A trip to Wusongkou Fortress made Li Weiguo realize the importance and urgency of spy warfare.

Led by the China S.H.I.E.L.D., local yamen, police departments, and local garrisons in Liangjiang jointly launched a large-scale espionage operation.

Under Li Weiguo's rule, the system of protecting the armor and sitting together had already begun, with 10 households being A, 10 being the first to be guaranteed, and more than 10 being the townships. Once someone violates the law, the whole family will report it, otherwise they will be punished, one household will break the law, and the other nine households will report it, otherwise they will be punished.

When Li Weiguo first arrived in Shanghai, his position was unstable, and the implementation of the system of protecting armor and sitting together was the most effective means to consolidate his rule, and he captured a large number of Taiping troops and ensured social stability in Liangjiang.

However, Li Weiguo implemented a policy of comprehensive reform and opening up in Liangjiang, and he encouraged businessmen from European and American countries to invest and set up factories on the border of Liangjiang and expand Sino-foreign trade on a large scale.

Now that the British and French expeditionary fleets have bypassed the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, passed through the Indian Ocean, and are resting in British Australia, the British and French expeditionary fleets will arrive in Shanghai in less than three months.

The war will break out in three months, and at this time, it is also the time when the espionage activities of European and American countries are most frequent, and it is necessary to stifle them, otherwise the intelligence they steal may affect the overall situation of the war.

Taking history as a mirror can know the rise and fall, ancient and modern, inside and outside, there are countless examples of rewriting the outcome of the war because of a spy and a piece of intelligence. It is precisely because he knows the terrible things about spies that Li Weiguo attaches great importance to them, and he is even more ruthless and sternly punished.

The guiding documents for the anti-espionage operation were distributed to various departments, and the yamen in various localities cooperated with the action, parading a group of people who endangered the country through the streets, and then beheading them, telling everyone to take warning.

This time, the operation is stricter than before, and some ordinary people still want to get away with it. However, they soon found that the ubiquitous agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had found evidence, and a group of ordinary people who had concealed and failed to report were sat down, waking up all those who stepped on the line.

"Everyone is reporting spies!"

"Anyone who reports a spy will be rewarded with 100 yuan for the whistleblower once it is verified that he is a spy!"

"Anyone who does not report the knowledge, once verified, will be punished with the crime of espionage and the death penalty!"

On the one hand, there is a high reward for catching spies, and on the other hand, there is a terrible punishment, and the common people finally understand the stakes. Those who had information reported to the yamen and the National Police Agency, and those who did not have information began to pay attention to their surroundings, but whenever they did things for foreigners, they were careful to prevent them from being used.

Since the British and French Concessions were recovered by Li Weiguo a year ago, tens of thousands of foreigners in the British and French Concessions were originally imprisoned in concentration camps, although they were all released or repatriated in the end, but they were undoubtedly victims of the war and suffered heavy losses. Among them, there are many foreigners who hate Li Weiguo. They were quickly organized by the powers of various countries and became their spies in China.

The Shanghai Concession no longer exists, and the original British Concession and the French Concession were all recovered by Li Weiguo, and foreigners no longer enjoy consular jurisdiction. They violated the Liangjiang Decree formulated by Li Weiguo and were punished as well.

The activities of these foreign spies in China were soon exposed, because their appearance was so special, no matter what they did, they were quickly discovered by the local people and reported one by one.

In just one month. More than 800 foreigners were arrested and imprisoned, most of whom directly or indirectly served the European and American powers, and were prosecuted and sentenced for espionage. In serious cases, they were directly shot.

Many of these foreigners who were sentenced to prison or executed were Russians, and they sought help from the Russian minister in China, which soon attracted the attention of the Russian government.

The Russian minister sent a note to Li Weiguo, demanding that Li Weiguo immediately and unconditionally release the Russians.

At this time, because Russia had not yet declared war on China, nor had it taken direct military action, and there was no Russian concession in Shanghai, there was no direct conflict with the Shanghai army.

The Russian envoy also threatened Li Weiguo with the consular jurisdiction in the Qing-Russia treaty, but Li Weiguo did not buy it at all, and directly expressed his attitude to the Russian minister, and from now on under his rule Li Weiguo, no great power country could have privileges.

The Russian envoy protested several times, and finally Li Weiguo simply ignored the other party, which made the Russians very angry, and they openly clamored for revenge.

Li Weiguo is not afraid, even if there is no such thing, the Russians will take advantage of the second Opium @ War to rob it.

However, the troubles did not end, the Qing government was afraid of the Russians, and after receiving the Russian intimidation, Xianfeng issued an order to reprimand Li Weiguo, fined him for one year, and asked Li Weiguo to release the Russians.

