These businessmen continued to digest the meaning of Qiao Yu's words, and also understood a little, China has been a cheap businessman since ancient times, even now, these big businessmen have held the lifeblood of the local economy, but they still have to rely on collusion with bureaucrats to protect themselves, never thought of using their own strength to force the court to submit, and there is no such strength, if you want capital to influence social change, it must enter the industrial age to have hope, but Qiao Yu pointed out the direction of the wind to everyone, this concept changed, The vision and ideas are completely different, and they are also convinced of Qiao Yu's ambition.

"Shunqing, this weapon was built for this, right?"

"Boss Wang Mingjian, there is an electoral system abroad, and capitalists can rely on huge funds to condone elections, but we don't have the tool of election, so we can only make the court jealous with real swords and guns!"

Soon the merchants present unanimously agreed to set up arms, and the recruitment and training work was handed over to Qiao Yu, and in the name of the Yucheng Chamber of Commerce, an arms order of 400,000 taels of silver was placed on Buscht, including 2,000 Mauser rifles, ten Maxim machine guns, ten Madsen light machine guns, and four 75-mm mountain guns, as well as some ammunition.

Zhu Youji of Dongchuan Province handed over the evidence of the revolutionary party's activities to the hands of Zhao Erxun, the governor of Sichuan, who was also frightened, Yucheng is the first in the southwest, and the land and water must rush, once there is any shock, the world will be in chaos, and Zhao Erxun has been in a high position for a long time, and he has seen all kinds of situations very thoroughly.

The world is not chaotic in Shu first, Sichuan is now full of parties, there are countless thieves and thieves, and the revolutionary party is up and down, it is completely a mountain rain about to come, and Zhao Erxun also knows that the imperial court has prepared to nationalize the Sichuan-Han Railway, and there is no doubt that it will provoke the hornet's nest, and the old man has worked hard for the Qing Dynasty all his life and is loyal.

Now the imperial court is about to transfer the old man to the three eastern provinces as the governor, Zhao Erxun has already expounded the crisis situation in Sichuan in the twists and turns, and at the same time recommended his brother Zhao Erfeng to take over as the governor of Sichuan, this is not to say that the virtuous do not avoid relatives, but the old man knows that when it comes to military strategy, no one in the Qing Dynasty can compare with his brother, if Sichuan is in chaos, he will rely on an iron fist to stabilize the place, the old man is completely for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, but he doesn't know that this is this recommendation, and pushed his brother into the fire pit.

Zhao Erxun was already preparing to leave Sichuan, and after receiving Zhu Youji's report, the old man sent another telegram to his brother, explaining the situation in Yucheng, telling his brother not to only focus on Chengdu and ignore Yucheng, and it was best to send a strong army to stabilize Yucheng.

Not to mention that Old Man Zhao is preparing to leave Sichuan and go to the three eastern provinces to take up his post, not to mention that today's Yucheng, it is precisely because of the incident in Tiangang Village that the officials of Yucheng are extremely nervous, and they are not at ease at all about the old army of the patrol battalion, collect weapons, and at the same time step up the search of the alliance, and the officials in the yamen also attack everywhere, but the real alliance has not caught much, but innocent rich businessmen have been arrested a lot.

Arrest people here, take money and release people there, ranging from one hundred taels to one thousand taels, the atmosphere in Yucheng is tense day by day, Qiao Yu sees everything in his eyes, and has a deep understanding of the [***] incompetence of the Qing political axe, but they can always surprise people, knowing that the revolutionary party is going to overthrow the Qing court, and the Qing political axe does not dare to kill the real revolutionary party when it catches it, and even wants to reform, such as that Wang Zhaoming, and wantonly arrests some innocent good people, but wants the lion to open his mouth, Isn't this forcing everyone in the world to join the side of the revolutionary party? It is only in this last days that there is such a strange thing, and if this court does not die, it will not be tolerated.

The large-scale arrest was brought down, and the pockets of many officials were bulging, and Qiao Yu was unwilling to interfere, so he could only take it as a lively view, and secretly stepped up the training of the patrol police, fortunately, Zhu Youji promised another 100,000 taels of silver, and Qiao Yu smashed all of them on these patrol officers, and the amount of training has exceeded that of the army a lot, especially live ammunition shooting, even the latest batch of patrol officers can reach more than 100 rounds of shooting.

