The Crescent of the Sultan

“The main force of the Janikli family will go to Egypt in the near future and capture them. I will give Amasya to the Chapan family as a reward for you.

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

Suleiman was very moved, but he was still wary. Who knew whether the sultan would use them to overthrow the Janikli family, and then send people to deal with them in the name of counterinsurgency.

Suleiman is not a fool. This sultan looks good, but in fact he is so bad that he oozes pus.

Others couldn't see Ali Pasha leading his troops to kill people, but that didn't mean Suleiman couldn'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 the counter-rebellion, believe me , I will give you a suitable excuse."

Suleiman did not raise any more questions. The Sultan's conditions were already generous enough. If he did not seize the opportunity, he would hand it over to the Kara Osman family.

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

"That's good, Suleiman. I will send someone to count the property of the Janikli family. 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 exited the room.

He still has to go back and prepare to take action against the Janikli family. It is true that the private soldiers have been transferred, but the guards of the Janikli family are not a small number.

After arranging the arrangements for these powerful families, Selim decided to go find Abraham. As for why he didn't call him to the palace, it was naturally to make a surprise inspection to see if Abraham had any thoughts or things that he shouldn't have done. After all, the Jewish people should be more careful.

Selim walked all the way to the headquarters of the Royal Bank of the Ottoman Empire. There were people coming and going at the entrance of the bank, including French, Venetian, British, Spanish, Greek and Armenian people.

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

In this case, instead of working hard, it is better to ruin it, such as building a Dohmabahce Palace.

After shaking his head to clear his mind of unrealistic thoughts, Selim continued walking towards the inside of the bank. As soon as he entered the bank, he was immediately spotted by a Jewish young man.

The other party hurriedly ran 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 only brought his eldest son David to see me once. Are you?"

"Your Majesty, I am my father's second son Jacob. As for my elder brother, he went to be responsible for the opening of the Rumelia Imperial Bank branch."

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

"Interesting, he deserves to be a Jew. Although later generations often praise the Rothschild brothers for working together to build the Rothschild family into the sixth most powerful power in Europe, overthrowing the Bahrain family in one fell swoop.

But the main leaders of the Rothschild family are Nathan, the third child, and James, the fifth child. The rest are just running around. "

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

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

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

Today, banks are responsible for four major business segments, namely bill discounting, bank loans, currency exchange, and treasury bond sales. "While Jacob on the side was introducing, the two of them had already arrived at the door of Abraham's office.

The two pushed the door open and saw Abraham buried in a pile of books, surrounded by Ottoman coins from different periods.

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

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

"Great Sultan, Protector of the Two Holy Mosques, Caliph of the Islamic World, what instructions do you wish to convey today."

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

Although Selim had learned about the Ottoman Empire's currency issuance, he still wanted to hear what the Jews in front of him had to say.

"Your Majesty, your guess is correct. I am indeed studying the empire's currency. In my opinion, there is a considerable problem. Please let me explain it to you."

Abraham raised his glasses and 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.

Looking at this Louis XIV silver coin, 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. "

Having said this, 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's positioning of the Royal Bank of the Ottoman Empire is 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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