The first year of Xuantong seemed so calm for China, even if a storm was brewing beneath that could tear the country apart.

After Song Biao returned to the three eastern provinces after his second trip to the Americas, the Northeast New Army began to continue to expand unusually rapidly under the support of various forces, and the economy of the three eastern provinces continued to develop rapidly under the stimulation of the export of soybeans in the northeast, as well as the investment in the coal industry, other industries and mines, and domestic and foreign capital.

The confrontational expansion of the Northeast New Army and the Beiyang Army has become the most important factor tearing China apart, and the haze of war has hung over the entire China and inside and outside the Great Wall.

The Han Emperor, the Manchu Emperor, the Republicans, the Constitutionalists, the Autonomous Faction, the local governors, and the various forces supported by the European, American, and Russian countries in China were all accumulating volcanic power that could tear the whole of China apart, and although on the surface, the Manchu court and the Constitutionalists were still the mainstream direction of Chinese society, but this trend was constantly being reversed.

Jang Zhidong tried to mend this growing rift as a reluctantly acceptable conciliator on all sides, but his efforts were seen as a seizure of power by the regent Jae-bong, which led to the abolition of a real power in the final moments of his life.

On October 4, 1909, after the death of Zhang Zhidong, Guannei appeared even more chaotic in the melee of the Manchu political axe and various forces, while Guanwai continued to develop steadily under the protection of Song Biao, accumulating the power to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Zaifeng still thinks that the balance of victory is on his side, but in fact, the balance has long been tipped in favor of Song Biao, especially after Song Biao ended his second trip to the Americas, through the gradual sale of Petroleos Mexicanos and the speculation of banana assets, Song Biao held a huge military expenditure of 43.5 million pounds in the international capital market.

Song Biao continued to buy arms throughout the first half of the first year of Xuantong, and in the open, he still bought a certain amount of ammunition reserves from France and the United States, but in the shadows, through the Far Eastern Railway, he had been secretly buying large amounts of arms from Russia and Germany, bypassing customs.

At the same time, the four major arsenals of Shenyang, Liaoyang, Benxi, and Fushun in the three eastern provinces are speeding up the production of firearms and ammunition in order to expand the wartime stocks of the new army in the northeast.

The trend of the Northeast New Army stepping up preparations for war must have made the regent Zaifeng feel an unusually oppressive force, and the Qing Zheng axe was also collecting taxes at all costs, not only continuing to strengthen the construction of the Beiyang Army, but also expanding the Shanxi, Henan, and Wuchang New Army, increasing the size of the new army to 20 towns and 16 mixed associations, and the Praetorian Guard, which was completely composed of Manchurian banner soldiers, was also expanding towards the scale of a reorganized town.

Under the unusually terrifying and silent calm, war was already on the verge of breaking out.

…… Time is fair for everyone.

After returning to the three eastern provinces after his second visit to the Americas, Song Biao started work at 7 a.m. and returned home at 5 p.m. every day, like other office workers, spending the evening in his own family, and only occasionally needed him to continue to discuss business at home.

He is so orderly and actively preparing for the war.

When the light of dawn shone into the Governor's Mansion through the stained glass window at the end of the corridor, Song Biao, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast New Army and the Northeast Patrol Army, wore a dark brown military uniform and some usual black and shiny deerskin military boots, holding the office key and the brass handle purple sand insulated teacup brought from home, and walked out of the stairs with a cold expression like a machine killer, and more than a dozen officials from the military headquarters and the Governor's Mansion hurriedly followed him.

After getting married, Song Biao changed to a more mature new hairstyle, no longer a round inch short hairstyle, but about two and a half inches, and the hair was combed and shiny.

His teacup is made from Yixing, the price is not high, because he likes to drink tea, and has a strange habit of adding a little sugar and pepper to black tea, Shu Xuan specially invited someone to go to Yixing to find a craftsman to customize such a teacup, the thick layer of cup walls is very practical, and there is a good thermal insulation effect.

