From Song Biao's participation in the Russo-Russian War to becoming the governor of the three eastern provinces, to the outbreak of the Fengjun demonstration, and now to completely controlling all the life and death power in the entire three eastern provinces, and becoming the recognized master of the three eastern provinces, the time is so short that Song Biao himself feels too fast, but his heart must be very happy, and there is nothing uncomfortable in his heart.

Even if Song Biao still lacks a clear plan for the future development of the three eastern provinces and himself, he has enough history to learn from, how the three eastern provinces can develop in order to create an economic miracle in the fastest and most effective way, and how the new army in the northeast can develop in order to become the king of the army in the fastest and most effective way, he has a clear answer in his heart.

With regard to the economic development model of the three eastern provinces, the simplest, most effective, and most rapid way is to comprehensively borrow the Soviet Union's five-year plan model and use the means of the planned economy to forcefully promote rapid economic and industrial development.

For China, which lacks time, this is the easiest and most reliable way to become a strong country, and it would be nonsense to develop a free market economy under the siege of the capitalist powers, especially if there is a shameless beast-level opponent like Ben.

…… On this morning, Song Biao returned to the office after participating in the morning exercise of the military department, and heard from Yuan Jinkai that Zhao Erxun quietly left Fengtian Mansion last night and went to Beijing to serve as the head of the household department again.

As Zhao Erxun left in agony with the reproach and appeasement of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the dispute between Zhao and Song came to a brief end, and Zhao Erxun and his former Fengtian general Zengqi left Song Biao with a complete blank mess of the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao poured himself a large enamel cup of strong tea, and sat alone in the office to pick up Yuan Jinkai's "New Deal Book of the Three Eastern Provinces" and read it again, because it was written by a local, and it also inspired Song Biao.

Beginning in 1906, he planned the New Deal into 16 aspects, including new law, finance, police, civil defense, education, finance, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, industry, commerce, science and technology, railways, water conservancy, infrastructure, reclamation, and investment, and each aspect had a detailed five-year plan.

In the past five years, we must focus on the eight major aspects of the new law, finance, reclamation, agriculture, investment promotion, railways, industry, and education, and we must do a good job in the eight major aspects; first we must do a good job in the legislative work of the new law, and then we will rectify the financial system, reclaim wasteland in large areas, and do a good job in agricultural construction; at the same time, we will attract investment, build a large number of railways, open mines everywhere, set up factories in a centralized manner, improve the basic industrial system, build new schools, and do a good job in popularizing education.

With Song Biao's level of knowledge, the difficulty of compiling this "Five-Year Development Plan for the New Deal of the Three Eastern Provinces" is very low, and the key lies in the question of how to implement it after it is written, which is more difficult, because it is impossible for him to implement the planned economy of the whole surname in the three eastern provinces, so he can only be divided into two roads, agriculture, railways, and industry basically have to be separated and handed over to the Far East Commercial Bank to be handled as a whole, and implemented in the form of a planned system.

Shenyang in December of the solar calendar is also so deserted, and even more so is the Tanglin Military Headquarters in the suburbs.

There is always so silence around the new building of the military department, there is no sound at all, so that Song Biao can calm down and think about more problems, although he is young, Song Biao is very clear about his life goal.

He has proven himself to be a good military general who can lead the Chinese people to defeat foreign invaders, and now he must prove to the world that he is also capable of leading the Chinese people to prosperity and strength, and he must establish a new miracle in the blank black land of the three eastern provinces.

History has proven time and again that the fastest and most effective way for an economy to develop in its initial stages is through a planned economy.

It only took Song Biao one morning to compile the draft of the "Five-Year Development Plan for the New Deal of the Three Eastern Provinces", and then put it aside to drink strong tea and continue to ponder.

In the ten years before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the whole of China knew that the new policy would have a future for the country, but no one knew how to implement the new policy, and it was a mess from top to bottom...... What about other provinces, other provinces will follow the same example, all copy, other provinces will collect and scrape taxes and miscellaneous taxes, everyone will also collect and scrape together, what if there is no sufficient tax revenue?

As a result, the Manchu court was destroyed.

