As March approaches, the climate in Sichuan begins to warm up, and even the streets are bustling with pedestrians.

"Dudu, the new pavement of Guangqing Street has been paved, do you want to go over and take a look?" Holding a document in his hand, Yue Chang said to Yan Guang.

"Guangqing Street was paved so quickly?" Hearing Yue Chang say this, Yan Guang looked a little surprised.

"Well, it just finished and it was put into use yesterday."

Thanks to the experience of later generations, Yan Guang was well aware of the importance of infrastructure to a country, so after mastering Sichuan, he began to invest in infrastructure on a large scale. Now, in addition to the "Chengqing" highway is nearing completion, other roads leading to Sichuan prefectures and counties have also begun to be paved, in addition to Chengdu's street renewal project. And the Guangqing Road that Yue Chang just mentioned is the first new type of street that began to be built.

"I didn't expect them to move so fast..."Since it is a new type of street, of course, it is impossible to have only one pavement that is new, and it must also have various functions such as drainage. Originally, Yan Guang thought that it would take at least half a year to complete the installation, but he didn't expect it to be completed in just a few months.

The engineering consultant from Germany was also surprised. Yue Chang said with a smile. He said that the first time this kind of project was carried out, it would take at least half a year under the condition of inexperienced workers, but he did not expect that it would be completed in just four months, which was really beyond his imagination.

"Maybe it's because our workers are too hardworking." With a wry smile, Yan Guang picked up his hat. "Let's go and have a look."

"Yes."

When Yan Guang rushed to Guangqing Street surrounded by guards, the people of Chengdu had already begun to wander around this novel road.

Seeing that those curious people were walking back and forth on the popular Guangqing Street, Yan Guang smiled and said to Yue Chang. "It seems that the people of Chengdu still like this road very much." Compared to the brick and stone roads of the past, it is clear that the flat concrete road is more popular.

"When all the streets are replaced with concrete pavement, the whole of Chengdu will also have a new look..."Yue Chang is from Chengdu and is very happy about the changes in Chengdu.

"Look at the new street and even the street lamps next to the street, and look at the old houses next to the street." In a few days, these houses may have to be replaced..."

At this time, the people who were curiously trying to walk on the road also saw Yan Guang and his party, and hurriedly retreated to both sides of the road in a panic. Seeing the panicked looks of these people, Yan Guang also knew that he couldn't continue to stay, so he beckoned Yue Chang to leave.

After Yan Guang left surrounded by the guards, the people who had retreated to the sides looked over with awe.

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After returning to the Governor's Mansion, Yan Guang said to a guard. "Go to Minister Zhang and say that I have something to look for him."

"Yes!"

More than half an hour later, just as Yan Guang was sitting in the office looking at the Shu newspaper that had just been delivered today, Yue Chang knocked on the door and said softly. "Governor, Minister Zhang has arrived."

"Oh? Arrived? Then let him in! Hearing that Zhang Lan was coming, Yan Guang hurriedly raised his head and said.

"Yes!"

It didn't take long for Zhang Lan, who was already 40 years old, to walk in.

"Dudu, are you looking for me?"

"Well, I'm looking for something for you...", Yan Guang said, gesturing to the chair in front of him. Sit down first. ”

"Thank you, Governor..."Glancing at the position Yan Guang pointed, Zhang Lan thanked him and sat down.

Zhang Lan, who is only 40 years old, is not as famous as later generations, and Yan Guang does not know what his ability is, after all, there are too many famous but incapable people in history. However, out of trust in his character, Yan Guang still made him the Minister of Education of Sichuan Province, in charge of Sichuan's education. Of course, Zhang Lan is also responsible for the education cause in Guizhou today.

"I called you this time to ask how things are going at the school now?"

The first thing Zhang Lan did when he took office was to build a large number of new schools in Chengdu and the surrounding areas of Chengdu, for which Yan Guang also allocated 300,000 silver dollars as education funds. Now that 4 months have passed, Yan Guang naturally wants to know how things are going at school.

"School matters?" Before coming, Zhang Lan had already thought that Yan Guang was going to ask about this matter, so he also made some preparations. "According to the Governor's intentions, we have divided schools into three types: elementary school, middle school, and university, of which middle school is divided into junior high school (junior high school) and senior high school (high school). In the past three months, we have built 10 primary schools and a junior high school in Chengdu, and at the same time, 20 primary school buildings and 5 middle school buildings are under construction. "The most difficult thing at the moment is that we can't find enough new education talents, so we want to send some people to Shanghai to hire teachers..."

"Of course that's fine." Yan Guang waved his hand, he had also set up some primary schools at the beginning, so he naturally knew how difficult it was to find teachers, since Zhang Lan and the others wanted to hire teachers in Shanghai, Yan Guang naturally would not stop them.

"And..."Looking at Yan Guang, Zhang Lan said with some hesitation. Nowadays, many school-age children in Chengdu are from poor families, so I want to ask the governor..."

"Free and compulsory education?" There was no need for Zhang Lan to say it, Yan Guang already understood what he meant.

"Obligation?" Zhang Lan, who was about to ask Yan Guang, was stunned, but soon understood the meaning of these 6 words. "That's right, I just want to ask the governor to implement free and compulsory education..."

The total population of Sichuan is more than 50 million, plus more than 10 million in Guizhou is 60 million, it is obviously not easy to implement free compulsory education among the 60 million population, and it is obviously unlikely that this kind of thing will show any effect in a short period of time, after all, even if it is only a primary school student, it will take at least 6 years to graduate, 3 years of middle school, 3 years of high school and 4 years of college... (The Republic of China is 4 years of primary school, 3 years of higher primary school, 4 years of middle school, 3 years of pre-university department, 3-4 years of undergraduate...) ）

To put it simply, free and compulsory education is a thankless task for Yan Guang. Moreover, a few months ago, the military and political axe took out more than 10 million yuan to buy ordnance and industrial equipment, and Zhang Lan also knew that at this time, he was willing to invest valuable funds in education...

You know, although the Qing family has abdicated, but the signs of warlords fighting have also begun to appear, and at this time, there will be no warlords willing to invest in education...

Thinking of this, Zhang Lan begged bitterly. "Governor, the initial capital investment does not need a lot, 1 million, no, only 800,000 is enough..."

Looking at Zhang Lan begging for him, Yan Guang felt a little inexplicable. "Could it be that I have heard one less 0?"

Scratching his head, Yan Guang quickly made Zhang Lan understand what a real dog is!

"Is 5 million enough? Not enough to add more. ”

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