Typhoid, diphtheria, cholera, plague, schistosomiasis and other infectious diseases that have been almost extinct in later generations are still raging in this era, and a large number of Chinese people are dying of infectious diseases.

Before the Industrial Revolution, there were almost no more than 100,000 people in European cities, because of the low level of medical care, once the population was overcrowded, the epidemic would be epidemic, compared to the metropolises of China with a population of one million during the same period, Chinese medicine played a great role in this.

"Mr. Wu, in addition to urban epidemic prevention, there is another task to be handed over to you, Yunnan has been known as the land of smoke miasma since ancient times, our army is ready to strengthen the control of the frontier, it is necessary to enter these hot and humid smoke miasma towns, and medical treatment must also keep up!" After Qiao Yu finished speaking, he also smiled bitterly: "Mr. Wu, everything is busy enough for a while, but now that the situation is like this, it can only make Mr. tired, Mr. needs manpower and funds, just tell me, I will definitely help!" ”

Wu Liande also felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, and it was related to the safety of millions of people's lives, and there must be no slackness, so he immediately took his leave and went to make arrangements.

The three southwestern provinces are now very busy, the expansion of the army has been in full swing, the organization of the army to participate in the war is not simply to recruit enough soldiers, but also to carry out comprehensive training, but also to be equipped with sufficient equipment, more than 100,000 people to go to foreign lands to participate in the war, the most test of a country's organizational ability, this kind of work is not only carried out in China, but also in Europe, to provide enough camps for the Chinese [***] team, arrange suitable instructors, do a good job of all kinds of logistics work.

Because France's resources are now close to exhaustion, the army's food, medicine, clothing and other materials have to be transported from China, if China's busiest factory is the Qinzhou shipyard, day and night, full production of freighters, now Qinzhou shipyard has four 3,000-ton docks, two 5,000-ton docks, has built a 10,000-ton dock, and another 10,000-ton dock is under construction, the number of employees exceeds 3,000 people, second to none among China's shipyards.

So far, eleven freighters have been produced for the Entente, all of which have been incorporated into the Far East Shipping Company, which is mainly responsible for transporting various strategic materials from Sichuan and the whole of China to Europe, and according to the plan, the first 10,000-ton ship of the Qinzhou shipyard will be officially launched in early 1917.

However, now Qinzhou Shipyard is still very immature, all the important positions are held by British and American engineers, and important equipment also depends on British and American exports, so it can be said that the main task of Qinzhou Shipyard is to build a shell, from the design drawings to the production and processing equipment, and then to the key technology all rely on foreign countries to provide.

This is also under the conditions of the First World War, Britain is willing to support such a factory, if the end of the First World War, the survival of this level of technology factory will become the biggest problem, looking at the industrial history of the Republic of China seems to have a lot of commendable places, it seems that it can also produce some advanced things, such as diesel engines, 10,000-ton ships, airplanes and the like, some people think that the industry of the Republic of China is not poor and white.

In fact, as long as you think a little, you will understand that these so-called products, the Chinese are just assembly workers, use people's design drawings, use people's key equipment, and even use foreign engineers, so the products produced have no value at all, there is no complete industrial system as support, a little technical surname everything depends on foreign exports, this kind of production can be interrupted by foreign countries at any time, typical colonial enterprises, when supply exceeds demand, the powers treat you as a production base, If the economy is in a downturn, he can pinch you to death at any time, which is something to boast about.

Now Qinzhou shipyard, and even the entire southwest industrial enterprises have this situation, relying too much on foreign technology, which is also Qiao Yu's most headache, for today's plan can only quickly cultivate their own technology industry, improve their own industrial layout, and strive for all the key links to rely on their own production.

In addition to imitating French artillery, they have begun to design various weapons on their own, and the Yucheng Iron and Steel Company has also mastered the key surname technology of alloy steel, and can produce usable steel by itself, and even the engine technology is also catching up, even if all the British and French experts are withdrawn at this time, the military industry in the southwest can still operate.

In order to solve the technical problems of shipbuilding, Qiao Yu vigorously introduced Chinese people with knowledge in this area from overseas and enriched them into the shipyards, and then played the role of silver, on the one hand, to encourage Chinese workers to study technology hard, and on the other hand, to spend money to buy foreign engineers and get important technology.

Machine tool manufacturing is the basis of industry, but also to spend time to accumulate, now Sichuan has begun to catch up, in addition to a large number of machine tools from France, France in order to compensate for the wages of labor, has exported five thousand various precision machine tools to Sichuan, greatly improved Sichuan industrial production capacity, enough to use a period of time, Chinese technicians to use this precious time to really design and manufacture Chinese self-sufficient machine tools.

Qiao Yu's goal is to basically solve the problem of whether all key products are available before the end of World War I, and as for the good or bad, it is the accumulation of industrial level.

Now in order to mobilize more materials to Europe, the orders of Qinzhou shipyard have more than doubled, in fact, not only shipyards, other enterprises are the same, the middle [***] team wants to enter Europe to participate in the war, for the Chinese to fight for the lost rights, the southwest is frantically producing.

