worth doing is like an ant on the North Star - there is no hope of existence.

The big man has the luxury of the big man, and the little man has the pastime of the little man, and at this time a tavern in the capital was stuffed with a group of junior soldiers of the army and navy with large and small medals. The war is over, the meritorious soldiers are given priority to vacation, and the soldiers who have never seen the prosperous scene of the capital want to come over to take a look.

At a table in the corner, the young tavern owner was stopped.

"Aren't you the student soldier who brought us ammunition during the Battle of Onohoi? How did you become a tavern owner in a blink of an eye......"

Private Wu Jun, who had a gold tiger's eye inlaid with a sapphire second-class white tiger medal around his neck, stared at the tavern owner in surprise.

"Yes, remember that your name is Huang Chengming, you said that you were just assigned to our company, but you were not seen after the battle......" Wang Yiyang, a first-class soldier with the Order of the White Tiger of the third class, has a good memory.

"It's rare for two guests to remember me, when I violated military discipline and was fired." Tavern owner Huang Chengming smiled.

"What kind of military discipline has you committed, you can be expelled, can't you make meritorious service for crimes? That's on the battlefield. ”

"Anyway, I'm a commoner now, just opening a tavern to make a living."

"By the way, the two of us were injured at that time, you sent us to the bandaging center, I woke up and was there, I thought my brother carried it for me, but when I turned my head, my brother was also sideways." Wu Jun patted Wang Yiyang, a close countryman and close comrade-in-arms, on the shoulder.

"I was also injured at the time and was taken to the rear hospital, where I confronted a big man who came to visit, so I was fired." Huang Chengming sighed after speaking, and the sigh was not true or false.

"What a big guy." Wang Yiyang was curious.

"Congressman or something like that." A strong man in civilian clothes on the side interjected.

"Almost." Huang Chengming pushed the boat down the river.

"Those garbage congressmen all deserve to die, the traitorous New York Peace Treaty was passed in their hands, and now when they see the national complaints, they have no choice but to bring down Zhang Zhigao's cabinet, and there is only one thing that they are smart, that is, they pushed Wu Weigong up again, if you want me to say, as soon as Wu Weigong comes up, those traitorous chaebols and politicians will be unlucky......" The strong man talked eloquently, and many people gathered around him, and he interjected in a gossipy manner.

"Indeed, the land on which the blood of the brethren has been shed should not be abandoned."

"Yes, those plutocratic politicians always say that the war money is not enough, but they spend all day and night, and if their property is confiscated as war money, we will have no problem fighting all the way to Europe."

"I heard that the emperor's family wealth totals billions of yuan, and my mother's is all the blood and sweat of our Han people, why do we Han people shed blood and sweat, but let him put the emperor's majesty on it with a full dog!"

"The emperor wants the Han people to do it!"

"All the chaebol politicians want to be killed!"

"We're going to have to put out a Napoleon-like emperor!"

"Isn't that Wuwei Gong......"

"Yes, we want to let Wuwei Gong Liu Yun be Napoleon!"

"Talking so much nonsense, why don't you do it right away!"

……

After an impassioned call, the strong man showed his identity to everyone: "I am very honored to meet you patriotic heroes, my name is Su Dingfang, I am the deputy commander of the Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventh Infantry Division, and I was recently convicted of words and was forced to retire early. I propose, toast to all of you to be gay! ”

"Well said, cheers!"

"Cheers!"

Everyone in the tavern, including the boss Huang Chengming, Private 1st Class Wu Jun and Wang Yiyang, raised their glasses and drank them all in one fell swoop - although most of the people present did not really understand the real meaning of the so-called comrades.

The wind was particularly strong that night, and it is said that it also blew away a Persian cat raised by Emperor Guangxing.

The day before, Han Lang, the retained finance minister, reported to Liu Yun: "There are only 25 million yuan left in the treasury of all available funds." ”

"Why is there only so little money left? Haven't you been prepared for this? Liu Yun stared at Han Lang and asked.

"The 30 million pounds of government bonds originally planned to be issued in the UK were aborted due to the obstruction of the British government and the widespread anti-China propaganda in the British press, and the enthusiasm of investors in the United States has gradually cooled, and it is no longer possible to make up ideas on foreign debt." Han Lang was innocent as a matter of course.

"The British are really hateful, what is this called an alliance, it's just a knife in the back!" The new foreign minister, Chen Siguang, said indignantly that he was a well-known pro-German faction who had always advocated a coalition with Germany and anti-British.

"Let's ask the Minister of Finance to summarize the financial situation since the outbreak of the war." Liu Yun is now only concerned with the issue of money.

"Yes, the war cost a total of 3 billion Chinese dollars, more than four times the fiscal revenue of 1902, of which 600 million yuan was settled through the regular budget, and another 2.4 billion yuan was settled through national debts, of which 1.3 billion yuan were domestic debts and 1.1 billion yuan were foreign debts, and the total national debt had exceeded 3 billion yuan, and 130 million yuan of interest had to be paid every year......

"Is this level of foreign debt serious?" Liu Yun asked if he didn't know.

"According to the current official exchange rate of one to six, the total amount of China's national debt is 500 million pounds, which is about the level of Italy, and is located under France, Russia, Britain, Germany, and Austria, as long as the interest expenses on the national debt remain below one-fifth of the total fiscal revenue, the country's financial credit will basically not be affected, and now the key to the problem is how to raise funds, the remaining 25 million yuan in the treasury is only enough to make up for the pension of the fallen soldiers and the resettlement of disabled soldiers, and another 600,000 people are about to be discharged from the army, and 30 million yuan of discharge subsidies are needed. Relief and reconstruction funds for the reconquest have also been delayed...... In short, we need money. ”

"Is there a solution?" Liu Yun looked around at the ministers.

Zhang Jian, the new minister of industry and commerce, nodded and said: "The problem of money is easy to solve, as long as a special decree is issued, the recovered land is state-owned property, and then the land is used as collateral to issue bonds, and the average mortgage of 1 square kilometer is 100 yuan, and the recovered land of 1.53 million square kilometers can be exchanged for 150 million yuan of funds, which is enough to solve the urgent needs of the moment." ”

"In this way, if the Prime Minister is willing to take out all his property, all the great rivers and mountains recovered by sacrificing 140,000 soldiers can be put under the name of the Lord." The new Home Minister Yang Jung-Kim scoffed. By 1903, the total value of personal property had exceeded 160 million yuan, and the Zhang consortium under his control included more than 30 enterprises, with a total registered capital of 70 million yuan, accounting for 7% of the total registered capital of enterprises in the country.