"Kawamoto-kun, mourn!"

Soichiro Fujii's face was gloomy, but he could only comfort his friend. Kazuki Matsushima is his subordinate and a friend of Daiki Kawamoto, so there is no need to say much about friendship.

Now they couldn't find even a complete corpse, only a pair of broken bones and some tattered underwear, how could their mood be relaxed.

"Fujii-kun, have you found the bandit who killed Matsushima?" Daiki Kawamoto asked.

Although he did the thing that threatened Chang County's order, because he went to a different place to deal with business, he didn't know how this matter was handled when he just came back.

Sonichiro Fujii took over this matter for him, took out a silver ticket of five hundred oceans and pushed it in front of him, and said with relief: "Kawamoto-kun, the speed of Chang County's order is still very fast, and the bandits who robbed and killed them have all been brought to justice."

Thirteen heads have been hung on the castle gate, and Kawamoto-kun can go and see them if he has time. In addition, Chang County Ling took out 1,000 oceans as a pension to settle the people. You have also lost a lot of goods, and these are compensated for you. ”

This is the fortune of a dead man, and Daiki Kawamoto wants to refuse, but he can't refuse. He spent more than 300 oceans to buy that batch of mountain goods and skins, plus the carriages and horses he bought, and the property he lost was more than 500 oceans.

At that moment, one-fifth of his personal property was gone, and it was difficult for the business in Yuanbao Town to continue.

The idea of self-interest still prevailed, and he pushed it back in a fake way, and it didn't take Fujii to persuade him, so he accepted the money with a smile.

Remembering Kazuki Matsushima's secret mission, Kawamoto asked again: "Fujii-kun, Matsushima-kun's notebook that recorded information, have you found it?" ”

Soichiro Fujii shook his head, "Unfortunately, all of this is handled by the Qing people, and no records have been found. I'll arrange for someone else to do it later, Kawamoto-kun, don't worry about it. ”

He didn't find a notebook that recorded the mapping map, but he was actually relieved. Because this is a handle, if it is really put on the table, it is very bad for them.

Of course, he would not fully trust Chang County's words, and when he sent a new surveying and mapping team, he would definitely arrange a task to inquire about the news to ensure that the matter did not spread.

Yuan Pengfei, who directed and acted in all this, how could he not know the thoughts of the Japanese, as he said, this will be a headless public case, and no one can find out what is wrong with it.

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In a blink of an eye, it came to 1909, that is, the first year of Xuantong, the second year of the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, who ascended the throne.

In fact, it has a lot to do with the death of a woman. In 1908, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, died on November 15.

The day before she died, Emperor Guangxu died, and she chose Pu Yi, who was only three years old, to become the new emperor to succeed her. She, the queen mother, has been gone for a day.

Although many people scolded Cixi and wanted to curse her for her early death, it has to be said that Cixi's methods of this old witch are indeed extraordinary.

In the long history of China, there were several periods when women were in power, including Cixi in the Qing Dynasty, Liu E in the Song Dynasty, and Empress Lu in the Wu Zetian and Han Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty.

In a patriarchal society, it is not a good thing for a woman to hold supreme power.

Cixi, who ruled from 1861 to 1908, was a skilled politician who was particularly adept at manipulating the balance of power among her courtiers in order to maintain her absolute authority.

Without such a strongman, with those corrupt elements in the Qing Dynasty, three or four-year-old children, ambitious careerists, and some political imbeciles to deal with the government, the Qing Dynasty would not die, then God would be blind.

However, those things were still too far away from him to have anything to do with him. If you can't participate in this general trend of the world, then play a financial carnival.

Modern stock speculation is the only way to make a fortune, and it is more profitable than engaging in industry. Similarly, sitting in the bank and speculating in stocks during this period is also a good way to let the wealth roll up.

But to raise the stock price and harvest leeks, you have to find a gimmick. If the gimmick is not good, no one can buy it, and the leeks cannot be harvested. But if the gimmick is found well, the person who sits in the village can wake up with a smile in his dreams.

Natural rubber is an excellent gimmick, it is a very important thing, it cannot be stored for a long time, and production is very scarce.

What's more, there are more powerful dealers targeting it, and they don't have to do much at all, but they can hitchhike and harvest leeks together.

Needless to say, this more powerful bookmaker is Wall Street, and they are eyeing rubber for the simple reason that it is necessary to make airplanes, warships, automobiles, etc.

To put it simply, you can build a car without leather seats, but if you don't have rubber tires, can you drive it?

What's more, for a car, there are dozens or hundreds of rubber parts needed, and most of them are irreplaceable.

This provides an excellent opportunity for hype, and since '08 the Americans have been eating a lot of rubber, that year it was $57 million, and in '09 it reached $70 million.

This is not something that ordinary investors can do, and during this period, 1 acre of land in the United States is only 1.25 US dollars, and even large conglomerates have to join forces if they can come up with so much money to eat rubber.

The overall trend has risen.

In the magic capital, as early as 1903, Mr. McBianley, a British rubber merchant, opened a colonization company called Langezhi.

