If you have watched a movie similar to "Harry Potter" \ "The Duke's Love History", you can roughly know what kind of place New Haven is in 1908, in short, it is similar to the scene in the movie, retaining the style of the 19th century and most of the traditions, with narrow streets and spacious black carriages, because of the proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, there is always a cold sea breeze blowing in this cold season, and even the gloom and suspicion of the Middle Ages remains, which is by no means the new appearance of the imaginary car running around, Even if there was the occasional car passing by, it would be a black vehicle known as a road killer, like something with a steam engine strapped to the middle of a quad bike.

After a visit to the Winchester Arms Company, Song Biao returned to their hotel with dozens of the latest firearms on the American market, a hotel that the Winchester Company had helped book, located in the middle of Jameson Street in downtown New Haven.

There were more than 40 people in Song Biao's entourage, except for Shu Fangde, who was accompanied by his entourage, and Li Enfu from the Secretariat, the others were all guards of the guard battalion, and it was a little crowded to live in such a hotel.

Shu Fangde led the guards to light the fireplace in Song Biao's room, piled up dry wood and anthracite coal, baked the room very warm, and then left the room respectfully, while Song Biao quietly disassembled all the firearms, used vernier calipers and other tools brought from Winchester to draw the parts of these firearms, and studied some of the latest firearm development trends.

It is regrettable that most of these new firearms are not innovative, and in such a comparison, even a person as strict as Song Biao must admit that the M1907 self-loading rifle is indeed a very new thing, and there are at least three relatively large innovative spirits.

The first day in New Haven was like this, it was already late, and there were only two people in the room, Song Biao and Shu Xuan, who lived in their rooms peacefully, and outside the windows were the cold wind blowing from the north shore of the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping across the Jameson streets of New Haven, and when they blew through the eaves, it seemed to be like the red tiles were about to be lifted.

Shu Xuan continued the work of the guards, boiling water with a black crucible by the fireplace, sitting alone in a daze on the slightly old sofa opposite the fireplace, she was a beautiful woman whose mind longed for freedom, but her body and mind were bound by traditional morality, gentle and virtuous, she longed for love, and fell in love with the general next to her in the early 20th century.

Before getting married, like most women in this century, she didn't think about Song Biao's property and other issues, and she was by no means as realistic and cruel as later women, even if Song Biao was very poor and could only live together with a rough meal, she also felt that such a marriage was happy.

When Song Biao was concentrating on studying firearms, Shu Xuan finally boiled the water and made a pot of black tea with milk powder for Song Biao and herself.

She gently placed the teacup on Song Biao's table, looking at the various parts on the table, although it didn't seem like bothering Song Biao, she still couldn't help asking: "Is there any difference between these, is it that the new army wants to change guns, or buy new foreign guns?" ”

She seemed very interested in these things, because she wanted to know her husband, and she couldn't help but want to care for him, to do more for him, to say more, even though she knew that she might not be able to help anything.

At this time, Song Biao was disappointed, he casually pushed the pile of parts on the table aside, did not intend to reassemble them at all, and complained to Shu Xuan: "I bought a bunch of garbage for a few hundred dollars, you really can't imagine that although these guns are claimed to be new, in fact, there is no novelty and progress at all." Firearms are like that, new firearms without progress are garbage. There are big and small between them, there are continuous and single hairs, and there are all kinds of so-called differences, but they are all old things. ”

Shu Xuan asked, "What about the new guns you saw in Winchester during the day, do you want to buy those new guns...... Oh, I'm not trying to know about these things, I'm just a little curious...... I thought, if you have to buy a new rifle, it will probably cost a lot of money, right? ”

Song Biao thought about it and replied to her simply: "I will probably buy a batch." ”

He immediately changed the topic and said to Shu Xuan: "We will probably stay here for a few days, let's go to the market tomorrow and see if there are any interesting things we want to buy back." ”

Shu Xuan thought for a while and said, "There shouldn't be anything to buy, if I can, I want to buy a silver pocket watch for my younger brother who is about to study at Yale University, I hope it will be at the price of thirty dollars, not too expensive, not too shabby." ”

"Yes."

Song Biao agreed to her.

He is not a stingy guy, but he has always felt that things that are too luxurious are actually useless, the only exception is that he wants to buy Shu Xuan a platinum diamond ring, for which he is willing to pay tens of thousands of pounds.

Prior to this, they had just prepared a set of six kinds of gold jewelry for Shu Xuan according to the traditional etiquette.

