Song Biao did return to the military headquarters of Fengtianfu in the three eastern provinces, and the important military and political affairs he had accumulated in the past two months were also piled up, and after completing the real major event of the new army's allotment, it took him a few days to approve most of the important tasks that had been put on hold.

For example, as of mid-November, a total of 14 foreign-funded banks and three domestic banks had applied for the right to issue notes, four British-funded banks, one German-funded, French-funded, and Chinese-funded bank, two American-funded banks, and the rest of the foreign banks with capital from Italy, Belgium, and Denmark also had them, and the three domestic banks were the China International Commercial Bank, the Nanyang Bank that Zhang Bishi convened to help the Nanyang Huayue businessmen to set up, and the Bank of Shanghai, which was founded by Yu Qiaqing and the businessmen of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ningbo. The name Bank of Shanghai was still mentioned by Song Biao during his interview with Yu Qiaqing very early.

Song Biao's initial minimum standard for the bright line was that the capital injection must be higher than 10 million silver yuan, and these 17 banks could all meet this standard on their books, but it is obvious that the three Chinese-funded banks basically claimed to have a capital of 10 million silver yuan, and the paid-in capital certainly did not reach it.

In addition to the bank's right to issue notes, the competition for railway contracts has become more and more fierce at this time, after this year's preparations, the survey of most of the lines has been completed, Germany and France have started construction in the easier to repair the lot, and how to choose the joint venture party for the rest is still to be considered.

The modern policing work in the three eastern provinces is gradually being improved, and the foreign-related court system and procurators have been set up in place, and when the right time comes, Song Biao will be able to deal with the nearly 1,000 people who are rampant and unbridled in the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao weighed these problems little by little, but he was not in a hurry to make a move.

The results of the second phase of the new army in the northeast have not yet come out, and if we must implement the strictest standards, it is very likely that we will have to repeat it again, but the plan for the third phase of the training must still be done step by step, and it will not only have a bearing on the training and arrangement of the troops, the adjustment of the establishment of the whole army, but also on the coordination and reorganization of equipment, and the workload here is very huge.

After Song Biao returned to the military department, the three-phase training plan began to be arranged and formulated in a formal and orderly manner.

There is always a price to pay for visiting and vacationing in the Americas, Song Biao is indeed very busy these days after returning to China, but he still has to take time to meet Ms. Qiu Jin, the head of the art troupe at noon, and originally planned to give Qiu Jin a share allotment, but she easily refused such an arrangement.

Out of consideration of the complete merger with the Restoration Society, Song Biao arranged for her to serve as the head of the art troupe of the Northeast New Army, but until today, he has not seriously discussed with her various affairs and long-term planning.

For this reason, Song Biao arranged a luncheon for three people in the reception room at noon, and invited Shu Xuan and her new superior, Ms. Qiu Jin, to dine together.

Anyone who has seen Ms. Qiu Jin knows that she is a very beautiful lady, and she is a real heroine among women, out of respect for her special surname, Song Biao specially invited her to drink at noon.

After waiting for the appointed time, accompanied by Shu Xuan, Qiu Jin arrived at the reception room with her, and the two beautiful women were both wearing light brown military uniforms and brown tweed cylinder hats.

The main body of the military hat of the Northeast New Army adopts a French design, and there are four kinds of differences: summer clothes, spring and autumn clothes, winter clothes and deep winter clothes.

It should be said that the Northeast New Army is now paying the most attention to the design and equipment of military uniforms in China, and through cooperation with France and Russia, all the military uniform designs of the Northeast New Army are completely in France, and some are ordered in Russia, and they are gradually transferred to the Changling Military Textile Factory under the Far East Textile General Factory.

In order to produce every part of the military uniform, Changling Military Textile Factory has hired a number of professional technicians from France and Russia, and established a perfect master-apprentice system, especially such as high-end deerskin military boots, cowhide drawing bags and thin sheepskin gloves, etc., although most of these belong to the scope of military dresses, and there are few opportunities to use them, but occasionally they will produce very good results.

