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Emperor Guangxu waved his hand and said, "You all go out!"

Only Lin Yuan and Guangxu were left in the room. Lin Yuan pointed to the door and said, "Close the door."

Where did Emperor Guangxu do such a thing as closing the door? Usually it was done by eunuchs. Emperor Guangxu looked around and saw no one was there, so he got up and closed the door. Eunuch!"

After Emperor Guangxu closed the door, he went back to sit beside Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan smiled and sat up straight on the bed, Emperor Guangxu saw that Lin Yuan didn't look sick, and seeing Lin Yuan's expression suddenly changed, Surprised, he said, "Aren't you sick? Did you just pretend?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Will you come if I don't pretend to be sick?" Seeing Emperor Guangxu's face change after Lin Yuan said this, he thought to himself: "I can't wait for you to turn your face, I have to divert your attention Open!" So Lin Yuan said: "I brought you here because I have a shocking secret to tell you."

Lin Yuan thought that Emperor Guangxu would ask him what the secret was, but he didn't expect that Emperor Guangxu slapped the table hard and said angrily: "You brought people into Yuan Aiqing's house without authorization, not only wounded the guards, but also took my wife to the door. The most trusted expert has been taken away, do you know how big this crime is? What are you going to do? Are you crazy?"

Lin Yuan chuckled, and said, "I did this all for the sake of the country and society of the Qing Dynasty!"

Emperor Guangxu became even more angry, stood up "Teng", and said loudly: "It has been nearly three hundred years since the Qing Dynasty won the Central Plains, and all of them are dual-purpose. Bitter, now finally came a few experts to explain to me the benefits of building a bank and issuing banknotes. Dynasty, even if the Han Dynasty is strong and the Tang Dynasty is prosperous, it is incomparable!"

Having said this, Emperor Guangxu pointed at Lin Yuan's nose and cursed: "You! But you, Lin Yuan, you have taken everyone away from me and angered the masters. How can we build a bank and issue banknotes? , so that thousands of nations pay tribute, and all nations come to court?"

The Chinese spoken by Emperor Guangxu is an authentic Beijing dialect. Lin Yuan, who was accustomed to standard Mandarin in his own time, listened to Emperor Guangxu's speech as if listening to cross talk. Usually Lin Yuan could not hold back his laughter, but today he heard Emperor Guangxu as an emperor. , He even said the word "You damn", and "Puchi" laughed out loud.

Lin Yuan smiled and thought to himself: "Guangxu, Guangxu, you think about the establishment of the bank too simply. The premise of financial independence is the independence of sovereignty. Without me driving away all the enemies and safeguarding national sovereignty, how could you What about building a bank?"

Seeing Lin Yuan laughing, Emperor Guangxu said angrily, "What's so funny about you?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "The shocking secret I want to tell has something to do with those foreign experts!"

Emperor Guangxu heard Lin Yuan mention the "shocking secret" twice, and was a little curious, so he asked: "Then tell me, what is the shocking secret?"

Lin Yuan put away his smile and said sternly: "Foreigners helped me establish a bank in the Qing Dynasty. On the surface, they are helping us, but secretly they have evil intentions, and they want to destroy our country and society in the Qing Dynasty!"

Emperor Guangxu smiled disdainfully, and said: "Nonsense, why are they harboring evil intentions?"

Lin Yuan took out a stack of documents from a cabinet next to him, and said, "Foreigners have established banks in Shanghai for more than [-] years, and you can get a glimpse of the whole picture from the foreigner's bank in Shanghai!" Two documents, said to Guangxu: "You must have known that the two important affairs of the bank are deposits and loans. These two tables are the details of deposits obtained from foreign banks and the statistics of loan interest rates. The evil intentions of foreigners , are fully revealed on these two tables.”

Emperor Guangxu took the document and saw that it was full of numbers. He threw the document back to Lin Yuan and said, "Just tell me what's on this form."

Lin Yuan said: "Look at this deposit table first. It shows that more than 80.00% of the deposits come from our Qing Dynasty. What went in, in other words, was a bank where we were feeding foreigners."

"Let's look at this table of lending interest rates again. There are two columns on both sides. The left column is the loan interest rate of merchants in the Qing Dynasty. It is five thousandths per year, and the interest rate is compounded. Do you think this figure is high?"

Emperor Guangxu shook his head blankly, and Lin Yuan said: "This number is not low. I visited Shanghai and found that the annual interest rate of private loan sharks does not exceed ten thousandths!"

Emperor Guangxu nodded, and Lin Yuan pointed to another column and said, "Look at this column again, it is the interest rate of foreign merchant loans, and the annual interest rate does not exceed one thousandth. Do you see the problem?"

Emperor Guangxu hesitated and said, "Isn't it just that the interest rate of foreign merchants' loans is lower than that of Chinese merchants?"

Lin Yuan said in a tone of hatred for iron and steel: "Why don't you understand? Isn't foreign banks using our common people's money to help foreigners do business? To put it more bluntly, our common people are exhausted to make money, but in the end the money was taken away by the bank and given to foreign businessmen! Should you understand this time?"

Emperor Guangxu nodded slightly, and then Lin Yuan took out the newspapers in Shanghai, which were full of reports on girls' body labor and opium, Lin Yuan said: "You must have seen these things in the newspapers, those foreign businessmen took It’s nothing more than doing serious business with the money of ordinary Chinese people, but they have also done so many outrageous things, trying to steal blood and sweat from us ordinary people in different ways!”

Emperor Guangxu frowned and said, "The banks of these foreigners are really hateful."

Lin Yuan thought: "Emperor Guangxu is a little moved!" So Lin Yuan took another kraft paper bag and buckled it upside down on the table in front of Emperor Guangxu. The piece of paper came, and there were numbers on the piece of paper, so I couldn't help asking: "What are these things?"

Lin Yuan said: "These are banknotes issued by various banks. According to the bank information I have seized, HSBC alone has issued banknotes worth nearly 40 million in the past 5000 years since its establishment. These banknotes are used for In exchange for the silver in the hands of the common people! So every year, they don’t know how much of our country’s silver is robbed by them!”

Emperor Guangxu said: "But can't we exchange banknotes for silver? How can they say that the silver was taken away by them?"

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "The people in the market are used to the convenient banknotes. How can they exchange them for silver? So these silvers are secretly transported abroad by foreign banks! They then use these silvers to trade with us and exchange them for money. Our tea, cotton, ore, cattle and sheep fur, we have silver, but they use banknotes to exchange the silver, and then transport the silver away, and then exchange for the wealth we produce, and repeat! It’s like they just printed a Pile up paper, and take away the hard work and sweat of our common people."

Emperor Guangxu understood this time. He frowned, slapped the table heavily, and said angrily, "This foreigner's bank is so shameless!"

Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "It seems that my plan is almost coming to fruition!" Lin Yuan continued: "The foreigner bank has evil intentions, and those experts who came here are precisely from the foreigner bank! From this point of view, can we still trust them? ?”