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Chapter 726 A move ahead

The elegant and delicate courtyard under Cuiping Mountain finally has an official name - West Garden. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The name info was taken by the bride Ou Chu'er, originally the brothers called it An Mansion or the Commander's Mansion as they liked, and there was no unified name, after Chu'er arrived, he visited the charming scenery in the garden, and was overjoyed, and immediately asked An Yi to call his home the West Garden.

An Yi almost didn't have to think about it, so he readily agreed, the reason is that since Chu'er likes it so much, let her be happy, and another reason is that the title of "West Garden" is indeed much simpler than what An Mansion and the commander's residence.

Chu Er likes her new home in Syria very much, and treats the beautiful and simple housekeeper Aunt Ma very politely, seeing the seven-year-old little Xinghua like a little adult holding the hand of her younger brother Cheng Cheng, who is less than three years old, playing under the big tree, sometimes playing hide and seek, sometimes catching, Chu Er's beautiful face showed a satisfied smile, and even wondered if she would give Cheng Cheng another brother or sister earlier?

After three consecutive days of grand wedding banquets from inside the city of Syria to outside the city, An Yi's family finally settled down, and the brothers from all walks of life in the military and political circles in southern Sichuan stopped fighting wine and once again turned their energies to army building and local government affairs.

Chu Er was very touched by the respect and affection of the brothers, and what made her even more emotional was that the whole of Syria was a clean and beautiful garden city with a strong ancient charm of southern Sichuan but bursting with vitality everywhere: neat and wide, tree-like streets with perfect drainage systems, brand new schools, hospitals, military camps and markets with antique buildings perfectly integrated with the old city, and the tram tracks being laid run through the southeast and northwest of the city. The east-west main line connects the Jiangdong New Area, which is lined with factories, through the soon-to-be-completed Second Jinsha River Bridge, and the largest city in southern Sichuan, with a population of 850,000, has begun to show its colorful new style to the world.

On the fourth day of settling down, Chu'er could barely suppress the strong urge in her heart to start working.

An Yi did not immediately agree to Chu'er's request, but suggested that she walk around and see more, take her children to visit the brothers' homes more, and meet with all the brothers' wives and children, young and old, to establish a relationship first, and then it is not too late to start the intense and busy work.

Chu Er could only agree, and a few days later, she slowly discovered that most of the brothers' wives were teachers, doctors, and middle and low-level officials in government departments, such as Yin Jinan's wife Duan Xin'er was the principal of Rongjun Primary School, Gu Changfeng's wife was the deputy director of the Syrian Education Bureau, Ding Zhicheng's wife was a clerk of the Agricultural Bureau, and Xia Jian's second wife turned out to be a police officer in charge of household registration at the police station, etc., and finally understood An Yi's good intentions, and calmly readjusted his life and work plan with great gratitude. began to have an in-depth and detailed understanding of all aspects of Syria and even the entire southern Sichuan, and the rich humanistic society and the ubiquitous simple family affection often moved Chu'er to moisten the corners of his eyes, and gradually understood that the burden on his body was far more complex and heavy than he had imagined.

An Yi attended meetings endlessly, inspecting the garrisons and the police force, which had grown to 6,000 men, and usually gathered the brothers to drink two drinks in the courtyard of his home or in the small pavilion in the back mountain.

At the family banquet on the evening of the seventh day, Chu Er suddenly saw a well-known figure in the country who was in the whirlpool of public opinion criticism two months ago, and what particularly surprised Chu Er was that this man was still wearing a neatly ironed general summer dress, and the general star embroidered with gold thread on the collar was still shining, and his face with a calm and well-defined expression always had a faint smile, he was the "Merry General" Wang Geng, who was predicted in the newspaper to be sentenced to a heavy sentence by a military court.

What makes Chu Er even more incomprehensible is that Wang Geng now does not change his name, does not change his surname, his official rank is still major general, and his official position has become the chief of education of the Central Army (Syria) Non-commissioned Officer School, and he is in charge of the country's largest military academy with 12 departments and 5,500 outstanding cadets for the whole team and society every year.

