Song Biao soon realized the special value of Ouyang Xi, so he postponed the whole day's itinerary, and talked with Ouyang Xi alone in the office about economic issues in the evening, talking and asking, and gained a lot.

At this time, he didn't know that Ouyang Xi was a bumpy and ambitious life in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, so he could only succumb to Yongan Company as the chief financial officer, even if he had served as the general office of railway finance and economics of the Republic of China, in fact, he was forced to resign after only a few months, and then continued to go to the new company as the financial director to support his family.

Of course, Ouyang Xi is really annoying, everyone knows that most of Song Biao's income in the three eastern provinces comes from the low agricultural tax policy, and is the largest big landlord in the three eastern provinces, and at the same time holds a large number of coal and iron franchises, but he knowingly strongly suggested that Song Biao raise agricultural taxes, introduce regulations to suppress the big landlord class, and cancel the coal and iron franchise.

It was getting late, and Song Biao personally got up to see Ouyang Xi out of the office, he had always respected this kind of professional very much, even if the other party was a little too idealistic, and too serious and strict, and did not hesitate to offend Song Biao for the sake of the so-called principles and "right things".

The lights in the Governor's Mansion building are brilliant, almost everyone is working overtime, the bright moon in the square outside is like a brilliant light, shining on the thick snow is even brighter, at this time Song Biao has just become a scholar of the East Pavilion University, and he is at the peak of power, especially the tears on his face that beat the Qing Zheng axe make him not know how proud he is.

Song Biao stood in front of the black window glass with a large tea pot, looking at the world outside the building of the Governor's Palace, he was a little apprehensive, he had always felt that he was still very good at the economy, at least the economic work of the three eastern provinces was very good, until he met Ouyang Xi today, he did not know that he and the great scholar of Mexico, Porferio. There is no difference between Dias, the only difference is that he knows how to do military work better, has a heavy army, and at the same time occupies more assets.

It was in Ouyang Xi's outspoken advice that he discovered that he was not only a great capitalist with all evils, but also a big landlord and a big mine owner with even more evil.

It is not difficult for subordinates to believe in their own correctness and make suggestions, but as a decision-maker, Song Biao must face many considerations and trade-offs.

This night is destined to be very long, because Song Biao hopes that the three eastern provinces can develop better after all, and he knows that this is the hope of China's new era, and this is the hope of China's economy and industry.

…… After the feudal establishment incident gradually subsided, Zhang Binglin's "New Treatise on 'Longli and Honoring the Virtuous'" was published as a new editorial in the "Northeast Yuebao", but it soon set off a new wave of new policies throughout China like a bomb.

The reason why "New Treatise on "Longli and Honoring the Virtuous" has had a great impact on traditional Chinese literati, intellectuals, new cultural elements and the entire upper class is that Song Biao's admiration for the thought of "Xunzi" has attracted great attention throughout the country, and many people regard "Xunzi" as a new standard for the revival and improvement of Confucianism, and advocate Xunzi as a new sage; On the other hand, traditional Chinese literati need a new way to interpret traditional philosophy, and find a way of salvation for Chinese culture in the context of the large-scale invasion and impact of Western studies, and in the precarious situation of Chinese studies.

This road is the "New Treatise on "Longli and Honoring the Virtuous".

This is a bit like the Confucian reform advocated by Kang Youwei back then, Kang Youwei's idea was to change Confucianism to a religious way, but this road did not go through, and it certainly did not work, and Zhang Binglin proposed a new way, that is, to find the universal spirit of the humanistic spirit in Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture, as well as the common part with modern human thought, and then reinterpret and innovate.

Zhang Binglin put forward an idea called "retro return to the Yuan", that is, to go back to the Warring States period to reinterpret the thought of Zhuzi, especially Confucianism, he believes that since the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism has been used by the royal family and misunderstood, he especially criticized Dong Zhongru and Zhu Xi, thinking that China has fallen to today, in fact, Dong Zhongru and Zhu Xi have been planted.

Traditional Chinese thought has gone wrong in the past 2,000 years, and we need to "go back to the origin" and reinterpret the true Zhuzi thought.

It is under Zhang Binglin's "retro return to the yuan" thought that the "New Treatise on "Longli and Honoring the Virtuous" will cause a great shock among intellectuals across the country, and this shock can only be ignored by people in this era, because everyone is very confused, unable to find the direction, and even inferior to their traditional culture and beliefs.

The idea of "retro return to the yuan" was also talked about by Song Biao casually with Zhang Binglin and other people from the Theory Department of the Restoration Society, and he just casually said such an idea, and he himself felt that he had been misled and wrong for two thousand years.

