Song Biao did not realize that the publication of "New Treatise on 'Longli and Respecting the Virtuous'" in the "Northeast Yuebao" would become an epoch-making day, and Zhang Binglin, who actually wrote this article, also did not expect that this day would actually announce the further sublimation of the Northeast New Deal's idea of "honoring the virtuous, respecting the law and loving the people", and it was also a new starting point for the thought and theory of Chinese rejuvenation.

At this time, the Qing Zheng axe was busy discussing how to deal with the ticket turmoil, the so-called ticket is the silver standard currency issued by the three eastern provinces on the basis of the Kanto silver dollar, and the ticket turmoil is the household department Shangshu Zhao Erxun forcibly confiscated the ticket in Zhili, and as a result, the foreign banks such as Crédit Orient CIB Bank of France, which issued the ticket, intervened and demanded compensation and apology.

There are many examples of bizarre bad things and situations in the political events of the Qing Dynasty because of personal vendetta and revenge, and the ticket turmoil is one of them, because the new policy of the three eastern provinces is really beautiful, and all provinces have plagiarism, and the most powerful plagiarism is the public school and banknotes, and the provinces have to handle the public school in the township, as well as the banknotes of the Great Printing Province, and the Qing Dynasty Household Bank led by Zhao Erxun is also issuing banknotes, but they have not learned in place, one is generally indiscriminate, and the other is rough printing.

Because the circulation of the bills in the Zhili area was the most extensive, Zhao Erxun blamed the obstruction of the issuance of the silver yuan bills in the household department on the flood of bills, and angrily asked the new governor of Zhili, Yang Shixiang, to comprehensively check the bills and prohibit the circulation of the bills in Zhili.

Qing Zhengaxe and Zhao Erxun both thought that Song Biao was leading behind this matter, and the foreigners were controlled by Song Biao, and the Jingshi was shocked and frightened, in fact, they really misunderstood Song Biao, if Song Biao could stop it, he definitely didn't want to be outflowed.

As a result, the Qing Zheng Axe could only first remove Yang Shixiang, who had just been the governor of Zhili for three months, and then transfer Zhao Erxun to the Ministry of Shangshu to avoid the wind, and also had to find a way to appease Song Biao and the foreigners, in fact, he really wronged Song Biao.

Song Biao is a good person.

On the night when Song Biao called Zhang Zhidong back to thank him and ordered the whole army to lift martial law, Zhang Zhidong sent another telegram to Song Biao, asking Song Biao how to calm down the matter of giving tickets.

At this time, Song Biao was having dinner at Shu's house.

The Shu family is a very special family in the three eastern provinces, because he lives in this era and has a very close relationship with the Shu family, and Song Biao actually regards the Shu family as a substitute for his "home" to a large extent.

In the past two years, Song Biao spent almost 1/3 of the night in Shu's house, sometimes talking with Shu Fangde and Shu Fangxin too late, the surname Suo would stay in Shu's house, and when encountering such nights, Shu Xuan would generally be the eldest daughter of the family, and Song Biao's subordinates would help to place the bedroom, plus Song Biao would take a bath every day before going to bed, and she would carefully prepare a change of clothes for Song Biao.

Since the Qing court awarded Song Biao the title of scholar, there is only one step away from the rumored final award of Wuyingdian scholar and transfer to Beijing, and the people around Song Biao are all nervous, including the Shu family.

Shu Xuan knew that Song Biao would come to her house for dinner 90% of the time, and went home early to let her parents prepare a sumptuous dinner, and personally cooked a few sweet and sour dishes that Song Biao liked to eat.

Song Biao likes to eat sweet and sour spicy cabbage, sweet and sour pine nut fish, sweet and sour pork ribs, and the taste is very special, neither too sweet nor too sour, but also a little spicy, and the pepper should be a little heavier.

These are all slowly figured out by the Shu family, because they often have to entertain Song Biao, the boss and possible son-in-law, Shu Gaoli specially asked a friend to recruit a fellow chef from Shanghai to work at home, this celebrity chef is famous for cooking Beijing cuisine and Cantonese cuisine, and it seems to be very popular with Song Biao, but after pondering it for the past two years, the Shu family and the chef found that Song Biao's original taste is actually Huaiyang cuisine, which is mainly light, and all kinds of flavors are liked, but it can't be heavy, roughly it is slightly sweet and sour and peppery, and I don't like pepper and cloves. It is especially taboo to avoid the miscellaneous smell of thirteen spices.