Song Biao likes this kind of teacup, he always carries this teacup from home to the office, from the office to the conference room, and then from the conference room to take it home.

At the age of twenty-five, he is about to become a father, and in the past six months, he has always been in such an excited and happy mood, and occasionally a little overwhelmed.

He is also a commander-in-chief with 500,000 male army iron lions, this number is obviously a bit exaggerated, because the numbers on the militia side are always very confusing, how many people are in the patrol army of the three eastern provinces, this is really high and low, squeezing is all water.

The figure of 237,400 people in the Northeast New Army is absolutely true, and 44,000 new recruits were added in June, and at the same time, 1,538 senior grassroots non-commissioned officers who participated in the crash course for non-commissioned officers were deployed to patrol units in various places.

Every year, a group of senior non-commissioned officers will be sent to the patrol force, responsible for supervising the training of various patrol detachments, detachments, and militias, and cultivating supplementary forces and second-line armaments for the Northeast New Army.

All of this required a huge amount of money, and Song Biao had been bothered by it since the end of 1908, and in the past few years, he had begun to truly appreciate how happy it was to not have to worry about military spending.

To the commander of an army with 6,052 Madsen machine guns, 1,355 Makqin machine guns, 149,000 horsepower, and 1,124 artillery pieces, the Manchu axe and regent Zaifeng were as small as ants.

If he were a carrier, the first thing he would do now would be to book a one-way ticket to Singapore, because reality is so fucking cruel.

Song Biao is now just waiting for an opportunity to ravage his opponent, which is obviously a bit too cruel, it is simply miserable, but he doesn't mind beating all the possible warlords in the provinces by the way, and then giving the rampant republicans a realistic iron fist.

Being an emperor of the Chinese Empire is a matter of capital, and over the past five years, Song Biao has done his work in a clever and playful way of building blocks, while his three main rivals are one dreaming of Manchu rule over the Spring and Autumn Period, one at home waiting for the opportunity to be reactivated, and one who has just gone to the United States to raise money.

Song Biao obviously doesn't need to raise money, as long as he takes out 1/10 of the military funds in his hand, he can help that Mr. Sun complete the dream of the Republic of China, but he won't do this, if he does that, he can't be Song Biao.

Da-da-da-da.

The iron palms at the bottom of the buckskin boots hit the concrete floor with a sonorous sound, and if they didn't have the opportunity to wear them, anyone who occasionally wore rubber boots could experience a similar feeling, in short, a real military taste.

Song Biao walked through the corridor and stopped in front of his office to open the door, which was the highest secret area of the Governor's Palace, which contained all kinds of forbidden secrets, which even the Intelligence Department of the New Army and the Secret Service of the Governor's Palace had no access to.

Song Biao has too many secrets.

He didn't like to share these secrets with people, especially during the year, when his secrets began to get so many that there were seven secret heads who were divided into different intelligence and secrecy jobs for him.

With sufficient funds, he began to do a lot of absolutely secret things, even more secretive than the establishment of the Chinese Empire.

He is so mysterious.

When he had enough power and money, the darkness that lurked deep within him began to sprout, and he established a mysterious organization codenamed "Anglican", and they worked secretly around the world, but no one knew what it was doing.

Song Biao opened the office door with only one of the two keys, and when he walked in and sat in the chair in the office, the entourage hurriedly dealt with all kinds of things that should be done, opened the curtains, and sent the flower pots in the room to the balcony to replace them with fresh bonsai.

Everyone in the various offices of the entire Governor's Mansion began to be busy at this moment, or even more busy, only Song Biao could simply look at today's "Northeast News" and the "Every Information Minutes" submitted by the Secretariat, open the Zisha teacup and take a sip of tea.

When you have the most powerful power in the world like him, you will truly understand why there are always people who would rather die under a thousand cuts than give up the power in their hands.

