With the experience of confiscating the property of Xiao Yang's family, it will be much easier for Li Weiguo to lead people to raid the property of the Lu and Huang families.

As the third class of officials found out the basements of the Lu and Huang families, all the people's fat and ointment that the Lu and Huang families had looted for many years fell into the hands of Li Weiguo.

When he was in the Xiao family before, Li Weiguo had already rewarded the antique cultural relics worth more than one million taels of silver to the four heads of the Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan families, so when the Lu and Huang families were raided, they no longer "took care" of the four of them, but all of them were confiscated by Li Weiguo's people.

Compared with the Xiao family, the wealth of the Lu and Huang families is much worse, a total of 10,000 taels of gold and 1,340,000 taels of silver were seized from the two families, and other antique cultural relics and real estate title deeds are worth 2 million taels, but unfortunately they cannot be cashed out for the time being.

In the same way, Li Weiguo only reported the fraction of 300,000 taels of silver confiscated, and the whole amount of 1 million taels of silver went directly into his pocket, and the other 40,000 taels of silver were directly rewarded to the subordinates who participated in the raid.

After the entire raid was over, Li Weiguo obtained a total of 30,000 taels of gold, 2 million taels of silver, and the 320,000 taels of Chongming treasury silver that Xiao Yang was going to give to Lu Jianying.

As for the real estate, land deeds, and other fixed assets of the Xiao, Lu, and Huang families, as well as the nearly 300,000 stone of grain hoarded by the three families, Li Weiguo decided to use them all for relief through work.

As soon as this order was issued, the enthusiasm of more than 100,000 people affected by the disaster in Chongming County was immediately mobilized, and they worked hard, actively expressed their attitudes, and strived to get a piece of free fertile land.

At the same time, the common people also rushed to celebrate, praising Li Weiguo, saying that he was a great good official in the history of the Qing Dynasty, which made Li Weiguo's status in the hearts of the people of Chongming County rise to a higher level again, and his reputation directly followed that of Tang Bin, a Qing official in the two rivers and three provinces during the Kangxi period.

Just when the common people were still glad that they finally had a good official in Chongming County who was comparable to Tang Bin's reincarnation, and they would be able to live a happy life from now on, our Li Weiguo and Master Li were calculating how to leave Chongming County and be transferred to Shanghai County Commander.

"I don't know if the British Legation has made a move? I hope it's not too late, it's best to let me sit in the position of Shanghai county commander before the Taiping army captures Nanjing, if it's too late, many things will be difficult to do. ”

Li Weiguo had been expecting the British to intervene, but soon his men who had sent him to Shanghai to inquire about intelligence had sent him disappointing news.

The British Legation has not taken any action, and the current prefect of Shanghai is still doing well, and there have been no foreign-related incidents in the recent period.

"Do these Britons still want to cooperate? What are you waiting for? ”

Li Weiguo was complaining, when a servant came in to report that Shen Ziyan, the eldest lady of the Shen family in Jiangning, had sent someone to deliver him a letter.

"Shen Ziyan? What letter did she send me? ”

Li Weiguo was confused, but he still ordered someone to call the messenger in.

"Who are you? What are you looking for in this county? ”

The messenger gave Li Weiguo a salute and replied: "The villain Wang Er, a slave of the Shen family, is ordered by the eldest lady of the Shen family to congratulate Li Gongzi on his appointment as the county magistrate of Chongming County, and present a thousand taels of silver to congratulate. ”

Li Weiguo ordered someone to accept the gift and said, "Miss Lao Shen is bothered, this county has accepted it, go back and greet Miss Shen on behalf of this county." ”

At this time, Wang Er took out a letter from his arms, and said at the same time: "My young lady still has a letter to give to your adult." ”

His own official stepped forward to take the letter and handed it to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo took the letter and asked casually, "Do you know what happened?" ”

Wang Er shook his head and said: "The villain doesn't know, my young lady only told the adult that after reading this letter, he will go with the villain to see my young lady." ”

Li Weiguo raised his eyebrows, and he was able to let him go to see Shen Ziyan in person, which means that this letter has a lot of weight!

Tearing open the seal, a faint scent of books came out, refreshing people's hearts.

I opened the letter, but I saw a column of Juanjuan's delicate small block fonts jumping on the paper, worthy of everyone's beautiful background, writing a good hand.

Li Weiguo praised it, quickly read the contents of the letter, and soon his face became cloudy.

The content of the letter written by Shen Ziyan to Li Weiguo was very simple, except for polite words, only two contents were expressed, one was to ask Li Weiguo to accompany her to attend the Confucius Temple Fair held the day after tomorrow.

Originally, Li Weiguo would not agree to this request, it was too late for him to hide from Shen Ziyan now, not to mention that he was now a county magistrate, how could he be "absenteeism" to go to Confucius Temple to play, once the imperial court investigated him for the crime of abandoning his post without permission, it was not a joke, especially when it reached Lu Jianying's ears, he had to make a big fuss and clean him up.

However, Shen Ziyan seemed to guess that Li Weiguo would not go to the appointment, so she deliberately added a second content.

