Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, more than 1,800 teachers and students from the Provincial Legislative and Political School and the Provincial Higher Normal School bid farewell to the old and crowded two old courtyards, moved them and renovated them, and added a new campus with four double-storey teaching buildings.

The two adjacent Sichuan Supreme Schools cover a wide area and lush trees.

The wide and atmospheric school gate, the neat and uniform student dormitory converted from barracks, four basketball courts poured with cement, a standard 400-meter track sports field and single bar double poles and other training facilities have relieved all the worries of teachers and students and made them feel particularly happy.

After Zhong Ying's expedition, Zhu Qinglan, who acted as the commander of the 17 towns, refused to fulfill the military camp relocation plan signed by all parties. Under Zhu Qinglan's order, the two new army still occupied the East School grounds. The newly completed military camp outside the East Gate could easily accommodate 8,000 officers and soldiers to live and train. Now they only live in a new camp symbolically, but in fact they dominate other troops to prevent other troops from entering.

Zhu Qinglan is also a disciple of Governor Zhao Erxun, and has been following Zhao Erxun for a longer time. He also had a good relationship with his master Yuan Jinkai. He did not give Xiao Yiming face. Xiao Yiming had no way to do anything wrong, and could not do such a complaint behind the scenes. In addition, the first phase of the old city renovation project was successfully completed, and most of the repair and construction of the north wall and moat embankment were completed. Xiao Yiming decisively gave up all his temporary positions and ended up being relaxed.

The subsequent urban slum renovation project came to a halt. It was originally necessary to sell the East School Farm for funds and invest it in the western section of the Yuhe River. The expansion plans of the West School Farm and the North School Farm Army Primary School also ended in vain. The North School Farm, west of Xiao Yiming's residence, continued to be deserted, and the thorny weeds had grown taller than others.

Zhong Ying's Western Expedition Force became a military stationed in Tibet, and the organization of the 33rd Association returned to the Sichuan Army again. Zhou Daogang, formerly the Association of the Army Quick Training Academy and the Office of the Army Primary School, finally got his wish and became the agent of the 33rd Association. If nothing unexpected happens, he will be able to become a regular officer in the spring of next year.

Most of the remaining officers who returned to Japan became the cooperative and the standard officers, firmly occupying all important positions.

No matter how talented or contributions the previous few graduates of the Martial Arts School were, they had to be senior and waited honestly. This large group of people who really led the troops could only be the leader and the team leader. As a result, factions quickly formed within the new army, and gradually moved towards division and confrontation.

The Sichuan Tongmenghui, which has been hiding in the dark and becoming more and more rational, encountered this opportunity and immediately took advantage of the opportunity to start fighting and differentiation. The Tongmeng members developed rapidly in the middle and lower classes of the new army and the police force. Their beautiful description of the future of the revolution illuminated the lost soldiers like a guiding light, and also aggravated the contradictions and divisions of the new army.

Xiao Yiming took all this into consideration. For this reason, he specially summoned six brothers from the police department, including Ma Gang and Fan Chunlin, to discuss countermeasures secretly, successfully convinced these brothers to work with peace of mind, not participate in any political party, not express any opinions, and not cause any trouble, but they must keep their eyes open, use and cultivate the power of the Hongmen when necessary, always pay attention to the actions of several leaders of the Tongmenghui who are gradually exposed, and do their best to collect the political remarks of celebrities and officials in order to protect themselves in the future.

In terms of business, Xiao Yiming and Zhuang Sen, Luo Defa, Deng Hanxuan and other shareholders held a meeting to reach a consensus on "suspending expansion, stabilizing internal affairs, making friends, and doing more good deeds". On the basis of stabilizing the existing enterprises of the group company, they deeply tapped their potential, improved various systems, strengthened employee technical training, cultivated employees' spirit of unity and centripetal force, and implemented a prudent development plan.

The weapons sales have always been in charge by Xiao Yiming and assisted by Luo Defa and Wu San. They were attacked by the Governor's Office and the arsenal. Fortunately, the Sichuan Arsenal had reached a stagnation again after it had achieved certain development. Due to factors such as the blockage of raw material procurement channels, backward processing technology, and chaos in internal management, the Arsenal's dependence on the West China Group Metal Products Company is getting more and more important. New Army officers at all levels who have not completed the weapon and equipment task are also accustomed to this. Xu Xiaogang, Jiang Dengxuan and others also specifically proposed to the Governor's Office to require the West China Company to take over the production task of key gun components as soon as possible and take on the weapons and equipment maintenance work of various departments of the army to meet the needs of the army.

West China Company has been legitimately launched production, and as long as the complete long rifles and cannons are not sold, there will be no legal problems.

As for the various pistols that are secretly produced and operated, they are not included in the control. Nowadays, officers at all levels in the new army are proud to have a "Leopard" pistol or a Colt M1903 pistol. Officials from Chengdu and surrounding counties, Chongqing, Luzhou, Xuzhou, and Ya'an and other twelve prefectures, wealthy businessmen and people in the martial arts world have become the main force in purchasing "Leopard" pistols. In this troubled times, everyone needs one or two powerful tools to protect their lives.

The three new big buyers are the most happy. These three big buyers are the leading figures of the "Shaanxi Gang" that occupy half of the Chengdu business world. They have extremely lacked pistols and have no purchasing channels. They have already heard of the news. Through the secret contacts with West China Company through the various guild halls of the "Shaanxi Gang" in Chengdu, they have formed a strong purchasing power: the first time the three big customers from the "Shaanxi Gang" bought out three thousand "Leopard" shell guns, two thousand imitation Colt m1903 pistols and 800,000 bullets, and generously promised to advance all payments.

