The arms transaction was carried out in secret, and the Russians knew that they did not dare to make any statement. They handed over the prepared payment to Li Weiguo, and then loaded the ship and returned to Amur overnight, intending to transport it back to Russia from Siberia through Vladivostok.●⌒,.

The Russians were forced to do nothing. The British Royal Navy was spread all over the world. In addition, the world's second-largest French Navy, the two navies united to block Russia's maritime traffic, making the arms dare not go by sea and can only go by Siberia by land.

After the arms deal was completed, Li Weiguo received 50,000 gold rubles and 1 million rubles of cash from Russian minister Bukron.

The reason why he asked for cash was because Li Weiguo had freed up his hands and was preparing to launch the second war of money siege.

Since the first money-siege war was launched last year, the "May 4th Patriotic" money-grabbing campaign launched against British commercial bonds worth millions was over, Li Weiguo was worried that the British would find out, so he lurked for a while.

However, later the intelligence sent back by the London station of the Overseas Intelligence Department of China by Li Weiguo to the UK showed that the British were very angry about the case of a million-pound banknote siege. However, due to the outbreak of the Crimean War, the British believed that it was the devil behind the Russians, so they vented all their anger on the battlefield of Crimean, which made the Russians extremely miserable.

The Russians were caught in the blasphemy and took the blame for Li Weiguo, which made Li Weiguo very happy.

Now that the Shanghai Army and the Taiping Army have a great battle, both sides do not want to break out in a short period of time, and they are all at peace. Therefore, Li Weiguo turned his energy to the economic construction of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province.

As we all know, the development of European and American capitalism was based on land enclosure movements and colonial plunder. Li Weiguo knew the drawbacks of capitalism and also knew that gzy was based on the highly developed zbzy, so he decided that future institutional development should be a shzy system with Chinese characteristics. This system was between capitalism and gism, which could not only prevent the outbreak of a capitalist-style economic crisis, but also quickly develop and strengthen comprehensive national strength to fight the aggression of Western European and American powers.

In this way, the accumulation of original funds required for development becomes the key. Although Li Weiguo has built the Jiangwan Industrial Zone, it is still a huge gap compared with the powerful industrial empires of European and American powers. More funds are needed to develop industry.

Therefore, Li Weiguo naturally thought of money-willing. This kind of thing that harms others and benefits oneself is really the best choice.

The Crimean War broke out in Europe. The British felt that the banknotes were made by the Russians, so if Russia also violated the banknotes, the first Russians would be suspected to be Britain, France and other countries.

This is an opportunity, a great opportunity that is not easy to be suspected, and Li Weiguo naturally would not miss it. So he decided to start the second war of banknote siege. This time he was planning to violate the Russian currency rubles and golden rubles. However, the Russians were poorer and were not as rich as Britain and France. So Li Weiguo did not stop and violated the francs and pounds, making Britain, France and Russia suspicious of each other. No one would have thought that banknote siege came from the Eastern China that they looked down upon the most.

The millions of real rubles obtained by Li Weiguo from the Russians provided him with a large amount of reference. However, Li Weiguo soon discovered that the raw materials used for rubles banknotes were basically from Siberian birch. The process was also relatively rough, and the ability to prevent violations was just a seal from the Russian Ministry of Finance, which could be carved out with just a radish.

After only less than twenty experiments, Li Weiguo imitated the softness, gloss, size and seal of rubles, and successfully made rubles with a 100% simulation.

However, what made Li Weiguo confused was that the Russian paper money was rough and there was almost no clever anti-violation prevention, but the cost of making a face value of 10,000 rubles basically floated around 10,000 rubles, and there was no profit margin.

Li Weiguo didn't do this anymore. He made the A* coins to make money, but he never did anything without profit.

However, Li Weiguo quickly figured out the key link, in later generations. Because paper money in various countries has excellent anti-violation measures, the public has a very high awareness of A* coins, so when he violated paper money, he had to achieve as high simulation as possible. It is difficult to deceive the public and banks of various countries if he does not reach more than 90%.

