In August 1925, Sichuan was still suffering from a long drought and little rain, and a large-scale drought was inevitable. Fortunately, the civil war in Sichuan has ended, and several high-ranking Kuomintang officials who rule Sichuan can finally use their brains to think about disaster relief. Two black cars, one after the other, drove into the gate of the Huangshan villa in Yucheng, and they were Xiong Kewu, chairman of Sichuan Province, and Shi Qingyang, director of the provincial party department, who had been invited to a meeting to discuss how to help the disaster. Although Xiong Kewu was at odds with Luo Yaoguo and Shi Qingyang, in this extraordinary period when the catastrophe came, everyone had to put aside their prejudices and look for countermeasures together.

Xiong Kewu walked out of the car and saw that Luo Yaoguo had already led a staff member of the camp to respectfully greet him in front of the villa. Although the two are not on good terms, the superficial articles of officialdom still have to be done.

Seeing Xiong Kewu, Luo Yaoguo took a step forward very enthusiastically, solemnly gave a military salute, and then warmly shook hands with Xiong Kewu: "Jin Gong, it's great that you can preside over this disaster relief meeting, now that there is a big drought in Sichuan, those of us who are soldiers only know how to fight and kill, where do we know disaster relief!" I hope you'll give us an idea. ”

Although Luo Yaoguo's face was extremely humble and his tone was sincere, to Xiong Kewu's ears, these words were still intriguing, and there were words in his words. You're a soldier, am I not? has led soldiers for more than ten years, although there are many defeats and few victories, Xiong Kewu has always regarded himself as a soldier, uh, or a warlord. But now that he is a warlord, he has few soldiers in his hands, and he has made the young man in front of him completely divided and disintegrated. Could it be that he can only be a civil official in the future?

After a while, Xiong Kewu sighed: "Fuwen, you are now my immediate boss, the director of the camp, representing the prime minister, and the military and political governor of Sichuan." You will preside over this disaster relief meeting, if you have any ideas, just say it, and our provincial government will fully cooperate. There have been some misunderstandings between us in the past, but I, Xiong Kewu, will never let these things hinder the livelihood of the Sichuan people. Speaking of this, Xiong Kewu couldn't help but glance at Luo Yaoguo with complicated eyes. In fact, he had already asked the Nationalist Axe to resign a few days ago, but it was not approved. And it was vetoed by Sun Yat-sen, and it seems that the prime minister wants to let the two of them continue to contain each other in Sichuan.

At this time, the car carrying Shi Qingyang also stopped at the door of the villa. This Kuomintang veteran, who had long lost his army and turned into a civil official, got out of the car with a hearty smile on his face and strode over to Xiong Kewu and Luo Yaoguo. Behind him was a middle-aged man with a thin body, sunken eyes, and a look of hiding from the wind.

As soon as everyone arrived, the so-called disaster relief meeting began in the conference room on the second floor of the Huangshan Villa. It's more of a meeting than a meeting. Disaster relief, in Luo Yaoguo's mind, is not too complicated, the consequences of this Sichuan drought are nothing more than a poor agricultural harvest, just transport a million quintals of grain from Xiajiang and send it down. Although Sichuan has been hit by disasters this year, the harvest in other southern provinces is good, and there is no shortage of grain, and the key is how to prevent corruption and misappropriation.

Luo Yaoguo spoke first and said his own method: "My plan is to supervise multiple parties and make the accounts public. Each county, each division stationed in Sichuan, and the provincial government should send some cadres to be responsible for the distribution of disaster relief food, and in addition, the procuratorate may also be asked to send personnel to supervise it, and at the same time, the accounts of all disaster relief food and funds for distribution and use will be made public to the people of Sichuan. It is imperative to ensure that disaster relief materials are distributed to the victims in a timely manner, and corruption and misappropriation are prevented. "This set of measures is actually a copy of the military management method developed by Luo Yaoguo, so as to avoid concentrating the management of disaster relief grain in the hands of a small number of people.

