After the end of the Sino-US diplomatic war, this was the first time for the US government to lose diplomatically, and the other party was a yellow country that was once bullied by the United States, which immediately made a considerable number of Americans dissatisfied.

Especially when the Chinese Empire easily left US$470 million from the US circle, which was equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the United States that year, a considerable number of American citizens were unhappy.

The wealth they worked hard to create for the United States was taken away by the Chinese Empire, and they thought it was simply a robbery.

As a result, protests broke out in various parts of the United States, and workers in Chicago were on strike to protest against the implementation of the ten-hour working system in the United States. Therefore, workers in Chicago took the opportunity to expand the scale of protests and forced the US government to order the ten-hour working system to nine-hour working system.

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But this does not completely divert the attention and anger of American citizens, because the American opposition Democratic Party is unwilling to fail, so it criticized the Republican-ruling US government everywhere, causing protests in the United States.

As a last resort, US President McKinley gave speeches everywhere, using his prestige to try to calm the anger of the people.

At the same time, the Democratic Party of the United States is trying to contact Vice President Roosevelt. They found that Roosevelt's political tendencies are different from the Republicans' propositions, and they are more like Democrats. The current Republican government bombards the Rockefeller consortium on the antitrust law issue, and the main figure is Roosevelt. McKinley is an indecisive person, and Roosevelt's decisiveness and determination in the Spanish-American War made him the main figure in the strategic decision-making of the US government.

Since American political parties allow job-changing, the Democrats hope to win over Roosevelt in to crack down on the Republican Party's political achievements and reputation, thereby increasing bargaining chips for the Democrats' rule.

After a period of contact, Roosevelt clearly opposed the monopoly trust behavior of the Rockefeller Consortium, which was in line with the interests of the Democratic Party's backstage Morgan Consortium. The Democratic Party then supported Roosevelt to fully attack the Rockefeller Consortium.

This incident was soon discovered by the Rockefeller Consortium. Rockefeller Jr. further threatened McKinley and Roosevelt through the Republican Party, asking them to stop sanctions against the Rockefeller Consortium, but Roosevelt refused, and McKinley eventually stood on Roosevelt's side.

As a result, McKinley and Roosevelt became enemies of the Rockefeller Consortium, and the shareholders of the Rockefeller Consortium decided to find an excuse to knock down McKinley and Roosevelt many of them even wanted to kill McKinley.

Similarly, for the Democratic Party, McKinley opposed Roosevelt to get too close to the Democratic Party. Although McKinley cooperated with the Democratic Party on the issue of cracking down on trust organizations such as the Rockefeller Consortium, it is his mission as the Republican leader to crack down on hostile parties. So McKinley threatened Roosevelt that if he did not clear the line with the Democratic Party, he would submit this matter to the Republican meeting to resolve it. In this way, Roosevelt would face the danger of being removed. In this way, the Democratic Party members who were optimistic about Roosevelt decided to attack McKinley. Several Democratic Party members planned to kill McKinley, such as the Vice President, Roosevelt's successor to the President, would be extremely beneficial to the Democratic Party.

On September 6, McKinley took a special plane to visit Niagara Falls at the junction of the United States and Canada according to the scheduled schedule. He then attended a grand reception at the Fair Concert Hall.

At the reception, guests from all walks of life gathered. They lined up and waited for the opportunity to shake hands with the long-awaited President. In this enthusiastic crowd, an anarchist lurked. His name is Leon, Joelgos, 28 years old, was born in a Bolan immigrant family. His purpose here was not to shake hands with President McKinley.

Joelgos was mingling in the fanatical crowd, getting closer and closer to McKinley. He held his breath, suppressed his inner movements, quietly took out a gun from his pocket, wrapped his right hand with a white bandage-like cloth, and hid the pistol inside. He nervously searched for the traces of the guards, and found that their number of alerts was significantly less. He was scanning around and waiting to shake hands with the president. He didn't notice his actions at all, so he felt a little happy. Joelgos finally walked to McKinley, and faced McKinley's right hand, he stretched out his left hand.

While McKinley was stunned in surprise, he quickly pushed McKinley's hand away with his left hand, pulled the trigger with his right hand, and shot two shots at McKinley's abdomen. McKinley's snow-white shirt was quickly stained with dazzling blood.

