Xiao Letian's trick to seize the Western Regions is actually nothing great, it's just buying it with money!

However, there are also ways to buy with money. Since ancient times, land transactions have been very dangerous behaviors. If you are not careful, you will encounter bad situations.

Taking out tens of millions of taels of silver to firmly control such a large territory in the hands of the Chinese people is indeed a good deal, but it is precisely because it is too cost-effective that various risks will arise.

The biggest risk is that Zuo Zongtang won’t give it to you if he takes the money. It is not impossible for him to give all the benefits to the court.

So Xiao Letian changed his plan and learned about the successful experience of the Dutch colonizing the world at the earliest, so he used joint-stock companies to engage in financial wars and capital invasion.

It’s not that I paid the money alone, I wanted to issue more than 40 million shares to raise funds from Wanmin to attack the Western Regions. How many people will hold these more than 40 million shares?

The merchant class must have millions of people, but the number of ordinary people with a little more surplus is close to ten million, right?

To calculate the smallest number, 15 million shareholders hold shares of the Western Regions Investment Bank, and these 15 million people have relatively high social status.

Of course, it is a little higher. The extremely poor people cannot pay for money to buy stocks. Even if they have money, they may not have the awareness!

Only middle-class or even a little higher class in society dare to try these new things!

Behind the 15 million shareholders are 15 million families, and even more families... This has a huge impact!

I, Xiao Letian, are not afraid that you, Zuo Zongtang, will not be afraid that the Qing court will pick fruits. As long as you have the courage to offend all five million families, all of these social elites will offend them.

If you dare to do it and you dare to dig your own grave, then what else can Xiao Letian be reluctant to give up on money?

This is the benefit of the shareholding system. If Xiao Letian pays for it himself, then the court will eventually offend Xiao Letian. If the 15 million families in the whole society gather together, ordinary people will not dare to offend!

If there are many people and great power, there are many people and huge powers, it is a huge force!

Gather funds from all walks of life and then use them to fight the national war. In the end, these funds can win over 100,000 officers and soldiers under Zuo Zongtang!

You should know that joint-stock companies pay dividends every year, which is destined to become an iron rice bowl for the future lives of 100,000 officers and soldiers, and it is also an iron rice bowl for their children and grandchildren.

This money was not issued by the court, but by the Western Regions Investment Bank. So how would these people choose? Do you really think that the people are stupid? Don’t believe in the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years?

It is conceivable that after this war, all the troops stationed in Xinjiang will become beneficiaries of the Western Regions Investment Bank and thus become gatekeepers of the investment bank.

The local administrative power in the entire Xinjiang will be tilted towards investment banks, gradually allowing the Chinese people to penetrate, first tie the people here to death with economic means, and then conduct secular cultural education.

Slowly wait for time, and when the world changes a moment, I am afraid that the Chinese army will not be able to fight, and the garrison here will change its course by itself.

What a simple plot, the nameless guards under Li Hongzhang understood it, but no one could break it once the plot was made!

Why? It's very simple, because Xiao Letian can play, and he can hold 300 million taels of silver in his hand to provide the final support.

Xiao Letian can guarantee that no matter what the investment bank shares are sold, he will be able to hold the final market support!

So what if the court has a great reputation? In the end, don’t you pay 2 million taels? If you want to pacify the entire Western Regions, are you cheating?

Since you authorized Zuo Zongtang to raise military expenses by yourself, you have already dug up this pit for yourself!

What is open conspiracy? Open conspiracy means that the situation forces you to no choice. You only have this way to go!

The two evils are more minor. Now, only one foreign bank can solve the military expenditure problem for Zuo Zongtang, and the other is Xiao Letian.

They are not good birds, they are all ambitious, but they are less harmful than the two evils. In comparison, Xiao Letian's pit is slightly pleasing to the eye.

Just jump in with your eyes closed!

Zuo Zongtang made his choice, and this choice was not surprising. Zeng Guofan could guess, and Zeng Guoquan could also guess, and Li Hongzhang could only nod helplessly, and even the Qing Dynasty did not know what to do.

It’s not that they don’t understand, but that the world is changing too fast. It has been seven years since Xiao Letian appeared. The changes that have occurred in these seven years are almost equivalent to those in the past hundred years.

Zuo Zongtang made the choice that a Chinese literati should make. In the snow and ice in October, General Zuo actually moved the central army and led three thousand elite cavalry all the way to the northwest.

Following the long ancient Gansu road, we head straight from Lanzhou to the distant Han border.

Fan Jin received Zuo Zongtang's approval and immediately released a carrier pigeon to Jiangnan and Xi'an. This news was connected to the North and South Telegram Network in Henan, and sent it to important financial cities such as Shanghai, Suzhou, and Ryukyu as soon as possible.

Then in June 1872, after more than half a year of preparation, the Western Regions Investment Bank officially listed on major stock markets in Jiangnan, and issued 40 million shares for the first time, with the unit price of each share being one yuan per unit of Nantiao.

Before the release, the Jiangnan region was artificially aroused a fever in the Western Regions. Countless literati began to dig deep into the historical heritage of the Western Regions and popularize knowledge to the people.

Under the rendering of these imperial pens, the Western Regions have become a golden treasure land with vast land but sparsely populated areas. It can be said that there are opportunities and wealth everywhere, but it has not been developed due to historical reasons.

Now, the Chinese investment bank is going to use the latest Western technology to carry out large-scale development. Not to mention other industries, the joint-stock company will never lose money by just digging gold, silver, jade, ore deposits.

The only downside is that this company can only make profits after Zuo Zongtang pacified Xinjiang. When will Zuo Zongtang pacify Xinjiang besiege?

Two years or three years?

People don’t know that in real history, when Zuo Zongtang raised enough military spending and weapons and ammunition, it took only a year and a half to pacify Xinjiang.

Xiao Letian firmly believes that with his own strong intervention, this time will be greatly reduced. With enough money and sufficient arms, it will be enough to pacify Xinjiang for two years!

No one expected that the stocks of the Western Regions Investment Bank were sold out in just half a month, and the stocks in the secondary board market, which were hyped up to three yuan and two cents!

The huge profit margin has made countless investors crazy. In the end, Xiao Letian's funds have to be taken over, not to mention that he has to deliberately sell them out to suppress the stock price.

He doesn't want China's first super large-cap stock to become a big bubble in history. He really hopes that this stock is a century-old Chinese store!

It is precisely because of the support of tens of millions of military funds that Zuo Zongtang's battle to pacify the Western Regions was much smoother than in real history!

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