C801 He who has an insider in his house laughs like a ghost (2/2)
In truth, Xiao Letian was mostly just pretending to be angry, Xiao Letian was very open-minded about the issue of counterfeit currency, you could just treat fake currency as inflation that came out from a normal process of issue.
This was a parasite in the normal flow of the economy, a leech. Let alone the imperial government, Xiao Letian himself was secretly pushing up inflation.
With the 1 million in bonds in his hands, Xiao Letian could secretly print out the 1.2 million in bonds. That 200 thousand was inflation, a reasonable inflation.
Now that there was an extra person to snatch food from, the imperial government would also have to share a piece of it, which meant that there was a high probability that the 1 million yuan of household debt would be printed out with 1.5 million paper dollars. Of that, the imperial government had given 300 thousand yuan in inflation, which was equivalent to the imperial government stealing away 300 thousand yuan for nothing.
However, the meat was still in the pot, and the money was still in the pot. In the end, Xiao Letian still had to travel back and forth between the economic circles in East Asia. He even earned back the promotion of all sorts of new technologies.
Isn't money created for mobility? As long as it flows, it can create wealth. Why worry about who it belongs to, as long as you can grasp the pulse of technology and walk in front of others forever, then the control over the wealth will be firmly held in your hands.
But now that the British had joined in, it was the devils who had come into the village to take a look. This was troublesome. After drinking so much blood, this leech was going to vomit back to Europe.
Furthermore, with the British money making technology, with their national power, the counterfeit currency forged in the United Kingdom might even be more beautiful than the Ryukyu's real currency.
Yang Zhi, the traitor, for his own personal reasons, had caused great losses to the entire Chinese nation. It was hard to estimate, maybe he would lose 10 million, maybe even 1 billion.
Indeed, there was an insider's laugh in the family!
Naturally, Yang Zhi and the other two would not tell them what was happening in the imperial court. They also knew that the situation was getting out of hand, so after arriving in Guangzhou, they did not look for women nor did they eat banquets. Soon, they contacted the General of Manchuria and sent some troops north towards the capital.
It was now the end of November 1867, the year of Tongzhi's sixth year. The Ryukyu's winter temperature was extremely cool and suitable for people to live in, the north had long since been covered in snow, and the capital city was filled with smoke.
Xiao Letian and the imperial government had been fighting for more than a month already. Fortunately, there was already a portion of the telegraph line contact between the Ryukyu and the capital, which made it possible for the two sides to curse at each other from a thousand miles away.
Xiao Letian began to dig for spies and threw pieces of new evidence into the imperial government. The imperial government was still the same as before, they just wouldn't admit it, they just won't admit it, what can I do? I even said your evidence was false.
Therefore, the lives of ordinary citizens were not affected in the slightest, they should eat and drink to their heart's content. In any case, this year, the imperial pay and salary had been greatly replenished, the people's finances had loosened, and the laughter of the capital had increased by quite a bit.
Everyone thought that Xiao Letian had no other choice this time. Just as the imperial government was about to win this round, at the 8th of the 8th month, Xiao Letian began to retaliate. The imperial government finally paid the price.