Song Biao has always been a very gambling person, as long as he decides to go to Bo once, he will definitely do his best, but the fact that investing in securities is not his style, after careful consideration, he still decided to only take out 7 million pounds borrowed from the United States to invest in rubber futures and securities, and the rest of the liquidity will continue to stay in the Far East Commercial Bank to invest in the three eastern provinces.

Because the Far Eastern Consortium is the economic leader of the three eastern provinces, if the Far Eastern consortium stops investing in the three eastern provinces, it will have a significant impact on the economy of the entire three eastern provinces.

Even so, as long as the rubber market is really hot this year, the money earned from a year's investment is enough for Song Biao to fight a national war, and he does not have to borrow from foreign countries to fight a civil war, so as not to be blackmailed and blackmailed by various countries.

It costs money to buy guns and ammunition, and when you go to war, you will buy arms with others, even if the price is doubled and sold to you, it will be considered a favor for you.

Having said that, don't look at the Northeast New Army is so strong, if you really want to lead it to fight all over the country, you have to hold at least 20 million pounds of arms in the warehouse and prepare it, the Northeast New Army has a lot of artillery and machine guns, as long as the war starts, the cannon will be shot after cannon, and the shots will be shot out of the silver tickets of snowflakes.

If you run out of funds halfway through this civil war, and then borrow money from foreign countries to fight a civil war, what you have to pay at that time is not as simple as real money, but what you pay must be national sovereignty.

The Chinese have an old saying that hitting people does not hit the face, and the European and American powers are different, and these animals especially like to do things that hit the face, and they have to practice China to show that Europe and the United States are civilized countries, and China is the representative of ignorance.

To put it mildly, when we Chinese talk about civilized etiquette, what are you Anglo-Saxons?

Song Biao really intends to teach these European and American powers, as well as the American Big Three, the old European chaebols and the newly erupted Xiao Yueben, he would rather gamble than borrow money from these grandchildren to fight a civil war, and wait for him to sweep the whole country, and then settle accounts with these grandchildren.

…… Song Biao inspected in Jinzhou for a week, and Zhang Bishi discussed the investment in the rubber industry in Hainan Province, now because the market is the best years, this time to invest in the rubber plantation is not a good time, Song Biao and Zhang Bishi discussed, decided to first in Hainan Province to buy a Hainan rubber company to explore experience, cultivate talents, wait a few years to see the market and then make further plans.

Zhang Bishi's rubber plantations in Indonesia generally employ Chinese workers, from planting to rubber tapping, drying rubber, as well as the export and accounting of the entire industry, which are all responsible for Chinese workers, and only the busiest months will hire Indonesian short-term workers from the local area.

As long as there is the help of Nanyang Chinese businessmen, there is no shortage of people and experience in China's rubber industry, and the key is to see how the overall output of Hainan Island is.

As for Zhang Bishi's continued investment in the domestic textile industry, Song Biao suggested that it should be postponed for two years, and now is certainly not the best time period, if it is invested in the second half of 1908, and the large-scale production will be officially carried out two years later, just when it encounters financial turmoil and war, the factory is doomed to a big loss. It is unlikely to defeat the textile industry now, after all, the tariffs are very low, and the eight major textile companies have begun to flock to China to invest and set up factories.

As far as he knows, the three major textile companies in Ben, Neimian, Osaka, and Zhongyuan have all decided to invest and set up factories in Jinzhou and Jinzhou, and are recently sending people to discuss cooperation with the Far East Commercial Bank.

In addition, including in the textile industry's marketing, pattern design, production management, talents, dyes and other aspects, the gap between China and the book is still obvious, and these problems cannot be solved in two or three years.

Song Biao's overall judgment on the Sino-economic and trade war is that there will be no results in the next three or five years, and he is not in a hurry to exert his efforts now.

…… After inspecting the First Cavalry Brigade stationed in Jinzhou, Song Biao continued to Fuzhou to inspect the Liaoxi Military Pastoral Bureau and the Second Cavalry Brigade before returning to Fengtianfu.

Cixi deliberately asked the Military Aircraft Department and the ministers of Beijing to discuss the establishment of the domain, and she herself also put on a very sincere appearance, to put it bluntly, there are two purposes, one is to impeach Song Biao and slander Song Biao throughout the country; The second is to force Song Biao to submit to himself, beg to confess his guilt to the Manchu court, and show his loyalty.

People can't go out without faith, since you show your loyalty to the court and the Manchurians under the attention of the whole country, it will not be so authentic to rebel in the future, and everyone knows that you are a villain.

Although Song Biao is not a master of politics, he knows very well in his heart what kind of tricks Cixi and the Manchu royal family are playing, he will not stop calming people, he will not show loyalty to the court, and he will not be a righteous gentleman, he will see how Cixi plans to end?

The ministers of civil and military affairs and the "traditional knowledge elements" all over the country are impeaching him, scolding him like shit, his reputation has long been stinking like a dung bucket, what is the Qing Dynasty going to do to remove him from the position of governor of the three eastern provinces?

