New Ming Empire mixed in America

The reality was pretty much what Li Mingqi thought. Within a few days of winning three, he jumped out to start a quarrel with the media that led the team.

It is really impossible not to fight. If Daiying continues like this, the property of the three royal families will be reduced by more than half.

"You said this bunch of shit is targeting the Orientals?" Nathan yelled at the foreign minister who came to persuade him in the palace.

"They are slapping me in the face, they are digging up my roots, they are trying to bankrupt me!"

Pointing at the Foreign Minister, Nasan continued to scold: "What do you do for a living? You didn't communicate with Dai Ying when something like this happened, but you came to persuade me not to speak out?"

"Your Majesty, as long as you tolerate it for a while, the economies of those Easterners will collapse. In this case, they will no longer be able to continue to provide weapons to Mexico."

The Foreign Secretary was still admonishing him earnestly, hoping that Nasan would repent.

But how could Nasan listen to him? If he really followed what he said, the Oriental people might collapse.

But the royal family’s wealth will almost be destroyed by then!

He could still distinguish between the royal family's money and France's money. What was the purpose of attacking Mexico?

In addition to diverting conflicts and developing external affairs, the biggest reason is to improve his prestige and attract money for himself.

You can't throw yourself into France's future, right?

If the royal family ran out of money, Nasan couldn't imagine how his subordinates would use finance to choke him.

Originally, because of the loss of the right to borrow from foreign countries, France's right to speak was taken away by Congress. If he loses the financial support of the royal family, his words will probably be useless in the country.

After scolding the Foreign Minister away, Nasan began to complain about Li Mingqi again:

"That bastard emperor from the East can endure until now. Does he really want to see his country's financial collapse?"

In fact, Li Mingqi was living a very prosperous life at this time. Relying on the intelligence agency to cash out large sums of gold around the world, Li Mingqi now has a lot of gold reserves in his internal funds.

In this era, counterfeiting of checks and money orders was much easier than banknotes, and the same fake checks could be exchanged for pounds in batches at different places.

However, Daiying's hype was not without harm to the Xinming Empire. Most of the merchant ships that came to the San Francisco port area for transactions no longer accepted aluminum crown coins, and began to use stainless steel crown coins for transactions.

The current stainless steel crown coins, which are shinier than silver and will not oxidize and turn black, can maintain their value much better than aluminum crown coins in the eyes of these businessmen.

No one knows whether the aluminum crown coins will depreciate on a large scale, so businessmen would rather go to some trouble and exchange the aluminum crown coins in their hands for stainless steel crown coins.

The Royal Bank has now posted a notice stating that it can carry out exchange business for aluminum crown coins and stainless steel crown coins without restrictions.

To the outside world, this was Li Mingqi trying to make a fool of himself, but in fact Li Mingqi was almost overjoyed.

Now if you use stainless steel crown coins to trade, the cost will be reduced to the point where you can get it for free. How could he be unhappy?

With the large-scale exchange of stainless steel crown coins, the first thing to be affected is the Spanish silver coin market. After all, the silver coins will not look good after being circulated for a long time.

There are too many factors that affect the appearance, such as blackening, tooth marks, damage, and scratches.

But stainless steel crown coins are much better. Not only in the sun, the precise ridges on them will refract different sunlight.

And every coin is brand new. In order to make it easier for people to carry it, the Royal Bank has also launched a coin storage (cylindrical type)

Moreover, the anti-counterfeiting marks on the money orders issued by the Xinming Empire for large transactions are more difficult to forge than the money orders issued by any national bank in the world.

No, money orders that are like works of art in the eyes of merchants cannot be faked at all.

Not only does it have a pattern that can switch between Li Mingqi's head and bust when facing the sun, there is also an anti-counterfeiting mark that can only be revealed with professional lighting.

There is even a scratched and invalidated number area on each money order. When exchanging money at the Xinming Empire Royal Bank, bank staff can scratch off the layer to reveal the number inside for comparison.

If someone can still fake it despite all the above measures, then Li Mingqi has the final resort - plastic sealing!

He didn't believe that anyone could come up with plastic wrap at this time and use it to seal money orders.

Because of these anti-counterfeiting measures, money orders from the Xinming Empire were very popular.

Later, Li Mingqi found that he could even save the cost of crown coins and just give money orders directly to those merchants.

Originally, Li Mingqi planned to use later industrial silver as currency, but since the rise of stainless steel crown coins, he gave up this 'luxury' approach.

So a month later, Daiying discovered that his propaganda campaign did not collapse the Xinming Empire's finances, but on the contrary almost caused Nasan and Spain to fall out with them.

Therefore, the propaganda offensive gradually stopped, and newspapers began to reprint Nasan's remarks in an attempt to cut the last wave of leeks.

This kind of move by Dai Ying has no use at all except for causing more businessmen in the country to go bankrupt and jump off the building because of buying stocks of electrolytic aluminum companies.

Li Mingqi even took the time to remotely control the intelligence organization in London through wireless telegraphy, and released the news that the exchange rate between the aluminum crown coin and the British pound was about to increase to retaliate against the British.

Not to mention that this method was naive, at least many businessmen who sold their aluminum crown coins at low prices began to curse the British government.

Time passed slowly in this invisible economic war, and the time had come to the end of April 1863.

At this time, diplomat Chen Hong, who was far away in Lima, the former capital of Peru, faced his first challenge.

"This is the concession area we got from the Chileans, and Chile promised to return only the urban area of ​​Lima. You have no right to ask us to withdraw from here!"

Faced with the request of the Peruvian envoy to let the Xinming Empire return the concession area, Chen Hong strongly resisted.

"I think you should return it. After all, this has always been Peruvian land, and it is very unwise to set up diplomats in the capital of a warring country."

Dai Ying, the envoy responsible for mediating, pretended to persuade Chen Hong:

"You should evacuate with the Chileans and go to the capital of Chile to re-establish the embassy district."

Chen Hong looked at the envoy with Ying, shook his head and said:

"His Majesty the Emperor of our country originally sent me here to set up an embassy in the concession area of ​​Lima, so it is impossible for us to withdraw from this concession area."

"You can make this request to our Emperor, and after obtaining approval, we will return the concession area to Peru."

After finishing speaking, Chen Hong said something to the Peruvian envoy that made him furious.

"I advise you not to touch the downtown square and the Beijing Tower in the port area, because there are warnings written on them by His Majesty the Emperor of our country."

"That is an imperial edict. Not to mention you, even if His Majesty's descendants ascend the throne in the future, you will not have the right to change it."

Pointing to the huge Beijing Tower standing in the port area, Chen Hong reached out and made an invitation gesture after finishing speaking, signaling the envoys of the two countries to leave the fortress in the concession area.

But the Peruvian envoy sneered and said:

"I think you won't stay here for too long. I look forward to seeing you leave in despair after learning that your fleet has been destroyed, haha..."