Edo Traveler

v11 Chapter 87: The way to ask for money is difficult

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Isn't this a joke!

Everyone, who doesn't know who, when Jingyi Nairobi was in office, he took large-scale commercial and foreign debts, and he played the idea that I would spend it first and enjoy it first, and then people would worry about it when I died. What do you say about that thing, after I die, let him flood the sky.

You said that you have finished preparing the budget for this year in the UK, and you cannot allocate the money for this year's payment. You will have to wait for next year. I still don't know if your prime minister will be replaced next year. Even if the prime minister does not change, next year's budget will be able to guarantee that the hundreds of thousands will be included and then allocated in place?

Immediately, Songping Qi Xuan's face turned ugly, but he was a scene man, and he was not at the age of teenagers who acted recklessly. And before they came, they knew that just to quell the riots in India, the British had mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and spent more than 40 million in military spending.

He is domineering and arrogant, but he is not an idiot!

It is very clear that the shogunate at this time is impossible to directly turn against the British, so the tone just changed to a dull tone. Explain to Alcock about the fact that the troops owe their salaries and make a lot of noise, and you can be perfunctory for a few months in stipends.

Seeing that Songping Qi Xuan didn't look like a fake, Alcock also knew that the military salary was indeed owed a bit much. But which unit of the British army does not owe pay? When fighting, of course, you have to get used to the little ones. The battle is over, who cares about it.

Moreover, it was a common practice for European armies to pay unpaid wages, and many monarchs believed that unpaid wages to mercenaries was a means of ensuring that they continued to fight. This allows those mercenaries to stay in their own camp and avoid switching to others, regardless of the money they didn't get.

Of course, if the opposite party comes with cash, for example, in some battles in Italy, you owe military pay, and people will run away.

"In that case, within a week, I will transfer another 100,000 pounds to your country." Alcock thought for a while.

He had already reported to London for his contribution in pacifying the great uprising in India, but he could not resign from the post of Minister to Japan for a while, and he had to work in Japan for a year and a half. In order to avoid a difficult meeting with the shogunate in the future, I still think of a way to raise a little more, and let the training team deal with it.

Don't let things on the transfer team hinder his promotion. His whole mind now must be on trying to find someone to go to London. After two years in India, Alcock also had a rich eunuch, and now he can't take out part of it and send it to London, so that the London gentlemen can say good things about him.

"I also ask Mr. Minister to pay more money and allocate funds as soon as possible." After Songping Qixuan finished speaking, he got up and left.

After walking out of the British embassy and getting into the carriage, Matsudaira Qixuan's face collapsed, and Toshizo Hijikata, Takeyo Enomoto, and Kaishu Katsuhiro, who acted as translators, were also silent.

It's clear that the British just don't want to give it. If you stare at it every day, you may even give you 350,000. When Alcock leaves office, the next minister will never help the previous one to wipe his ass.

Hundreds of thousands of taels owed in salaries and pensions was completely lost!

"What should we do now?" Matsudaira Qixuan didn't have much experience in foreign affairs, so he was also anxious.

"The Tatsuno Servant Hall should negotiate as soon as possible!" Katsukai Shun has been in Yokohama for a long time, and he is very aware of the situation of the foreigners.

Now the lawsuit must be brought to the official public side first, not to make a big deal of the matter, but the main thing is to let the British recognize the matter first. Want that kind of official, written confirmation that such a sum of money is owed to the shogunate. Only in the future can we continue to fight with the British.

If you don't take advantage of Alcock's presence, you'll have to set things up. When he leaves, it will definitely be over, and there will be no hair left for you.

"As far as I know, Viscount Canning, the British governor in India, has received the grace of the British king and will be promoted to earl. I think it must be of great use. If he leaves India, the account is completely gone." Hijikata Suishan has been fighting with Viscount Canning for more than a year to understand the actual military situation in India.

Now that Viscount Canning is going to be promoted and left, Alcock is also going to be promoted and leave, and the two most important parties are going to be promoted and run away.

We can't let the embassy that is visiting Europe go to Queen Victoria to face the line. Not to mention that the embassy is probably already in Vienna for a while, and it is not worth it to quarrel with the Queen just for the sake of hundreds of thousands.

The Queen gave the Tokugawa family a big ship that was worth tens of thousands of pounds. Of course, she hoped to maintain a good relationship with the shogunate and expand the Japanese market. But the bureaucrats below are able to drag things out alive.

"Are you going to ask Chuemon to negotiate with the British?" Matsudaira Qixuan heard a few people talking, and subconsciously thought of Chuemon.

Although the foreign policy of the shogunate is Yasaka Wakisaka, also known as His Highness the so-called servant of Ryuno, but in fact it is known to the individual that if something really happens to the shogunate, Chuemon has to come forward to negotiate. Just speaking of this experience in foreign affairs, it must be Chuemon's best.

"I don't need to work for the time being, His Royal Highness Edogawa, please ask Kanimaru-sama to come forward." Katsu Kaishu continued to suggest.

The Shogunate and the United Kingdom are still in a very happy stage of cooperation. When you come up, you will send Shigeki Saisuke to negotiate with the United Kingdom. If there are any twists and turns in the future, it is not easy to send someone.

So let Wakisaka Yasuzaka issue a document, and then send Suke six to Yokohama, asking Alcock to admit that he has the money first, and then consider the next step according to the development of the matter.

"Alright..." Songping Qixuan was as good as he was.

The 200,000 pounds obtained by the British were quickly converted into 200,000 taels of gold at Binhai Customs. Songping Qixuan would not extend his hand on this kind of money, and immediately ordered the troops to gather and pay the living soldiers first.

When the British were thirsty for soldiers before, in addition to the original military salaries, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com also promised that soldiers who served in India would receive double stipends every day. One day in India is one day's double salary. Now that 200,000 taels have been issued, the soldiers and soldiers feel that there are few.

According to the regulations, soldiers who are wounded or who have meritorious service can be subsidized, and the subsidy is not small. Nurse Nightingale saw wounded soldiers on the battlefields of Crimea, and each received about two pounds of fresh meat every day, as well as wine and candy or tea.

As a result, in order to prevent their meat from being stolen by others, the soldiers tied the meat with their own leggings and cooked it in a shared cauldron.

Also, that bacteria or something directly sent you a big spread. Eating boiled meat bound with leggings or even bandages, although some of the bacteria were boiled to death, who knows if there are still strong ones who survived.

It's amazing not to die!

Like the soldiers of the British army, the troops of the training team to India also received various promises from the senior British army during the war. Entering the city for three days without naming is just one of them, including the daily supply of food, the replacement of military boots and clothing, as well as subsidies for high temperature, as well as subsidies for siege first, etc., a lot of things.

Now that the war is over, the original promises, as long as they have not been fulfilled, all have the possibility of being turned into nothing.