Lao Yuan kept thinking about how to deal with the problem of Chuanbian in his heart, according to what the British said, that is, he was betraying the country, but if he didn't agree, the British would cut off their own sources of funds, without the support of loans, Lao Yuan's political axe was afraid that he would not even be able to pay his salary, and those Qiu Eight Masters had no money, who cared if you Yuan Gongbao or Yuan Gongbao.

Thinking about it, it's just a matter of silver, as long as there is enough money, there is no need to be at the mercy of the British, thinking of this, Lao Yuan remembered that he took the initiative to invite Chen Er'an to go to Sichuan, Lao Yuan knew that Qiao Yu had carried out drastic reforms in Sichuan, and purged the salt administration, it stands to reason that Sichuan is definitely the richest province, if according to Chen Eun, if he can get five or seven million taels of silver, the finances will be alive all of a sudden.

Moreover, it can effectively establish the prestige of the central government, and even the powerful Sichuan has softened, don't you still give in? Thinking of this, Lao Yuan sent a secret telegram to Chen Eun, urging Chen Eun to pay taxes to the central government as soon as possible.

At this time, Chen Eun had already arrived in Chengdu, but since he entered Sichuan, he felt a strong change, Sichuan was carrying out a vigorous crackdown on bandits at this time, and there were frequent public trials and public judgments in various places, a large number of mountain thieves and bandits, and the heinous Jiangyang thieves were all shot, and for a time Sichuan was full of applause.

Leading this matter is Yang Shukan, the cadre of the former Alliance, since Xie Zhi also left Sichuan, he is the only senior official in Sichuan who was born in the Alliance, but Yang Shukan and Sun Wen are also drifting apart, and he now wants to do more for the people of Sichuan.

After receiving Qiao Yu's order to suppress the bandits, Yang Shukan decided to cut the first knife on the bandits and bandits after careful consideration, many of these people are extremely evil, and many of them are dangerous, and they can even fight against the political axe, so Yang Shukan commanded the military and police to act together with the garrisons in various places, and in just one month, more than 20 bandit dens were exterminated.

There are hundreds of big ones, there are more than a dozen small ones, many of them are old bandits who have existed for more than ten years, or even decades, and all of them have fallen in this round of blows, most of the bandit leaders have been captured alive, and many have been killed, and some of the remaining ones have seen that Sichuan can no longer get along, so they have to flee to other neighboring provinces with their men.

In the process of suppressing the bandits, the seizures were very rich, grain, silver, opium, guns and ammunition, antiques and jade, everything, the most important thing is that there are indeed a lot of landlords and strong, bureaucrats at all levels have dealings with these bandits, after mastering the secret letters of exchange, Yang Shukan has the bottom in his heart, and he can start the second step of action according to Qiao Yu's plan, start cleaning up local forces, and purge the officials.

Chen Eun came to Sichuan at this juncture, when he saw the more confident and more active Sichuan people, Chen Eun suddenly panicked in his heart, although he played a package ticket in front of Lao Yuan, but it seems that Qiao Yu's means are not simple, and he can govern such a complex province as Sichuan to such an extent, which shows that his ability is extraordinary, and he wants to fight with such a character, and he doesn't know how to win or lose.

Fortunately, now that Qiao Yu has gone to Sichuan, it is the time for him to show his skills, after Chen Eun arrived in Yucheng, Wang Dongcheng and Shi Dingzhong came together, and they came to greet the new civil chief on behalf of the Sichuan political axe, the red man in the eyes of Lao Yuan.

"Chief Chen has come from afar, it is really hard, and everyone in Sichuan is looking forward to you being able to bring prosperity and prosperity to the people of Sichuan."

