Chapter 54: War Money
Song Biao is also a person who acts on intuition many times, and he has a hunch that he really can't gamble in the Russo-Russian War anymore, so he wants to leave immediately. The next morning, he again contacted Brigadier General Madenidov of the General Staff of the Russian Far Eastern Army through Major Turgenier.
Hearing that Song Biao had returned to Yangguantun, Brigadier General Madenidorf was still very surprised, because this violated military law, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that the military law of the Tsarist Russian Empire did not seem to be very good to directly control Song Biao.
Because Song Biao's sudden return was more special and strange, Brigadier General Madenidorf quietly came to meet with Song Biao in the afternoon, and when he arrived at Yangguantun, Song Biao was discussing with others about selling grain, which was secretly helped by Major Turgenier, and now all the conditions have been met, and the old gold head has also reached an agreement with several local rice shops on the sale, and now he is waiting for the grain to be transported to Shenyang City to sell rice secretly.
It is almost impossible to sell it publicly, because the Russian army is extremely strict in this regard.
When Brigadier General Madenidoff entered the room, Song Biao asked Xue Changqing and the others to avoid it temporarily, and he sat down with Brigadier General Madenidorff alone for a detailed discussion.
When the tea was brought up, Brigadier General Madenidorf didn't even take a sip of tea, so he asked Song Biao, "Why did you come back at this time?" ”
Song Biao sighed: "I have a large number of casualties now, and I don't have enough manpower at all, I will come back to recruit new people in person, and I also want to ask the brigadier general, when can I be transferred back, I am currently in the family kiln but you are all used as a regular army, as far as our people and horses, the brigadier general is very clear, there is no formal training at all, if you really want to fight a tough battle, I have to die on the ground, maybe it will ruin the major affairs of the Russian army." ”
Brigadier General Madenidov did not dare to deny that he had indeed lied in order to promote this matter, and now he had made two great contributions to Song Biao's department, and he himself was confused and didn't know what was going on.
After a little thought, Brigadier General Madenidov and Song Biao said: "I contacted General Mishuchenko some time ago, and he praised your Manchurian infantry regiment very much, and said that you also intend to continue fighting, and I don't want you to leave, so it is not easy for me to forcibly transfer you back to suppress the bandits." ”
Song Biao said: "You still help, find a way to transfer my team back to suppress the bandits, and if you continue to fight, it will be a large-scale battle, and I really can't afford to fight with this bit of strength and combat quality." I'm not afraid of Xiao Yuben, but I'm telling the truth, luck can't be eaten, I have touched two big lucks in a row, it doesn't mean that I will always be so lucky. ”
Brigadier General Madenidov laughed and said, "It's too late to say this now, besides, some things are not as simple as luck." In fact, during this time, I happened to transfer some troops to encircle and suppress the bandits in the Tonghua and Hunjiang areas, and I originally intended to transfer you over, which was originally the plan, but according to your current situation, I really can't move a little, even if I speak, the Second Army and General Mishuchenko will definitely not agree. ”
Song Biao could only smile bitterly and said: "Then I have to ask the brigadier general to think of more ways, if I am transferred back to fight the bandits, you can rest assured, I dare not say anything else, at least there will be absolutely nothing on the line of Tonghua, even if the army sends a wing over, I can find a suitable place to fight with them." ”
Brigadier General Madenidov couldn't help but be a little moved, and pondered for a long time before saying, "In this way, you are not in a hurry to go back in the next two days, and I will discuss it with Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin." General Mishuchenko wrote a separate letter to the Commander-in-Chief about your affairs, which is very appreciative, especially for you personally, and the Commander-in-Chief admires you very much, and I will see if I can arrange for you to meet with the Commander-in-Chief, and if you have any ideas, you can directly tell His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief face to face. Now that the general battle is imminent, it is not a good thing to transfer troops from here, and it is not convenient for me, so you still have to fight for many things yourself. ”
Song Biao could only nod and said, "Okay, then let's do it." ”
He was a little emotionally emotional, it was estimated that he really had to make preparations for this matter, if his troops were really disabled in the area of Jiayao, he would have to find another way to keep one.
After sending Brigadier General Madenidoff away, Song Biao pondered in his heart that he had to find a way to transport some of the supplies back to Niujiabao, so that Yang Tiesheng could continue to recruit a group of brothers over there and build another Hunjiang brigade.
It's just that...... You have to think things through, too.
