Thinking of the fact that the knife would rebel, Li Weiguo suddenly became calm.

After all, Li Weiguo spent millions of taels of silver to buy a large number of industrial machinery and equipment, and will buy land in Shanghai to build a factory. In particular, the headquarters of the AIIB is located in the county seat of Shanghai, and the original capital of 3 million pounds, coupled with the huge deposits of nearly 10 million taels of silver from all walks of life in Shanghai during this period, as well as the renminbi production and printing equipment that is enough to change the pattern of the world's banknotes, it is difficult to guarantee that millions of yuan of the renminbi banknotes that are waiting to be issued will not be occupied and plundered by the knife society.

Li Weiguo could not bear such huge losses, so he transferred 200 soldiers from Chongming County to strengthen the defense of the AIIB headquarters building, and on the other hand, he visited Liu Jianzhang of Susong Taidao and reminded him to strengthen the defense of the county seat of Shanghai.

Su Song Taidao Mansion, Li Weiguo found Liu Jianzhang and reminded him to guard against the Little Knife Society.

In fact, Li Weiguo only remembered that Xiaodao would cooperate with the Taiping Army to rebel and capture Shanghai, but the specific time was not clear, so he came to give Liu Jianzhang a preventive injection and asked him to be more vigilant.

Of course, Liu Jianzhang knew the prestige of the Little Knife Society, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly called his staff member Liu He to inquire about the situation.

Liu He is Liu Jianzhang's nephew, quite talented, Daoguang 28 years as the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, Xianfeng was demoted to Lingnan in the first year, the tunnel resigned from the official did not do, came to Shanghai to assist his uncle Liu Jianzhang, and repeatedly thwarted Su Shun, Lu Jianying and others to frame Liu Jianzhang, so that Liu Jianzhang has been sitting firmly in Su Song Taidao these years.

Seeing Liu Jianzhang and Li Weiguo ask about the Little Knife Club, Liu He explained: "The Little Knife Club was founded in the seventh year of Qianlong, and it was named because the small knives were used in the congregation. The Little Knife Society was originally an anti-Qing and Ming restoration organization, and after being exterminated by the imperial court, the remnants were merged into the Heaven and Earth Society, which was originally a subordinate of Aoki Hall, and then independent of the five halls of the Heaven and Earth Society, and was directly under the management of the head of the Heaven and Earth Society. ”

Li Weiguo asked, "I wonder if there are signs of activity around Shanghai in the vicinity of Xiaodao?" ”

Liu He shook his head and said: "I remember that there were a few people near Chuansha and Jiading in the past, but they were very low-key, and they generally did not directly encounter the government, and they have not committed any cases recently." ”

Liu Jianzhang suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Li Weiguo and asked, "Nephew, why did you suddenly mention the Little Knife Society, and said that they might rebel and attack my Shanghai county?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, he couldn't say that I came through to know that the Little Knife Society rebelled and captured Shanghai, but he didn't have any evidence, in fact, Li Weiguo hadn't even seen the shadow of the Little Knife Society, if he hadn't suddenly remembered it when he talked to Zhang Xiaoliu yesterday, he wouldn't have been so vigilant.

So he replied: "One of my subordinates overheard the members of the Little Knife Society talking about their rebellion with the Taiping army, and when the time comes, Shanghai will be captured in one fell swoop. ”

Liu Jianzhang hurriedly asked, "Have your subordinates ever come over?" ”

Li Weiguo shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that my subordinates were accidentally exposed, chased and killed by the Knife Society, and were seriously injured. ”

Liu Jianzhang believed it, his face was heavy, and he said: "In this way, it seems that the knife society is very likely to rebel!" ”

At this time, Liu He also nodded and said: "The Little Knife Society is an anti-Qing restoration organization, and they have never given up on rebellion to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. Now the Taiping army rebelled, the momentum was huge, the battle on the Huguang front line was fierce, the imperial court hundreds of thousands of troops did not stop the Taiping army, I heard that the Taiping army had captured Changsha, Hunan governor Zhang Liangji and Hunan regimental training made Zeng Guofan defeated and fled, and lost Yuezhou, a few days ago the Taiping army crossed Hunan into Hubei, pointing directly at Wuchang. In this way, the Taiping Army has become a climate, and at this time, if the Heaven and Earth Society is still honest, it will not be the Heaven and Earth Society, and the Little Knife Society wants to rebel, maybe it is one of the deployments of the entire Heaven and Earth Society, and my uncle has to guard against it. ”

When Li Weiguo heard that the Taiping army had captured Changsha and that Zeng Guofan, who was guarding Changsha, had been defeated, he couldn't help but feel a huge shock in his heart.

Who Zeng Guofan is, Li Weiguo knows very well, he is the gravedigger of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. What's more, in history, the Taiping Army did not capture Changsha, but was greatly injured because Xiao Chaogui died in Changsha. Now that the Taiping army has captured Changsha, this news is really amazing.

Li Weiguo knew in his heart that this must be the butterfly effect caused by his crossing. If Li Weiguo had not supported the Taiping army with a large number of advanced Western muskets and artillery, the Taiping army's original cold weapons would have broken through the encirclement of 100,000 Qing troops at most, and it would have been impossible to defeat the 100,000 Qing army in Yong'an. After entering Hunan, the Taiping army did not have foreign guns and foreign artillery, and they could not capture Changsha Jiancheng.

Although some historical events have changed, the general historical direction of the Taiping army has not been affected for the time being, and from the perspective of their attack on Wuchang, the general strategic direction of the Taiping army now still wants to enter the Yangtze River, and then march east along the river to attack Jiangning.