"Wangjun knows that the British Legation is leading, and the foreign businessmen of the Hong Kong Oriental Bank want to unite with the Shen family money village to establish Liru Bank in Shanghai, and my father is quite interested."

It was this sentence that made Li Weiguo's whole body feel like an electric shock, and his brain crashed for a while.

Li Weiguo of Liru Bank knows very well that it is the first modern bank in China, although it has a Chinese name, it is actually a branch of the British Oriental Bank in China, but because of the opposition of the Qing government, he found a Chinese local to be the president, in fact, he sold dog meat on the head of a sheep, and the real boss hid in the secret to operate a qiē, and secretly bribed the Shanghai county magistrate to turn a blind eye to Liru Bank. It was not until after the end of the Second Opium War that the British forced the Qing government to allow them to legalize their opening of banks in China, and Liru Bank officially changed its name to the Shanghai branch of the Oriental Bank.

After a period of time, when Sir Bao Ling went to the Oriental Bank in Hong Kong to help Li Weiguo negotiate money printing machine equipment, James the president of the Oriental Bank reminded Bao Ling that the Qing Empire was not only Li Weiguo who could set up a bank, and the British Legation did not necessarily have to cooperate with Li Weiguo to open a bank, but could cooperate with the bank businessmen in the Qing Dynasty, so that there was no need to look at Li Weiguo's face. Maximizing the interests of the British Legation in China.

In this way, Sir Bao Ling had an idea in his heart, he returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong with a full set of money printing machine equipment, and after hearing John convey Li Weiguo's words that he wanted the British Legation to help him seize the post of Shanghai County Commander, Bao Ling immediately suppressed it, he didn't want to be led by Li Weiguo's nose, he wanted to hold Li Weiguo in his hands, control it, and then take the AIIB back.

Didn't Li Weiguo want to drive away Shanghai County and make himself responsible? Bao Lingbian did not let Li Weiguo get his wish, and wanted to keep Shanghai County Ling Bangqi, prevent Li Weiguo from succeeding, and prevent him from entering Shanghai County.

Didn't Li Weiguo want to monopolize the interests of the AIIB? He made an appointment with Bunch, the county magistrate of Shanghai, and promised Bunch heavy profits, who was most greedy for money, and immediately agreed to acquiesce to the British to open a bank in Shanghai.

"What a package, it's really dishonest! Dare to play tricks behind your back! ”

Li Weiguo sneered, no wonder he asked the British Legation to help create an incident to force the Qing government to remove the current Shanghai County Commander, and Li Weiguo was appointed as the Shanghai County Commander, but the British Legation did not take action for a long time.

Shen Jianai is the richest man in Jinling and the richest man in Jiangnan, and Shen Family Money Village has branches in major cities across the country, with huge influence. If the British's Oriental Bank succeeds in uniting with the Shen Family Bank, it will help British funds to quickly enter China's financial market, and it is conceivable that a large amount of Chinese snowflake silver will flow out, and its annual windfall profits will be no less than Britain's opium imports to China, or even more so.

It was a war without gunpowder and the one that hurt China the most, because no one in the Qing government could realize the great danger of a financial war, so once foreign banks managed to enter China, the consequences would be catastrophic.

can think of cooperating with the Shen family to open a bank, I have to say that this package makes Sir Ling very clever and gives Li Weiguo a big problem.

Now that Sir Bao Ling has declared war on Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo will not sit idly by and fight back.

If Liru Bank is established, then Li Weiguo's AIIB will encounter a formidable competitor, and with the financial resources of the British and the Shen family's network of money banks across the country, the two will be unstoppable once combined. In particular, the profit-seeking shareholders who joined the AIIB before may immediately jump ship and help Liru Bank deal with Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo must stop it, and the breakthrough is obviously on Shen Ziyan, otherwise Shen Ziyan would not have to send someone to deliver a letter to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo sighed, he didn't want to have anything to do with Shen Ziyan anymore, but this is like a man and a woman falling in love, it doesn't matter if you don't love this person, but you can't and can't stop people from loving you.

Shen Ziyan is like this at the moment, she heard that Li Weiguo was going to sell the Drunken Immortal Building, so she immediately bought it at a high price, and now she heard that the British wanted to cooperate with the Shen family money house, and the first thing that came to mind was that it would be unfavorable to Li Weiguo.

Shen Ziyan's thoughts Li Weiguo naturally understood, but in order to keep the AIIB, prevent the establishment of Liru Bank, and then thwart Bao Ling's plot, so that he could honestly cooperate with Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo really went to meet this Shen Ziyan.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo suddenly said to Wang Er: "Go back and tell your young lady, this county will go to the appointment on time!" ”

Wang Er smiled and said: "Lord Li, the day after tomorrow is the time for the temple fair, and my young lady is worried that it will be too late, so the special villain brought a thousand-mile horse, which is at the gate of the county government." ”

Li Weiguo paused for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "Your young lady really has a heart!" Anyway, when the county arranges it, I will go back with you! ”