C1256 intricacy (2/2)

Although the telegraph line had entered various embassies, Head Office, Beihai and other places, the politicians who sat in the office reporting had to settle the accounts with the Ryukyu Telegraph Company every month.

Furthermore, the telegraph industry of that era was extremely profitable. During the busiest time, they actually sent thousands of words of telegraph messages every day for one silver dollar each, which was more than ten thousand silver coins.

It was impossible not to spend the money. Now that Asia was in a state of war, all forces were watching the war closely. Everyone hoped that they could make a profit from it. Now was not the time to worry about telegraphic money.

What was even worse was that the various ambassadors of the various countries and the various powers in the imperial court all used secret messages to hide their important information. Other than the Qing Dynasty who stupidly sent out the report in plain language, even Yi Cong had used secret language to send the message.

One by one, purchase orders were delivered to Jiangnan. People knew that it was impossible for Yi Cong to purchase a thousand silks, two hundred kilograms of spring tea, five hundred kilograms of raw silk, and six hundred pieces of white porcelain … These were all the most primitive cryptographic telegrams, only Yi Cong's direct line of descent could understand the way here.

It was the same with Yi. His messages were mixed with the letters and messages of his friends. It seemed like only poems and texts were being casually discussed. However, when he opened the text, orders were being sent back and forth.

As for the foreigners, the rich and powerful people wouldn't care about the telegraph money. Their coded messages were as long as footcloths, and they spent their money like running water.

To give a simple example, in just a day and a half, the British Embassy in the Beijing sent out over 90,000 words of messages, half of which were telegrams to Europe.

In one and a half days, the British Embassy spent a total of 420 thousand silver! Is it expensive? To the commoners, this was an astronomical figure, but to an empire, this amount of money was nothing.

The British were about to go crazy, they were crazy not only about the war on the sea, but also about the battle for the Notes in Jiangnan. The Bankers in Shanghai were crazily pressing the Minister of Power of Beijing, London, for Britain to go to war, and must go to war.

British Minister Ai Liguo and Counsellor Wei Tuoma had been forced to the point of almost finding a hole to hide in. Even though they were noble British Minister, they could not endure the pressure collectively exerted by the Bankers in the country.

Without the support of the Bankers, the political path of politicians could not go far. Furthermore, Britain was a mercantilist country, and the status of merchants and Bankers was already very high.

But these greedy vampires were asking for too much. Their demands far exceeded what the minister could give them.

”Fight? Damn vampires, are they going to risk their lives for their hundreds of millions of south tickets in Jiangnan? ”What a bunch of madmen …”