Although Zhao Erfeng suppressed the Baolu Movement in his later years, which eventually led to his mixed reputation after his death, his ability is beyond doubt, and he naturally knows the benefits of starting an industry to the country, so he also attaches great importance to this matter.

Just after Zhao Erfeng accompanied Yu Zongtong to drink tea for a while, the subordinate walked over with a tall and thin man in a horse coat.

"My lord, my lord..." The tall and thin man walked into the study and saluted Zhao Erfeng and Yu Zongtong.

Zhao Erfeng nodded. "Master Zhao, just now the prefect told me that there is a newly opened factory outside Chengdu..."

Hearing Zhao Erfeng say this, Master Zhao was stunned for a moment, then closed his eyes and thought for a while and nodded. "There is indeed such a thing, probably two months ago, a businessman surnamed Yan came to our governor's yamen to go through the formalities..."

Zhao Erfeng and Yu Zongtong glanced at each other, and finally asked because of Zongtong. "Then do you know how much that guy surnamed Yan spent to build this factory?"

Master Zhao shook his head. "I don't know about that." At this time, there was no registered capital, although Master Zhao remembered this matter, but the specific details were not very clear.

"However, I remember that the people below used to say that this factory is very large, and there may not be a bigger factory in the whole of Sichuan..."

"That's right." Zhao Erfeng nodded, and then glanced at Yu Zongtong. "In that case, please invite the merchant to your yamen first, and wait until you ask clearly..."

"Xia Guan understands..."

After Yu Zongtong left, Master Zhao looked at Zhao Erfeng. "My lord, the merchant surnamed Yan?" Obviously, Master Zhao was a little curious about these two heavyweights from Sichuan asking about a businessman.

"Hehe..."Zhao Erfeng shook his head and smiled. I'm not going to scrape the oil and water, but I'm going to give it to this guy surnamed Yan. As he spoke, he glanced at Master Zhao. Do you remember the decree issued by the imperial court last year? ”

Master Zhao thought about it and said suddenly. "The will?"

"That's right, that will..."

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"My lord, do you want me to send someone to call the merchant surnamed Yan?" After Yu Zongtong returned to the prefect's yamen and informed his master of the matter, the master asked.

"No, you don't." Yu Zongtong shook his head. "It's almost night, let's wait until tomorrow..."

"Yes."

At this time, Yan Guang and the others had already installed some of the machines that needed to be installed, and the rest were ready to be talked about until tomorrow.

After buying wine and meat from outside and treating a few foreign technicians and a group of workers, Yan Guang went back to the side room in his office and slept.

The next day...

"Boss, boss!" Yan Guang, who was sleeping in a daze, was woken up by a quick knock on the door and Wang Er's shouting.

"What's the matter..."I looked at my watch and found that it was only 7 o'clock, Yan Guang opened the door and said with some dissatisfaction with Wang Er.

Wang Erchao looked behind him, and then said anxiously. "There are a few officials outside, saying they are looking for you..."

"Official?" Yan Guang is not confused now, but it is still very strange. "Strange, what's the matter with the official looking for me?"

The official, the government, and the official, in the late Qing Dynasty, these three things were basically equivalent to being linked to the bad guys, so Yan Guang didn't dare to underestimate it at all. "Did those officials say what they were doing with me?"

Wang Er shook his head. "I just heard them at the gate that they were coming for you, and then I rushed over to inform you."

"That's right..."Yan Guang muttered for a moment, and then took a sum of money from the room and brought it with him. Although it is not known what exactly happened, in the late Qing Dynasty, money and guns were the best talismans. Now that I am going to the government, I definitely can't bring a gun, but money is essential.

"Boss, do you want me to come with you?" Wang Er looked at Yan Guang with a serious look and hurriedly asked.

"No, you don't." Yan Guang shook his head. "This time it's not about fighting with others, it's useless for you to go." Speaking of this, Yan Guang patted Wang Er's shoulder. "Take a good look at the house here, maybe it won't be long before I'll be back."

After walking out of the room, Yan Guang saw the officials in the mouths of the two kings.

"Excuse me, is it Boss Yan?" Because he knew that this time he was just going to invite people, not scraping oil and water and extorting bamboo, so the leading errand officer said very politely.

"Yes, excuse me?" Yan Guang nodded and asked with some confusion.

"That's right, our prefect would like to invite you to go to the Yamen." As he spoke, he made a gesture of please.

"What's the matter?" As he spoke, Yan Guang took out some silver dollars and slapped them in the hand of the officer.

"Huh..."Looking at the dozen or so silver dollars in his hand, the messenger swallowed. I don't know very well about that, but it doesn't seem like a bad thing..."

"That's it..."Yan Guang didn't expect to spend the money and didn't hear anything, and he was a little disappointed. Then please lead the way. ”

"Okay!" After receiving the benefits, the errand officer was much more enthusiastic than before.

followed a few servants out of the gate of the factory, looked at the group of people behind him with worried eyes, Yan Guang waved his hand.

Along the way, Yan Guang kept asking, those few errand officers wanted to say that they had received Yan Guang's benefits, but unfortunately they knew very little, so they could only pick out some things they knew and say.

For example, yesterday the prefect Yu Zongtong took a few people around Yan Guang's factory, and after the turn, he rode a horse to the governor's palace and so on...

These things made Yan Guang a little confused, because he couldn't figure out what he had to do with the prefect and the governor's mansion, but listening to the words of a few errand servants didn't seem to be a big deal, and Yan Guang was a lot more relaxed with the mentality that he would be safe.

In his opinion, this prefect called himself in the past, maybe he heard that he opened a factory, and it was probably a rich man who wanted to extort a fortune, which seemed to be a common problem among officials in the late Qing Dynasty, and there was nothing to be afraid of. Now I still have more than 100,000 silver dollars left, although there is still a lot of money to use in the future, but it is enough to squeeze out 10,000 or 20,000 silver dollars, if there are more...

If you don't have money, you need to die!

After entering the prefect's yamen, several of the officers laughed. "Second son, I'll leave the rest to you, brothers, find a place to rest first."

"Got it." After answering, the second son took Yan Guang and walked inside, and after passing through several courtyards in a row, he took Yan Guang to the door of a room.

"This person is Yan Guang?" One of the officers standing outside the door asked, and the other looked over.

"That's right, it's him who the adults want to see." The second son nodded.

"Wait a minute." One of the officers said, then turned around and walked into the room behind him, and after a while came out of it to Yan Guangdao. "Your Excellency will let you in."

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Ask for collections and tickets ~~~