Boasting that its business scope includes opening rubber plantations, digging for oil, harvesting timber, etc., and then starting to raise shares, but after five or six years of false advertising, it has not done much business.

In 09, the price of rubber bought by the Americans increased, and the owners and investors of rubber plantations successfully developed by foreign countries made great profits, so the number of Chinese people who bought rubber stocks gradually increased.

Just like the sale in the shopping mall, no matter what is sold, there will always be people swarming around it, so everyone is vying to be the first, and everyone is brave and not willing to lag behind.

Mai Benli and other rubber merchants took advantage of this great opportunity to raise prices frantically, and even made a solemn promise that the rubber shares issued by Lange Zhi Company would have the right to borrow cash at the face value of the Shanghai Foreign Bank.

However, the European and American banks, which were 'full of promises', went so far as to jointly promise that the rubber shares issued by Lange Zhi Company would have the right to lend cash to Shanghai Foreign Bank at face value.

That is, the shares of this company are like banknotes and are guaranteed by the foreign banking community without limits.

In this way, the only difference between owning Langezhi's rubber stock and holding banknotes is that when it is equal to the par price, it can be equal to the banknotes, but if the stock price rises, the holder can still make money. Isn't this a sure-fire deal?

Who will let go of the opportunity to pick up money, just like modern stock speculation, houses, cars, jewelry, jewelry, gold, everything is worth it, and then borrow a large amount of money from the bank, buy it frantically, sit and wait to make a fortune.

The people of this period were also like this, taking everything that could be realized, and then buying and buying like crazy!

In April of this year, the par value of 60 taels per share was raised to more than 1,450 taels a year later, a 24-fold appreciation.

It can be said that at this time, rubber has risen to almost the same price as the same weight of silver, and the price bubble has reached its limit, waiting for the profit to burst this bubble.

Just as Mr. Jia returned to China next month, Mr. Mai Benley, the owner of Langezhi's rubber company, sold all his shares at the high price and then returned to China to do some personal business, and has not been heard from since.

It didn't take long for the bubble to be punctured, and this big wave of cutting leeks, international speculators earned about 45 million taels of silver in the land of Qingguo.

The money bank ticket number of the Great Qing Kingdom, because of the greed for interest and a large amount of loans, the silver in his hand was drained. What can you do if you force all the debtors to jump off the Huangpu River? The money will not be recovered.

As for the guarantee of European and American banks, it is a fart. Legal efficiency is no bigger than fists, and you are really a fool.

And at this time, the time came for Gengzi to pay the indemnity and ask for money, and the Qing government ordered Shanghai Daotai to withdraw the money from the source of abundance, so as not to offend the foreign adults.

In the middle, there was another bit of nonsense, the Qing government dug a corner of its own grave, and Shanghai Daotai, who refused to withdraw money, was dismissed. A total of several million taels of silver were withdrawn from the big and small money houses in the magic capital, which suddenly became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

In that short period of time, a large number of money banks, which undertook the functions of banks, went bankrupt and went bankrupt. It even spread across the country, and an unprecedented financial crisis broke out.

The financial and economic situation of the magic capital was completely paralyzed, and its liquidity was completely depleted, resulting in the basic stores not opening, opening the door and no money, and becoming a commercial "dead" city that could not be traded and had no commercial activities.

Interestingly, the financial crisis became the trigger for the revolution, and the Sichuan-Han Railway Company levied so-called "leased shares" on behalf of farmers in Sichuan in order to build the railway.

By 09 years, 7 million taels of funds have been raised, and it is needless to say that officials are corrupt, and Governor Xiliang regarded the Sichuan Road Company as his own small treasury, and embezzled a total of 3 million taels of road funds in the past few years.

To make matters worse, the Qing court sent a man named Shi Dianzhang to be the head of the Chuanlu Company's total revenue and expenditure, that is, the treasurer.

Soon after this person took office, he transferred 3.5 million taels of funds from the Sichuan Road Company, which was equal to half of the company's raised share capital at that time, and went to the magic capital for investment.

He probably didn't know that the stock market is risky, and investors need to be cautious.

There is no doubt that he is a leek in this, and even his underwear has been lost.

Later, the Qing court made a series of tricks, and a series of riotous operations triggered a major event - the Baolu Movement.

The mobilization of new troops to suppress it led to the Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent Wuchang Uprising sounded the death knell of the Qing government.

The smoke quickly spread across half of the country, and after Lao Yuan regrouped and took office, the Qing Dynasty died.

Died in a financial crisis, died in brain-dead court officials, died in serious corruption.

Everyone shouts that they are loyal to the court, but their psychology is all their own little abacus.

It dies without complaining.

Yuan Pengfei, who made a fortune in this financial crisis, helped the Qing government dig up the grave. But if you want to ask Yuan Pengfei how much he has fished here, he himself doesn't know.

In advance, there are two of his rubber companies in London that have issued shares, and there is another one in the magic capital, probably except for those big conglomerates, which he has cut the most.

Now he suddenly wanted to say: I have never touched money, I have no interest in money, I am just interested in playing this hand.