Yi Qiong was weak in the court. It was actually a very correct thing for him to choose the sixth brother who was powerful in the court to make a statement. If he followed his ideas, the sixth brother would make a statement to the empress dowager and persuade the important officials in the court to change his strategy towards Jiangnan.

In this way, the court will at least stop selling Jiangnan money tickets, and even start to make a lot of money in the market. As time goes by, the court will have to make at least hundreds of millions of Yuannan money tickets.

How many millions can I get? Yi Qiong can't calculate it. Even if it's the least and least three hundred million, how much can I buy? Can the new army double the expansion? Can a large warship like a foreigner buy fifteen or sixteen? Even the legendary warships in Xiao Letian can buy two or three.

It's great to have money! Of course, even if Yi Qiong's actions were sold to Yang Zhi, Li Tuo and the others, if the court disrupted the situation like this, the plan of making money that could have made 50 to 60 million yuan would probably be burning a high incense in the end.

But Yi Qiong was a descendant of the Aisin Gioro family after all. He still loved the court at the critical moment, and he couldn't watch his family suffer a great loss.

Yi Qiong's palace was not in Sijiu City, but in the northwest outside Beijing, and was close to the Old Summer Palace and the Summer Palace. In fact, Yi Qiong's home was the location of Tsinghua University in later generations. In that era, the university district of Beijing was the back garden of the nobles.

In his palace, Yi Qiong began to issue orders to his own weak but highly loyal team. Li Tuo did not go to work today, and Lao Jiang was helping Yi Qiong handle telegram information.

Yang Zhi ran to the Xishan Banknote Printing Factory, and followed the officials who defected to him to embezzle the court's money, trying his best to exchange the Beipiao for the Nanpiao in the market.

Yang Zhi and the others would never have thought that Prince Dun had sold them, and Prince Dun had never thought that he had been sold by his sixth brother. Yi did not remind anyone at all. After sending the fifth brother away, the prince found an excuse to go out of the city and secretly meet the officers of the new army.

Not only that, Yi even prepared to bet on both sides. He also had power in Jiangnan. Those officials who were loyal to him also received the order to secretly eat Nanpiao. Of course, Yi would not eat too much. He was like a cautious gambler trying to make profits on both sides.

The question of who wins and loses the war between Xiao Letian and Tsarist Russia has become extremely complicated. He is not only a confrontation between the Chinese and Russia, but also a mixture of changes in the situation in Japan, North Korea, the Far East, the three eastern provinces and other places.

Among them is the diplomatic relations between the Qing Dynasty and other countries, and even the intrigues within the Manchus were exposed. As Xiao Letian said, the war was a long stool stick. The war was stirred up in the seemingly calm pond, and the result was a pond with stinky mud and feces.

The black fish hidden underwater have all started to act. It seems that the one who benefits the most is not others, but the Ryukyu Telegraph Company, which controls the entire Asia.

This telegraph company, which mainly consists of Xiao Letian's funds and has absorbed shares of the UK, France, the United States, and the Qing Dynasty, has made a fortune these days.

The telegraph company is private, and even if the imperial court sends telegrams, it has to be paid. This is an iron rule. Anyone who dares not accept Xiao Letian has the right to cut off people's connection with the world on the high seas.

So I was helpless. Although the telegram line was pulled into various embassies, the Zongli Yamen, Beihai and other places, the politicians sitting in the office sending newspapers still had to settle for the Ryukyu Telegram Company on a monthly basis.

Moreover, the telegraph industry was absolutely profitable in that era. When the business was at its busiest, it actually cost a silver dollar for a word. A telegraph of thousands and tens of thousands of words a day was sent, which was a silver dollar worth thousands and tens of thousands of dollars.

It would be fine if this money was not spent. Now Asia has entered a state of war. All forces are paying attention to the war in front of them. Everyone hopes that they can make a profit from it in the end. Now is not the time to feel sorry for the telegram money.

What's even more serious is that the ministers of various countries and the forces of the court all consciously used secret texts to cover up their important information. In addition to the Qing Dynasty's stupid way to send newspapers in Ming language, even Yi Qiong used code words to send telegrams.

One purchase order after another was delivered to Jiangnan. People knew that Yi Qiong could not buy 1,000 pieces of silk, 200 kilograms of spring tea, 500 kilograms of raw silk, and 600 pieces of white porcelain at one time. These are the most primitive encrypted telegrams. Only Yi Qiong's direct descendants can understand the tricks here.

The same is true for Yi. His telegrams are mixed with letters between friends. It seems that the clouds and calm conversations are all classics of poetry. In fact, the words inside are separated and commands are passed back and forth.

As for foreigners, let alone the wealthy powers would not care about the little telegram money. Their passwords and telegrams were as long as foot bindings, and the money was spent like flowing water.

To give a simple example, from the afternoon of the day when the Naval Battle of Minjiangkou broke out to the full day of the next day, in just one and a half days, the British Embassy in Beijing sent more than 90,000 words of telegrams, half of which were sent to Europe's trans-ocean telegrams.

In one day and a half, the British Embassy spent a total of 420,000 silver dollars on telegraph fees! Is it very expensive? For the people, this is astronomical, but for an empire, this little money is just a drizzle.

The British were really crazy. They were not only crazy about this war on the sea, but also because of this battle for money and tickets in Jiangnan. Shanghai bankers sent telegrams to the Beijing minister like crazy and put pressure on London. They said a thousand words to ask Britain to join the war and must join the war.

British Minister Ai Liguo and Counselor Vitoma were forced to find a crack in the ground for a while. Although they were British Ministers, they could not bear the collective pressure from the bankers in China.

Without the support of bankers, politicians' political journey would not be far away, and the UK is a country that emphasizes mercantilism, with merchants and bankers already having a high status.

But these greedy vampires were too much demanding, and what they asked for was far more than what the minister could give.

"Join the war? Damn vampires, are they going to take the risk for their hundreds of millions of Nanpians in Jiangnan? They are simply a group of madmen."

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