Gradually, two thousand patrol officers have been shown combat effectiveness, Qiao Yu has drawn a hundred people from the Young Guards to join them, as officers, the Chamber of Commerce armed is also recruiting, Qiao Yu has drawn out another hundred guards, ready to become the backbone of this armed force, the top squad has also been drawn out, ready to become the special forces team after the future, and the rest have become personal guards, so far this guard that has existed for more than three months is considered to be disbanded, but it has become a major faction of the Houchuan Army, with strong strength and special status.

The original school field was placed in the east of Yucheng City, a little far away from the city center, once something happened it was not convenient to transfer, and now Qiao Yu is a lot bolder, so he chose a military camp near the city, and used the original school field as a training ground for recruits.

Now that the school is being picked up, Qiao Yu remembered some miscellaneous things, and wanted to find Shi Dingzhong, as soon as he thought of Shi Dingzhong, Qiao Yu suddenly found that he hadn't seen this old man for two or three days, and some time ago he said that he would recommend his nephew to himself, but now there is no news.

"Tianhe, do you know where Shishuban lives? Don't be sick with this old man, I'll go see him! ”

Wang Tianhe naturally knew Shi Dingzhong's residence, and the surname Suo didn't have anything to do now, so he accompanied Qiao Yu straight to Shi Dingzhong's home, Shi's house was in a deep alley, surrounded by many cinnamon willow trees, and now it was spring, the trees were flourishing, the flowers and plants were fragrant, and it was like a paradise in a trance.

"Shi Shuban is a person who will enjoy it, this yard is not in size, the key is to design exquisitely, but also to have fun, and things like building a house in the future will have to trouble him!"

Qiao Yu and Wang Tianhe arrived in front of the small courtyard while talking, and were about to knock on the door, when they suddenly heard a quarrel in the house, although the distance was a little far, but they could faintly hear a young man talking about revolution, lackeys and the like, and an old voice couldn't stop saying that he didn't know what to do, and he was disobedient.

It seems that the two of them quarreled, and Qiao Yu came to the front of the door driven by curiosity, and he heard it more clearly.

"Dad, I'm an adult, not a child, I don't care about the Wing Queen, I have my own ideals, you can't make decisions for me! That Qiao Yu is not a good thing, framing a revolutionary righteous man, double-faced and three-stabbed, he is a lackey of the Qing court, and he will not end well if he follows him! ”

"You son of a, Lao Tzu eats more salt than you eat rice, don't forget how the Kingdom of Heaven failed back then, that is, it offended the landlord Haoqiang, without Zeng Guofan, these Hanchen, the Manchu Dynasty perished early in the Qing Dynasty, and now Qiao Yu is already the leader of the industrial community in Yucheng, he wants people, power, alertness, and knowledge, not much stronger than your revolutionary party that has no shadow! Are you going to be mad at me? ”

"Uncle, I think Brother Yi is right, now which hot-blooded man is willing to be a lackey for the Manchus, you told us that Qiao Yu is not a lackey of the Manchus, so why did he arrest the righteous Gu Jinlong and wantonly arrest the revolutionary fighters in Yucheng, the facts are there, how can you let us believe him!"

Shi Dingzhong only felt that he couldn't reason with these three little rabbit cubs, so angry that the old man's face was red, and suddenly he heard a burst of laughter from outside the door: "Shi Shuban, why is it so lively, Qiao Shunqing has come to see you!" ”

Who said it, Shi Dingzhong was at a loss, Shi Yi said on the side: "Daddy, you see that people have a lot of noses, so I came over immediately, don't be afraid of him, I don't believe he dares to arrest us!" ”

"Shut up!" Shi Dingzhong was really afraid that these reckless children would clash with Qiao Yu, the old man was anxious, and suddenly raised his foot, kicked on Shi Yi's buttocks, and shouted: "Stay honest!" ”

Shi Dingzhong reluctantly calmed down, hurriedly opened the door, and felt guilty on his side: "The owner, the rude made you laugh, the child is not sensible, please don't be surprised, I will discipline you strictly!" ”

"Shi Shuban, this is yours, isn't it, I haven't heard it, as the saying goes, it's hard to let your master control it, can you control it?"

Shi Dingzhong was ashamed, Qiao Yu walked into the house with a smile, there were three young people in the room, all looking at him with a lawsuit in his head, Qiao Yu didn't care, found a chair and sat down.

"It stands to reason that I am not qualified to take care of your family affairs, but since it involves me, it is best to explain things clearly in person, so as not to have any misunderstandings!"

"Owner, the child is ignorant, don't be surprised!"

"Don't worry, I'm just trying to talk to a few friends, and I believe that as long as you are open and honest, there is no misunderstanding that cannot be resolved!"

"Hmph, whoever wants to talk to you, a lackey, will arrest us if he has the ability!"