It was not until noon that Song Biao briefly bid farewell to these old subordinates of the 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment, and hurriedly took the carriage of the Far Eastern Company to the Far Eastern Company building located in the "Nikolaev Square".

The Far Eastern Pacific Company building was originally the headquarters invested and built by the Russian Fuchang Foreign Company, which belongs to the typical Russian Orthodox style, with red bricks and red roofs, and three floors up and down.

War is always the world's number one profiteering.

In just one year, Song Biao became the richest man in China in a special sense, and in this small port town, he skillfully seized more than half of the wharves and 1/3 of the land, and all this made his Far Eastern Bank the most powerful company in the Far East overnight.

Walking out of the barracks and returning to this prosperous place of shops, when Song Biao walked down from the carriage, he looked at the Far Eastern Building in front of him, and sighed a little bizarre in his heart.

He himself couldn't have imagined that a year ago he was just an ordinary sentry.

The land price in Dalian is very low, and it is very domineering to be able to occupy 30%, and he said that he doesn't know how much windfall profits he wants to make in this small harbor city?

Mikunov had been waiting outside the door with his staff all morning, his legs were sore to the point of excruciating pain, and finally the chairman of their board of directors arrived.

Mijanov, who had previously worked as a senior in Harbin at the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank, was short and stocky, with an exaggerated mustache and a bloated suit, eager to welcome Song Biao into the building.

Song Biao looked outside the carriage for a while, sighed in his heart about the unpredictable changes in the world, and then entered the building of Far Eastern Bank accompanied by Rong Xingqiao, Shu Fangde and Mi Zunov.

In the past month, Miganov and Rong Xingqiao have conscientiously recruited many new employees, and are ready to start the long-term operation of five industries: international trade, real estate, shipping, coal and iron development, and finance according to Song Biao's requirements.

Most of the new employees are Russians, and Rong Xingqiao also hired a few classmates who had studied together in the United States to help, and hired some Chinese staff of foreign companies in Tianjin.

Song Biao didn't really care who they hired, for him, these staff were far away from him, and he didn't have time to ask.

Entering the office of the Taipan, as soon as Song Biao sat down, Rong Xingqiao couldn't wait to take out a batch of accounting statements for him to see, although Song Biao appointed Mijunov as the Taipan of the Far Eastern Bank, but in terms of financial power, he was fully entrusted to Rong Xingqiao and Shu Fangde's brother Shu Fangxin.

Rong Xingqiao is a comprador of the Russian SF Foreign Company, a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong, and one of the young children who studied in the United States with Zhan Tianyou and others, and entered the Far Eastern Foreign Bank after being introduced by Miganov, Shu Fangxin graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai, and studied in the United Kingdom with his brother Shu Fangren, initially studied medicine, and later changed to law, and has been working as a comprador in the Bank after returning to China.

Don't look at the Far Eastern Bank, which has not officially operated at the moment, but has only purchased a large amount of land and wharves in Dalian, but after all, it has a huge coal and iron franchise in its hands, and it may not be a few years before it will become a real number one commercial house, dominating the Far East.

Song Biao first asked the three main persons in charge to sit down, slowly checked the accounts by himself, and after a rough look, he felt that there was nothing worth caring about, so he said to Mijunov and Rong Xingqiao: "I came here this time mainly to see the business situation of the firm, and I can't talk about the operation at present, I can only say that it is the preparation situation, after all, the business has not officially started." I don't know anything about business, so it's up to you to make your own decisions and affairs, and I'm just here to discuss with you this time. I really want to start the business of soybeans in Northeast China now, and you work with Yufeng Hong, they are responsible for buying and growing soybeans, and you are responsible for selling them to other countries. In addition, you will also help Yu Fung Hong to set up a good seed company, which is responsible for cultivating spring soybean varieties suitable for the local conditions of the three eastern provinces. This business is also very important for the whole of Tohoku, and I want to get involved as early as possible and do it as well as possible. In addition, the development of coal and iron resources in the three eastern provinces, this aspect of the work should also be accelerated in the near future, especially the Fushun Coal Mine, which is a large open-pit coal mine with little investment and high returns. ”

Midyonov said: "I have just contacted Daosheng Bank recently, and I am going to use our huge coal and iron franchise as collateral to borrow a sum of money from the bank to operate the Fushun coal mine. ”

Song Biao did not object, and said: "This matter can be done, but don't be in a hurry, wait for a while." When the situation in the three eastern provinces is completely stabilized, ask someone to survey the coal and iron resources in Fushun, Benxi, and Anshan, and then take out the franchise as a mortgage. ”

"Okay," said Miganov, "I will definitely borrow as much as I can, in fact, with your reputation and creditworthiness, this in itself is a huge amount of collateral, and no bank will worry about your ability to repay." ”

Song Biao nodded slightly and looked at Rong Xingqiao.

