PS: As soon as the counterfeit * banknotes came out, the first bad luck in the UK, the money grabbing operation began, begging for subscriptions, asking for monthly passes, begging for covers

Yu Garden, Wanhua Building.

After Li Weiguo brought Su Sanniang back, he put her under house arrest here.

Of course, Su Sanniang wanted to break out of Wanhualou several times, but Li Weiguo had already prepared and arranged three layers inside and three layers outside, even if Su Sanniang was good at kung fu, it was difficult to fly, and there were a large number of maids around her day and night, so that her every move was monitored.

Li Weiguo calculated Su Sanniang's kindness, and deliberately asked the maids to tell Su Sanniang that if Su Sanniang escaped, Li Weiguo would execute all the maids and guards who took care of Su Sanniang, so that Su Sanniang would not be ruthless in the end, and could only be obediently placed under house arrest.

However, in this way, Su Sanniang was even more annoyed by Li Weiguo.

For a few days in a row, Li Weiguo didn't dare to see Su Sanniang, but just asked Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan to accompany Su Sanniang and slowly enlighten her.

Although he hit a wall at Su Sanniang's, Li Weiguo's mood was still very good, because Rong Hong had learned about Li Weiguo's shogunate these days, and accompanied by Wu Yong, Fu Xuexian and others, he successively visited the AIIB, Jiangwan Industrial Zone, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Li Jiajun Headquarters, and even the top military secrets like Alcatraz Island, Li Weiguo also allowed Rong Hong to visit.

Li Weiguo treated him so frankly, Rong Hong was deeply moved, he was afraid of comparison in everything, Rong Hong thought of the contempt and disrespect he had seen those court officials after returning to China, it was simply incomparable with Li Weiguo, it was the gap between the earth and the sky, and he had decided to serve Li Weiguo from now on.

Therefore, when Li Weiguo returned to Shanghai, Rong Hong immediately paid homage to Li Weiguo and officially entered Li Weiguo's shogunate to serve Li Weiguo.

On this day, Li Weiguo took Rong Hong to Hongkou.

It was a lake and paddy field. The former owner fled to Jiangbei, and according to the decree issued by Li Weiguo, the land had been nationalized by the government.

This is where the campus of Fudan University is located, covering an area of more than 5,000 acres, including more than one acre of Hongkou Lake, which has been filled in as building land in later generations.

"Your Excellency wants to build a university here?" Rong Hong asked excitedly.

Li Weiguo nodded and said with a smile: "That's right! I've got a name in mind. It's called Danfu University! ”

"Dan Fu! Dan Fu! Rong Hong muttered two sentences, thinking about the meaning of these two words, and quickly thought: "But it is taken from "The Great Biography of Shangshu? The Qing Yun in "The Biography of Yu Xia" is rotten and tangled; The sun and the moon are glorious, and the sun and the moon are shining? ”

Li Weiguo is not proficient in ancient poetry, he named the university Danfu, in fact, it was a little prank on Fudan University in later generations, I didn't expect Rong Hong to think of the origin of Danfu, it is really amazing. Sure enough, he is a cultural celebrity, and his strength is there, and Li Weiguo can't help but admire it.

It's just that Li Weiguo can't tell Rong Hong that the word Danfu is just his prank, so he nodded cheekily. Laughing: "That's right, that's what it means."

As for what it means, Li Weiguo doesn't know, so he can only pretend. Let Rong Hong think for himself.

I saw Rong Hong say: "The original meaning of the word Danfu is the pursuit of light, and the adult must be named Danfu University." It implies the meaning of self-education and rejuvenation of China. Adults have such great ambitions, which makes Rong Hong admire! ”

Can you guess that? What a lot of imagination!

Li Weiguo laughed, noncommittal, and actually admitted it cheekily.

"Previously, I have asked people to go to Hong Kong, Macau and Nanyang to hire teachers to return to China, and they will serve as the first batch of teachers of Danfu University, and now that Mr. Yung is here, I want Mr. Yung to be the first president of Danfu University, I don't know what Mr. Yung wants?"

Others don't know what the principal means, but Rong Hong knows best, which is equivalent to handing over the burden of revitalizing Chinese education to him Rong Hong, showing that Li Weiguo attaches great importance and trust to him.

Rong Hong immediately bowed down and said: "Thank you for your trust, Rong Hong will bow to his best and die, in order to repay the grace of the adult!" ”

"It's okay to do your best, forget it after you die, I treat you as your right-hand man, you must not die, then I will die distressed!"

The words are not rough, Rong Hong felt Li Weiguo's sincerity, and bowed again: "Rong Hong can be so valued by adults, and he is willing to serve his life for adults!" ”

Li Weiguo was so happy in his heart that he hurriedly helped Rong Hong up, and took him around to inspect the construction site of the Danfu University campus and ask him for suggestions.

Yung Wing attended a church primary school in Macau, and after arriving in the United States, he also started from middle school until he graduated from Yale University, and he was well aware of the Western education system and campus building system, so in the construction of the school building of Danfu University, he combined Eastern and Western education as a whole, designed a new school building, and even Li Weiguo was greatly admired after listening to Yung Hong's idea, so he handed over the construction of the school building of Danfu University to Yung Hong, and even those hired teachers were all arranged by Yung Hong.

