Centennial plan, education-oriented.

Li Weiguo is well aware of the root cause of China's backwardness in modern times, the feudal imperial examination system has seriously dragged down the rise of the Chinese nation, and even talents like Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian, in his opinion, their thinking is also limited to the feudal system, and with the rapid progress of the times, it is difficult for them to adapt.

Education is a long hard work, so if you want to harvest early, you have to sow seeds early, so Li Weiguo put the preparation for the school on the agenda.

It's just that domestic education can't be effective in a short period of time, and it takes time to build a campus and apply for teachers, but it is easy to send international students to study abroad for further education.

Li Weiguo found Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian to discuss, both of them are people of insight, after seeing the strength of the West, they also found the shortcomings of the country, and supported Li Weiguo to develop education.

It's just that in terms of sending international students, Wu Yong gave Li Weiguo a good suggestion.

"Adults build schools in China to train students, and the students they cultivate are easy to control on their own territory, but if you want to send international students abroad, you have to put extra effort into controlling them for adults."

Wu Yong's words reminded Li Weiguo, who thought that China in later generations would cultivate a large number of outstanding international students every year, but it would be good to have one or two out of ten students return to China, and most of them eventually disliked the motherland and joined foreigners.

This is a real problem, especially the current Qing government is extremely corrupt, and it is inevitable that international students will not have ideas when they go abroad and see the advanced civilized society abroad.

Li Weiguo didn't want the international students he spent his own money to end up making wedding dresses for others, so he asked, "What should you do in your opinion?" ”

Wu Yong smiled and said: "It's very simple, adults only need to adopt a group of orphans who have no father, no mother and no relatives, treat them well so that they regard you as their dearest and beloved, and then appoint henchmen to escort them to study abroad. ”

"It's going to take more than ten years!" Li Weiguo frowned, feeling that the time was a bit long.

Fu Xuexian said at this time: "You can take a two-pronged approach, treat young orphans as a long-term investment, let them study abroad for ten to fifteen years, and thoroughly learn and master advanced Western knowledge." Treat the elderly orphans as a medium-term investment, let them study abroad for seven or eight years, mainly learn foreign languages and professional skills, and return to China to help adults immediately. Then there's the short-term investment—"

Fu Xuexian paused, deliberately sold a pass, and then continued: "The short-term investment is to hire some young people who know foreign languages from Hong Kong, Macao or Nanyang with high salaries, and first build a translation hall, so that they can translate the foreign literature and technical materials we need, so that our existing skilled workers can quickly master the skills of foreigners." ”

"That's a great offer!" Wu Yong also felt very good, so he nodded to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo thought about it, and this was also a good suggestion for solving both short-term problems and long-term plans, so he immediately adopted it and began to implement it.

The talents needed to set up a translation studio will be hired from Macau, Hong Kong and Nanyang, and the process is the same as that of hiring factory workers before, so you only need to explain it and your subordinates will get things done.

The second batch of machinery and equipment purchased from Europe and the United States has arrived in Shanghai, of which Li Weiguo values only two things, one is the batch of advanced machine tools.

Machine tools, as the name suggests, are machines and equipment that manufacture machinery and equipment. As long as there are advanced machine tools, even if foreign countries prohibit the export of machinery and equipment to Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo can quickly manufacture them himself. With the huge advantage of the traverser, Li Weiguo can quickly manufacture a large number of advanced machinery and equipment of various types and uses, whether it is military industry or civilian industry, it will surpass the level of other industrial countries in this era, which is the real weapon to dominate the world.

The second is the North American tulipwood shipped back from North America and Canada, which is one of the core woods for making pound sterling banknotes, and it is also a material that cannot be obtained in China, as for other materials, they can be obtained in China.

Li Weiguo shipped the timber back to China in the name of building the Yu Garden, secretly stored it in a warehouse in the Yu Garden, and then began to use the materials to make paper.