Rong Xingqiao then said: "Northeast soybeans are generally listed in October, there are many wastelands in southern Liaoning, and they can only go to Huinan, Changchun and Harbin to buy, I sent someone to Changchun to ask about the market, although last year's soybeans were sold at a good price because of export, but the money that really fell into the hands of crop households is not much, and the price of rice has risen in the past two years, and there are still more farmers who grow grain." This year's Huguang winter wheat harvest is abundant, and the price of grain is not high, so I have already started to buy grain from there, transport it to the local area by water, and then sell it to the Fengtian area by railway, and it is expected that there will be a high profit of three or four percent. It's just that the prices are high in front of them, and where do the refugees fleeing the famine everywhere have the money to buy food? ”

Song Biao said: "This matter will be handed over to Yufeng Bank, and I will let them borrow grain to lend to the tenants first, and then repay my soybeans at the price next year." First buy more grain from Zhili and Huguang, even if it is from the United States, first solve the problem of food shortage in Fengtian, stabilize the livelihood of the villagers, we can do a good job in the soybean business later, don't be in a hurry to make money, do business this kind of thing also put a long line to catch big fish. The villagers in the three eastern provinces are all poor and hungry to death, and we can't sell even the more kerosene cloth imported from abroad. ”

Rong Xingqiao praised: "The owner is really high-minded. ”

Song Biao actually can't talk about high opinions, he mainly thinks that if he becomes the governor of the three eastern provinces, the first problem he has to face is to restore the livelihood of the people in the three eastern provinces, in the past, he hoped that the price of grain would be high, the higher the better, and now he hopes that the price of grain will stabilize quickly, if it is only 30% higher than in previous years, the price of 20 foreign yuan for a load of rice can basically make the villagers in Fengtian and the Liaodong Peninsula settle down.

Thanks to his own blessings, the capital in his hands is very sufficient, and there is no need to make any more profits on grain.

The price of grain in Mukden is high, and there is basically no grain in the locality, and a large area of land has been abandoned for two years, and the rich gentry of rice merchants in various places have no grain in their hands, and the common people have no money to buy grain in their hands, so the only way is to transfer a large amount of grain from other places and distribute it to the people in a large area in the form of IOUs.

Although Song Biao controls more than 40,000 hectares of fertile land through Yufeng Xing, the land area of 400 square kilometers is equivalent to the area of an agricultural county, and he is the No. 1 big landlord in the entire northeast, but the three eastern provinces are still vast and sparsely populated, and the situation in Guannai is completely different, the vast majority of peasant households in the three eastern provinces have their own fields, and less than 60 hectares of land can only be regarded as small landlords, even if the land in Fengtian is sold, fleeing to Jilin and Heilongjiang can also reclaim new wasteland.

As long as we can first borrow a batch of grain for the people to settle down, next year's three eastern provinces will still be a bumper harvest year, and there will be enough surplus grain to be transferred abroad every year.

Song Biao is very confident in this.

If he really became the governor of the three eastern provinces, he promised to build a moderately prosperous society in the three eastern provinces ahead of schedule, so that every family could live a prosperous life, and he would first establish a new deal world in the three eastern provinces, where he would start the first step of China's modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and large-scale agricultural production.

For his own Far Eastern Bank, Song Biao did not have too many detailed plans, he came here today to hear more about the ideas of Mijanov and Rong Xingqiao, especially for Rong Xingqiao, Song Biao had high expectations from the first day he was hired.

After the three of them elaborated on the development of the business bank and said their thoughts, Song Biao felt that he was still alive and not too bastard.

After talking for about an hour, Song Biao asked Miganov and Shu Fangxin to go out to run errands first, left Mr. Rong Xingqiao alone, and invited Rong Xingqiao to drink a cup of tea, and then asked: "Mr. Rong, you should have known a lot of classmates and friends during your study in the United States, and now you don't know where they are, can you invite more people to come for me." You may have also heard that I may now become the governor of the three eastern provinces, I have no special expectations for this, being the governor of the three eastern provinces is not necessarily a good thing, and it is not necessarily a bad thing not to do it, but there are all kinds of things in the world, what if they really do it? Therefore, I still have to prepare with both hands, and I want to find a few suitable people in advance to help me deal with the chores of government affairs and officialdom. ”

Rong Xingqiao smiled with interest: "The presidents of Peiyang University are all my classmates when I studied in the United States, like Liang Dunyan used to play baseball with us, think about the past, it has been thirty years in a flash. Liang Dunyan and Tang Shaoyi are now the right-hand men of Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, and there must be more opportunities in the future, and there are also some classmates who are not suitable for use, so I wrote to them to see if they are willing to come. ”