Power is so tempting that a person will not hesitate to sin to get it, especially these powers like those held by Song Biao, which is simply the best demon in the world at seducing others, corrupting everyone who admires it.

Song Biao is the owner of this demon.

He is above millions, all have to look up to him, every word he says, every order he signs will completely change the fate of many people, so there is no one who does not want to be him, and no one who does not want to serve him.

Even John, who had rejected him before. Moses. Mr. Browning, understand that no one can say "no" to the Lord of the Devil.

You must admit that even though everyone is deeply jealous and afraid of him, there is really no one who does not want to work for him, because it is in exchange for a good reward, and people are obsessed with power, and they are obsessed with him for it, and there are so many people who are blindly willing to serve him for the rest of their lives that it is impossible to count, even if he hardly knows the names of those people, and has not even met them.

In short, no matter what he wants to do, there will always be people who are willing to die for him.

Maybe some people are for him as a person, and more people are for the power and wealth in his hands.

…… In his office, Song Biao sat on a chair drinking tea and reading newspapers, and the orderlies, adjutants, and secretaries who had been busy with various tasks in two minutes hurriedly and silently exited the office and waited for the first order this morning in the corridor outside the door.

As a rule of thumb, this takes about twenty minutes.

Relying on the influence of every editorial, at this time, the "Northeast Daily" has become the newspaper with the largest circulation in China, with an average circulation of about 150,000 copies per newspaper, much higher than that of the "Declaration" and other newspapers.

This is Song Biao's must-read newspaper.

This is the third article in this series of editorials, which is mainly to popularize the experience of industrial management in the United States and to focus on improving labor production efficiency, especially in the mining, metallurgy, and textile industries.

The economic and trade war in China began to strengthen gradually in the second half of 1908, especially in this year, because the three eastern provinces and the textile industry were too good to judge the expectations, the scale of production was concentrated in this year, and the two sides had fought to the point of comprehensive loss of the entire industry in the price war.

If the textile industry in the three eastern provinces wants to survive, it is an indispensable factor to improve production efficiency and production management level.

Since 1907, the Northeast Institute of Science has sponsored the Chinese-American engineer Feng Ru to develop an airplane in Oakland, San Francisco. Martin, Romanian engineer Henry. After Song Biao's second visit to the United States, Feng Ru led a team recruited from the United States to return to Shenyang New Area to establish Shenyang Aircraft Company, which was responsible for building the first domestic aircraft "Shen Kite".

Even though it was only 12 minutes and 14 kilometers in the air, it was a very important step for China.

The second big news is that the three eastern provinces ushered in the largest harvest year in history, and it is the autumn harvest season every year, and the three eastern provinces have harvested 28.584 million tons of grain throughout the year, with 1,113 kilograms of grain per capita, which is reaching the level of the United States in 1870. At this time, while Song Biao was reading the newspaper, soybeans, sugar beets, wheat, potatoes, and corn from Northeast China were being transported to various places and ports along the 8,220-kilometer-long railway system of the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao had read a report before, saying that potatoes and milk can meet all the nutrients that human beings normally need, and potatoes are the only food crops that can be planted twice a year in the three eastern provinces, which is the main reason why Song Biao vigorously promoted the cultivation of potatoes in the three eastern provinces.

This year, the three eastern provinces have achieved quite a good result in the construction of water canals, the use of chemical fertilizers, large-scale horse farming, and the popularization of agricultural machinery, and the agricultural population has also increased very rapidly, which is a major reason for the bumper grain harvest in the three eastern provinces.

What the "Northeast Daily" likes to do is to report on a large scale on the bumper agricultural harvest in the three eastern provinces, and at the same time report on the famine disasters and lack of abundance in various parts of the Guannai, while reporting on how high the peasants' incomes and taxes are in the three eastern provinces, and on the other hand, they report that the peasants in the Guannai are living in a difficult situation and that the taxes are heavy and the miscellaneous taxes are heavy; in particular, Sichuan is taken out for a comprehensive comparison, and the average tax revenue per mu of land in some individual counties and prefectures in Sichuan adds up to 14 taels of silver, and the common people have no way to live at all. The average tax per mu of cultivated land in the three eastern provinces is about 1.5 taels of silver, which is a slight increase from previous years, but it is still like a paradise compared with Guannai.

