The arms deal was carried out in secret, and the Russians knew that they did not dare to make a noise, so they handed over the prepared money to Li Weiguo, and then loaded the ship and returned to Amur overnight, intending to transfer it back to Russia from Siberia via Vladivostok.

The Russians were also forced to have no choice, the British Royal Navy spread all over the world, plus the French Navy, the second largest in the world, the two navies joined forces to blockade Russia's sea communications, so that this arms did not dare to go by sea, but could only take the Siberian land route.

After the completion of this arms deal, Li Weiguo received 50,000 gold rubles and 1 million rubles in cash from the Russian minister Buklon.

The reason why he asked for cash was because Li Weiguo had his hands free and was ready to launch the second war of encirclement of money.

Since the first money encirclement war was launched last year, and after the "May Fourth Patriotic" money robbery campaign launched against the British million-dollar commercial bonds, Li Weiguo was worried that the British would find out, so he hid for a while.

However, the information sent back by Li Weiguo to the London station of the overseas intelligence department of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. station later showed that the British were very angry about the million-pound bill case, but because of the outbreak of the Crimean War, the British believed that the Russians were behind it, so they vented all their anger on the Crimean battlefield, and the Russians were extremely miserable.

The Russians lay down their guns and carried the black pot for Li Weiguo, which made Li Weiguo very happy.

Now that after a big battle between the Shanghai Army and the Taiping Army, neither side wants to break out in a bloody battle in a short period of time, and each side is at peace, so Li Weiguo turns his energy to the economic construction of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province.

As we all know, the development of capitalism in Europe and the United States is the primitive capital accumulation established by the enclosure movement and colonial plunder, Li Weiguo knows the disadvantages of capitalism, and also knows that GCZY is built on the basis of the highly developed ZBZY, so he decided that the future development of the system should be the SHZY system with Chinese characteristics, which is between capitalism @ capitalism and GCISM, which can not only prevent the outbreak of a capitalist-style economic crisis, but also rapidly develop and expand comprehensive national strength to resist the aggression of Western European and American powers.

So. The accumulation of the original capital required for development becomes the key. Although Li Weiguo has built the Jiangwan Industrial Zone, it is still far from the powerful industrial empires of the European and American powers, and more funds are needed to develop the industry.

Therefore, Li Weiguo naturally thought of encircling money, which is really the best choice for hurting others and benefiting himself.

At the time of the outbreak of the Crimean War in Europe, the British felt that the banknotes were made by the Russians, so if Russia also violated the banknotes, the Russians would inevitably be the first to suspect Britain, France and other countries.

This is the opportunity, a great opportunity that is not easily suspected. Li Weiguo naturally will not miss it, so he decided to start the second war of encirclement of money, this time he is going to make the Russian currency ruble and gold ruble, but the Russians are poorer and not as rich as Britain and France, so Li Weiguo does not stop doing two things, and at the same time violates the franc and the pound, so that Britain, France and Russia themselves are suspicious of each other, and no one will think that the money will come from the Eastern China, which they despise the most.

Li Weiguo received millions of rubles in real money from the Russians. It provided him with a lot of references, but soon Li Weiguo discovered that the raw materials used in ruble banknotes were basically from Siberian birch, and the craftsmanship was relatively rough, and the anti-violation ability was only the seal of the Russian Ministry of Finance. You can carve it out with just a turnip.

After less than 20 experiments, Li Weiguo imitated the hardness, gloss, size and seal of the ruble, and successfully produced a 100% realistic ruble banknote.

However, what bothered Li Weiguo was. The Russians' banknotes were crudely made, and there were almost no clever precautions, but the cost of making a face value of 10,000 rubles basically fluctuated around 10,000 rubles. There are no profit margins.

This Li Weiguo is not going to do it, he makes A@* coins in order to make money, and he never does anything without profit.

However, Li Weiguo quickly figured out the key link, in later generations, because the banknotes of various countries have clever anti-violation methods, and the people are @币的认知度非常高 for A*, so he has to achieve high fidelity as much as possible when he violates the paper money, and it is difficult to deceive the people and banks of various countries if it does not reach more than 90% of the high fidelity.

But now the times are different, and the public's awareness of government-issued banknotes only stays at the clarity and softness of banknotes, and lacks advanced anti-violation means such as money detectors. At the beginning, Li Weiguo's illegal ruble was almost equivalent to the real ruble banknote, the difference was that it was not issued by the Bank of Russia.

