Sent away the teacher Zhao Erfeng, Xiao Yiming finally completely relaxed, the crash school will not start to be busy until after the Spring Festival, the various departments of the Governor's Yamen are busy at the end of the year, only the supervision office responsible for the formulation and supervision of the military training plan and military education is the most idle, Xiao Yiming only needs to go to the Governor's Yamen every morning to respond, and he can freely dispose of his time.

Xiao Yiming has moved into a new house.

The new courtyard is a three-entry courtyard, with two courtyards in the east and west, and a beautiful small courtyard in the east with a total of eight two-story main houses and ordinary wings.

The West Garden is relatively simple, but much more spacious, with a symmetrical two-storey main house symmetrical to the East Courtyard that is Magang's, and the other four bunked wings house seven boys over the age of ten live.

In the middle of the courtyard is a martial arts training ground, surrounded by sandbags, wooden stakes and stone locks, and a group of boys work it every morning and evening, and in the morning they have to read and write with the invited gentleman like all the children.

The backyard is a beautiful hill and a fish pond, and there are two rows of spacious wings built next to the middle courtyard, where the fourth sister and six elderly women live, each row of houses have clean and tidy toilets and copper faucets, and life is very convenient and comfortable.

The middle courtyard between the east and west two small courtyards is a tall two-story building, the first floor is a large living room, the living room is a guest room with a bathroom and a toilet on both sides, the second floor belongs to Xiao Yiming's private space, along the thick iron and wood wide stairs to go up, you will enter the living room full of celebrity calligraphy and paintings and various decorations, the north side of the living room is a well-equipped wide bedroom, the east side is the study, and there is a wide open-air balcony on the south side, standing on it can look at the scenery within 100 meters.

Today, Xiao Yiming teaches mathematics and geometry courses to Wang Qian and He Chengliang, who are about to leave for Yueben, every day, leaving a large number of exercises for the two to solve, and sometimes going to the front yard to see the children's classes, and telling the children about Chinese and world history when they are interested.

Almost every other day, Xiao Yiming would take Wang Qian and He Chengliang out for a walk, sometimes as guests at Genjiro Tsukasa's house, sometimes at the Englishman Roberton's house to eat Western food, and most often in the private room dedicated to the teahouse, chatting with the increasingly famous and wealthy collaborator Johnson, the German military attache Sharpler, the German commercial officer Worrall and others.

The frequent socialization has benefited Wang Qian and He Chengliang a lot, and the smart two understand Xiao Yiming's good intentions, and are secretly grateful to Xiao Yiming for his meticulous care and study extremely hard.

Jetta car dealership has been transferred to Wu San's father Wu Dachuan, the headquarters of the car dealership has also moved from the original site to Nancheng, including 500 rickshaws including the transfer price is only 30,000 oceans, Wu family has since become the largest rickshaw dealer in Chengdu helmsman, Hongmen Nantang brother to the generous Xiao Yiming is grateful, every Hongmen brother who sees Xiao Yiming either calls him "Xiao Ye", or Wu San as affectionately called "little brother".

Just a few days after the New Year's Day of 1909 in the new calendar, a series of "improvement measures" issued by the little emperor Xuantong, who had not long succeeded to the throne, were issued to the whole country, and the first thing that touched was the national police system, and the governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erxun, had already prepared, and began to work the day after receiving the telexed official letter, strictly following the spirit of the imperial court documents, and completely placing the police officers who originally belonged to the army under the jurisdiction of the political envoy in charge of civil affairs, Xiao Yiming's immediate boss Zhu Qinglan was finally promoted to the general office of the Sichuan Patrol Police Road, and Zhou Zhaoxiang, the former general office of the General Police Bureau, served as the general office of the Sichuan Higher Police School, which had just been upgraded.

Zhu Qinglan took office proudly, Xiao Yiming was also in a good mood, although he was not as lucky as Zhu Qinglan, but he was also promoted to one level, becoming the second only to the supervision and training office of the General Office of the Supervision and Training Office, and the qualification period was just up to the two-year requirement for supplemental promotion, and he was successfully promoted to the rank of military academy, which is equivalent to a captain in the army.

"Supplemental promotion" is not promotion, the Qing army's rank system is very strict, a radish a pit, there is a vacancy will be filled with one, so it is called a supplemental promotion, if the people above occupy the pit and do not, there is no vacancy, even if the people who are waiting below reach the specified promotion period, even if they are old, there is no way to rise, so the promotion in the army is not called promotion, but called supplemental promotion.

Xiao Yiming recommended two people who "made great contributions", and they also received eye-catching exceptional appointments, and the experienced Fan Chunlin was promoted five levels in a row, serving as the deputy chief of the police detective section of the Chengdu Police Department, and concurrently serving as the captain of the police detective team, and became a second-class six-grade police officer; Ma Gang also made an exception for his "detection of major cases", and made an exception to serve as the captain of the newly established police detective team of the Beijing Zheng Bureau, and became a second-class eight-grade police officer, just in charge of his own large industrial area.

This year's Spring Festival, Xiao Yiming was very tired, there was an endless stream of visitors from all sides, officialdom officials and lieutenant generals and colonels already knew that Xiao Yiming was the darling of the Governor, the closed disciple of the Minister of Frontiers, and the good brother of the Commander, and the future was bright, and his career was unlimited, as long as he could help himself mention it casually in front of the Governor and the Commander, he would not be promoted to a few levels in a blink of an eye like Fan Chunlin, Ruiyong and Tang Wulin and others?

