Song Biao's first article in the implementation of the new policy in the northeast is to respect Xunzi's thought of "respecting the virtuous, respecting the law and loving the people", and his understanding of "respecting the law and loving the people" is very simple, first of all, at least there is a law to follow, if there is no relevant law, the so-called new policy, no matter how much emphasis on innovation and self-improvement and love for the people like a child, will eventually become another means of exploiting the people.

After inviting Wang Chonghui and Zhang Kangren, two Chinese law doctors who are most proficient in the modern Western legal system, Song Biao has been secretly preparing for the introduction of the new law, and has been constantly discussing and deliberating among the subordinates of the Secretariat and the New Political Bureau.

Time was pressing, and Song Biao could not wait for a year or two before promulgating a new law that was perfect and acceptable to all parties, so he could only try his best to refer to the translations of the laws of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, and first introduce several urgent and urgent provisional statutes of the new law in the shortest possible time, which would first be used to implement the new policy.

On March 20, 1906, this day was a brand new day for the Northeast New Deal and the entire three eastern provinces, and on this day, the inaugural issue of the "Northeast Daily" was published, and China's first real editorial -- "On the New Deal of the Three Eastern Provinces" -- was published, and the commentator's pen name was Song Zhizhong, who used more than 7,000 words to clearly explain the program of the Northeast New Deal's "honoring the virtuous, respecting the law and loving the people".

In the sub-edition, the Northeast Newspaper published the "Law on Preferential Treatment of Industrial Investment Promotion in the Three Eastern Provinces" and the "New Deal Tax Law of the Three Eastern Provinces", the former formally determined that all Chinese and foreign new-style factories in the three eastern provinces can enjoy a three-year preferential treatment, the first year is exempt from business tax and income tax, and the income tax is halved in the second and third years, but the land appreciation tax will not be reduced or reduced in the process.

The "New Deal Tax Law of the Three Eastern Provinces" has established a modern Western-style tax system for the three eastern provinces, adding five new taxes: land transaction tax, land value-added tax, real estate tax, income tax, and stamp duty, and at the same time abolishing the per capita tax, and the personal income is to be implemented in a simple and unified manner, and all annual income exceeding 200 taels of silver will be levied 15% of the individual income tax, and the rest of the non-tax laws will be exempted from all exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

According to the new tax system designed by Zhang Kangren, in addition to the real estate industry, the overall tax revenue of the three eastern provinces is much lower than that of Russia and other countries, and the abandonment of the per capita tax has also opened the floodgates for the comprehensive reclamation of the three eastern provinces and the flow of industrial and agricultural population.

At the same time as the introduction of the "New Deal Tax Law of the Three Eastern Provinces", Song Biao asked Li Enfu to buy advertisements in mainstream newspapers in Europe and the United States such as the "New York Times", explaining in detail the new policies and various preferential policies of the three eastern provinces, and inviting enterprises and individuals from the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Russia to invest and work in the three eastern provinces.

At the same time as inviting a large-scale influx of foreign capital, Song Biao also stepped up the layout of national enterprises, sent special personnel to Ningbo, Shanxi, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hong Kong, Hangzhou and other areas with intensive national capital, and invited various businessmen to invest in industries in the three eastern provinces.

Although each letter was handled by the Secretariat on his behalf, Song Biao still showed his sincerity as the governor of the three eastern provinces, described the development space of the three eastern provinces in the next ten years, and promised to personally help them solve some difficulties in setting up factories and schools.

In the economic development of the three eastern provinces, Song Biao's will is very firm; he would rather hand over all the industries of the three eastern provinces to foreign capital, but also reduce imports and increase exports; even if there are no national capitalists, he must increase sufficient industrial and commercial employment rates and tax revenues, so that silver and gold can flow in, not outflow; only when the three eastern provinces and the people get rich first can they carry out new-style education, and only with new-style education can they cultivate modern talents; and at the same time, with the Chinese's own financial strength and political axe, then sooner or later national enterprises can be developed.

Of course, Song Biao's confidence in daring to introduce foreign capital on such a large scale lies in the fact that he himself owns a Far Eastern Commercial Bank, and through the Far Eastern Bank, the Far Eastern Coal and Iron Company, the Far Eastern Railway Company, the Far Eastern Real Estate Company, the Far Eastern Textile Mill, the Far Eastern Printing Company, the Far Eastern Pharmaceutical Company, the Far Eastern Machinery Company, the Far Eastern Steamship Company, and the Far Eastern Telephone Company, Song Biao also took the opportunity to invest in industry on a large scale.