It was almost noon, and Song Biao was about to call Shu Fangde in to take a look at the draft, and Shu Fangde came over first to tell him that the new Fengtian Governor Yin Chang had arrived at the train station.

Before getting on the train in Dalian, Yin Chang sent a telegram to Song Biao, saying that he wanted to come to Fengtianfu to see him, and Song Biao did not intend to refuse, so he asked Jiang Fangzhen, the chief of staff of the Second Staff Department, to wait at the railway station in advance.

It is exactly one kilometer away from the Tanglin Balipu Railway Station to the Tanglin Military Headquarters, because it is a carriage pick-up, it only takes ten minutes to come and go, after receiving a call from Jiang Fangzhen from the railway station, Song Biao did not mention the matter of the "Five-Year Development Plan for the New Deal of the Three Eastern Provinces", and asked Shu Fangde to deal with the matter of welcoming Yinchang first.

Song Biao had already met the new governor of Jilin, Zeng Yun, and the governor of Heilongjiang, Cheng Dequan, a few days ago, because he was the governor, and there was no reason to go out to greet the governor, but he was just waiting for them to come and see him in the office.

Since returning to Shenyang in July, Song Biao has been strengthening the construction of the three military barracks around Shenyang, and before the cold weather, he has already completed the construction of the barracks, the three barracks and the campus of the Far East Noncommissioned Officer School have been equipped with boilers, and the military headquarters of the Northeast New Army in Tanglingwei has also built six organ buildings of various sizes.

Yin Chang came very coincidentally, Song Biao just yesterday led the various departments of the agency to move to the new organ building, the largest building he is in, the layout of the double-storey tube building with red brick walls, Song Biao's office is located on the east side of the second floor directly south.

The four members of the family of Yinchang, the new governor of Fengtian, and the two staff members accompanying him were taken to the military headquarters compound by Jiang Fangzhen, and the family and staff were arranged to live in the military department guest house, while Yin Chang, accompanied by Shu Fangde, who came to greet him, continued to go to the office building to meet the Song governors of the three eastern provinces.

Walking down from the black French-style four-wheeled carriage specially used by the military department to greet him, Yin Chang, who was wearing the official uniform of the second rank of the imperial court, with a first-rank top and a flower feather, stood a little helplessly on the square in front of the organ area, looking at the empty square around him and the six red organ buildings in front of him, as well as the new army posts with strict guards around him, Yin Chang, who claimed to be an old soldier, also had too much emotion.

The Northeast is the homeland of the Manchurian people.

Yin Chang thought of this, there is an inexplicable sadness in his heart, about the decline of this empire, he is about the person who knows best, the experience of studying and working in Germany made him more and more aware that the national consciousness of the Han people will eventually awaken, and the difference between Manchu and Han will expand infinitely, and finally it will always reach the point of irreparation.

That's why he cut off his braids in an attempt to get rid of this constraint.

He just didn't expect that when he returned to his homeland, he would actually come to assist a Han king of the northeast to rule here, so as to barely maintain the empire's nominal jurisdiction and territorial rights over the three eastern provinces.

Shu Fangde noticed the unconcealable embarrassment and loneliness in Yin Chang's expression, and waited for a while, and when Yin Chang gradually came back to his senses, he politely invited: "Lord Governor, Lord Governor is still waiting for you!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

Yin Chang cautiously agreed, and replied to Shu Fangde: "Then Adjutant Lao Shu will lead the way." ”

Shu Fangde raised his hand and said, "Please." ”

Yin Chang also raised his hand, and replied more and more gently: "I'm tired." ”

Shu Fangde was accompanied by a group of soldiers from the guard battalion, and Yin Chang, accompanied by Shu Fangde and them, walked through the square and entered the office area and the most central office building.

Considering the special features of Yinchang and having met before, Song Biao also took the initiative to walk out of the office in person and met Yinchang in front of the corridor.

