C1640 Gold Transactions (1/2)
Fajeev was not afraid of the 'T?pchin' in front of him at all, because the garrison from the far east had already gathered all the information of this greedy general and sent it to him.
Why did Guo Geli and Fu Mannuofu take away seven thousand ounces of gold previously? Not to pay the local people, but to bribe the general.
The name Hun Chun was definitely not included in the list of bribes the Sand Russians had. It was not only because the Hun Chun hated the Russian and had never established a relationship with them.
Furthermore, because the Hun Chun's defense zone was in the Black Dragon River, once the Cossack passed the Black Dragon River, she would no longer have to care about anyone's face. The strong Cossack would naturally destroy all the mantises that dared to obstruct him.
In front of Fajeev, all that T?pchin wanted to do was to squeeze more out of him, that was all. An official who sold his homeland for gold, that was a general who could even take his own citizens as goods to be exported, had no limits or principles.
It was normal for the officials of Qing Dynasty to make things difficult and raise the price. However, once they met a strong opponent, once the steel knife was placed on their neck, they would immediately turn into a dog wagging its tail.
The gold I'm giving you now, one day you will be able to recover it twice as quickly. Not only that, you will also have to take away your land and population.
Hun Chun obviously understood the opponent's threat, but he didn't want to reveal her true identity, so he pretended to be alarmed and said, ”You … You dare to threaten me? Don't think that I am afraid of you. Your vanguard unit and the Bravehearts are already fighting bitterly! If you don't want to take this chance, then hurry up and scram. I don't believe that you won't care about the lives of those soldiers! ”
Fajeev coldly snorted. ”Be straightforward, how much do you want? I don't have time to waste with you! ”
Hun Chun blinked her eyes and asked, ”How much gold can you actually fork out? I don't have the time to waste on you! ”
Fajeev pinched the little sheepskin's gloves so hard that it creaked. One could see the anger in his heart, facing these greedy Qing Dynasty officials, if it wasn't for them, he would have chopped off their heads.
”Alright then … I'll give you twenty thousand silver, this is the limit of our army's carrying gold! I won't give another point, and I don't have any more gold! ”
”Twenty thousand gold is thirty-five thousand ounces of gold. This is already an astronomical amount! In Europe, you can buy two or three yachts, and four or five manors! ”
”I don't care how you divide it, even if you, T?pchin, were to take all the gold for yourself, I don't care! I need thirty thousand people worth of food and a large number of horse material, the more the better … ”
”I know you have your ways, you shameless officials are best at making fake accounts, these food horse material, you only need a year's time to level the accounts, report your losses! You all have done this quite a few times! ”
”Hehehe …” Didn't you report the loss of gunpowder you sold to our garrison? ”
Hun Chun was so angry that her eyelids twitched. This T?pchin must die, I absolutely cannot let him live, she actually dared to smuggle some gunpowder to Russian. She really wants money more than her life.
This was the truth. When Russia was exploring the Far East, the Siberian Railway had not been built at all, and the Russian industrial equipment was located in the western part of the empire.
The supplies that were sent from Moscow to the Haishenwai in the Far East were basically 10,000 gold roubles, and the freight costs were 20,000 gold roubles. This was not a joke, in an era where there was no railway traffic, the resources needed to traverse the mountains were shockingly large.