On June 6, 19o7 (the 33rd year of Guangxu), Chengdu, Sichuan, the Governor's Palace.

"Xinghai, the old man is about to be transferred to the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the position of governor of Sichuan is temporarily handled by Zhao Jihe. Although the old man is no longer in the post of governor of Sichuan, the Sichuan-Han Railway and Weiyuan Iron and Steel have always been concerned about it...... If there's something you can't solve, just let me know. Xiliang said helplessly.

Xiliang was also very helpless about this sudden appointment. In fact, he was simply victimized by the pond fish. This was originally a struggle for power between Cen Chunxuan and Prince Qing Yixuan, and Yixuan wanted to drive Cen Chunxuan away, so he appointed him as the governor of Yunnan and kicked him out of the capital. But Cen Chunxuan is not a soft persimmon, and the famous "Guan Tu" comrade simply ignored this set, "Lao Tzu doesn't go to work, do you have the ability to bite me?" As a result, the governor of Yungui became vacant.

The two of them fought, and Xiliang, the unlucky guy, suffered and was transferred to Yungui as a substitute for the dead ghost. Seeing that the political performance project is about to be completed, but he made someone else's wedding dress, Xiliang is called a ghost if he is willing, but he has no choice, the banner people of this era are far less powerful than the Han local powerful faction, like Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, these people, if they don't want to, Lafayette can't adjust.

Wen Deji replied respectfully: "Boss, you can rest assured. These two things are also the most important under the next importance, absolutely not to disappoint the boss, Weiyuan Iron and Steel is expected to be in trial production in the second half of September, the roadbed and bridge culvert of the Sichuan-Han Railway are also laid, the roadbed bridge and culvert on the Chengdu-Chongqing line has been completed eighty, as long as the rails of Weigang are put into operation, the railway can be laid immediately......"

"I know, Xinghai, you are a rare pillar of talent, when it comes to foreign affairs in the Qing Dynasty today, no one can compare to you, I can rest assured that you will do things. Xiliang nodded in satisfaction.

He knew the progress of the steel mill and the railway, and in order to convince him, Mr. Wen had to write a report on the construction situation every three days and send it to the governor's palace. Xiliang himself is a pragmatic person, and Wen Desi's approach is exactly what he wants. In particular, Wen Desi adopted the form of engineering reports of later generations, and all kinds of situations were represented by curves, graphs, and numbers, which looked clear and intuitive, and could be understood even by laymen, which was much better than the official documents at this time.

In the past year or so, due to Xiliang's long-term reading of the report, coupled with the detailed explanation given by Xingke Company, he is no longer so innocent about things like railways and steel mills. At the same time, he also realized the benefits of this new type of report, so he asked Xingke Company to help his governor's office also design a set of work reports, which are currently being promoted. But now it seems that he can only go to Yungui to promote.

"When the first furnace of steel comes out of the steel mill, if the boss is free, he will ask the boss to cut the ribbon......" Wen Desi said with a smile.

He was also more depressed, and was hurriedly called to Chengdu by Xiliang, which turned out to be the case. Although he had long known that Xiliang was going to be transferred, he was really not very happy at this time. He and Lao Xi have been working together for more than a year, and they are still very pleasant. Although the old tin tube is an industrial novice, the advantage is that he is not suspicious of employing people, and he is very relieved to hand over the matter to Wen Desi. But with a different governor, things might not be so easy.

Judging from the historical records of the original time and space, the governor of Sichuan after Xiliang is the Zhao family and the two brothers take turns to sit in the village, and the evaluation of these two brothers is not too high, and it is estimated that they are not as easy to talk as Xiliang. There is another variable, that is, Chen Kuilong, who originally took over as the governor of Sichuan this year, but because his wife disliked Sichuan as a bitter place, he did not come to take office and was directly transferred to the governor of Huguang. But now that history has changed, with the big fat of Xingke Company, with Mr. Chen's three-foot-tall style, it's really hard to say whether he will come to get a handful.

"Boss, I don't know what this Lord Zhao is like?" Wen Deji saw that Xiliang was in a low mood, so he changed the topic.

Xiliang also understood what Wen Deji meant, thought for a while and said: "He, he can be regarded as a capable person, but his ability is mostly in side affairs, and he doesn't know anything about foreign affairs...... Don't worry, you are still in charge of the railway and the steel mill, I told him yesterday. He didn't dare to mess around with such a big thing. ”

"Thank you, old man, for taking care of ......," Wen Desi hurriedly got up and thanked him.

Xiliang was probably a little unwilling, and said: "Hehe, he Zhao Jihe is good at suppressing bandits, and he has done quite well in Sichuanbian and Tibet. It's good if I go to Yungui, the gang of bandits in Huaying Mountain should give him Zhao Jihe a headache......"

"What is that?" Wen Deji immediately changed to "Unknown Truth Masses" and asked with a curious expression.

