Qiao Yu's heart was shrouded in a kind of unease, he was not sure whether his intervention in history could save Tao Chengzhang's surname, and he was not sure whether he could maintain the fragile constitutional road in the early days of the Republic of China, especially after Sun Huang violently changed the Senate election, Qiao Yu was even more uneasy.

However, regardless of whether this road can be successful or not, enhancing one's own strength is the most important foundation for dealing with all changes, and after solving Yin Changheng and Pu Dianjun and others, all the military and political power in Sichuan fell into the hands of Qiao Yu.

It is time to carry out drastic military reform, after discussion with Wu Tong, Zhu Qinglan and others, it was finally decided to reorganize the regular army of the Sichuan Revolutionary Army into three divisions plus a mountain brigade and a cavalry brigade, the original Yucheng garrison division was upgraded to the second division of the Sichuan Revolutionary Army, Han Yong is still the division commander, responsible for guarding Yucheng, Yucheng is now the most important foreign contact port in Sichuan, and it is also the most important economic center, and it is also necessary to guard against potential enemies in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the task is very heavy, but Han Yong is Qiao Yu's henchman, The ability is not weak enough to be competent.

The two armies of Shi Yi and Wang Huai, who originally stayed in Syria, were unified and reorganized into the Third Division of the Sichuan Revolutionary Army, with Wang Huai as the division commander and Shi Yi as the deputy division commander, stationed in Syria, mainly to guard against the attack of the Yunnan army and ensure the safety of the salt industry in southern Sichuan.

Zhu Qinglan served as the chief of staff of the Sichuan Army, and at the same time served as the envoy of the Sichuan Town, leading the mountain brigade changed from the original 17 towns and border guards to be stationed in the Sichuan, Zhu Qinglan is a veteran soldier, and the situation in the Sichuan is relatively clear, and most of the soldiers in the 17th town are his old subordinates, although the number of the mountain brigade is not as good as a division, but a group of elites have been transferred from other armies, and the combat power is not less than a division, which can also be seen that Qiao Yu attaches great importance to the Sichuan side, and the main task is to prevent Tibetan rebellion and stabilize the place.

In addition, the cavalry regiment of the original first division was expanded into a cavalry brigade, led by Li Tie, stationed in northern Sichuan, to deal with the threat from the north, the original first division was also reorganized and expanded to become the trump card main force in the hands of Qiao Yu, stationed in Chengdu, the division commander was responsible for the second brother Qiao Zhen, although Qiao Zhen was slightly lacking in ability, but because the first division was too important to hand over to others, it was really not at ease, only Qiao Zhen picked up the burden first, and the responsibility was to guard the safety of Chengdu.

At the same time, all the original civilian army units in Yang Shukan's hands were also dispersed, and they were changed into reserve forces and local garrison forces, and the rest of the people were also included in the patrol police, and Yang Shukan also served as the minister of Sichuan Public Security, responsible for leading the Sichuan police force and maintaining public order, which was also a reward for Qiao Yu's timely transformation of Yang Shukan, marking Yang Shukan's official entry into Qiao Yu's circle.

After the reorganization of the Sichuan Army, there are a total of three divisions plus two brigades of regular troops, a total of nearly 45,000 regular troops, according to the current standard of treatment, the annual salary to be paid is as much as 5 million, this is not counting the consumption of replacement weapons and training, plus tens of thousands of local troops, the pressure is even greater, but this is also a matter of no way, without grasping a strong army, there is no way to survive in the troubled times of the Republic of China.

In addition to doing it in the army, Qiao Yu also decided to reform the intelligence system after careful consideration, Wang Tianhe's talent for intelligence work is limited, in the past he was suffering from no one at hand, and had to use him, now after several searches, Qiao Yu decided to divide the intelligence system into two, set up a military police unit, continue to be commanded by Wang Tianhe, mainly responsible for military discipline and military intelligence, and set up the Sichuan Investigation Bureau, which is supervised by Wang Lingji, responsible for all internal and external intelligence work.