In order to control the cost, Li Weiguo decided to take the initiative to reduce the simulation degree of the ruble, and keep it at 75% of the simulation degree, which can deceive the ordinary Russian people, so that the cost of violation can be greatly reduced, and it is profitable. As for whether you can cheat the Russian banks, it doesn't matter anymore, as long as you import a huge amount of illegal @rubles into Russia on a large scale in a short period of time and get a decent profit.

In terms of channels, Li Weiguo chose to @帮合作 with the local H* in Russia, with a face value of 10,000 rubles, the cost of 5,000 rubles, and 7,000 rubles were sold to the Russian H@ * gang, so that Li Weiguo could get 2,000 rubles in profits, and the rest would be @帮负责流散 by Russian black*, which could cash out huge profits on a large scale in a short period of time, and prevent himself from being exposed.

Of course, it is impossible for Li Weiguo to directly send people to contact the local H@* gang in Russia, and he ordered the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to control some small businessmen in Britain, France, the United States, and other countries, mainly blacks, and control them to @帮接触 with H* in various parts of Russia.

In this way, even if the Russian government issues an illegal @ruble for investigation, it can only find businessmen from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, because of the Crimean War, this black cauldron will be carried by Britain, France and the United States, and will not be suspected of Li Weiguo's head.

The sales of the first batch of rubles were not high, and the Russian H@* gang was cautious, and only bought hundreds of thousands of rubles on a small scale to test the reaction of the Russian people, banks and government.

As a result, the Russian people did not suspect that the illegal @ruble in their hands was fake, and even if some shrewd Russian people found some problems, they only thought that it was a problem with the printing of Russian banks. Even if more Russians know that there is a problem with the banknotes, they do not want to spoil them in their own hands, but quickly buy items and spend the banknotes.

The mentality of these Russian people made the first batch of illegal rubles disperse smoothly, and the leaders of the Russian gangs were very excited to get the first pot of gold, so they began to demand to expand the scale of purchases.

The second transaction amounted to 500,000 in violation of @rubles. The third one has directly multiplied several times, reaching five million rubles, and after that, basically every two months, millions of illegal @rubles will be dispersed.

At the same time, the Bank of Russia is also discovering the ruble on a large scale, because the outbreak of the Crimean War, the Russian army's military spending has surged, and the depreciation of the ruble has become inevitable. The purchase of gold, land, houses and other real estate to preserve the value of the purchase has led to a large number of illegal rubles flowing into the Russian currency market, but almost rarely returned to the Bank of Russia, and occasionally a few illegal @rubles were found by the employees of the Bank of Russia and were not taken seriously.

In addition to the illegal ruble, Li Weiguo also illegally made pounds and francs, because compared with the ruble, the same material consumption is calculated at cost. Illegal pounds and francs are more cost-effective and more profitable.

Pound banknotes and franc banknotes are very beautifully made, but it is difficult for Li Weiguo, an expert in W banknotes, since the successful production of millions of pound sterling banknotes that year. Li Weiguo was even more adept at this, and quickly created sterling and franc banknotes of various denominations.

Also in order to control costs and maximize profits, Li Weiguo lowered the simulation degree of the British pound and the franc to 85%. This makes it only £6,000 for every £10,000 of notes minted.

Channel tactics have not changed either, not every Englishman and French love their country and be loyal to their country. The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. secretly controlled some Russians who couldn't get along in Britain and France this time, and through these Russians they negotiated with the local gangs @ factions in Britain and France against the @钞生意.

As Li Weiguo expected, most of the local B@ forces in Britain and France were not patriotic at all, and soon accepted the banknote business. They were also very cautious, and at first they bought tens of thousands of pounds sterling or tens of thousands of francs on a small scale, like the H* gang in Russia, and first dispersed to the market to see the market and the attitude of the government, and only when they saw that everything was going well and there was a huge profit to be made, did they start to buy banknotes on a large scale.

The Russians were very poor, and the profits from the banknote market were limited, and Li Weiguo also controlled the amount of banknotes flowing into Russia, which was too much. However, the British and the French were very rich, so Li Weiguo expanded the scale of paper mills, printing houses, and ink factories, and illegally minted a large number of pounds and francs, and millions of pounds and francs were secretly shipped abroad almost every month.

From 1854 to 1856, in three years, Li Weiguo imported a total of more than 80 million pounds worth of banknotes to Britain, France and Russia, and made a profit of 30 million pounds. Although the profit difference between the two is nearly half compared to the 57 million pounds made by the first violation of the *@钞战争 - 5@4 Patriotic Action, it is still a very considerable income.

For Li Weiguo, a profit of 30 million pounds is enough to help him accomplish a lot of things.

