Oil is good business.

In terms of price alone, a ton of soybeans is definitely much more expensive than a ton of oil, a ton of soybeans is a minimum of 40 pounds, about 195 US dollars, and a ton of oil is up to 7.5 US dollars, but the purchase price of soybeans is also very high, and what is earned from it is just a trade spread, and the advantage of the oil business is that as long as it is a high-yield oil well, it is basically equivalent to sitting on the ground to collect gold, and even the cost can be ignored.

In the past decade, the total amount of oil and related products sold by the United States has increased from $200 million to $270 million per year, with total sales of about $2.5 billion, and the total dividend of Standard Oil shares of the United States has reached $800 million.

What a terrible net profit this is.

Russia relied on the second largest oil export in the world to fight the Russo-Russian War, although its oil exploitation rights were basically controlled by French capital, and the source of these French capitals came largely from European Jewish conglomerates.

Song Biao originally did not have much interest in this kind of business, and even felt that investing in foreign investment in oil mining was not only insecure, but also equivalent to earning foreign exchange for others, but the situation forced him to make a hero, and the majestic expenditure of at least 10 million pounds a year also stumped Song Biao, the emperor of the three eastern provinces.

As the emperor of the soil, Song Biao did not want to harm the people of the three eastern provinces and the poor industrial and commercial foundation, so the only way was to harm the British and American consortia, especially those hugely rich Jewish conglomerates.

Song Biao brought Zhang Kangren over and carefully inquired about all aspects of the consultation and legal terms of setting up an oil company in a foreign country, and the result was that he was a little surprised and injured, even if Chinese invest in oil companies in the United States as foreign businessmen, and then invest in mining abroad, the degree of protection under US law is better than that of the current three eastern provinces.

Of course, different states in the United States have different levels of such protection, but Chang recommends registering an oil company in New Jersey and then investing in other foreign investments, or other provinces in the United States.

Because this is not the first time that Song Biao has mentioned this matter, when Zhang Kangren went to the United States some time ago to negotiate equipment and silver yuan agency business, he met with Rong Kui, who agreed in principle to serve as the general manager of this oil company and proposed to exploit oil in Texas.

If Dr. Yung is willing to join, this is obviously very good news.

Hearing the good news, Song Biao couldn't wait to say to Zhang Kangren: "Okay, you immediately send a telegram to Rong Kuo, just say that I plan to go to the United States to handle this matter in person, and let him find a way to recruit suitable personnel in the United States first." Money is certainly not a problem, we now have at least $20 million in liquid capital, and I can borrow a sum of money from the Sino-Russian Daosheng Bank for long-term investment. In two years, I can invest 10 million dollars, and even if there is no oil production in two years, I am willing to continue to invest at this scale for another two years. The conditions are simple, I only want to invest in oil in Mexico at the moment, and it has to be in the Tampico region. ”

"That's ......!"

Zhang Kangren was slightly embarrassed, and said: "Actually, the last time I went to the United States to meet with Rong Kui, I also mentioned the idea that you want to run an oil company in Mexico, because Rong Kui has some friends in this regard, he strongly recommended that we not go to Mexico, but choose to look for oil areas in Texas, and the most popular oil search areas in the United States are Texas and several southern states. He said that investing in oil is gambling, and the difference is that the odds of winning are high in some places and low in others. Speaking of Mexico's oil industry, Rong happened to know a Mexican oil company, this company was founded by Americans in the Tampico area of Mexico, three years ago in New York on a large scale of start-up stocks, this stock is also called junk bonds, before and after raising a total of three million dollars in equity, so far there are only a few poor low-yield oil mines, except for asphalt smelting has no economic significance, the people who bought these start-up stocks are completely smashed, After three years of tossing and turning, the total market value of the original $3 million share capital is now less than $300,000, and it has become a real junk stock. ”

Song Biao sighed, but laughed in his heart, and said: "Then first set up a New Jersey Far East Oil Company in New Jersey, and then spend 300,000 US dollars to buy these junk stocks, and at the same time go to the Tampico area of Mexico to buy a new mining area again." It makes sense to exist, and there must be a reason why others are willing to invest there to find oil, maybe it's just a little bit worse...... Of course, before I really invest a lot of money, that is, I am going to invest millions of dollars, I still want to go there and see if I can arrange a trip, I plan to go to Mexico secretly to investigate, if I can meet with the president of Mexico, it will obviously be better. ”

Zhang Kangren thought for a while and said, "This shouldn't be a problem, Wu Tingfang, the minister in Mexico, Chile, and Peru, has some contacts with me, and I should be able to ask him for help." ”

Song Biao nodded and ordered: "Then you can arrange it as soon as possible, come and go quickly, keep it secret, I hope to visit Mexico secretly and return to China before September." ”

Zhang Kangren silently said yes, and left Song Biao's office again.

