47 shearing

The cold wind is cold, looking at the four fields, the snowfield is vast.

In the wind and snow and cold, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Anxi Army marched day and night in the fastest way.

The places along the way do their best to ensure the food, accommodation and transportation of the army - this is a spectacular scene that no one has ever seen: on both sides, behind, and even in front of the winding army, hundreds of thousands of people composed of poor peasants roll forward. They pushed the wheelbicle, carried the shoulder pole, or used their shoulders to carry up to hundreds of millions of pounds of grain, fodder, ammunition and materials needed for the army to fight. The troops took a step forward, and they followed them.

At this moment, the Western Expedition is not only the battle of soldiers, but also the hundreds of thousands of people in the recovery area. In less than ten days, nearly 100,000 militiamen, migrant workers and more than 10,000 pairs of stretchers, more than 10,000 livestock, more than 4,000 large vehicles, more than 80,000 shells, more than 1.5 million bullets, more than 60,000 catties of explosives, more than 200,000 catties of attack equipment and 240,000 catties of staple food were sent to the front line by the people.

In the ice and snow, such a huge and spectacular civilian team is completely formed voluntarily and does not have any compulsive nature. Because of the arrival of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army, the poor no longer want to buy food from the government, and the thousands of years of shackles on their heads have been removed. The policy of reducing rents and interest rates has made these poor people who are forced to live by landlords and bullies see the hope of life. During this year's festival, Yang Bailao can happily pull a two-foot red head rope for Xi'er, and even let go of his belly and eat a dumpling with pork stuffing... They only got it after the arrival of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army. They believe that as long as the Ezhou Revolutionary Army is still there, everything will get better and better. What they are most afraid of is that if the Qing army comes back, all the good things they have now will be wiped out. Therefore, they have been determined to associate their fate with the fate of the Ezhou Revolutionary Army, just like the officers and soldiers who are willing to share a good life with the Ezhou Revolutionary Army. At the same time, they are willing to do their best. Fully support the Ezhou Revolutionary Army to carry out the revolution to the end, and the remnants of the Western Expedition are full of the Qing Dynasty. At such a moment, they are calm and calm when they go to the battlefield.

Li Xiang stood on the building of the ancient city of Xi'an. It snowed heavily and the jade fell all over the sky. Under the big brim hat, his ink-like straight sword eyebrows slanted into his temples, his eyes flashed like lightning, and he looked very energetic in the snow. Looking around at this moment, I really feel a little emotional. Qin and Long are the great virtues of China. Their virtues are strong and civilized. Hu Feng has eroded for more than 260 years, but it makes the Chinese people ignore and even forget the strong civilization of the Han family. A hundred years later, the economic development has obscured their former glory. People infinitely yearn for the soft jade, warm fragrance and luxury and prosperity of the southeast coastal area, chasing those weak. The beautiful strangeness is becoming more and more bloodless.

Li Xiang smiled. He will definitely recast the blood scattered in the soul of the Chinese nation and cast it with the blood of all the enemies who blocked the rise of the Chinese nation!

Li Xiang was ambitious when he suddenly heard the familiar footsteps behind him.

The Narcissus brought the news he wanted to hear the most: Ningxia Guangfu.

Last night, the Ningxia Uprising Army divided into three routes and quickly attacked the city wall and cooperated with the elder brother congregation in the city. He fought in the streets and alleys with the Qing army, and fought fiercely until dawn. The enemy began to move in a hurry and fled on all sides. In the night, he occupied the government offices and the government offices of the capital, and killed hundreds of large and small officials who refused to surrender, such as the general town of the enemy camp, the right battalion guerrillas, the city guard, and the ceremony. Chen Yuanhua, a magistrate of Ningxia, fled over the wall with his brother, and was chased by the civilian army to be captured and shot. On the same night, the military and civilians also occupied the dam, Ye Shengbao, Yuquan Camp and other places dozens of miles south of the city. The governor of Ningshuo County led civil and military officials to surrender to the rebel army. Ma Yaochuan, Wu Dabing, Wang Zhibin and other members of the party organized the old congregation of Pingluoge to rise up, and the generals, guards, thousands of households and prefectures stationed in the town fled when they heard the news. At the same time, the Hui congregation of the Huangquqiao Brother Association revolted under the leadership of the Haming and Ha Bahu brothers, and the whole territory of Pingluo was quickly restored. So far, the rebel army has won the victory of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty's local regime in Ningxia within three or five days.

