The military discipline of the new army is very strict. If it is a soldier who has been nurtured by Ryukyu recruits, when the topic involves sensitive military aspects, the conversation will stop immediately. Even if you are drunk, the new army will have a bottom line.

Of course, with the strict military discipline of the new army, it is impossible for soldiers to be drunk.

Unfortunately, Prussian soldiers have become a breakthrough for intelligence personnel from multiple parties. It is not because these soldiers are not strict in discipline, but because of their embarrassment.

Their main task for coming to Asia was to help the Chinese drive the warships back, and to conduct a series of transmissions and guidance on the way, so that these inexperienced Chinese people quickly became familiar with the operation of the warships.

Although the order they accepted was to accompany Chinese soldiers to fight with them and had to obey the orders of the Chinese captain, there was a big flaw in the military order, that is, should the authorization be until Ryukyu or until they return to their country?

This was a negligence of Besmai, and the result was such an embarrassing situation. When the Zhiyuan departed to the Ryukyu military port, neither these Prussian soldiers nor the Chinese people such as Xiang Ying knew whether the earliest military order was counted or not.

It seems that it is right to obey the Chinese, and it seems that they can't listen. In the end, there is no way to ask Xiao Letian to send a telegram to Prussia to communicate and negotiate on this matter. During the days when they are waiting for the call back, the Prussian soldiers have become very free VIPs.

Perhaps this state of three-indifferentness made the Prussian young man relax his vigilance. After countless drinking, a lot of information about Zhiyuan was leaked.

Every vague piece of information about Zhiyuan is precious. What is strong wind pressure? What is the limit range and precise range of the 210 caliber main gun? How much is the daily coal burning consumption? What is the capacity of the ammunition depot?

The Prussians could not give accurate numbers of these intelligence, but they would give some reference to those spies when they were drunk. These vague data were confused, but it would be amazing to give them to those big-name engineers.

The shipbuilders trained in the Royal Naval Academy in the UK can completely deduce all the data of the Zhiyuan through these fuzzy data, and even the size and strength of the keel can be calculated indefinitely.

The intelligence is not only concentrated on warship military data, but also many of the information that politicians are concerned about has been leaked by these unlucky Prussian children.

How much gold and treasure did the French lose in the Dakar? How much war commission did Chile provide to the Zhiyuan? This intelligence is too precious to politicians.

In the 19th century, the European financial community absolutely believed in the supremacy of the gold standard. The pound, franc, and the US dollar were strictly locked in prices with gold. In that era, it was hard to hear about inflation, but on the contrary, deflation was very common.

Why do many people call the US dollar US dollars? Why is the franc advocated by Napoleon III also called the golden franc? It is because those paper money are strictly locked in gold.

In the eyes of Europeans, silver is just an industrial precious metal, which can be used as a kind of auxiliary to gold, but more often, precious metal, silver, is just a means to gain Asian wealth.

A large number of silver mines excavated from North and South America were simply refined and cast and then flowed to Asia. Before the Opium War, silver remained in mainland China, and was exchanged for ships of silk, porcelain, tea, rhubarb and even pig bristles.

After the Opium War, the game of eye-catching arbitrage was further deepened. They not only used silver to obtain physical wealth, but also used silver to exchange large amounts of gold in China.

Asia has been controlled by the silver standard for too long, and the people and politicians have already had a unique obsession with silver. In the minds of Asians, silver is money, and money is silver.

They had no idea that Europeans had discovered countless high-grade silver mines around the world, and the price of silver had actually begun to avalanches, but the news was blocked.

The British didn't care about Xiao Letian's silver trade in the Pacific, because the British knew very well that the amount of silver mines controlled in their colonies, and they could scare Xiao Letian to death by saying it. The little silver trade that Xiao Letian had was just a drizzle.

But the British would never allow anyone to get involved in their gold trade. If Xiao Lotte shows a very strong interest in gold, this is something that the City of London cannot allow.

"The Zhiyuan actually robbed five tons of gold from Dakar? This number must have moisture, but no matter how large the moisture is, it is a very bad signal... I will send a report to the country immediately and at the same time send a report to the ambassador in Beijing!"

"You guess will Chile provide Xiao Letian with gold? I think the possibility is very high, the momentum is very bad, and I must teach him a lesson..."

British spies first learned about gold information, and it was their wanton dissemination that made the war between the Chinese and Russians suddenly become golden, and a war of revenge actually turned into a strange gold battle.

In the offshore of the Qing Dynasty, dozens of thick undersea cables suddenly became busy, and countless top-secret signals flew to the southeast, west and north.

Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Lion City... and even the Indian subcontinent, the Sri Lanka Lion Kingdom. Almost all British intelligence agencies in Asia have received this golden secret report.

"God! The Chinese robbed five tons of French gold? Report to the supervisor quickly..."

"Chile uses gold ore and silver ore to pay for Zhiyuan's employment expenses? How much is it given? Go and check it quickly..."

The entire British spy network was mobilized, and then for some political reasons, this intelligence began to be shared with the French. The French governors in Vietnam and the Bay of Bengal also quickly obtained this intelligence.

Everyone was dumbfounded and could not believe their eyes, and then there was the roar of countless French people, "Avenge! Revenge must be taken! Despicable robbers, thieves, that is the gold of our France... There are eight tons, and the eight tons of gold is actually cheap. Xiao Letian, I will never allow it..."

Facts have proved that intelligence agencies sometimes exaggerate the words. Whose mouth has changed from three tons to three tons? And who has changed from five tons or eight tons to eight tons. This is completely unverified.

But one thing is certain that this gold has completely ignited the greed of Western colonists, and the money-robbery operation is in progress.

It was not just these few dumps of gold, but also the rumors that Xiao Letian had private vaults in the Pacific have once again flooded.

Many people say that they have a nose and eyes. They say that Xiao Letian robbed Manren's secret treasure treasury outside the pass, and the gold that Manren had plundered for 200 years in the Qing Dynasty, and the wealth that should have been the last emergency rescue of Manren have become Xiao Letian's private wealth.

Xiao Letian is like the legendary pirate king of the Caribbean, hiding countless wealth on the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Those are the start-up funds that Xiao Letian will use for his rebellion in the future.
Chapter completed!