Super dictator.

At night, Su Zhiniang was busy, preparing a farewell ceremony for Wei Jichen in her room.

In fact, Wei Jichen didn't need it at all, he had super space, he could throw it in at will, but Su Zhiniang's affection didn't make him say anything.

Instead, he sat at the table and quietly watched her carefully fold her clothes and put away her shoes.

"Sir, isn't Zhiniang very useless, she can only do what these ordinary women do." Su Zhiniang raised her head, and suddenly said such a sentence without thinking.

Wei Jichen was taken aback, confused.

Su Zhiniang neatly put away the package, put it on the table, and continued: "I heard that Miss Nie has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she is outstanding in martial arts. She can help you a lot, and even saved his life."

Su Zhiniang has been by Wei Jichen's side for so long, and she would often hear the soldiers around him talk about Nie Cairong who loved military uniforms but not red makeup, so she naturally wanted to compare herself with her.

Wei Jichen stood up, walked forward, gently hugged her soft waist from behind, and said seriously: "How can it be, each of you is a fairy above the nine heavens in my heart, to be favored by you, that is I, Wei Jichen, cultivated a blessing in my previous life."

"But..." Su Zhiniang waited to say more.

Wei Jichen interrupted softly: "Cai Rong has a carefree temper, like a little sister, who needs my care, and you are as gentle as water, always able to take care of everything, and always take care of my life, the two of them have their own merits, No matter what, I can't do without anyone."

"Then why didn't Mr. Cai Rong take over?" Su Zhiniang smiled sweetly, and then asked a little puzzled.

Wei Jichen sighed, and said distressedly: "If the name is not right, then the words will not go well. If you stay by my side all the time, I'm afraid it will tarnish her reputation. She can only stay by my side for a long time unless you get married. It aroused the jealousy of some people in the court, and Nie Shuai trained more than 2 Wu Yi troops in Tianjin, once Cai Rong and I get married, it will make some people sleepless, so I have to wrong her for the time being."

Su Zhiniang persuaded, "Sir, I don't understand - military affairs, but I know what it's like for a woman to wait hard."

Wei Jichen felt a pain in his heart, and the scene of the little girl wishing him to marry her day and night emerged in his mind.

A few days ago, I just received a letter from the little girl. Although the letter did not mention a single word in this regard, Wei Jichen could imagine that she must have been looking forward to it day and night, otherwise she would not write frequently, telling me that she was alone at home. How boring.

Nie Cairong is a woman who dares to love and hate, she can't hide anything.

He must think of a way to get the best of both worlds to solve this matter, Wei Jichen made a decision in his heart, and felt relieved.

Seeing Su Zhiniang nestling in his arms motionless again, Wei Jichen smiled wryly in his heart and said: I am really a passionate person, holding one in my arms, but thinking about the other one in my mind, one is far away across the ocean, and the capital is still there It is one, now, still pity the person in front of him.

Wei Jichen bowed his head and whispered in Su Zhiniang's ear: "Zhiniang, aren't you afraid that Cairong will break me up when Cairong comes?"

Su Zhiniang blushed and muttered: "Zhiniang knows that Mr. is not a person who loves the new and dislikes the old."

Wei Jichen sighed suddenly, and said softly: "I suddenly found out, Zhiniang, you have one thing that is not as good as Cairong."

Su Zhiniang's body trembled, her complexion darkened by half.

Wei Jichen laughed, then bit Su Zhiniang's ear and whispered a few words: "Although Cai Rong didn't really get married by me, but she..."

Su Zhiniang's complexion immediately changed from gloomy to extremely bright red, her beautiful eyes widened, she wrinkled her pink nose and said coquettishly, "Zhiniang, Zhiniang can't, you are too...why... how can you let people use your mouth. "

"No, it doesn't matter, I'll teach you." Wei Jichen hugged Su Zhiniang and fell to the head of the bed.

The next day, Wei Jichen set off from Lushunkou with dozens of entourages in good spirits and headed straight for Jinzhou.

Wei Jichen started to inspect Liaodong, but the land of Liaoxi was full of blood and blood.

Since the heads of Dujiabao were assassinated, the heads of Longtoushan, Qingfengzhai, and Shilibao have been killed one after another. Some people rumored that it was revenge, some rumors were for money, and some even rumored that this was sent by the Qing court. Killer, specifically to assassinate them horse thieves and bandits.

For a while, the people in the green forest were panicked, and the leaders on the road were all in danger, staying at home, and strengthening the guards around them.

However, this mysterious force seems to have the power to reach the heavens. Several masters even died beside their own beds, and were not discovered by their subordinates until the next day.

Of course, the government applauded this matter, they wished more people would die, but in this storm, no one noticed, no one counted, most of the new leaders of horse thieves and bandits were just A newcomer who has not been involved in the green forest industry for a long time.

Moreover, each of these newcomers has extraordinary skills and outstanding abilities, and can quickly stabilize the situation after the storm, making the green forest immediately calm after the storm.

If it weren't for the death of so many heads, the people in the green forest would have thought it was a dream.

Of course, the happiest person was Wei Jichen, who earned a large amount of merit points almost every day. By the time he arrived in Haicheng, his merit points had skyrocketed from more than 8 points to more than 18 points.

