Qiao Guangyuan has been up and down in the sea for decades, and he is familiar with the set of Manchu officialdom, and after Qiao Yu took charge of Sichuan, he carried out drastic reforms, and Sichuan has undergone tremendous changes in a short period of time, and it has also made the old man see something unusual, he knows very well that if he wants to change the current situation, he must carry out drastic reforms, but with his understanding of officialdom, he knows very well that Yuan Shikai wants to rely on the old-style characters of the former Qing Dynasty to carry out reforms, which is wishful thinking.

Qiao Yu also agrees with his father's judgment, although the number of revolutionary parties in Tang Shaoyi's cabinet accounts for almost half, and Tang Shaoyi himself has joined the League, but these personnel are still under the control of Lao Yuan, in other words, sooner or later they will be occupied by the old-style bureaucrats of the former Qing Dynasty, and the road to open cooking, legal system, and constitutionalism will become more and more difficult.

"Dad, I'm afraid there is only one way now, that is, to ensure that Tao Chengzhang succeeds in the election, and the United Party can dominate the cabinet in the future, and there may be hope for the constitutional road at that time!"

Qiao Guangyuan shook his head: "Shunqing, I advise you not to have too much hope for Tao Chengzhang and them, it has always been who has the most powerful army and enjoys the greatest benefits when the dynasty changes, Lao Yuan holds the Beiyang Army, although Tao Chengzhang also has tens of thousands of Guangfu troops, but they are all miscellaneous cards, and they have to be abolished, and they are not able to wrestle with Lao Yuan at all!" ”

"Dad, Tao Chengzhang can't do it, isn't there still the Hubei army, there is also the Sichuan army, and now even Tan Yanmin from Hunan has joined the Unification Party, if you can get the support of Hu Hanmin, Li Liejun and others on the side of the Alliance, the military strength is enough to compete with Lao Yuan!"

When Qiao Guangyuan heard this, he smiled slightly: "Shunqing, I don't say anything about others, but are you willing to use your Sichuan army and Lao Yuan to fight hard for the so-called constitutionalism?" ”

Qiao Guangyuan's sentence suddenly got to the point, whether it is the Sichuan army or the Hubei army, in the final analysis, they are all local forces, once they embark on the road of constitutionalism, they will inevitably strengthen the central political axe and weaken the local forces, and as a representative of the local forces, can they really fully support Tao Chengzhang, just for a so-called ideal?

Qiao Yu couldn't help but draw question marks in his heart, I am afraid that among the governors of these places, including himself, they all have the intention of using political parties to resist Lao Yuan, rather than really wanting to support the constitutionalism, it seems that it is really wishful thinking on his own.

"Shunqing, the United Party is now very strong, but Zhang Jian, Cheng Dequan, Li Yuanhong, Tan Yanmin are all grass on the wall, unreliable, and I read the newspaper these days and found that the revolutionary party is not monolithic, the battle between the League and the Restoration Association is becoming more and more intense, I am afraid that without Lao Yuan's action, they will have to mess up on their own, I am just worried that you will take a wrong step before this kind of change, then it will be a mistake for thousands of years, now the strength of Sichuan is not enough at all, and the biggest enemy of people is not self-sufficient!"

After Qiao Guangyuan finished saying a few words, a delicate cold sweat even broke out on Qiao Yu's face, and he was also doubting in his heart whether Tao Chengzhang could succeed in the end, and he knew very well that this possibility was too small, but Qiao Yu was very aware of the suffering that China would suffer, so he wishfully hoped that Tao Chengzhang could succeed, and now it seems that he is indeed too idealistic.

"Dad, what you said is so right, the child will not pin his hopes on the United Party, and he will have to be hard to strike iron, and my main task now is still on the construction of internal affairs!"

The old man nodded, he had already persuaded Qiao Yu not to let him rely too much on Tao Chengzhang, and now that Qiao Yu finally knew the danger, the old man was relieved, and asked, "Then what are your plans?" ”

"I plan to do five main things, the first is to rectify the rule of officials, governing the country is to govern officials, the second is to support industry and commerce, the third is to strengthen public order and eliminate bandits, the fourth is to repair roads and water conservancy, and the fifth is to completely ban smoking!"