Especially after they have known that the problem of tariffs has been solved, even more so, the industrial and commercial circles are extremely excited, with the right of tariff autonomy, the political axe can protect enterprises, especially for the current southwest political axe still maintains a considerable degree of confidence, so the wave of investment in industry is higher than the wave, and the amount of capital has increased significantly.

Even the relatively conservative industries of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces have shown a blowout trend, and opening mines and building factories have become the hottest topics.

For economic problems, Qiao Yu just made a general direction of planning, and the rest was left to the businessmen to deal with, Qiao Yu still believes in the ability of Chinese businessmen to make money, and what really makes Qiao Yu concerned is the expansion of the army, the number of troops in the southwest is increasing, and the territory controlled is getting bigger and bigger.

There are more people, there are more thoughts, how to ensure that this army still listens to themselves, it is definitely a university question, the Chinese in this era often rely on classmates, fellow villagers, and the relationship of the same race, install cronies, rely on them to control the army, Qiao Yu is very despised for this practice, anyone has relatives, when you rely on this method of employing people, it is equivalent to dividing the level in the group, some people are my cronies, others are one level lower, a superior person can not be a bowl of horizontal end, the split of the team is inevitable.

The most typical is the bald army, divided into the descendant and miscellaneous cards, in the descendant line and divided into the descendant line, the miscellaneous cards of the descendant line, in the miscellaneous cards there are also miscellaneous descendants, miscellaneous cards of miscellaneous cards, this kind of army divided according to the distance of relatives is bound to be infighting, there is no combat effectiveness at all.

Qiao Yu prefers to use the system to manage the group, everyone is equal in front of the system, Qiao Zhen, as Qiao Yu's second brother, should be the most trusted and reliable person, but Qiao Yu has excluded him from the main force, in order to stop the atmosphere of gangs and factions in the army.

This expansion of the army is even more so, Qiao Yu must keep a close eye on the situation of the troops, to avoid someone pretending to be public and private, and establish a small hill, just when Qiao Yu was so busy that he was dizzy, Wang Tianhe suddenly came to report the situation.

"Junzuo, this is news from Guangzhou, Sun Wen and his family have started to carry out large-scale activities in Guangzhou again, mainly accusing Duan Qirui of disregarding the interests of the people and blindly participating in the war, and there are many accusations against us inside and outside the words!"

Qiao Yu hasn't heard news from Sun Wen for a long time, although in the Protectorate War, this Sun Cannon still shouted everywhere, but Qiao Yu didn't have the idea of cooperating with Sun Wen at all, and later heard that Cannon got married again, and experienced the beauty of life with his little wife, I didn't expect Cannon to jump up so quickly, it was really indomitable, and he didn't give up any opportunity!

"Tianhe, now Guangdong is Lu Rongting's territory, Sun Wen is making such a fuss on his territory, doesn't he care?"

"Junzuo, the intelligence shows that Lu Rongting seems to have the intention of using Sun Wen's prestige to confront us and Beiyang, so he has adopted a conniving attitude towards Sun Wen, and he has also strengthened his support for Sun Wen, and has provided a sum of funds, the specific amount is not clear, but it is a lot, otherwise Sun Wen's henchmen would not be so rampant!"

For this Sun Cannon, Qiao Yu is also a headache, he is like an immortal Xiaoqiang, he will be able to jump out after a while, since the Xinhai Revolution, due to his frequent actions, Sun Wen's prestige has been seriously hit, especially the death of Tao Chengzhang and Song Jiaoren has completely split the revolutionary party, and a large number of veterans have abandoned Sun Wen.

After Sun Wen signed the Chinese Covenant, veterans like Huang Xing and Hu Hanmin couldn't stand it anymore and abandoned Sun Wen one after another, but Sun Wen was unwilling to be lonely, and he rose up repeatedly, which was really evil.

"Tianhe, why do you think Sun Wen has been able to defeat again and again and not be completely eliminated?"

"Junzuo, I think it is Sun Wen who can always use the mask of serving the country and the people to disguise himself and deceive a large number of hot-headed young people, and he spares no effort to support Sun Wen, and the powerful factions in various places are intriguing and intriguing, so he is given a chance, I think if Junzuo is really afraid of Sun Wen, we might as well send a killer to kill him, and Sun Wen has also killed so many people, so let him go to heaven to fight a lawsuit with Tao Chengzhang and Song Jiaoren, and see how this so-called revolutionary leader faces those dead heroes!"

Qiao Yu shook his head slightly: "Tianhe, assassination can't solve practical problems, Sun Wen is dead, and Zhang Wen, Zhao Wen, Wang Wen up, according to me, the secret of Sun Wen's real defeat and repeated battles is that his subordinates are a political party, have their own political ideas, will promote and package themselves, and will also sell their own ideas, this era is the era of group and group confrontation, a person can't compete with a group after all, this is the reason why Sun Wen is more tenacious than Lao Yuan, if you want to fight against a political party, defeat a political party, It can only be another political party, and now it's time for us to form a political party! ”

(To be continued)