Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Yang Zhi's entire person seemed to have lost all his energy. His body softened and he took two steps back, colliding against the locust tree. The snow that was still hanging on the tree branch fell onto his forehead.

"What do we do now? I have already passed the information to the imperial government. It has already been a few days, the imperial government has probably dug up quite a few clues along these lines … Xiao Letian was going to be finished? If he were to be destroyed, would the imperial court be able to kill him? "

Li Tuo curled his lips at him, "A cunning rabbit would walk a dog to cook, do you need me to repeat this kind of thing? You, ah, you! You played three good cards like this, what can I say about you? "

"Then what should I do now?" Yang Zhi grinned as if she was crying.

Li Tuo paced back and forth in the forest, constantly pinching his temples as he thought about the situation in front of him. He really did not want to care about these rotten things, but since he was already betting on the wrong things, he could only go forward while pinching his nose. At least, he should first protect Yang Zhi from being sacrificed by the imperial government.

As for the future, he would just have to take things one step at a time!

"Originally, I didn't want to use this move, but the situation isn't as good as people without considering it …" "Immediately ride your horse to the palace to see the empress dowager. No matter what questions you're asked, don't answer them immediately. Instead, tell her that intelligence is variable and I need time to analyze them …"

Li Tuo took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. He said, "When it is 5: 30 PM for the foreigners, go to Yanzhi Lane, South City, and find the tigress … Ask anyone who knows who she is and we'll meet again! "

The two of them agreed on a time and rode their horses in from the west gate into the city. Yang Zhi went straight to the east side of the palace and Li Tuo headed south towards the south side of the city.

Everything was as Li Tuo had analyzed, Ci Xi, Yi Nan and the rest just wanted to hear Yang Zhi's judgement, the chrysanthemum had just sent them a message from the south, and the happy news was spreading inside.

As expected, because of the unfair treatment that Xiao Letian gave to the samurai, Sakamoto Ryoma's heart went cold. In addition to the appearance of the mysterious spy, it allowed him to understand Xiao Letian's determination to control himself even more.

Under the influence of all kinds of negative emotions, coupled with the British soldiers pressing down on him, and of course the chrysanthemum's sweet words of persuasion, Sakamoto Ryoma revealed a lot of top secret information in the end.

So it turned out that Xiao Letian's plan to obtain the Hidden Treasure Island was not fabricated by others. Furthermore, the Hidden Treasure Island was not just one, but a series of secret Treasure Caves.

The Pacific Ocean was humanity's latest ocean, and until the end of the nineteenth century, its golden channels created far less commercial value than the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Therefore, the resources allocated to this area by the established countries in Europe were very little. This situation lasted until the completion of industrialization in the United States, which meant that in the 20th century, when the market capacity of the United States increased, the commercial value of the Pacific Ocean would be more prominent.

Right now in the Pacific Ocean, there were ownerless islands everywhere. There were even many islands that were not marked on the map. People didn't even know how many islands there were here.

Usually, it would be the European explorer s or merchant ships who accidentally discovered an island, and then he would mark the island on the map. If the Portuguese found the island, they would mark it as the map of Portugal. If the Spaniard found it, it was marked on the map of Spain.

If the conditions allowed, the captain could also place a stone tablet on the island, stating who found it, and that the island belonged to that country.

When the ship returned to the Home Country, the map of the new island would be immediately handed to the government. From that moment onwards, the country would have an additional enclave of the ocean.

As for the first discovered captain, in addition to having a named priority, there would also be various forms of rewards according to the policies of each country. It could be tax-exempt, it could be a bonus, it could also be a title, etc …

Xiao Letian would never give up on the final part of the geographical discovery. Since he did not make it to the beginning and the middle of the feast, eating some leftovers would be better than starving.

That was why the expedition fleet that Xiao Letian had dispatched out over the past few years had discovered quite a few nameless small islands in the Pacific Ocean. What was inconceivable to Xiao Letian was that Guam and Hawaii had not been annexed by any powerful individuals.

It would be a sin not to eat such a cake.

A large number of islands only existed on Xiao Letian's own secret sea map. Many of them were not drawn out, but were only a series of coordinates that were recorded in Xiao Letian's mind.

The gold was the gold that was used as the reservoir for the Letian Bank, and they were all hidden in different islands. According to Xiao Letian's rules, in the future, whenever the Chinese made business transactions, they would use physical goods to exchange for goods. If they could use silver, they would use silver.

Xiao Letian's Pacific Silver Trade had already persisted for more than four years. With the powerful magnetic force of account bonds, how much gold did Xiao Letian hide? This was really an unfathomable mystery. In any case, the gold reserves of Japan, Korea and other countries had all been sucked dry by him, because the best weapons that Xiao Letian could give them all required them to be paid in gold.

In the trade with the Letian Firm, clearing the transactions with gold was always the most respected VIP. It was just like how the Mu Clan and the North Korean Royal Family would always buy arms from Xiao Letian.

As for the number of ten tons of gold, Sakamoto Ryoma made it clear that this number could be said to be fake, but it didn't matter if it was real.

Firstly, the Zhiyuan Warship s didn't bring over ten tons of gold from Dakar. This was impossible. But if you account for other precious items, such as diamonds, ivory, black pearls, rhino horns, and so on... Furthermore, with the low price copper ore and silver ore given by the late Chile, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Zhiyuan Warship had earned ten tons of gold.

Furthermore, it was important that the Zhiyuan Warship did not return alone. She was escorting a fleet, which brought along a lot of sophisticated machine tools. In the future, the Tanggu's Steel plant s, shipyards, military factories, precision parts factories and so on would all start construction.

This was the critical moment for Xiao Letian to spend his money. Sakamoto Ryoma said maybe! Right now, the wealth of the several gold storage caves in the Pacific had already started to converge towards the Bulbus Glazed Island. This was because a few astute European businessmen had already seen through Xiao Letian's tricks, they were not stupid, and would definitely not sell their valuable equipment to Xiao Letian for silver.

Even Prussia couldn't do so. Under Bismark's intense request, the secret foundation had to guarantee that 30% of the payment would be in gold.