An Yi saw Ou Chuer's doubts, and did not explain it at the time, but only after the passion in the evening did he explain the situation of his case to Chairman Jiang and his proposal to transfer Wang Geng out of the tax police regiment to serve in southern Sichuan. Chairman Jiang naturally will not admit his mistake, no matter how the Japanese catch the army is a big loss of face This is a fact, the previous arrest and detention should be regarded as punishment, at the same time, he also felt that this time he had beaten his brother-in-law Song Ziwen and his tax police regiment, and the stalemate continued to be peaceful, so he agreed to An Yi's request, Song Ziwen saw that he had saved the life and future of the generals under his command, and he also readily agreed, so Wang Geng came to Syria in this way.

Although Wang Geng is arrogant and arrogant, he always has a bit of a domineering taste, but as a top student of the United States Military Academy at West Point, his military theory is extremely solid, his horizons are also very broad, and he absorbs new things quickly, and knows how to live and learn.

Therefore, although the army commander and commander Yin Jinan, the deputy army commander and chief of staff Ye Cheng, the commander of the 16th Division, Xia Jian, the commander of the 39th Division, and Gu Changfeng, the commander of the 44th Division, and other generals were inseparable from An Yi all day long, the main force composed of 60,000 soldiers was still operating efficiently and stably.

The garrison unit subordinate to the Southern Sichuan Pacification Office has once again increased to 80,000 officers and men in five divisions, and together with the 6,000-strong police force formed from among the retired and active-duty officers and soldiers, and the engineering corps composed of 100,000 retired officers and soldiers and second-line officers and men, under the leadership of Lieutenant General Yang Bin, director of the Public Office, Major General Li Fuqiang, director of the Military and Political Administration, Major General Ding Zhicheng, chief of the police department, and Major General Shi Lejun, commander of the engineering corps, it has formed the backbone of defending and building southern Sichuan. Governments at all levels in southern Sichuan have been able to operate steadily and smoothly, and all aspects have reached new heights and gradually matured.

Another night, An Yi, who had been busy all day, was eating and talking with the brothers, and they were only halfway through drinking, when Lin Yaodong, the chief of the guard, came to report: General Zhan Huanqi, chief of staff of the 38th Army and commander of the Kunming Garrison Command, has arrived.

All the brothers cheered in unison, and stood up with An Yi to meet the gate of the courtyard.

At this time, Zhan Huanqi was already accompanied by Zhao Rui, the deputy director of the fourth department of the new staff headquarters, and happily turned the shadow wall to greet him, respectfully saluted the old chief An Yilizheng, and then beat and beat with the happy brothers, greeted each other, and laughed for a moment before being dragged into the table by the brothers and forcibly poured three bowls.

Zhan Huanqi, who was red-faced, took the heavy three gift boxes from the hands of the two adjutants behind him, and respectfully sent them to Chu Er one by one:

"This is a little gift from Yigong, General Zhu Shigui and the younger brother, many generals and colonels of my 38th Army and the garrison have been friends with Commander An for many years, and they are like brothers, but the younger brother came by plane and couldn't bring so many congratulatory gifts, so he could only temporarily offer these three gifts first, hoping to accept them with a smile."

The brothers laughed and asked, "What kind of treasure is it?" An Yi readily instructed Chu Er, who was extremely moved, to open it and take a look.

Chu Er thanked him and sat down to open Zhan Huanqi's gift box first, and a one-foot-tall jade horse with exquisite carving and a soft green luster throughout the body caused all the brothers to exclaim. Zhan Huanqi smiled and instructed Chu'er to open the second box sent by Zhu Shigui, and a pair of jeweled silver sheaths and exquisite knives inlaid with rubies with gold wire entanglements were quickly displayed in front of everyone.

An Yi cautiously took the treasure knife from Chu Er's hand, and pulled out one of them with a "bang", and the cold mangs of the scimitar suddenly attracted a burst of exclamations from the brothers who knew the goods.

An Yi took a deep breath, slowly put away the treasure knife, held the third smallest gift box given by Zhu Peide and slowly opened it, a burst of fragrance immediately wafted in the air, which was refreshing, and a rosewood box inlaid with crystal shells appeared in front of everyone's eyes in the cardboard box.

An Yi slowly lifted the lid of the red sandalwood box carved with the pattern of five grains and abundant harvests, was stunned for a while, grabbed a stone covered with green rust spots in the box, and blurted out in his heart: "Copper? ”

"That's right! It's copper ore, which my father-in-law has been thinking about for a long time before he picked out a gift from many objects to give to the commander. Commander, guess what, my father said that if the commander guessed his intentions, everything was up to the commander. With that, Zhan Huanqi laughed, picked up his wine glass as the brothers watched in amazement, and drank it comfortably.