Originally, these guards should have used their bodies to block bullets for the president, but they were both slow for 5 seconds that day, allowing the assassin to shoot calmly.

As the gunshots came, people's beeping. The guards hesitated for a while before rushing to capture the murderer on the spot.

McKinley was immediately sent to the Expo emergency room, where the conditions were very simple and could hardly be called a hospital.

Under the dim light, unprepared doctors rushed to rescue the president in a hurry. They took out the bullet from McKinley's xiong department, but the extremely poor medical conditions made them unable to find the bullet that shot into the president's abdomen, so they sewed the president's wound. At the beginning, the president seemed to have passed the dangerous period, and the doctors even issued a news announcement to announce to the press and anxious people of the whole country that there was no serious symptoms. However, the second bullet had actually caused ulceration in the body. The doctors later blamed the president for being too obese and sitting in a chair for a long time, rarely moving, which greatly reduced the possibility of survival.

On the 14th, US President McKinley was assassinated as the 25th president.

McKinley's death quickly alarmed the entire United States and successfully diverted the attention of American citizens. After taking office, he adopted a policy of raising tariffs and stabilizing currency. With other measures, the US economy has made great progress, and McKinley has gained the reputation of a "prosperous president". Due to McKinley's reputation, his assassination made American citizens very sad, and the massive protests disappeared, which really made the US government relieved.

The assassination of the US president quickly spread all over the world. When Emperor Chenhao of the Chinese Empire in the Forbidden City of Beijing learned about this, he just smiled faintly, and many things did not change because of Wang Chenhao's arrival.

"Your Majesty, the assassin who assassinated McKinley said that he was the reason for killing McKinley because McKinley looked like Napoleon imagined.

The cabinet minister Zhang Feng came to see Wang Chenhao with today's newspaper and told Wang Chenhao this great fun.

Wang Chenhao laughed and said, "Is the world so amazing?"

Zhang Feng said: "The assassin is a Bolan immigrant. It is said that Napoleon slaughtered many Bolan people when he attacked Russia."

"Where is a war that does not kill civilians?"

Wang Chenhao snorted coldly, and then asked Napoleon about the defeat of Russia, so he made a fuss.

Zhang Feng seemed to see Wang Chenhao's concerns, so he said: "Although the Russians beat Napoleon and thus became one of the world's powerful countries and became the horn of the European military police, Napoleon was also careless. If it were an empire, he would have beaten Russia all over the ground."

Wang Chenhao said: "Be careful of losing Jingzhou, and many strong people are detested in the battlefield because of this."

Zhang Feng hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is instructing you."

Wang Chenhao then asked, "How are you preparing?"

Zhang Feng didn't need to guess that Wang Chenhao was asking about the war preparations against the Tsarist Russian Empire. So he said: "Report to Your Majesty, the military mobilization has been completed in secret. In addition to the 1.62 million front-line troops, the seven military regions have recruited 40,000 Wufeng soldiers. The new recruits have been trained for six months and have the ability to reserve combat. The combat material reserves have been completed by more than half, and it is expected that all the vents will be completed by the end of the month."

Wang Chenhao nodded, the progress was good.

Zhang Feng asked: "Your Majesty, are you planning to raid Russia?"

Seeing Zhang Feng’s concern, Wang Chenhao said, “This war is inevitable. Since we are ready, don’t wait until the Russians are ready to go to war. We must take the initiative.”

Zhang Feng sighed: "I also know that this war is inevitable, but I still don't want it to break out. A war will have an impact on the empire's economy regardless of winning or losing."

This is true. War consumes national strength. Just like non-renewable resources, it consumes a little less.

"We have no choice but to do so. As a country that has been bullied by the great powers for more than half a century, it is impossible to rise peacefully. Because Western European and American countries will not watch a powerful China rise, so the rise of the empire must have a stepping stone, and this stepping stone is Russia, the weaker among the Western powers."

Zhang Feng nodded and said, "Although Russia has lost its past style, the thin Luo Luo is bigger than the horse after all."

Wang Chenhao smiled and said, "Don't worry, although I plan to take the initiative, I am not thinking about fighting to Moscow. I will not bully the military and take Napoleon's path to defeat."

