What Li Tuo was talking about was related to Zuo Zongtang's opportunity to make a fortune. Naturally, it was the transaction of the Western Region Investment Bank that had not yet been publicly announced. Through his strong official network, Li Tuo actually found out this secret from the network of Jiangnan petty officials.
The Chinese Central Bank and many businessmen in Jiangnan are secretly preparing for the Western Region Investment Bank. Now it depends on whether Master Zuo will nod. Li Tuo analyzed that Zuo Jigao's possibility of nodding is as high as 90%.
"This is a business that is sure to make money without losing money. News from the south said that the bank has taken care of all the money Zuo Jigao made during the war, and all future investment projects in the Western Region will have to be financed by this bank!"
"Road construction, restoration of water conservancy and agriculture, construction of workshops, mining machinery manufacturing bureau... all businesses must be outsourced by the Western Region Development Bank!"
"Ah! This...isn't this selling Xinjiang?" Yang Zhi said in shock.
"Hey... It depends on what you say. The imperial court wants to fight but has no money. If the merchants have money, they can't give it to you for free... What should I do?"
"In the final analysis, it's not that the court wants face, but the businessmen want dignity. As long as they don't rebel, the court will be happy to mind their own business... Anyway, taxes are indispensable, and the army must be appointed by the court..."
"Haha..." Yang Zhi sneered, "Pull him down, this is Xiao Letian's trick... Does the court still want to go back to the place where he invested?"
"Then how did the Tanggu Special Zone become the Northern Industrial Zone? How did it get bigger and bigger and become the size of a county? Can it still be returned to the court?"
"Take off your pants and cover your face, what use is your face?"
Yang Zhi said angrily, "This is the story of a camel squeezing in the tent, first squeezing the head in, and then the whole body... In the end, your court can't even spare a slap!"
Li Tuo smiled faintly, "What should we do? The imperial court's money has been diverted to the capital. Guiziliu wants to train a new army, Ci'an wants to build a telegraph network for Fuqing, and Cixi wants to leave money for her son to govern... The official wants to make a fortune!"
"If you don't have money to give to Zuo Jigao, that means you have no money... But no one in the Western Region is willing to throw it away, so what should we do in the end? Let's just do it this way!"
"The only way you, Yang Zhi, can save your life now is to make money. From now on, the Sixth Devil will ask you for money, the Emperor will ask you for money, and the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces will ask you for money..."
"Who are you going to offend? You can't afford to offend anyone, so you have to hold your nose to make money and use money to protect your life!"
"Who do you care who the Western Region becomes in the end? As long as the opportunity to make money is real..."
Yang Zhi thought about it and smiled, "Yes, I don't care, making money is real... Brother thinks more clearly than me! By the way, when Jiangnan's money is transferred back, your share should also be deported Are you back, are you still following the same rules?"
"Well, the old rule is to deposit everything in the bank of the British in the Shanghai Concession!" Li Tuo drank a glass of wine. "Brother, we have to make final preparations!"
"Although our class is useful to everyone, no matter whether the emperor takes over the government in the future or the Japanese rebels, or even the Hunan army rebels and separatizes China's north and south... In this world, officials must be used to rule the people!"
"This is the truth, but when the country changes, no matter how stable the class is, there are accidental injuries! We can't think about the issue of life, especially you..."
"In the future, if Xiao Lezhen soars into the sky, and the Chinese clan decides to rule the Central Plains...brother, how can you do so well?"
Yang Zhi slapped his thigh, "Hey... what else can I do? Run to England, or go to Tsarist Russia... Anyway, if that country has enmity with Xiao Letian, I will run wherever it goes!"
"The world is so big, I don't believe that Xiao Letian can cover the earth with one hand?"
"That's right! So, this money has to be deposited abroad. Cunning rabbits have three holes... two brothers have a drink!"
Yang Zhi and Li Tuo drank all day long. Li Tuo slept in this secret stronghold that night, while Yang Zhi took advantage of the alcohol and went home to comfort the newly rewarded palace maid.
Not to mention, this woman with a big vagina has so many tricks up her sleeve that she almost broke Yang Zhi’s waist after one night!
The next day, Yang Zhixiu took a rare vacation and spent a day carefully sorting out the situation in the court. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Tuo was unfathomable.
He was completely clear about the whole court situation. He said that Guiziliu and Yixuan would never go to pick up the emperor, so they would definitely not leave the capital.
He said that Zeng Guofan would definitely try to force him into the palace in the end, but in the end he did it!
Cixi would control her son's money and power, and ended up extorting seven million and twenty thousand years of his private money!
Until the end, he even knew about the secretive Western Region Investment Bank in Jiangnan!
"My dear, if this guy hadn't had a prostitution relationship with me, I would have really thought he was a Chinese spy..." Yang Zhi, who was talking to himself, said this accidentally while basking in the sun in the garden. So one sentence.
But as soon as he said these words, his heart skipped a beat. Otherwise, suspicion gave birth to a ghost. As soon as this thought appeared, it occupied his heart like a ghost.
"Oh...why didn't I think of this before? This Li Tuo is so smart that he is almost a demon!"
The more I thought about it, the more something was wrong, and the more I thought about it, the more problems I felt. Yang Zhi and Li Hongzao were from the same hometown, and were both from Baoding Prefecture, Hebei Province. It was said that this place in the capital was the most important place for the imperial court, and the officials they used knew everything about it.
But don’t forget, the origin of Xiao Letian’s rebellion is also here! His base for infiltrating Manchu officials was also here. Could it be that Li Tuo was a CIA spy?
Suddenly, a chill rushed up from his lower back. "No, no, no... It's impossible. Li Tuo can't be Xiao Letian's man. This guy is greedy for money and lustful. There is no dirty work in officialdom that he doesn't understand. How could such a person be possible..."
"Besides, if he was really a deeply buried spy, then I would have been dead long ago. Why am I still alive now... Can Wang Huaiyuan's men not kill me?"
Yang Zhi wandered back and forth in the garden like a ghost beating a wall, denying his fantasies for a while and doubting them for a while. He looked like a psychopath all morning.
People who have been traitors are very suspicious. If the idea does not appear, it is easy to say, but once the dark ghost appears, something must be done.
That afternoon, Yang Zhi secretly changed houses. In the capital, he not only had a residence in the south of the city, but also a small courtyard house to the east of the Prime Minister's Office. That night, he put on makeup and hid in it.
The whole night, Yang Zhi was suffering like a pancake and couldn't sleep. He didn't know what to do. It seemed that he could no longer find anyone he could trust in the huge Qing Dynasty.
"Even if Li Tuo is a Chinese spy, who can I tell him? Tell him to Guiziliu or the Queen Mother? Do I have evidence? Even if I have evidence, if I catch Li Tuo, he will bite me to death if he talks back!"
"Does he know that I have few secrets? Tell the British? Will the British care about this kind of thing? Is it of any benefit to the British to catch spies for the Qing Dynasty? Offend Xiao Letian for me?"
At that moment, Yang Zhicai realized that he was really alone. Li Tuo was right. Printing money for the court to make money was his only way to save his life.
Yang Zhi couldn't sleep, and Li Tuo wasn't feeling well either. He had something urgent to ask Yang Zhi that night, but he failed. This made Li Tuo go crazy with anxiety!
"This damn thing, I had something to discuss with him, but he slipped away? Bastard..."