(Ouyang Xi actually corrected one of Song Biao's problems, that is, it is not always a good thing that the agricultural tax is too low, and the basic principle of political axe tax collection should also be as much as possible as long as the people can accept it.) The "Tohoku Newspaper Newspaper" now has eight pages on two sheets of paper, and one page is devoted to agriculture, which reports good news but not bad news to the Kanto region, and no good news to the huge Kannai.

This trick is still very poisonous, and the "Northeast Daily" does not openly oppose Manchuria, but it specifically reports on all kinds of harsh taxes and absurd incidents in the areas governed by the Manchu people, plus various happiness reports in the three eastern provinces and regions, and the comparison between the two sides is anti-Manchurian.

The subtext is that the Manchurians are mediocre and incompetent, exploiting the Han people, and only when the Han people govern the Han people, can the country be rich and strong, and the people can be rich.

After reading today's "Northeast Daily" and the Secretariat's "Minutes of Every Information," Song Biao made a phone call to the Department of Finance and asked the Foreign Trade Section to submit the comparative data on the economic and trade between China and the Guannei, and Ouyang Xi, deputy director of the department, came over to make a report in this regard.

The current situation is that the people in the Northeast are doing better, and the people in the books are still alive, and the customs are like hell.

Song Biao's first call in the morning went out, and there was a sudden shock on the side of the new political situation, and everyone was busy, and Ouyang Xi, who was a scholar, could only hurriedly hold all the materials in his arms and go to the third floor.

When he arrived at Song Biao's office, Ouyang Xi brought more than 600 pages of information.

Song Biao glanced at Ouyang Xi very strangely, thinking to himself, can you tell all the more than 600 pages of information in these fifteen minutes? But he still let Ouyang Xi sit in front of him first, and reminded him kindly: "If there is a problem, then simply talk about it, if it is not sorted out, we will make another appointment in the afternoon." ”

He is a very realistic person, since he wants to rely on the other party to govern the three eastern provinces, he still has to be very kind, after all, the other party is not a soldier.

Ouyang Xi hurriedly replied: "Sorted out, as of October, the total export sales of the three eastern provinces in the first year of Xuantong including the customs market is 530 million clear yuan, and it is expected to reach 750 million clear yuan by the end of the year, and the next two months are mainly to look at the export sales of soybeans and other grains, as well as the export sales of major export products such as coal, steel, cashmere, and sugar before December." ”

After saying this, Ouyang Xi submitted the statistics and forecast report of the Foreign Trade Section to Song Biao.

Song Biao took the report and looked at it carefully, and found that the basic situation of export sales in the three eastern provinces is now similar to that of the three eastern provinces, exporting soybeans, coal, mineral products, cashmere, sugar, timber, and fur to the international market, and exporting sugar, textiles, steel, glass, kerosene lamps, matches, hardware, clocks, watches, copper products, and other primary industrial products to Guannai, Southeast Asia, and the DPRK, and selling grain to Guannai on a large scale.

The two sides are currently in the fields of tea, raw silk, soybeans, sugar, cashmere, and there is no conflict in the other aspects, especially the impact of coal, iron and textiles has reached a shocking point, basically the three eastern provinces have an advantage in the field of coal and iron, and the book has an advantage in the field of textiles.

