C2944 Great Britain is a bit panicky (2/2)

When Gladstone left Buckingham Palace, he sat in the horse carriage and wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief. ”Xiao Letian, I didn't think that your luck would be so good to actually get a lift from Prussia …”

”But you've also succeeded in putting yourself in danger. If you dare to take a gold coin from Europe, you will die!”

The wheels rolled down onto the flagstones, the sound of the wheels making the Prime Minister's heart race!

How important is gold? Gold was of course quite important, from ancient times till now, gold was equivalent to wealth, but in the nineteenth century, the strategic meaning of gold was even more extraordinary.

It was a gold standard world, and the control of gold was the control of the global currency circulation. Whoever owned the most gold would have the world's most trustworthy currency.

For example, the sterling of this era became the currency of the world's hegemony by locking on to gold.

The dollar after World War II became the currency of the world's hegemony because it locked in gold, but Nixon abolished the link between the dollar and gold in 1971.

Since then, the dollar has been locked in with oil, and through political, diplomatic and military efforts, the US has forced global crude oil transactions to be settled in dollars.

There were no countries in this world that did not like oil, so they had lost their gold endorsement. The dollar was also the world's hegemon.

This way, he could understand the nineteenth century Europeans' obsession with gold. The desire to control gold was the same as the desire to control crude oil in future generations.

The rules of the game are incomprehensible to most people, but top politicians and financial experts can understand them, including London's mustached man.

It was a pity that the bearded man's letter had already been destroyed by Zai Chun. Xiao Letian was currently immersed in the light of victory, and was rushing straight to Paris!

Xiao Letian was completely unaware that a dangerous encirclement had locked onto him!

”Report to the Führer! Luo Huo sent an urgent telegram over. He was nearing the outskirts of Paris … Vanguard has already started exchanging blows with some of the Paris garrison! ”

”Location... ”Map...” Xiao Letian jumped down from the horse, rubbed his numb legs and started to study the map with Xiang Ying.

”Master …” Luo Huo and General Sima Yun have already reached Bobini, which was located in the outskirts of Paris. They are only ten kilometers away from the center of the city … ”

”We are in Mo City... ”We're still 30 kilometers away from the two generals …”

Xiao Letian looked around at the map, ”Where's the Prussian vanguard? Where are they? ”How far away is he from us …?”

”First place!” Hahaha, sure enough, I was the first to enter Paris … It's time to teach those arrogant Parisians a lesson, dig out their eyes from the top of their heads, and put them back where they belong … ”

”But don't kill too many people... ”What we want is honor and deterrence. We should hand over the killing matter to others …”

Xiao Letian's greatest fortune was that he had personally trained a loyal and extremely intelligent army. They could understand the leader's real intention, because these people had grown up together with Xiao Letian.

The Four Heavenly Kings s in the army had initially followed Xiao Letian to negotiate, engage in diplomacy, and scheme to fall into his trap. They did all the work themselves.

Furthermore, with Xiao Letian's continuous training system, the leader's small class was not for nothing. This kind of effort made all the high ranking military officers have a higher political score.

To them, if Xiao Letian's orders could not be explained from a military perspective, then it must have some kind of important political meaning!