The two had already met before, and when they saw Yin Chang, Song Biao still took the initiative to shake hands with him first and said: "The governor came just in time, it's been hard all the way!" ”

Yin Chang's heart is very complicated, he has always been a sleek person, he is also kind, he often promotes officers and generals who he thinks are talented, he recommended a lot of good talents to Yuan Shikai at the beginning, and later came forward to protect Yuan Shikai several times when Yuan Shikai was in trouble, and his reason at that time was that "Yuan Shikai is a rare talent".

This man loves his Great Qing Kingdom, and he also loves talents.

Although he is a governor, he is lower than Song Biao's rank, but he still looks at Song Biao as an elder and feels that this talent is even more rare.

He shook hands with Song Biao with a heavy heart, pondered for a moment before saying, "It is really a dereliction of duty for us to make the Governor suffer some difficulties, and I failed to protect each other to the death." Fortunately, it was sunny after the rain, and the lower officials came to meet the governor. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, he also felt that he had underestimated this person before, and the person who could stand tall for three dynasties was always a bit level.

He said to Yin Chang: "It's cold outside, so the governor will go to my office and talk about it." ”

"It's good that I have Governor Lao with you!"

Yin Chang was grateful again and again, and his heart was extremely sincere, which made people sigh.

Song Biao felt more and more that this was at least a good person, but a good person was also very complicated, and they went into the office together, and it happened that there was heating in the room, Yin Chang deliberately took off the official hat with both hands, and carefully entrusted it to Shu Fangde on the side for safekeeping, and said thank you very cautiously.

The official hat was attached to a thick black false braid, while Yin Chang himself had short hair, a thin figure, and a thick beard, which looked like a man himself.

Song Biao took a general look, knew Yin Chang's intentions, and said that he also supported the New Deal and reform, and hated braids like Song Biao, and didn't want to keep braids.

This was just a statement by Yin Chang, who had never said such things in a formal setting, not even in private.

Song Biao invited Yin Chang to sit down, and thought for a moment before saying: "Interestingly, the heating boiler of our New Army Office happened to be bought from Germany, which is much more expensive than Russian goods, but the quality is really good, and the workmanship is obviously much more exquisite." Therefore, the industrial level of Germany is still higher, and the governor used to study and work in Germany all the year round, so he must know Germany very well. Speaking of Germany, Yin Chang was quite interested, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency the Governor has raised his love, the strength of Germany, I think it is stronger than education in the first place, and the high level of education in Germany is probably higher than that of the entire British and French powers, and this is where Germany's strength lies." Therefore, if we want to implement the new policy, we should first promote new learning. Before I came here, I was already ambitious, and I wanted to join hands with adults to actively implement the new policy, and set up a new school in the northeast, so that Fengtian Xinxue was ahead of other provinces, and the promotion of the new policy of the three eastern provinces was superior to the provinces. ”

Song Biao smiled and nodded yes.

It happened that Shu Fangde poured tea for him and Yin Chang, so he sat in the chair with a big teacup and pondered it first, and took a big sip.

The military department has the characteristics of the military department, and the fine porcelain small cup does not conform to the style of the army, so he has replaced it with a large teacup in the army style, and he will drink it happily when he drinks tea.

Yin Chang was very interested in this kind of large porcelain cup, and he looked at it twice with a little attention, and liked it very much.

Song Biao said: "The new policies in various provinces have the problem of labor and money, you see like Sichuan, the land tax in a Zhili Prefecture has risen more than ten times, and the original one mu and one tael of silver is a lot, and it has risen to thirteen taels, I really don't know how the people live, you and I can't do this kind of thing in the three provinces." I've thought about it, the New Deal is going to cost money first, and we have to solve the problem of money first. I intend to discuss with the Governor of the Kwantung Region of Russia, Sheyenis, the establishment of the Northeast Bank, the official bank of the three eastern provinces, according to my plan, the Northeast Bank has a monopoly on the right to issue silver and copper yuan, and other banks must use this silver yuan and copper yuan, and on this basis, the Northeast Bank will exclusively hold the right to issue copper yuan bills. On this basis, I will forcibly expel the silver dollars of various countries in the three eastern provinces, and this province is only allowed to use the silver dollars of the three eastern provinces. ”

Yin Chang praised: "This is a good thing, but I don't know if the Russians can agree?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "I will find a way to convince them." ”

