Xiliang was transferred from the post of governor of the three eastern provinces in April, and the new arrival, as Xiliang said, is the former Shengjing general Zhao Erxun, for Zhao Erxun, Qin Yu is not very familiar with Zhao Erxun, but Zhou Jing'an and Zhao Erxun over there in Benxi can have some relationship, fortunately, although Qin Yu has been in Taonan in recent years, he also sends someone to send some things to Zhou Jing'an every year during the New Year's Festival, and Zhou Weiqing also has a lot of business dealings, and the relationship has been maintained, and it is useful to encounter things.

The supreme efforts of the three eastern provinces alternated again, and Qin Yu also received rifles, bullets, and machine gun bullets that were transported from Qiqihar one after another.

"My lord, where did you get so many water beads?" Yang Xing, Li Chengwen and others took out a new rifle from the open wooden box, and said excitedly. If you are a soldier in a war, you are of course happy to be able to get a good rifle.

"You don't have to worry about this, just train the soldiers well. Later, the security battalion was changed into a patrol police battalion, and because a large number of hungry people will be accepted this year, the original number of patrol police is already a little insufficient. At that time, except for the strongest battalion in the exercise, the rest of the battalion will have to be transferred to fill the patrol battalion, and the shortage of personnel will be filled by those recruits. ”

Qin Yu saw that the guns that Novlavich got were not bad, so he retracted his attention and said to a few people, the military and political affairs in Taonan, Baicheng, and Jing'an are all handled by Qin Yu. As long as it is not an open expansion of the army and the recruitment of some patrol police, it is within Qin Yu's power, as long as the financial resources are sufficient and he does not ask for money from Lu Shang, at this time, the imperial court is too busy to take care of itself, and it is far away from Fengtian City, even if the number of patrol police battalions increased is too much, no one can control Qin Yu.

Hearing Qin Yu's words, Yang Xing and Li Chengwen suddenly became nervous, except for the time when the plague was in trouble, military exercises were not new in Taonan, but the weight of the punishment this time was unprecedented, they were all veterans who had been trained for many years, and the combat strength of several battalions was not much different. But once a large number of veterans are transferred, the gap with the strongest battalion is not a little bit. It's impossible for these people not to be nervous.

Qin Yu now has the strongest combat power of the six patrol infantry battalions, three patrol battalions are slightly inferior, and four patrol battalions have been trained, together with the strength of thirteen battalions, which is almost comparable to the strength of the Fengtian three-way patrol battalion. The Manchu Qing court made out the group of constitutional ministers became a complete imperial cabinet, even those constitutionalists were also disappointed in the Qing court at this time, and then the imperial court announced that the railways were state-owned, and the public sentiment in various parts of the Guannai was surging, and the road protection movement kicked off, and Qin Yu knew that the remaining days of the Qing Dynasty had entered the countdown. However, this has nothing to do with Qin Yu, he just needs to sit back and wait for the situation in the customs to change.

After arranging the affairs of the barracks, when leaving the barracks and passing the woolen mill, you can see the floors rising from the ground in the factory, as well as the workers who come and go from time to time at the gate, and occasionally you can see one or two Westerners mixed in the crowd.

"My lord, Zhang Shun is back." Ding Cheng suddenly rushed over and whispered to Qin Yu. (There are often things to do during this time, and I suddenly remembered that I omitted Zhang Shun, and now I am making up for it, it looks a little abrupt, and everyone will order it.) ）

"What? This kid is back? Let's go, go see him. Qin Yu was a little excited in his heart, and he sent Zhang Shun out for a short time, and he also thought about this guy a little, after all, Zhang Shun had been chatting a few words beside him before.

"Second Young Master, I'm back." Zhang Shun was wearing a top hat and a suit, and when he saw Qin Yu, he was overjoyed and immediately stood up from his position.

"Good boy, when you go abroad, you will be so foreign, don't be a fake foreign devil." Qin Yu said with a smile.

"Second young master, don't say it, I really did something out of the ordinary this time." Zhang Shunshen said mysteriously, "Don't blame me, Second Young Master. ”

"What's the matter?" Qin Yu asked.

Zhang Shun took off his hat, revealing a middle-parted hair that is still fashionable nowadays, but the original long braid no longer exists.

"Second young master, I was ridiculed in England at that time, and I cut my braids in a fit of anger, and afterwards I felt that I had done something stupid, and I left them for more than two months, and now my braids still haven't grown, do you want to get a fake?" Zhang Shun asked.

"I'll cut it if I do something, but it's always a little inconvenient for you to go out, so let's get a fake one to wear first." Qin Yu said abruptly, looking at Zhang Shun's nervous appearance, he thought that something big had happened.

"That's it, I'll get a fake one when I go back, don't say that the long braid hanging behind the skull is really annoying, and it's comfortable to cut it." Zhang Shun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Qin Yu didn't blame him, and then said quite excitedly, "I heard that the second young master has done a lot of great things during this time, and he almost fought with the Japanese army in Changchun, but unfortunately I was not there at that time, and ah, the second young master in the back, you are sick, fortunately it is not the plague, otherwise I don't know what to do." ”

After going out for so long, Zhang Shun came back and talked a lot, Qin Yu pulled Zhang Shun and ordered a table of wine and food, chatting while eating.

"Okay, enough chatter, how is the business going." Qin Yu listened for a long time, and finally knocked on the table with chopsticks to stop, "Now the woolen mill is still not as good as foreign goods, and the volume of shipments can be maintained by lowering the price, but it can't make a lot of money after all." ”

Counting Qin Yu's investment in the woolen mill, plus the profits of the rubber stocks behind, has invested more than 1.1 million taels, and until now, a few years have passed, and he has earned back 570,000 taels. In a few years, up to now, there has been a loss of more than 500,000 taels.

This is still Qin Yu's situation under the military and political control of Taonan, and it is impossible for anyone to be embarrassed in terms of policy, and ordinary businessmen will not be able to support it for a long time, so they can only let the factory go out of business. The situation of the shoe factory is even worse, although the source of raw materials is solved, but the shoe factory so far, can only produce relatively rough wool boots, leather sandals, and very simple styles of large scalp shoes, coupled with the immaturity of the workers to operate the machinery, compared with the foreigners' goods, it is indeed a lot worse, according to this profit rate, I am afraid that it will take six or seven years to recover the cost. This is obviously not what Qin Yu wants to see. No matter how good the future of wool and leather goods is, there is no hope for profit, and the things produced are not as good as foreign goods, and Qin Yu is not willing to invest money in this bottomless pit indefinitely. Only then did Zhang Shun have to think of some other improper ways.