In addition to the good news on the front line, there is also a bad news in the back: the Western Expeditionary Public Debt of the E State Government, which has always appreciated steadily, suddenly began to fall in price quite unusually. Soon, other bonds of the Ezhou government also began to be affected, and prices fell to varying degrees. Investors in the market began to talk a lot. As the days go by, the situation has not improved, but getting worse and worse. The discussion in the exchange has gradually evolved into rumors. Some people say that the Anxi army in Xianyang's First World War has suffered heavy damage. Some people say that Li Yuanhong may come to power again. Some people say that the financial and taxes of the Ezhou government are not enough to repay the interest. Some people are worried that the war maniac Li Madman will be defeated this time.

"What do you think after hearing this news?" Li wanted to go back to the tower and asked.

"The Ezhou government is also quite tense. If bonds continue to decline sharply, the future expenditure of the Ezhou government will not be raised. The faces of snobbish businessmen are also full of sadness, and everyone is worried about the future of the E state government. The daffodil rubbed her temples as if moaning.

Tang Yuewan sighed: "The selling of Xizheng public bonds in the Shanghai securities trading market is very strong. The equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars of Xizheng public bonds were suddenly thrown into the market. The price of public bonds began to decline, and then the larger selling orders were like a tide, and the price of public bonds began to collapse. There were a lot of rumors in the market, from 'Anxi Army's tragic victory in Xianyang', to 'Anxi Army's heavy damage in Xianyang', and then 'Anxi Army's defeat in Xianyang'. The rumors spread like the wind, and all the people immediately woke up like electric shock, and the selling finally turned into panic. Everyone wants to immediately throw away the already worthless Western government debt and retain as little surplus wealth as possible. After several hours of wild selling, the Xizheng public debt has become a piece of garbage, leaving only 5% of the par value.

"I have absolutely reason to suspect that there is force manipulating the public debt market." Meadows was very angry.

"When people suddenly lose their minds, following others becomes a kind of self-coercive behavior." Li wanted to behave very rationally at this time and asked, "Have you found anything?"

Narcissus frowned and said, "Lv Zhongqiu checked in Shanghai and analyzed some clues. After the issuance of Xizheng public bonds, the banking groups of the four countries began to use their strong financial resources as backing, quietly eating Xizheng bonds in major cities, and the Xizheng bonds gradually appreciated. At that time, we were very happy about the big sale of Xizheng's public debt, and we were not alert at all. However, since yesterday, the sudden sale of Xizheng public bonds on the Shanghai Stock Exchange has caused a great panic in the market. The newly opened Xinhua Bank is also facing a bankruptcy crisis. The Yangtze River financial system just established by Hankou and Shanghai Chinese businessmen will be controlled by foreigners.

"That's right." Lixiang also agrees with this view. But it doesn't matter. I have a way to treat them.

International bankers want to show their sheep shearing skills in front of Li Xiang. For Li Xiang, who understands the currency war, he doesn't mind taking this opportunity to shear their sheep.

One way for international bankers to make a lot of money is to create an economic recession. The first is to expand credit, blow up the bubble, wait for a large amount of people's wealth to be invested in speculative frenzy, and then extract money to create economic recession and assets

plummeted. When the price of high-quality assets plummeted to one-tenth or even one-hundred percent of the normal price, they bought it at a super low price, which is called "wool shearing" in the terminology of international bankers. When the private central bank was established, the strength and scope of the "wool shearing" operation reached an unprecedented level.

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In Shanghai, the Ailiyuan Hall is full of lively conversations and laughter.

A harpist tuned his tone and began to play an episode in Shakespeare's opera.

One carriage after another drove up the curved lane, stopped to release the elegantly dressed guests, and then drove away to wait for the moment of departure.

In the middle of the hall, Luo Jialing, the plump hostess, was elegantly dressed, and Xu Niang was still charming, standing to greet the guests who arrived one after another.

