(The powerful Vanderbilt family in the American drama "Gossip Girl" is not made up by the screenwriter out of thin air, its prototype is the Vanderbilt family, and even the surname is the same, including the ancestral home from the Netherlands, owning most of the Fifth Avenue property in New York, etc.) and Connes. After Vanderbilt reached a good cooperation agreement, Song Biao began planning a trip to the Americas, first to the United States and then to his real destination, Mexico.

Before this, Song Biao must forcibly dismantle Zhang Zuolin's troops, and at the same time is the modernization of the police system in the three eastern provinces, dealing with the Langren is a very sensitive matter, even if Song Biao who is not afraid of the Langren also needs to make more long-term and prudent arrangements, the modernization of the police industry in the three eastern provinces, as well as the modernization of the judicial system and the internationalization of the foreign-related court system are the most important tasks.

As a last resort, Song Biao could not use the Northeast New Army to directly deal with the problem of the Ronin and the North Korean refugees.

Send Connes. After the Vanderbilts returned to the United States from the port of Jinzhou, Song Biao personally went to Tieling to supervise the dismissal of Zhang Zuolin's Jilin Left Road Patrol Battalion, and forcibly dismantled the troops of more than 10,000 people secretly developed by the Qing political axe and dispersed them into three patrol detachments, while the rest were uniformly assigned to the Liaoxi Military Reclamation Bureau, the Yanji Military Reclamation Bureau, the Hunjiang Military Reclamation Bureau, and the Dandong Military Reclamation Bureau, and were assigned to the local military reclamation farms.

Zhang Zuolin was arranged to serve as a police bureau in Jinzhou Zhili Prefecture, Zhang Zuoxiang was arranged to be a deputy in Mudanjiang Prefecture, Jilin, and Tang Yulin was directly arranged to be a deputy in Fengtian Mansion, in charge of the police in Liaozhong County.

So far, all the patrol battalions in the three eastern provinces have been abolished by Song Biao, and in the future, there will be no longer patrol battalions under the jurisdiction of the prefects and governors, and each of the three provinces will set up a patrol corps, and each prefecture and Zhili Prefecture will set up patrol detachments, counties will set up patrol brigades, townships and towns will set up patrol squadrons, and Tuncun will set up militia teams, the railway organs of the three provinces will set up railway patrol corps in the three eastern provinces, and each military reclamation bureau will set up another patrol detachment, and all patrol and militia armed forces will be under the overall management of the Defense Bureau of the Governor's Office.

Song Biao redistributed the Murata Type 22 rifles in a unified manner, and ensured the supply of ammunition by organizing their own production and ordering them from Germany, Japan, and the United States. The Mosin Nagant rifle will continue to be equipped with the Murata Type 22 rifle when the Murata Type 22 rifle is underassembled, while the Tohoku New Army is uniformly equipped with the Mosin Nagant rifle and a small number of Mauser G98 rifles with a 7.62 mm caliber standard.

Through cooperation with the German DWM company and Mauser company, the Northeast Arsenal officially introduced the production equipment and licensed patent of the Mauser M1896 semi-automatic pistol, and equipped the army, patrol and police forces with this semi-automatic barge gun.

After dealing with Zhang Zuolin's armament, all military forces in the Northeast were under Song Biao's control, and he also suspended the military salaries of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty in the Eight Banners Battalions in the Northeast on the grounds of tight military spending.

After returning to the military headquarters from Tieling Mansion, Song Biao then secretly went to Dalian again, and met with Cai Yuanpei, the president of the Liberation Society, and Tao Chengzhang, the vice president of the Liberation Society, at this time, Zhang Binglin was exposed by his old friend Liu Shipei and Zhang Zhidong to ask for 20,000 silver yuan to give up the revolution.

In this secret talk, Song Biao reached a final agreement with Cai Yuanpei and Tao Chengzhang that the Chinese Revolutionary Association would be the highest organization and leading body of the Chinese Liberation Revolution, and that there would be three major branches of the Xinhua Society, the Liberation Society, and the New Politics and Power Association. The New Deal Strong Nation Association is an open organization, ostensibly with the three eastern provinces as the main body to carry out political activities such as constitutionalism, new policy, new learning, Spring and Autumn Thought and Xunzi Thought revival movement, and as a cover organization for the public activities of the branches of the Chinese Revolutionary Association.