For example, the second major expansion of the Jiangwan Industrial Zone cost 8 million pounds; The arsenal of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau completed the third expansion, and the musket production line was replaced by the Patriotic rifle production line; The third phase of the Wusongkou Fortress was completed and became the steel gateway to protect Shanghai; Shanghai county has also carried out two expansions, the original old county town changed to the inner city, the newly expanded outer city area reached 42 square kilometers, a change of Shanghai county as the provincial capital of Jiangnan Province with many people and small area of the embarrassing position, the new city wall is all built with reinforced concrete, 20 meters high, 8 meters thick, add a large number of forts, pillboxes and hidden soldiers' holes, greatly enhance the defense capability of Shanghai County, which is a flat river for the Shanghai area, reverse the unfavorable situation of easy to attack and difficult to defend;

In the same way, the Shanghai army has also been expanded, from the original 50,000 to 100,000, the military expenditure has doubled, the expenditure is huge, all the front-loading muskets required have been replaced with rear-loading rifles, and the cost of a rear-loading rifle is almost three times that of the front-loading musket, and the cost of this huge expenditure has also been @钞战争所得的利润中支出 from the second violation, and Li Weiguo does not need to use the reserves of the government treasury and the AIIB.

Of course, this does not mean that Li Weiguo will hand over the financial revenues of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province to the imperial court for three years, on the contrary, Li Weiguo not only does not pay a penny to the imperial court, but cries poverty to Xianfeng every day.

Li Weiguo's excuse was very simple: in the Taiping Army's Eastern Crusade, the Shanghai army lost 50,000 elites, and re-recruited and trained 50,000 Shanghai troops, and the military expenditure required was as high as 70 million taels of silver, most of which would be used to purchase the required muskets, artillery and ammunition. At the same time, the military expenditure of the East China Sea Fleet also far exceeded that of the Qing army and naval divisions of the same scale, and all the Western warships, coal burning money, shell money, and warship maintenance money were very huge, reaching 20 million taels of silver, plus from time to time to report the war with the Taiping Army, all kinds of war damage expenses, in three years, Li Weiguo asked the imperial court for a total of 170 million taels of silver.

The two provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang controlled by Li Weiguo had a total of 60 million taels of silver in three years, and after offsetting the 170 million taels of silver reported by Li Weiguo, the imperial court had to allocate 110 million taels of silver to Li Weiguo.

Of course, it was impossible for Xianfeng to give Li Weiguo so much silver, and the imperial court could not take out so much silver.

Although in three years, the imperial court collected taxes all over the country, and the additional gold added up to 200 million taels of silver, but only 2 million taels were allocated to Li Weiguo, and the remaining silver Xianfeng only gave Li Weiguo a word, and solved it on the spot.

What Li Weiguo wants is this holy decree to solve the grain and salary on the spot, so that he can free his hands and feet to engage in economic construction.

With the help of Li Hongzao, the political envoy of Jiangnan Province, Xianfeng also thought that Li Weiguo was loyal, but in fact, Li Weiguo hid his wealth from the people every year, and fundamentally levied a levy of cents on the people, but completely implemented reform and opening up, and reduced the customs taxes of European and American countries on a large scale, and because of the war, tens of millions of people in Jiangnan provinces moved in, and the labor force was very rich, even very cheap, and all kinds of industry, handicrafts, agriculture, and commerce were rapidly prosperous, making Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province very prosperous, especially Shanghai, which governed the city. It has reached the standard of a second-tier industrial city in the UK.

In the past three years, Li Weiguo has worked hard to manage his own territory, so that the rule is prosperous, the people's life is stable, the low tax allows the common people to at least meet the food and clothing, and the common people who have a little brains and diligence have entered a well-off life, and those landlords who moved into Li Weiguo's rule from the war-torn provinces have a lot of money in their hands, but unfortunately Li Weiguo has monopolized the land and all kinds of commerce, and these people can no longer be the landlords, either sit and eat empty, or can only put money into the industry and commerce designated by Li Weiguo, The status of the landlord gradually changed to that of a national capitalist.

Of course, the industries and businesses designated by Li Weiguo are basically private light industries, such as food, textiles, services, transportation, and other industries. Because Li Weiguo monopolized all types of heavy industry and military industry, these private entrepreneurs were needed to supplement the economy, prevent the imbalance of light and heavy industries, and prevent the excessive war from destroying civilian industry.

On this day, Li Weiguo received a newspaper from Britain at his home in Yuyuan, which stated that Russia had been defeated and the Crimean War was over.

Li Weiguo got up and came to the window, and said to himself: "Europe is over, and Asia is about to start!" (To be continued......)