With the experience of catching Xiao Yang's property, Li Weiguo led people to search Lu, and it became much easier for Huang's property.

As three yamen runners found the basements of Lu and Huang's families, all the civil servants who had been plundered by Lu and Huang's families for many years fell into the hands of Li Weiguo.

When he was in the Xiao family, Li Weiguo had already rewarded the four families worth more than one million taels of silver to the heads of the four families of Su, Zhou, Zan and Yan, so when the Lu and Huang families were searched, they no longer "care for" them, but were all searched by Li Weiguo's people.

Compared with the Xiao family, the wealth of the Lu and Huang families is much worse. A total of 10,000 taels of gold and 1.34 million taels of silver were found from the two families. Although other antiques and cultural relics and real estate deeds are worth 2 million taels, it is a pity that they cannot cash out for the time being.

By the same method, Li Weiguo only reported the fraction of the 300,000 taels of silver that were seized, and the integer 1 million taels of silver was directly put into his pocket, and the other 40,000 taels of silver were directly rewarded to his subordinates who participated in the investigation. In addition, everyone in the public officials of various departments of the county government who did not participate in the investigation also had a share. They all thanked our Lord Li Weiguo for his "generous and righteousness".

After the entire investigation, Li Weiguo received a total of 30,000 taels of gold and 2 million taels of silver. In addition, the 320,000 taels of Chongming Cuban silver that Xiao Yang was going to give to Lu Jianying. Li Weiguo did not currently take his pocket, but it was not recorded on the record. He was ready to disgust Lu Jianying and swallow the silver openly in front of him, angering Lu Jianying, an old man.

As for the real estate, land deeds and other fixed assets of the three families, as well as the nearly 300,000 stones of grain hoarded by the three families, Li Weiguo decided to use them for labor-for-relief. Any ordinary people with household registration in Chongming County who performed outstandingly in this work-for-relief will be able to obtain a fertile land that can support their families at a low price or even free of charge. The county government exempts two years of taxes to allow them to recuperate.

As soon as this order was released, the enthusiasm of more than 100,000 affected people in Chongming County was immediately mobilized, working hard, showing positive performance, and striving to obtain a free piece of fertile land.

At the same time, the people also went to celebrate and praised Li Weiguo, saying that he was a great official in the history of the Qing Dynasty, which once again raised Li Weiguo's status in the hearts of the people of Chongming County, and his reputation was even more serious than that of Tang Bin, a clean official in the two rivers and three provinces during the Kangxi period.

Just when the people were still glad that Chongming County finally had a good official who was comparable to Tang Bin's reincarnation and could live a happy life from then on, our Lord Li Weiguo and Lord Li were planning how to leave Chongming County and be transferred to Shanghai County Magistrate.

"I don't know if the British Embassy has taken action? I hope it's not too late. It's best to let me take the position of Shanghai County Magistrate before the Taiping Army captured Nanjing. If it's too late, many things will be difficult to deal with."

Li Weiguo had been looking forward to the British, but soon he sent his subordinates to Shanghai to inquire about intelligence to send him a disappointed news.

The British Embassy has made no moves, and the current Shanghai magistrate is still doing well, and no foreign incidents have occurred in recent times.

"Do these British people still want to cooperate? What are they waiting for?"

Li Weiguo was complaining, when a yamen runner came in to report that Shen Ziyan, the eldest daughter of the Shen family in Jiangning, sent someone to send him a letter.

"Chen Ziyan? What letter did she send me?"

Li Weiguo was confused, but he still ordered someone to call the sender in.

"Who are you? What's the matter with this county?"

The sender gave a gift to Li Weiguo and replied: "The villain Wang Er is a slave of the Shen family. He is ordered by the eldest daughter of the Shen family. He will congratulate Mr. Li on his appointment as the magistrate of Chongming County and present a thousand taels of silver to congratulate him."

Li Weiguo ordered someone to accept the gift and said, "Ms. Chen has troubled me. This county has accepted it. Go back to greet Miss Chen on behalf of this county."

At this time, Wang Er took out a letter from his arms and said at the same time: "My lady has another letter to give to the adults."

One of the yamen runners came forward to pick up the letter and handed it over to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo took the letter and asked casually: "Do you know what's going on?"

Wang Er shook his head and said, "I don't know. My lady only told me that after reading this letter, I would go to see my lady with me."

Li Weiguo raised his eyebrows and asked him to see Chen Ziyan in person, which shows that this letter is very important!

When I tore open the seal, a faint fragrance of book came out, refreshing.

When I opened the letter paper, I saw a series of beautiful small regular script fonts appearing on the paper. I am worthy of being a lady from a noble family and wrote good handwriting.

Li Weiguo praised and quickly finished reading the contents of the letter, and his face soon became gloomy and unstable.

The content of the letter Chen Ziyan wrote to Li Weiguo was very simple. In addition to polite words, they only expressed two contents. One was to ask Li Weiguo to accompany her to attend the Confucius Temple Fair the day after tomorrow.

Originally, Li Weiguo would not agree to this request. He was too late to hide from Chen Ziyan. What's more, as a county magistrate, how could he "absent from work" to visit Confucius Temple? Once the court pursued him for a crime of leaving his post without permission, it would not be a joke, especially when it came to Lu Jianying's ears, he had to make a big fuss and beat him up.