Song Biao did not want to inspect Jinzhou and Fuzhou for no reason, he went to inspect the two cavalry brigades, and arranged for the two cavalry brigades to hold a new temporary exercise in the near future.

When Song Biao returned to the Governor's Mansion of the three eastern provinces, it was already mid-January 1908, and there were fifteen days left before the Chinese New Year, which was the coldest time in the three eastern provinces, and it was a low temperature of minus ten degrees outside every day.

The heavy snow of the past few days has covered the entire city of Mukden with silver makeup, and the snow is boundless, as if it is the purest and most beautiful new world in this world, far away from the noise and squalor of Jingshi and Kannai.

It was noon when I returned to the military headquarters in the eastern suburbs of Fengtian City, Song Biao took the train all the way, and went directly to his dormitory to rest after getting off the train, his dormitory is a closed courtyard, Jiang Fangzhen's family lives in the east, and the Shu family lives in the west.

Song Biao's building is slightly more than half of the size, because the internal duty of the guard battalion is to be arranged to be responsible for the security work.

Because his residence is only a few hundred meters away from the Governor's Palace, sometimes if he is not very busy, he will not go to work in the Governor's Palace, just read books in his study, think about a little problem, and when there is a need for document processing and approval, the Secretariat and the Secretariat will send someone to report it.

Song Biao didn't wake up until night, and Shu Fangde and Yuan Jinkai had been waiting in his living room, from three o'clock in the afternoon until now.

Although they were all the closest subordinates around him, Song Biao was still dressed neatly, and only went to see them after washing, and when he arrived in the living room, he saw them fidgeting and discussing things together.

Yuan Jinkai is now also proud, in the three eastern provinces has become a big man in real power, wearing a blue-black silk satin mink thick long jacket, the three eastern provinces are produced are tussah silk, the silk is thick and bright, but it is difficult to color, and the effect of foreign dyes is not good, so they can only use earth dyes.

Because he was too close to the new army, Yuan Jinkai also changed to smoke the iron cigarettes that were exclusively supplied by the army, and he was smoking with Shu Fangde and Shu Fangde, and he was discussing things in the sofa with his head down with a sad face.

As soon as Song Biao walked in, Shu Fangde immediately got up and saluted when he saw him, and Yuan Jinkai hurriedly pinched his cigarette and bowed.

Song Biao glanced at them indifferently and asked, "What's the matter, so anxious to come over?" ”

Shu Fangde said: "The military seat, isn't it just a matter of the imperial court's establishment of a domain!" ”

Song Biao hummed nonchalantly, and Zhang Futian, who was accompanying him, ordered: "Let the orderly make the next dish of shredded meat noodles, a whole plate of salted duck eggs and half a catty of soju, and I will entertain the two of them for a light meal!" ”

Zhang Futian said yes respectfully, then turned around and went out to order others to do things.

Song Biao still has high requirements for the people around him, Li Fugui has always been in the reconnaissance battalion directly under the military department, Li Dayun's kid is not serious, Dahan, to be honest, he is too honest. I think that the brothers who came out of the Erwolf Cave back then are still in the army now, and others, such as Sun Shiyong and others, were all sent to be the director of the police bureau after participating in the crash course of the Far Eastern Lu Shi, managing the police and militia work in the local area.

Lao Jintou has been in the guest house now, and Lao Guo Tou is in charge of affairs in Yufeng, except for Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, and Yang Tiesheng, the three cronies who have really been promoted, and the following is Zhang Futian, who has been staying by Song Biao's side as the commander of the guard battalion since graduating from the Lu Shi advanced training class.

As for the guard battalion around Song Biao, to this day it is still with brothers from the Hunjiang area, and the equipment is very good, including the first batch of Mauser sniper rifles imported from the German DWM company are prioritized in the guard battalion, and there are indeed many sharpshooters in this battalion.

Telling Zhang Futian to go out to run errands, Song Biao sat at his desk and sorted out the documents on the table a little, and then asked Shu Fangde and Yuan Jinkai: "Has it been more troublesome recently?" ”

Yuan Jinkai sighed: "Your Excellency, you are really sitting on the crater and not in a hurry, the number of twists and turns in the impeachment of you on the Jingshi side is as much as a small hill, and the Military Aircraft Department also sent someone to send it to you to see, asking you what your approval is!" ”

Song Biao sneered and sneered: "What can I say, the matter of establishing a domain is not something I tossed, they just want to force me to obey with their own ghost tricks, I won't take a stand, if they want to withdraw me, then withdraw, I don't have any attitude at all, it's a big deal to come to a Qingjun side." The dynasty is full of corrupt officials and bastards, and it is also necessary to clean it up! ”

"This ......!"

Yuan Jinkai didn't know how to answer for a while, he was a shrewd person, and he first saw that the Qing political axe was to force Song Biao to show his loyalty, but he didn't really mean to set up a vassal for Song Biao.

