After getting the support of Britain and France, Qiao Yu's life was more comfortable, the whole Sichuan has become a large construction site, all kinds of supporting facilities are in the crazy construction, and one by one factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, Chengdu, Yucheng, Syria, Luzhou, Wanxian, Mianyang, Fushun and other places with a good foundation have begun to build factories and build roads, and the people of Sichuan are involved in the frenzy of industrialization in a daze.

The number of workers in Sichuan did not exceed 200,000 before the war, mainly concentrated in Chengdu and Chongqing, but after the war, the number of workers reached 300,000 in half a year, and if you count the temporary workers and small workshops, the number is more than 1 million, and the original agricultural population has also abandoned the mode of self-sufficiency and began to increase the number of livestock.

This is all due to the small canned food, before the First World War, China's military canned food had been exported to Europe, but it was mainly purchased by Germany, and after the war, Britain and France also began to like Chinese canned food.

When it comes to cooking, Britain is much worse than China, even France can't compare to the complexity of Chinese cuisine, China's superb cooking methods are well reflected in canned food, and ordinary soldiers in this era eat military canned food is actually some offal, offal, blood and other things, but the proportion of these things is only one or two percent, and the rest is starch.

The feeling of eating this kind of thing can be imagined, coupled with the inferior seasoning methods, making the products produced in Britain and the United States simply difficult to swallow, so products from China have become the most popular food on the battlefield, Britain has placed an order of 200,000 pounds, and all the canneries in Sichuan are frantically expanding, recruiting workers everywhere and buying all kinds of meat.

Although farmers continue to expand breeding, but livestock growth still has a cycle, Sichuan is difficult to provide so much meat, but this is also difficult to the merchants from all over the country, everyone the dead mice, dead cats, sick poultry, livestock all bought together, in the major vegetable markets there are special buyers of miscellaneous businessmen, these things are all made into canned food, sold to Europe.

However, Qiao Yu also repeatedly ordered to ensure the quality of food and not to make anything happen, but Wang Dongcheng reminded him that this kind of thing doesn't need to be taken care of at all, these soldiers are cannon fodder when they arrive at the battlefield, who cares if you eat to death or are killed by shells, so as long as you don't put it down in a small range, no one is in the mood to care about this once in a while!

Qiao Yu also made sense when he heard it, and the surname Suo should exercise the stomach for Europeans, but when Qiao Yu then knew that the Americans were doing more than China, he also knew in his heart that life in war was so worthless, everyone was the same, and Europeans had nothing noble.

And this is about to enter 1915, Qiao Yu knows very well that Europe is just warming up in the past year, and soon the European countries will be exhausted, and the rest is crazy loans, the United States and the book are both relying on the First World War to change from a debtor country to a creditor country, China may not be able to do this, but it is normal to accumulate a large amount of wealth.

And this year is also a very important year for China, Yuan Shikai, the ruler of the Beiyang political axe who barely controls the whole country, is going to plan to become the emperor, and he has made the biggest mistake in his life, Qiao Yu also regards this as his biggest opportunity, Qiao Yu has already set the goal of chasing the Central Plains, but in the Republic of China era, everything China will be hindered by the great powers, so this requires Qiao Yu to have a stronger accumulation.

Qiao Yu's attention has been focused on Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, Sichuan must occupy a corner of China if it wants to develop, so as to have enough depth, Yunnan and Guizhou are the next expansion targets.

Just when Qiao Yu continued to plan for expansion, the British Consul General Fu Shan came to visit again, but this time he brought the French Consul General Alder to come, Qiao Yu already knew that these two people must have something to ask for themselves, Qiao Yu smiled and brought the two people into the reception room and poured tea for the two people.

"Hehe, there is a saying in China that you follow the customs of the locals, and the two consul generals may wish to taste China's green tea!"

In the past, when foreigners came to visit, Qiao Yu would prepare coffee in most cases, but this time he only poured tea for them, and the meaning is still very rich, and now you British and French people ask me, so you can only do things according to my rules.

Fu Shan and Alder are both smart people, so they naturally know what Qiao Yu means, but now that this is the case, the two of them have no choice but to admit it, after taking a sip of tea, Fu Shan smiled and said: "Qiao, the quality of Sichuan's products is very good, and the price is much lower than that of American goods, it is very popular in Europe, and the support for the just cause of the British Empire will be remembered!" ”

"Mr. Consul General is polite, we are business partners, Sichuan will try its best to meet the requirements of the Entente, I don't know if the two consul generals come to give any advice this time?"

