Although the new high-level has not yet officially taken office, it is actually the same group of people, so the work of various departments has not been handed over, and it is still carried out normally.

On December 20, 1906, the first Executive Yuan of East China held its last executive meeting, and this meeting had a total of three key topics:

One is Qin Zheng's report on the situation in the Northeast, now East China has successfully negotiated with Japan, there is only the last target Russia, although the pressure has been greatly reduced, but it does not mean that you can sit back and relax, Bi Jing's current Northeast, but also contain more than 6 percent of the army strength in East China, not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also forces East China not to send Qin Zheng to the Northeast to sit in the town, so as long as Russia does not give in, East China will be difficult to devote all its energy to economic and industrial development. And the next important goal of East China is to force Russia to submit as well.

If East China's rule in Northeast China is stable, and the social order in Northeast China is normal, of course, it will be beneficial for East China to subdue Russia, and vice versa, and the Northeast will be the focus of East China's next development and development.

The second key topic is to summarize the work of the first 5 years in East China, in fact, this is also the normal work of the end of each session, because there will be a summary of the work at the end of the year every year, so everyone basically understands the situation in East China, but the current situation is somewhat special, the reparations of Britain, France and the Netherlands have been received, the handover of Borneo has also been completed, and Japan will also pay reparations at the beginning of next year, these are new variables, of course, they also need to be explained.

And the last topic is the real theme of this meeting, in the next 5 years, what is the main goal of East China, although before this battlefield, East China has basically reached a consensus, that is, after the end of the war, East China will be based on the development of the economy and the construction of industry, but how long is this development period, whether it includes the 5-year term of office of this ** official, has not yet been determined. One of the most important problems was that during these five years, a war was waged to completely overthrow the Qing court and unify China.

Although the Qing court has no strength now, after all, it is a hundred-legged insect, dead but not stiff, and due to the inertia of history, there is still a strong call for moves, although it is not enough to pose a substantial threat to East China, but it is still possible to create some trouble for East China, so as long as the Qing court exists for a day, East China will not be able to devote itself wholeheartedly to development.

What's more, the development of industry, the completion of industrialization is not achieved overnight, even if the five years of time are used, it is impossible to build the current East China into an industrial society, so the first to completely overthrow the Qing court, unify China, although it will slow down the speed of development, but can concentrate the country's manpower and material resources, unified planning, to develop the economy, the establishment of industrialization, do not have to worry about any constraints. Moreover, with the current strength of East China, there is no suspense in defeating or even overthrowing the Qing court. Therefore, how to weigh these two plans is, of course, to be seriously discussed.

Of course, in order to completely overthrow the Qing court and unify China, it is necessary to first stabilize the areas occupied by this war, that is, the three northeastern provinces.

When Qin Zheng returned to Qingdao from Shenyang, he had already prepared a summary report for the Northeast, so he also summarized it very calmly at this time.

At present, the People's Army has deployed four corps in the northeast region, one of which has only two divisions and two regiments, totaling 14 divisions and 11 regiments, three armored train formations, one cavalry brigade (including three cavalry regiments), and another vehicle-mounted self-propelled artillery formation, including six 200-mm artillery pieces, and a vehicle-towed artillery formation, including 18 155-mm field guns, totaling about 280,000 troops, and about 500,000 logistics personnel.

The distribution of the strength of the body is that 5 divisions, 3 regiments, a cavalry regiment, an armored train formation, and 2 200 mm vehicle-mounted self-propelled guns are arranged in Manchuria, totaling about 100,000 troops.

Other areas are: three divisions are deployed in Vladivostok; two divisions and one regiment are arranged along the Yalu River; one division and three regiments, one cavalry regiment, and one armored train formation are each arranged along the Binzhou Line and Binsui Line of the Eastern Eastern Railway; and two divisions, two regiments, one cavalry regiment, and one armored train formation are arranged along the Harbin-Dalian Line section. On the whole, the KPA's defense forces in the entire northeastern region are still sufficient.

After nearly one year of rectification, the basic social order in the Tohoku region has generally returned to normal, and the economy is also recovering, and it is almost close to the pre-war level in the big cities. The establishment of the administrative body in East China has also covered all the big cities, and when Qin Zheng left, it was radiating to the county seat.