Zhang Kangren served as the chief director of the Northeast Bank, and Rong Xingqiao served as the chief director of the Far Eastern Bank, and the two banks were founded at the same time, almost two brands of one bank at the beginning stage, and they were separated after March, one headquarters was located in Shenyang, the other was located in Dalian, and the Fengtian Far East Stock Exchange was also set up at this time.

The three eastern provinces started a new policy in this wave and moved in a new direction.

In April, Song Biao successively reached a financial management agreement with Russia, France, Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom in the three eastern provinces, formally adopted a new financial management system, and issued the Kanto silver yuan and the Kanto copper yuan on the basis of the silver standard.

As a concession, Song Biao agreed to add two more note-issuing banks to the original three note-issuing banks, and guaranteed that at least one of them would be foreign-funded banks, but all note-issuing banks would have to comply with a 35% margin, and none of the four commercial banks would be allowed to issue copper yuan bills, and the Northeast Bank would still have a monopoly on copper dollar bills.

At this point, Song Biao used the railway plan of the three eastern provinces as a bait and concession, completed the financial management rights he wanted most, and unified the currencies of the three eastern provinces.

In the following months, Song Biao continued to sign secret treaties and friendly trade agreements with other countries in the name of the political axe of the three eastern provinces, so as to stabilize the cornerstone of the new policies of the three eastern provinces, protect the interests of foreign investment, and the reciprocal legitimate rights and interests of the capital of the three eastern provinces in foreign investment, especially in the "Constitution of the Three Eastern Provinces of the Great Qing Dynasty and the Russian, French, British, and German Five-Power Entente", which stipulates the basic rights and interests of the five countries and their citizens in the three eastern provinces, and stipulates that the foreign affairs bureaus of the three eastern provinces and the foreign courts in Fengtian are recognized by all countries as having the supreme jurisdiction of the courts. At the same time, the alliance of the interests of the great powers in China was broken by means of secret agreements with other countries.

In this way, Song Biao divided the railway plan of the three eastern provinces into three parts, with the Far Eastern Railway Company and Germany, France, and Britain respectively establishing joint ventures to undertake the construction and operation of the three railway sections, while Russia also agreed to jointly manage the "Kwantung Railway", a branch line of the Middle Eastern Railway from Harbin to Lushun, in the form of a joint venture, with the Far Eastern Railway Company, and the three eastern provinces to recover 50% of the ownership of the Kwantung Railway in the form of installments in the next 20 years.

As part of this ambitious plan, Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole CIB and Standard Chartered Bank will lend £14 million to three joint ventures for the construction of railways in the three eastern provinces.

In the field of education, Song Biao moved Aurora University to Dalian, out of the control of the French Catholic Jesuits, and continued to be headed by Ma Xiangbo, he personally funded and supported the French Catholic Jesuits to establish the Oriental University in Jilin Province, the Russian Orthodox Church founded the Northeast Polytechnical University in Fengtianfu, and the three eastern provinces governors Yamen set up the government-run Northeastern University, Liaoning Normal School, Jilin Normal School, Heilongjiang Normal School, Fengtian Industrial School, Fengtian Commercial School, Liaoning Political Science and Law School, the Women's School of the Three Eastern Provinces, Liaoning Mining School, Fengtian Technical School, Liaoyang Technical School.

With the graduation of the crash course of the normal schools in the three provinces, public schools in various places have also risen, Song Biao tried his best to use a way according to local conditions, spend less money, and let more people go to school and study as much as possible, starting a new life from literacy and reading "Xunzi".

In terms of administrative division and adjustment, after playing the Qing political axe, Song Biao basically did not wait for the Qing political axe to be finalized, and he readjusted the administrative planning of the entire three eastern provinces.

Fengtian Province has established Fengtian, Liaoyang, Tieling, Fuzhou, Jinzhou, Dandong, Fushun Qifu and Jinzhou, Ruizhou and Haicheng three Zhili Prefectures. Liaoyang was changed from a county to a government, and Anshan and Benxi areas were divided into it, and Liaoyang Mansion was established separately, and the government was located in the area of Shahe Town, which was founded as a heavy industry base for the entire three eastern provinces; Jinchuan Road was changed to Jinzhou Prefecture, and Ruizhou County (Suizhong County) was changed to Zhili Prefecture; Xinmin Mansion was abolished, Xinmin County was included in Fengtian Mansion, and Fuzhou Mansion was established on the basis of Fuxin County, which governed Kulun Banner and other places, incorporated the Qing Zheng Axe Ranch, and changed it to Fuzhou Pastoral District; The lighthouse and the middle of Liao were directly assigned to Fengtianfu, and the land of these soldiers was governed by a single government, and a new military camp area was established.

