Originally, the land of China was excited, and I thought that this confrontation would be very hot, but I didn't know that it would end like this, it was really unexpected, but no matter how the British lost money, even if they were soft, you still wanted to make the British Empire what to do, so the Chinese people were still very satisfied, and the newspapers praised it, and then set off another article.

However, the great powers of all countries know that Sichuan is no longer the same as China's ordinary provinces, and they have the bargaining chips that can leverage the situation in the Far East, and in a sense, Sichuan has been able to be compared with Beiyang, and Sichuan is more flexible, united, and more combative, and the great powers have expanded economic and trade exchanges with Sichuan one after another, striving to influence Sichuan's decision-making.

First of all, Sichuan negotiated an arms deal with Germany, and Germany provided Sichuan with 12 150-mm heavy field howitzers, 12 120-mm cannons, and a batch of engines.

Germany's sale of this kind of mass killing weapon to Sichuan was undoubtedly a demonstration to the British in its own way, and it was also a reward for Qiao Yu, an agent, followed by the Americans who also sent a delegation to Sichuan to inspect the natural gas project, and at the same time cooperated with Sichuan to build a tractor factory and a fertilizer plant.

The prime minister personally sent a special envoy to Sichuan with geologists from the University of Tokyo to inspect Sichuan's oil situation, and at the same time generously gave Sichuan an interest-free loan of 1 million yuan.

This amount of money is not much, Qiao Yu didn't look at it, but you must know that this is also the reason why this is also the point of gritting his teeth, they are under the pressure of huge debts, the experts of the book came to Sichuan and immediately launched an investigation, taking historical documents as clues, and soon found some suspected locations, and even saw oil spewing out in some areas, and the experts of the University of Tokyo assured that it was very likely to find a large oil field, and then the heart of the envoy was put down.

At the beginning, the problem of the Hanyang Iron Works made the political circles resentful of Qiao Yu, thinking that this guy was extremely hostile to Yue Ben and was a nationalist, so when Qiao Yu proposed to jointly develop Sichuan's oil with Yu Ben, the senior management of Yue Ben also had doubts, but their desire for oil exceeded everything, so they agreed desperately, and now they see that Sichuan may really have oil, not to mention how excited.

He immediately decided to invest 5 million yuan to establish an oil company with Sichuan Zhengaxe, and then began to look for oil everywhere.

"Dashuai, these are really efficient, but to be honest I am not very optimistic about the prospects of Sichuan oil, although it seems that there must be oil in Sichuan, but I am always skeptical, but it is just a feeling, there is no evidence."

Wu Hengchang said to Qiao Yu: "Dashuai, if I can't find oil, will they be angry with us?" ”

"Humph! They asked for themselves, I am not a god, I can guarantee that there must be oil, they are willing to invest, who can stop it, isn't it good to use the money to help us train a group of oil workers? ”

"Hehe, in fact, it's not to blame, they are seriously short of resources, and it is worth investing money to see a little spearhead, if you can get oil in China, it is much safer than importing it to the United States!"

"That's right! This is my mentality, but there is one thing that must be noted, these people will not live in peace when they arrive in Sichuan, maybe there will be a lot of private goods, take the opportunity to spy on the geography and humanities of Sichuan, you must pay strict attention, the matter of the ark will be handed over to you, look at my eyes! ”

"Humble duty understands!"

After Qiao Yu finished explaining, he put his energy on the whole army, now Sichuan wants to rectify the army, all aspects of the interests involved, to do a good job of balance, after thinking about it Qiao Yu decided to transfer Han Yong back from Yucheng, as the commander of the first division of the Sichuan Army, Han Yong is the first group of people to follow Qiao Yu, and he is also a henchman among his henchmen, he has been responsible for guarding Yucheng, conscientious, although his ability is limited, but the qualifications are there, and the commander of the first division is none other than him.