But Li Weiguo didn't take Xianfeng in his eyes at all at this moment, no matter how Xianfeng roared, Li Weiguo pretended not to hear it, and ordered to continue the espionage operation, as long as the Russian spies were caught, they would be executed, and he was resolutely not used to their problems.

The espionage operation is in full swing and will never stop.

Just when foreigners in China were in the midst of the White Terror, Li Weiguo finally waited for his second spring, the day when he married Shen Ziyan and entered the door.

The joyful day diluted the tension of everyone in the Shanghai military group about the upcoming war.

Firecrackers rang out, ceremonial music was played in unison, Li Weiguo wore the groom's wedding dress, wore a big red flower, rode a high-headed horse to the Shen Mansion, took the bride Shen Ziyan to the sedan chair, and then returned to Yu Garden.

In the Yu Garden, people from all walks of life in Liangjiang came to congratulate one after another, and there were tens of thousands of people, including more than 7,000 people within the Shanghai Army Group alone.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo's mansion, Yu Garden, is large enough and has enough houses to accommodate so many guests.

The crowd was full of people, and the guests were three people and a small group, and a large group of five people, all attracted by the beautiful scenery in the Yu Garden.

Li Weiguo is also more generous today, except for the inner house that does not allow guests to approach, other scenery in Yu Garden is fully open for guests to enjoy.

Li Weiguo's decision made the chief guard Zhuang Jiuxia very busy, because the Yu Garden was too big, and tens of thousands of guests came, plus thousands of service personnel serving the banquet, so many people were concentrated in the Yu Garden, and the security work was under great pressure.

However, Zhuang Jiuxia is very smart, on the one hand, he applied for the agents of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. to carefully screen the identity of the visitors, and sent people to hide in the guest group for surveillance, and on the other hand, he applied for the permission to transfer troops with the Military Command Department, and transferred a brigade of troops, plus a reinforced guard regiment in his hands, adding up to more than 6,000 soldiers to defend the Yuyuan Regiment. Three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, so that anyone who wants to make trouble has to be carefully weighed.

But there has never been a shortage of troublemakers in this world, and there are a lot of people who are jealous of Li Weiguo's net worth, but most of them are mediocre in strength and dare not fight Li Weiguo's idea.

However, among these people, there is no one person, his name is Zuo Zongtang, and he came to Shanghai today to attend Li Weiguo's wedding.

Of course, Zuo Zongtang did not have an invitation card in his hand. Li Weiguo would not invite him at all.

But Zuo Zongtang still came, he took a dozen entourages across the river to Shanghai, wanting to attend Li Weiguo's wedding, but was blocked from the gate of Yu Garden and was not allowed to enter.

"Bold, you dare to stop me? Do you know who I am? ”

"I don't care who you are, if you don't get out, I'll kill you!"

Outside the gate of the garden, the officers and soldiers of Shanghai guarding the gate confronted Zuo Zongtang and his party.

Obviously, Zuo Zongtang only had a dozen followers, carrying swords and firearms. On the other side, there were hundreds of soldiers of the Shanghai army, all armed with live ammunition, standing there majestically, without fear.

It was the first time that Zuo Zongtang had encountered such a situation. You must know that now he is already in the fourth official position, and he manages 50,000 Huai troops under his command, which is a powerful member of the dignified side, calling for wind and rain in the local area. When it came to the court, everyone was scrambling to stammer, who dared not to sell his face.

However, today Zuo Zongtang opened his eyes, and a mere officer of the Shanghai Army dared to scold him. Holding a revolver and pointing it at his head, it doesn't give him face at all.

"This official thinks that your position is lowly and does not care about you in general, you quickly go to inform Li Weiguo and tell him that I Zuo Zongtang is here!"

"I don't care if you are Zuo Zongtang or Right Zongtang, you can't enter without an invitation! Hurry up and get out, my brother is still busy! ”

The Shanghai army officer ignored Zuo Zongtang's distorted face at all, and continued to entertain other guests who came with invitations, carefully interrogated, checked their identities, and did not let a single spy get in.

Zuo Zongtang said angrily: "Bastard, I obviously gave you a letter of introduction just now, and it was Zeng Guofan, the governor of Huguang, and Li Hongzhang, the governor of Anhui, who entrusted me to come to send congratulatory gifts!" ”

The Shanghai army officer snorted coldly and said, "It turned out to be a congratulatory gift from Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, I know it, leave the things, you can go!" ”

Zuo Zongtang was so angry that he almost turned his back on it, and said angrily: "Since you accepted our gifts, why don't you let us in, we came all the way over, can't we ask for a cup of wine?" ”

The officer smiled and said: "It's no problem if you want to drink wine, see it, the restaurant over there specializes in entertaining guests to drink, you can go over, rest assured, it's free!" ”

Zuo Zongtang felt that he was so angry, he had an urge to vomit blood, he said angrily: "Bastard, I'm such a dignified four-grade general of the imperial court, how can I go to that kind of broken place, if I want to drink happy wine, I naturally have to go into Yu Garden to drink, I heard that Li Weiguo's Yu Garden is known as the small palace in the south of the Yangtze River, comparable to the royal three mountains and five gardens, I finally came to visit, how can I miss it!" ”

If Zuo Zongtang's words were to be heard by others, I am afraid that he would immediately be so frightened that he would pee his pants, this is a great disrespect to the emperor, and he will be killed.