What if his side is disabled, and Yang Tiesheng has a Hunjiang brigade in his hand and starts a new stove?
Although Yang Tiesheng doesn't seem to be that kind of person, many things are really not certain.
After thinking about it left and right, he still decided to believe Yang Tiesheng and send a batch of supplies to Niujiabao, so that Yang Tiesheng could find a way to form another brigade of troops and stabilize his position as much as possible.
After thinking about these things clearly, he secretly called Zhang Yahu and Xue Changqing over and instructed them to prepare to transfer some personnel from the transport brigade to transport 1,000 30-year-old rifles and ammunition back to Niujiabao as soon as possible.
Not only that, Song Biao also planned to transfer a Russian [***] officer who knew a little Chinese from Kornilov to return to Niujiapu together and serve as the chief instructor in Niujiabao to strengthen the regular training of the Hunjiang Brigade.
In the two days when he was waiting to meet with the commander-in-chief of the Tsarist Far Eastern Army, Kuropatkin, Song Biao was not idle, he had been doing these things, and he also went around the city of Shenyang to see the price of grain.
Nowadays, nothing else in Shenyang is not expensive, but the price of grain is ridiculously expensive, basically there is no market, in previous years, a load of rice was only a dozen oceans, if the price of a load of rice is at least 120 foreign yuan, the price of grain has soared, but the price of land has fallen sharply.
Especially in Liaozhong, Liaoyang, Shenyang, Fushun, Haicheng area, in the past, a piece of land could sell 50 quintals of rice, but now even the best land can only be exchanged for three quintals of rice, this price is not only Shenyang City, but everywhere is the same, all large and small households are in a hurry to sell land to escape famine, who can know how long this battle will have to be fought, and some people say that after the battle is over, the land belongs to themselves and the Russians.
Song Biao walked around the city of Shenyang, and he found a very outrageous business opportunity, if he could transport grain to Shenyang and the surrounding places to sell at a high price for land deeds, and when the Russian War ended, he might be able to buy 20,000 yuan of land.
When Zhang Zuolin was the strongest in the Northeast, he only had 60,000 yuan of land in his hands, and at that time he claimed to have 60 million silver yuan.
Song Biao thought that if he did a good job in this deal, when the war was over, he would sell the 20,000 yuan of land, and he would immediately transfer it to 12 million silver yuan, where to find such a good deal.
Thinking of the huge profits in this, he has already made up his mind to make a lot of money.
In addition to making huge profits from grain and land prices, there are also many benefits that can be earned in other aspects, and the Russians have forcibly expropriated a lot of things in the Shenyang area, which are useless in the future, and he wants to eat them at a low price, and he can also make a lot of money later.
He can even bribe the Russians to get the Russian army to grab a ticket for him, and then he will sell it at a low price in rubles later.
In these years, whoever is a good person suffers, Song Biao only wants to strengthen his strength now, saying that after the end of the Russian War, the Northeast is in turmoil, whoever has the strength is the king of the Northeast, Song Biao does not want to miss such a good opportunity.
After thinking clearly, Song Biao took the opportunity to stay in Shenyang in the past two days to have dinner with Major Turgenier several times in a row, and then sent a ruble ticket, asking him to help him and introduce more Russian friends to make a fortune together.
Major Turgenier was in charge of logistics at the Commander-in-Chief's General Staff, knew the most people, and soon introduced a group of friends to Song Biao, who was also generous and scattered more than half of the ruble tickets in his hand.
When dealing with these Russian military friends, Song Biao unexpectedly heard two more interesting news.
One said that the former commander of Lushun, Stessel, served as the commander-in-chief of the Russian army when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Yanjing, and robbed a large number of jewelry, porcelain, calligraphy and paintings from the Forbidden City, which is said to be worth 800,000 taels of silver.
After Stessel led his army to surrender, the tsar said that he would try him for capital crimes, and his wife was eager to sell the supplies in Harbin, wanting to exchange money to lobby other bureaucrats.
The other said that the infantry regiment of the Russian army stationed in the Shengjing Palace was guarding and stealing, and kept taking out the things in the palace for sale, and many buyers even said that they were themselves, because this matter was very ironic, and there were widespread rumors within the Russian army.
Therefore, it is a good thing to have more friends, and all kinds of secret news can be heard.
These two things are very special, the speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Song Biao keeps these two things in mind and ponders them, he always feels that it is profitable, he has always felt that his intuition is very keen, and he also likes to follow his feelings.