The three prefectures of Jinzhou, Ruizhou, and Haicheng, plus Fengtianfu, Shenyang New District, Jiangnan New District, and Liaoyang Prefecture, are the areas with the most concentrated new policies in Fengtian Province.

Jilin Province set up six prefectures and 14 counties and Yanji Zhili Prefecture, and Heilongjiang Province changed the original eight prefectures to four prefectures and three Zhili prefectures, reducing the establishment of effective management.

In addition to these administrative divisions, Song Biao directly abolished the dual system of banners and people, and the new Han people in the three provinces were not included in the Manchu Han banner, and belonged to the control of the yamen of the three provinces, and were not controlled by the banners.

The new militia patrol system has been adopted in all three provinces, and all counties have unified training patrol detachments, which are under the jurisdiction of the police bureaus of each province, and patrol detachments are set up in each town, and militia teams are set up in each cantonment, and without the approval of the police bureau, all civilian training in all localities is an illegal armed force, and all patrol detachments and detachments are not allowed to levy miscellaneous taxes.

After the establishment of the militia patrol system, Song Biao directly sent veterans out through the Northeast New Army to supervise and train militia units in various places, and the police bureaus of various prefectures and prefectures were also controlled by him, and all of them were under the indirect jurisdiction of the military headquarters of the Northeast New Army for training, including weapons and equipment.

After returning to Mukden from the Liaodong Peninsula, Song Biao became very busy every day, but in this busy work, by June 1906, he had established a set of new policies and regulations for the three eastern provinces, as well as a new diplomatic environment.

The new political axe, the new regulations, the new system, the new army, and the new regional defense system all had a prototype before June 1906, or after it began to be perfected, Song Biao had already established himself in the three eastern provinces, and the Qing political axe had no way to deal with it at all.

Of course, the countries could see that Song Biao had become a scholar in the three eastern provinces, and the major powers, except for the United States and Britain, basically supported this, and even Britain and the two countries believed that this was a suitable way to avoid the three eastern provinces being completely occupied by Russia.

Therefore, when Song Biao no longer agreed with Britain and France to copy the various unequal terms originally signed with the Qing Dynasty in the three eastern provinces, he was able to skillfully use the various treaties and secret treaties at the cost of some concessions and extensive opening up to eliminate some of the provisions that were unfavorable to the three eastern provinces, and in fact made full use of the various countries to support his position of separating and standing on the three eastern provinces.

First of all, various countries have set up consulates general in the three eastern provinces in the Dongta District, and the powers of the consul generals of each consulate are basically the same as those of foreign ministers; even if they do not support the United States, which does not support Song Biao's independence in the three eastern provinces, the consul generals in the three eastern provinces also have the right to be analogous to ambassadors to China.

In terms of foreign trade and tariff agreements, as a result of the Russo-Russian War, Britain gave up its original tariff management and control over the three eastern provinces, and the customs tariffs on goods entering and leaving the three eastern provinces were markedly different from those in the customs, and the tariffs on basic industrial products such as textiles, flour, pig iron, and paper were raised, while the import taxes on machinery, dyes, petroleum, rubber, and copper were markedly lowered, and the export taxes on soybeans and timber were abolished.

In the main open areas, such as Shenyang New District, Jinzhou Zhili Prefecture, Haicheng Zhili Prefecture, Liaoyang, Harbin, Hunchun all have foreign residential areas, commonly known as foreign areas, to settle foreign immigrants, especially Russians, French and French, all have separate Russian, French, English, and Mandarin areas in the foreign area, and in Shenyang New District and Liaoyang, there are also German-speaking areas, and the first Protestant school, Liaoyang Institute of Technology, was founded by the German Church.

After June, the railway plan of the three eastern provinces officially began construction, the western section and Shenyang to Dandong, Anshan to Benxi, Fengtian ring railway belongs to the Far East French railway company, by the French side is responsible for the general construction, Jilin Province and the eastern section of the main branch railway by the German side is responsible for the general construction, Heilongjiang Province and the northern section of the branch railway by the British side and the Russian side of the construction separately, in order to balance the British side and the United States, Dandong to Jinzhou this section of the line is also by the British and American general construction.

Among all railways, the Far Eastern Railway Corporation is a unified head office, which is jointly established by the Far Eastern Railway Company and various countries to undertake the construction and operation, and all equipment and track procurement rights are uniformly vested in the Far Eastern Railway Company.

Each railway branch shall repay the loan for a period of 30 years, and after the loan is repaid for 20 years, the ownership and operation rights of each railway shall be uniformly vested in the Far Eastern Railway Corporation, and the companies of various countries shall still have the right to dividends for a period of 10 years.