This matter is a bit vulgar in general, but it is a bastard to have money and not make money, not to mention this kind of money given away for nothing, Song Biao's idea is to throw money, spend a lot of money and desperately exploit dozens of oil wells, once the surname is sold to a Jewish consortium in Europe and the United States, and run away with a huge check from others.

With the outbreak of Mexico's anti-literacy revolution and the development of the nationalization of Mexico's oil, this huge check is destined to buy only a bunch of bullshit, and it will take about forty or fifty years to get back the compensation of one or two hundred million dollars for the Mexican political axe.

can not only make a lot of money, but also pit people, where to find such a good thing, it is better to pit that Rockefeller for a large sum of money, and run away after the pit, or exchange with the American Standard Oil Company for the Texas oil industry and so on.

No matter how deceitful and deceitful this thing can be, it is a bit of a marginal bad thing for Song Biao, and he may fail, and it is possible to smash it for 10 million US dollars to make a blister, because he doesn't understand it at all.

During this period, although the new policies, industrial, railway, financial, and other governance of the three eastern provinces were all in their infancy, after all, the entire political axe institutions and policies were generally perfected, and the following work was to let them develop step by step, and Song Biao's energy was gradually transferred to the new army in the northeast.

It's okay to make a blister for 10 million US dollars, but it should be used to gamble with the military expenses left by me, as long as there is a new army in the Northeast in his hand, Song Biao will always have a chance to turn over.

The second phase of the Northeast New Army's training has been carried out halfway, from the current point of view, the effect is still very good, at least in the infantry area that Song Biao is familiar with, after the large-scale expansion of the troops, a total of 40,000 troops have passed the most difficult first stage, more than 1/3 of the troops have spent a year of recruits, a total of 3,327 grass-roots low-level non-commissioned officers, 1/3 have participated in the non-commissioned officer training organized by the Far East Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the whole army retains 722 Russian instructors, which has been popularized to each company. Even if there was a sudden and violent military conflict with the Qing army during this period, Song Biao would not be very embarrassed.

Of course, we must continue to work hard, and Song Biao strives to beat the Qing army like three high school students beating a primary school student, because only such a standard can surround and beat the army with the advantage of a high school student beating a junior high school student.

The so-called military deterrence is to make others think that it is not your opponent with their ass, and your army can't wait to find someone to beat you up, in this case, others will be especially afraid of you, just like Germany before World War II.

These days, Song Biao has been meticulously evaluating the second phase of the whole army's training, summing up some deficiencies, and gradually revising and adjusting them.

After a busy day, Song Biao did not eat in the cafeteria at night, but went to Shu's house for dinner.

He is a real commander of the light pole, he eats alone, the whole family is not hungry, and it is very sad to eat alone in the dormitory, especially lonely, in the past few months, he often accepts Shu Fangde's invitation to go to Shu's house for dinner, and after dinner, he chats with Shu Fangren and Brother Shu Fangde, or sets up two games of Go with Shu Gao.

Except for occasionally going to the art troupe to watch the rehearsal program, going to the battalion headquarters to practice marksmanship, and riding horses around the camp, this is almost the only leisurely arrangement for Song Biao in the tide of the new policy in the three eastern provinces.

There is a little bit of relationship with Shu Xuan, in general, it is not big, after all, it is very painful and lonely to live alone in this era, and the feeling of being thousands of miles away from your family and never being able to see each other is something that others cannot experience, and the four fathers and sons of the Shu family are all working by Song Biao's side, and this relationship is indeed very special.

That night, Shu Fangxin also went home to visit his parents, and the four of them were there, and Song Biao also had a rare drink with the Shu family father and son, because he and Shu Fangxin also had a bit of a bad thing to talk about, Song Biao didn't play chess with Shu Gaoli at night.

After dinner, he sat down with Shu Fangxin and Shu Fangde in the Shu family's study to talk about the officer's shareholding.

Song Biao originally wanted to take out the Far East Coal and Iron Company for demutualization, and he was almost ready, but then it was suspended, because the Far East Coal and Iron Company basically has no possibility of dividends in the next ten years, and even if it is profitable, it will continue to roll over, and in the first five years, it will continue to draw profits from other places to subsidize it, once the demutualization is completed, the change in share capital will be very large, and the overall share capital ratio is also very unstable.

