(1st Update)

"Marshal, the foreigners have withdrawn. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

As soon as he returned to the Governor's Office, Ye Kai received the news, and Li Guangben personally came to report it, which shows the importance of this matter.

"When?"

"About fifteen minutes ago, the British and French troops boarded the ship and sailed in the direction of northern Shanghai."

Hearing this, Ye Kai was completely relieved, Yi-Xuan did not break the agreement, this matter finally stopped moving forward on the edge of the cliff, and Ye Kai's plan was successful.

"Inform Lu Shuangming to let all the personnel of the Praetorian Guard evacuate the concession, leave the police in Shanghai Huajie, and the patrols in the concession to maintain order, and within seven days, the concession must have normal skin." Ye Kai ordered, and then added: "Oh, by the way, there are also Cheng Dequan's troops, to pass on the order, tomorrow there will be a banquet, I will personally reward the three armies and award medals." ”

"Yes," Li Guangben nodded.

"Wait a minute," Ye Kai looked at Zhang Xiaoguang, "You still have to do this matter." ”

"Yes," Zhang Xiaoguang ordered.

Ye Kai then said to Li Guangben: "You can't reveal your identity now, the foreigners have withdrawn their troops, but the matter in Shanghai is far from over, the Restoration Society, the Green Gang, patrols, three religions and nine streams, these are all hidden dangers, the next step, we must make great efforts to investigate these people, remember, do it secretly, don't startle the snake." ”

Li Guangben nodded, but his heart was not easy, the above three parties are all local snakes in Shanghai, the personnel are mixed, the relationship is repeated, it is not easy to find out about them, besides, most of them are entrenched in the concession, and it is not easy for Li Guangben to investigate.

Ye Kaidao: "I just said that it will take seven days for the Praetorian Guards to return to order from the withdrawal of the concession, and during this time, you will pretend to be a scribe sent by the Governor's Office to enter the concession, in the name of supervising the withdrawal of troops, and secretly investigate the movements of these people, so within seven days, you must put your roots in it." ”

"Yes"

"How many men and silver do you need?"

It costs money to engage in intelligence, and Ye Kai knows this truth.

"Five squads, about thirty to forty people, at least fifty thousand taels." After thinking about it for a while, Li Guangben said fluently.

"Okay, I'll give you 80,000 taels, Beijing, I'll greet the military advisory office and ask them to send personnel to you, but no matter how good it is, you need to find people yourself, the north and south have different climates, accents, and customs, which are easy to make people suspicious, but fortunately, Shanghai has a special location, and people from all provinces have gathered."

Li Guangben nodded heavily, with the guarantee of the big marshal, these difficulties will be minimized.

"Dashuai, and..."

"Say"

"An hour ago, the Minister of the Du Branch and the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications sent a telegram, saying that the Cabinet had ordered the appropriation of a total of 16 million taels, divided into four batches, and within seven days, the first batch would arrive in Shanghai." Li Guangben said.

"Great!"

Hearing the news, Ye Kai folded his palms excitedly, the catastrophe of the stock boom, in the final analysis, it is necessary to make silver, although the relationship between China and foreign countries is suddenly tense, diverting a lot of attention, but it is not a long-term method, as time goes by, panic psychology will inevitably resurge, to make Shanghai completely out of the quagmire of economic recession, it is necessary to rescue the market on a large scale, and at the same time, his long-brewing monetary reform plan can finally be sold a big step.

If there is no accident, the day of the arrival of the relief silver, you can open the silver dragon coin marketization program, this time it is not only in the trial operation of the silver merchant association, but to promote to the whole city, into people's trade, goods, goods trading, and even all aspects of life, at the same time, the work of recycling old coins can also be carried out at the same time, the recovered old coins should be recast into new silver dragon coins, continue to put into the market, so that a good cycle has been formed, The whole monetary reform work can also run smoothly and well, of course, there is also the problem of silver loss, but with a lot of silver, all the problems are easy to say.

On the premise that the auxiliary currency has achieved phased results, Ye Kai is confident that he will do all this well.

"You call the two of them back, and they say that Shanghai has suffered heavy losses in this stock crisis, and if the state has these reliefs, the problem will be solved, and Liangbi will thank them on behalf of tens of millions of people in Jiangnan."

Although he has a close relationship with Sheng and Ze, he still has to say a few polite words.

"Yes"

Li Guangben retreated.

"With silver, sure enough, the waist is hard."

After being so busy, Ye Kai can finally breathe a sigh of relief, of course, the plan must be planned slowly and carefully, and the silver must be detained little by little, and right now, he has a dream of a big thing to do.

.....

The next day, Ye Kai took a team of hundreds of people to cross the river by boat and set foot on the land east of the Pujiang River, accompanied by the people from the Financial Management Commission, the officials of the Governor's Office, his wife Han Cui, and Zhang Jian, who visited Ye Kai not long ago.

The scene in front of me was as desolate as I had imagined, with withered grass and barren trees, obscuring the view, and a lot of mud in the tidal flats, exuding the smell of corruption.

Han Cuier followed Ye Kai closely, and there were subordinates beside her who were waiting carefully, this step did not leave, her stomach was already slightly bulging, and her actions remained the same, in fact, if she didn't have to go out to take a breath, Ye Kai would definitely not agree to let her go along.

Ye Kai swept the surrounding environment, which further confirmed his consideration when he went out.

But not to mention, just a river apart, these two places are completely different places, opposite Puxi is magnificent, every inch of gold and every inch of land, but here, it is like an uncivilized place, sparsely populated, can not help but make people think.

Most of the people wondered why the Governor had brought them to this place.

"Father-in-law, do you remember the last time I asked you?" Ye Kai asked suddenly.

"What the Good Governor said is... Setting up a factory in Pudong? Zhang Jian remembered.

Ye Kai said with a smile: "It's good that Gong Jian hasn't forgotten, but I now have bigger plans, here, under our feet, I plan to build a new city." ”

"New Town?!" Zhang Jian exclaimed, his eyes straightened.

Ye Kai didn't let him continue to be surprised, and asked non-stop: "Gong Jian is an industrial master, you might as well calculate an account for me, in Pudong, more than 140,000 acres of land, build three connected roads, a shipping terminal, a passenger terminal, as well as telegraph lines, telephone lines, water pipelines, DC wires, and then let the Germans design a complete set of underground drainage systems... How much does it cost to add up to these things? ”

Before he could react carefully, Zhang Jian was already stunned, hesitant, and couldn't speak.

With such a large amount of construction, is it possible to build a concession?

You must know that to complete what Ye Kai said, it is not only money, but also time, manpower, technology, and of course, the most important thing is money.

"Father-in-law?" Ye Kai smiled.

Zhang Jian reacted, and said tremblingly: "Without 10 million taels, what Liangdu said is almost impossible to achieve." ”

"Ten million taels?" Ye Kai repeated, his face was embarrassed, this is indeed a huge amount of money.

Seeing that Ye Kai finally hesitated for a while, Zhang Jian sighed and asked, "Liangdu really wants to build a new city?" ”

"Of course" Ye Kai turned around and smiled: "This new city is called Pudong Economic Development Zone." (To be continued.) )