The commander of the second division was handed over to Zhu Qinglan, he is an old soldier, and his prestige is not low, especially after defecting to Qiao Yu, he is loyal and worthy of trust, and Qiao Yu's second brother Qiao Zhen no longer directly commands the army, also to avoid making people think that Qiao Yu is nepotistic.

Of course, he couldn't treat the second brother badly, let him serve as the envoy of the Sichuan Border Town, and Liu Yunhong made a good fortune in the suppression of bandits, appointed him as the brigade commander of the cavalry brigade, Yang Sen became the deputy brigade commander, and set up three reserve divisions, the division commanders were Wang Huai, Shi Yi, Li Tie, and Liu Xiang was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the army stationed in Tibet.

The reorganization of the army is not a trivial matter, the main officials are arranged, and the rest of the things are more cumbersome, tens of thousands of troops adjust equipment and personnel, and transfer part of the original regular army to the reserve, Sichuan is in a hurry, at this time a guest came to Sichuan, he is Song Jiaoren.

Since Tao Chengzhang's death, Song Jiaoren integrated the forces of the original United Party, and then relied on his huge influence in the League to form the Kuomintang, Song Jiaoren excluded Sun Wen, Huang Xing and others at the beginning of the founding of the party, although he also gave the name of the adviser to the two people, but he could not interfere in party affairs at all, and at the same time Song Jiaoren began to visit the provinces along the Yangtze River, giving speeches, telling political views, and winning the support of the provinces, preparing to compete for the congressional elections in the near future.

Song Jiaoren walked all the way, talked all the way, his views are still very praised by all parties, Song Jiaoren's confidence is also constantly expanding, although Tao Chengzhang has failed, but Song Jiaoren firmly believes that the road to constitutionalism still exists, he must persevere.

After coming to Sichuan, Song Jiaoren immediately felt a different atmosphere, Sichuan was a busy scene, everyone was in a hurry, there were huge chimneys constantly erected, and the air was also diffused with some smoke and dust, but Song Jiaoren did not care at all, but regarded these as representatives of progress, and now the great powers are not like this.

The chimney with black smoke, the rumbling factory is so beautiful, Song Jiaoren heard many people say that Qiao Yu is very good at governing the place before entering Sichuan, and now he sees that it is really true, after leaving Yucheng, Song Jiaoren went straight to Chengdu, and there are a large number of workers along the way in the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, and the hot work scene touched Song Jiaoren a lot.

"Patrol envoy, famous is not as good as meeting, meeting is better than famous, I have walked all the way, seeing that Sichuan is undergoing earth-shaking changes, it is really gratifying, you go on the horse to govern the army, get off the horse to govern the people, everything is this!" Saying that, Song Jiaoren stretched out his thumb.

"Mr. Dull Chu has won the award, Sichuan's achievements are all the result of the efforts of the people, I am just a proper guide, I can't take credit!"

The two of them came to the reception room like old friends, Qiao Yu poured a cup of tea for Song Jiaoren, and asked with a smile: "Mr. Dull Chu, you are a busy person now, not only in Sichuan, do you have any teaching!" ”

"I don't dare to give advice, I remember that Tao Chengzhang was able to form a unified party, or it was the result of Qiao Shuai's promotion, it can be seen that Qiao Shuai is committed to constitutionalism, didn't I come to seek support?"

Qiao Yu let out a long sigh: "Mr. Dull Chu, to be honest, I thought things simple at the beginning, I don't know if Tao Huanqing will blame me in the spirit of the sky, constitutionalism is not so easy, and Ming Cook is not so easy to achieve!" ”

"Qiao Shuai, I don't see it that way, no matter how difficult it is, we have to persevere, this is not an excuse for us to give up the boiling, on the contrary, we must develop the cooking, this is the best medicine to heal Chinese society, otherwise, China will only sink completely!"

"Mr. Dull Chu, a good boil is a good medicine, and a bad boil is just poison, which will be even worse!"