Xiao Yiming is now a celebrity in Chengdu, who won the top prize in the police academy with a humble background, the governor was exceptionally promoted and summoned to his side to listen to errands, foreigners were polite to him and made a fortune together, and he was not messed up......

All kinds of rumors are true or false, and there is a big market.

The poor people regard Xiao Yiming as a pride and a model for educating their children, especially after Xiao Yiming became prosperous, he did not forget to take him in as a part-time shopkeeper of the teahouse, and made every effort to promote the shopkeeper Deng to become a new rich man in the city, and became a typical example of gratitude and kindness.

The businessmen are now vying to confront him, and the officials of the officialdom are all smiling when they see this sudden rise of the governor's yamen; The soldiers are now jealous of him, because Zhong Ying, the most powerful general in the province, called him a brother and sister, and generously gave him a strong black war horse and two guards; The fierce and brutal Manchu also treated him with great courtesy, and even the two good horses that had been stolen by the city defenders were secretly sent back, and they were replaced with a full set of new bridles and saddles, and a sturdy bag was tied to the saddle, which contained a hundred taels of silver.

The people in the rivers and lakes all looked sideways at this young upstart.

The first to benefit is the chief helmsman Wu Dachuan of Chengdu Hongmen Nantang, Wu Dachuan, who belongs to the Hongmen "benevolence" generation, has been operating painstakingly for more than 20 years, and has successively opened a dyeing workshop, coolie line and boat operation, but Wu Dachuan's third son's sworn brother Xiao Yiming made a move, the second and third of the Wu family immediately became the second largest car dealer in Chengdu and the third largest kerosene wholesale shopkeeper, and the number of brothers under his command increased to more than 300 people in a blink of an eye, and the son lived much better than the old man who had worked hard for more than 20 years.

Not only that, the senior and respected old man Wang Yutang of Ya'an in the southwest Hongmen became Xiao Yiming's entry leader, and Wang Qian, the third son of the old man Wang, became Xiao Yiming's eldest brother, and Xiao Yiming naturally became the handsome man of the Hongmen "righteousness" generation.

For more than half a year, the business of the Ya'an Wang family has become bigger and bigger, and it has become the largest wholesaler of salt tea, foreign oil and industrial products in western Sichuan, and the sphere of influence has gradually extended to Ganzi and other vast Tibetan areas.

As for Xiao Yiming's feat of being beaten half to death and getting rid of the enemy unknowingly half a year later, it made the Jianghu characters talk about it even more, although at this time the government had already made the authoritative conclusion that "the city defense army surnamed Jiang was purely drunk and drowned", but no one could stop the rumors from spreading secretly, whether others believed it or not, some people in the army and Jianghu people believed it, and there was a saying that "Xiao Yiming was young but cunning and cunning".

Xiao Yiming is very self-aware, calm, never proud, how to treat people and things, and now it is the same, people who have dealt with him, are moved by his "sincerity, knowledgeable and courteous" bearing, Chengdu business circles privately spread such a sentence: as long as you can climb the edge of the small teapot, you are not afraid of not making a lot of money.

This is also something that Xiao Yiming is more annoyed about, I am afraid that the nickname of "little teapot" will not be able to get rid of in this life, and what annoys him even more is that Master Zhang, who opened a cement factory in the east gate, is now very proud, and everyone says that the small teapot is his nephew in his later life, and now the famous "Xiao Yiming" is the big one, or he took it for the small teapot in front of the mountain gate of Qingyang Palace.

Xiao Yiming was annoyed and hated, but in the end he laughed angrily, the small teapot is a small teapot, just call it, what's wrong with Lao Tzu's mother's market background? Close to the people! Isn't the rumor that Shopkeeper Deng is propagating everywhere popular? Lao Tzu is the reincarnation of Han Xin, enduring humiliation and bearing heavy ambitions for thousands of miles, whether he can be a marquis in the future, not to say, at least Lao Tzu has endless money, don't look at those people boasting all over the street, seeing Lao Tzu's face, who is not polite to call "Xiao Ye" or "Xiao Ye"?

