Iron Dynasty

Your Majesty is a learned man. As His Majesty said, our country is on the east coast of the Baltic Sea.

Schroeder cautiously glanced at the Emperor of Yu Kingdom wearing a dragon robe, this time he came with a heavy burden, not wanting to make any mistakes.

Xiao Ming, who was sitting in the gazebo, nodded slightly. The secret guard got limited European intelligence from the merchants. After all, the information in this era was blocked. Even people from his own country sometimes couldn't understand some truth, and the information disclosed to the Dutch He was also always skeptical, never believing 100% of the former colonists.

The country of the messenger is really far away from the country of Great Yu. Rather than saying it, the messenger might as well mark the situation in Europe on this map.

Xiao Ming gestured to Qian Dafu, who put a world map in front of Schroeder.

Looking at the detailed world map spread out in front of him, which was two meters wide, Schroeder was instantly stunned. There was also a world map in the Prussian Royal Palace.

But compared to the precision of this map, their map looks very old.

Yes, Your Majesty.

Schroeder did not refuse. In fact, he had never paid attention to the Great Yu Kingdom before he came. In his opinion, the Great Yu Kingdom would naturally not know about Prussia.

If it was a little longer, he would not even be able to reach the Great Yu Kingdom. It is only because the Europeans have extended their tentacles here, they can find it smoothly.

Picking up the pen, Schroeder carefully marked the approximate area of ​​Prussia on the map, and after a while he presented the map to Xiao Ming.

After taking over the map, Xiao Ming glanced at it and had a scruple in his heart. The Dutch did not lie to him about the matter in Prussia.

Generally speaking, the current European land hegemon is France, and the maritime hegemony is the United Kingdom. In addition, there are Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Prussia and Austria-Hungary, as well as those that have not yet been unified. Italy.

Prussia in this period was still a very small country, without the territory of contemporary Germany, because the entire Germanic nation was still in a state of division.

Only the unification of these Germanic states scattered in Central Europe can become the German Empire of the future.

It turns out that Prussia's territory is only so large, but I heard that such a large piece of land is a Germanic state, isn't it? Xiao Ming asked.

Schroeder's expression changed, but this question touched his heart. In fact, a unified German Confederation is the dream of every Prussian.

It's just that the French are in their own interests, and it is impossible to let them unify these Germanic states, and because of this, their relationship with France has always been extremely bad.

Your Majesty is right, this has always been a pity in the hearts of our Prussians. Schroeder was ashamed, and he continued: So this time the king sent me to the Great Yu Kingdom to establish a good relationship with the Great Yu Kingdom. Gain the power to unify the German Confederation.

Xiao Ming smiled, The actions of the British and the French make us unable to trust you Europeans. Do I have to trust you with just a few words?

Your Majesty, we understand the quasi-side of diplomacy, there is no interest, the two countries will not cooperate, the British and the French are His Majesty's enemies, but they are the enemies of Prussia, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, there are us Prussians in Europe To contain the French, the British, and even the Russians, I think your country will save a lot of effort when it comes to taking colonies. Schroeder's words hit the nail on the head.

The Prussian colonies can be ignored, so in his opinion, they have no essential contradiction with Da Yu, while the British and French have huge colonies around Da Yu.

Xiao Ming laughed, and he said: It seems that you are a smart person. Since that's the case, I won't go around with you. Like the Dutch, the Great Yu Kingdom can also establish trade relations with you. The British and the French are the same. The cancer of Europe, with them, there will be no peace in Europe and the world will not be peaceful, but there is a condition for establishing trade, and that is to use the currency of the Great Yu country for settlement.”

When he learned that the Prussians were coming, he made up his mind to help Prussia, because Prussia and France were natural enemies.

As long as Prussia is strong, the murky waters in Europe can be stirred up. If Europe falls into civil strife, he can sell a lot of arms, and secondly, he can seize the resources of the colonies and the world while Europe is busy with civil strife.

Dayu country currency settlement? Schroeder's eyes flickered. In the past, Europe needed silver to buy things from Dayu country, so Europe mined a lot of silver mines in the Americas to buy various commodities in Dayu country. In other words, it is settled in the currency of the Great Yu Kingdom.

It's just that the emperor of the Great Yu Kingdom said that now, it is obviously impossible to use the rough way of trading before, but to use the real currency of the Great Yu Kingdom to buy things.

But they didn't have any Dayu currency, so he hesitated for a while, and he said, It's just that we don't have Dayu currency, how should this be settled?

This is not my concern. Maybe you can bring gold or silver to the Great Yu Kingdom to exchange for the Dragon Coins of the Great Yu Kingdom. Xiao Ming showed a smile on his face.

Now, whether it is Korea or Japan, he has extended his financial tentacles, and now Korea and Japan must use dragon coins to settle the purchase of goods from Dayu.

He also had this requirement in the deal with the Netherlands, and now it was Prussia's turn.

The reason why he did this is simple and evil, that is, to make the Dragon Coin of the Great Yu Kingdom an international currency.

The significance of the international currency is of great significance, which will mean that the currency of the Great Yu country has become a hard currency similar to gold and silver in the world.

Once he achieves this goal, the Great Yu Kingdom is like a contemporary American emperor, and raising interest rates can make the whole world tense.

After all, the contemporary U.S. dollar is the world currency. For the U.S. imperialists, the currency can serve its economy. Not only can it become the largest debtor country, but it can also issue bonds to serve the economy. In previous economic crises, the United States has to pay for other countries to issue bonds.

Therefore, contemporary U.S. imperialists have worked hard to maintain the dollar system, because this is very important for the United States to maintain economic hegemony. In short, this can ease the downward trend of the U.S. imperialist economy, and the whole world must be prepared for the economic crisis of the U.S. imperialists. buy!

All in all, it is not harmful to the country that the domestic currency is the international currency.

Since it is so important to make the Yuguo currency an international currency, he naturally has to start deploying it now, otherwise once Westerners continue to develop financially, they will realize this problem.

At that time, they are afraid that they will demolish the platform of the Great Yu Kingdom.