"A few of you stay here to help Mayor Chen count the goods, and I'm going to go to Chengdu with Manager Riddle." As he spoke, Charlie looked at several assistants and said sharply. "There's a big business waiting for me right now, and if you get me in trouble here, I'll let you swim back to London on your own."

Several assistants also understood that the Chinese in front of them were all gold owners, and if the business was really ruined because of them, Charlie would never let them go, so they nodded hurriedly one by one. "Rest assured, manager, we understand."

Seeing that a few assistants really understood, Charlie nodded with satisfaction and said to Chen Kandao in fluent Chinese. "Mayor Chen, Mr. Riddle and I will go to Chengdu first to talk to Yan Dudu about new business, and I will leave a few assistants to help you with matters here."

"Then I wish Mr. Charles and Mr. Riddle a pleasant journey..."

"I'm sure our trip will be a great one." Riddle on the side said with a smile.

Then the two of them briefly explained the matter to their assistants, and then set off for Chengdu in a carriage escorted by a cavalry company.

"This time we can really get a glimpse of that legendary highway, Mr. Charlie." After the carriage drove out of Chongqing, Riddle pulled the window and smiled at Charlie, who was sitting opposite.

"yes, I'm curious about that legendary highway, too." Charlie replied with a smile.

For the "Chengqing Highway", the world's first concrete highway, both Charlie and Riddle are very curious. It's a pity that last time because they were in a hurry to go back to the foreign bank, the two of them could only leave Yucheng on the day the business was over, but this time they didn't want to waste the opportunity...

"Two gentlemen, the carriage is about to hit the road." While the two were still talking, the coachman outside shouted to the two people inside.

As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage vibrated a little, and then the two of them felt that the body was moving much more smoothly than before.

"Is this the Chengqing Highway?" Looking at the road under the carriage, which was all paved with concrete, Charlie couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes, I really didn't expect that the world's first concrete highway was actually born in China..."

While the two of them were still amazed, the driver of the driver's carriage in front of them had already said in a loud voice. "The 270-kilometre-long highway is paved with 5-meter-wide and 20-centimeter-thick cement concrete, and the highway has now been completed, and the ordnance and equipment brought by the two gentlemen can be quickly delivered to Chengdu through this road."

After learning that the two people were very interested in the Chengqing Highway, this coachman was specially selected by Chen Kan, who knew everything about the highway and was specially used to answer all the questions of the two people. Upon learning of this, Charlie and Riddle asked the driver questions of interest to the driver.

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While Charlie and Riddle were sitting in the carriage and talking to the coachman, a secret conversation was going on in a room in downtown Chengdu.

"Hideko, how is your contact with the target?" In the corner of the room, a middle-aged man said in a deep voice, this person is the man who was dressed as Lin Xiu's uncle.

"The target has been pursuing me for a while, and so far it has been very close." Sitting straight on the side, Lin Xiu said without squinting.

"Very well, just keep in close contact all the time, and dig into the secrets of that Yan Guang as much as possible, including the senses of the empire and so on..."

"Yes!" Lin Xiu hurriedly replied.

With a wry smile, the middle-aged man said to Lin Xiu. "Anyway, I'm also your uncle, so I don't need to be so rigid in private."

However, hearing the middle-aged man say this, Lin Xiu just shook his head and said nothing.

Looking at Lin Xiu's appearance, the middle-aged man could only smile bitterly and shake his head, secretly wondering how her father could teach her to be like this.

Lin Xiu and the middle-aged man are both said to be themselves, Lin Xiu's name is Kobayashi Hideko, and the middle-aged man's name is Xiao Lin Li, both of them are members of the Black Dragon Society, and this time they came to Sichuan specifically to find out about Yan Guang's situation.

What he wants to see most is that China has been in chaos, so that they can take this opportunity to steal Manchuria, Mongolia and other places, and now China is in chaos, and the warlords only care about recruiting troops and horses, which is exactly what they want to see the most. It is precisely in this situation that a warlord like Yan Guang is a little conspicuous.

Of course, this is not to say that Yan Guang did not recruit troops, on the contrary, Yan Guang's army expansion speed can be said to be the fastest among many warlords, if you talk about quality alone, even Yuan Shikai's Beiyang series is not as good as Yan Guang.

However, he didn't pay attention to these political axes, even if Yan Guang's military purchase in Shanghai could surprise the army. What really made them pay attention to Yan Guang was the batch of equipment that Yan Guang bought in Shanghai, and the batch of machinery and equipment for mining, smelting and production, which was the reason why this political axe paid attention to Yan Guang.

Just like the "Chengqing Highway", when the Chengqing Highway was built, it also caused a sensation in Yueben, because that highway was the world's first concrete highway...

And infrastructure, such as roads, is also one of the criteria for measuring a country's strength. For Yue himself, the kind of warlords who only know how to buy arms and expand their armies are not worthy of their attention, because these armies only stand up with the help of external forces, and warlords like Yan Guang who know the important surnames of industry are what they deserve attention.

It's just that today's political axes are not as crazy as the political axes of later generations, so although they are very concerned about Yan Guang, they are only limited to paying attention, and it is at this time that the Black Dragon Society will come forward.

As a far-right organization, the Black Dragon Society's biggest goal is to seize China's Manchurian region and Russia's Siberia, so it is only natural that warlords like Yan Guang, who may become resistance, have become the targets of the Black Dragon Society's investigation.

After making some measurements, the president of the Black Dragon Society, Ryohei Uchida, asked Kobayashi Li and his niece Hideko Kobayashi, who were disguised as Chinese in Shanghai, to bring a group of men to Sichuan to conduct reconnaissance activities. The purpose is to probe Yan Guang's senses of the book, as well as some confidential matters...

For example, where did Yan Guang get all that money from? Can you buy this and that everywhere?

"By the way, have you heard any useful information right now?"

"Because the relationship is not very close, Xiuzi doesn't dare to show too much, but Yue Chang once said that in the near future, the Sichuan military and political axe will buy a batch of ordnance from the British and Germans, worth about 20 million yuan..."

"20 million yuan?" Hearing such a number, Xiao Lin Li's face also changed. "It seems that this Chinese named Yan Guang is indeed very rich..."

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