"Xinghai, you are busy with the railway steel mill, and it is normal not to know about this. At the end of last year, a group of bandits came out of Huayingshan, called [Kyodo News], and the locals called them "iron hat bandits", and the officialdom called them "Wu bandits". These bandits are extremely fierce, and they have caught fire with many local bandits, and now they are very powerful......"

"It's not a good thing that these bandits are angry with each other, the more they die, the easier it is to exterminate them......" Wen Deji continued to act as a "crowd of unknown truths".

Xiliang smiled: "You don't know, if it's just bandits fighting each other, it's not a big deal, this Sichuan mountain is high and dense, and there have been endless bandits since ancient times, and it doesn't matter if there is more or less." But this Kyodo Society is different, they not only fire and other gangs, but also kill the gentry, around Huaying Mountain, the gentry were killed no less than 100 families. Some of these gentry have relatives and friends in the court, and they have brought their complaints to the top, and it is difficult for us magistrates to do ......"

"Since these bandits are so hateful, why don't the imperial court send a large army to clean them up?" Wen Desi pretended to build yì said.

"Dispatch a large army to clear out, how easy is this to ......" Xiliang shook his head and patiently explained.

Because Kyodo is already very strong, it will definitely not work by relying on local force. But it costs a lot of money to dispatch a large army, and the court has to agree, and the current treasury of the Qing Dynasty is so empty that it can run rats, and it can save one, how can it be possible to give up this money. Besides, although Kyodo was arrogant, they did not attack the city, but were arrogant outside the city, and the Qing court would never take this kind of "honest" bandits seriously.

In their opinion, this is just a public security issue, and it is not the kind of lord of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who rebelled against the country. Even if it is reported, the bigwigs of the DPRK and China will definitely say: What are you kidding, there are so many bandits and horse thieves in the whole country, do you want the imperial army to enter and suppress them? Then what do you local officials do?

The magistrates are even more than less, and the imperial court does not contribute money to send troops, do you want me to go? I didn't see anyone else, and the Chongqing prefect didn't say anything as a party concerned.

Besides, Huaying Mountain is not a plain, it is a mountainous area with complex terrain. Even if a large army is dispatched, Kyodo Society only needs to hide in the mountains, how can you still kill a bird, how many people do you have, how much time do you have to hide cats from them. This kind of thing that is obviously wasteful of money and food and futile work is something that no one in the Qing Dynasty officials is willing to do.

What worries the bureaucrats even more is that if they are not careful, the imperial army will not succeed in suppressing the bandits but will be suppressed by the bandits, and the relevant local officials will definitely be unlucky, and it is good to lose the black yarn hat, and it is not impossible to be sent to the vegetable market to be stabbed if they are unlucky, and it is not impossible for me to have this kind of unlucky thing in the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has only passed 4o years, and the twist and the boxers have only been in the past few years. So the magistrates either kicked the ball or pretended to be deaf and dumb. Even a doer like Xiliang is playing procrastination.

Well, Mr. Wen seems to still have a militia in his hands, why didn't Xiliang transfer them to fight?

It's certainly impossible. First, the militia is not an official army, and the government cannot be mobilized, so even if it wants to ask the militia for help, it has to pay according to the rules. Second, the militia is a defensive armament, and as long as the bandits do not come over, the militia is not obliged to suppress the bandits. What's more, Xiliang regards Wen Desi as his own person, and the trouble in Huaying Mountain is the matter of the Chongqing prefect, and he is not a fool, why should he consume the strength of his own people in vain, and the Chongqing prefect is not his son.

Therefore, the current Kyodo Society, for me Daqing, is a very embarrassing storage zài. Their strength is strong, and they can't do it at all by relying on a little local government service and regimental training, but the danger is not very big (according to the standards of the Qing court), and it is obviously impossible to dispatch a large army for this reason, and I am very poor.

So, the old man played selective ignorance, pretending that Kyodo did not exist. Anyway, no matter how fierce they are, they are only making trouble near the mountains, as long as they don't come to attack the city, then they can go.

As for the slain gentry, those who have no background consider themselves unlucky, who told you to live so close to the bandits. As for those with deep backgrounds...... Well, the official is deeply sympathetic to your experience, but the official is also powerless, if you have the ability, let the court send troops, as long as the court sends troops, I am naturally willing to cooperate.

Another important reason is that the current Qing court is at a time when the party struggle is fierce, and Cen Chunxuan's "Qingliu" and Prince Qing's "Qingna Company" have fought fiercely, and people's brains have become dog brains, and they are about to break through the sky. Now the entire Qing Dynasty officialdom is busy, either pinching and fighting, or standing in line, or watching and playing soy sauce, or climbing and biting each other's stumbling blocks, how can they have spare time to pay attention to a "gang" in a poor and remote country.