"That's a good idea. But have you thought about it, can you turn this drought into the beginning of Sichuan's construction? As soon as Luo Yaoguo's voice fell, Shi Qingyang, director of the party department, took over the topic: "It is estimated that millions of people will fall into famine in this drought, including hundreds of thousands of young and strong people. Now we can organize a group of young people through various counties to come out and use it for the construction of infrastructure in Sichuan Province. ”

Shi Qingyang looked at Luo Yaoguo and Xiong Kewu, who were a little stunned, and pointed to the middle-aged man beside him and said, "This is Lu Zuofu, the manager of Sichuan Minsheng Industrial Company, and he is also a member of the old league. He proposed to me a plan to mobilize some farmers in the disaster area to work for relief and organize a construction company to undertake the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the Yucheng New Town. ”

Lu Zuofu? Isn't that the big capitalist in Sichuan Province in history? Luo Yaoguo smiled at him, and said in his heart, this capitalist really has a very bad conscience! He was able to come up with the idea of using the victims as cheap labor to carry out "cash-for-work", and also wanted to undertake two projects in the name of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and the Yucheng New Area. Hehe, this Shi Qingyang and those bigwigs of the industrial group must have invested, so let's give the industrial group a face and support the people's livelihood company.

Luo Yaoguo smiled faintly, he has always advocated supporting capitalists to carry out economic construction, and does not approve of building a lot of public enterprises and letting a bunch of bureaucrats do the work of capitalists. He looked at Xiong Kewu and smiled: "Mr. Lu's idea is very good, I am very much in favor of it." I don't know what Jin Gong thinks? If Jin Gong agrees, we will jointly request the Executive Yuan to start the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway in advance, and contract the project to the Minsheng Company, and I will also send engineering officers to participate in the project and become engineers for the Sichuan people for free. ”

Xiong Kewu nodded slowly: "Since you all agreed, I can't object." Besides, it is good to start the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway one day earlier, our generation has participated in the road protection movement, and the right of way has been preserved, but the railway has not been completed! Now that the civil war is finally not fought, this project can also be started, but, does the national political axe have so much money? ”

Xiong Kewu was a little worried about the financial resources of the national political axe, and in his impression, China's political axe was called Huazi, and there was only IOU in his pocket and no money. This Chengdu-Chongqing railway is 505 kilometers long, and I am afraid that it will not be able to take it without more than 10 million, right?

"Money is not a problem, the key is to have a good environment, we took advantage of the opportunity of the last GCD to enter Yanjing to win back tariffs from the imperialists, this time to end the warlord division in South China, unify the military and government, and restore social stability. With such an environment and tariff protection, our economy will soon develop. At present, there are nearly 1 billion yuan of deposits in various banks in Shanghai waiting to be released, and there are projects like the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway that are afraid that they will not be able to borrow money? Moreover, the China Railway Company, which is now under the control of the Ministry of Industry, is about to issue shares, and the wealthy overseas Chinese businessmen in Nanyang have already taken various ways to make reservations. They have tens of millions of dollars in wealthy businessmen, but there are a large number of them! As long as there is an environment in the country that allows them to make money, how can they not attract investment? ”

Luo Yaoguo was suddenly a little excited, and his voice also raised: "Although we started a little later than the previous one, but in a big country of thousands of years, this family is still thicker than them, and if we start chasing now, we will definitely be able to catch up!" ”

In just three years, half of China has moved from division to reunification under the effect of Luo Yaoguo's big butterfly, and has also achieved tariff independence, and heavy industry has begun to start in 23 years, and at the latest next year, Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant and Sino-German joint venture Hainan Iron and Steel Plant will be able to roll out the rails, and the special steel of Shaoguan Iron and Steel Plant will be put into production in the year after tomorrow, and then the 150mm caliber cannon will be localized. In addition, in Daye, Hubei Province, a large iron and steel enterprise with an annual output of one million tons with a total investment of more than 200 million yuan and a "three-country loan" of 30 million US dollars is preparing to start construction, and it will be fully operational by 1929 at the latest. In addition, in Ma'anshan, Anhui Province, the Ministry of Armaments also plans to invest in the construction of a large-scale iron and steel enterprise with an annual output of one million tons, which is estimated to start construction next year and be put into operation in 1930.