Northeast soybean is still the main product of foreign trade exports in the three eastern provinces, this year is expected to export 1.75 million tons of soybeans, accounting for 60% of the total international market demand, the first is expected to break through 40 million pounds of single foreign trade, coal is expected to export 24.7 million tons, steel is expected to export 1.85 million tons, the rest of the grain is expected to export 5.5 million tons, sugar is expected to be exported 920,000 tons (this is really far beyond the estimate of Song Biao and the Far East consortium, because the output of sugar beet is really powerful, the output of this thing is calculated in tons, And the profit is huge, Song Biao did not expect that the profit margin of the sugar factory will exceed that of the steel mill and the textile factory, which is really incredible), the export of textiles to the Guannai, North Korea and Southeast Asia is expected to be 14 million silver yuan, which is the six major export categories in Northeast China.

Just when Song Biao was reading the report, Ouyang Xi asked tentatively: "Zhongtang, there are two questions to be reported to you here by the Department of Finance, one is whether this year's coal tax will be directly reported to the general ledger, or will it continue to be included in the special tax?" Second, the textile industry is losing all this year, all of them are losing badly, just some large factories of the tax preferential treatment have expired, and the textile industry is fighting for nothing, the textile association proposed that the Governor's Office can postpone the tax preferential treatment for another two years. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and asked Ouyang Xidao: "Has the estimate of this year's total tax revenue and total fiscal revenue come out?" ”

Ouyang Xi replied: "Come out, the total tax revenue of the three eastern provinces this year is expected to be 175 million silver yuan, the total fiscal revenue is about 250 million silver yuan, the total contribution of agricultural tax and mining tax is more than 70%, and the coal tax accounts for 70% of the scale of mining tax." Our current gross national income (GNI) in the three eastern provinces is about twice that of the United Kingdom, but our average tax rate is roughly the same as that of the United Kingdom, half as low as the United Kingdom, and slightly higher than that of the United States. As for the total amount of taxes such as the business value-added of the textile industry in the three eastern provinces, it is really not much, and it is expected to be about 11 million silver yuan for the whole year. ”

Song Biao made a rough calculation in his heart, and said: "The coal tax and the total mining tax are included in the tax table of the Ministry of Finance, and what should be disclosed must always be disclosed. As for the textile industry, what is the situation over there? ”

Ouyang Xi replied: "The textile industry association is also actively lobbying the political axe to adopt a special preferential policy for the textile industry, it is said that half of the business tax may be reduced, and all business taxes can be reduced for foreign exports, which is the normal so-called export tax rebate." We suffer a loss in this regard, because our textile industry exports are mainly to North Korea and Southeast Asia, as well as Hong Kong and Singapore and other British concession areas, the total amount is not large, we and the textile industry is mainly in the Guannai, the two sides are too hard, from cotton cloth to cotton yarn, all heavy losses. This is indeed beyond everyone's expectations, mainly because the profitability of the textile industry in the past few years are above 10%, such as Mitsui, the net profit margin of cotton is even as high as 28%, the eight textile cooperatives are not only expanding production in China, but also actively setting up factories in the country, which is only in the three eastern provinces to open more than 20 textile factories, the three eastern provinces of local textile enterprises and Britain, France, the United States and Russia and other countries capital textile merchants are also expanding, everyone's capacity expansion is almost all concentrated in this year began to break out, each of them is a huge inventory, It is said that this is already a large-scale dumping in China, and the local textile enterprises in the three eastern provinces can only meet the competition at lower prices in order to maintain their hard-won market share. ”

Speaking of this, he continued to persuade: "Zhongtang, I personally think that the political axe may have to come forward, if the Governor's Mansion of the three eastern provinces is not now urgently rescue the local textile enterprises, although the eight major textile societies are destined to suffer heavy losses this year, but after all, they are profitable in the local market, our enterprises can not hold on, then we planned the textile industry revitalization plan can only be a comprehensive rout, and these enterprises are forced to go bankrupt, the textile society will definitely survive this difficulty, and next year will fight back more fiercely. ”