An Yi stared at the green ore in his hand and slowly stood up: "If I guess correctly, this ore should come from northeast Yunnan or southeast Yunnan, and this exquisite red sandalwood box has more profound meaning, it is said that this kind of red sandalwood tree mixed with gold wire grows in Myanmar, and also grows in small quantities in Shangliao and Annam, more than 30 years ago, the French governor of Annam cut down a piece of this red sandalwood, and ordered the best craftsmen in Shangliao to carve a tiger and send it to France, which immediately triggered the fifteen-year Far East gold rush of the French, This is how the 200-kilometer railway from Annam Hanoi to the mining areas of the Red River Valley was built. Huanqi, I don't know if I'm right? ”

Zhan Huanqi admired: "The boss is really knowledgeable, and the younger brother admires it!" Yes, with the efforts of Chinese and foreign experts from the South Sichuan Bureau of Mineral Resources for four months, it has been clearly determined last week that the minimum reserves of Dongchuan copper mine are 400,000 tons, and the associated silver reserves cannot be determined, but experts predict that as long as the scale of mining is expanded, the annual output of silver in Dongchuan silver mine will not be less than six tons, my father-in-law said that Dongchuan is just on the main road of the Sichuan-Yunnan Highway under construction, and we do not have the advanced technology and funds to mine and smelt copper and silver ore. ”

An Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and the brothers were all very satisfied, and immediately started a heated discussion about it.

Yin Jinan motioned for the brothers to be quiet, turned to Zhan Huanqi and asked: "Huanqi, last month our third division of the engineering corps has repaired the Sichuan-Yunnan Highway to Zhaotong, it is estimated that in another five months, more than 100 small and medium-sized highway bridges along the way will also be completed and opened to traffic, now it seems that the most difficult section of the entire highway is the section from Dongchuan to Zhaotong, according to your estimate, when will this road be repaired?" ”

Zhan Huanqi shook his head a little bitterly: "The Yunnan Provincial Government has no money, and after building a few cement factories, there is no strength to develop transportation, and the officials of the Provincial Council and the Construction Department have no choice but to suggest that my father ask for help from southern Sichuan, otherwise it will not be possible to repair this main provincial highway for the benefit of the people for three or five years, and it is precisely for this reason that the Dongchuan mining area can be taken by us so smoothly." The younger brother has another important task this time, and he asked the commander to take advantage of this rare vacation to go to Kunming to guide and discuss cooperation between the two places.

Half a month ago, after the central government issued a document on the commander of the Sichuan-Yunnan Border Region Pacification Office and sent it to Kunming, the whole of Yunnan was quarrelling, and many people were unwilling to include the Zhaotong region in the territory of the Sichuan-Yunnan Border Region; although my father repeatedly stated that this was only a temporary administrative measure of the central government, aimed at revitalizing the economy and promoting the development of agriculture, industry, commerce, and other industries in the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, Zhaotong was still in the territory of Yunnan Province and would not leave Yunnan, and our Yunnan army was still stationed in Zhaotong to manage it, but the voice of opposition still did not cease. Therefore, if the commander can be invited to Kunming to explain the situation, perhaps all the opposition will stop, and now the people of Yunnan are very envious of the rapid development of the southern Sichuan region, but the inherent old concepts cannot be let go. ”

An Yi thought about it, and then understood the mystery, and immediately agreed with a smile: "Okay!" I'll go...... Chu'er, haven't you always wanted to visit Kunming West Mountain? Back then, Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan burned incense and stroked the piano together and talked about the golden palace of wine, so let's take this opportunity to take a look, right? ”

"Really?" Chu'er was very happy.

"Really, take Chengcheng and Xiao Xinghua with you, Huanqi and his wife are my righteous Jinlan, their son is half a year older than Chengcheng, just let a few little guys play together, haha!" An Yi said with a smile.

Zhan Huanqi also warmly invited Chu'er to visit Kunming, and everyone happily raised their wine glasses and drank freely, talking to each other in twos and threes, and the atmosphere was relaxed and warm.