Although Danfu University is a university, for the current domestic education environment, there is not a single college student, not even middle school students and elementary school students, and the first batch of students provided by Li Weiguo to Danfu University are all from Li Jiajun's officers at all levels, as well as outstanding soldiers.

Li Weiguo's task for Rong Hong was to first teach these students literacy and arithmetic, so that they could have a general understanding of the Western world view, methodology, and scientific and technological development.

This is very simple, Rong Hong arranges for the teacher to give lectures to the officers and soldiers of the Li family every morning, and the teaching point is in the barracks. Li Weiguo also knew that it was unreasonable to pull out the seedlings to help them grow, so he also told the officers and men of the Li family that they could understand and learn how much they could understand, and that in the future, the promotion of the officers and men of the Li family would be linked to their academic performance.

Of course, Li Weiguo knows very well that the 40,000 officers and soldiers of the Li family who are really successful in their studies can have an achievement and burn high incense, after all, most of them are adults, and it is good to be able to read and hyphenate and understand basic arithmetic, and it is difficult for them to understand higher knowledge.

Therefore, Li Weiguo's key training objects are still those orphans in the orphanage.

Due to the war between the Taiping army and the Qing army, a large number of families are broken by the war every day, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been 14 years, resulting in hundreds of millions of deaths and millions of orphans, Li Weiguo needs these millions of orphans, cultivate them from an early age, instill advanced knowledge and culture in them, so that they become a steady stream of soldiers for the Li family's army, and when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War is over, the youngest of these orphans will also become adults, and the older ones will also become the backbone of the Li family's army, which is Li Weiguo's real capital.

Now Li Weiguo has successively established more than 20 orphanages in the Susongtai area, adopting nearly 30,000 orphans, the youngest is still breastfeeding, and the eldest is twelve or thirteen years old, and the monthly cost of serving these children is as high as 100,000 taels of silver.

This is a huge amount of expenditure; although Li Weiguo has looted tens of millions of taels of silver in the past two years, he has nearly 100,000 people under his account, including staff, officials, soldiers, workers, and teachers, to feed, and the construction of the industrial zone has not yet been completed, and a large amount of investment must be made continuously.

If you want to compete for hegemony in troubled times, you rely on silver, the court has no money to give Li Weiguo, and Li Weiguo withheld taxes and gold from the court under his rule, but it can only achieve a fiscal balance, and if you want more taxes, you have to reach out to the people, obviously Li Weiguo has not yet reached the point of killing chickens and eggs, and if you want to get the support of the people under his rule and win the hearts of the people, you can't loot the people.

In this way, tens of millions of taels of silver in Li Weiguo's hands flowed out like dripping water every day, and he had to find a way to get the silver.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo's best thing is to make silver, which is his old business.

The AIIB has now been fully rolled out in the Susongtai area under Li Weiguo's rule, and under the enforcement of the government, all the Susongtai areas use the renminbi for daily consumption and commercial settlement, which allows Li Weiguo to concentrate a large amount of silver in his hands for emergency purposes.

Of course, Li Weiguo must not embezzle the gold and silver reserves in the AIIB treasury unless it is absolutely necessary, because the renminbi has just won the approval of the people in the Susongtai area.

For a period of time before, the people were very panicked, and the government forced them to use RMB for settlement, and they were worried that their silver would never come out again after entering the AIIB, and they were worried that the purchasing power of RMB would be the same as that of the Qing Dynasty banknotes issued by the imperial court in the past, and finally become waste paper rotting in the toilet and no one wanted.

Now after nearly a year of stable operation, the purchasing power of the RMB in the Susongtai area is strong, the market has a large number of RMB circulation, replacing silver, Western silver dollars and copper coins, you can take the RMB at any time to the AIIB to exchange the equivalent of silver taels, the people find that the RMB can not be imitated, do not worry about fake, daily use is also much more convenient, so gradually from the previous government forced to use to consciously go to the AIIB to exchange RMB for use, everything is in a good situation.

Li Weiguo naturally cannot destroy this excellent situation of the renminbi, so although the AIIB has nearly 60 million taels of silver in its treasury, Li Weiguo has no idea of touching this huge amount of money.

In this way, Li Weiguo's goal of making money has shifted to counterfeit * banknotes, which is the easiest and fastest way for Li Weiguo to make money.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo has already started to act, and the May Fourth Patriotic Action Plan carefully planned last year has reached the stage of implementation, and once successful, Li Weiguo will be able to cash out gold from abroad on a large scale and return to China to solve the current financial problem.

On May 4, 1854, the eighth day of the fourth month of the fourth year of Xianfeng, on Thursday, the "May Fourth Patriotic" operation that shocked the world was secretly launched around the world.

This day, for Li Weiguo, is a day to return to his old business, a lucky day to get off to a good start, but for the British, it is a disastrous Black Thursday, for the Bank of England, on this day, they disappeared 57 million pounds, evenly distributed to 17.932 million Britons (British 1850 Census records), equivalent to a week of wages for each Briton evaporated in an instant. (To be continued......)