Song Biao bowed his head silently and said: "Rong Xingqiao has already reported this matter to me, and this afternoon, Yu Qiaqing, president of the Textile Industry Association of the three eastern provinces, and Pan Sichi and Zhang Bishi, vice presidents, will also meet with me to petition. At the beginning, you said that we can't rely on the textile industry in the three eastern provinces, we must rely on the coal industry, which is really true before, but fortunately you proposed it in time, otherwise the consequences are really unimaginable. What I mean in principle is that the business tax will continue to be halved, and at the same time, we will find ways to raise some funds to alleviate the financial difficulties of each factory. ”

Ouyang Xi said: "Zhongtang, I personally think that even if the business tax is completely exempted, it can't cure the root cause, and the problem now is that the company has constituted dumping against China, and we should follow the example of Germany and France to formulate the "Anti-dumping Act" and impose huge tariffs on the textile industry as a punishment. ”

Song Biao still bowed slightly, and said: "The laws related to the field of tariffs are always subject to the unequal treaties signed by the Qing court and the great powers of various countries, and the three eastern provinces are almost powerless in this regard, and now they can only think of other ways." Conflicts between the three eastern provinces and the economy in the process of economic development are absolutely unavoidable, and perhaps in the next 10 years, the economic and trade war between China and China will be the sole theme of China's economic development, unless we can fundamentally and directly change China's tariffs and protect the domestic market. ”

Speaking of this, Song Biao could only smile bitterly.

Ouyang Xi comforted: "From the overall trade situation, we still have the advantage, although the textile enterprises in China large-scale dumping, but they have not made money, no matter how much the local money can not stop this level of half-price dumping." Last year, the total export of textiles to China was close to 70 million silver yuan, and this year it plummeted to 23 million silver yuan, not only the number of sales fell by 40%, but the price was also hit hard, and normal enterprises could not stop this loss. Pan Sichi and I calculated that the only one of the eight major societies in the textile industry last year that did not lose money was the Settsu Textile Association, and the other seven companies all had losses of at least 300,000 yuan, and the most powerful was Mitsui & Co., which had the largest investment and expansion in China, with a heavy loss of more than 1 million yuan, which was equivalent to spitting out the total marketing profits of the textile industry in China in the previous years. The textile industry in the three eastern provinces suffered the most serious losses in the Far East Textile Corporation, which is expected to lose 1.2 million Kanto silver yuan for the whole year. ”

Song Biao silently pondered for a moment, and casually took out today's itinerary and took a rough look, there was no important arrangement in the morning, so he directly said to Ouyang Xi: "You go and inform Yu Qiaqing, Pan Sichi and Zhang Bishi, come to my office before 9 o'clock to discuss countermeasures, this problem will not be delayed any longer, and it will be dealt with directly this morning." ”

Ouyang Xi immediately got up and said, "Yes, I'll arrange it." ”

After saying this, he hurriedly left the office to inform the three textile giants from the three eastern provinces to come to the interview.

The economic and trade war in China has been opened since the signing of the "Qing Dynasty Trade Treaty" in 1872, before the signing of the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", China said that the economy and trade has always been the advantage of Chinese businessmen, and then it is said that the merchants gradually prevailed, but before this can not be regarded as a real trade war, from 1909, the economic and trade war in China finally began to fight from the textile industry, and both sides fought very fiercely.

At present, the industrial level of the three eastern provinces is certainly one level lower than that of the three eastern provinces, but the industrial products of the two sides basically overlap, and for every 3 percentage point increase in the export sales of the three eastern provinces, the export of the three eastern provinces will fall by 1 percentage point.

The reason why the economic and trade war broke out suddenly on a large scale in 1909, that is, the first year of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty and the 42nd year of the Meiji era, the main reason for this is that the eight major textile societies in the local and Chinese markets are expanding their production scale, and the national textile industry and the foreign-funded textile industry in the three eastern provinces are also expanding wildly, and the market is suddenly oversaturated in 1909.

