In Yang's room, Li Weiguo sat honestly and looked at his mother.

He had already told his mother about meeting Chen Ziyan, and was waiting for his mother to answer.

Seeing that his mother was silent for a long time, Li Weiguo had already guessed that Chen Ziyan and Xiaohe's words were probably true, but he was kept in the dark.

"Mom!" Li Weiguo called out. This matter is very important to him. He must know everything and not be hidden from him.

Yang was silent for a long time, and finally sighed and smiled bitterly: "If I had known that the Fu family would implicate our Li family, I shouldn't have agreed to let Fu Shanxiang stay. If you married not Fu Shanxiang but Chen Ziyan, maybe our Li family would be richer now, at least we don't have to suffer this disaster."

There is indeed a hidden plot!

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and listened quietly to his mother telling the whole story of the matter.

It turns out that although the Fu family and the Li family are married, they are one in Jiangning and the other in Beijing, and they are far away from each other in Beijing. They have not moved around for many years. The Fu family's official position is rising step by step, but the Li family is just a merchant, and the gap is getting bigger and bigger, which is the so-called mismatch between the so-called family. Li Weiguo's parents gradually felt that the Fu family could not afford it, and they all pretended that it was not a good marriage. It happened that Chen Ziyan, the daughter of the richest man in Jiangning, had an accident and caused her eye injury and blindness, and she suddenly lost her transcendent status. The children of high-ranking officials and wealthy wealthy families naturally could not marry a disabled family, and the Shen family Unwilling to let his daughter be a concubine for others, Chen and Li families decided to marry each other after a business cooperation. That year, Li Weiguo was six years old and Chen Ziyan was nine years old. Because they were still young, the two families did not make any public appearances. But not long after, the official earthquake in the capital city and the Fu family suffered. Fu Shanxiang was sent to Jiangning by her brother. According to the agreement to marry Li Weiguo and Fu Shanxiang. The Li family had not received news of the official earthquake in the capital city. Fu Shanxiang's brother urged him and was anxious, so the eight-year-old Li Weiguo and the fourteen-year-old Fu Shanxiang got married.

This incident made the Shen family very embarrassed. Although the Li family apologized and apologized, the Chen and Li families had already died of old age. Naturally, Fu Shanxiang could not know about this kind of thing. Since Li Weiguo got married, Fu Shanxiang was taken care of by himself, so the Li family hid it from them and did not let them know about it.

After knowing the truth, Li Weiguo silently exited the room.

"So that's the case. No wonder when I passed by the porridge shed in the disaster-stricken area, my mother suddenly mentioned Miss Shen and compared it with Shanxiang, but she didn't notice it at that time." Standing outside the door, Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, and finally understood.

"No wonder Xiaohe gets angry when she sees her, and her words are so mean that it makes people feel purple." Li Weiguo smiled bitterly again. After understanding the reason, he could not hold a grudge against Xiaohe. Instead, he thought Xiaohe was a good maid who protects the master.

If you put yourself in your shoes, you will definitely be a hundred times more "ruthless" than Xiaohe. However, Chen Ziyan's attitude is puzzling, as if she is afraid of annoying herself.

Could it be that she still wants to marry herself again?

Li Weiguo shook his head, how could it be possible? It would be nice if he didn't hate himself.

It should be deliberately luring yourself into the trap. When you regret proposing a marriage to her again, she will shook you a big-eared melon seed in front of everyone, telling you the delusion, and then you will get back to revenge.

Well, women are just strong in revenge and must be a stingy person.

Li Weiguo thought this way just because he wanted to have an excuse because he didn't want any bond between him and Fu Shanxiang.

But he forgot one thing. When he was five years old, he often went to Confucius Temple to visit, where a girl had been playing house with him silently. They promised each other that they would become husband and wife in the future and stay together for the rest of their lives.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on Li Weiguo, because his memory about the age of twelve in his mind is quite chaotic at this moment. After all, after two lifetimes of two twelve-year-old memories, it is inevitable that the memories of things at that time are very vague. He didn't know that the little girl was Chen Ziyan today, and he didn't know that Chen Ziyan had an accident and was blind because of his sudden non-keeping agreement.

If Chen Ziyan and Xiao He knew what Li Weiguo was thinking at this moment, one would probably only cry silently, and the other would suddenly kill.

Li Weiguo knew the truth and stopped disturbing his mother. At this moment, he suddenly realized something, would the Shen family take revenge on the Li family because of this incident, thus directing the Li family's catastrophe.

But I still have too little information to know, so I have to find an opportunity to meet my father and ask clearly, but the government never allows my family to visit him. Even if John comes forward, it will not work. What is the secret behind this?

Li Weiguo thought hard, and at this time John came happily and told him that the British Embassy had agreed to his request and appointed Li Weiguo as the special counselor of the British Consulate General in China.

Counselor, as the name suggests, means to participate in helping, it belongs to the rank of diplomatic officials. You can also counsel military affairs or government affairs. If placed in an embassy abroad, the counselor is the assistant of the minister, who helps the minister handle diplomatic affairs and enjoys diplomatic amnesty and immunity. The corresponding official position in the Qing Dynasty is equivalent to the fourth or fifth rank.

