C724 Xiao Letians new draft (1/2)
The one who proposed to compensate them with the shares of Silver Mountain was Tokugawa Yoshinobu. Although he wanted to borrow Xiao Letian's strong financial and scientific research resources to help them change Silver Mountain, the real reason was still because he was poor.
The civil war between the north and south in Japan had drained Japan's wealth reserves for 200 years. Although the 200 years of peace brought by the Tsurukawa's Palace had accumulated a large amount of wealth, they had never imagined that a modern Western army could burn away that much money.
Gun, bullets, cannons, standard equipment … Even if the price of the Gun sold to the Mu Clan by the French was lower than the cost, but the Japanese did not know that a rifle revolution was currently taking place in Europe.
The breech-loading rifle had been completely replaced by the front-loading rifle, the full-metal bullets had been replaced by the Mini, and there was a mountain of junk ammunition in Europe's arsenal. Not to mention the cost, it was not even a problem to buy one for free.
He had thought that the French were very kind, but he had no idea that the whole of Japan had become a low-class market for Western junk.
Businessmen are always smart. They can sell their rifles for half, but they definitely have to make money. You won't be able to produce them in Japan anyway.
Bullets and gunpowder were definitely consumables. black gunpowder s produced by the Japan could not be used, and if they wanted to buy French gunpowder formulas, they would not even sell them, they would not even be able to build a military factory. In the end, the Palace would have to go all out to purchase from overseas.
At that time, Tokugawa Yoshinobu swore to his ancestors that as long as they united Japan, he would build a top tier military factory in the world and would never be bullied like this again.
The reason was very ample, but the reality was very hard! The united war between Japan and Japan was completely wrecked by Xiao Letian, the fierce dragon who crossed the river. All his hopes disappeared in an instant.
Not only the Mu Family, but the situation for the Southwest's Four Feudal Lords was not good at all. They had already given their all for the sake of this decisive battle, especially after they rejected Xiao Letian's request to directly send troops to assist him. The funding for the weapons from the Ryukyu s were also becoming lesser and lesser, so they could only use Real Gold and Silver s to purchase them.
No money! This was a very realistic question, and the daring actions of the Hidden Fog Kid later made Japan bear the responsibility of assassinating His Majesty. Although Japan did not believe that the Great Qing would send troops to the Japanese Islands, what if the Great Qing officially authorized the Ryukyu and the Western Powers to intervene?
After thinking about it, he gathered together to clean up the bases of the several families. Right now, he only had a reserve of 1 million taels of silver. If he were to pay this amount of money, Japan would truly be poor.
What was even more tragic was that a dignified Emperor of Great Qing Kingdom, how could he use one million silver taels to quell his anger? If this number were to spread out, not only would he not be able to solve the problem, he would even make the Qing Dynasty feel even more humiliated.
After thinking about it, Tokugawa Yoshinobu suddenly thought of a way to compensate the little Emperor with his share of shares.
Firstly, they did not need to directly ask for money in exchange for compensation in the form of a silver mountain, and secondly, speaking of compensation in the form of a silver mountain, Qing Dynasty, that reputable government, would be more willing to accept that.
But he never thought that such a brilliant plan would be unable to fool the eyes of the Prime Minister Xiao of the East China Sea, the angry Xiao Letian even threw out the draft.
”You want to play some tricks in front of me?!” You are all dreaming! ”Don't be too shrewd with your calculations, don't take the heroes of the world for fools!” Xiao Letian was circling around the house like a trapped beast, the sound of his roars shocked the entire Osaka into complete silence.
”There is no reason not to take advantage of the situation. Let's not talk about the Tsurukawa's Palace first, I will talk about the Southwest Four Soldiers. After you independent from the Ryukyu, how much of my arms and cash did you receive? Think about it for yourself! ”
”Not to mention tariff breaks for your four families, but how do you pay me back? ”It's cold.
”You rejected my proposal to establish an arms factory in the Nine Prefectures; you disagreed with my proposal to establish a free trade area at the lower level; I proposed to pull the telegraph line down from the Deer Island to the capital or even the River Family. Even more so, it was not allowed... ”You guys go ahead and calculate for yourselves. From our cooperation till now, other than asking me for weapons and money, have you ever given me anything in return?”
Xiao Letian suddenly walked in front of Dao Jinzhongyi and stared into his eyes: ”Do you think I am the same as the Confucianism? To repay a debt of kindness with grievance, to sacrifice oneself for nothing, to give me a few good words, and make me unable to find my way to the north? ”
”So you can hide a contempt for me just from the appearance of your passion?” Eating my food, drinking my wine, and using mine? When I lower the military support, do you think you can't take it anymore? ”So you're deliberately distancing yourselves from me, refusing to share information with me, not even revealing your plans to start a war …”