"Sir, it's this!" After Erzi took Yu Zongtong out of Chengdu City, he walked a distance before coming to a very large factory.

"This..." He rode on the horse and looked at the factory in front of him and kept twisting his beard. "This should be the entire Chengdu, no, it should be the largest factory in Sichuan..." Obviously, the factory that Yan Guang had specially built was surprised by Yu Zongtong.

"I don't know if it's the biggest in Sichuan, but at least I've never seen a bigger factory than this in Chengdu." Erzi walked on the side, and several other servants nodded and agreed.

No wonder they did this. You should know that Chinese factories were new at this time, especially before the Republic of China.

According to records, before 1895, that is, between 1872 and 1894, there were only 72 factories in China. From 1895 to 1913, before the First World War, there were only 549 factories in China, of which only 17 had capital of more than one million taels. Most of these factories were concentrated on the coast, most of which were small factories with capital of more than 10,000 taels...

Although Yan Guang only wanted to build a textile factory with a capital of 100,000 silver dollars, in order to facilitate future expansion, the workers were specially built larger when building the factory. This size of factories is at least unique in Sichuan. Especially after Yan Guang brought back three times the number of machines from Shanghai, it can be said that Yan Guang's textile factory is already the largest textile factory in Sichuan.

"..." Although it has been confirmed that this is indeed a large factory, Yu Zongtong still took a few officers around the factory.

I looked at the factory again. Although everything has not been going well in recent years, Yu Zongtong is indeed much more happy today.

"Let's go, let's go to the Governor's Mansion." Yu Zongtong turned his horse's head.

"Yes, sir." Several officers hurriedly followed.

Yan Guang didn't know that just outside his factory, the prefect of Chengdu and several servants had just checked his factory, and now he was heading towards the Governor's Office.

At this time, Yan Guangzheng was busy doing adjustment work between several foreign technicians and workers. Fortunately, the machinery was not very complicated at this time, so the installation of the machinery was quite smooth.

"Huh!" Seeing that the first machine was finally installed, Yan Guang wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Although he always acted as a translator during the installation process, sometimes even after he finished translating the worker, he didn't know what he said. In the end, he had to go down to demonstrate with a few foreign technicians, so he and those foreign technicians were no less relaxed than the workers next to him.

"I will go to the translator after finishing this matter, otherwise I will not be able to live next..." Gudu Gudu drank the water handed over by Wang Er, and Yan Guang thought so in his heart...

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Yu Zongtong was still very happy that he might not have had several large factories in the country under his rule. Although he didn't know what kind of factory it was, Yu Zongtong still decided to go to the Governor of Sichuan. Well, acting Governor Zhao Erfeng went there for an order issued by the superior a year ago.

After so many years as a prefect in Chengdu, he has been suppressed by Cen Chunxuan and Zhao Erfeng to do nothing. Now Yu Zongtong finally feels like being a prefect.

Thinking of this, Yu Zongtong raised his whip and planned to rush back to Chengdu as soon as possible.

"Sir, sir, are you slower..." Several servants kept shouting behind Yu Zongtong's horse's hooves.

Originally, they were already very reluctant to follow him. Now, seeing that Yu Zongtong had to speed up his horsepower, several officers immediately shouted. After all, they only had two legs, which was not as fast as Yu Zongtong's four legs.

Looking at the few unscrupulous servants behind him, Yu Zongtong sighed.

In other words, he has a good temper. If the prefect from another place had changed to a magistrate who heard his subordinates shouting, he would have raised his whip and whipped it long ago.

"Oh..." He pulled the reins, and finally Yu Zongtong headed towards Chengdu at a speed similar to when he came.

The few officers behind him had already figured out his temperament, so they didn't care much, just laughed and followed behind.

When Yu Zongtong and his team returned to Chengdu, Yan Guang and his team had already installed the second machine.

After returning to Chengdu, Yu Zongtong went directly to Zhao Erfeng's Governor's Office, but when he passed by the prefect's office, he sent a few servants back to rest.

The few servants who were already a little tired were planning to follow him for a while, but when they heard Yu Zongtong ask them to go back to the yamen to rest, they immediately went back with gratitude.

"Go!" After a few officers dragged their feet, although Yu Zongtong could not ride a horse in the city, his speed was much faster than before. Soon, he rushed to the gate of the Governor's Mansion.

"Master, Lord, do you have anything to look for our Lord?" The bored concierge in front of the Governor's Mansion saw Yu Zongtong riding over, and hurriedly met him.

