Chapter 1236: The First Step of Annexation (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

Life. Uh... uh, it all depends on luck.

Maybe you were drinking brandy a minute ago... uh, or maybe you were having a sweet dream, but you woke up from it the next second.

In the next few hours, Edward undoubtedly fell into hell - his manager told him that the exchanges in London and New York required him to cover his positions, which would cost about four or five million pounds!

Perhaps he inherited millions of pounds, but it was definitely not enough to cover his losses, and at the same time, many friends called him and asked for an explanation.

More importantly, those big shots!

The big shots are also asking him to explain.

A considerable portion of his investments came from big shots!

what to do?

"I'm done!"

Sitting in the office, Sassoon had countless possibilities flashing through his mind. He looked out the window, at the people walking on the street outside. Once upon a time, he thought those people were a group of pitiful guys, with neither wealth nor status, and could only live a life of hard work and mediocrity. But what about now?

Edward began to envy the ordinary lives of ordinary people.

Just then the phone rang again. He picked up the phone and heard his wife's voice.

"Edward."

"Erin,"

"Father just called,"

Irene said on the other end of the line.

"He told me everything, and his advice was that you had to end it yourself."

"What? End? How does it end? Irene..."

"He said, you know, for me, for our children! You have to end this!"

Then the call was hung up. There was no emotion in Irene's voice, as if she was talking to a stranger.

For people like them, emotions themselves are a burden...

Looking at the phone on the table, Ed fell into extreme panic. He certainly knew what Irene meant when she asked him to accept all this on his own.

How to end all this?

The answer is very simple.

Just let him die!

"What a heartless bitch!"

While Edward was cursing his wife, he took out a cigar from his cigarette case, lit it, and walked up a flight of stairs with the cigar in his mouth. His office was on the fifth floor, and the top floor was upstairs.

In fact, he didn't need to go upstairs at all, he just needed to open the window, but the air upstairs was better and the view was wider. In the past, when faced with many choices, he would go upstairs to smoke a cigar while...

But all this meant nothing to Edward.

Not only did he lose all his property, but he also had to bear huge debts!

More importantly, those powerful people who lost a lot of wealth in this incident will not let him go easily. Living... He no longer has a chance to live, and what awaits him is death.

The Rothschild family will never let him go. This time the family lost at least 10 million pounds! From London to Paris to Berlin, all family members suffered heavy losses in this investment. They will definitely not let him go.

Besides, there are so many powerful people! They also suffered heavy losses in this investment. How could they let him go?

It's time to end this.

Standing on the edge of the building, Edward took a few tablets of "Liqingsong" after smoking a cigar. It must be said that after taking the medicine, he felt much more relaxed, and even the fear disappeared.

This medicine is really good!

But God can testify that this drug was obtained by Imperial Pharmaceuticals from... What a despicable bunch of guys, they forbade people from all over the world to sell exclusive products to the Empire, but what about themselves? They sold the drugs extracted from it to the whole world.

Despicable!

But no matter how he cursed the empire's double standards in his heart, he could not change his own fate... - Not only did he go bankrupt, but he was also abandoned by the entire upper class.

Edward looked at the people walking downstairs, then took a step forward.

Sometimes, life is just like that...it's all about luck.

You were just jogging on your way to meet a client, but in the blink of an eye you were covered in blood. Before you could react, a bloody corpse appeared in front of you.

You don’t even get compensation—the perpetrator is already dead.

Some people cried and some people laughed on this day.

There is no doubt that some people received extremely generous returns on this day - for the empire's investment traders, their profits on this day were generous, and they also purchased silver futures according to the instructions of the empire's top leaders.

But unlike those who jump off buildings when buying on the dip, they buy on the rise!

Amid the bullish voices, the depreciation of silver was curbed in less than an hour, and at the close of the day, it even broke through 18.

This is simply the "big miracle day" for silver. Once upon a time, under the crackdown by Europe and the United States and other countries, silver seemed to be about to be eliminated from the circulation of currency.

But what about now?

With the endorsement of a powerful empire, the undervalued value of silver over the years was immediately fully reflected.

"confidence!"

In the imperial palace of Zhongdu, Emperor Zhu said to Qian Degong.

"For thousands of years, compared to gold, silver has been the most important currency in circulation. Gold may be expensive, but it belongs to the rich. Only silver...silver belongs to the people and is the real currency in circulation. In the past ten years, one country after another has abolished the silver standard, but it has not destroyed people's faith in silver. Now, all I need is to give them confidence. In the war of currencies, gold and silver are not the most important. The most important thing is confidence!"

The human heart is a very magical thing. As long as you can find the trigger point, you can use the human heart to your advantage.

"Confidence is indeed crucial. It is also the basis for us to win this war. However, Your Majesty, the currency war is still going on!"

Emperor Zhu nodded.

"It will definitely continue. The gold standard is unwilling to surrender. They are not willing to give up the mainstream status of the gold standard easily, nor can they devalue it significantly. But one thing is certain: in the next decade or so, the supply of gold may increase, but it will definitely not be able to meet the market's demand for currency. The tight money supply in the market will intensify people's hoarding of gold coins. As the money supply increases, the market will deteriorate, which is the Great Depression."

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.

"Our silver production with Mexico will increase to 4,000 tons or even 5,000 tons in the next few years. Together with the silver exports from the United States, we can ensure that silver-based countries have sufficient silver coins. This will further promote our economic development and even further increase the export competitiveness of Daming's domestic industries. So now we need to prepare for the next stage."

Emperor Zhu was not satisfied with his temporary success.

"Next stage?"

Qian Degong looked at His Majesty in confusion.

"Facing opponents like Britain and the United States, we need more than just the Four Emperors' Alliance to win."

Emperor Zhu said,

"Besides, there are always only interests between countries. The future of the Four Emperors' Alliance is still uncertain. It's a pity that the British have never thought about uniting Europe. Their thinking for hundreds of years is to mess up the European continent. Otherwise, we really have no chance to establish the Four Emperors' Alliance. But this is not important. After all, our core is in America and the Pacific region. Europe... Our thinking is also to mess up Europe and contain Britain's power in Europe."

To Europe, Britain is a troublemaker. It is unwilling to allow Europe to unite at any time, even if such unity is achieved under Britain's leadership. Of course, for the Ming Dynasty, a united Europe is not what the Ming Dynasty needs either. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty also did not consider bringing Europe together. It only considered kidnapping France, Russia, and at most the Austro-Hungarian Empire onto the chariot of the empire, and then jointly disintegrate the British Empire.

"Now with the rise of the empire, especially as South American countries understand the empire, the people who were oppressed under the caudillo system are eager for a change in their lives. The caudillo system is shaking, and in fact, annexing them is also part of a currency war."

In the past few months, facing this currency war, Emperor Zhu saw a new opportunity.

"We can definitely take advantage of their desire for an empire and bring that South American country under the rule of the empire, and currency... is the first step to annexation!"

(End of this chapter)