Late at night, the Governor's residence.

The incense curling in the study room is much more comfortable than the damp smell outside.

Zhao Erxun finished drinking the decoction, lay on the delicate rocking chair, and waved his hand to let the two maids retreat. Xiao Yiming watched him take off his cotton shoes, hurriedly pulled over a leather soft bench, and carefully helped him lift his legs and put them on the soft stool.

"How's it going with those foreigners?" Zhao Erxun asked in a low voice.

Xiao Yiming brought the bubbled hot tea: "It's very pleasant...... By the way, uncle, the Germans gave the little nephew twelve pairs of Zeiss six-fold telescopes, one of which was made of a special alloy steel shell, and the beautiful pattern was inlaid with gold wire, and the little nephew thought you would like it, so he sent it over and put it on the shelf next to the desk. ”

Zhao Erxun smiled and said: "The Germans are very generous to you, so I will accept it, so that you don't have to panic by boat or long-distance car ride in the future." ”

"In the second half of the year, the German camera ordered by Huaxi Company arrived, and my little nephew will get you a light one." Xiao Yiming said with a smile.

Zhao Erxun shook his head and said with a smile:

"Where will the old man use that thing? I heard that after taking pictures, you have to soak some kind of film into two kinds of potions, in order to show the human form, too troublesome, I don't have that spare time, I heard that the German consul Fu Diegeng likes to take pictures everywhere, and he is not happy to take pictures outside the city, and he has also gone to Tibet twice in the past few years to take pictures of those lama temples, and the German consul is very leisurely. ”

Xiao Yiming was happy: "Actually, Mr. Fu Diegeng's name is Fritz. Weiss, I don't know who gave him a Chinese name, if I hadn't seen the invitation he wrote to my little nephew, I really wouldn't know his German name. ”

Zhao Erxun seemed to think of something:

"The name is very important to a person, and I don't know who gave you the name at the beginning, it seems to be elegant, but it is not very appropriate, the 'overflow' person, full and self-flowing, is not good, when your teacher comes back, I will ask him to help you change it."

The little teapot was suddenly annoyed:

"The little nephew has long wanted to change, speaking of the name of the little nephew is not angry, before meeting the teacher, the little nephew has been in the teahouse as a running boy, no name, who sees the nickname of the little nephew 'little teapot' on the first day of the new year, the little nephew was caught by his sister and a group of girls, carrying incense candles to Qingyang Palace to incense, when resting outside the mountain gate, the old master Zhang who opened the ash factory arrived, the sister because she wanted to give the little nephew a household registration, anxiously asked this Guangxu early years to help the old man to choose the name

"Mr. Zhang is a frequent visitor to the little nephew's teahouse, and mischievously gave the little nephew the name of 'Yi Ming', when the little nephew found that he was smiling very weirdly, and he slowly got angry after thinking about it, isn't this name the teapot full of water after all? In the end, it's still a teapot, and my sister is still grateful. ”

Zhao Erxun couldn't help laughing, laughing out of order, curling up, holding his stomach and laughing for a long time, until his stomach hurt and he didn't stop laughing, wiped away the tears from laughter and asked, "You didn't embarrass him, did you?" ”

"No, at the beginning I really held a grudge, worried about one day to clean him up, and then slowly thought about it, and then because of the house to repair the road and he had more contact, I found that although this Zhang Juren likes to play tricks, but the bottom of his heart is very good, this year or so, he donated to build a small middle school in Longtan Town, the eastern suburbs, repaired and expanded the original primary school, and did not forget to be lonely and widowed during the New Year's holidays, and did not do less to repair bridges and pave roads, and the reputation was very good

"Today, the scale of his Longtan ash factory has tripled, the monthly output of ash has reached 50,000 barrels, becoming the largest ash factory in Sichuan, several sons are down-to-earth and very competitive, at the beginning of the year he just sent two grandsons and two poor teenagers in Longtan Town to the UK to study industry, and the vision is still there." Xiao Yiming replied in detail.