Yin Chang knew that Song Biao had a very high reputation and a lot of connections in Russia, and perhaps he could convince Russia, so he said: "If this is really the case, we can solve some financial problems, and it will be easy to do things if we have money." ”

Song Biao nodded and said: "There are only three ways to make money, I have only pondered three ways to come and go, one is to open a bank, the second is to attract investment and open a factory and commercial port, and the third is to set up reclamation bureaus in Jilin and Heilongjiang to recruit wasteland people who have no land from the interior to reclaim the wasteland; In particular, the third point is that the speed of increasing tax revenue will be faster, and I consider directly proposing that the imperial court add the three eastern provinces to supervise the reclamation of the three provinces, with the rank of second rank and the same rank as the governor, and personally supervise the reclamation matters in various places. Actually, the battle between me and Zhao Erxun is not as tragic as everyone thinks, I don't have high requirements for the power of the three provinces, at least I have to be like a governor, as for the matter of full power, I really haven't thought about it. The errand of the Minister of Reclamation Supervision, I pondered whether to ask Tang Shaoyi to take the position, he gave me a good impression and had nothing to do with me. ”

Yin Chang praised: "That is indeed a shrewd and capable talent, it is better for this matter to be played by the governor, and I will join the other two governors to promote it, and the court must have no reason not to approve it." If the three eastern provinces are vast and sparsely populated, if we can increase the number of people to reclaim wasteland, then we can increase a lot of tax revenues and stop the ambitions of Russia. ”

Song Biao also clapped his hands and praised: "That's right." ”

He feels very happy, and it must be very pleasant to cooperate with Yinchang, and he will definitely not fight to the death like before, and Yinchang is more familiar with the New Deal and Western studies, and there must be a certain scale for running the New Deal.

Even so, Song Biao was not in a hurry to take out the "Five-Year Development Plan for the New Deal of the Three Eastern Provinces" compiled by himself to show Yin Chang, because Yin Chang would definitely feel that it cost too much money to carry out the New Deal in this way after reading it, and where did the financial route of the New Deal come from in the three eastern provinces, Song Biao did not want to reveal too much for the time being.

In other words, Song Biao himself is not very sure about this.

Song Biao thought of another thing, so he took a telegram from the yamen of the military department from the telegram book on his desk and showed it to Yin Chang, and said: "You came just in time, the military aircraft department sent me a telegram from the yamen of the military department yesterday, asking me to supervise the training of the new army in the four towns in the three eastern provinces. ”

Yin Chang knew very well the ins and outs of this matter, and the Qing Zheng Axe planned to supervise and train the 36 towns of the New Army throughout the country, six towns in Zhili, and four towns in the three eastern provinces, and the Military Aircraft Department intended to control the scale and establishment of the Northeast New Army within the four towns, so as to avoid the situation that the Northeast New Army would blindly expand to the point where it was difficult to deal with.

He still read the telegram first, and then sighed to Song Biao very seriously: "With the talent of the Governor-General, it is really easy to supervise and train the recruits of the four towns in the three eastern provinces, but the three eastern provinces are surrounded by land, and they have to face a strong country like Russia, not to mention the four towns, even the new army of the ten towns may not be able to stop it." ”

After thinking for a moment, Yin Chang and Song Biao asked: "The Governor thinks that it is appropriate to practice a few towns, but the Lord said that I will definitely not embarrass the Lord by performing the Imperial Court." ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "For the time being, if you can't practice in the four towns, let's talk about it in a few years." In the past few years, Lord Yinchang has asked me to be a man with my tail between my legs, not to provoke Russia too much, and as for this, I can strike a blow to arrogance once in a while. ”

Yin Chang nodded and said, "What the adults said is very true, I came here this time to lie down with the adults to taste the courage. ”

After a pause, he said again: "Speaking of the new army, in fact, Xu Shangshu still has something to say, but he didn't dare to say it directly, he heard that there is a surplus of rifles in the hands of adults, and it just so happens that the military department has been repeatedly frustrated in purchasing ordnance abroad, and wants to buy excess firearms from adults." ”

Song Biao sighed and said: "You said it late, I originally had 200,000 rifles, and I made a deal with Yuben a few months ago, and sold half of them back to Yuben, and I only kept 60,000 Mosin Nagant rifles, and 40,000 Murata 22-year-style 8-millimeter rifles as reserve firearms, and another 20,000 Murata 22-year-old rifles were used in the patrol battalions and police bureaus of the three provinces, and there were indeed no more guns." ”

How many rifles he has, no one can say.