Wang Lingji is one of the five elements of the famous Sichuan Army in later generations, nicknamed Wang Lingguan, or the teacher of Liu Xiang, Yang Sen and others, the qualifications are very old, after Qiao Yu entered Chengdu, Wang Lingji took the initiative to take refuge, the previous Zhou Jian and Pu Dianjun rebellion is the information he provided to Qiao Yu, he is very hostile to the Alliance, Xiong Kewu in Sichuan Yaowu when he flaunted his might, Wang Lingji and Xiong Kewu's subordinates clashed several times.

After some consideration, Qiao Yu resolutely decided to hand over the position of director of the investigation bureau to Wang Lingji, responsible for intelligence collection, after Wang Lingji got this appointment, he was ecstatic, the governor handed over such an important position to himself, which shows that in the eyes of the governor, he has become convinced, how can he not work hard to make Sichuan into an iron bucket, so Wang Lingji quickly reorganized the intelligence system on a large scale, planted spies, collected intelligence, and the intelligence work soon changed to a new look.

In this training, Qiao Yu also found a lot of familiar names, such as Liu Xiang, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, Pan Wenhua, Tang Shizun, Xia Zhizhi and other famous Sichuan army generals, such as after seeing these names, Qiao Yu is also very pleased, these people who can leave their names in history are not simple, many of them have served as battalion commanders, and even Yang Sen has also served as the regiment commander, and his position in the new Sichuan army is very important.

Seeing these potential stocks become his subordinates, Qiao Yu's ambitions are also expanding, Long Yun and Liu Xiang, a king of Sichuan and a king of Yunnan, are now under his hands, so will he have a chance to become the king of the southwest? Thinking of this, a relaxed smile appeared on Qiao Yu's face.

"Governor Qiao, who did you hurt again, why are you so happy?" As soon as Qiao Yu heard the voice, he knew that it was Lu Wanqing who was coming, to be honest, the one who could talk to him like this in Sichuan now was this reporter Lu Da who was full of new ideas and had received Western education.

"You are wronging me, now that the New Year is not far away, can't I be happy?"

"Your smile betrays you, like a fox who just stole a chick!"

As soon as Qiao Yu heard that he had become a fox again, he also knew that there was no benefit in arguing with Lu Wanqing, so he changed the topic: "Miss Lu is about to celebrate the New Year, don't you want to go home and take a look?" ”

"Why do you want to drive me away, my father is salt every day except for salt, and my mother will move to Chengdu after the year."

"Wouldn't it? Now there are not a few salt products in southern Sichuan, I also looked at the statistics a few days ago, it has increased a lot compared to last year, enough for Sichuan, and the salt is not rice, why do you want Mr. Lu to work overtime! ”

"Governor Qiao, this is a good thing you did, now Sichuan's salt policy has changed, and the price of salt has dropped a lot, but other places have not changed, those places that originally used Huai salt because of the north-south confrontation, the price of salt has also increased a lot, and now salt merchants everywhere have gone to Sichuan to buy salt, and then ship it out, it is said that the profit is not a few, Sichuan salt is not enough, and now they are working overtime to produce!"

Qiao Yu also smiled when he heard this: "Miss Lu, who is still disturbed by my feelings, can't celebrate the New Year, then I will make amends, how about we go shopping in the street?" ”

"Okay!" Lu Wanqing is also a little lonely alone in Chengdu, Qiao Yu is better to accompany her shopping, at this time there is still more than half a month before the Spring Festival, but the current New Year's flavor is much stronger than that of later generations, almost from the beginning of Laba began to prepare for the New Year, plus this year, the burden of the Sichuan people has been reduced a lot, everyone has a little money to spare, and they are even more reluctant to treat themselves, so the market is very lively, and the eyes are full of joy and peace.

Qiao Yu and Lu Wanqing walked for a while, and then casually walked into a teahouse and wanted to take a break, Qiao Yu looked up suddenly, it was Xue Yanniang's Tiantai Teahouse, it seemed that it was really fate, the teahouse was very lively, and there were people everywhere who put up the dragon gate array, Qiao Yu ordered a pot of jasmine Shuangxun, and Lu Wanqing was gossiping while drinking tea.

At this moment, a mother and daughter came in from outside the teahouse, the clothes they were wearing were all tattered and stained, and the middle-aged woman knelt on the ground at once: "Which uncle is okay, buy this child, just like buying a kitten and a puppy, five yuan is fine, you can do well, give the child a way to live!" ”