Then, Wang Chenhao paused and said, "In fact, the reason why I changed my combat plan was because my previous comprehensive defense strategy was inappropriate. The empire bordered Russia and the border was tens of thousands of miles long. Russia may mobilize millions of troops for this purpose. If you blindly defend it passively, it will involve a large amount of troops and energy of the empire, and it will be difficult to defend. In addition, the war may burn into the empire's territory. Wouldn't it cause the empire's citizens to suffer from war disasters? That would be too great."

Zhang Feng said: "What your Majesty means is that the empire takes the initiative to attack and burn the war to Russia?"

"That's right!"

Wang Chenhao smiled and nodded, and then said: "Russia's Siberian Railway will be completed next spring. The empire takes the initiative to burn the war into Russia. Taking advantage of the opportunity that Russian reinforcements cannot arrive in time, concentrate superior forces to wipe out a group of Russian troops or surround the Russian troops in an isolated place, and then attack reinforcements at the circumference point, and erode the Russian troops who came to reinforce them little by little."

Although Zhang Feng doesn't understand military affairs very much, he can also feel that Wang Chenhao's strategy is better.

While the king and his minister were talking, they suddenly received a report from Shiwei that the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Zhang Sai and the Ministry of Finance, Song Hanzhang looked at him.

Zhang Sai and Song Hanzhang were originally going to find Zhang Feng at the General Administration, but when they learned that Zhang Feng had entered the palace to meet the saint, they hurriedly chased him.

"Long live my emperor, Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, Zhang Sai, to see me!"

"My minister of Finance Song Hanzhang attended Your Majesty!"

"I have said it many times. There is no need to give me a great gift when I don't attend court."

Zhang Sai replied: "I know my crime, but my courtesy cannot be abolished!"

Although Zhang Sai was considered an enlightened person, he was influenced by feudal ethics and was also a stubborn person who believed in the truth. Of course, this was not Zhang Sai's personal phenomenon, nor was it Song Hanzhang, but the entire empire was like this. After all, not long after Wang Chenhao implemented the new policy reform, most of the ideological consciousness of the imperial subjects remained in the previous era. This was not something that could be completely changed in a few years or decades. It took several generations of efforts to eliminate feudal thoughts for two thousand years.

Wang Chenhao had no intention of blaming him and said, "Forget it, let it go."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

After Zhang Sai and Song Hanzhang finished their ceremony, they immediately reported their purpose to Wang Chenhao and Zhang Feng. Since they were discussing affairs in the imperial study room, Zhang Feng no longer took the lead. Instead, Zhang Sai and Song Hanzhang reported directly to Wang Chenhao, and he assisted him.

Your Majesty, I just learned that international financial forces are buying and selling the Empire Dragon on a large scale. Beiyang Securities opened today and rose to a point at the close. I think this is not a normal phenomenon.”

"The trading of Dragon Coin on the British List and the US dollar is imbalanced, and the market mid-price of Dragon Coin on the British List reached 1:02." The mid-price of the US dollar reached 1. The Imperial Bank confirmed that most foreign and Chinese banks have increased their holdings of the British List and the US dollar reserves. I am worried that this is a financial war launched by international financial forces against the empire. Please give your Majesty the Holy ruling."

For the stock market, since the Chinese Empire established the Beiyang Stock Exchange in 1899 to regulate the stock market, the stock market has been rising slowly and steadily from the base point 100, and it has grown at 0:00 every day, which is in line with the speed of the imperial economic development. In contrast, the increase of the Dow Jones Industrial Index in the United States is nothing more than that.

The stock market soared by nearly 3 points, which will inevitably cause crazy among domestic and foreign investors, and will lead to soaring stocks of major listed companies, and will grow faster and faster like snowballs.

Similarly, the ratio of bound dragon coins to the English list has always been constant at 5: "That is, the one-brand exchange for the five-dragon coins should not have been boomed, but now the dragon coins have suddenly appreciated, which is not a trivial matter.

The report of Zhang Sai and Song Hanzhang immediately attracted Wang Chenhao's high attention. Zhang Feng asked them and said, "Has you made a mistake?"

The two of them are sure that they are not wrong.

Wang Chenhao said: "The sudden surge in the industrial index and the sudden appreciation of the dragon coins in the market, which shows that a large amount of international funds are pouring into China. The large-scale inflow of hot money and the investment in the Chinese stock market has led to an abnormal surge in the industrial index. The exchange channels for hot money are naturally only dragon coins. Once a large amount of exchange is exchanged, it will naturally cause a decrease in the circulation of dragon coins, forcing the abnormal appreciation of dragon coins.