However, Wei Jichen knew that this was a one-shot deal. After all the bandits and horse thieves in western Liaoning were subdued, unless he sent more troops to the other two provinces, his income would only decrease.

As for dispatching to the other two provinces, the current manpower is simply not enough. Of course, Wei Jichen will not let the field personnel who have become bandit leaders anymore. Now is a good time to cleanse them and become regular , because Yiktanga has already controlled the political situation in Fengtian Province, the next step is naturally to stabilize the situation in Fengtian Province.

For these mountain bandits and horse thieves, Yi Ketang'a was prepared in two ways. To deal with the bandits, he naturally focused on extermination, and to deal with ordinary bandits, he turned the robbers into good ones and turned private groups into public groups.

And it is even more impossible for the A team to go undercover bandits and horse bandits. They have a more important role. The A team now has 556 members, of which more than 50 old members have already taken action. Some went to Guangdong, Guangxi, and some went to Beijing and Tianjin. regions, and some even went to North Korea.

In the secret base, except for a few necessary old team members staying behind, the rest are newcomers. The task of these newcomers at this stage is to pass the test of suppressing bandits. In the next step, they will continue to train various skills until they pass the test of loyalty. They will be sent out to various places to lurk as undercover agents.

Haicheng has now become a hub, and various factories and mines have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Although Guangxu wants to reform the law, the imperial court encourages the establishment of private factories and companies, but support is one thing. You become an official businessman, otherwise you will be rewarded just for showing respect to local governments.

However, Liaodong is sparsely populated and the local forces are not very complicated. Wei Jichen was able to carry out large-scale reforms. In addition to the necessary taxes, he exempted many miscellaneous taxes and formulated rewards for the company's articles of association. When it comes to military and political secrets, Wei Jichen will give the green light.

We must know that in the Qing Dynasty, it was not that some enlightened landlords and gentlemen did not want to start industries, but because all walks of life needed official approval to start a new economy. The government often set up monopoly privileges and did not allow private capital to enter freely.

The reason why Wei Jichen dared to do this was because in July, the imperial court issued an imperial edict: "According to the current affairs of Chinese and foreign ministers... such as repairing railways, minting banknotes, making machines, opening various mines, turning south , Reduce the number of troops, create a postal service, train the army, reorganize the navy, and establish schools; about raising wages and training troops is the urgent task; it is based on the principle of helping merchants and workers. This should be carried out in time."

The last sentence shows that the direction of the imperial court has changed. From suppressing private capital, it is trying to protect and support private capital. furious.

Not to mention that there is no Bank of China in China, and they are all foreigners' banks. Even in terms of transportation, the big powers are sharpening their knives and want to contract to build railways in China.

If the imperial court remains unchanged, in the end, the big powers will completely control the lifeline of China's economy, and the Qing government is not far from extinction. Therefore, life and death force this autocratic government to relax its control and let the common people get a certain amount of economic freedom.

In the Fengtian Coal and Iron Administration, Wei Jichen sat in the main seat, Zhou Fu and Yan Dunyuan sat in the second seats, and they were discussing coal and iron matters.

"Unexpectedly, General Wei also researched the matter of iron smelting. It's really rare." Zhou Fu first said with emotion.

The Hanyang Iron Works owned by Zhang Zhidong has been running for more than seven years, but it has been losing money every year. Not to mention Zhang Zhidong lost all his money, he still owes a huge sum of 500 million taels, so he asked Sheng Xuanhuai to take over.

Apart from the fact that it was originally run by the government, and the officials played their hands up and down, the most important thing was that it was cheated by foreigners.

Daye iron ore contains a lot of phosphorus, and it is smelted in a Martin furnace with dephosphorization method in foreign countries. Zhang Zhidong bought the wrong furnace, and the iron produced is unqualified, brittle and easy to break, and the quality is not up to standard, so it cannot be used as rails. Waiting for the purpose to use, I was cheated by foreigners when I first bought this stove.

Then, even if you were cheated when you bought the stove, you just need to replace the equipment immediately. However, since it was a new thing in the Qing Dynasty, no one understood it at all, so we had to rely on foreigners. Countless foreign technicians were hired in the Hanyang Iron Works. It is not a problem at all in a foreign country. Wei Jichen believes that even if one or two of those foreign technicians are mediocre, there will still be some talents, but they insist on seven years without pointing it out.

Because once the Hanyang Iron Works smelts good iron and steel, needless to say, first of all, the rails will no longer be imported from foreign countries, and other iron and steel such as shipbuilding and bullets are impossible to import, and all will be changed. It is made in China, so foreigners will suffer heavy losses, so they are all paid high salaries and turn a blind eye.

This incident is very famous in history. The iron and steel industry is a pillar industry of the country. It is because the Chinese people do not understand that the Chinese iron and steel industry "wasted more than ten years of time and exhausted more than tens of millions of costs". The loss is extremely painful. , so Wei Jichen remembers it very clearly.

So when I thought of building an iron factory, I remembered this matter, and immediately sent a telegram to Sheng Xuanhuai who had just taken over the Hanyang Iron Factory. Although Sheng Xuanhuai had doubts about Wei Jichen, a layman, he still sent people to investigate abroad. Sure enough, this is the reason.