Because of their talent and beauty, they are at least very satisfied with this marriage now, they get along with each other happily as husband and wife, and they are immersed in the happiness of newlyweds, and they have enough time to look forward to a better future, and their relationship is also simple, warm and unpretentious.

Faced with a pile of black gun parts that didn't make any sense at all, Song Biao didn't bother to waste any more time, he sat with his wife in the old and comfortable thick sofa in front of the warm fireplace with a teacup, and the two of them faced the burning flames together.

In this warm moment, Shu Xuan sat curled up on the sofa holding a milky white porcelain cup full of milk tea, she looked at the thoughtful Song Biao, and there were many mysterious emotions in her heart, she is a female poet, she is so sensitive to life and the world, her heart is delicate, she is always thinking about what kind of person she will become in the future.

She asked Song Biao: "Do you envy the United States, they have such a good education, as well as a vast land and a country that is becoming stronger, and there is a huge industry, I can always feel that you hope so much that the three eastern provinces can also be so rich and strong!" ”

Song Biao sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, drank tea, and sighed: "Yes, sometimes I am so envious, just as the Europeans in the Middle Ages envied China for its porcelain, tea and stable oriental civilization." Xiao Shu, the history of mankind is like this, it is tens of thousands of years long, there are tens of thousands of years in the past, and there will be tens of thousands of years in the future, we are just a short moment in this history. There are many, and probably very few things we can do, and great civilizations are like the ebb and flow of the tide, sometimes high, sometimes low. Hundreds of years ago, there were tens of millions of Indians living in this land, they owned this place, the former Indian civilization has fallen, they must have been glorious, and it is not easy for an ancient civilization with a long history like China to continue to this day. Maybe we envy Europe and the United States during this period, maybe in a few hundred years, they will continue to envy us, this is the history of mankind, it will always rise and fall. ”

Shu Xuan quietly thought about Song Biao's words, in the past time they got along, she could always find some interesting inspiration from Song Biao's side, so she felt that it would be very interesting to live with such a person.

Thinking of this, she smiled happily with Song Biao: "Now that I think about it, I think I should write fairy tales and translate fairy tales instead of writing poems, because my own life is like a fairy tale." ”

Song Biao laughed out loud, but said: "It's a good thing to write fairy tales and translate fairy tales, maybe we can try it, our children also need good stories like Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales!" ”

"yes!"

Shu Xuan seemed to have just thought of this, patted her forehead, and said, "I'm a fool, what a thing we need to do." ”

Song Biao nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, as a translator, translating Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales is a very important job, even more important than translating Shakespeare's works. ”

Shu Xuan sighed wistfully and said: "Yes, I want to translate all the fairy tales in the world into Chinese, this is really meaningful, our Chinese children also need these beautiful readings, so what about you, Your Excellency General, in addition to the work of the governor of the three eastern provinces, what else do you want to do?" ”

Song Biao thought for a moment and replied: "Do what Peter the Great did in Russia and lead China to Western civilization." ”

"What a career!"

Shu Xuan silently admired and envied, leaning her body lightly on Song Biao's arm, she was grateful to life for giving her such a beautiful life, she would rather lose decades of life, and hoped to cherish all this better.

They talked about their vision for the future in front of the warm fireplace, and they talked until they were sleepy, and then Song Biao carried his new wife to bed and turned off the lights.

During the next two days in New Haven, Song Biao accompanied Shu Xuan to buy some fairy tale books and gifts to take home for her family at a nearby street market, including the silver pocket watch that had been discussed.

Together, they toured the U.S. military and shipbuilding industries in New Haven, and took time to visit Yale University, a world-renowned university. Moses. Browning arrives in New Haven on an Atlantic cruise.

Song Biao wanted to meet with Browning several times before, but he didn't have the opportunity, this time he finally met, he tried to persuade Browning to join the Far Eastern Arms Company, but unfortunately Browning and the FN company have a very lucrative long-term contract, and Browning has no sincerity to work in China, even if Song Biao offers a very good treatment and contract.

John. Moses. Browning came to recommend their weapons to Song Biao, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast New Army, on behalf of the FN company, but none of these weapons met Song Biao's needs, and the meeting between the two sides failed to reach any cooperation.

It's a pity.

Song Biao regretted this, and he could only settle for the next best thing, and appointed his own representative, Mr. Yung, to continue to contact the Winchester family, and if the other party really intended to transfer the company, he was willing to pay a better price.

Shu Xuan was keenly aware of Song Biao's envy of the American industrial base, which Song Biao did not want to hide from the people around him. While Grent was closely negotiating the transfer price, Song Biao also took his wife and members of the Vanderbilt family to inspect the steel, machine tool and automobile industries in the United States, traveling throughout the major industrial cities of the eastern United States.