Of course, although the dragon currency is bound to the British dollar, the Chinese, British and American governments have forcibly bound the ratio of the three currencies by national credit to stabilize the economy. However, the market does not follow the government's regulations completely. Under the market mechanism, it is allowed to move slightly up and down the ratio specified by the government. However, because the British, US dollar and dragon currency are both currencies with strong purchasing power. For example, 1 dragon currency can buy 20 kilograms of rice, and its purchasing power is very strong. Under normal circumstances, the government allows the boo range to be within 0.005. This is also an agreement reached by the Chinese, US and British governments. This time, b is multiplied by the empire currency circulation, which is a huge number, so it cannot be ignored.

Song Hanzhang said: "It is possible to force the dragon coins to appreciate, and at least more than 1 billion dragon coins to flow into the empire. In addition, the stock market has risen by 3 points, the total amount of hot money this time is no less than 2 billion dragon coins."

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said, "This should be the work of the international financial giants led by the Rosscailder family. No one else has this power except them!"

Zhang Feng said with suspicion: "Maybe it was something that a certain country did!"

Zhang Sai agreed: "It is possible! Russia is the enemy of the empire. In order to fight the empire's economy and finance, he launched a financial war on the empire before the war."

Song Hanzhang said at this time: "Russia may not have this strength, but I think the Americans did it. His Majesty returned from the United States with 470 million US dollars, and cashing out gold will inevitably cause strong dissatisfaction in the American financial community. It is not ruled out that they use it to retaliate against the empire."

Wang Chenhao waved his hand and said, "It was not done by Americans. The dragon coins are pegged to the US dollar. If the dragon coins are jumped, the US dollar will also be seriously affected. The total amount of industry in the United States is much larger than ours, and they are the ones who suffer the most."

Zhang Feng asked: "But the United States can unilaterally cancel the linkage!"

Wang Chenhao said: "That is war, it can only be the result of both losses. Americans are a country where there is no profit and they will not be so stupid.

Then, Wang Chenhao said: "Don't forget that all countries in the world know that the Empire and Russia are going to fight. Once a war breaks out, it is time for international financial merchants to make money. They first speculate on dragon coins and imperial stocks, and they are speculating high. Once the war is unfavorable to the Empire, they will take the opportunity to withdraw funds and make huge profits. The Rothschild family started with this."

Zhang Feng asked, "What should we do when your Majesty?"

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said, "These international financial giants are gamblers. They will not only hype in the empire, and Russia will not stop."

Song Hanzhang said: "That means they are in the Russian war in a big bet, and I don't know if they are gambling with the Empire or Russia?"

Wang Chenhao said: "They should be unsure now, they should bet on both ends."

Zhang Feng asked: "Bet both ends, wouldn't it bet without losing money or making money?"

Wang Chenhao smiled and said, "Wrong! He wins both sides! It's just that he wins more than he wins less!"

Zhang Feng seemed to not understand yet, and Song Hanzhang next to him explained: "Speculative finance is different from ordinary gambling. Investors are the marketers rather than us. They bet in the Empire and Russia. If the Empire wins, the Empire's economy will grow strongly, and they have enough financial resources to fill the consumption of war. The stock market is stable. They have no way to speculate, so they will earn less in the Empire."

Zhang Sai continued: "If Russia loses, the huge war consumption will force its finances to be difficult to support, and if there is no remaining money to stabilize the market, then they will take the opportunity to short the ruble and plunder Russia's wealth."

Zhang Sai and Song Hanzhang are both economical in high industry, so they are naturally very well-known, but Zhang Feng has opened his six orifices and has not yet understood it.

Wang Chenhao smiled and said, "This is an abstract philosophy. There is no need to know too much. If you have too much, you will be confused. The simple way is to understand the opposite direction. You only need to know that as long as we can stabilize the market, they will not be able to make money in the Imperial Kingdom."

Zhang Feng couldn't help but smile bitterly. He was really confused, so he said, "What does Your Majesty mean?"

Wang Chenhao thought for a while and said, "These international financial giants are based on the uncertainty of the victory or defeat of the war. As long as the imperial government makes the people believe that we will win, only if they have enough confidence can they not be deceived."
To be continued...