The bear boss of the "Baicui Building" and the boss of the Jiyuan in the city are now very grateful to Xiao Yiming, it is a report by Xiao Yiming, a few days after the New Year, the Governor personally spoke: cancel the "watch household" wooden sign in front of the legal Jiyuan and the rap teahouse, and the police headquarters and police stations at all levels will no longer monitor these legal entertainment venues.

On the afternoon of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, Xiao Yiming led a group of brothers and guards, braved the snow, rode horses, and went to the "Baicui Building" to pick up his sister in a beautiful manner.

Boss Xiong, who is grateful and hopes to take the opportunity to tighten the relationship, is very good at being a person, like sending his daughter out, he prepared three big carriages in advance, one carrying people, one carrying brand-new brocade quilts and cloths, and one carrying musical instruments and dressers that Sister Yi has used for many years.

The old bustard's mother led a group of girls in various postures, hugged Sister Yi and didn't let go, one by one, crying to death, making the unprepared Xiao Yiming extremely emotional, and this matter naturally became an anecdote in the streets of the whole city.

On February 2, 1908 of the new calendar, the first day of the 34th year of Guangxu, the warm sunshine of many consecutive days made the ancient city in the festival full of joy.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, more than a dozen sedan chairs set off from the governor's yamen, surrounded by more than 100 guards and guarded by the policemen along the street, swept through the bustling Shaanxi Street and Confucian Temple Street, and drove into the new weather, wide and solid Wubei Street.

"Stop!"

The Governor spoke, and the long procession stopped, and hundreds of tourists scrambled to craned their necks.

The thick plush sedan curtain was lifted, and the governor Zhao Erxun got out of the sedan chair with the help of the master and the chief of the guard, looked at the solid and smooth Sanhe soil road under his feet, and then looked at the long arcades on both sides of the street, and couldn't help but take a deep breath and sigh. Before that, he would receive reports on the renovation and renovation of Wubei Street and the Army Crash School every day, but he never expected that the project would be so huge, the construction speed would be so fast, and the effect would be so good.

Zhong Ying, who was very proud, had already rolled off the horse, and trotted over happily all the way, and the governor was so shocked that he got off the sedan chair to take a closer look, which was the effect he wanted to see the most.

Zhong Ying saw Zhao Erxun walking to the quicksand manhole cover on the side of the road and stomping his feet, then walking onto the sidewalk, reaching out to caress the square and magnificent blue brick support column of the arcade, and couldn't help but crack his mouth and laugh:

"Don't worry about this building is not solid, this is designed by a foreign priest, and it is jointly accepted by the Provincial Construction Bureau and the two-level yamen, if it weren't for the tight time, a total of 100 properties on both sides of this mile-long avenue may have been sold out, and now Chengdu City and the surrounding counties, I don't know how many rich people are holding the money, waiting for us to open an auction."

Zhao Erxun asked, "A hundred sets of two-story buildings and this road more than a mile long were actually repaired by you within a month?" ”

When Zhong Ying heard this, she saw many officials curiously surrounding her, and immediately straightened her stomach, and her eyebrows fluttered:

"Yes, my lord, this great project, including the renovation of the school inside, has mobilized more than 4,000 skilled craftsmen, more than 25,000 young and strong laborers, more than 1,200 large and small boats, and more than 400 horse-drawn carriages, no matter whether it is windy, rainy, or snowflakes, and the boats and carriages that transport green bricks, stones, wood, lime, and ash from outside the city have not stopped."

Everyone exclaimed, and Zhao Erxun was also moved.

Zhong Ying was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, smiled, and continued to say loudly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't say that you are amazed, even at the beginning, a group of foreigners who invited to help even said that it was impossible, and agreed that the fastest construction speed would take at least fifty days, and it could not rain during the period, but we did it, and the foreigners had to accept it in the end, haha......"