Li Weiguo was a little worried in his heart, and he didn't know if the Taiping army would directly attack Shanghai after the Taiping army captured Jiangning? You must know that Li Weiguo started to operate Shanghai as his nest, if the Taiping army directly attacked Shanghai after capturing Jiangning, then Li Weiguo would never allow it, maybe he would have to tear the last layer of face at that time, and the two sides would make a big move.

This is not the result that Li Weiguo expects at the moment, he still needs to accumulate his strength, his various factories are under construction, and he does not want to be interrupted because of the war. Once the construction of Li Weiguo's industrial base is completed and he has enough confidence and resources, he will be able to do it freely.

At this time, Liu Jianzhang's words interrupted Li Weiguo's thoughts, and he only heard him say: "The Little Knife Society has to be guarded against, but fortunately, the imperial court has issued an edict to allow local officials at all levels to form regimental exercises on their own to defend the land against the flood bandits." In addition, the sixth master was promoted to the head of the military aircraft department, and the emperor ordered the sixth master to lead the suppression of bandits, and the old man also had to do his best. ”

Liu Jianzhang paused and continued: "Liu He, I appoint you as the training envoy of the Shanghai County Regiment, you immediately start to handle this matter, recruit soldiers on the spot, and spend the military expenses from Su Songtai Road, Shanghai Road and Shanghai County Ya, if it is not enough, let the gentry from all walks of life in Shanghai donate more, first organize and train 5,000 men and horses, plus the original 5,000 defenders in Shanghai County, 10,000 people are more than enough to defend the city. Even if the knife would rebel, it would be enough to destroy them. ”

Liu He immediately received the order, and when he saw that he had nothing to do, he went down to do things.

Li Weiguo was also pleasantly surprised, he had been waiting for the imperial court's edict to allow local governments to set up their own regiments, otherwise there would be no need to hide the 3,000 new troops as disaster relief security teams. Now with the decree of the imperial court, Li Weiguo can justifiably form a regiment and recruit troops.

After talking to Liu Jianzhang for a while, mentioning the appointment of the Shanghai county order, Liu Jianzhang told him that he would come down soon to appoint the order, and asked him to be patient and wait.

Li Weiguo knew that it was useless to be in a hurry, and he couldn't help but think of when Lu Jianying arranged the Chongming County Order for him, the speed was very fast. Compared with the two and the next, there are still people in the DPRK and China who are good officials, and this reason could not be more obvious.

However, Li Weiguo is also faintly worried, since he has completely torn his face with Lu Jianying, will Su Shun and others, the powerful ministers of the court, let the post of Shanghai county commander fall into the hands of Li Weiguo?

Li Weiguo was a little suspicious, but he was not worried at all now, even if Su Shun was in the way, he had already thought of a countermeasure.

Isn't there a knife club, if it doesn't work, the excuse to suppress the knife will directly occupy Shanghai County, anyway, the war year, there is a temporary military management system, as long as the Taiping army is not destroyed one day, Li Weiguo can occupy Shanghai without scruples.

However, hearing that Yi Xin was promoted to Minister Wang, the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department, and was appointed as the "commander-in-chief" of the bandits, Li Weiguo once again felt the butterfly effect.

You must know that Yi Xin in history is still idle at home, until the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition was about to hit the Forbidden City, Xianfeng re-activated Yi Xin, only ordered Yi Xin to be the governor of Hebei to suppress bandits, if it wasn't for Yi Xin to eliminate the Taiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Army and made a great contribution, Xianfeng would not let him enter the military aircraft, even so, he only made him a minister of military aircraft, and the current foreman of the military aircraft Wang Minister is very different.

Now that Yi Xin has been appointed as the "Commander-in-Chief of the Suppression of Bandits", on the surface it looks extremely beautiful, but Li Weiguo knows that the current Qing Army cannot defeat the Taiping Army at all, and Yi Xin will definitely lose the battle, and I am afraid that this "Commander-in-Chief of the Suppression of Bandits" will not be long-term.

Li Weiguo naturally wouldn't tell Liu Jianzhang about these things, and he was just guessing now.

After bidding farewell to Liu Jianzhang, Li Weiguo returned directly to the AIIB headquarters building, Li Weiguo immediately called the executive director George, and temporarily left some less important daily affairs to him as his agent, while Li Weiguo was ready to return to Chongming County, because he was preparing for a large-scale military expansion.

As soon as he left the AIIB headquarters, Li Weiguo suddenly felt that someone was watching him, turned his head suddenly, and swept his gaze.

I saw a person hiding behind a wall at the corner of the street, poking his head out and secretly looking at Li Weiguo.

When the two looked at each other, they both found each other.

"Jiang Tao!" Li Weiguo blurted out, and recognized the other party at a glance as Jiang Tao, the former gang leader of the Jiangzhu Gang, since the last time Jiang Tao secretly calculated that Li Weiguo could not succeed, but was secretly attacked by the undercover three masters of the Jiangzhu Gang who were placed in the Jiangzhu Gang by the Heaven and Earth Society, and seized Jiang Tao's Jiangzhu Gang, Jiang Tao himself was seriously injured and fell into the Yangtze River and disappeared, never thought that he was not dead, but appeared in Shanghai again.

"Get that guy back!" Li Weiguo shouted, stretched out his hand and pointed at Jiang Tao, and suddenly a group of personal guards rushed over.

Jiang Tao is not easy to follow, and the moment he meets Li Weiguo's eyes, he knows that it is not good, and he immediately runs away.

Li Weiguo's men chased for a few streets, but they lost the chase and came back dejected.

Since Jiang Tao is still alive, he suddenly secretly observed Li Weiguo, what does this mean, Li Weiguo can also figure it out with his feet, eighty percent is not a good thing.

"Tell me to go down and be on guard!"