Due to the first impact on exports to China, the products of the eight major textile cooperatives and the small and medium-sized textile cooperatives in the local market of the capital were backlogged, and they were forced to set off a wave of price reductions in the local market, and then the tide of price reductions quickly spread to the Chinese market, and the market reaction in the three eastern provinces was the most violent, and then the battle for Tianjin, Shanghai, Qingdao, Jinan, and Wuchang was even more fierce.

In 1907, the total market of China's textile industry was about 120 million yuan, 70% of which was imported, and the 70% of the import value accounted for 70% of the share, and there were many giant enterprises, and in 1909, the textile industry in the three eastern provinces developed rapidly, and the number of textile mills invested in China surged, and the total import of the textile industry accounted for 33% of the total market.

By April 1909, the total number of spindles in the textile industry in the three eastern provinces had increased to 1.58 million spindles, reaching the level of 1904, while the number of spindles in the same period had increased to 2.73 million, and the total number of spindles in other textile mills in the customs had also increased to 1.52 million spindles.

According to the data given by the Finance Department of the three eastern provinces, after May 1909, the textile price index fell by 7.4%, the average textile price index in Kanto fell by 13.3%, the average textile price index in the Incheon market in North Korea fell by 9.2%, and the average price index in Shanghai, Qingdao, Jinan, and Tianjin in Kannai fell by 23.5%.

Because the average profit margin of the textile industry is only 8%, higher than this value is a very good enterprise, such as the eight major companies such as Neimian, Mitsui, Osaka, Zhongyuan, and Settsu, which are lower than this value, even if they are not very good enterprises, such a fall, almost the whole industry collectively loses.

Because Mitsui & Co. has invested in the largest Shanghai textile company in Shanghai, and Shanghai is the hardest hit area by the price crash, Mitsui & Co.'s losses are naturally the worst, and the total losses of Far East Textile Corporation are even worse than those of Mitsui & Co.

What can I do if I lose?

Song Biao stood up, stood in front of the window, lit a cigarette, and stared at the square in front of the Governor's Palace, weighing the decision he should make in his heart.

In fact, he has no choice at all, no matter how much he loses, he has to hold on, now it depends on who can last longer, the current situation is in front of him, either the bankruptcy of the company, or the bankruptcy of China's textile enterprises, only half of the death on both sides, the price war will stop.

Is it because of the loss of money this year, and the next year and the year after which it may continue to lose money, so as to completely abandon China's textile industry? The Far Eastern consortium has made various efforts to do a good job in the textile industry over the years, the talents trained in schools, the staff trained in foreign countries, the funds and equipment invested in the dye industry, the personnel trained, the promotion of excellent cotton seeds, the reconstruction of water conservancy and irrigation systems, and the patented technologies purchased from France, Germany and the United States...... Do you have to give the results to the Eight Textile Societies in vain?

No way, there is nothing so cheap.

China has a population of 400 million, and the textile industry must be done well.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even the textile industry is not good, what modern industry can China do?

Time passed by second, Yu Qiaqing, Pan Sichi and Zhang Bishi were originally expected to see Song Biao in the afternoon, and they were all staying at the Shenyang Wanguo Hotel at this time, and they hurriedly took a carriage to come over after receiving the call, and arrived at Song Biao's office just before 9 o'clock in the morning, so they were honestly afraid that they would be late.

Now Song Biao has always been very indifferent to anyone, and he was a little polite to the three of them, and asked the orderlies to prepare tea in advance, and the three of them entered the office accompanied by Ouyang Xi in such a nervous mood, and after greeting Song Biao, they sat down at Song Biao's orders.

Pan Sichi touched the teacup sent by the orderly, his hand was still warm, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that he and Yu Qiaqing and Zhang Bishi had rushed over in time, if they were five minutes late, even if they saw Song Biao, they would have to tremble and come in to accompany the sin.

Song Biao actually doesn't like to be a stern and ruthless person, but the situation in China is always very strange, if he is not strict and ruthless, the efficiency of the political axe and the army is always very slow, then he can only be this bad guy.