Song Biao actually didn't care about the nationalization of the railway, only by building the railway quickly, can the three eastern provinces develop faster, as long as the countries have no right to station troops and do not hinder sovereignty, he does not care who will build it, who will run it.

He only needs to control half of the management rights, and at critical moments, he can freely transport troops, weapons, equipment, and grain and grass supplies.

He didn't even care if he had to control the base of heavy industry, and in Liaoyang, he not only invested in the Far East Iron and Steel Plant himself, but also cooperated with the German-American Erman Brown, whom Shen Deyao introduced. Baines co-founded the Liaoyang Baines Iron and Steel Plant, and there are 11 other small iron and steel plants invested and set up by American, German, French, and Russian businessmen, and even one of the Yueshang Iron and Steel Works, three of which are owned by the Far East Coal and Iron Company, and 11 loans granted by the Far Eastern Bank to support their development and growth.

Song Biao also worked for the American Foss. Mr. Romstroo's Liaoyang New Connecticut Railway Machinery Company offered him a loan to help him produce trains and boilers that were up to standard.

In this new policy and opening up tide of the three eastern provinces, an industry that has not attracted the attention of various countries is booming, under the unanimous promotion of Song Biao and the entire eastern three provinces, as of June, the soybean planting area in the counties around the railway in the three eastern provinces suddenly soared to 1.25 million hectares of land this year, and his adjustment method is to reduce the agricultural tax on soybean planting by half in the counties with convenient transportation, and provide excellent and cheap bean seeds.

In order to better sell and promote soybeans in Northeast China, he set up branches of Far Eastern Commercial Bank in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris and Hamburg, purchased newspaper advertisements, made sales plans in advance, bypassed various foreign companies, and directly sold them to the most important soybean distribution centers through ocean shipping.

The most important place to sell is Germany, because the scale of Germany's annual soybean imports accounts for half of the entire international market, although the soybean production in the United States is very high, because there is no absolute advantage in price, coupled with domestic sales and feed industry, the international soybean exports during this period are mainly to Spain and other southern European countries and Brazil, Argentina and other South American countries, the export sources are very scattered, which provides a good opportunity for the sudden expansion of soybeans in the international market in the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao did not understand economics, it is precisely for this reason that he simplified many complex issues, in the six months after having the real power of the governor of the three eastern provinces, all his efforts in the new policy of the three eastern provinces were actually aimed at reducing imports as much as possible, increasing exports as much as possible, so that silver and gold could flow into the northeast and reduce the outflow.

He simply believed that this was an era of the gold standard and the silver standard, and that the only value that determined wealth was gold and silver, and that as long as there was enough gold and silver to be called rich.

Rich does not necessarily mean strong, but poor countries are certainly weak.

Of course, everything he does has a bottom line, and this bottom line is his own Far East Commercial Bank, as long as it is within the reasonable scope of the new law, he will never hesitate to give all the necessary support and support to the Far East Commercial Bank, and take this as the bottom line of the national industry in the three eastern provinces.

Obviously, his Far East Commercial House does have the best local administrative support and the best talent that China has to offer.

The problem now is that China still lacks talents, and there are a lot of them, so in the spirit of pragmatism, he must also make full use of the secret agreement with China to fully support Chinese students to study in China.

His support is more realistic and practical, a large number of support for secondary school students to study abroad, studying in a variety of specialized schools, only in the three eastern provinces before June, through the study abroad office under the new political bureau to send more than 3,000 students to the city, half of them from the Far East Commercial Bank's companies, the other part mainly from the local political bureau.

The number of officials from the three eastern provinces sent to Yueben for short-term investigation and study was also very large.

If you want to be an emperor, you always have to pay a lot of price, Song Biao's price is that he has been overloaded almost every day for the past six months, working 18 hours a day, and only having 5 to 6 hours of rest every day, in order to save time as much as possible, every meeting he attends must be compressed to less than half an hour.

The team led by the wolf is always amazingly efficient.

Under the oppression of Song Biao's high efficiency, the efficiency of the new policies in the entire three eastern provinces was so high that all kinds of things were passed quickly, almost to the point that the political axes of the Manchu Central Committee and other provinces were at the mercy of the political axes.

Of course, in the eyes of Qing Zhengaxe, Song Biao's new deal in the three eastern provinces is always a bit of a child's play, and sooner or later there will be a big mess.

Right.

That's what they thought, and the governors of the provinces were eager to see the jokes of the three eastern provinces sooner.

Smart people always have it.

Jang Zhidong is one of them.

(To be continued)