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A century-old plan is based on education.

Li Weiguo knew very well that the root cause of China's modern backwardness was that the feudal imperial examination system had seriously dragged down the rise of the Chinese nation. Even talents like Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian, in his opinion, their thinking was limited to the feudal system, and with the rapid progress of the times, it was difficult for them to adapt.

Education is a long kung fu, so if you want to harvest early, you have to sow early. Therefore, Li Weiguo puts the establishment of a school on the agenda.

However, domestic education cannot see results in a short period of time, and it takes time to build campuses and apply for teachers. However, it is easy to send overseas students to study abroad.

Li Weiguo asked Wu Yong and Fu Xuexian to discuss that they were both knowledgeable people. After seeing the power of the West, they also discovered domestic shortcomings and supported Li Weiguo to develop education.

However, when it comes to sending overseas students, Wu Yong gave Li Weiguo a good suggestion.

"Adults build schools in China to train students. On their own territory, the students trained are also easy to control. However, if you want to send overseas students abroad and want to control them for use by adults, you have to spend some extra effort."

Wu Yong's words reminded Li Weiguo that he thought that China would train a large number of outstanding international students every year in later generations, but it would be good if one or two of them could return to China. Most of the international students eventually despise their motherland and become foreigners.

This is a realistic problem, especially the Qing government is now extremely impressive. When international students come abroad, they will inevitably have no idea when they see advanced and civilized society abroad.

Li Weiguo didn't want the international students who paid for it themselves to end up making wedding dresses for others, so he asked, "What should I do in your opinion?"

Wu Yong smiled and said, "It's very simple. Adults only need to adopt a group of orphans who have no father, mother and relatives, treat them well and make them regard you as their closest relatives, and then delegate their confidants to escort them to study abroad. Starting from childhood learning, ten to fifteen years later, when they return from studying abroad, they will surely become the powerful arm of adults."

"It's going to be more than ten years!" Li Weiguo frowned, feeling that it was a bit long.

Fu Xuexian said at this time: "You can take two-pronged approach and treat young orphans as long-term investment, so that they can study abroad for ten to fifteen years, and thoroughly learn and master advanced Western knowledge. Use older orphans as medium-term investment, and let them study abroad for seven or eight years. They mainly learn foreign languages ​​and professional skills, and can help adults immediately when they return to China. The next step is short-term investment-"

Fu Xuexian paused and deliberately kept it a secret, and then continued: "Short-term investment is to hire young people who know foreign languages ​​from Hong Kong, Macau or Nanyang with high salaries, and first build a translation museum to allow them to translate the foreign documents and technical materials we need, so that our existing technical workers can quickly master the foreigners' skills."

"This proposal is very good!" Wu Yong also felt it was very good, so he nodded to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo thought about it and found that this was a good suggestion that both solves short-term problems and has long-term plans. He immediately adopted it and started to implement it.

The talents required to establish a translation museum will be hired from Macau, Hong Kong, Nanyang and other places. It is the same as the previous procedure for hiring factory workers, so just need to continue to explain and your subordinates will get things done.

The second batch of mechanical equipment purchased from Europe and the United States has arrived in Shanghai. Among them, Li Weiguo only values ​​two things the most, one is the batch of advanced machine tool equipment.

Machine tools, as the name suggests, are machinery and equipment for manufacturing machinery and equipment. As long as there are advanced machine tools, even if exported to Li Weiguo abroad is prohibited from being exported to Li Weiguo, Li Weiguo can quickly manufacture it himself. With the huge advantage of time travelers, Li Weiguo can quickly produce a large number of advanced machinery and equipment of various types and uses. Whether it is the military industry or civil industry, it will exceed the level of other industrial countries in this era. This is the real weapon to dominate the world.

The second is the North American tulips shipped back from North America and Canada. This is one of the core woods for making pound banknotes and is also a material that cannot be obtained in China. As for other materials, they can be obtained in China.