Although Li Weiguo knew the basic composition of the pound banknotes of this period, he still needed hundreds of experiments, mainly to compare the produced paper with the real pound banknotes in various ways, including softness, sound, ink test and water immersion test, etc., to achieve the degree of fakeness.

Since Li Weiguo could not grasp the secret of the code of the pound, if he wanted not to be immediately detected by the Bank of England, he could only use the code on the genuine banknote, but in this way, it was a matter of time before the same code was recognized.

However, Li Weiguo's coping strategy is to make a time difference, taking advantage of the poor communication conditions in this era, the Bank of England's branches around the world can only check with the head office every six months, and using this half a year, it is enough to successfully cash out the gold of the Bank of England with counterfeit * banknotes.

Li Weiguo knew that this was a one-shot deal, so he forged 57 sterling notes with a denomination of 1 million at one time, which were exactly the same, and the sterling code on them was the same as that on the genuine banknotes, which was enough to deceive the staff of the Bank of England.

Of course, Li Weiguo can forge hundreds of counterfeit * banknotes worth one million pounds sterling, but the key is that the Bank of England has no more than 100 branches around the world, most of which are in the United Kingdom, considering that the verification time of local banks in the United Kingdom is very short, if two banknotes with the same number appear in any bank at the same time, it will definitely be exposed, so Li Weiguo can only try to make a bank only accept one counterfeit * banknote, and only find out the problem when they send the fake * banknotes to the headquarters in London, England.

In this way, Li Weiguo also had to calculate the accurate exchange time, arrange for a trustworthy person to go to the exchange, and safely transport the cashed gold back to China.

Among the first batch of skilled workers hired from Hong Kong, Macau and Nanyang, Li Weiguo selected some people for training, all of whom had come to Shanghai with their families to make a living, knew English, and would send them abroad to the branches of the Bank of England around the world to exchange their millions of pounds of counterfeit * banknotes in their hands for gold as merchants and ship them back.

Of course, these people didn't know that the million-pound banknotes in their hands were counterfeit * banknotes, they only thought that Li Weiguo asked them to exchange gold abroad, or buy advanced equipment and materials from abroad to return to China, and they were kept in the dark, but for the sake of insurance in the future, Li Weiguo still arranged bodyguards for each of them. These bodyguards are all Li Weiguo's personal soldiers, and they are loyal to Li Weiguo and ensure the smooth completion of the plan.

Eventually, Li Weiguo set a timetable for unified action, and everyone would concentrate on May 4, 1854, and at the same time sell counterfeit* notes in the Bank of England around the world, exchange them for gold and send them back home. Long departures, such as those going to France, would depart at the beginning of 1854, and they would not be able to move until May 4, either sooner or later.

Li Weiguo named the operation the "May Fourth Patriotic Movement", not only because of his little bad taste, but also because the money, once successfully cashed out, would be tantamount to plundering the Bank of England of 57 million pounds. For Britain, this huge amount of money is only equivalent to the military expenditure of the British Royal Navy for one year, but for backward China, it is equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the Qing government for three years in its heyday.

With this money, Li Weiguo can completely feed 500,000 army units equipped with foreign guns and artillery, and build a naval fleet at the level of a second-rate power.

Therefore, the designation of this operation as the "May Fourth Patriotic Movement" is also grounded.

During the implementation phase of the "May Fourth Patriotic Movement" plan, Li Weiguo suddenly thought of one of the most important issues, that is, the intelligence system.

As far as Li Weiguo is concerned, he is well aware of the importance of intelligence to a country, and that intelligence warfare precedes war, and often a piece of intelligence determines the outcome of a war. Looking at the preparations made by Japan for the invasion of China, intelligence officers have been lurking in China since their grandparents, and they have been infiltrating high-level officials step by step to steal intelligence. Look at the intelligence underwriters of the Kuomintang-Communist civil war, how shocking, if there were no those hidden intelligence officers, I am afraid that the outcome of the Kuomintang-Communist civil war would have been different.

Since Li Weiguo knew these real examples, he naturally had to start planning for the future in advance.