Shu Fangde said: "Junzuo, I think since we don't want to express our position, we should be tougher, directly transfer the main force of the army to Jinzhou for defense, just find a reason to fight bandits, and leave the rest of the troubles to Qing Zheng Axe to weigh by himself." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and said: "It's not a coincidence in time, Cai Yi just came back, and the pillar happened to go to the Russian General Staff College for further study, and he didn't give Yang Tiesheng any chance after all these years, so he took the Sixth Infantry Brigade over, and the First Infantry Brigade exercised in Chaoyang County, and then stationed in Jinzhou to wait for my order." The ammunition in stock was first transported to Jinzhou in batches, and the armies did not need to be under martial law, and the matter of cutting braids was speeded up. In addition, in the past two days, the Secretariat has prepared an editorial draft to be published in the "Northeast Daily," which mainly talks about the well-being of the people, and that it is necessary to gradually increase the income of the people in the three eastern provinces and to work in two general directions, namely, to reduce agricultural taxes in agriculture and increase the minimum wage in industry, and to have regular holidays and rests, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment. As far as the governor's offices of the three eastern provinces are concerned, one of our long-term goals is to strive to double the average income of the people within 10 years, and to earn about 10 silver yuan a month now, and 20 silver yuan a month to come. If I can't achieve this goal, I won't leave the three eastern provinces. This time, I'll use my name to publish an editorial directly. ”

Yuan Jinkai pondered for a while, and felt that this idea was ingenious, but it didn't seem to solve the root cause.

Song Biao thought about it for a while and continued: "Let's publish a series of editorials surnamed Suo, and make a report on people's livelihood, welfare, economy, industry, commerce, railways, water conservancy, agriculture, and education, as a long-term development plan for the entire three eastern provinces in the next five and ten years, and a commitment from me as the governor of the three eastern provinces." In short, it is a sentence, no matter how the Guannai is tossed, our Kanto must be stable, as long as our side is stable, no matter how the Guannai and the Qing Zheng axe are tossed around, there is the Northeast New Army here, and they dare not do anything to us. If it was really going to be in a hurry, he directly ordered the three provinces to stand on their own in the name of the governor's office of the three eastern provinces. ”

Only then did Yuan Jinkai understand Song Biao's full intention, and immediately said: "I understand what the governor meant, so I will go back to do it immediately, and strive to be on the first page from tomorrow." ”

Song Biao signaled that he was not in a hurry, and said, "Let's go after eating, it's not big fish and meat anyway, eat a bowl of noodles with me, and the three of them will share half a bottle of soju." ”

Shu Fangde said with a smile: "Junzao, Director Yuan is massive, half a catty is not enough for him to drink alone!" ”

Of course, Song Biao knew that Yuan Jinkai was massive, and a pound of liquor was very easy, but he told Yuan Jinkai: "Drink less in the future, drink less wine to warm up your body and blood, and if you drink too much, it will hurt your liver, you will follow me to do big things for a long time in the future, pay attention to your health, don't wait until you are sick to take care of your body." ”

Yuan Jinkai was silently grateful, and said, "After being humiliated, you must remember the teachings of the adults." ”

This period of time happened to be a special stage in the restructuring of the Northeast New Army, and the six infantry brigades, two artillery brigades, and three cavalry brigades had all taken shape, and after most of the original baggage regiments had been split and the brigades were transferred to various brigades, the military headquarters still planned to build the First Garrison Brigade, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, the First Baggage Brigade, the First Engineering Brigade, and the Third Artillery Brigade as the headquarters of the military force, and the First Garrison Brigade consisted of a command regiment, a garrison regiment, a reconnaissance regiment, and a baggage regiment.

Most people support this proposal, but the problem is that it costs too much money, and the expansion of each regiment into a brigade has tossed a lot of money before, and the cost of expanding into a division will not be small.

The military expenditure of the Northeast New Army is not unlimited, and the current annual military salary transferred from the Governor's Palace contains two parts, one is the public 11.25 million silver yuan, and the other part is coal and other mining taxes. It is about 1.5 times that of the former, but the salary and silver expenditure of the officers and men of the whole army alone has already reached 15.7 million silver yuan, and in addition to the regular training expenses and the huge amount of military equipment purchases, we were forced to borrow 20 million silver yuan of military bonds from various banks at the beginning of last year.

Therefore, Song Biao must continue to invest in the oil industry abroad and in the rubber industry in addition to the Far East Commercial Bank, especially in the matter of rubber futures and securities, and he must gamble, otherwise, he can only rely entirely on the annual profits of the Far Eastern Commercial Bank to support the troops.

As for the annual expenditure of the Northeast New Army, of course, Qing Zhengaxe did not know about it, and Yin Chang did not know the details.

Because of the limited military spending, there is some internal controversy about the new restructuring and expansion method, which has not yet been finalized, Song Biao went out to inspect for half a month, and when he came back, he first asked Shu Fangde about the results of the recent discussions and the support attitude of various troops.

(To be continued)