But now the times are different. People's awareness of the banknotes issued by the government is only about the clarity and softness of the banknotes, and lack advanced methods such as banknotes to prevent violations. The rubles that Li Weiguo violated at the beginning were almost equivalent to real rubles banknotes. The difference was that they were not issued by Russian banks.

In order to control costs, Li Weiguo decided to actively reduce the simulation of illegal rubles and maintain it at 75%, so that he can deceive ordinary Russian people. This can greatly reduce the cost of violations and make profits. As for whether he can deceive Russian banks, it is no longer important. As long as he imports huge illegal rubles into Russia on a large scale in a short period of time, he can obtain considerable profits.

In terms of channels, Li Weiguo chose to cooperate with the local Russian H* Gang, with a face value of 10,000 rubles, and a cost of 5,000 rubles and 7,000 rubles to the Russian H* Gang. In this way, Li Weiguo could get a profit of 2,000 rubles, and the rest would be dispersed by the Russian Black* Gang, which could cash out huge profits on a large scale in a short period of time and prevent exposure of himself.

Of course, Li Weiguo could not directly send people to contact the local Russian gangs. He ordered the agents of the ASUS secret service to control some small merchants from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, mainly black people, to control them to contact the H* gangs from all over Russia. After completing the transaction, these small merchants controlled by SHIELD will be silenced.

In this way, even if the Russian government issues a violation of rubles for investigation, it can only be found that it is a merchant from Britain, France, the United States and other countries. Due to the Crimean War, the blame will be borne by Britain, France and the United States, and will not be suspected of Li Weiguo.

The sales volume of the first batch of illegal rubles was not high, and Russia was cautious, but only bought more than one hundred thousand rubles on a small scale to test the reactions of the Russian people, banks and governments.

As a result, the Russian people did not suspect that the illegal ruble in their hands was fake. Even if the shrewd Russian people discovered some problems, they only thought it was a problem of printing in Russian banks. Even if more Russian people knew that there was a problem with the banknotes, they did not want to break it in their hands, but quickly bought items and spent the banknotes.

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

The second illegal ruble transaction reached 500,000, and the third transaction increased several times, reaching 5 million rubles. From then on, millions of illegal rubles would be scattered every two months.

At the same time, Russian banks were also discovering rubles on a large scale because the Crimean War broke out. The Russian military expenditure surged, and the depreciation of rubles became inevitable. Russian people all knew that rubles depreciated and could not deposit rubles into banks. They bought gold, land, houses and other real estate to preserve their value. This led to a large amount of illegal rubles flowing into the Russian currency market, but they rarely returned to Russian banks. Occasionally, a few illegal rubles were discovered by Russian bank employees and did not attract attention.

In addition to violating rubles, Li Weiguo also violated pounds and francs, because compared with rubles, the same material consumption is calculated at cost. Violating pounds and francs is more cost-effective and profitable.

The pound banknotes and franc banknotes are both exquisitely made. However, it is not difficult for Li Weiguo, a W-bill expert, to successfully violate the million-pound banknotes that year, Li Weiguo has become more skilled in this regard and quickly violated the pound banknotes and franc banknotes of various denominations.

In order to control costs and maximize profits, Li Weiguo lowered the simulation of pounds and francs to 85%, which made the cost of every 10,000 pounds of banknotes violated.

Channel tactics have not changed. Not every British and French love their country and are loyal to their country. The agents of SHIELD in China secretly controlled some Russians who could not survive in Britain and France. Through these Russians, they negotiated illegal business with local gangs in Britain and France.

As Li Weiguo expected, most of the local forces in Britain and France were not patriotic at all and soon accepted the money-buying business. They were also very cautious and at the beginning, they bought tens of thousands of pounds or tens of thousands of francs on a small scale like the Russian H* Gang. They first scattered to the market to see the market and the government's attitude, and only when they saw that everything went smoothly and there were huge profits to make, they began to buy money-buying on a large scale.

The Russians were very poor, and the profits from the banknote market were limited. Li Weiguo also controlled the amount of banknotes flowing into Russia, which was too much or too much. However, both the British and French were very rich. Therefore, Li Weiguo expanded the scale of paper mills, printing factories, and ink factories, and violated the pounds and francs in large quantities. Almost every month, millions of pounds and francs were loaded and shipped abroad secretly.

