The first ironclad ship was launched, and although it was far from the battleship of Li Weiguo's dream, it was at least the first step, and it was a very meaningful first step.

Li Weiguo returned to Yu Garden with excitement, and after a farewell to his home for more than a year, it didn't look like there was much change, but the door plaque was replaced with three gilded characters of Wu Wangfu.

From a distance, I saw two beautiful daughters-in-law standing at the door, slim and looking forward to it.

"The concubine sees the prince, Chitose Chitose Chitose!"

Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan were very excited when they saw Li Weiguo, but they still did not forget to pay homage to the prince.

Li Weiguo hurriedly stepped forward, helped the second daughter up, and said with a smile: "It's all old husbands and wives, so you don't need to be so polite." ”

Fu Shanxiang smiled slightly, got up and said, "That's not possible, you are now a dignified prince, and the ceremony cannot be abolished!" ”

Shen Ziyan also echoed: "Sister Princess is right, the husband is now a prince, and in the future, inside and outside, you must pay more attention to your image and words, you must not lose a big one because of a small one, you must know that now people all over the world are looking at you, and a small detail of yours that looks inconspicuous may cause smear by those with intentions and make the whole world misunderstand you." ”

Li Weiguo suddenly realized, thinking that details determine success or failure, and the height is unbearable, this is very reasonable.

"Thank you two ladies for reminding me that my husband has been taught!" Li Weiguo said very solemnly, just a little sour, he smiled: "I haven't seen you for a long time, do you want to be a husband?" Let's go back to the bedroom and have a good talk. ”

Li Weiguo held the second daughter's small waist one in one hand, he hadn't touched it for a long time, and he was still so elastic.

Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan's two daughters were suddenly ashamed, Su Sanniang coughed in time, and told Li Weiguo to visit her parents first, which relieved the second daughter.

However, Li Weiguo did not plan to let go of the second daughter, and went to ask his parents for peace. Immediately plunge into the great man-making movement and enjoy the blessings of all people.

Fortunately, at this time, everyone did not bother Li Weiguo for a long time, and it was not until later that Wu Yong, Rong Hong, Fu Xuexian, Li Hongzao and other officials came to visit Li Weiguo.

After Li Weiguo accepted the worship ceremony from everyone, he began to deliberate.

After all, even if Li Weiguo was not in Shanghai, Wu Yong and others would send people to Zhili every day to hand over major military and political affairs to Li Weiguo for review.

"Lord Wang, this joint encirclement and suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a great opportunity for us to regain lost territory. Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang must not be allowed to take the lead. ”

Li Hongzao took the lead in saying, what he meant was that the two rivers and four provinces, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied a province in Jiangxi and Jiangning Mansion in Jiangnan Province, which were all within the fiefdom of King Wu and should be recovered.

Wu Yong said: "It is inevitable to recover the lost land, but this time it is the battle to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it is also the battle to destroy the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan, Huai Army and Li Hongzhang. Because they've hooked up with the regent. ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said: "That's right, Yi Xin won over Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, wanting to use their hands to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and at the same time to contain us." If they take all the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. I'm afraid it's unlikely that they will spit it out, Yi Xin wants Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang to plant nails in our Liangjiang territory, which is absolutely impossible. ”

Fu Xuexian asked, "Is the prince ready?" After all, if you attack the Hunan army and the Huai army, it may detonate a civil war. The imperial court may not tolerate it! ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "It's okay, the imperial court has now co-opted Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, thinking that it can compete with this king." They couldn't be more wrong. This king just wants them to know that even if Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang help them, they can't stop this king's pace. ”

Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and Wu Yong couldn't help but ask: "Lord Wang, has you completely thought about it and is ready to replace it?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled, knowing that they would ask like this, so he said, "You are too happy too early!" Although Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are stronger than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is by no means easy to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they will definitely not be able to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in a year or two. On the contrary, the Taiping Heavenly Congress will resist desperately, and it will be an unprecedented and tragic bloody battle. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately understood that they were happy in vain, and it was obvious that Li Weiguo had no intention of rebelling in a short period of time.