Zhang Binglin thought about it again and again, and finally summarized this idea into a theory, and used various means of citing scriptures and classics to prove this theory, so it became popular.

"The New Treatise on 'Honoring the Virtuous and Virtuous'" was published on the morning of February 15, 1908, and in less than half a month, newspapers of all sizes throughout the country, and even many newspapers in the original edition, were reprinted, and officials of all sizes in Beijing were discussing it, and the whole country was talking about it.

During this period of time, as long as you are a reader, you will talk about this article as soon as you meet, and there are those who oppose it, but the majority of people can agree, because everyone realizes that if this continues, Chinese culture will be hopeless, and China cannot be saved by relying on traditional Chinese thought.

It was in this crisis that the "New Treatise on "Honoring the Virtuous" was suddenly pulled to an extremely high height by the Chinese people. Along with the "New Treatise on 'Longli and Honoring the Virtuous'", the editorial compilation of the "Northeast Daily" "New Deal Book of the Three Eastern Provinces" also began to circulate throughout the country, and more people began to examine these articles of Mr. "Song Zhizhong".

All those who have read the book "The New Deal Book of the Three Eastern Provinces" can feel a spiritual shock, as if every pore of the body is flowing with heat, as if they have found the direction of a strong country, and Song Biao's new name "Song Zhizhong" also resounded throughout the country during this time, becoming a well-known scholar of Dongge University.

This incident was absolutely unexpected, which made the Qing Zheng Axe extremely panicked, very panicked.

It was in this panic that the Minister of Military Aircraft Zhang Zhidong and Prince Zaifeng arrived in the three eastern provinces with dozens of officials from the three eastern provinces to inspect the new policy, at this time the Beijing-Feng Railway had been repaired, and it only took two days to come and go, but it took them a whole month to arrive in Fengtianfu, and the reason for this was probably only understood by the Qing Zheng Axe himself.

On the afternoon of the second day after discussing the financial and taxation issues of the three eastern provinces with Ouyang Xi, Song Biao first held a brief tax policy discussion meeting, listened to the opinions of all parties, formally appointed Ouyang Xi as the chief of the economic section of the research bureau, and appointed the research bureau to re-examine the tax and economic policies of the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao has always been a governor of the three eastern provinces who is not very good at giving face to the Qing court, even if he has just received special rewards and appointments from the Qing court, he still wears a military dress that is incompatible with the entire Qing Dynasty and goes to the train station to greet Zaifeng.

Of course, he also had some face-saving arrangements, such as asking lieutenants at all levels to prepare military hats with false braids in advance, and selecting those soldiers with braids to participate in the welcome team and escort work.

He is the only one who is an exception.

This was also the first time Song Biao had met Zhang Zhidong, although they had been very close to each other by telegram before, and to some extent they were still very strange friends.

After the train of the Qing Imperial Court's New Deal Investigation Group arrived slowly, surrounded and escorted by many officials and elites of the Beiyang Army and the Eight Banners Battalion, the young Prince Zaifeng and the old Zhang Zhidong walked out of the carriages one after another.

Song Biao personally stood in front of the welcoming guards, led the accompanying soldiers to salute Zaifeng and Zhang Zhidong, and accepted their review, the principles that should be observed should still be observed, after all, the two military ministers on the other side are equivalent to the prime ministers of the empire, especially Prince Zaifeng, who will become the regent in a short time.

Song Biao also hoped to use this kind of serious standard etiquette to simply omit the outdated and backward worship etiquette of the Qing court.

His arrangement surprised the two ministers of military aircraft, one old and one young, and they didn't know what to do, but fortunately there was another person in the crowd who was very familiar with both sides - the newly appointed governor of Zhili, Yin Chang.

In the track of Song Biao's ascension, Yin Chang was also regarded by the Qing court as the only person to rely on to continue to improve, at this time he officially became the governor of Zhili, as the head of the nine governors, and controlled the most powerful Beiyang six towns in the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the strongest barrier to resist Song Biao's southward entry.

Whether it was Cixi, other Manchus and the entire Manchu Dynasty, they all had too many expectations for Yinchang, expecting him to become the Manchu minister who could turn the tide in the end and protect the safety of the Qing Dynasty and the imperial family.

After Zhang Zhidong and Prince Alcohol were stunned for a moment, Yin Chang whispered a few words behind their backs, and the two military ministers came to their senses, and the young and slightly honest Prince Alcohol Zaifeng pretended to glance calmly, as if he was very satisfied with such a novel arrangement, and had a special interest in the Western-style military uniform of the new army, and couldn't help but look at it for a while, and then stepped forward Song Biao gave up.