In all the plans, in addition to continuing to invest firmly in General Motors and Westinghouse, Song Biao and Conns. Vanderbilt also plans to make a large-scale investment in Bethlehem Steel and plans to establish the largest machine tool companies in the United States in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, and continue to reorganize American machine tool manufacturers into a giant.

The prosperity of the American machine tool industry has always had a basis, that is the common surname and domestic demand surname, even in the most prosperous 50s of the American machine tool industry, the domestic demand of the American machine tool industry still accounts for 85% of the production capacity, and the domestic demand in other periods of time occupies a higher proportion of the total machine tool production capacity, and even by 1976, the domestic demand share of metal cutting machine tools in the United States was 1477 million US dollars, and the external demand was only 185 million US dollars.

The huge domestic demand usually determines that the U.S. machine tool industry is generally dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises, which is almost the tradition of the U.S. machine tool industry.

Song and Vanderbilt's Pacific Alliance intended to change that tradition by creating a new company that would continue to merge small and medium-sized machine tool companies with excellent technology, thus becoming the number one giant in the U.S. machine tool industry.

The reason why Song Biao wants to do this is not to make money, but to use the United States machine tool industry to develop China's industry, the United States excellent machine tools into China, according to statistics, only the use of high-speed steel in the machine tool industry has increased the production efficiency of the United States by 60%.

In the scientific management method advocated by Taylor, the experiment carried out in just one stockyard can reduce the factory that originally needed 500-600 people to 140 people, and increase the average production capacity from 16 tons to 59 tons. The wages of workers were only raised from $1.15 to $1.88, and the high-speed steel experiment was carried out in Bethlehem for 26 years, with more than 30,000 experiments, not only discovering high-speed steel, but also accumulating a large number of experimental data for various new alloy steels for Bethlehem, although it also cost Bethlehem Company dearly, and was forced to merge with another steel company controlled by Charles Schwab to save the precarious financial crisis.

Think about it, what a terrible thing it would be if American industrial machine tools and efficiency could be relocated to China in this era!

This is an era of rapid change, and if we fail to keep up with this rhythm, we will be squeezed out of the camp of the first industrial countries by the United States and Germany like the British Empire, and as for the capital, it is really like that, if the difficulty of surpassing the economic and technological level of the capital in the 21st century is 100 points, the difficulty of surpassing the economic and technological level of the capital in the first 30 years of the 20th century is only 30 points.

All you have to do is run forward a hundred meters, and when you look back, you can see Yamaben crawling like a turtle behind you.

If we are a rabbit, as long as we don't doze off, we will never be able to catch up, and once something like Wang Ba catches up with a rabbit, it will naively think that the rabbit will never be able to catch up with Wang Ba.

Song Biao's target, of course, was not the Soviet Union.

Surpassing the Soviet Union, World War I and World War II, the Soviet Union that fought again and again and could not find the North is the majestic goal that Song Biao has to do, he wants to smash the legendary torrent of Soviet steel that can defeat Nazi Germany into slag.

Playing instinct can make something, at most it is a Ryukyus, and fighting the Soviet Union is a good business full of friends.

As a soldier, Song Biao has such ambitions as the ultimate goal of his life, as for other industrial powers, scientific and technological powers, etc., they are just various steps on this road.

As a soldier, of course, he hopes that the country will be rich and strong, because only when the country is rich and strong can they provide their soldiers with the best and most weapons to defeat all enemies and defeat the most formidable opponents in the world.

Song Biao went to Bethlehem, where he saw the Bethlehem Steel Company, and also met the former general manager of Carnegie Steel Company, Charles Brown. Schwab.

At this time, Bethlehem Steel was also in dire need of capital to operate and expand production, introduce new equipment to build more production lines, and turn a large amount of accumulated technology into profits, and they only needed a few million dollars to invest to change the world.

Bethlehem Steel has a decisive role in the development of the United States and the world's industry, but the current American capitalists have not yet realized this, this company has the technology will continue to support the development of the entire industrial society for the next thirty years, on this basis the continuous development and extension of alloy technology, will not only support the development of steel and material technology, but also support the development of the machine tool industry and other industries, this company supplies the famous steel has the barrel of the M2 heavy machine gun, Until the 70s of the 20th century, Taiwan's military industry imitated the M2 heavy machine gun because of the unqualified materials, and was forced to adopt thicker and heavier design standards.

In this era where there are no restrictions on technology transfer, it's all about starting first.