Zhao Erxun nodded slightly: "The person is good, but it is worth dating!" ”

Xiao Yiming changed the topic:

"Uncle Shi, after those Germans came to Yamen the day after tomorrow, they would go to Dayi and Ya'an for a field trip for a few days, and there was a group of people engaged in geological exploration, it is estimated that they would go far, and the little nephew was worried about their personal safety along the way, so he wanted to borrow a team of soldiers from General Zhong to escort him, but now General Zhong is busy expanding the seventeenth town, and the little nephew is not good to beg the old oilmen of the counties along the way to catch up and escort them, worry!"

Zhao Erxun asked puzzledly, "Huh?" Remember, isn't there a small group of guards in your training office? ”

"Originally, there was, last year, the barracks had a lot of things to take away temporarily, and they never came back, and General Manager Zhu asked once before he was transferred, but the barracks said that our supervision and training office had nothing to do in the governor's yamen all day long, and there was no need for guards, so it is gone now, and the military registration of the two guards is still hanging in General Zhong's guards." Xiao Yiming replied.

Zhao Erxun nodded:

"So that's the case, Lao Zhai Tou, the general manager of the barracks department, was originally my guard, and he has been with me for almost thirty years, as if he remembered that he told me about this matter, no wonder you don't dare to ask him for someone, it's better to do this, tomorrow I will give you an official document, first allocate 20,000 yuan to you for the start-up fee, and then you find Zhong Ying's kid to transfer a team of elite soldiers and strong generals to come over, and all the future military salaries will be paid from the governor's yamen, guns, horses and clothing or something will be collected directly from the arsenal, one hundred and eighty people are enough, right?"

Xiao Yiming was overjoyed: "It's enough, eighty people are enough, thank you, uncle!" ”

Zhao Erxun smiled: "As soon as you kid pouts his ass, the old man will know what you are going to do, haha!" ”

Xiao Yiming smiled:

"Uncle Shi, the expansion of the new army is imminent, the two associations and the four standards are only set up a shelf, and there is a shortage of people everywhere, if Uncle Shi allows, the little nephew wants to transfer an officer from the Ya'an Heavy Battalion who graduated last year to be the captain, and recruit some good hands from the Hongmen brothers who are familiar with Ya'an, Dayi and Chengdu, so that there will be people who are familiar with the terrain to escort those Germans to various places, and the safety will be more guaranteed."

Zhao Erxun thought for a while, nodded and asked, "Okay, you can do it yourself...... I said, when did you become the 'righteous' character of Sichuan Hongmen? ”

Xiao Yiming was quite frightened, how he knew Wang Yutang, the Hongmen predecessor of Ya'an, because of the kerosene business, how he married Wang Qian, the third son of Wang Yutang, and how he supported a group of people in Chengdu Hongmen Nantang to live a better life, etc., without concealing and explaining.

Zhao Erxun nodded and sighed:

"That's the way of the world, when you were alone, powerless, powerless, helpless, befriending the Jianghu Hui Party to protect yourself, it is also common sense, besides, in recent years, the party ban has been relaxed, and the court and the local government have turned a blind eye, as long as it does not endanger the court and local government, no one wants to cause more trouble, so you don't need to be afraid, didn't you see the Sun Cannon who shouted the republic all over the world? Didn't he worship the Hongmen like this? And the same is true of the Hunan barbarian Huang Keqiang, who dares to worship any sect in order to achieve his goal

"These people talk about the well-being and interests of the people all day long, demagoguery everywhere, swagger and deceive everywhere, and I don't see them do anything earth-shattering! In contrast, you Xiao Yiming is conscientious and conscientious for the country and the people, and it is the renovation of the old city, and the treatment of polluted rivers, and you spend your own money to run education and enlighten the people, which is not a good thing for the country and the people? I see, the things that those people did by Sun Dacang can't even compare to your toes. ”

Xiao Yiming was shocked:

"Uncle Shi, Sun Wen and Huang Keqiang are still very ambitious, but the way they are currently taking is too extreme, lacking overall consideration, and the country is weak, the government is corrupt, like a sheep externally, like a wolf internally, from top to bottom, they only know about expropriation and expropriation without knowing how to build, so now the people in the coastal provinces are boiling, and if the people in power do not change their ways, I am afraid that they will soon suffer a catastrophe."

