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The issuance of RMB has been smooth all the way, and in just a few days, more than 10 million RMB has been exchanged.

With such a huge amount, most of the subscription customers are local merchants in Shanghai. The transaction volume with foreign merchants every day is very huge. Foreign merchants in the Shanghai Concession only recognize RMB, which makes the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's RMB exchange business extremely busy.

Due to the limited number of money printing machines, even if the work starts day and night, it is too late to handle, and the RMB is out of stock soon.

In order to solve this problem, Li Weiguo had to stay up late and work overtime, and use the shortest time to print out an electric board worth 100,000 yuan.

Li Weiguo was still a little worried at the beginning of the huge amount of RMB banknotes this year. After all, the 100,000 yuan this year is equivalent to 10 million yuan in later generations. Such a large amount will be disastrous once any problems arise.

Fortunately, George gave Li Weiguo a reminder. In July 1839, the Bank of England issued a batch of commercial vouchers worth millions of pounds for the convenience of East-West trade settlement, which was only used for inter-commercial trade settlement. It was very effective and safe. By 1840, the Sino-British Opium War (called the Commercial War in Britain) broke out, and the British government issued another 30 million pounds of treasury bonds, which also entrust the Bank of England to replace them with this commercial voucher worth one million pounds.

So Li Weiguo commissioned George to get him a commercial coupon of 1 million pounds. It turned out that the production of this commercial coupon was much more exquisite than other small-degree pound banknotes. There was a pattern of an eagle grabbing the earth in the middle, and the watermark was also very clear. The overall exquisiteness was basically comparable to that of a hundred yuan. It can be seen that the Bank of England attached great importance to these million pound commercial coupons and spent a lot of effort on this.

Li Weiguo then referred to the format of this million-pound commercial coupon and modified the 100,000 yuan electric board, engraved with more complex patterns and Great Wall watermark patterns. The entire process was operated by Li Weiguo himself. Finally, on the finished product, Li Weiguo stamped his Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank President's Growth Seal, so he was relieved.

The 100,000 yuan banknotes were issued as commercial bonds of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The first batch was only 500. Each one was personally encoded by Li Weiguo and stamped before it was valid.

After this batch of large-scale RMB issuance, the problems of insufficient RMB issuance and large-scale commercial transactions were solved.

After this incident, Li Weiguo recovered and thought of the Bank of England commercial bill worth one million pounds. He was immediately moved and prepared to forge it.

So, in the next half month, Li Weiguo spent most of his time on forging millions of pounds of commercial coupons.

First of all, the paper material selection of millions of commercial coupons is the soft and hard sound of the paper made from different woods. Li Weiguo generally knew that before the birth of modern micromolecular synthetic materials technology, the British pound banknotes had always used North American tulips. This is a deciduous tree, which is very rare and expensive. This wood was introduced to China in the 1920s, so there is no one in China. So Li Weiguo commissioned foreign merchants to Canada to import 3,000 North American tulips logs back on the grounds of building his own official residence.

The second is to imitate the patterns on one million pounds. Li Weiguo is an expert in this field. Although he does not have the assistance of electronic and digital equipment, he is a master in the art of portrayers. Through simple photography corrosion gravure technology, it is easy to carve the patterns on it. After all, the pound patterns and patterns of this era are very simple. Although the painter takes time to draw them by hand, he can also copy them perfectly. What's more, Li Weiguo has rich experience in this field and quickly prepared the printing plate.

As for watermarks, it is the most time-consuming program. After all, watermarks are added when making paper. First, the watermark pattern has to be copied and then made into a water cotton net. This is also the most difficult part. Even if Li Weiguo is experienced, it took him half a month to make the mold.

Fortunately, the watermarking technology in this era is very low, not as complicated as the high-precision digital watermarks in later generations, so Li Weiguo only tried twenty times, which made the watermark pattern highly consistent with the real banknote pattern.

The last process is naturally the red code on the million-pound commercial coupon. This code is like an encrypted password message. You must get the password copy to decipher it. Obviously, the Bank of England will not tell Li Weiguo this password copy to Li Weiguo, so Li Weiguo has no choice for the time being. He cannot code randomly by himself, because that will be immediately visible by the Bank of England. If the fake ￥ banknote is exposed, the other party will be guarded, and that will be meaningless.

Li Weiguo knew that any counterfeit RMB was a one-time deal. He was able to make a fortune before he was discovered, and once he was discovered, he would terminate immediately. This is also the experience he summed up in his world and creating a huge counterfeit and banknote empire.

Therefore, Li Wei and Parliament searched as much as possible for some real banknotes of millions of pounds, and then copied them according to the above code. Before the Bank of England reported it, he used the time difference caused by insufficient communication methods in this era to cash out from various English branches or from other merchants. When the other party found out that it was a fake banknote, Li Weiguo had already left with the money.

Of course, Li Weiguo could not expose himself, so he had to plan carefully.

Fortunately, it will take more than half a year to ship the wood back from Canada. During this period, Li Weiguo needs to forge some commercial identities and find a group of reliable people to serve as shields. If necessary, just kill people to silence them to prevent the problem of his identity from being exposed.

Li Weiguo stayed at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Shanghai for two months. During this period, in addition to managing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank affairs and secretly making printing plates, the first batch of various machinery and equipment imported from Europe and the United States have arrived one after another, and after debugging, the construction of the factory building can be started.

However, Li Weiguo recently discovered that he encountered a problem, that is, many good land areas in Shanghai County have been occupied. Although Li Weiguo sent people to buy some land, more land owners did not sell them at all. Among them, there were many children of bannermen. They rely on their status as bannermen, either spoke loudly or did not turn over Li Weiguo at all.

In the later generations, Li Weiguo would not worry about such things at all. He directly gave some filial piety to some departments or hired some gangsters to deal with the land owner in minutes.

But now it is not possible. The other party is a bannerman, and in this era he is a master, no one dares to provoke him. The law also favors the bannerman. For example, if the Han people kill the bannerman, if it is reasonable, they will be punished and compensated. If the bannerman kills the Han people, if it is reasonable, they will not be investigated. If it is unreasonable, they will be just exiled. (In fact, they are only sent to other places to continue to be a master. This is the same as the current official who has an accident in the local area and then goes back to office in other places after a period of time.)

Li Weiguo did not meet the bannermen in Chongming County, so he did not feel how powerful their power was, because it was just a Jiangzhong Island, and few bannermen were willing to go there. But Shanghai County is different. This is the capital of Shanghai Road, Susongtai Road, and the Shanghai County Magistrate. It is a large administrative center, so there are many bannermen and occupy a large amount of land.

Zhang Xiaoliu was also angry and said ruthlessly: "I heard that the Taiping Army killed all the bannermen in the city and seized their property every time they captured a city. It was really annoying. Why don't the young master invite a Taiping army to kill all the bannermen in Shanghai and kill all the bannermen? The large area of ​​good land they occupied is the young master, and there is no need to spend money."

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and said, "I regard Shanghai County as the future old nest management. How can I tolerate the disaster of the Taiping Army coming in?"

Suddenly, Li Weiguo seemed to think of something, and his expression suddenly became dark. He remembered that when the Taiping Army rebelled, the Shanghai county town was once captured by Xiaodaohui, and occupied it for a year. Later, because the Taiping Army failed to expedition in time, Xiaodaohui failed and withdrew from Shanghai.

"His grandma, I almost forgot about this!"
Chapter completed!