When Liang Shiyi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Yes, our Chinese Empire has 450 million citizens and 1.3 million army. How can we say that it can have the foundation of a great power in the international community? France

Both the President and the Prime Minister went to Russia to promote alliance relations, but only sent a deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ask us to announce our commitment to the Sino-French alliance. This is too much to look down on us."

Liang Shiyi is an official elected by the New Policy Strong Congress. In fact, he is Yuan Shikai's person. However, Yuan Shikai deliberately withdrew from the New Policy Strong Congress and served as a cabinet minister as a member of any political party, indicating that he and Xu Shichang, Liang Shiyi, Cai Tinggan, Duan Qirui and other old subordinates have already been

No association.

The New Deal Powered Congress is actually very strong in the cabinet, and it has the ability to completely replace the Restoration Party and form a cabinet. This is a completely different place between the New Deal Powered Congress and several other political parties. Therefore, the Restoration Party chose to strengthen the Congress and the New Deal Powered Congress.

Jointly form a cabinet to rule.

Song Biao did not like the group of people who strengthened the Congress of the New Deal, but the abilities and experience of these people were also urgently needed by the Empire at present. There were not many people who were truly capable of presided over important cabinet departments in the Restoration Association, at least when they first formed a cabinet.

Not enough.

After listening to Liang Shiyi's words, Tang Shaoyi said more experiencedly: "The reputation of the empire is still second-rate. It is definitely not a great power in the Battle of 1911. Russia's current status is also proved by the wars of Europe. The emperor's wiseness,

Now that things have come to this point, if you win more than lose less, you might as well fight Germany again with great fanfare to prove our status. The emperor's meaning must be understood in your heart that if our country wants to formally declare war, it is a trivial matter for France to send only one deputy minister.

It is impossible to give more conditions.”

Song Biao smiled and pointed at Tang Shaoyi and said, "You Prime Minister understands me. Of course, small things are also big things. Since French Prime Minister Vivinia has arrived in Russia, let him come here, no matter how hard he is.

The cabinet only simulated the couple saying a few words of persuasion to peace, let alone expect me to come forward and make a final statement."

Tang Shaoyi nodded and said, "Don't worry, the emperor, the ministers have made Ouyang Gengwai, who is in St. Petersburg, speak up to French President Penalle. If the French Prime Minister cannot arrive in our country and make certain promises, our country will not take risks with Germany.

Such a country has started a full war!”

Song Biao said: "Face depends on strength, but sometimes, having strength is easy to be considered easy to bully. Therefore, the empire must keep its word and be fully prepared for a rogue and rogue government.

If this is the case, we cannot fight for the best interests of the empire and the 400 million people."

Tang Shaoyi could only say yes and said, "What the emperor said is very true!"

Although Liang Shiyi was just the Director of Customs at this moment, he looked down on Tang Shaoyi's cowardice. Of course, he knew that anyone could only sit in this position. He just felt that instead of doing this, it would be better to let him do it directly instead of letting Tang Shaoyi be the prime minister.

Be the Prime Minister.

He always felt that signing an alliance agreement with France was a big mistake in itself. Now he was trying to see how Tang Shaoyi ended and to see Tang Shaoyi's joke, although he was also one of Tang Shaoyi's subordinates back then.

Liang Shiyi was thinking this way, and Song Biao suddenly changed the topic and said to the ministers: "War is imminent, and our country has no possibility of escape. Now we need to mobilize urgently. The departments in charge should also actively cooperate with the Central Military Department.

Work."

The ministers headed by Tang Shaoyi nodded at the same time and agreed together.

Song Biao asked Liang Shiyi: "Have the customs emergency plan already been completed?"

Liang Shiyi immediately replied: "Report to the emperor, the emergency plan for the customs has been prepared. If Germany and France start war, my country's exports to Germany will definitely stagnate across the board. The customs will add an approval schedule and open a backup warehouse station at the checkpoints in various places. In addition, the customs has already Issuing a warning to ask merchants from all over the country to suspend the purchase of German goods and to make sure that they should not pay in advance, so as to avoid unnecessary losses in the war.”

