C1256 intricacy (1/2)
Yi Cong's power in the imperial court was weak, so it was actually very correct for him to choose his sixth brother, who held the authority over the imperial court. According to his thinking, his sixth brother should first speak to the empress dowager, then convince the court officials to change his strategy towards Jiangnan.
This way, the imperial government would at least stop selling the Jiangnan Notes and even start to eat a lot in the market.
How many hundred million? Yi Cong couldn't calculate it. Even if it was at least 300 million, how many things could he buy? Will the new army be able to double in size? Can a big ship like the foreigners buy fifteen or sixteen? He could even buy two or three of those legendary warships that Xiao Letian owned.
It was great to have money! Of course, even if Yi Cong were to sell Yang Zhi, Li Tuo and the others, if the imperial government were to mess things up like this, he would be able to earn fifty to sixty million yuan, and in the end, only a third of it would be worth it.
However, Yi Cong was after all, a descendant of the Xiluo's family, and he still loved the imperial government at critical moments.
Yi Cong's manor was not within the Beijing, but was rather northwest of the Beijing. It was relatively close to the Yuan Ming Yuan and Summer Palace, and in fact, Yi Cong's home was the place where the later generations of Tsinghua University were located. In that era, the university area within the Beijing was where the nobles resided.
Inside his own Duke Palace, Yi Cong began to give orders to his own weak but very loyal team. Li Tuo didn't go to work today, instead, he helped Yi Cong manage the teleportation messages, including the zingiberis radix.
On the other hand, Yang Zhi ran over to the Western Mountain Printing House and followed the officials who had pledged their allegiance to him to start embezzling the capital's money, trying to find a way to use the North Ticket to exchange for the southern tickets in the market.
Yang Zhi and the others would never have thought that King Dun would have already sold them, and Prince Dun would never have thought that he would have been sold by his own sixth brother. From the start, he did not remind anyone that after sending Fifth Brother away, the Prince had found an excuse to leave the city to meet with the officers of the new army.
Not only that, Yi was even prepared to place two bets. He had his own power in Jiangnan, and the officials loyal to him had also received orders to secretly pay for the tickets to the south. Of course, Yi wouldn't eat too much, he was like a cautious gambler who was trying to make a profit on both sides.
The question of who would win the battle between Xiao Letian and Sha Russia had become extremely complicated. Not only was Xiao Letian a confrontation between the Chinese and Russia, the situation in the three provinces of Japan, Korea, the Far East, and the East had also changed.
Among them were the diplomatic relations between the Qing Dynasty and other nations, and even the scheming and scheming inside the Manchu was exposed. As expected, it was as Xiao Letian had said, the war was just like a long shit-stirring stick. The war stirred the seemingly peaceful pond, but the result was a pond full of smelly sand and feces.
The black fish hiding underwater had all begun to move. It seemed like the one who had benefited the most was none other than the Ryukyu Telegraph Company that controlled the entire Asia.
This telegraph company, which mainly used Xiao Letian's funds and absorbed the shares of the four powers, Britain, France, the United States and the Qing Dynasty, could be considered to have struck gold recently.
The telegraph company was a private company, even if the imperial government sent a telegram they would still have to pay. This was an iron rule, whoever dared not to accept Xiao Letian would have the right to cut off people's contact with the world on the high seas.