An Yi turned to Yin Jinan and Yang Bin to discuss the key matters of this trip to Kunming, and after a while, he heard Gu Changfeng's unruly voice deafening:

“…… What a fucking slut the British! For more than ten years, he has been constantly instructing the rebels to invade the Xikang region, and now he is playing a conspiracy in southern Yunnan and violating my territory, Huanqi, why don't you let Yigong fight a fucking battle tit-for-tat? ”

"It's hard! There are many ethnic groups in the four towns of Pu'er in southern Yunnan, the situation is extremely complicated, the British have connived at the indigenous people on the Burmese side behind their backs to continue to invade and encroach, destroy a large number of boundary monuments set up by the Qing Dynasty, and constantly provoke inter-tribal armed conflicts, the means are despicable and extremely bloody, the Dai and Han people living in the Cheli (Jinghong), Fohai (Menghai), Nanqiao (Mengsha), and Zhenyue (Mengla) areas have been forced to move northward since the beginning of the previous year, and we are unable to send troops!

Do you know, how long have we been in charge of Yunnan? Dali, Baoshan and other vast areas of western Yunnan have not yet been fully taken back, where can the four remote towns in southern Yunnan be taken into account? It turns out that the younger brother also thinks the same as you, the same anger, and can't wait to immediately lead his troops south to fight him, but when he really does it, he knows that it is so difficult, not to mention the miasma poisonous snakes that are difficult to cross on a large scale, and not to mention the hatred between complex ethnic tribes and each other in history, just talk about the road, many places are far away from the emperor and the emperor, there is no road, how do you go? It feels bad to have a weak heart! Zhan Huanqi shook her head in disappointment.

The brothers were speechless, An Yi thought for a while and asked: "Huanqi, I have heard, there is a place in the car called Xishuangbanna by the Dai people, the place is a fairy land, the giant trees are towering, the land is fertile, the wind and rain are smooth, and the products are abundant, I heard that in the Qing Dynasty, the peacocks and a rare rice produced there were still tributes, and in the early years of Guangxu, there was still a Qing army stationed there, and the largest post station on the ancient tea horse road in southern Yunnan was in Fohai, why did it become so bad now?" ”

Zhan Huanqi replied helplessly: "Although Yunnan has been closed for many years, the internal turmoil has never stopped, the upper level is full of contradictions, and the regimes in various places change frequently, for decades, everyone has focused on Kunming, Qujing, Dali, Zhaotong and connecting Guangxi, Guizhou and other civilized places, and has already lost its domination over the Yunnan-Burma border and the border areas of Shangliao and Annam. It's so difficult to build a road out of the province, where can I still have the energy to take care of the distant border areas? ”

An Yi pondered for a moment and smiled: "Huanqi, if I lease the four towns in southern Yunnan to resettle the victims in the northwest in exchange for assistance to the provincial roads in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, do you think the big men of the Yunnan Provincial Government will agree?" ”

Zhan Huanqi's eyes lit up, and he replied without hesitation: "Sure, no one cares about the remote area in southern Yunnan that can't be managed...... But, Boss, that's a huge investment! Do you make it worthwhile? ”

An Yi said with a smile: "The unity and integrity of the motherland's territory cannot be measured by money, not to mention that the rich land in southern Yunnan can bring huge returns as long as it is developed for a few years." Now that the plague is epidemic in the northwest of our country, the war between the warlords in northern and western Sichuan has restarted, and the victims of the disaster in the northwest and northern Sichuan have flocked to the south again, I am worried about how to resettle these disaster victims, if this idea is feasible, I plan to recruit 20,000 young people from among the disaster victims, and go to the four towns in southern Yunnan to settle in the name of resettlement, and then continue to immigrate there, at least 300,000 or 500,000 immigrants, I don't believe that southern Yunnan will not return to the embrace of the motherland in five years. It doesn't matter if the money is not enough, I will pay it, and I don't need to spend a penny from the southern Sichuan government. ”

All the brothers applauded in unison, Yang Bin, Gu Changfeng and others were keenly aware that there must be a huge conspiracy behind An Yi's decision, and judging from An Yi's investment over the years, he would definitely not lose money, so he asked An Yi if he could join a share?

Yang Bin and Gu Changfeng made such a fuss, the brothers all came to their senses, and even Zhan Huanqi stared at An Yi, who was happy, and asked what his plans were?