By the time Qin Zheng left Shenyang, the People's Army had exterminated a total of 126 bandits, destroyed 84 bandit holes, killed 5,832 bandits, arrested 18,562 bandits, and executed 2,268 bandits who committed the most heinous crimes and had a large public outrage. Important county seats, towns and other places will basically no longer be invaded by bandits, which is also an important reason for the restoration of normal social order in Northeast China, and has also won a lot of prestige and popular support for East China and the People's Army.

Another gain from the suppression of bandits is that they took the opportunity of suppressing bandits to incorporate a number of local armed forces in Northeast China, such as Zhang Zuolin, Feng Linge, Ma Rulong and others, who have also defected to the banner of East China. Because these local armed forces are all locals, familiar with the terrain and topography, some of them were originally bandits, and they are quite familiar with the mentality and action rules of bandits, and some people have acquaintances in many bandit gangs, so they have played a great role in the work of suppressing bandits, and have also made considerable contributions to the stability of the situation in East China and Northeast China.

Of course, because the current war has not yet ended, these local armed forces in the northeast region still have considerable independence, and the relationship with East China is relatively loose, but at the same time as suppressing bandits, East China has also shown them strong strength, I believe that with the end of the war, East China can gradually and completely digest and absorb these local armed forces in the northeast.

In addition, the prisoners of the Japanese and Russian armies, as well as the labor force captured from Japan, were mainly resettled by establishing farms, and now 22 farms have been established, and the number of people on each farm ranges from 8,000 to 10,000, and the personnel are mainly labor captured from Japan. In addition, there were 5 engineering teams, ranging from 40,000 to 50,000 people each, and the prisoners of the Japanese and Russian armies were mainly responsible for building railways, highways and other road facilities.

At the same time, the Northeast region has also provided about 150,000 laborers to Shandong, mainly laborers captured from Japan, technicians and skilled workers captured by the Japanese and Russian troops, and about 200,000 laborers have been provided to Henan, which are being transferred to Henan one after another. A total of about 650,000 laborers are employed, but there are about 200,000 or so laborers who are concentrated in Lushun's unified management, waiting for placement, and receiving simple Chinese education.

Qin Zheng also gave a special explanation of the situation of the farm, the current establishment of farms are mainly distributed in Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province along the 20-30 kilometers of the Middle East Railway, the implementation of fully closed management, the farm perimeter is built more than 3 meters high walls, the periphery also dug a 6-8 wide, 2 meters deep trench, one is to prevent people from escaping from the farm, the other is to guard against bandits and wild beasts.

Each farm has 2-4 traversers as the main person in charge, plus 25-30 naturalized personnel, and about 200 logistics personnel, and also stationed 1 company of troops, traversers and naturalized personnel are armed with guns, and logistics personnel are also equipped with about 50 rifles, so as to ensure that each farm has more than 200 various guns, as well as a small number of machine guns, can completely suppress the labor force on the farm.

The main purpose of the farm is to develop the land around the perimeter, as well as to raise live, but of course it has not yet begun to cultivate, because the area where the farm is established is basically wasteland, during this time, the main work of the farm is to build the basic facilities of the farm, which is to prepare for cultivation, including leveling the site, cutting trees and weeds, draining and filling water, spreading ash and fertilizing, building roads, digging canals, building fences, Water conservancy and temporary rest facilities outside the farm will be built, and some of the land will be able to be cultivated after the beginning of spring this year. Of course, instead of planting crops, we will plant plants that will fertilize the land, and we will not be able to grow crops until the next year, and we will have to wait at least three years before we can fully plant them.

For farm personnel, that is, the management of the Japanese, at present, the method of collective management is still adopted, the men are mainly responsible for heavy physical labor, the women are responsible for logistics support, and some non-heavy physical labor, and about 1 hour of Chinese learning every night, and strive to make every Japanese have basic Chinese communication skills within one year. One day off every 10 days, and one recreation is organized every month.

Of course, the current farm is still in its infancy, and the future development, model, and management of the farm, as well as the positioning, rights and interests of the Japanese working on the farm, etc., all need to be discussed and decided by East China, but Qin Zheng has also drawn up a preliminary plan, but at this meeting, he will not explain it specifically.