In the design of military uniforms, the Northeast New Army is probably the first army in the world to officially pay attention to the design of women's military uniforms.

Qiu Jin obviously loves the women's military uniforms of the Northeast New Army and is full of praise.

Entering the reception room with Shu Xuan, and seeing Song Biao, Qiu Jin saluted with Shu Xuan and said, "Military seat!" ”

Song Biao was setting up chopsticks and dishes for them, so he beckoned them to come in and sit down, and said, "Eat a little at noon, I just use this time to ask you about the work of the art troupe." ”

Saying this, Song Biao took out a small porcelain bottle of liquor and threw it on the table for Qiu Jin to pour the wine himself.

Three people, four dishes and one soup, two meat and three vegetables are very healthy.

Qiu Jin, who found that there was wine, seemed very happy, poured it for Song Biao with her own hands, and asked Shu Xuan with a smile: "Can you have a drink too?" ”

Shu Xuan shook her head slightly shyly, looked at Song Biao and smiled.

Qiu Jin continued to persuade: "It's rare to have a chance to drink with Junzao, if you have a drink, it can be regarded as a loss for me." ”

Song Biao said for Shu Xuan: "She can't drink liquor, the next time she has a chance to drink wine, she can still drink a small glass." ”

"Oh ......!"

Qiu Jin seemed to sigh very sourly, and said to Song Biao: "The military seat is really distressing!" ”

Song Biao laughed and did not continue to answer.

Song Biao likes Shu Xuan, Shu Xuan also likes him, this is something that everyone in the Northeast New Army knows, if Song Biao is really a person of this era, he estimates that he would have sent someone to the door to propose marriage, and the Shu family has not had the courage to refuse this good thing according to reason, and may not be able to ask for it.

Song Biao himself once talked to Yin Chang about what kind of wife he wanted, and his standard was "a famous lady, knowledgeable and courteous, proficient in foreign languages, empathetic, beautiful and generous, a good dish that can be cooked, a good soup stewed, like children, and can teach children to memorize Tang poems and English words", Shu Xuan is completely able to reach this level, the dishes are very good, and the soup is also very good.

But when things really came to this, Song Biao was not in a hurry to start, to put it mildly, he still wanted to wait a little longer, maybe he could still have a choice.

This shows that Song Biao doesn't really love Shu Xuan.

After all, he is still very young, he is a little confused about these things, he has no experience, he really likes Shu Xuan, but after all, there is a huge gap between the times, and Shu Xuan can't run.

He was really shameless in this matter, to put it mildly, he decided not to marry Shu Xuan, and no one dared to beat Shu Xuan's idea, so he was not in a hurry.

In the new army, he did not dare to talk about Song Biao and Shu Xuan, and Qiu Jin was no exception.

Qiu Jin just mentioned it quietly, and then still picked up the wine glass and said to Song Biao very seriously: "The military seat is hard, I will give the military seat a glass for the soldiers of the three armies." ”

She has always been such a heroic daughter.

Song Biao nodded in agreement, picked up his glass and drank a glass of liquor with Qiu Jin, and then replied: "I have limited time, after eating, I will discuss with Colonel Martos about the third phase of the training, let's seize this time to talk about the affairs of the art troupe." You have been presiding over the work of the art troupe for more than two months, what are your thoughts and new proposals recently? ”

Qiu Jin and Song Biao didn't have much contact time, and they were really a little uncomfortable with Song Biao's fast-paced work style, so they were a little stunned before they came back to their senses, and immediately said: "I really have a lot of feelings." The so-called art troupe, then the cultural work troupe, as you requested, we must pay close attention to the patriotism and nationalism education of the officers and soldiers through various cultural work, and enrich the cultural life of the army. Therefore, I think that our art troupe should also expand the scope of its work, and at the same time pay attention to ideological education, cultural education, and political propaganda work, and at the same time, we should continue to do a good job in literary and artistic education. I think that our art troupe should also run newspapers and schools, and we should run a "New Army Art and Industry Newspaper" and a night school class to encourage soldiers and men to read works extensively, as well as works with modern and revolutionary spirits, and do a good job in popularizing culture. ”

Song Biao nodded in agreement, he felt that Qiu Jin's idea was equivalent to expanding the art troupe into a political department, and the idea was still very good.