Qiao Guangyuan lowered his head slightly and pondered: "Shunqing, these five points are very good, and they hit the nail on the head, but there are some things that you can't do with your current identity, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and people will be destroyed by the world, I have been in the former Qing officialdom for many years, although I claim to be honest, but you don't know where our family's property came from, right?" ”

Qiao Yu didn't expect his father to take the initiative to mention this, of course he knew that his father's hands and feet were not clean, but he couldn't say that: "It's all left over from the ancestors, and the family is diligent and thrifty!" ”

"There is nothing that our father and son can't say, it's just corruption, but am I really willing to be corrupt? Is it because I have read the way of Confucius and Mencius in vain? No, as soon as you enter the officialdom, you can't help yourself, you don't embezzle, others will force you to embezzle, if you don't embezzle, they will not worry about you, because you don't have a handle, and you don't have to ask for others, on the contrary, you will threaten their safety, for their wealth There are only two ways, one is to let you also be corrupt and become one of them, or they will completely destroy you, that's all! ”

It's like everyone is playing very well in the mud pond, everyone is a little clay man, suddenly you walk by the side in bright clothes, don't pull you in, what to do with the big guy, this thing is a reason in ancient and modern, now Beiyang has basically inherited all the bad habits of officialdom in the late Qing Dynasty, although those bureaucrats were forced by the general trend to change a sign of the Ming Cook Republic, but it is also a change of soup and not medicine, if they do too well, these people will do everything possible to suppress and embarrass themselves.

What's more critical is that now is not the time for warlords to fight and go their own way, Lao Yuan is still pressed on the heads of all the princes, and he has to look at Lao Yuan's face in everything.

"Shunqing, you have actually offended a lot of people by reforming the salt administration, those salt merchants still have salt road yamen at all levels, the price of salt in Sichuan has fallen, but the salt tax has risen, and everyone with a discerning eye knows that the problem lies with them, so many people want to force Sichuan to give up the new salt policy, but this salt thing is more troublesome, related to the livelihood of millions of people, they dare not act rashly, if you reform the rule of officials and ban opium, then what about other people who are living by selling officials, Those who sell opium themselves don't hate you to death! The crowd is full of gold, and the bones are destroyed! ”

Qiao Yu was also annoyed in his heart, those sub-bureaucrats didn't think about how to make the people's lives better, but did everything possible to frame people who did well, is there a way out in this world?

"Dad, these things are a top priority, and I definitely can't afford to do it!"

"I didn't want you to do it, but I wanted to cut in from another angle, such as suppressing bandits! Since ancient times, officials and bandits have been mortal enemies, and if you attack the local bandits, no one can say anything, and by the way, you can do everything else! ”

Qiao Yu was confused for a while when he heard the old man's words, can this bandit produce such a great benefit, and can it be solved even with the rule of officials and infrastructure construction?

"Dad, don't sell it, the child is stupid, you always explain it!"

"Haha, Shunqing, you are still young, in my opinion, there are four kinds of bandits in the world, the first is the bandits and water bandits, they are a disaster and must be exterminated, the second is the gang, just like the elders, the third is the armed of some powerful landlords, and the fourth is the hooligans on the street! If you want to suppress the bandits, you have to stew all these people in one spoonful, so can you not achieve other goals? ”

When Qiao Yu heard this, his mind turned, and he understood what his father meant, for the first kind of bandits, they must be strangled clean, but most of the current bandits can't survive to become bandits, if you want to exterminate it, you must give people a way to live, then there is an excuse to support industry and commerce; The second kind of gang organization has close ties with the bureaucracy, and it can even be said that many gangs can only survive by relying on the support of the government, many of them live by operating opium smoke, as long as they are caught, and some of the scum of officialdom will naturally be eliminated, and the third kind of local strong armed forces, which can greatly enhance the authority of the political axe; As for those little thugs, although they are inconspicuous, they can bully those small businessmen and get rid of them, and the market will prosper!