So Li Weiguo selected a hundred smart and loyal henchmen from Li Jiajun, and named them Tianzi No. 1 Team, numbered from No. 1 to No. 100, and Li Weiguo himself was codenamed No. 0.

People often think that No. 1 is the biggest, such as the United States Air Force One, in fact, that is only publicly, once a nuclear war breaks out, Air Force One is the first target to be destroyed, but anyone with military acumen understands that the President of the United States will really board Air Force One? Will it be safer in the sky than in the earth and in the sea?

Li Weiguo didn't believe it, so he didn't want No. 1 as his code name, but No. 0, just like he knew that No. 1 in the United States was the president, but the United States was actually controlled by those chaebols behind the scenes, and those chaebols were the real No. 0 in power, which was Li Weiguo's intention.

After a month of devil training, Li Weiguo stood in front of the hundred-numbered people, his eyes scanning them.

"From today onwards, you are the first members of the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret service. You will be the veteran agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and your code name will be a lifetime code name, and those who come in in the future will have their code name starting from a hundred years later, and it will never hurt to replace your code name. But you can't reveal your identity for the time being, you will be lurking in Yixin, Su Shun, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong, Yehenala clan for a long time in the future, you have to try your best to become their henchmen, this may take a year, two years, or even ten years or more, during this period, you can't take the initiative to contact me, and you can't tell your code name to others, you will fight alone, I won't care about your life or death, what can survive, what can climb up is what I need! ”

As soon as these words came out, the 100th S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were in an uproar, they had heard of the details before, and they had also inquired about the information, but it was the first time they had encountered Li Weiguo, and they were a little panicked.

Li Weiguo took in their expressions one by one and said: "Before you set off, I will give each of you 50,000 taels of silver, and I don't care what you do with this money, as long as you can get close to the mission goal I gave you, become the target's henchman and lurk smoothly." Of course, you can also take this money and leave directly, and no longer be an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., but please don't let me meet it, if I meet you, it will only be a dead end. When one day I need you, I will take the initiative to contact you, and then you will return to S.H.I.E.L.D. with glory, and you will be worshiped by the younger generations as a veteran, and if I am the governor of a province that day, you can choose the job and position you want within my authority, the highest is the prefect. If I were a governor, you would be given the highest rank of governor. If I win the world, you can be a first-class feudal official, this is my guarantee to you. ”

Li Weiguo said it very bluntly, and he also said his ambition very bluntly, so that all these people could understand that following Li Weiguo to do things, whether he was by his side or not, he would be rewarded for his great achievements in the future. If he betrays Li Weiguo, he will be a dead end in the future.

There are both sticks and sweet dates, and Li Weiguo lets them choose for themselves.

In the end, all the 100 agents chose this path, and they received their unique code names for life, the target of the hidden mission, the future awakening password, and the funds of 50,000 taels of silver from Li Weiguo alone, and then took a photo with Li Weiguo, and then quietly left.

Among the 100 agents, there are men and women, and they usually wear masks in training, so they don't know each other's appearances, names, code names, tasks, and wake-up passwords, which is Li Weiguo's protection for them, preventing any of them from defecting and threatening others.

Sending away these 100 people, Li Weiguo smiled, he could feel what a huge energy it would be for these 100 people to play a role at a critical moment in the future once they successfully completed the latent mission.

I don't know if I don't do this line, and I am shocked when I do this line.

Li Weiguo suddenly has a kind of pride like Mao Taizu who strategizes, wins thousands of miles, and wins at the starting line, and at the same time, he also knows in his heart that this world is not only him Li Weiguo has this kind of ambition, but there are more ambitious people, today Li Weiguo can send someone to lurk to them, and tomorrow they will also send someone to lurk to Li Weiguo's side, they have to guard against it, but they can't prevent it.

After all, people's hearts are unpredictable!

Li Weiguo sighed in his heart, Manman in the future, only the last laugh is the winner.