The three major branches are mainly based on the Guangfu Society, which mainly develops in the three eastern provinces, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Yueben, and continues to set up organizations such as the Tongren Association, the Endeavor Association, the Patriotic Youth Association, and the Patriotic Education Association to secretly disperse activities in other provinces.

According to Song Biao's setting, he served as the general president of the Chinese Revolutionary Association under the name of Song Aurora, with the chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors, Cai Yuanpei as the chairman, Shu Fangde, Tao Chengzhang, and Jiang Fangzhen as the vice presidents, and the leaders of each branch organization as the executive directors, as the leading body of China's Liberation Revolution.

Including the Liberation Society, all branches of the Liberation Revolution secretly set up a financial office, a liaison office, an organization office, a secrecy office, a political office, a propaganda office, a cultural office, an armed forces office, a secret service office, and other strict intelligent institutions, so that all institutions can secretly develop and secretly disseminate information.

After the Restoration Society was officially incorporated into the Chinese Revolutionary Association, as some suitable arrangements, Song Biao invited Cai Yuanpei to work in the Secretariat, invited Qiu Jin to join the Art Troupe as the head of the troupe, and invited international students to join the Art Troupe in the Chunliu Society of the Organization through the Restoration Society, so as to expand the strength of the Art Troupe.

When Song Biao arranged this series of events properly, he was tantamount to formally determining the "road to the liberation revolution", and after completely merging with the Guangfu Society, combined with the ideas of the Guangfu Society and Song Biao, the theory of China's liberation revolution has been perfected.

The Chinese Liberation Revolution led by the Chinese Revolutionary Association aimed to "promote the Ming Cooking Revolution of the Chinese nation, overthrow the tyranny of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, establish the Chinese Empire with the Han royal family as the main body and a constitutional monarchy, restore the Spring and Autumn Princes' thoughts, disseminate the world's modern ideas and universal values, establish Chinese morality in the new era, advocate new culture, build a new nation, educate new youth, and create a new China."

The revolutionary line of the Chinese Revolutionary Association no longer pursues small-scale simple local national uprisings, but follows a path of "taking the Northeast New Army and the Far East Army Non-commissioned Officer School as the basis, actively contacting people from all walks of life in society, absorbing the new army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, actively striving for the new army of Hubei, Sichuan, and Guangdong, taking the new army as the main body of the revolution, and extensively seeking the support of people from all walks of life and patriotic students."

Because of the Northeast New Army and Song Biao as the most powerful forces behind them, this alliance also allowed the Liberation Association to truly see the hope of revolution, as long as everything is ready, the overthrow of Manchu rule is no longer a big problem.

After a formal meeting with colleagues of the Liberation Society, and inviting the Liberation Society to participate in the process of modernizing the police system in the three eastern provinces, Song Biao, accompanied by Li Enfu and others, and under the arrangement of the US Minister to China Rockhill, secretly sailed to the United States for a visit.

Because of the active contact with Minister Rockhill, Song Biao had already been arranged to meet with U.S. President Theodore before boarding the ship. Roosevelt met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Korteliu, and after arriving in Mexico, he wanted to meet with Mexican President Bofirio. The meeting with Díaz is still being arranged.

On August 5, 1906, Song Biao took a boat to San Francisco, which had just experienced a tragic earthquake, which was very severe, and then the raging fire was even more powerful, completely destroying the entire city.

Connes. Vanderbilt had just returned to the United States, barely had time to return to New York, but only made a trip to Washington, D.C., and then hurried back to San Francisco, where he had been living in Richmond across the San Francisco Bay, although it had also suffered from the earthquake, and the damage was much better than that of San Francisco.

The Vanderbilt family's Gibbons & Vanderbilt shipping company has its own port and property in Richmond. Vanderbilt even has a small hotel.

This Richmond Rogetta Avenue hotel is Conns. Founded by Vanderbilt's father, most of the stake in the hotel has been transferred to local California hotel tycoons due to poor management.

In William. Henry. During Vanderbilt's lifetime, there were many such failed investments, and of course there were many commendable investments, such as those at the Bank of New York and the Bank of Boston in Massachusetts.

Song Biao arrived in Richmond on the only ocean-going steamer of the Far East Steamship Company, where he met Conns. When Mr. Vanderbilt reunited, Song Biao could only sigh on the pier, looking at the dark and barren city of San Francisco on the opposite side from a distance of 12 kilometers.

