Chapter 22: People Die for Money

"The main force of the Janikli family will go to Egypt soon. If you take them down, I will give Amasya to the Chapan family as a reward for you.

"But, Your Majesty, this requires an excuse, otherwise..."

Suleiman was already very tempted, but he was still wary. Who knows if the Sultan will use them to overthrow the Janikli family and then send people to get rid of them in the name of suppressing the rebellion.

Suleiman is not a stupid person. The Sultan looks kind, but in fact he is wicked.

Alli Pasha was sent to the head with his troops. Others can't see it, but it doesn't mean that Suleiman can't see it.

"Master Suleiman, you will get a suitable excuse, whether it is the defeat of the Janikli family in the Caucasus, although the Caucasus is not important, or the collusion of the Janikli family with the Mamluks, which led to the failure of suppressing the rebellion. Believe me, I will give you a suitable excuse. "

Suleiman did not raise any more questions. The conditions offered by the Sultan were already generous enough. If he did not seize the opportunity, would he give it to the Kara Osman family?

He bowed deeply and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, the Chapan family will complete your task successfully."

"That's good, Suleiman. I will send someone to count the property of the Janikli family at that time. You'd better make sure that the Chapan family only takes what belongs to them."

"I understand what you mean, Your Majesty. The Chapan family will always be your most loyal servants. Suleiman said as he slowly left the room.

He still had to go back and prepare to attack the Janikli family. It was true that the private soldiers were transferred away, but the Janikli family's guards were not a small number.

After arranging these powerful families, Selim decided to find Abraham. As for why he did not call the other party to the palace, it was naturally to make a surprise check whether Abraham had any thoughts that he should not have or did something that he should not do. After all, the Jewish people still need to be more vigilant.

Selim walked all the way to the headquarters of the Ottoman Empire Royal Bank. There were people coming and going in front of the bank, including French, Venetians, British, Spanish, Greeks, and Armenians.

But this is also normal. After all, it is the headquarters of the Ottoman Empire Royal Bank. If there is no such flow of people, it means that the Ottoman Empire is really poor.

In this case, it is better to play badly than to work hard, such as building a Dohmabahçe Palace.

Shaking his head to clear the unrealistic thoughts in his mind, Selim continued to walk into the bank. As soon as he entered the bank, he was discovered by a Jewish youth.

The other party hurried over and said, "Your Majesty, please follow me. My father is working in the vice president's office."

"Do you know me? I remember that your father seemed to have only brought his eldest son David to see me once. Who are you?"

"Your Majesty, I am your father's second son Jacob. As for my brother, he is responsible for the opening of the Rumelian Imperial Bank branch."

Jacob replied respectfully, but Selim clearly noticed the jealousy in the other party's eyes when he mentioned his brother.

"Interesting, worthy of being a Jew. Although later generations often praise the Rothschild brothers for working together to build the Rothschild family into the sixth most powerful in Europe, overthrowing the Baring family in one fell swoop.

But the leaders of the Rothschild family are mainly the third brother Nathan and the fifth brother James, and the rest are just running along."

While thinking about how to use Jacob's ambition to harvest these Jews in the future, Selim listened to Jacob's introduction to the Imperial Bank.

"Your Majesty, the entire Ottoman Empire Royal Bank has a total of four floors, which is actually a standard arrangement of wealth levels. The first to third floors receive customers of different financial levels, and the fourth floor is the bank's office area.

The overall design structure refers to the Bank of England, which was established in 1694. The concept adopts Baroque architectural art. The interior is based on your arrangement, downplaying religious elements and replacing them with classical style, using the monograms of successive sultans as decoration.

The bank is currently responsible for four major business sectors, namely bill discounting, bank loans, currency exchange, and treasury bond sales." Jacob was introducing the two of them as they arrived at the door of Abraham's office.

The two pushed the door open and saw that Abraham was buried in a pile of books, surrounded by Ottoman Empire currencies of different periods.

There are the earliest Bursa silver coins made in the Orhan era, the later Akçe silver coins, the Ducat gold coins used in the Suleiman the Magnificent era, and the silver coins minted by King Louis XIV of France when the Ottoman Empire encountered a silver coin crisis, as well as the current currency.

Seeing Selim coming in, Abraham immediately raised his head from the pile of books.

"Great Sultan, protector of the two holy places, caliph of the Islamic world, what kind of instructions do you want to convey today?"

"No need to be polite, Abraham, are you studying the currency of the empire?"

Although Selim had already learned about the poor currency issuance of the Ottoman Empire, he still wanted to hear what the Jew in front of him had to say.

"Your Majesty, you guessed right. I am indeed studying the currency of the empire. In my opinion, there are quite a lot of problems. Please let me explain it to you."

Raising his glasses, Abraham said seriously.

"Please look at these two silver coins, Your Majesty. They were issued in 1760 and 1780 respectively, but the silver content of the latter is only 85% of the former. However, the imperial government stipulates that the two coins have the same value. This makes no sense. Doubt is a disguised form of depriving the hard-working people of the Ottoman Empire of their wealth.

Look at this Louis XIV silver coin again. Don’t you think it’s a shame that the mighty Ottoman Empire uses French currency?

In fact, the foreign currencies in the empire are far more than Louis XIV silver coins. Countless foreign currencies and our country's Akche silver coins together form the currency in circulation in the market. However, the imperial government has never stipulated their relationship. The exchange rate between countries is undoubtedly not conducive to the development of the empire.

To be honest, before Your Majesty made this proposal, I never thought that a bank would have such huge profits, even though we used to have our own financial business.

But Your Majesty, I think the Royal Bank of the Ottoman Empire cannot rectify the empire's poor financial system if it only engages in four major businesses. "

At this point, Abraham shut up. But Selim had already guessed what the other party meant. He just wanted the currency issuance rights of the Ottoman Empire!

I mentioned the hard-working Ottoman people before, and it’s strange that this old guy Abraham has sympathy for them.

In fact, Abraham's request cannot be said to be ambitious. After all, Selim positioned the Royal Bank of the Ottoman Empire as the central bank.

However, out of wariness of the Jews, Selim did not directly give him the right to issue currency, but waited for the other party to find him.

Now, the fish is hooked.

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