C3502 He who loves to be a slave (1/2)

Yang Zhi was currently the Assistant Minister of Revenue, and was in charge of forging the most oily silver and printing of North Ticket s in Great Qing.

The amount of silver collected each year, the amount of silver forged, and the number of North Ticket notes produced according to the market's financial scale were things the imperial government would have to consult with Yang Zhi.

To be able to give such an important position to a Chinese minister, that was something that he could not do anything about. The entire Great Qing knew that there were very few people in the new financial system, and it would be impossible to find anyone without Yang Zhi.

Of course, this was not the most important reason, what was most important was that Yang Zhi was very cunning. Although he was a traitor of the Chinese race, he had a very close relationship with the United Kingdom.

Due to his previous business dealings with the Chinese, he even established a close relationship with the merchants in Jiangnan.

This gave Yang Zhi one more business, and that was financial investment!

In the past few years, Xiao Letian had made the imperial court smarter. They were forced to come out from the Middle Age system and try a new way to earn money.

There was no other way. The imperial government was very poor. They could only count on the little money they had in the past to collect and pay taxes to survive. Then, the imperial government would go bankrupt!

Take a look at the Chinese people. Issuing bonds, making stocks, selling silver on the international market, hoarding all kinds of non-ferrous metals, and even buying and selling food.

The game of money making money made a lot of money!

Who wouldn't be jealous? Of course, the most envious ones were the Chinese who could win the war and extort war reparations and new colonies!

However, the Manchu dynasty did not dare to be jealous anymore. They had completely given up on this kind of wealth!

If the imperial government wanted to rely on money to make money, then they would have to rely even more on Yang Zhi. Even with his connections, they still needed to use him.

A small part of the money was made in the European market, while a large part was made in Jiangnan, buying Chinese bonds, including hoarding raw silk, tea leaves, porcelain and other goods. And make a profit.

But are all this money from the court? had two accounts with him, one of them was made public to the Ministry of Revenue, the other only recorded the seven million silver capital that the Ministry of Revenue had taken out.

All that was left were the private money of the powerful nobles!

Would the devil let go of the opportunity to make money? Obviously not, Xishan New Army was just a bottomless pit that swallowed gold, the amount of silver General Gui Zi Liu had poured in was not less than 2 million. Even if he was the King, he would not be able to afford it!

”So you're saying... The matter of Jiangnan smashing the bottom of the plate... Is there no hope? ”

Within the warm pavilion in the Head Office, a thin and frail body of a six man sat on a chair, a cup in his hand rippled with the tea leaves, and he spoke to Yang Zhi who was kneeling on the ground in a weird tone.

Yang Zhi entered the city in the morning, but didn't go directly to the Forbidden City. Instead, he ran over to the Head Office to hit his card.

With a bang, his head hit the ground and his forehead turned green. The long braid on his back fell to the ground!

”To reply Your Highness, this servant is useless. I never thought that Sakamoto Ryoma would bring troops to threaten Jiang Nan merchants! Jiang Nan and the rest were all scared silly, no one dares to move! ”

”Hehe …” Don't! You, Yang Zhi, are the big celebrity in front of the empress dowager. You are an official in charge of the wealth of geniuses, how can you call yourself a servant? ”

”That servant was a disciple of the Inside Eight Flags and only the coating could call him that. Is it even appropriate for you to call him that …”

When Yang Zhi saw the sneaky grin on General Gui Zi Liu's face, he knew that he had passed the test today. ”Your words really made this servant's heart go cold …”