Song Biao also made a gesture and said: "The three eastern provinces welcome the visit of the prince, Zhang Zhongtang and Lord Yinchang. ”

Zaifeng smiled a little weakly, and said, "I don't know if Song Zhongtang can welcome me to visit?" ”

Song Biao replied lightly: "Naturally, welcome." ”

After saying this, he continued to communicate with Zhang Zhidong and Yin Chang, and was simply polite.

Until this day, Song Biao really met Zhang Zhidong, but unfortunately, Zhang Zhidong at this time was already such an old dragon clock, and he no longer had the same brilliance as the governor of Huguang.

Song Biao obviously did not like the visit of this so-called New Deal inspection delegation, even if Zhang Zhidong and Yin Chang arranged it, he did not agree with the Manchu people's plan to visit the military headquarters and the Northeast New Army, only agreed that they would visit the three eastern provinces to visit the industry, mining and agriculture, etc., in order to avoid the long-term disturbance of these people, he even concentrated most of the arrangements in Liaoyang, Haicheng and Changchun, and the entire New Deal delegation in Fengtianfu only had three days.

Three days.

It is already the limit that Song Biao can accept.

For such a special guest, the Governor's Mansion of the Three Eastern Provinces has a number of special Benz cars, six cars can arrange many guests, and Song Biao himself also took one with Yin Chang to the brand-new Governor's Mansion of the Three Eastern Provinces.

Leaving the train station, Yin Chang couldn't wait to explain to Song Biao: "I'm afraid that Prince Alcohol is going to climb the first floor after carrying it, and I hope that Zhongtang will entertain a good student, as for me and Lord Zhang Zhidong, I just came here as a companion, if Lord Zhongtang has time, please arrange time in the evening, the prince wants to talk to the adults alone." ”

Song Biao nodded with his eyes closed slightly, but smiled with Yin Chang: "I want to congratulate you on becoming the governor of Zhili, this is a good thing, a real good thing, I originally wanted to have two drinks with you in the evening and celebrate well." ”

Yin Chang said: "Lord Zhongtang has this arrangement, and the lower officials are already very grateful, where is there too much work, or to receive Prince Alcohol." ”

Song Biao sighed and didn't say anything more.

The two were silent for a moment, and then Yin Changcai said again: "I am a little surprised to serve as the governor of Zhili this time, the personnel are not uniform, and now the reclamation and governor affairs are also served by the Zhongtang Lord, Tang Shaoyi has nowhere to go for the time being, can you be transferred back to Zhili to help me?" ”

Song Biao said: "Jilin Governor Zeng Yun is about to be transferred south to serve as the governor of Jiangsu, I have arranged for Tang Shaoyi to temporarily act as the governor of Jilin, and after the approval of the imperial court, I plan to continue to serve as the governor of Jilin." ”

"Oh!"

Yin Chang was a little regretful, but he didn't dare to compete with Song Biao, not to mention that Tang Shaoyi was even more unlikely to give up such a good opportunity as the governor of Jilin.

Arriving at the Governor's Palace, Song Biao invited these officials from Zaifeng, Zhangzhidong, Yinchang, and Jingshi to a welcome banquet in the palace, and then arranged for them to stay at the nearby New Army Guest House.

Because he was not familiar with Zaifeng and had no previous contacts, Song Biao did not meet with Zaifeng alone according to Yinchang's proposal, but talked with Zhang Zhidong, Zaifeng, and Yinchang for half an hour, and roughly talked about the specific itinerary of the New Deal delegation.

Zaifeng did not appear to be dissatisfied, but he had some ideas about the itinerary of the New Deal inspection team, first of all, he still wanted to inspect the Northeast New Army, and he emphatically used the word "inspection".

Song Biao is not a stingy person, the key is that he does not want to continue to create some new problems of right and wrong, so he continues to refuse, and can only agree to visit the Russian army unit and the Far Eastern non-commissioned officer school.

On top of this, the two had a slight verbal conflict, and finally endured this evil breath.

Even if he saw that Zaifeng was very unhappy, Song Biao didn't care, he had already negotiated with the Military Aircraft Department about this, and he did not plan to arrange the New Army as an inspection itinerary, anyway, the New Army had not transferred a penny of military salary from the so-called War Department, if the Military Aircraft Department could not accept such conditions, then he would not welcome the New Deal delegation to the Northeast for inspection.

(To be continued)