Li Weiguo transported the wood back to China in the name of building Yu Garden and stored it secretly in the Yu Garden warehouse. Then he began to use these materials to make paper.

Although Li Weiguo knew the basic components of the pound banknotes during this period, he still needed hundreds of experiments, mainly comparing the produced paper with the real pound banknotes, including softness, sound, ink test and water immersion test, to achieve the degree of fake and real.

Since Li Weiguo could not grasp the encoding secret of the pound, if he wanted to avoid being discovered by the Bank of England immediately, he could only use the encoding on the real one. However, in this way, it was a matter of time to identify the same encoding.

However, Li Weiguo has a response strategy, which is to make a time difference. Taking advantage of this era of poor communication conditions, the Bank of England can only check with the head office every six months. In this half year, it is enough to use fake* banknotes to cash out the gold of the Bank of England.

Li Weiguo knew that this was a one-time transaction, so he forged fifty-seven pound notes with a denomination of one million at a time. These pound notes were exactly the same, and the pound codes on them were the same as those on real notes, which was enough to deceive the staff of the Bank of England.

Of course, Li Weiguo could forge hundreds of counterfeit* notes worth one million pounds, but the key is that the Bank of England has no more than one hundred branches around the world, most of which are in the UK. Considering that the verification time of local British banks is very short, if two banknotes with the same number appear in any bank at the same time, it will definitely be exposed. Therefore, Li Weiguo could only try to make one bank receive only one counterfeit* notes, and only when they send all the counterfeit* notes to their headquarters in London, England can they find the problem.

In this way, Li Weiguo had to calculate the accurate redemption time, arrange trustworthy people to go to redemption, and safely ship the cashed gold back to the country.

Selecting people is very important. Among the first batch of technical workers hired from Hong Kong, Macau and Nanyang, Li Weiguo selected some people for training. They all went to Shanghai to make a living and knew English. They would be appointed to go abroad to the Bank of England branches around the world, and exchanged the millions of pounds of fake* banknotes they had in their hands into gold and transported them back as merchants.

Of course, these people did not know that the million pound banknotes they had were fake* banknotes. They only thought that Li Weiguo asked them to exchange gold abroad or buy advanced foreign equipment and materials to return to China. They were kept in the dark, but to be on the safe side in the future, Li Weiguo still arranged bodyguards for each of them. These bodyguards were all from Li Weiguo's personal soldiers and were loyal to Li Weiguo and ensured that the plan was completed smoothly.

Finally, Li Weiguo formulated a unified action schedule, and everyone would concentrate on May 4, 1854 and simultaneously trade fake* banknotes at the Bank of England around the world, and exchanged them into gold for shipping back to China. Depart in advance if there is a long distance. For example, those who go to France will set off in early 1854. After they arrive, they will wait until May 4 before they can take action. It cannot be early or late.

Li Weiguo named this action "May Fourth Patriotic Movement", not only because of his little bad taste, but also because once the money is successfully cashed out, it is equivalent to plundering the Bank of England for 57 million pounds. For the UK, this huge sum is only equivalent to the military expenditure of the British Royal Navy for one year, but for the backward China, it is equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of the three years of the Qing government's heyday.

With this money, Li Weiguo could fully support 500,000 army troops equipped with foreign guns and cannons, and build a naval fleet at the level of a second-rate power.

Therefore, it is also well-founded to name this action "May Fourth Patriotic Movement".

The May Fourth Patriotic Movement Plan entered the implementation stage. During this period, Li Weiguo suddenly thought of the most important issue, that is, the intelligence system.

For Li Weiguo, he knew the importance of intelligence to a country. Intelligence wars began before wars, and often one piece of intelligence determines the outcome of a war. Look at the preparations made by Japan to invade China, intelligence personnel began to lurk in China from grandparents, step by step in the top leaders to steal intelligence. Then look at how shocking the intelligence lurkers in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. If there were no lurking intelligence personnel, I am afraid the end of the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party would be different.