I was in a good mood today, and I had a few sweet and sour dishes that I liked to eat, and Song Biao was pleasantly surprised to eat two more bowls of rice.

The rice in the three eastern provinces is really fragrant, and those who have eaten it really know.

There are not many places in the Northeast suitable for planting rice, but as long as it is suitable, the best rice is produced, because the Northeast rice has the longest illumination time and growth cycle, since the Qing Dynasty, the Northeast has planted rice, and it is the imperial court.

In 1906, the cultivation of rice began to be promoted in some areas of Panjin County, and since then it has been supported by the new army's procurement, which is cheap and of better quality than rice from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Therefore, for Song Biao, Yuezi in the three eastern provinces is indeed the happiest time in his life, not only can he see the development of the three eastern provinces little by little, but he is also very satisfied with his life and work.

After eating, Song Biao was about to go to the next game of chess with Shu Gaoli, and the telegraph operator of the secretariat hurriedly sent the telegram directly to Shu's house, first handed it over to Shu Fangde, who accompanied him, and then handed it over to Song Biao.

Song Biao opened the telegram and looked at it, only then did he know that Zhang Zhidong had come to the court to ask how to deal with the matter of quelling the turmoil of the ticket.

After reading this telegram, Song Biao knew that the imperial court basically thought that he was the mastermind behind it, and this matter was really wronged, because he didn't want the ticket to flow out at all, but in the era of the silver standard, it was normal for the silver standard currency to circulate freely as a substitute for silver in the market economy, and Song Biao, as the governor of the three eastern provinces, could not control this natural market circulation behavior.

The market economy has objective laws and principles of the market economy, and it is not advisable to violate such laws and principles.

It happened that Shu Fangxin, the general manager of Xinhua Finance Company, was next to him, and Song Biao forwarded the telegram to him and asked, "What do you think should be done with the matter of issuing tickets?" ”

Shu Fangxin glanced at the telegram and sighed: "The imperial court has always thought that this matter is led by the Northeast Bank behind it, and it is really incompetent and ignorant, so I still have to explain it clearly to the imperial court...... Or if you don't explain it, the imperial court can't solve this problem at all anyway. My personal point of view is this: in the entire outflow of tickets, the personnel exchanges between Kannai and the three eastern provinces are one quarter, the economic and trade exchanges between the Kannai and the three eastern provinces are also one quarter, and the foreign banks are also the cause of one-quarter, and the final one-quarter of the reason is the lack of a modern monetary system and a good and strong currency in the Kansai area, and this reason is probably the root of the problem. The outflow of bills cannot be handled, and there are natural laws for the circulation of silver and gold in the currency circulation, just as we cannot prevent silver from entering and not leaving the three eastern provinces, since the outflow can no longer be stopped, all we have to do is to make this matter as beneficial to us as possible, rather than the mixed pros and cons previously estimated. ”

"yes!"

Song Biao agreed, and then asked, "Then how do you think this telegram from Lord Zhang Zhidong should be replied?" ”

Shu Fangxin thought for a moment and replied: "The subordinates think that the source of the ticket turmoil is Zhao Erxun's personal vendetta, and the imperial court is still generally afraid of adults, so it is better to take the opportunity to teach Zhao Erxun a lesson; Second, the household department and the governor of Zhili did have a bad impact on the normal circulation of the tickets, and it is necessary to make the imperial court apologize, even if the imperial court can't lose this face, it has to let the governor of Zhili Yamen, who did this matter, come forward and apologize to the banks, including our Far Eastern Bank also suffered a large-scale run in this incident, and all losses will be compensated by the Zhili Yamen. Third, since we want to make the situation more favorable to us, Suo surnamed let us directly control the currency issuance in Zhili and the north, for example, to persuade the Hubu Bank and the Northeast Bank to form a joint venture to establish a new bank, or the Hubu and Far East banks to issue new currency in the Zhili Pass at the same time to replace the bills and establish a sound monetary system in the customs, and the bills are limited to the circulation of the three eastern provinces in principle. In any case, allowing foreign banks to intervene in the issuance of currency in the customs on a large scale is not a situation we want to see. ”

