In several large nanmu boxes, more than 30,000 Dutch silver dollars and tens of thousands of Mexican eagles were piled up. However, Chen Hao was no longer interested in these "small money" and took a look at them.

At this time, Chen Hao's greedy eyes were staring at the "Saiyuan" Tang Jianhai searched out from the small secret room of the treasure house, and two night pearls and huge wealth contained in two small golden nanmu wooden boxes!

Looking at the things in front of him, Chen Hao shook his head and sighed: It is worthy of being a wealthy family! Even the boxes of night pearls, silver notes and promissory notes are made of golden nanmu that only royal families can enjoy in China! Hehe! Looking at the huge wealth he snatched back with his own hands, it looks much more comfortable than the wealth sent by others for nothing.

After quick calculations by Ma Zhengyu and several other confidant personnel, there were more than 4.8 million taels of silver notes in the box, and the rest were no US dollars and other currencies, all of them were pounds! There were actually more than 3.1 million pounds!

Seeing a family actually owning so many pounds, Chen Hao sighed in his heart when he was being economically invaded by Western powers led by Britain and the situation in China where silver was constantly depreciating!

After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing government was forced to pay more than 200 million taels of silver to Japan. Most people think that Japan made a fortune. In fact, the Western powers led by Britain were truly profitable and made huge profits.

Because most of the indemnities obtained from Japan's war were used to repay foreign debts borrowed from Western powers and to purchase a large amount of arms from Western powers again, most of the interests flowed into the pockets of Western powers.

These huge compensations were eventually paid to bank groups of Britain, Germany, France, Russia and other countries. These Western powers also passed various additional harsh conditions, and in the end, the total principal and interest of the Qing government's compensation was as high as more than 600 million taels of silver.

The greater benefit obtained by Western powers is the subsequent financial and currency war. Western powers led by Britain conspired with Japan to force China to deliver 230 million taels of Sino-Japanese War reparations in pounds, which made China have to sell silver in exchange for pounds and force China's silver to depreciate.

As a result, the agreed tax rules such as the fixed exchange rate system and other agreements established by China with the Western powers led by Britain were broken under the run of huge war reparations in Japan.

China's silver quickly depreciated to half of its original value. Such a huge depreciation will inevitably cause greater losses to China. The immediate loss is that after the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing government returned loans to Western powers and their financial capital banks, which would result in huge exchange losses, which is known as the pound loss in history.

Such depreciation is a precious metal currency with resource nature. For the depreciation of banknotes that rely on bonds, it greatly intensifies the outflow of silver and resources in China.

In China, the large outflow of silver has caused greater currency deflation, and China's economic development has been completely stifled.

The benefits international financial capital gained through price comparison between gold and silver, and the exchange of pound banknotes for China's real silver, are extremely huge!

Not to mention these indirect financial interests, the taxes and our trade losses after depreciation were huge. The total taxes of China's customs under Hurd's rule continued to increase, from 8.3 million taels in 1865 to 12 million taels in 1875, and in 1885 to 14.5 million taels. In 1887, the import of foreign goods exceeded 100 million customs taels, and by 1894, it had rapidly increased to 162 million customs taels in seven years.

All these losses are definitely not 230 million taels of silver, nor 600 million taels of silver with interest, but a loss of more than one billion to billions of silver! The great powers and international financial capital have made a fortune in China.

Therefore, in China's modern history, we cannot always focus on the compensation for China's defeats in each battle. All compensations are not as much as those of corrupt officials and gentlemen! China's losses lie in the loss of finance and resources. At that time, silver was the resource!

China's resource loss is the key to China's gradual decline into a poor country with difficult survival! The main means of such outflow are not military, but trade, finance and currency.

According to the exchange rate between pounds and silver at this time, more than 3.1 million pounds is equivalent to the value of more than 22 million taels of silver!

For about 5 tons of gold, according to the exchange rate between gold and silver at this time, it is worth at least more than 3 million taels of silver.

In addition to the silver notes and other numerous other wealth, if all converted into silver, Chen Hao actually grabbed a huge wealth of more than 35 million taels of silver in the family of Huang!

Looking at the large amount of gold, promissory notes, silver notes, pearl treasures and other things in front of him, the muscles on Chen Hao's face trembled slightly, and he sighed secretly: Training an army beyond the times, robbing all kinds of ill-gotten wealth everywhere, quickly completing the original accumulation of wealth, and then buying the various resources he needs to develop the economy and army is the kingly choice for time travelers!

Hehe! The robbery is a perfect match for robbery. In the future, the robbery army armed with this patriotic idea and robbing all the countries that have robbed China. This is the kingly way!

Those who travel through time in the novels, return to this era, either develop the economy or revitalize industry. Regardless of whether China has the environment and rigid conditions for developing industry and economy in this era. Even if there is sufficient money, materials and talents, and enough space and time to develop, there is no strong army around to protect it. It is impossible to develop the economy and industry safely without any obstruction.

I was very lucky to come to Borneo, where there is no distinction between the four seasons and the tropical rainforest has a significant climate. In this good place where you can survive without farming, you don’t have to worry about food at all.

Don’t worry about food and clothing. Just use all the resources in your hands and teach the young and middle-aged patriotic Chinese who are willing to join the army with training methods and tactics far beyond this era, so that they can fight against the gradually stronger opponents they choose, and use war to support the war, and they can train a world-leading army within a few years!

And grabbing those young and middle-aged Indonesians and whip them to plant various crops such as grain, rubber trees, etc., can also ensure their various needs.

In this way, with a strong army and food in hand, we have won countless money by using the method of "fighting to fight" to seize the law. At that time, who else and the country will have the ability to stop their rise!
Chapter completed!