"My lord, this is it!" After the second son took Yu Zongtong out of Chengdu City, he walked a distance to a factory that looked very large.

"This..."Riding on a horse, looking at the factory in front of him, Yu Zongtong kept twisting his beard. This should be the largest factory in the whole of Chengdu, no, it should be the largest factory in the whole of Sichuan..."Obviously, the factory that Yan Guang deliberately built at the beginning surprised Yu Zongtong.

"I don't know if it's the largest in Sichuan, but at least I've never seen a bigger factory in Chengdu than this." The second son said on the side, and several other servants also nodded in agreement.

It's no wonder they would be like this, knowing that Chinese factories were a novelty at this time, especially before the Republic of China.

According to records, before 1895, that is, between 1872 and 1894, there were only 72 factories in China, and from 1895 to 1913, that is, before the First World War, the number of factories in China was only 549, of which only 17 had a capital of more than 1 million taels, and most of these factories were concentrated in the coast, most of which were small factories with a capital of more than 10,000 taels...

Although Yan Guang only wanted to build a textile factory with a capital of 100,000 silver dollars, in order to facilitate future expansion, he deliberately asked the workers to build a larger factory when building the factory, which is unique in Sichuan at least. Especially after Yan Guang brought back three times the number of machines from Shanghai, it can be said that Yan Guang's textile factory is already the largest textile factory in the whole of Sichuan.

Although ...... had determined that this was indeed a very large factory, Yu Zongtong still took a few errand servants around the factory.

glanced at the factory again, although everything has not gone well in recent years, but today Yu Zongtong's mood is indeed much happier.

"Let's go, let's go to the Governor's Palace." Saying that, Yu Zongtong turned the horse's head.

"Yes, sir." Several officers hurriedly followed.

Yan Guang didn't know that it was just outside his factory, and that the prefect of Chengdu and several messengers had just inspected his factory, and now they were heading towards the governor's palace.

At this time, Yan Guang was busy adjusting between several foreign technicians and workers, but fortunately, the machinery at this time was not very complicated, so the installation of the machinery was quite smooth.

"Whew!" Seeing that the first machine was finally installed, Yan Guang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although he has been acting as a translator during the installation process, sometimes even after he finishes translating, the workers don't know what he said, and in the end he has to go down with a few foreign technicians to do a demonstration in person, so he and the foreign technicians are not much easier than the workers next to him.

"I'll go find a translator after I'm done with this, otherwise I won't be able to live next..."Gudu drank the water handed over by Wang Er, Yan Guang thought so in his heart...

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Yu Zongtong is still very happy that there are not necessarily a few large factories in the country under his rule, although he still doesn't know what kind of factory this is, but Yu Zongtong still decided to go to the governor of Sichuan, well, on behalf of the governor Zhao Erfeng, in order to make a decree issued by the above a year ago.

has been a prefect in Chengdu for so many years, and has been pressed by Cen Chunxuan and Zhao Erfeng to do nothing, and now Yu Zongtong finally has a feeling of being a prefect.

Thinking of this, Yu Zongtong raised his whip and planned to rush back to Chengdu soon.

"My lord, my lord, are you slowing down...", following Yu Zongtong's horse's hooves, several messengers kept shouting.

Originally, a few of them were already very reluctant to follow, but now when they saw that Yu Zongtong was going to speed up their horsepower, several errand officers immediately shouted, after all, they only had two legs, and they couldn't run as fast as Yu Zongtong's four legs.

Looking at the few unfortunate servants behind him, Yu Zongtong sighed.

That is, his temper is not bad, if the prefect of another place heard his subordinates shouting like this, I am afraid that he would have raised the whip and whipped it down.

"Alas..."He pulled the reins, and in the end, Yu Zongtong still walked towards Chengdu at a speed similar to when he came.

The few officers behind him had already figured out his spleen surname, so they didn't pay much attention to it, just laughed and followed behind.

When Yu Zongtong and the others returned to Chengdu, Yan Guang and the others had already installed the second machine.

After returning to Chengdu, Yu Zongtong went directly to Zhao Erfeng's governor's mansion, but when he passed by the prefect's yamen, he sent a few errands back to rest.

Originally, a few errand officers who were already a little tired were still planning to follow for a while, but as soon as they heard that Yu Zongtong asked them to go back to the yamen to rest, they immediately went back with a grateful face.

"Drive!" Without a few errands dragging his feet, although Yu Zongtong could not ride his horse in the city, his speed was much faster than before, and he arrived at the gate of the governor's palace in a short time.

"Your Excellency? Do you have anything to do with us? The boring porter who was idle in front of the Governor's Mansion saw Yu Zongtong riding over and hurriedly greeted him.