Yin Chang was skeptical, but he couldn't say anything, so he said: "This is quite difficult, the imperial court is now buying guns everywhere, and all countries are unwilling to sell them, and the self-made rifles are not satisfactory, so people really don't know what to do." ”

Song Biao said: "I sold 110,000 pieces of the 30-year-old Golden Hook rifle to the Japanese army, and it can't be sold if you don't sell it, the caliber of that thing is 6.5 mm, and there is only one in the world, and the other is that Sweden has a 6.5 mm Mauser rifle, and the two bullets of that thing are different and not universal." So, I had no choice but to sell it and exchange it for Murata's 22-year-style ammunition. Let's do a new deal, the Northeast Military Factory must be set up, we can't make guns ourselves, how can we protect ourselves? As for this, I have already talked to the French, they had a military factory for Russia to OEM Mosin Nagant rifles, and now Russia can make their own Mosin Nagant rifles, and they will not buy their French-made Mosin Nagant rifles, and this batch of equipment wants to be transferred, but the price has not yet been negotiated. ”

Yin Chang immediately said quite eagerly: "If it can be purchased, it will definitely be great." ”

Seeing Yin Chang so eager, Song Biao sighed in his heart, he is also a member of the Chinese [***] people, born in this era, they all have the same feeling in their hearts, right? Even if the other party is a Manchu and he is Han, in fact, the idea is the same on this point, China must have its own arsenal.

Song Biao and Yin Chang talked for a long time this day, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, before that, Song Biao had indeed underestimated this Manchurian general in Germany, and now he felt more and more good, and the two of them talked in Song Biao's office all day.

They talked about a lot of topics, such as military training, railways, and the reclamation of wasteland, and their attitudes were similar, and the two of them also had a very in-depth conversation about the new policies of the three eastern provinces, especially the idea of giving priority to learning from Germany, appropriately opening up immigration, and allowing foreign skilled workers, teachers, and engineers to enter the three eastern provinces for employment.

The two hit it off, and they really hadn't met such a speculative person who could talk about it before, as for the construction of the new army, Song Biao deliberately didn't talk about it too much, and talked about it roughly, and Yin Chang also fully supported him, even using Western-style military uniforms, canons, and etiquette.

Speaking of dawn, because Yin Chang, who had been on the train for a few days, was already very tired, he went back to the guest house early in the evening to rest.

After sending Yinchang away, Song Biao smoked in the office alone, thinking about Yinchang in his heart.

He thinks that Yin Chang is a good person, no wonder this person later resigned from the military post of the Beiyang political axe and ran to the restoration, and served Pu Yi as the commander of the guards, and as a result, he could still serve as the chief of staff in the Beiyang Army.

The point is that people are really good.

Everyone can understand him, too.

As for Yin Chang's various incompetences in leading the Beiyang Army to fight Wuchang, it is not so much that Yin Chang is incompetent, but rather that the Beiyang Army is making trouble below, of course, it is also a fact that Yin Chang lacks the experience, ability, and prestige to actually command the army.

When Song Biao first took command of the more than 40,000 people of the New Manchurian Infantry Army, he also had a chaotic time, but he still had more than a month of intensive training and transition, and with the assistance of Brusilov, Martos and others, the majors at all levels below were also very friendly and respectful to him.

After surviving the Battle of Liaoyang, the generals at all levels are old subordinates, and they have great respect for him, so he is even more handy in commanding, not to mention that there are two staff offices to deal with various things together. If it wasn't Colonel Brusilov who came to cooperate with Song Biao at that time, but sent someone else, and refused to cooperate with Song Biao, Song Biao would not have won the Battle of Liaoyang.

So, luck is sometimes very important.

(To be continued)