Song Biao heard about another interesting thing, so he said to Rong Xingqiao: "It just so happens that I plan to send Jiang Yanxing to meet Lord Yuan in front of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, since you and Tang Shaoyi have some friendship, you might as well go over together." ”

Rong Xingqiao nodded cautiously slightly, and asked again: "I just don't know what the owner wants to talk about when he sends Mr. Jiang to the Zhili Yamen?" ”

Song Biao said: "The Russians want me to be the governor of the three eastern provinces, and they think that I want to do it very much, and the conditions for the two negotiations with me before are very harsh, and there is a great intention that I will betray the country to support me as the governor of the three eastern provinces, although they will speak very tactfully and try not to offend me, but the meaning is still like this." I hope that Lord Yuan will convey my intentions to the imperial court, if I can be the governor of the three eastern provinces, it is always a good thing, at least the tens of thousands of brothers under my command also have a settlement and livelihood, but I also can't be guilty of betraying the interests of the country in order to be a governor of the three eastern provinces, I play for the Russians, that is because I want to play the book, it is definitely not that I want to help the Russians, the Russians misunderstand my original intention, it is their own business, and it has nothing to do with me. Maybe one day, I'll fight the Russians again. ”

The reason why Song Biao dared to say so much to Rong Xingqiao was precisely because he already knew that Rong Xingqiao and Sun Yat-sen had a deep connection, and Rong Xingqiao and Wu Luzhen, members of the revolutionary party, also had many contacts, and when the two met for the first time, Rong Xingqiao had talked to Song Biao about some revolutionary remarks, Song Biao did not respond positively at that time, but also said "If you want to change the fate of China, it may not be as simple as you think, but now you still have to talk less and do more."

What Song Biao thinks, Rong Xingqiao can't say clearly, but Rong Xingqiao can feel that Song Biao looks down on the Manchu court very much, and basically doesn't take the Manchu people seriously, Song Biao hates braids very much, and never keeps braids, he has always been a military demeanor with round inches and short hair, Rong Xingqiao roughly knows about these things.

Listening to Song Biao's words, Rong Xingqiao nodded silently, and replied to Song Biao: "Listening to what the owner said, I will understand in my heart, then I will go to Zhili with Major Jiang, if I have the opportunity to meet Lord Yuan, I will definitely convey your meaning to Lord Yuan." ”

Song Biao hummed, then called Jiang Yanxing in, and discussed some details with Rong Xingqiao, lest the two of them have different accents. In addition to communicating with Yuan Shikai, Song Biao is still very concerned about recruiting the early group of young students studying abroad through Rong Xingqiao, and hopes that Rong Xingqiao will pay close attention to this matter and be sure to recruit some suitable people.

The two talked for a while, and Rong Xingqiao thought of a very special person, and said to Song Biao: "When we were emphasized by the imperial court to come back, some classmates did not return to China, and even stayed in the United States to live, Shen Deyao, Ouyang Geng, and Rong Kui are like this, Shen Deyao is the most special among them. Shen Deyao originally studied mining, but also admitted to Yale University, after graduation worked in an iron ore factory in the United States, and later did his own business, and I often have dealings, he acted as an agent for the kerosene business of Mobil Foreign Company a few years ago, and he also ran an iron ore mine, a few months ago, he also communicated with me, saying that he wanted to return to China to set up an iron factory, and wanted to ask us old classmates to introduce him to some relationships. ”

Song Biao became interested as soon as he heard this, and asked, "Did he have any experience in running an iron factory before?" ”

Rong Xingqiao said: "It is said that he did, but he soon sold his iron factory, and he concentrated on running the iron mine, he hired a lot of Chinese workers there, and he is also a person who is proficient in this business, and it is said that he has made a lot of money." In fact, he wanted to return to China to set up an iron factory because he wanted to contribute some strength to the national industry, but he himself was not too sure, and mining was his business. ”

Song Biao thought about it for a while and said: "You can write a letter to him, or send a telegram, we have the right to operate coal and iron mines here, and we can join forces with him to operate, or we can come over to be partners." ”

Rong Xingqiao said: "Okay, I'll send him a telegram and invite him to return to China to see the situation first." ”

Song Biao nodded.

Rong Xingqiao, Shen Deyao, and Tang Shaoyi are all celebrities from all walks of life at the turn of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and they are also the first batch of people in China to really open their eyes to the world.

If Song Biao becomes the governor of the three eastern provinces, these people will be able to help Song Biao support the framework of the entire Northeast New Deal and implement new political reforms in the three eastern provinces, and the facts will eventually prove that the Russians supporting him as the governor of the three eastern provinces is definitely the most stupid choice, and if the Russians think that he is pro-Russian, it is really wishful thinking.

After packing up the book in advance, the second target that Song Biao has to deal with now is the Qing Dynasty, and the third target is Russia.

(To be continued)