Wu Yong asked: "What does the prince mean is to let the Hunan army, the Huai army and the Taiping army die this time, do we want to stand still?" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "You can't be completely still, just make a show." It wasn't until the Hunan army and the Huai army exhausted the last trace of fighting spirit of the Taiping army that we struck another thunderous blow and finally picked peaches. At that time, if Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang dared to disagree, they would be destroyed immediately. ”

Li Hongzao asked: "Since the prince has decided, then our army estimates that there will be no major moves in a year or two, should we concentrate on the development of industry?" ”

Li Weiguo replied: "The plan can't catch up with the changes, and whether there will be a big move in a year or two is not up to us, but depends on how much strength the Taiping Army has left." During this period, on the one hand, we will carry out the third large-scale expansion of the army, and on the other hand, it is also important to step up industrial production. There is also the most important thing, that is, to seize the time to train officials, up to the six departments of the imperial court, from the middle to the local governors, down to the grassroots civil servants in villages and towns, the Qing Dynasty has 18 provinces, five generals' territories, 22 Mongolian and Tibetan kings' fiefs, and 16 vassal states, and all the officials and officials needed must be prepared within three years. ”

When everyone heard this, they were first shocked, and then they were overjoyed.

What does this mean, it couldn't be more straightforward, it is to fully take over the rhythm of the Qing Dynasty.

Li Weiguo said the end, looked directly at Rong Hong, and said, "Rong Hong, your burden is very heavy, do you have the confidence to complete it?" ”

Rong Hong came out of the ranks, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, please put it down, your subordinates are bound to complete this task." ”

He paused and continued: "At present, in accordance with the requirements of the king, His Majesty has opened Zhejiang University in Zhejiang, the scale is the same as that of Danfu University, the two universities have more than 2,000 professors, nearly 60,000 students, and the number of graduates in the political and legal science department is expected to reach 9,000 in the next year. ”

"Yes, it's almost enough!" When Li Weiguo heard this number, he was immediately relieved. After thinking about it, Li Weiguo instructed again: "Although the students of political science and law are a top priority, the students of other subjects should not be neglected, especially from next year, the international students we send from major colleges in Europe and the United States will return to China one after another." They are talents who have studied abroad for nine years, and they must be arranged. ”

Rong Hong said: "The king can rest assured, and the subordinates know." ”

Li Weiguo nodded, still very relieved about Rong Hong's work.

There was nothing particularly important in the next meeting, and Li Weiguo gave an order and sent everyone away.

Subsequently, Li Weiguo called Shen Ziyan, and the two came to the AIIB office building together.

At this time, the AIIB was busy, with a large number of staff coming in and out at all times. This is all because the imperial court, under the oppression of Li Weiguo, was forced to decree the establishment of the Qing Imperial Bank. With the renminbi as the only legal tender of the Qing Dynasty, it was required to exchange renminbi within a time limit throughout the country, and other gold, silver, copper coins and all kinds of foreign gold and silver coins were prohibited from circulating, so that the common people all over the country could not get the local government to exchange renminbi, but in fact the Qing Imperial Bank was just a plaque, which did not have the functions of a central bank at all, and did not have the right and ability to issue renminbi. Therefore, in fact, local governments directly issued money ticket certificates to the people. Have them exchange renminbi at their local AIIB branch.

Today, the AIIB has completed the integration with Shenjia Qianzhuang, and has branches all over the country, which can exchange renminbi for local people.

At this time, the Qing Empire was a backward feudal agricultural country. Its economic aggregate is still the first in the world, and the United States, the strongest industrial country, only surpassed the Qing Empire around 1895 to become the world's largest economic aggregate.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand, the main influencing factor is population. The United States had only a small population at this time, less than 30 million. The Qing Dynasty is 40,000,000 comrades, that is, 400 million people, according to the average value of 10 taels of silver per person per person at the bottom. That's the GDP of 4 billion taels of silver, and if you don't take the first place, it will be a ghost.

The amount of money circulating in the market must not be less than 90% of the total GDP of the year, which means that the AIIB needs to issue at least 3.6 billion taels of silver to meet the daily currency transactions of the Qing people, so as not to cause monetary tightening and monetary inflation, which will harm the people.