However, Chen Ziyan seemed to guess that Li Weiguo would not go to the appointment, so she deliberately added the second content.

"I know that the British Embassy takes the lead and Hong Kong Oriental Bank foreign merchants want to join forces with Shenjia Money House to establish Liru Bank in Shanghai, and my father is quite interested."

It was this sentence that made Li Weiguo's whole body feel like he was shocked, and his brain was stunned for a long time.

Li Weiguo knew very well that it was China's first modern bank. Although it had a Chinese name, it was actually a branch opened by the British Oriental Bank in China. However, due to the opposition of the Qing government, he found a local Chinese person to be the president. In fact, he sold dog meat on the head. The real boss hid in secret and operated everything, secretly bribed the Shanghai County Magistrate, making him turn a blind eye to Liru Bank. It was not until the end of the Second Opium War that the British forced the Qing government to agree to the legalization of opening a bank in China that Liru Bank was officially renamed the Oriental Bank Shanghai Branch.

Previously, when Li Weiguo established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, he also reminded the British that they were fooled by Li Weiguo at that time. After a while, when Sir Bao Ling went to Hong Kong Oriental Bank to help Li Weiguo negotiate the equipment of the money printing machine, Oriental Bank President James reminded Bao Ling that there was not only one Li Weiguo in the Qing Empire who could establish a bank, and the British Embassy may not have to cooperate with Li Weiguo to open a bank, and it can cooperate with bank merchants in the Qing Dynasty, so that there is no need to look at Li Weiguo's face anymore, and maximize the interests of the British Embassy in China.

In this way, Sir Bao Ling had an idea in his mind. He returned to Shanghai from Hong Kong with a full set of money printing equipment. After hearing John conveying the words of Li Weiguo to the British Embassy to help him seize the post of Shanghai County Magistrate, Bao Ling immediately suppressed him. He should not be led by Li Weiguo. He wanted to hold Li Weiguo in his hand, control him, and then take back the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Didn’t Li Weiguo want to drive away the Shanghai County Magistrate to be his own? Bao Ling refused to let Li Weiguo do his best, and wanted to protect the Shanghai County Magistrate Bangqi, prevent Li Weiguo from succeeding, and prevent him from entering Shanghai County.

Didn’t Li Weiguo want to monopolize the interests of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? The order was even more unsuccessful. He met with Shanghai County Magistrate Bangqi and promised him to Bangqi to reli. Bangqi was the most greedy and immediately agreed to acquie the British to open a bank in Shanghai.

"What a Bao Ling, it's really not honest! You dare to use tricks behind your back!"

Li Weiguo sneered, no wonder he asked the British Embassy to help create trouble and force the Qing government to replace the current Shanghai County Magistrate and Li Weiguo was appointed as Shanghai County Magistrate. However, the British Embassy did not take action. It turned out that they did not want Li Weiguo to take over the Shanghai County Magistrate, and obviously had deeper intentions.

The Shen family is the richest man in Jinling and the richest man in Jiangnan. The Shen family money house has a semicolon in major cities across the country, and has a huge influence. If the British Oriental Bank successfully joins the Shen family money house, it will help British funds quickly enter the Chinese financial market. It can be imagined that the silver from China's snowflakes will be outflowed in large quantities, and the huge profits it earns every year are no less than the British import of opium into China, and even more than that.

This is a war without gunpowder and the war that hurts China the most. Because no one in the Qing government could realize the huge harm of financial wars, so once foreign banks successfully enter China, the consequences will be disastrous.

If you think of cooperating with the Shen family to open a bank, I have to say that Sir Bao Ling is very smart and has caused Li Weiguo a big problem.

Since Sir Bao Ling has declared war on Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo will not sit still and wait for death, and should fight back.

If Liru Bank is established, Li Weiguo's AIIB will encounter strong competitors. With the financial resources of the British and the Shen family's relationship network of money banks across the country, once the two are united, they will be unstoppable. Especially those profit-oriented shareholders who have joined the AIIB may immediately switch jobs and help Liru Bank deal with Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo must stop it, and the breakthrough was obviously on Shen Ziyan, otherwise Shen Ziyan would not have to send someone to deliver letters to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo sighed. He didn't want to have any relationship with Shen Ziyan anymore, but it was like a man and a woman fell in love. It doesn't matter if you don't love this person, but you can't and can't stop others from loving you.

This is the case with Shen Ziyan now. She had heard that Li Weiguo was going to sell Zuixianlou, so she immediately bought it at a high price. Now she heard that the British were going to cooperate with Shen Family Money House, and the first thing she thought of was that it would be detrimental to Li Weiguo.

Shen Ziyan's thoughts were naturally understood by Li Weiguo, but in order to protect the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and prevent Li Ru Bank from being established, he defeated Bao Ling's plan and made him honestly cooperate with Li Weiguo. Li Weiguo really couldn't meet Shen Ziyan.

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo immediately said to Wang Er: "When you go back, tell your lady that this county will come to the appointment on time!"

Wang Er smiled and said, "Mr. Li, the day after tomorrow is the time for the temple fair. My lady is worried that it will be too late, so she special-time villain brings a thousand-mile horse and is at the entrance of the county government."
Chapter completed!