Song Biao's collective interests of the officers of the Feng family must be done, and now it is only a question of which company to disperse the equity.

The three of them sat down and discussed for a while, and considered each company, but none of them were very qualified.

At this time, Shu Fangxin had already prepared and considered and proposed to Song Biao: "Your Excellency Governor, do you think it is possible to start a new company again, separately hold part of the shares of the Coal and Iron Company, some subsidiaries of Yufeng Bank and Far East Commercial Bank, and other affairs, and run the banking business, and start some small and medium-sized mining industries separately. In addition, I think this company has a special relationship with the new business. ”

In constant contact with the Liberation Society, Song Biao's Chinese Revolutionary Association and the Liberation Society had reached an agreement to jointly promote the "Liberation Revolution" in China, but all revolutionary comrades and colleagues used the term "new cause" to refer to the "Liberation Revolution".

Listening to Shu Fangxin's proposal, Song Biao suddenly had a sense of enlightenment, and immediately agreed: "Your idea is still good, in this way, let's assume that we will establish a Xinhua company, and I will personally hold 20% of the shares for later redistribution, and 30% will be left for the Northeast New Army to hold collectively, 30% will be distributed, and the last 20% will be set up for the club, what do you think?" ”

Shu Fangxin agreed: "That's exactly what my subordinates envisioned. ”

Some people say that it is a very stupid thing to give a lot of money to soldiers, but what other way can better integrate a group of soldiers into a whole, if there is no special revolutionary thought, just the simplest idea of "recovering the revolution", although it can unite people's hearts for a while, the future will still be divided after all.

How is Yuan Shikai to the officers and men of the Beiyang Army?

When he was about to become emperor, how many senior generals of the Beiyang Army really followed?

Hardly.

On the one hand, Yuan Shikai made a mistake in this matter, and on the other hand, with the development of troops and people, everyone has their own influence group.

Even if Song Biao established the Chinese Empire, how could the emperor at this time be on a par with the emperor of the Ming and Qing dynasties?

There is some truth in this statement, but it is not reasonable, because shares do not represent success, and the value of success pursued by everyone is not the same.

Song Biao's logic in this matter was to give high-ranking generals and the old shares that really relied on it to achieve what it is today, and at the same time to restrict the transfer of shares in this company, so as to form a solid interest group.

His thinking is very long-term, even after many years, this special interest company will continue to survive in China's politics and military, surviving covertly, stabilizing the country's military stability, and serving as a special platform to stabilize the senior generals.

Even if the revolution has succeeded, and everyone is ready to pursue more of their own interests and values, they have to continue to be tied together, firmly on this platform, and continue to unite for vested interests.

Based on this, Shu Fangxin's idea to Song Biao was to distribute futures shares and restricted shares as much as possible, and have the right to income but no direct right to control.

On Shu Fangxin's suggestion, Song Biao also considered a new method, that is, the Northeast New Army was registered as a collective to hold collective equity, 30% of the equity belonged to the army, and the Secretariat of the Northeast New Army was responsible for secret jurisdiction, 20% was retained in Song Biao's name, 30% was distributed to senior generals and old ministries as restricted shares, and 20% belonged to another collective share, that is, it belonged to the Xinhua Society.

In other words, 30 percent of this company is military and 20 percent is party property.

Song Biao, Shu Fangxin and Shu Fangde secretly discussed for a long time, and decided to name this company "Xinhua Finance Company of the Three Eastern Provinces", which is similar to a financial investment institution in principle, responsible for managing the finances of the army and the party, as well as investing in places related to the "Liberation Revolution" and military education. The final total assets of the Far East Textile Mill and the Far East Railway Corporation, as well as a part of the gold and silver mining industry, other mining companies and real estate, should be in the scale of 15 million silver yuan.

If Xinhua Finance Company's annual net income can reach 2 million silver yuan, and it will continue year by year, it will certainly be able to make a huge contribution to the liberation of the revolution and the stability of the army.

Because this company has a very special and important surname for Song Biao's long-term interests, Song Biao has been secretly negotiating with the Shu brothers in the Shu family until late at night before leaving, and he met Shu Xuan before leaving.

Shu Xuan had been waiting for him in the living room, and when he came out, she gave him a box of shortbread she had made.

Because Song Biao often stays up late to work, he will always eat some dim sum at night to satisfy his hunger, and there is nothing to find fault with in this era.

It's a pity, he originally thought that he would be able to spare at least half an hour to chat with Shu Xuan alone for dinner this time, and I heard that Shu Xuan was in charge of writing a new drama in the art troupe recently, and I don't know how to write it.

(To be continued)