Miss Shu Xuan, who accompanied Song Biao to visit the United States, served as one of the interpreters, and returned to Connecticut to visit her classmates, had already seen the endless ruins of San Francisco on the steamer, and it was really sad that the once prosperous city was completely reduced to a city of ruins in an earthquake and fire.

She was saddened by this, not only because there were tens of thousands of Chinese living in the city.

Song Biao seemed to have something to say about this, and he talked to Connes. Mr. Vanderbilt sat down on a wooden chair near the pier and took a short break to continue looking at the city of San Francisco in the distance.

He crossed his legs indifferently, and Connes. Mr. Vanderbilt smoked a cigar together, and after a while exclaimed, "This is a real great tragedy that will be written in the history of the United States, but it is also a rare opportunity and a feast for the evil capitalists." If we had a bank here, we would be eager to buy the cheap property quickly, provide all kinds of loans for redevelopment, and make our bank the largest bank in San Francisco. ”

Connes. Vanderbilt agreed: "Yes, so you think, how can such a lowly commercial speculation be without you and me?" Although my grandfather invested a lot of shares in MetLife and the Bank of Manhattan, and my father invested a lot of money in the Bank of New York and the Bank of Boston in Massachusetts at the time of the crisis, the Vanderbilt family still didn't actually have a banking company of its own, as you said. Before you arrived, I was thinking about starting a new banking company here, because most of San Francisco's insurance companies had already collapsed because of the huge amount of compensation to pay, and many small banks were implicated, some of which collapsed directly in the disaster. This means that there is a good gap in the financial sector and most importantly, people now know for sure how important it is to invest in insurance. I'm going to buy San Francisco Citizens Insurance Company and use the money to support them through this difficult time, and it won't be long before people come to buy their insurance. As for banks, San Francisco City Bank is a good investment. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said, "We need a big bank. ”

Connes. Vanderbilt shrugged his shoulders and said, "No one can have an absolute controlling stake in a big bank, not even Mr. JP Morgan." ”

Song Biao said: "At least nominally, it must be very large, then change the name of San Francisco City Bank and call it Bank of America." Some people may laugh and say, you see, such a small bank dares to call itself the Bank of America, but it doesn't matter, one day, people will say, wow, what a Bank of America. Of course, this is a long-term plan, we just have to have that goal, and I don't think Mr. JP Morgan is necessarily much better than us. ”

Connes. Vanderbilt and Song Biao explained in detail: "Even if it is a good name, we still can't operate interstate banking without federal authorization, which can only be a small bank, and first of all, it must have sufficient financial resources and capital to truly become an interstate bank, so that it is a big bank." Of course, in the current United States, there are very few banks that are actually qualified to conduct cross-state business. ”

Song Biao paid very little attention to this investment, because he didn't have much money to invest in this company, so he just nodded and said, "yes, then let's start here in California." ”

Compared with the big banking companies in the United States in the future, the Vanderbilt family at this time is still one of the richest consortia in the United States, and the total wealth value is second only to the Rockefeller family.

The Chinese have an old saying that "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", which is what it means.

The Vanderbilt family is famous in American history as a generation inferior to the next, but it was only after the fifties of the 20th century that it was completely reduced to a second-rate rich family.

Connes at this time. Vanderbilt is trying to raise money by all means, even selling his family's stakes in MetLife and the Bank of Manhattan, which he chose to sell precisely because Mr. Rockefeller has actually taken over the majority of the Bank of Manhattan. Vanderbilt's stakes in MetLife and the Bank of Manhattan are also declining.

Connes. Vanderbilt was only a little sad that his grandfather and father had left him the assets, and at a time when the emerging American capitalists were desperately trying to get fat, people were no longer afraid of Vanderbilt's name.

When he told Song Biao about the sadness of selling his ancestral business, Song Biao was silent for a moment, and suddenly scolded: "You see, I don't even have a chance to sell my ancestral business, and all my money was snatched by me in the machine gun position of the Yue army." If you don't destroy it, you won't be reborn, and it's impossible to start a new business if you blindly miss the glory of the past. ”

Hearing this, Connes. Vanderbilt agreed: "Yes, it's time to find your way again, and if we can't find respect in New York, let's come to a small place like the West and bully a weaker opponent." ”

Song Biao laughed out loud.

(To be continued)