For this reason, Xiao Yiming personally invited three major clients to the banquet and asked the reason during the meal to find out:

The caravans that have been traveling between Sichuan and Shaanxi for many years have greatly reduced their losses since they equipped the shell guns and Colt pistols, and the roads have been smoother and smoother. In particular, the "Leopard" shell guns produced by West China Company were authorized by the German Mauser Company, which has become the favorite self-defense weapon of caravan martial artists. The reputation of "Leopard" shell guns with excellent workmanship and powerful firepower has spread to Lanzhou and Dihua. More and more members of the Northwest garrison and Jianghu Gang like this beautiful pistol with many loads, long range and "very proud and majestic" one after another.

After learning that West China Company had limited production capacity, the only request made by the three major customers was that the sooner the delivery, the better, and the price was not a problem! They expressed their hope to sign a long-term purchase contract with West China Company, and the monthly purchase volume was no less than 3,000 units.

Xiao Yiming did not agree on the spot, but asked the three old seniors to wait patiently for a few days before he could give a clear reply after he discussed with the German engineer in charge of the factory.

Three days later, Xiao Yiming rushed to the banquet jointly held by the three old seniors at the Shaanxi Association as promised, and brought a newly produced twenty-round magazine "Leopard" wrench gun, a very exquisite and beautiful "Leopard" carved ox horn grip revolver.

As soon as the two pistols were placed on the table, the three old seniors and their mentors were green in their eyes, and they took turns to play with them and couldn't put them down. When they learned that the exquisite and handy "Leopard" 1910 revolver pistol was only priced at 25 oceans, the tall and fat old man Qin made a decision on the spot: "Brother Xiao, I want this gun, at least 300 per month!"

The other two people thought about it briefly and made decisions one after another: "Buy one hundred pieces for the first time, and if the sales are good, then discuss it."

Xiao Yiming smiled apologetically and said, "I'm really sorry for the two seniors. The materials and processing procedures of this revolver are very particular. It's very difficult for our West China Company to meet the order volume of Senior Qin. Sorry! In addition, this gun has been repeatedly inspected by dozens of military and police officers in the Governor's Office, the Military Control Department of the Patrol and the Police Academy. It has been designated as a standard weapon for police officers across Sichuan Province. The order volume of police officers in Chengdu and government offices alone has exceeded 3,000. West China Company must deliver all the goods before the Spring Festival, so it is impossible to agree to the two seniors. Please forgive me!"

Several seniors in the business world took a breath: Three thousand! There are only three thousand in Chengdu alone, which shows how high the quality and popularity of this pistol is in Chengdu. If it can open up the joints of several provinces in the northwest provinces, how much profit would be there!

The two old men who were one step late regretted it. Mr. Qin was in a very comfortable mood - exclusive business! What does the mall pay attention to? Don’t you just watch the eyes and listen to all directions? Don’t you just make quick decisions and step ahead of others? You two old men are more tender than me, and you haven’t fully understood Xiao Ge’er’s ability and confidence, so you can only watch me make money, haha!

The successful development of the Northwest weapons market brought huge profits to Xiao Yiming and his group. In the midst of joy, Xiao Yiming was not lost. He immediately made an amazing decision: bring Mr. Wu Dachuan, who has become the number one in Hongmen in Chengdu, and further implement concessions based on the original sales cooperation. West China Company will only undertake sales tasks for the army and governments at all levels in the future, and the rest will be shipped by brothers from Chengdu Hongmen, thus tying the increasingly powerful Hongmen in Chengdu tightly on its own chariot.

Luo Defa and Zhuang Sen were very puzzled by this decision, but received strong support from Ma Gang, Fan Chunlin, Deng Hanxuan and Qu Lao Fuzi. Xiao Yiming explained the current situation in detail and analyzed the possible difficulties in the future. He also obtained the consent of Zhuang Sen and Luo Defa. After all, Xiao Yiming himself is one of the elder brothers of the "Yi generation" of the Hongmen. While taking care of his brothers, he also provided an important insurance for the group company. Why not do it?

Mr. Wu was grateful and admired Xiao Yiming. It can be said that his current status and rapidly growing power came from Xiao Yiming's strong help. Otherwise, Wu Dachuan would still be the one who led seven or eight hundred brothers who were suffering, guarding more than a hundred small wooden boats, and was eager to live a life of more than two hundred horse-drawn carriages. There would be no such thing as two thousand rickshaw cars today, more than five hundred new horse-drawn carriages, more than three hundred new wooden boats and three big business companies.

Mr. Wu has long regarded Xiao Yiming as his nephew and the biggest constituent of the Hongmen in Everbright Chengdu. Now that he has obtained the profitable arms sales rights, why don’t he feel deeply moved?

As for the risks, Mr. Wu, who has been struggling in the world for half his life, did not see it, but looked down on it: "You will choke to death when you eat, so why are you doing no risks?"

Mr. Wu’s meaning represents the attitude of the three thousand children of the Hongmen in Chengdu, and was strongly supported by the elders and guardians of the gang. Mr. Wu immediately selected fifty outstanding people from the three thousand children. Under the personal leadership of the second son of the Wu family, he quickly participated in the profitable arms transaction, and Xiao Yiming would also provide them with the greatest support in all aspects.

In the chaotic times, an arms production and sales group with a tight organization and powerful force quietly took shape, and had a far-reaching impact on the black and white areas of the southwest and northwest provinces.
Chapter completed!