Song Biao sighed: "Who said it wasn't such a." Therefore, we have always had the talent to do things crookedly, and foreigners have always had the ability to see the seams, probably even HSBC, China and Russia, these foreign banks did not consider this matter at first, and it is really bizarre that the tickets can be circulated throughout the country. ”

Shu Fangxin thought for a while and said: "The key is that more than half of the bills themselves are handled by foreign-funded banks, although the currency is printed by us in a unified manner, but according to the issuance rights and quantity of each bank, there are different bank issuance names and marks. In Guannai, especially in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Zhili, and Tianjin, the currency issued by foreign banks has always been stronger than the official bills of the yamen in various parts of the imperial court, and is more trusted by the common people and the people. When the tickets are circulated in other places, everyone thinks that they are guaranteed by foreigners and have their own system, even if they are not as convenient as the exchange in the three eastern provinces, they can still be widely circulated for commerce. ”

Song Biao sneered disdainfully, laughing at the incompetence of this imperial court.

There are still a lot of talents in the Shu family, Shu Fangxin is the most important financial adviser around Song Biao, and now he is responsible for handling the affairs of Xinhua Company, and Shu Fangde is the most trustworthy first lieutenant in the field of New Army administration and Restoration Society affairs around Song Biao.

How to deal with the incident of the ticket turmoil, Song Biao still has to ask the experts, and then make a decision after discussing it with Zhang Kangren alone tomorrow, so he won't think about it much for the time being, let Zhang Zhidong wait in this slow and long night at night.

Song Biao continued to play chess.

The world is unpredictable, and he is so stable in the three eastern provinces with heavy troops in his hands, so what is there to worry about?

Because the location of the Far East Printing Office was relocated to the Balipu area of Shenyang New District, and Shu Fangde also followed Song Biao to work in the Second Department of the Military Department, the Shu family moved to the new dormitory area of the Second Department of the Organ, which is the family area of the Governor's Mansion and the Second Department of the Organ, where everyone lives and the First Guard Battalion under the command regiment is also stationed here.

The yards are all new, and there are many Shu families, occupying a compound and three small courtyards around it, but the property rights belong to the military department, and they are also properties under the name of Xinhua Company.

In the big study of the Shu family, he played two games of chess with Shu Gao, Shu Fangxin went out to run errands, and Shu Fangde and Shu Xuan watched the game next to him, which seemed to be a lively family together.

At this moment, Shu Gaoli is both happy and worried.

Shu Gaoli did not accept the persuasion of Shu Fangde and Zhang Binglin to join the Restoration Society, and he also expressed his disagreement with this idea several times, but he understood that his sons were either in the Xinhua Society or in the Restoration Society, and they were all important backbones.

Thinking that Song Biao and Shu Xuan had gotten better enough to talk about marriage, Shu Gaoli was very worried in his heart, but he couldn't say anything, he just hoped that Song Biao himself would be more cautious, anyway, now that he is the king of Kanto, he can't really turn against the court.

From a personal point of view, he actually likes Song Biao, a young man, or the governor of the three eastern provinces, and he has always evaluated Song Biao with "a capable minister who governs the world, a hero in troubled times", and he thinks it is particularly consistent.

Shu Gaoli was old, and he was sleepy after playing two games of chess, so he went back to rest, Shu Fangde continued to accompany Song Biao to play chess, and Shu Xuan watched chess next to him.

Shu Xuan has all kinds of advantages that make Song Biao feel that she is indeed a good daughter-in-law, but she doesn't do well in playing chess and not saying anything, she is not the kind of person who likes to make moves, and she is in a hurry on the side, watching Shu Fangde eat Song Biao's horse, she sighed sorry, and when she saw Song Biao eat Shu Fangde's cannon, she also sighed again.

People are such strange things.

The beauty sighed regretfully and anxiously beside her, Song Biao and Shu Fangde would look at each other and smile and think it was funny, if it was an ugly monster and an eight woman, the two would probably kick each other out of the gate with one kick.

Seeing that Shu Xuan didn't know how to play chess, Song Biao and Shu Fangde deliberately started a ruthless move to constantly change chess pieces, because the level of both of them belonged to the category that was not very smart, basically half a catty and eight taels, and in the end, there was only a pair of Xiangshi and a few pawns left, but Shu Xuan smiled.