However, in the Shanghai army, there was no scruple about the emperor at all, and the officers guarding the gate did not listen to it at all, which made Zuo Zongtang's tricks hit the air all of a sudden, so powerless.

"I said, are you sick? If you want to drink the wedding wine, hurry up and go to the restaurant over there, don't think about it in the Yu Garden, the guests there are all people with status and status, and your Huaijun Sipin General is nothing in our eyes! ”

"You-you-how can you be, I killed you!" Zuo Zongtang was so angry that he trembled, his eyes breathed fire, and he wanted to draw a knife to kill someone.

However, Zuo Zongtang's entourage hurriedly grabbed him and persuaded him not to do it, otherwise he would suffer.

After all, Zuo Zongtang is a talented commander, capable of literature and martial arts, and this time he deliberately wanted to humiliate Li Weiguo in front of Li Weiguo and other celebrities from all walks of life, seek justice for the dead Hu Xueyan, and want to mess up the wedding, disgusting Li Weiguo for the rest of his life.

However, Zuo Zongtang never expected that his whereabouts were completely under the surveillance of the agents of the China S.H.I.E.L.D., in the morning Zuo Zongtang left Yangzhou on the front foot, and then Zhuang Jiuxia knew about it, and specially sent someone to deliberately block Zuo Zongtang at the door, if Zuo Zongtang broke in, he would kill him directly, and then casually give Zuo Zongtang a charge of assassinating Li Weiguo, and Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang did not dare to settle accounts with Li Weiguo.

The officer guarding the door of the Shanghai Army deliberately stimulated Zuo Zongtang, and just waited for Zuo Zongtang to measure out the knife, the snipers of the Shanghai Army on the surrounding houses were already in place, and Zuo Zongtang could be killed at any time.

In the end, Zuo Zongtang's keen sense cultivated on the battlefield reminded him that he must not be impulsive, otherwise he will definitely die.

"General, Li Weiguo must have been prepared for a long time, we will definitely not be able to enter Yu Garden today, and we will definitely not be able to smash his field!"

Hearing the words of his entourage, Zuo Zongtang also knew that it was impossible to do it, and the opportunity he had finally won was given up like this, and he was unwilling.

"Virtuous brother, I have the intention to kill the thief for my brother, and I can't go back to heaven, I'm sorry for you for my brother!"

"Poof!"

Zuo Zongtang raised his head to the sky and roared, and then he was furious, a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and he fainted to the ground.

Seeing Zuo Zongtang vomiting blood and falling to the ground, Zhuang Jiuxia in the secret was really unwilling.

"This Zuo Zongtang, why don't you be impulsive?"

"You take the pulse and pull out your knife, so that I can have an excuse to shoot!"

"It's good now, you yourself were so angry that you vomited blood and fainted, but I pity my hard plan to let you escape!"

Zhuang Jiuxia muttered to himself, called a few of his subordinates, and ordered them to follow Zuo Zongtang, once Zuo Zongtang made trouble, he would take the opportunity to kill him, and he would not be soft.

In Zhuang Jiuxia's eyes, he has followed Li Weiguo for a long time, and has always been by Li Weiguo's side, and he knows everything about the people Li Weiguo likes, the people he hates, the people he hates, and the people he fears, no matter all kinds of people. This Zuo Zongtang is obviously Li Weiguo's enemy, not only because of the relationship between Hu Xueyan and Zuo Zongtang, but also because Zuo Zongtang is a fierce general of the Huai Army, Li Hongzhang's main helper, and he also has a lot of friendship with Zeng Guofan. And Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang will obviously be Li Weiguo's lifelong enemies, and they are also the main obstacles to the future victory of the Shanghai army. Therefore, Zhuang Jiuxia is particularly concerned about these people, including Zuo Zongtang.

If it weren't for the fact that today was Li Weiguo's big day, Zhuang Jiuxia would definitely not let Zuo Zongtang go, he would do everything possible to frame the other party, and he would have to leave the other party's life behind.

At this time, the salute in the Yu Garden sounded, and the auspicious time had arrived.

Li Weiguo took the bride to worship heaven and earth, and the atmosphere of the entire Yu Garden was suddenly extremely warm.

(The following is the plot of the cave room, with 20,000 words omitted...... (To be continued......)