Wang Dongcheng spoke first, and Shi Dingzhong also interjected on the side: "Mr. Er'an once served under the command of the Governor of Xiliang, and he must know better than us the difficulties of the survival of the people of Sichuan, Governor Qiao has long said that now in the era of the Republic of China, officials are no longer high-ranking officials, but public officials who want to serve the people, presumably Mr. Er'an will be able to pick up the burden of seeking well-being for tens of millions of Sichuan people!" ”

These two sang and harmonized, and their mouths were good, but their words were full of wit, if you want to mix in Sichuan, you must serve the people of Sichuan, in other words, you must maintain the power of the Sichuan group, otherwise even if you are a close confidant of President Yuan, you will not be able to play

Chen Yanxin said that this trip to Sichuan was not easy, and it was really not easy to get money from these people, but he was also a very deep person in the city, so he just smiled with a smile on his face: "President Mengda raised his love and appointed me as the chief of civil affairs of Sichuan, I naturally have to do my best for the people of Sichuan, and I will rely on the help of the princes in the future!" ”

Accompanied by Shi Dingzhong and Wang Dongcheng, Chen Eun came to Chengdu, and Chen Eun immediately began to search Sichuan's financial accounts in the name of supporting the military quarters on the Sichuan side, and after getting the detailed accounts, Chen Eun was also dizzy for a while, Sichuan is really rich, and the revenue of the salt administration alone is about four million taels, and if this trend continues, the annual salt tax revenue will only reach more than nine million taels.

The industrial and commercial tax revenue is more than the salt government revenue, is expected to reach nearly 10 million taels a year, the income of the field is also more than 6 million taels, plus the rest of the various taxes, Sichuan's fiscal revenue is more than 30 million taels, and this is still the result of vigorously abolishing the gold, it seems that the country of abundance is really worthy of its name.

Chen Eun couldn't help but think in his heart, how could he get the central one's share, and when Chen Eun was thinking, someone took the initiative to visit, it was Zhang Lan, Minister of Education of Sichuan.

"Is there anything wrong with Minister Zhang?"

"Sir Chen, I'm here to ask you for money, this is the situation of the construction of Sichuan University, take a look!"

Chen Huan's heart was suddenly very unhappy, before he could ask Sichuan for money, how did the Sichuan gang find their heads, this is not too much deception, Chen Huan barely suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, picked up the document and looked at it, just glanced at it a few times, Chen Huan's eyes immediately widened, only to see that the required money was listed above, including 845,200 yuan for the purchase of experimental equipment, 560,000 yuan for hiring European and American teachers, and the rest such as teacher training expenses, student living allowances, classroom construction, There were a lot of water and electricity bills, which amounted to more than 1.6 million yuan, more than 1 million taels, and Chen Eun was also taken aback by this astonishing amount.

"Minister Zhang, aren't you kidding, before I came to Sichuan, the original Beijing Normal University was about to be reformed into Yenching University, with Yan Fu as the president, and the annual budget of Yenching University is only about 800,000 taels, so the small Sichuan University wants so much money?"

Zhang Lan since serving as the Minister of Education, has been working hard for the cause of Sichuan education, because of the support of Qiao Yu is also remarkable, the prototype of Sichuan University has appeared, relying on the support of Germany, is expected to be built within two years of the hope of the Sichuan people of the comprehensive surname of the university, but at this juncture Chen Eun ran to Sichuan, Zhang Lanzui is worried that the education funds will be affected, so he took the initiative to come to find Chen Eun, and saw that his attitude Zhang Lan's face was not good-looking.

"Sir Chen, Sichuan University is not a small school, Sichuan University covers an area of more than 3,000 acres, after the completion of the can accommodate tens of thousands of people to study, and Sichuan University is still a university that focuses on science and engineering, needs a large number of experimental equipment, these are not Peking University can be compared, it can be said that Sichuan University is the future of China and even the first university in Asia, these costs have been greatly compressed after the result, if Director Chen does not believe it, you can go to inquire about the university construction accounts, if Zhang embezzles a tael of silver, You're going to shoot me! ”

I've gone home, thank you for the support of my book friends, I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to the book review in time these days.