Her most beautiful adopted daughter, Luo Jialan, was neatly dressed and walked out of the room, but she had not yet joined the small crowd downstairs. She stood on the stairs and hesitated, staring at the pleasant scene below, but felt that it was not in line with her emotions. Since she met Li Xiang, no matter how excellent a man has been seen by her. Although she always tells herself that the mistake of life at first sight is just a beautiful fantasy of Chinese literature, Li Xiang's heroic and romantic figure is always lingering in her heart.

Although he couldn't get up his mood, Luo Jialan, wearing a new dress, quickly walked through the corridor upstairs.

The adoptive father Ha Tong came in a hurry: "I found you! Jialan, come down. As usual, Jialing likes banquets. Today, she is the representative of the Bank of Four Kingdoms in China. She can't stand it anymore..."

Rogalan said without saying anything, "I'll come down in a minute..."

"As long as I can control the currency issuance of a country, I don't care who makes the law." The speaker was a tall young man with a black moustache. But now, the RMB is beyond our control.

For bankers, war is great news. Because all kinds of expensive facilities and goods that are slowly depreciated in peacetime will disappear in an instant during the war, and the warring parties will win at all costs. By the end of the war, the government will be deeply trapped in the bank's debt trap whether it wins or loses.

You can't fight a war without money, and borrowing money from international bankers is undoubtedly putting a noose around your neck. Therefore, Li Xiang didn't think about borrowing money at the beginning, especially borrowing money from the four countries' banks. He did not hesitate to choose to issue his own currency!

Li wants the E government to pass a bill authorizing the Ministry of Finance to issue a fully legally effective currency, pay soldiers' salaries, and then win the revolutionary war. In the area ruled by Ezhou Yofa and the Yangtze River financial system, all people will have no choice on this issue, because Li wants to make this new currency have full legal effect. The government gives them full support, and they will be as common as real money, because Ezhou Yofa grants the Ezhou government to issue and regulate currency. The power of value, from the taxation of the state government of Hubei and the settlement of major merchants of the Yangtze River Commercial Association, all use RMB.

Li thought this shocking method was the same as the green coins issued by the legendary President Lincoln of the United States in order to break the practice of the U.S. government having to borrow money from private banks and pay high interest.

The unique novelty of the green coin issued by Lincoln is that it does not have gold, silver and other monetary metals as collateral at all, and provides 5% interest for 20 years. During the civil war, due to the issuance of this currency, the government's serious currency shortage at the beginning of the war was overcome, and various resources in the north of the United States were greatly and efficiently mobilized, laying a solid economic foundation for the final victory over the South. At the same time, because this low-cost currency has become the reserve currency of the Bank of the North in accordance with the law, the bank credit of the North has been greatly expanded, and military industry, railway construction, agricultural production and commercial trade have been obtained

Unprecedented financial support.

If Li Xiang's RMB, like Lincoln's green coins, makes the finance of the Ezhou government and even the Chinese government gradually get rid of the extremely unfavorable situation that is completely controlled by European bankers composed of the four banking groups, Li Xiang can lay a reliable financial foundation for winning the current Civil War. They support Yuan Shikai is in danger.

And this deeply hurts the interests of the great powers and the fundamental interests of the international financial oligarchs. If all governments brazenly issue their own currency without borrowing money from banks, then the banker's monopoly on currency issuance will no longer exist. Aren't banks going to drink the northwest wind?

After hearing the news that Li wants to issue RMB, the four-nation banking group that has been controlling China's finance is planning a way to destroy the RMB credit. The first step is to crack down on the Xizheng public bonds issued by the Ezhou government.

"Sure enough, this disgusting new fiscal policy from the Lincoln era in the United States has been blown to a backward place like the East. If it can be permanentized, then the government can issue its own currency at no cost. It will be able to pay off all debts and no longer owe debts. It will get all the necessary currency to develop business. It will become an unprecedented prosperous country in the world... This country must be destroyed, otherwise it will destroy the world.

Someone was furious: "It's time to teach these unreasonable Chinese people a lesson. We just need an obedient dog like Yuan Shikai."