The two sides talked again, and before leaving, Wen Desi handed a check for 2o yuan and gave it to the governor as "Cheng Yi". With the relationship between the two sides, Xiliang did not refuse. Among the bureaucrats of the Qing Dynasty, Xiliang was already a very honest person. Of course, this "incorruptible" is only equivalent to the overall officialdom at that time, he will not take the initiative to embezzle, ask for bribes, and do not accept black money and dirty money, but he will not refuse gray income such as "filial piety" and "Cheng Yi" in the "rules". Besides, the whole country's officialdom knows that Wen Desi is his faction, as the younger brother below, to give the boss a little offering, that is a human relationship, it is too normal, it is not a matter at all.

Next, under the hint of Xiliang, Wen Deji went to visit Zhao Erfeng's mansion again. Zhao Erfeng is now the Minister of Sichuan-Yunnan Frontier Affairs, this position is a novelty that has been set up for less than a year, and the jurisdiction is roughly equivalent to Xikang Province in the Republic of China in another time and space line, and the level is equivalent to that of the governor. Because the governor of Sichuan is concurrently served by the governor, he, the Sichuan-Yunnan border minister, is the second-in-command of Sichuan, and it is normal for him to take over as the governor of Sichuan.

Wen Desi didn't have much contact with Zhao Erfeng before, and he hadn't met him, but he only knew that he was a ruthless and decisive man. Over the years, he has continued to reform the land in southern Sichuan and Sichuan, killing people and destroying many Tusi heads. At the same time, he also cut down mountains and broken temples, leveled more than n horn temples, so that many local living Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were "reincarnated".

However, after seeing me, Zhao Erfeng's reaction was much more than Mr. Wen expected. This Lord Zhao was surprisingly enthusiastic, he first expressed his gratitude to Xingke Company for its funding in the first few months, and then talked with Wen Desi with great interest about Sichuan's transportation construction, and talked about the rise, and asked the servant to take out a map of Sichuan, spread it on the table and point it out.

As for the funding in the past few months, it was out of the consideration of befriending the future governor of Sichuan, and in order to fight the dirty and poisonous forces, he donated a batch of supplies to the local Qing army. It is mainly a new product trial-produced by Xingke Food Factory, canned luncheon meat, ham sausage, instant noodles and instant rice. Well, this also has the factor of making Zhao Erfeng's subordinates volunteer experimenters.

At that time, Zhao Erfeng was about to attack a toast, and Mr. Wen's assistance arrived at the right time. Soldiers, who are tired of eating traditional military rations, are full of praise for these new foods. The Qing army, which was well supplied and greatly boosted in morale, won a great victory, and Zhao Erfeng also remembered Wen Dehei.

Now Zhao Erfeng is talking about road construction, also for the problems of Sichuan and Tibet, Mr. Zhao has been working there for many years, and he has been disgusted by the bad traffic in the local area. In his opinion, those Tibetan soldiers are all scum, and the trumpet bald donkey is not even a scum, if it weren't for the traffic conditions that make people vomit, they would have been turned a hundred times by his old man.

He knew that the Sichuan-Han Railway and the Chengdu-Chongqing Highway, which Wen Desi was now responsible for, not only fared far ahead of similar projects, but also far better in quality. So I wanted Wen Deji to also build a road by the river, the railway may not be able to cost too much, but it is good to build a road.

I have to say that Wen Deji was also thundered by this brain-opening idea.

After being stunned for a while, he replied cautiously: "Lord Zhao, I support the construction of roads, as long as there is a road, it is convenient to do anything." But we don't know anything about the terrain along the river, and I can't guarantee when it will be repaired......"

Zhao Erfeng said with a smile: "Hehe, I also know a little bit about this, what kind of surveying and mapping do you have to do before building roads." This is not a problem at all, you are now a four-grade alternate road, the old man is going to set up a new transportation bureau in the Sichuan-Yunnan border, and now appoint you as the general office of the Sichuan-Yunnan Border Transportation Bureau, specifically responsible for the construction of the Sichuan-Yunnan border road. If you send someone to survey and map, I will ask the local government to assist, and as long as it is necessary to build the road, you can do it cheaply there......"

As for the funds for road construction, although Chuanbian was poor, Zhao Erfeng gritted his teeth and squeezed out 450,000 taels of silver, and the rest was only for Wen Desi to figure out his own way. Wen Desi knew that Zhao Lao'er did not have a lot of money, and it was not easy to come up with this number, which also showed that he really wanted to build this road.

This Sichuan-Tibet highway will definitely be repaired, even if it is not repaired now, it will be repaired after the rebellion. Now it is Zhao Erfeng begging him to repair, it would be better, and then Wen Desi talked to Lao Zhao about the conditions as a difficulty, mainly to meddle in the Sichuan-Tibet trade, obtain the monopoly right of Tibetan specialties, and exempt the Tibetan transaction from taxation within three years. Lao Zhao is also an understanding person, he knows that the road is very difficult to repair, and Wen Dehei put forward those conditions that are not too much, so they are all approved.

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