In order to facilitate long-term investment in the United States, Song Biao invested in New York to set up a US Far East investment banking company, hired Orra.E. Morronet, general manager of the Bank of Los Angeles, as the general manager and senior partner, and then jointly invested 8.4 million US dollars with Connes Vanderbilt's family company, Vanderbilt Trust and Investment Company, to purchase 400,000 new shares issued by Bethlehem Steel Company, and run the steel company with Charles Schwab in a nearly controlling square.

The parent company of Far East Investment Bank is the San Francisco Far East Trading Company of the United States, which wholly owns the Northwest Oil Company of New Jersey of the United States, and at the same time controls and operates the Bank of America Company, the San Francisco Bay Development Company, the Vanderbilt Pacific Shipping Company, and the Bethlehem Steel Company together with the Vanderbilt Trust and Investment Company, and holds a considerable number of shares in General Motors, Westinghouse Electric Company, and Ford Motor Company.

Song Biao is now very rich, and in the New York and London stock markets, everyone is buying shares in Petroleos Mexicanos, even the Big Three of J.P. Morgan, John A. Rockefeller, and Andrew W. Mellon, who are even buying more than others, and Song Biao's Far East Investment Bank has cashed out 20% of its shares in exchange for a huge fortune of 17 million pounds.

In addition, the rubber futures purchased by Song Biao with the San Francisco Far East Trading Company would expire in May 1909, and the initial investment of 7 million pounds would increase by 3.5 times, and the shares of the Anglo-Dutch Colonial Rubber Company, which he borrowed 4 million pounds from the Bank of America, had also tripled in market value in the past six months.

After these huge wealth was squeezed into the Far East Investment Bank Company, some of them poured into the Bank of America, which was converted into silver in the Chicago market to invest in the three eastern provinces, and the huge military expenditure in the Northeast Bank became a waste of money, and some of them poured into the American capital market, and the Vanderbilt family was ambitious to build the largest machine tool company, automobile company, and second largest steel company and power equipment company in the United States together.

Song Biao's method is very simple, even if China currently lacks talent and technology, but it cannot be left behind by the times, spend money to build a bridge in the United States, transfer a large number of technology and modern enterprise management experience from the United States, and directly catch up with the world's first-class level in the fastest way, even if you can't learn the world's first-rate, learn a world's second-rate level, and then rely on China's huge population, land area, and resources, it is too difficult to bully Britain, and it is still possible to bully the British and Russia.

Song Biao's trip to the United States was very long, not only to visit the United States machine tool industry, Bethlehem Iron and Steel Company, General Motors, Winchester and other companies, but also to New Haven, Detroit, Pittsburgh and other industrial cities. Moses. Browning, also met Nikolai. Tesla, although it did not reach an agreement with the former, invited the latter to work at the Northeast Academy of Science. Tesla settled all of its debt problems and agreed to spend at least $200,000 a year on Mr. Tesla's research on personal projects.

After visiting the United States, Song Biao continued on to Mexico.

At this time, Petroleos Mexicanos was using the huge capital amassed from the sale of oil to build pipelines and explore new oil wells, and the director of the Federal Geological Survey, c.www.xstxt.org.k. Norton, was still the most important exploration engineer.

E.L. Degaurier, probably the most famous oil prospector in American history, found a golden belt on the eastern coastline from Tampico to Cerro Azul, and suspected that it was once a very large atoll area during the Tertiary period, and the area around this atoll was very rich in oil reserves, but in terms of exploitation, there was a great deal of instability compared to the American oil fields.

Based on this theory, E.L. de Gorier discovered a small oil field in Ezegaire, south of the Tampico Gold Belt, where he soon bought more than 700,000 acres of mining rights and intensively explored new oil wells.

If this theory is true, it is entirely possible for Petroleos Mexicanos to increase its oil production and reserves to a higher level, not to mention that it is still in a very stable stage. The low tax policy on foreign investment implemented by President Dias during his time as a talent is also a special good news for Petroleos Mexicanos.

In Mexico and Bofirio. After the meeting between President Dias, Song Biao promised to invest all the profits from oil sales on a large scale in Mexico, promising to build a huge oil industry in Mexico that could rival the United States.

Promises only.

Basically won't cash out, anyway Bofirio. Mr. President Díaz will certainly not have the opportunity to see it, because all those who read the talent will be overthrown, and all authoritarian political axes will be eliminated by history, which is the inevitable trend of human progress.

As long as you read talent, you will always be nailed to the frame of shame by the people, no matter what you have done, as long as you step down, your former opponents and politicians will not give up any opportunity to attack you.

After all, the fate of reading talents is the same, and only time will give a final answer.

(To be continued)