Since Li Weiguo knew these real examples, he naturally had to start planning for the future in advance.

So Li Weiguo selected 100 clever and loyal confidants from the Li family army and named them Tianzi Team No. 1, numbered from No. 1 to No. 100, and Li Weiguo himself coded as No. 0.

People often think that No. 1 is the largest, such as the US Air Force One. In fact, it is just publicly. Once a nuclear war breaks out, Air Force One is the first target to be destroyed. Anyone with a military mind understands that will the US president really board Air Force One? Will it be safer in the sky than underground and in the sea?

Li Weiguo didn't believe it, so he didn't want No. 1 as his code name, but No. 0, just like he knew that No. 1 of the United States was the president, but the United States was actually controlled by the chaebols behind the scenes, and those chaebols were the 0 who truly took power. This is Li Weiguo's intention.

After a month of devil training, Li Weiguo stood in front of the hundred people and glanced at them.

"From today, you will be the first members of the China ASHIELD Secret Service. You will be the veteran agents of SHIELD. Your code name will be the lifelong code. Those who come in will start from one hundred years and will never replace your code name. But you cannot reveal your identity for the time being. You will be lurking around Yixin, Sushun, Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong, and Yehenara family for a long time. If you try your best to become their confidants, it may take one year, two years, or even ten years or more. During this period, you cannot contact me on your own initiative, nor can you tell others your code name. You will be fighting alone, and I will not care about your life or death. What can survive and what can climb up is what I need!"

As soon as these words were said, the agents of No. 100 S.H.I.E.D. were in an uproar. They had heard of detailed works and inquire about information before, but this was the first time they met Li Weiguo, and they were a little panicked.

Li Weiguo took their expressions one by one and said, "Before you set off, I will give each of you 50,000 taels of silver. I don't care what you do with this money. As long as you can get close to the mission goal I gave you, become the confidant of the target and lurk smoothly. Of course, you can also leave directly with this money. From then on, you will not be an agent of SHIELD, but please don't let me meet you. If I am encountered by you, you will take the initiative to contact you. At that time, you will bring glory to the ASHIELD Secret Service. As veterans, you will be worshipped by the younger generations. If I am the governor of a province that day, you can choose the job and position you want within my power, and you will be the prefect. If I am the governor of a party, you can get the position of governor. If I win the world, you can become a first-class chief official. This is my guarantee to you."

Li Weiguo said very straightforwardly and his ambitions very straightforwardly, so that all of these people could understand that if they follow Li Weiguo, whether they are by his side or not, they will get equivalent rewards if they make great contributions in the future. If they betray Li Weiguo, they will definitely be dead in the future.

There are both big sticks and sweet dates, and Li Weiguo asked them to choose for themselves.

In the end, all 100 agents chose this route. They received their only life code name, lurking mission target, future awakening command, and 50,000 taels of silver from Li Weiguo. Then they took a photo with Li Weiguo and left quietly.

Among the 100 agents, there are men and women, and they usually wear masks in training, so they don’t know each other’s appearance, name, code name, mission and awakening command. This is Li Weiguo’s protection for them to prevent someone from betraying and threatening others.

Li Weiguo smiled when he saw these hundred people away. He could feel how huge the energy that these hundred people would be able to successfully complete the lurking task and play a role at critical moments in the future.

I don’t know if I don’t do this, but I’m shocked when I do this.

Li Weiguo suddenly had the kind of passion for strategizing like Mao Taizu, winning thousands of miles, and winning at the starting line. At the same time, he knew in his heart that not only Li Weiguo had such ambition in this world, but also more ambitious people. Today Li Weiguo could send people to lurk to their side, and tomorrow they would also send people to lurk to Li Weiguo. They had to guard against it, but they could not guard against it.

After all, people's hearts are unpredictable!

Li Weiguo sighed in his heart that Manman was the winner only when he laughed to the end.
Chapter completed!