Alder was the first to speak: "Your Excellency, there are a lot of weapons from China on the battlefield on the Western Front, such as grenades, mortars, and sapper shovels, etc., which are said to have been delivered from Sichuan to Germany?" ”

"Of course! However, this was before the war, the terrain of Sichuan is rugged, these weapons are relatively light and flexible, and can effectively improve the firepower of the grassroots. ”

Alder's face suddenly flashed a trace of abnormal color, it turned out that France had already begun to imitate, Germany used this weapon to kill and injure a large number of French, and France would not sit still, so after seizing some samples, it quickly imitated, of course, there was no scruple about any patent rights, so when Qiao Yu asked, Alder was naturally a little weak.

"Mr. Patrol Envoy, in the European theater, Germany also used an elite small unit to sneak attack our communication lines, logistics supply warfare, command departments, etc., and it is said that this method of warfare also originated in Sichuan?"

"That's right, these are all used in Sichuan to deal with the rebels, they are scattered on the plateau, it is difficult to capture the large army, and before we can assemble, they have already run like rats, so we have formed an elite special forces!"

Alder combined with the news that France has mastered, and basically determined that what Qiao Yu said is true, he came this time in the hope of getting some training programs, this thing needs to be explored, it can't be imitated immediately like mortars and other things, it takes time to run in, but now what France lacks most is time, so he has to find Sichuan.

"Joe, as long as you can provide us with your training methods, we will definitely pay us very much!"

Qiao Yu nodded, "It's completely possible, I can send instructors and provide information, but I hope to continue to provide a batch of metallurgical patents to ensure that Sichuan can produce one hundred and fifty mm howitzers, of course, I can still export the products to the Entente, Fushan and Alder glanced at each other and nodded.

"We agreed to the conditions of the inspection envoys, but we still have one more request, that is, we hope that Sichuan can provide a batch of laborers to the Entente countries!"

Alder made another condition, Qiao Yu heard that it was a request for labor, and he was more and more sure that France had broken his bones, otherwise he would not find his head, the current France is much more dead and wounded than in history, more than 300,000 corpses are piled up in the Marne, and then there is an endless war of attrition, and it is normal to need to replenish.

Qiao Yu glanced at Fushan and Alder, and then said: "Two, Sichuan's industry is booming now, and the shortage of workers needed is also very huge, I think you can go to other provinces to find a way, as long as the conditions are right, you should be able to recruit a group of workers!" ”

Qiao Yu shirked, and Alder and Fushan knew bitterly in their hearts, in fact, Britain and France had begun to look for laborers everywhere, but other provinces in China, including Beiyang Political Axe, had limited ability to organize and mobilize, and they could not recruit enough workers in a short period of time, and the laborers that could be attracted by commercial methods were a drop in the bucket after all, and they could not withstand the consumption of the European war, so they were looking for Qiao Yu.

"Qiao, we think that you are the most capable senior official in China, and Sichuan is also a province with a large population, as long as you are willing to come forward and organize Sichuan to provide enough labor quickly, this is important to us!"

"Providing personnel can be considered, but I don't think it should be a simple laborer, but an industrial worker! China can provide workers with primary skills to the Allied countries, and then put these workers into the production line, so that they can better produce for the Allied side, rather than simply doing manual labor! ”

Historically, Britain and France had set their sights on China, hoping to make up for the lack of human resources of the Allies with hard-working Chinese workers, but due to the attitude of Germany and the anti-war sentiment at home, Chinese laborers did not enter Europe until 1916.

A total of 140,000 laborers worked for the Allied side, and although they were called laborers, they were engaged in dangerous work such as digging trenches, and were even used as cannon fodder, often beaten and scolded, and ate very badly.

It was these laborers who earned China the treatment of a victorious country with their blood and sweat, and they took to the streets during the Paris Peace Conference to shout loudly for their motherland and call for the protection of China's rights and interests.

It can be said that the labor of the First World War is a term full of blood and tears, but for a rising country, China has no way, Qiao Yu knows very well that China must be in line with the world, to understand the pulse of the world, in this era, if you want to understand foreign countries, you have to rely on studying abroad, but the number of people who can study abroad is too rare after all, and labor export is a more cost-effective method.

However, Qiao Yu must not let the workers in Sichuan repeat the historical tragedy, the Chinese workers must be organized, they can only be engaged in the field of production, they cannot dig trenches, and be used as cannon fodder, and these workers must also be able to learn technology, so that Europe can become a base for China to train industrial workers!