Song Biao nodded slightly and continued to ask Zhang Kangren, Ouyang Xi and Rong Yaoyuan: "How is the international silver price going to be in the past few days, and what will happen in the future? Do you have a rough solution?"

Zhang Kangren replied: "Report to the emperor, the international silver price has been soaring since the end of June. The international silver price against gold in early June was 28.53, and it increased to 24.45 on July 20. The bottom line we estimated was 25, so In advance, we sold silver reserves and purchased gold in London, Zhendan, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Our silver spit was large, and temporarily pushed the silver price back below 25. However, it is still hard to say how long it can be suppressed. International capital has been from Eastern Europe. Germany, France and Russia evacuated very quickly and fled to the silver market in large quantities. If it weren't for the stricter "National Currency and Foreign Trade Act" that my country had formulated at the beginning of the year, I really don't know how much silver would flow from the market to abroad. The problem is that the empire uses the silver standard and silver reserves as its currency basis. The current silver reserves sold have reached 40 million taels, and this is actually just the beginning."

Song Biao thought for a moment and asked, "How much does the imperial silver reserves still have?"

Zhang Kangren said: "There are 134 million taels of silver. The silver currency value-added reserves held by Far East Bank, Tongshang Bank, Shanghai Bank and other foreign banks have a total of about 230 million taels of silver. As far as we know, Dehua Bank has sold

A large amount of silver reserves were released to purchase gold, and the sales volume should have exceeded the limits of the banking law and no notification was made to the Imperial Bank."

Song Biao said: "Suspend all his business in China and send police to temporarily seal his silver reserve warehouse in Shanghai and Northeast China."

Zhang Kangren said yes.

Song Biao thought about it for a while, but he was still not very proficient in these issues, so it was difficult to explain exactly how to arrange it. As for the issue of the rise and fall of silver, he and Ouyang Xi discussed it separately a few months ago.

According to Ouyang Xi's analysis, if silver steadily increased from 31 to 28 as steadily in previous years, it would be beneficial to the empire, but if it grows rapidly by more than 20% within a year, it would be effective for the empire.

The above means that the disadvantages outweigh the benefits, unless the empire can prohibit the outflow of silver from private institutions and individuals.

Therefore, once the silver price breaks a limit, the Imperial Bank must intervene in the international market's silver price and force silver to lower it to avoid the surge in domestic silver prices leading to short-term price increases. Even if the growth of silver prices is an inevitable trend, the Empire is unable to fight

, and the process of increasing silver prices should be as smooth as possible.

If it is a slow growth, it will have mixed advantages and disadvantages for the empire. The disadvantage is that the country's labor cost advantage is reduced. The advantage is that the state and private purchasing power are enhanced and the national purchasing power is enhanced. Especially after the short-term price rise, in the long run, with silver in the long run,

When prices rise, prices will show a downward trend compared to the growth of national income.

Song Biao cannot tell whether Ouyang Xi’s analysis is right or wrong, but apart from Ouyang Xi, there is no more suitable experts in this field in China for the time being.

Therefore, Song Biao chose to believe Ouyang Xi's judgment, and to try his best to prevent the increase in silver prices first, or to make this unstoppable trend more smooth as much as possible, and then give up the silver standard under a suitable condition.

Avoid the impact of international silver price growth.

China's central government's financial strength is still too weak. Compared with the overflowing capital of billions of pounds in the international market at this time, the reserves of hundreds of millions of taels of silver are simply vulnerable. The international capital market has only 200 million pounds rushed out to buy it.

Silver can directly swallow up the silver reserves of the Central Monetary Reserves Administration.

Fortunately, 200 million pounds are not a small amount for the time being. As long as the First World War did not really break out, it is expected that it will not be so crazy. But once the war breaks out completely and continues until both sides clearly enter a state of war of attrition, then

There will be assets of more than one billion pounds entering the silver market, pushing the silver price back to 1:15 or even 1:10, unless the world's largest silver circulation country, the Chinese Empire, completely abandons the silver standard.

.

This is a very complex question. How should China face such a situation? At this time, even Ouyang Xi and Zhang Kangren do not have an accurate and reliable answer.

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