"For such a big project, even if 30,000 people rush to it at night, there is no reason to be so fast! From the beginning of the planning, to the preparation, to the scheduling, to the construction to the acceptance, the affairs are complicated, the preparation time is half a month at the earliest, and you only take one month from construction to completion, how is it possible? We are all people who have been in the officialdom for decades, why can't we think of a reason? ”

The chubby, lord of the domain, couldn't help but ask.

Zhong Ying smiled proudly and said: "Then I can't help it, you have seen the road and buildings in front of me, you can still go upstairs if you can't do it, they are all four-inch thick wooden floors, you can step on them, you can kick them, if you don't have a strong body, you can kick me, haha!" ”

"Bastard! Say it! ”

Zhao Erxun was displeased, and he also wanted to know how he did it.

Of course, Zhong Ying knew how to do it, and he participated in the whole process, but even he couldn't explain the ingenuity clearly, so he had to stand on tiptoe and look around:

"Brother Xiao, Xiao Military Academy...... Hurry, come here! I have something to ask you. ”

Everyone hurriedly made a way, Xiao Yiming ran over quickly, and saluted solemnly: "I've seen the Lord of the Taiwan, I've seen all the adults!" ”

The officials returned the salute with a smile, and Zhao Erxun told him to get up and speak: "Tell me, how did you do it?" ”

Xiao Yiming replied seriously:

"A month and three days ago, under the command of General Zhong, invited more than a dozen foreign priests and businessmen who were proficient in construction, after on-site investigation, immediately made a plan, and sent more than 70 people to contact the major builders and material merchants in the province on the same day, as well as the fathers and villagers of the surrounding towns and villages, the three major carriage shops in the city, and the villagers at the wharves on the water also gave full support, and there was no farm work in winter, so it took only two days to gather more than 20,000 people, and the preparation was completed in three days, and the construction started in full on the first day of the first month of last month, so God helped, It didn't rain much.

"In terms of materials, the seven major brick factories around the city have sufficient inventory, and the two ash factories in the eastern suburbs started working overnight, and Zhou Daren, the general office of Quanye Road, has given us the greatest support, not only generously giving up the 4,000 barrels of ash ordered before, but also sending 2,000 skilled masters who have just completed the construction of the Quanye field. He didn't do anything, but just led dozens of people to dispatch from it, draw out each section of the project, give the construction period, and the overall command was thanks to General Zhong's wise decision-making, as well as more than a dozen foreign friends, and two hundred local masters who specially guided the acceptance. ”

Everyone looked at each other, still feeling incredible.

Believe it or not, the facts are in front of you, Xiao Yiming said it very clearly, methodically, comprehensively, and it makes sense if you think about it carefully.

Several Daotai wanted to ask how much money it spent, but everyone knew the taboos in the officialdom, and since the governor didn't ask this question, who was embarrassed to offend people?

After listening to the statement, everyone understood in their hearts that most of the credit should be attributed to the humble young man in front of him, and they recognized Xiao Yiming's ability and character very much, although Xiao Yiming gave the credit to Zhong Ying and Zhou Shanpei, but everyone with a discerning eye knows that Zhou Shanpei is still reasonable, Zhong Ying is not good, and Zhong Ying, a Manchurian general who can only shout and kill, drink and eat meat, definitely has no ability.

Zhao Erxun was very satisfied, looking at Xiao Yiming, his eyes couldn't hide his appreciation and love.

Zhao Erxun knew that it was not easy to do this, and Xiao Yiming spent his efforts on it, and also used his huge network.

In the praise of the officials, Zhao Erxun saw that Xiao Yiming liked it more and more, and was very satisfied that this young man who was desperate to fulfill his instructions did not live up to his expectations.

If Xiao Yiming used to gain his respect for his talent and demeanor, now this kid has gained his trust with practical actions, not to mention that this kid is proud and forgetful, meritorious but not arrogant, and he seems to be getting more and more mature.

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