From 1854 to 1856, in three years, Li Weiguo imported a total of more than 80 million pounds of banknotes to Britain, France and Russia, making a profit of 30 million pounds. Although compared with the profits of 57 million pounds obtained by the May Fourth Patriotic Action for the first illegal banknote war, the profit gap between the two was nearly half, but it was also a very considerable income.

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

For example, the second major expansion of Jiangwan Industrial Zone cost 8 million pounds; the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau's arsenal completed the third expansion, and the musket production lines were all replaced by the Weiguo rifle production lines; the third phase of Wusongkou Fortress was completed, becoming the steel gateway to protect Shanghai; the Shanghai county town was also rebuilt, the original old county town was changed to an inner city, and the newly expanded outer city area reached 42 square kilometers, changing the embarrassing status of Shanghai county town as a large population and small area of ​​the provincial government of Jiangnan Province. The new city walls were all built with reinforced concrete, 20 meters high and 8 meters thick, and a large number of forts, bunkers and hidden soldiers were added, which greatly improved the defense capabilities of Shanghai County. This was a flat Shanghai area, which reversed the unfavorable situation of easy attack and difficult defense;

Similarly, the Shanghai Army was also expanded, from the original 50,000 to 100,000. The military expenditure was overturned and the expenditure was huge. All the front-mounted muskets needed were replaced with rear-mounted rifles. The cost of a rear-mounted rifle was almost three times that of the front-mounted musket. The huge expenses required were also all spent from the profits obtained from the second illegal war, and Li Weiguo did not need to use the reserves of the treasury and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Of course, this does not mean that Li Wei and the Congress handed over the three-year fiscal revenue of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province to the court. On the contrary, Li Weiguo not only did not pay a penny to the court, but instead cried to Xianfeng every day.

Li Weiguo's excuse was very simple. During the Taiping Army's Eastern Expedition, the Shanghai Army lost 50,000 elite troops and re-recruited and trained 50,000 Shanghai Army. 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 was far exceeding the Qing army's navy of the same scale. All Western warships, coal burning, shell money, and warship maintenance money were very huge, reaching 20 million taels of silver. In addition, it was reported from time to time to fight with the Taiping Army, and various war damage expenses. In three years, Li Weiguo asked the court for a total of 170 million taels of silver.

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

Of course, Xianfeng could not give Li Weiguo so much money, and the court could not afford so much money.

Although the court collected taxes across the country in three years, and the additional liquor amounted to 200 million taels of silver, only two million taels were allocated to Li Weiguo, and the remaining silver Xianfeng only gave Li Weiguo one word and solved it on the spot.

Li Weiguo wanted to solve the imperial edict on his own, so that he could relax his hands and feet to carry out economic construction.

With the help of Li Hongzao, the governor of Jiangnan Province, Xianfeng thought that Li Weiguo was loyal. In fact, Li Weiguo hid rich people every year and basically levyed lijin from the people. Instead, he completely implemented reform and opening up, and largely reduced customs taxes from European and American countries. In addition, due to the war, tens of millions of people in Jiangnan provinces moved in, with a very rich labor force, even very low cost. He quickly prospered various industries, handicrafts, agriculture, and commerce, making Jiangnan and Zhejiang province very prosperous, especially the capital of Shanghai, which has reached the standard of second-tier industrial cities in the UK.

In the past three years, Li Weiguo has worked hard to manage his territory, making his rule prosperous, and the people's lives stable. Low taxes allow the people to at least satisfy their food and clothing. The slightly smart and diligent people have entered a well-off life. The landlords who moved from various provinces to Li Weiguo's rule all carried a lot of money. Unfortunately, Li Weiguo monopolized land and various commerce. These people could no longer have the local owners. They either lived in vain or could only invest money in the industry and commerce designated by Li Weiguo. The identity of the landlord gradually became a national capitalist.

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

On this day, Li Weiguo received a newspaper from Britain at his home in Yuyuan, which said that Russia was defeated and the Crimean War ended.
Chapter completed!