Of course, the Qing government has not yet established a Zongli Yamen, and there is no special diplomatic position or rank. Foreign affairs are handled by local officials themselves, which is very chaotic.

He thought he could get a small position as a translator at most, but unexpectedly, the British Embassy gave him a position of counselor all at once, which surprised him and was a bit unreasonable.

In fact, the British embassy was also helpless. They had just obtained the privilege of establishing an embassy in the Qing Dynasty. They did not understand the customs and customs of the Qing Dynasty and could not expand their interests in China. In this case, they urgently needed the help of local Qing talents like Li Weiguo who were proficient in English and understood British culture. Of course, the most important thing is that the British government granted privileges to its new ambassador to China for the newly opened Qing Dynasty. During this period, the full name of the ambassador to China was the privilege of the ambassador to China. The word "privileged" is the right to directly appoint counselors and other officials. Those British ambassadors to other countries did not have this privilege.

Li Weiguo did not know these external factors. For him, he knew that his power was borrowed from the British and he had to make good use of it.

However, there is no free lunch in the world. The British gave Li Weiguo a chance to soar, but he also asked him to pay an equivalent or even higher price.

The British were profit-oriented and did not raise foodies. While giving Li Weiguo a letter of appointment, they also gave him the first task - to get a freight terminal from Jiangzhu Gang.

"I want to know why you want a freight terminal?" Li Weiguo asked.

"Please stop using the word 'you', you should say 'we', are you right? Counselor." John said to Li Weiguo seriously.

"Then, Master, why do we need a freight terminal?" Li Weiguo said again after correcting his words, deliberately increasing his tone to the word "we".

The two looked at each other with their stern faces. In less than three seconds, both of them couldn't help laughing.

John took out a bottle of treasured wine to share with Li Weiguo. The two of them savored wine and discussed the task.

"Our British Empire wanted to open up an inland trading market, but the Qing government always disagreed. The Jiangning Treaty only stipulated five trading ports, but did not include Jiangning. We hope to open a gap from Jiangning first, for the future..."

"Lay the foundation for the future opening of Jiangning as a trading port!" Before John could finish speaking, Li Weiguo spoke.

"Haha, it seems that we have not read you wrong. You have too strategic vision." John said excitedly. Obviously, he also secretly supported him. Success or failure has something to do with him. Now that he has seen Li Weiguo's excellent analytical ability, he is naturally happy, proving that he chose the right person.

Only Li Weiguo knew in his heart that his bullshit strategic vision was purely because he knew that the British would launch the Second ** War in a few years, and pointed out that Jiangning would be added as a trading port, because Jiangning was a key city leading to the inland Yangtze River.

"That's right, the trading port is a future. This time my mission to Jiangning is to get a freight terminal from Jiangzhu Gang. However, Jiang Tao, the leader of Jiangzhu Gang, has an opinion on us foreigners, but he just doesn't sell it to us. I came to ask Pastor Fidan for help before, but he was helpless. I didn't expect that the first task the minister gave you was this, and I'm making things difficult for you. But I believe in my vision, you must have a way, right?" John said with a smile as he looked at Li Weiguo, looking full of confidence in him.

I really look down on me!

Li Weiguo thought in his mind that this was obviously because the embassy deliberately made things difficult for him. I don’t know if it was because John had a bad reputation or because he was too eye-catching, which made some British men in the embassy afraid, otherwise he would not have thrown such a task to him.

However, the more it seems that the task is impossible to complete, it will be convincing once it is completed.

Li Weiguo knew that if he wanted to rescue his father, he had to rely on the British to put pressure on the Qing government. If he wanted to get help from the British, he had to gain the trust of the British and showed his ability to help him.

Therefore, this first task is of great significance to Li Weiguo. It must be completed and must be completed beautifully.

"The Jiangzhu Gang is the largest gang in Jiangning. It controls this section of Yangtze River water transportation. They do not use the government's tricks and have their own way of dealing with things. Even if the British Empire sends gunboats to bombard them, it won't work." Li Weiguo looked at the information in John's hand and analyzed.

"Yes, this plan has been rejected by us." John nodded and admitted that they had this idea, but that cost too much and needed to go to war with the Qing Empire again. At present, the British government has no such plan.

"If you want to get the freight terminal from Jiangzhu Help, you have to use the Jianghu people's way." Li Weiguo suddenly said, with some meaning.

"What is the way for the people of the Jianghu, what is that?" John asked in confusion.

"Have you heard of the dock?" Li Weiguo smiled and said, "It's just that the underworld in the British people's mouth is almost the same."

John suddenly realized and asked, "Do you have a way to say so?"

Li Weiguo asked back without answering, "You said that when you went to meet Jiang Tao last time, he said that as long as you were willing to do something, he would give you the dock directly. Is this the case?"

"It's true! But I don't think anyone can fulfill his request. He actually asked me to take out his seal from the hot oil pan. That was impossible, no one could do it." John nodded and shook his head, and he was still scared when he remembered that.

"Is the oil pan mesh? It's not impossible!" Li Weiguo murmured, and suddenly the corners of his mouth raised, revealing a mysterious smile.

"Can you do it? Oh, my God, please tell me this is not true!" John was shocked by the way that Li Weiguo seemed to be a little confident in his expression.
Chapter completed!