Businessmen are more impressed by Xiao Yiming, who has earned hundreds of thousands of net worth in just two years, looking at the whole of Chengdu, who does not know that as long as it has a relationship with Xiao Yiming's Huaxi Company, it means that huge profits are at hand, and there is absolutely no loss......

The most important thing is that this young rookie in the military and political circles is well-cultivated and benevolent, not only does he never fall into the ground, but he will also cleverly excuse his colleagues who commit crimes, and send out a great favor, but he does not ask for anything in return, let alone do those despicable deeds that use power to blackmail and knock on the marrow, whether he is an official or a businessman, he is good at forming a good relationship with sincerity, such a person does not stammer, who else to stammer?

The foreigners are also extremely enthusiastic about Xiao Yiming this year, not to mention the wealthy British businessmen Roberto and Johnson and Genjiro Tsukasa, who have always maintained a good cooperative relationship with Xiao Yiming, and the consuls of Germany and Britain have also held grand banquets one after another, specially inviting Xiao Yiming and his friends to gather together, which has shaken Chengdu officialdom and the entire shopping mall - this is a rare courtesy and face for Lafayette and the princes!

Xiao Yiming has not changed a bit because of this, no matter who he gets along with, he is still so polite and gentle, and he still takes the initiative to stop greeting officials with higher rank than him; chatting with visiting merchants, he still took the initiative to pour tea; Walking on the street, I saw ordinary children fall down and still go to help, always the pockets containing toffee imported from England have never been empty, the children who have made sweet mouths now see him from afar and shout "little brother", he still waved his hand as before and smiled and agreed, if he was not in a hurry to do something, maybe he would stop and ask a few words of homely words.

In fact, Xiao Yiming is far from being as leisurely and calm as outsiders seem, on the first day of work after the year, the governor asked Mr. Yuan to send him a document issued by the imperial court to reform the system, according to the meaning of the imperial court and the Ministry of Land, due to the huge cost of the funeral of the emperor and the empress dowager, the imperial court that has been in deficit for many years has been in debt, therefore, it is impossible for the Sichuan New Army to implement the planned expansion plan, and the original plan to establish three towns and new armies has become one town, and all the weapons and equipment and expenses are required to be solved by themselves.

If it's just like this, I'll put up with it, but there are several other unspeakable official documents that make people feel terrible: from this year onwards, the whole province of Sichuan will not only continue to guarantee the cost of more than 200,000 garrisons in the surrounding provinces, but the imperial court will also add another 30% to the taxes originally borne by Sichuan!

Xiao Yiming was finally angry, but fortunately, now there is a separate office, no one can see it when he blows up the teacup and kicks the chair, and no one can come in when the two guards are guarding the outside.

After the anger passed, and the gasping calmed down for a while, Xiao Yiming bent down, cleaned up the broken porcelain and rotten wood on the ground, pulled the chair left for the visitor and sat down weakly.

He knew very well that all the good wishes were about to be changed by a few thin pieces of paper from the imperial court, and tens of millions of Sichuan fathers and villagers would become more and more bitter and cryless without tears, and the entire Sichuan's agriculture, industry and commerce would suffer a huge blow.

The old city renovation plan, which has been weighed in Xiao Yiming's mind for half a year and can benefit more than 4,000 poor people in the city, is also over, the campus construction plan of the new three-year higher police academy has come to naught, and it is impossible to improve the teaching and training level of the army crash course and the army primary school......

What to do? What am I going to do?

For a whole morning, Xiao Yiming sat there motionless.

Before lunch, Yuan Jinkai came in and was startled when he saw his hair messy and his face was gray: "What's wrong with Yiming?" Feeling sick? ”

Xiao Yiming raised her head slowly, and after a while, she replied weakly: "Senior brother, I'm afraid we won't see the smiles of our uncle and the people again this year." ”

Yuan Jinkai was stunned for a long time, pulled over the square stool and sat down slowly, and sighed faintly: "I'm afraid you'll say it, the teacher hasn't thought about tea and dinner for three consecutive days, and he's also bitter!" Our court, I'm afraid it's really like you said. ”

Xiao Yiming asked, "Senior brother, can you go through the door of a few princes and ministers in the court?" Even if you quietly send out two or three million silver, it's better than adding more than 10 million burdens, right? You have also seen how bad the situation in Sichuan is today, although we have unexpectedly eliminated a few dens of chaotic parties, but is the people's will and public opinion something that we can fight? After two years of encouragement and support, Sichuan's industry and commerce, which is struggling and crumbling, finally got a little angry, can we watch it collapse? Kill chickens and take eggs, if you can't get it, something big will happen! ”

Yuan Jinkai smiled bitterly: "Why don't you know the foolish brother? But all this is not something you and I can change, alas! At present, it seems that I have to take the step you said, according to the teacher's meaning, I am afraid that the foolish brother will have to go to Yanjing in the near future, but whether it will succeed or not is not something we can predict. Yiming, the foolish brother knows that you are kind-hearted, and you can't bear to see the burden of the Bashu father, and the teacher can't bear it like the foolish brother! No matter what, you can't put anything on your face, and you have to endure even the greatest pain, you know? ”

Xiao Yiming nodded: "Thank you senior brother for your teachings, my little brother understands, and he will be energetic when he gets out of this house." ”

"Don't worry, the solutions are all thought of, do your business with peace of mind, if you need help from the foolish brother, even if you ask, you can't help a lot in official affairs, but you can still help some in private matters." Yuan Jinkai smiled earnestly.

"Thank you, brother...... If it's okay, little brother, please have two drinks? ”

"I knew you kid was going to drink, let's go, go to my house, the teacher allowed us to take a half-day off......"

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