C921 colonial wealth (2/2)

Smoke began to rise from the kitchen of General Governor's Mansion. The marines had already started a fire, and the black slaves were moving the gold, precious stones and ivory. Under the threat of the bayonets, no one dared to move their brains.

All the documents in General Governor's Mansion were swept clean, so Qiu Wei did not have time to read them all. He prepared to take them all to the Zhiyuan Warship, and then find a chance to contact the Prussian intelligence agents and give all these Frenchmen's secrets to Prussia.

Within the firelight, there were hundreds of French soldiers trying to attack the General Governor's Mansion, but under the accurate attacks of the snipers, the command system of the two companies quickly collapsed.

It was not only the snipers who had made a huge dent in the French army, but also the Mauser who had made an unprecedented dent in the fore-mounted MLE1857 Mini Bullet Rifle.

Mauser had already fired four to five rounds of the Stable Bullet, while the MLE1857 on the other side could only fire one shot! How could this battle be fought? In less than ten minutes, the two French companies had already collapsed.

Qiu Wei looked at the retreating French army that was like water and did not give the order to give chase. Instead, he turned his head back and looked at the black slaves that kept lifting the gold and sighed, ”Colonialism is so good!” The feeling of being bullied, why does it feel so good! ”

It was only now that Qiu Wei and his group of foreign students finally understood the importance of colonization to European civilization. This kind of plundering of global resources finally made European civilization absolutely powerful.

In Senegal, West Africa alone, one could amass so much wealth. France was now the second largest colony after Britain, and it was evident how much wealth could be amassed every year.

There were some things that Xiao Letian did not tell his subordinates before. In his previous life, Xiao Letian clearly remembered that after the Franco-Prussian War ended, Prussia had finally unified the Germany. At that time, Bismark had asked the French lion for 5 billion as compensation for the war.

This was the first time in Bismark's life that he made a strategic mistake. He thought that the 5 billion Gold franc was already an extremely large number and that the Government of France's treasury was already empty. He couldn't even take out a single gold coin.

The 5 billion Gold franc, according to their comparison of silver prices at that time, amounted to more than 700 million silver taels. Furthermore, throughout the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, during the period of the most prosperous dryad, the highest value of the treasury was more than 80 million silver taels.

Bismark's plan was really good. He wanted to make France unable to pay in the short term, which would result in a situation where France would be suppressed for a few decades. Since the money would not be repaid, there was no reason for Arthas and the Lorraine region to return it.

The German language education alone could change the demographic and cultural structure of the land in a time frame of a generation.

It could even be said that he underestimated the true foundation of the colonial economy. After all, Prussia had never experienced the feeling of owning a colony and making a fortune.

Bismark had definitely wrongly judged the wealth of the French people, and he had also misjudged the powerful nationalist spirit of the French people that had been baptized by the Great Revolution.

In order to pay off the war reparations as soon as possible, the new government began to issue large amounts of government bonds to the people in order to redeem the land occupied by Prussia in the north.

A scene that stunned Bismark appeared. The defeated France Government, a new government that had not even established its credit to begin with, had actually consecutively sent out three 5 billion Gold franc s worth of treasury bonds.

The 15 billion national debt was instantly sold out, and the total sum of the subscribed amount actually reached the stupefied 45 billion Gold franc, which was exactly nine times the amount Bismark had offered.

At this point, Bismark's wishful thinking was completely shattered, and the future Lenin even gave France a special nickname, called usury imperialism.