Zhao Erxun sighed helplessly, through last year's large-scale arrests, he fully understood how acute the current social contradictions are, Sichuan, which is located in the inland area and has always been stable, has become like this, not to mention the coastal provinces that have been heavily pressed by the imperial court and yamen at all levels.

A year ago, Xiao Yiming would have scolded him harshly when he said this, but now he won't, he knows that what Xiao Yiming said is all the truth, and the specific situation is even ten times more serious than what Xiao Yiming said.

Thinking of this, Zhao Erxun couldn't help but think of the arrest at the end of last year again, it was really timely and decisive, otherwise it was hard to imagine whether he could lie on the rocking chair and talk leisurely now, speaking of which, Xiao Yiming prompted him to make up his mind, if there was no young man with keen eyes and wisdom and courage around him, I don't know if he could cope with the past.

Moreover, the beloved juniors around him have made one move after another, not only to save their reputation and stabilize the people's feelings, but also to skillfully guide the people's opinions, calm down the people's grievances, and build a large number of projects according to local conditions to benefit the people, which has well diverted the attention of the people, making the current Governor's Yamen enjoy a good reputation.

Zhao Erxun believes that with a series of effective experiences in Chengdu quietly rolled out in important areas such as Chongqing, Sichuan's stability will be maintained for a long time, not to mention the scene of benefiting one party in the future, only the reputation of a person can be maintained, it is enough to make Zhao Erxun deeply satisfied, not to mention that now the people's evaluation of him and the yamen at all levels is getting better and better, the province is becoming more and more stable, and there are signs of recovery of all industries everywhere.

It was late at night, Xiao Yiming said something for a while and left, returned home, and immediately took Wu San to find Ma Gang, who was still practicing calligraphy, and carefully explained the establishment of the guard team of the supervision and training department.

The two brothers were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately considered the manpower for Xiao Yiming, and the list of hundreds of people in Chengdu Hongmenzhong's family background was innocent, simple, hardworking, young and strong, and martial arts was quickly listed, and the three brothers called Xiao Fei, who was familiar with the situation, to consult together, and finally selected thirty people from them, becoming the first armed force under Xiao Yiming's own control.

Subsequently, Xiao Yiming wrote a letter to the old man Wang in Ya'an overnight, as well as the senior brother Zongyi who was assigned to the Ya'an Heavy Battalion of the border army, asking the old man and Zongyi to send fifty brothers with good marksmanship and kung fu skills among the brothers to join the guards, and the remaining ten candidates.

Ma Gang's heart was itching, and he really wanted to be an officer of this team, but he could understand Xiao Yiming's far-reaching intention of putting himself into the police circle, and he knew very well that the brothers' growing industries could not be protected by the law enforcement force of the political axe, so he endured it and never mentioned it.

In addition, Ma Pole admired Xiao Yiming's pick at a glance very much.

There are not many words, the calm and capable Zong Yi is indeed strong, not only accurate marksmanship, strong martial arts, but also rare is the seven flying knives hidden in the waist, shot like electricity, full of strength, within ten steps to shoot the target of the finger is a hundred shots, the disadvantage is that he does not like to study, the foundation is not solid, and the overall situation is slightly inferior to other brothers, but this person is definitely the best choice to serve as the captain of the guard or the commando captain, not to mention Xiao Yiming's fellow brother, who has always admired Xiao Yiming's little junior brother and obeyed his words.

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