After a pause, he said: "The work of cultural education and popularization classes was previously the responsibility of the teaching office of the Far Eastern Lushi at the same time, and it was specially assigned to the art troupe to be responsible, which is also more feasible, but at the overall level, we should still set up a management organization in the military department, so let's set up a political and educational office in the new army organ, and the political and educational office and the art troupe belong to a set of teams and two brands, or you are responsible for this work." I stress one point, that is, we must proceed step by step, do not rush to achieve results, do not be frivolous, and do not think that tens of thousands of people will follow the idea of recovering the revolution overnight. I see a lot of things in you now, you are in a hurry, in a hurry, as the old saying goes, if you want to hurry, you can't reach it. Including a lot of work on the side of the Alliance, it is a bit too eager, and basically cannot form a stable climate, and it is all petty fighting. ”

Qiu Jin is now in the big atmosphere of the Northeast New Army, and with a super famous general like Song Biao as her backer, she is naturally no longer in a hurry, as long as Song Biao accumulates enough strength, she can push it to the end.

She considered the problem from Song Biao's point of view, considering the situation on the side of the Alliance, it was indeed getting worse and worse than the Restoration Society.

In the past six months, the Liberation Association has been constantly expanding, and all provinces have successively established branch offices to secretly carry out activities under various names, and it has expanded most rapidly among the new army, industrial and commercial circles, and overseas students, and it has also been very sufficient in terms of propaganda and activity funds; in the past six months, hundreds of thousands of copies of tabloids and books have been secretly printed, and they have been secretly circulated very widely; moreover, thanks to the efforts of "Song Aurora," Cai Yuanpei, Wang Zhaoming, Chen Tianhua, Tao Chengzhang, and others, they have also constructed a complete set of theories on the liberation revolution and ideas on building a new China.

The present situation is that as long as a new youth can see these things, it will certainly ignite a very strong revolutionary aspiration and a solid new hope.

Qiu Jin's impression at this time was that carrying out revolution required professional ability, and before the merger with the "Song Aurora" Chinese Revolutionary Association, the Liberation Society had no ideals and enthusiasm but no actual ability to work, but now it has become an extremely well-organized, theoretically profound, and extremely well-funded revolutionary political organization, and has transformed from an amateur hobby society to a professional revolutionary party.

Qiu Jin thought about a lot of things in a short period of time, and sighed with Song Biao: "What the military seat said is very true, we will definitely pay great attention to it, not only to be enthusiastic and aggressive, but also to develop steadily and accumulate steadily." ”

Song Biao must have been very happy to hear this, and said with a smile: "If you can think so, that must be the best thing, about the arrangement of the new repertoire, as well as the invitation to stay in the Chunliu Club franchise store, you should have done the same, right?" ”

Qiu Jin said with a smile: "Shu Lao invited two knowledgeable people from Shanghai to write a new play, and we are now actively rehearsing one of the dramas called 'Humen Sells Tobacco', hoping to play a role in stimulating soldiers' morale and national consciousness education." We added a lot of dramatic conflicts to it, especially about the Han and the Manchus, the Han Chinese and the English people, and told these ethnic differences through the mouth of the British, which played a role in motivating and educating. As for the Chunliu Society, they have agreed to come over, and I plan to continue to return to Yuben at the end of the year, discuss this matter with them face-to-face, and strive to bring their backbone back to arrange a new drama first. ”

Song Biao is still a little interested in Chunliu Society, because these people can be regarded as the starting point of Chinese drama careers, and even the pioneers of Chinese films.