Just as he watched Yu Zongtong riding a horse, the doorman muttered in his heart. After all, these scholars usually sit in sedan chairs, and there are few people on horseback carriages, let alone ride horses. Now Yu Zongtong is here on horseback riding a horse, is something big happening?

Yu Zongtong didn't think so much, but just asked, "Is the Governor here?"

"Yeah, I'm not out for a day today." Although Yu Zongtong, the governor of Chengdu, had a weak presence because of a Sichuan governor, the concierge still did not dare to neglect it.

It was already afternoon at this time. Zhao Erfeng was reading a newspaper in the study. When he heard the concierge say that Yu Zongtong was looking for him and looked very anxious (because he was riding a horse), although Zhao Erfeng felt it was a little strange, he still asked someone to bring Yu Zongtong in.

"Master, Master." After Yu Zongtong entered the study, he saluted as soon as he saw Zhao Erfeng.

"Zi Sheng, is there anything wrong?" Zhao Erfeng asked with his head raised and said, and signaled Yu Zongtong to sit down and say.

"That's right. Today, one of my servants saw a convoy outside the city. All of them were loaded with machines. So the servant went back to the yamen to inform me. After hearing this, I remembered the decree issued by the court last year..." Yu Zongtong slowly showed his purpose.

"Oh, that decree?!" When Zhao Erfeng heard Yu Zongtong say this, he also remembered the decree issued last year. "But I remember that the decree said that at least 200,000 silver dollars is required..."

Yu Zongtong hurriedly said, "Although I didn't see the convoy, the factory occupied an extremely large area. There is probably no one in Sichuan who can meet the standards."

When Zhao Erfeng heard this, he sat upright and quickly asked his servant to invite his staff.

As the Governor of Sichuan, Zhao Erfeng was very capable in this special period of the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1907, Xiliang left office, and Zhao Erfeng once served as the governor of Sichuan. In 1908, he was promoted to Minister of Tibet and Minister of Sichuan-Yunnan Border Affairs. He stationed troops at Dajianlu, changed Dajianlu to Kangding Prefecture and established Dengke and other governments to strengthen the Qing government's control over Xikang. In 1909, Zhao Erfeng defeated the ** rebels who attacked Batang, and took advantage of the victory to enter the **, recovered four tribal areas including Jiangka and Gongjue, and crossed Danda Mountain to the west.

, and arrived at Jiangdazong, at this time, only six days away from Lhasa, the Lama fled to British India. Zhao Erfeng wrote a letter to pacify the entire territory of the country, and suggested that the policy of reforming religion and changing customs be implemented in Tibet. Because he was worried that his measures would be excessive, the Qing government did not allow it to avoid trouble, but a large number of temples were still destroyed during Zhao Erfeng's entry into Tibet. Later, Zhao Erfeng recovered Sanqi (now Gongjue, Zhantong, Bomi and Baimagang).

Under the snow-covered mountains on the peak of the southwest corner of the Walan Lekama Basin, there are ten Chinese characters engraved on the cliffs, the size of each Eight Immortals: "It's a pleasure to have friends coming from afar." The huge carved stone is left under the huge carved stone: "The first-class top of the Qing Dynasty, with a peach feather, and the imperial envoy Zhao Erfeng, personally visited the boundary survey and carved stones,..."

It can be said that if Zhao Erfeng had not been able to have the later Xikang Province.

Now, the road protection movement, which made Zhao Erfeng bear the name of a butcher, supported it at the beginning, and once thought that "it was very normal for the people of Sichuan to compete for roads." While enlightening the people, he also called the cabinet to "propose strategies for making changes". Later, he impeached Sheng Xuanhuai and asked the court to investigate and punish Sheng Xuanhuai. However, the Qing court not only ignored the various statements stated by Zhao Erfeng and others, but also ordered Zhao Erfeng to disband the masses and effectively suppress them.

To put it simply, just like during the Shanghai stock turmoil, the Qing government messed up the rescue operation of Cai Naihuang in Shanghai Daotai, which eventually led to the state-owned railway and the road protection movement. The Qing government's telegram also caused the Sichuan road protection movement to expand, and finally had to dispatch new troops from Wuhan, which led to the Wuchang Uprising...

Shooting oneself in the foot. If there are still some capable people in the local area, then the top level of the Qing government in the late Qing Dynasty was completely transformed into a pig's head...

It’s a pity that Zhao Erfeng had not had the Chengdu bloody incident in his later years, I’m afraid he would have been called a national hero in textbooks today.

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