Shu Fangde couldn't help but sigh: "Junzao, this is the real endgame." ”

Song Biao snorted and said: "Playing chess is more dangerous the more endgame, and the country is more pitiful the more endgame." ”

Shu Fangde smiled: "Why did the military seat come from such an exclamation? ”

Song Biao said: "When you see the current appearance of the political axe, don't you think they are pitiful?" Even a monetary system based on the silver standard could not be established, and it was up to the faces of foreigners to act. Zhao Erxun's incident is not a mistake to talk about, but it is not that the Qing political axe has to be responsible for apologizing and acknowledging the crime, and he has to lose money. ”

Shu Fangde hated: "Therefore, it is better for such a political axe to fall sooner rather than later." ”

Song Biao said: "It's not a good thing to collapse early, if the person who takes over is not strong enough, it is not just as pitiful." If you look at the matter of the ronins in the three eastern provinces, you can understand that military strength is the basis of diplomacy, and everything else is false, saying that if there are hundreds of thousands of army troops in our hands, and we arrest all the ronins, isn't that equivalent to blackmailing us with a handle? ”

Shu Fangde nodded silently and said, "What the military seat said is very true." ”

He knew in his heart that the reason why Song Biao said this was precisely because the Restoration Society was obviously a little impatient during this time, and as the strength of the Northeast New Army expanded to a scale of more than 100,000, Tao Chengzhang, Xu Xilin and others of the Restoration Society all believed that as long as the Northeast New Army moved south, the Manchu Qing would be destroyed.

These people are not wrong in their thinking, but they did not expect that more than 100,000 army troops could defend the dignity of the three eastern provinces, but they could not stand the dignity and interests of the whole of China.

Even if the Northeast New Army develops to today's scale, it is unlikely that it will continue to expand, and if it continues to expand, the Qing political axe will really be unable to bear it, and it may be better to risk war than have a showdown with Song Biao.

However, the number of noncommissioned officers in the Northeast New Army can continue to increase, the proportion of noncommissioned officers can be further increased, more noncommissioned officers and cadets will be trained, more veterans will receive training for noncommissioned officers, more military supplies will be hoarded, and a more perfect military industrial system will be established, so as to make all preparations for the rapid expansion of the army.

In addition, the Northeast New Army can also improve its combat capability and deter foreign enemies by continuing to add more and better heavy artillery, artillery, and machine guns to match more horsepower.

Therefore, Song Biao's "stability" at this time is very important, and if he "stabilizes" for another two years, China will be saved.

As for the death of the Qing Dynasty, for Song Biao and Shu Fangde, who were well aware of the current combat strength of the Northeast New Army, they both knew in their hearts that the death of the Qing Dynasty had been doomed since the end of the first round of the fourth phase of training of the Northeast New Army, and there was absolutely no suspense.

Through the first round of the four-phase training, the Northeast New Army has vigorously expanded the number of outstanding soldiers by 3,255 outstanding soldiers, and through the three batches of non-commissioned officer crash courses within half a year, the number of non-commissioned officers at the grass-roots level has been greatly increased, and sufficient preparations have been made for a new round of expansion.

In other words, the expansion of the new army in the northeast is rhythmic once a year and a half, and with the completion of the expansion of the six infantry divisions, three cavalry brigades, and three artillery brigades in the four towns and headquarters within the tolerance of the Qing political axe, it will continue to greatly increase the reserve of non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level in the future.

In various parts of the three eastern provinces, the Northeast New Army has built a comprehensive militia structure through the Third Staff Department, and has continued to adopt militia training similar to the first phase in various localities, while the patrol units in various localities have adopted the first and second phases of training.

Once Song Biao decides to send troops to the Guannei, the Northeast New Army will be able to rapidly increase by two to three times in just three months, and the patrol troops in various localities will be able to quickly assemble and reorganize into multiple reserve infantry regiments to form an effective defense in the provinces, stabilize the situation in the three eastern provinces, and prevent Russia from interfering with the New Army's entry into the Guan.

With such a Northeast New Army as support, Song Biao has enough confidence to deal with anything when facing the Qing political axe, even if it is in dealing with the turmoil of the ticket, he still lives in the Shu family's courtyard at night, and only casually calls back to Zhang Zhidong the next morning, saying that he will reply in a few days, and give him time to think about it first.

When it comes to the currency of the entire three eastern provinces, and even the entire Chinese currency, the ticket turmoil really cannot be dealt with in a hurry.