At this time, Qiu Jin remembered another thing, and asked Song Biao: "Junzuo, I heard that you and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, have been in correspondence and have a close relationship. ”

Song Biao didn't know what it was, so he asked, "What is this?" Is it our branch? ”

Qiu Jin replied: "No, they were originally a revolutionary group without clarity, and they may be biased towards the autonomy of Hubei Reading Power, because they are called the Zhihui because they are through a local church's Yuezhitang activity." Mr. Sun Yat-sen sent some people from the League to help them organize revolutionary activities and prepare for a rebellion, but they were denounced by traitors and failed, and now they have been captured by Zhang Zhidong and locked up in prison. ”

Song Biao hated very unhappily: "Nonsense, how many manpower and material resources are there, does the alliance like to encourage such a small organization to rebel so much?" We say that a spark can start a prairie fire, and they are just a small flame now, so we will instigate them to rush to the front, and they will be doused with a basin of cold water! ”

Song Biao actually disagreed with some of Sun Yat-sen's actions, he was a master of idealism, but he was also a dwarf in action, and he really lacked the ability to direct the actual revolutionary movement.

Empty talk misleads the country.

Of course, we should respect or respect, and we should not hide our flaws, and we are indeed a generation of great revolutionary heroes, and if Mr. Sun really had the talent to command and work hard, I am afraid that China's history would have been rewritten long ago.

Listening to Song Biao's words, Qiu Jin didn't know what to say, and waited for a while before asking Song Biao: "Junzao, do you see if you can help?" ”

Song Biao thought about it, got up and picked up the phone and called Shu Fangde from the secretariat.

After waiting for a while, Shu Fangde hurried into the reception room.

Song Biao and Shu Fangde asked, "Have you heard about the matter?" ”

Shu Fangde said: "I heard. ”

Song Biao and Shu Fangde said: "Send a telegram to the Governor of Zhang Zhidong, saying that the world is unpredictable, and the country is no longer a dispute between orthodoxy and anti-thieves, but a dispute between the Manchu and Han dynasties, the dispute between the emperor and the constitution, and persuade Lord Zhang to put the name first, let those people go, and expel them, there is no need to be an executioner who slaughters Han youth." It is not a bad thing to be forgiving and forgiving, and to leave yourself a way out. To put it mildly. ”

Shu Fangde nodded and said: "The subordinates understand, and they will definitely arrange this matter carefully." ”

Song Biao said: "Let the Secretariat coordinate the drafting of the telegram and consider it more, so as not to make a big deal later, but drag us into it together." ”

Shu Fangde continued to pause: "Yes." ”

Song Biao waved his hand slightly, signaling Shu Fangde to leave first.

After Shu Fangde left, Song Biao stood quietly by the window of the reception room, silently looking out the window, and did not know how many Han people had to die in order to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and why there were always Han people willing to follow the Manchu Qing to continue to prevent the rise of the Han people.

In the final analysis, the national consciousness has not awakened.

Qiu Jin was still a little dissatisfied, and persuaded Song Biao: "My lord, I'm afraid this may not be able to convince Zhang Zhidong, right?" ”

Song Biao was silent and waited for a moment before saying: "There will always be sacrifices in the revolution, but such sacrifices are inevitably too unworthy, in this matter, what we can do is very limited, and Zhang Zhidong is not a person who can be easily persuaded." If he is willing to give me a face and listen to my persuasion, then he will naturally find a way to release him, if he is unwilling, it is useless to say anything. ”

Qiu Jin seemed very resolute and proposed: "If he doesn't let him go, you stop doing Han Yeping's business, he will definitely release him!" ”

When Song Biao heard this, he sneered and said: "You just look naïve with a word, you think that someone else is begging me, why don't you ask someone too?" If China wants to become a rich and powerful ancient civilization and a great country in the East, overthrowing the Manchu rule with revolution is only the first thing we need to do in our lives, and it is not the most difficult thing, it is only the first step for us to start and move forward. ”

Hearing this, Qiu Jin suddenly felt that she was very small and ignorant, and so was Shu Xuan.

Maybe they are women who are too affectionate, or they have long hair and short knowledge, but that's what they think!

Man, that's the real man.

Qiu Jin was already admired.

(To be continued)