Just watching Yu Zongtong riding a horse, the porter also muttered in his heart, after all, these scholars generally sit in a sedan chair, and few people sit in the carriage, let alone ride a horse, now that Yu Zongtong is riding a horse, is there something big happening?

Yu Zongtong didn't think about it so much, just asked. "Is the Governor here?"

"Yes, yes, my lord didn't go out for a day today." Although because there is a Sichuan governor above, Yu Zongtong, the prefect of Chengdu, has a very weak sense of existence, but the porter still does not dare to slack off.

At this time, it was already afternoon, Zhao Erfeng was reading the newspaper in the study, and heard the porter say that Yu Zongtong came to find him and looked anxious (because he came on horseback), although Zhao Erfeng felt a little strange, but he still asked Yu Zongtong to come in.

"Lord Prefect." After Yu Zongtong entered the study, he saluted as soon as he saw Zhao Erfeng.

"Azusa, what's the matter?" Putting the newspaper aside in his hand, Zhao Erfeng raised his head and asked, and motioned for Yu Zongtong to sit down and say.

"That's right, when one of my officers was outside the city today, he saw a convoy loaded with all machines, so the officer went back to the yamen to report to me, and after listening to it, I remembered the will issued by the imperial court last year..."

"Oh, that will?!" Hearing Yu Zongtong say this, Zhao Erfeng also remembered the will he had given last year. "But I remember that the decree said that a minimum of 200,000 silver dollars would be required..."

Yu Zongtong hurriedly said. "Although I didn't see the convoy, the area of that factory is extremely large, and I am afraid that there is no one else in Kawauchi, so I think it will definitely be able to meet the standard."

Zhao Erfeng also sat up straight when he heard this, and hurriedly called his subordinates to invite his staff.

As the governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erfeng was also very capable in this special period at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1907, Xiliang left office, and Zhao Erfeng once acted as the governor of Sichuan. In 1908, he was promoted to the Minister of Tibet and concurrently served as the Minister of Frontier Affairs of Sichuan and Yunnan, stationed troops in the Arrow Furnace, and set up the Arrow Furnace as the Kangding Mansion and then set up the Dengke and other mansions to strengthen the control of the Qing political axe over Xikang. In 1909, Zhao Erfeng defeated the Tibetan rebels who attacked Batang, and took advantage of the victory to enter Tibetan Province, recovering four tribal areas such as Jiangka and Gongjue, and crossed the Danda Mountains to the west, until Jiangdazong, which was only six days away from Lhasa at this time, and the lama fled to British India. Zhao Erfeng wrote a letter requesting to take advantage of the victory to pacify the whole territory of Tibetan Province, and suggested that the policy of reforming religion and changing customs should be implemented in Tibetan areas, because he was worried that his measures would be too radical, in order to avoid incidents, the Qing government axe did not allow it, but a large number of temples were still destroyed during Zhao Erfeng's entry into Tibet. Later, Zhao Erfeng recovered the three cliffs (now Gongjue, Zhan Pair, Bomi and Baimagang).

Under the snow-covered mountain at the southwest corner of the Valong Le Kama Dam, on the cliff there are ten Chinese characters engraved with the size of each eight immortals' desktop: "There are friends from afar, and they are happy", and the huge carved stone is left under the money: "Zhao Erfeng, the minister of the Great Qing Dynasty, came to the boundary survey and carved the stone 、......"

It can be said that if there is no Zhao Erfeng, it is really difficult to say whether there will be a later Xikang Province.

And now let Zhao Erfeng bear the name of the butcher of the road movement, at the beginning Zhao Erfeng was supportive, and once thought that "the people of Sichuan to fight for the road is a very normal thing", on the one hand enlightening the people, on the other hand to implore the cabinet to "plan for a change of policy", and then participated in the impeachment of Sheng Xuanhuai, asking the court to investigate and punish Sheng Xuanhuai. However, the Qing court not only ignored Zhao Erfeng and others, but instead telegraphed Zhao Erfeng to disband the masses and effectively suppress them.

To put it simply, just as the Manchu political axe smashed the rescue action of Cai Naihuang of Shanghai Daotai during the Shanghai stock turmoil, which eventually led to the state-owned railway and the road protection movement, the Manchu political axe's telegram also made the Sichuan road protection movement expand, and finally had to transfer new troops from Wuhan, which led to the Wuchang uprising...

If there are still some capable people in the local area, then the top of the Manchu political axe at the end of the Qing Dynasty has been completely pig-headed...

It's a pity that Zhao Erfeng, if there was no Chengdu bloody case in his later years, I am afraid that he would be able to be called a national hero in textbooks today.

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