In the past few days, Song Biao asked the Northeast Bank, the Research Bureau, and the Far Eastern Bank to separately submit a set of proposals to solve the problem of issuing tickets, and then submitted all three sets of proposals to his office, and then combined the pros and cons with Zhang Kangren, Shu Fangxin, Rong Xingqiao, and others to secretly negotiate many times, and finally gave Zhang Zhidong a systematic answer.

Since the free circulation of the special surname of the ticket as a substitute currency for silver could no longer be stopped, the best way for Song Biao, the three eastern provinces, and the Far Eastern consortium was to maximize their interests and make a matter with mixed advantages and disadvantages more favorable to them.

Therefore, the solution proposed by Song Biao is roughly divided into several points: first, Zhao Erxun and Yang Shixiang should be punished first, and foreign banks and Far Eastern banks should be compensated to settle the turmoil of issuing bills first; The second is to formally establish the silver standard of the national circulation currency, the establishment of the Qing Yuan as a unified tax and foreign trade settlement currency unit, the household bank is responsible for printing and printing silver yuan, the deficiencies can be handled by the Northeast Bank on behalf of the bank, the provincial government banks according to the silver dollar margin, unified distribution of silver yuan and copper dollar bills, the household bank to extract 5% for the printing tax; The third is that the voucher is already a fait accompli, and involves foreign-funded banks, it is difficult to change, and should be formally allowed to circulate throughout the country, and the Daqing silver yuan and the Kanto silver yuan are unified in the silver content rate, and the settlement is reciprocal with each other, and the Kanto silver yuan and the feng bill are used as a supplement to the Daqing silver yuan, and are used in concessions and trade ports, and the use of foreign capital to alleviate the current situation of domestic silver shortage.

The three points put forward by Song Biao are basically the arguments of Rong Xingqiao and the Far East consortium, which seem to be the fairest, and in fact the most beneficial to the three eastern provinces, one of the main balance points is that once a large-scale financial crisis occurs in the country, the first impact is Qingyuan, not the vote.

With the further expansion of the industry and the improvement of the level of the three eastern provinces, the three eastern provinces are the silver inflow area relative to the whole country, and the silver of the whole country can naturally flow into the three eastern provinces through the circulation of the Qingyuan surname, so that the three eastern provinces are further integrated with the whole Chinese market in the economic development.

Song Biao's proposal just hit the key point that the Qing court longed for, and the Qing political axe did not want to implement the Great Qing Silver Yuan throughout the country, but the local governors had real power in their hands, and they were basically unrestrained after the Gengzi Rebellion, so there would be Manchu magnates who took the opportunity to regain real power by forming a Manchu cabinet through the constitution.

Song Biao's plan is generally beneficial to the localities, but the central government of the Qing Dynasty cannot be said to have gained nothing, and the 5% money printing tax in all provinces of the country is also a large tax source.

After Song Biao sent a telegram back to Zhang Zhidong, he estimated that Qing Zhengaxe would have at least three or four months to debate the matter, and he hoped that it would be passed, but he did not care whether the matter could be passed immediately, so he prepared to go to Shandong to discuss military cooperation with the new German military attache in China, the military representative of the German DWM company who had just arrived in Qingdao.

Song Biao was about to get up, and then he got another news from Yuan Shikai, it turned out that because he was a little dragged on the matter of the ticket turmoil, and the soldiers in the Northeast New Army who had cut their braids suddenly surged, Qing Zheng Axe thought that the matter of the previous bachelor had not been properly handled, Song Biao was still going to rebel, and he was panicked.

The general idea is to crown Song Biao as the king of Anliao, and then the imperial court will arrange the governors of the three eastern provinces, and the governors of the three provinces will all be subject to his control.

This is a kind of statement, some people just proposed, but the imperial court is indeed in a very serious discussion, there are many people who agree, and there are more people who oppose it, Zhang Zhidong put forward a compromise opinion is to be named a first-class duke, give purple reins, pimps, add three-eyed flower feathers, and make up for the Dongge University Scholar.

Another Minister of Military Aircraft, Lu Chuanlin, proposed that the surname Suo should not be included in the eight-point auxiliary national duke, but not the eunuch and Zhu Lun.

Yuan Shikai didn't say a word about this, he might be jealous, but he was one of the very few people who informed Song Biao of this matter discussed within the Military Aircraft Department.

(To be continued)