3.6 billion taels of silver, equivalent to 720 million yuan, which means that the AIIB headquarters needs to print 720 million yuan to maintain the normal currency circulation in the Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo had been prepared for a long time, and when he proposed to make the renminbi legal tender, he thought of this, and since then, the banknote printing machine equipment at the headquarters of the AIIB has begun to print on a large scale to ensure the smooth issuance of the renminbi.

The only problem was that Li Weiguo had to rebuild a super-large vault, because the original vault used to store gold and silver in the AIIB was no longer enough, and gold, silver, and all kinds of copper coins from all over the country would pile up a small mountain every day.

Of course, there are too many copper coins, and the common people of the Qing Dynasty can rarely afford silver, let alone gold, almost most of them have never even seen it, and the most common people deal with copper coins, but the problem is that the AIIB has recycled copper coins, so they can only be treated as broken copper and rotten iron, and it is impossible to use them as money.

As a result, mountains of copper coins were transported to the Jiangwan Industrial Zone and handed over to the copper smelter for re-smelting.

Gold and silver, as for the reserves, were melted down and rolled into gold and silver bars bearing the AIIB logo, which were sealed in vaults.

As the renminbi became the legal tender of the Qing Empire, thousands of tons of gold and silver were sent to the AIIB treasury, allowing Li Weiguo to truly grasp the economic lifeblood of the Qing Empire.

Of course, the victims are just ordinary people, they are innocent, and Li Weiguo will not do that.

After inspecting the regular banknote printing workshop, Li Weiguo was very satisfied with the security issues, and then went to another secret workshop with Shen Ziyan and the others.

This is also a banknote printing workshop, but it is not the RMB that is printed, but the currencies of European and American countries, the world's largest counterfeit ¥ banknote printing workshop.

In recent years, except for several large-scale currency war operations formulated by Li Weiguo himself, at other times, Shen Ziyan was in charge of exporting counterfeit banknotes to European and American countries on a small scale, cashing out gold and silver, and using this money to purchase various required resources from Europe and the United States, including hiring experts and professors from Europe and the United States to come to China, and paying for the actions of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. in European and American countries. Then don't immediately form an eighteen-nation alliance to kill Li Weiguo and destroy him.

"Our shipping channels are very hidden, so far, Britain and France and other countries have been aware of it, their banks have found some counterfeit ¥ banknotes, but we removed the exposed personnel in time, they did not find out that we did it."

Shen Ziyan looked at Li Weiguo with admiration and said, since she took over this matter, she only knew what a strong man her husband was.

"Even if they know we did it, we don't have to be afraid."

Li Weiguo said very confidently that with his current military strength, he can defeat 200,000 British and French troops, and he is no longer as weak as he was at the beginning, and he must be sneaky.

Of course, Li Weiguo will not be arrogant enough to publicly admit that he issued counterfeit ¥ banknotes, just a kind of self-confidence, even if he is discovered, there is no need to be afraid, just fight.

Shen Ziyan asked, "Husband, are you going to start a new currency war again?" ”

"That's right!" Li Weiguo nodded and said, "Every time there is a war, it must be the best time to make a fake ¥ banknote." Now that the civil war has broken out in the United States, I have already told Warren to ask them to provide a code calculation program for the issuance of US dollars. As soon as we get the dollar code calculation program, the dollars we print are no longer counterfeit dollars, but real dollars. ”

The currency code program has always been a flaw of counterfeit ¥ banknotes, because even if you can forge a banknote that is exactly the same as the real banknote, you will never know the code code on the real banknote, if the code printed is not the number specified by the other party, then it will be recognized as a fake ¥ banknote.

Now Li Weiguo is planning a big operation, a new currency war, to use against the United States. He has already negotiated with Warren that he will help the US Southern Army print dollars on a large scale and destroy the economy of the North of the United States.

It was a win-win plan, in which the U.S. Confederate Army was able to destroy the economy of the American North and buy all kinds of supplies with a large number of counterfeit dollars, killing two birds with one stone. As far as Li Weiguo is concerned, killing the United States is his greatest ideal, and making a fortune in silence is just a way to go.

Shen Ziyan suddenly laughed and said, "If the President of the United States knew about your plan, he would definitely cry urgently!" ”

Li Weiguo also smiled: "Lincoln must have been crying at this time, because the first batch of arms we gave to the Southern Army had arrived at this time. (To be continued.) )