If he is a good person, everyone will be a good person, and China will be finished, don't look at the legal system of the three eastern provinces has gradually become complete, in fact, it is still a society governed by one person, and all legal authority is based on whether Song Biao strictly implements the new law.

Song Biao was also inconvenient to say nonsense such as "Don't you be afraid of me" to the three businessmen, he just gave the textile industry price data table previously counted by the Department of Finance to Pan Sichi and the three of them to circulate it, and waited for a while before asking: "What do you think now?" ”

Pan Sichi looked at Zhang Bishi, Zhang Bishi looked at Yu Qiaqing, the president of the Textile Association of the three eastern provinces, Yu Qiaqing could only bite the bullet and Song Biao pleaded: "Zhongtang adults observe the people's feelings, compassion for the people, today's Kanto textile industry is difficult, difficult, this is caused by the dumping of the textile society in China, and now the only way to ask Zhongtang to forgive me and other difficulties, please exempt the textile industry for two years of business tax, so as to avoid our factories from going bankrupt." ”

Song Biao sighed and replied: "China can't do without the textile industry, and it is impossible to rely on the customs, so our three eastern provinces can still find a way to continue to support these things." This year is a loss, next year may still be a loss, but my ambition has not changed, I hope your ambition will not change, China not only needs the textile industry, but also needs to be the strongest textile industry in Asia. China has a population of 40,000, and such a huge market cannot be ceded to foreigners and people in vain, so how much silver will we lose in a year? ”

Everyone was very excited when they heard this, knowing that at this critical moment, it was impossible for Song Biao, the governor of the three eastern provinces, to stand idly by.

Song Biao doesn't like to spend a few days and months to deal with one thing, and Ouyang Xi instructed: "The Department of Finance and the new political bureau should come up with a plan as soon as possible to deal with the situation of heavy losses in the textile industry in the three eastern provinces, China said that the textile industry war between the two countries is unlikely to stop easily in the next three or four years, it is inevitable to subsidize, our textile industry business tax can be exempted for three years, the regulations for export tax rebates should be formulated and implemented, and the banks must also find a way, because the fiscal policy must be fair. It is also the same for the enterprises invested by the Eight Great Societies in the three eastern provinces, and what is inconsistent is how the banks behind the two sides support it. I suggest that the Department of Finance and the Northeast Bank discuss the establishment of a special aid fund to provide preferential support loans for the national textile industry to support the past three years. ”

Ouyang Xi nodded and said, "Lord Zhongtang's method is wonderful, I will start handling this matter as soon as I go back." ”

Song Biao asked Pan Sichi, Yu Qiaqing, and Zhang Bishi again: "Do you have any other suggestions?" ”

Yu Qiaqing was overjoyed and praised: "With the help of Zhongtang, our colleagues in the textile industry will not lose to the textile industry if they have wings." ”

Song Biao and them comforted: "Don't be afraid of this book, what is there to be afraid of?" You do a good job in management, improve quality, production efficiency and process level, reduce costs, constantly bring forth the new, think of more new methods, new tricks, new means, no matter how bad I am behind you. If others can't do it, you will take the opportunity to expand the factory, and if you want to borrow money, you will go to Zhang Kangren, isn't this what he does in charge of Northeast Bank? Crises, crises, dangers and opportunities, we must seize the opportunities, and we must be good at seizing such opportunities. ”

Although Song Biao said a bit nonsense, Yu Qiaqing still flattered: "Zhongtang's words are very subtle, which makes Yu someone feel empowered." ”

Yu Qiaqing is also nonsense, he knows in his heart that this matter is not easy to handle, because the Litong Textile General Factory he presided over is a joint venture between Shanghai and Ningbo merchants, and not necessarily all shareholders are willing to continue to inject capital to expand their operations, unlike Zhang Bishi's Yuchang Textile Company and Far East Textile Corporation.

Far East Textile Corporation in the country of the total number of spindles has exceeded 1.4 million, accounting for half of the total number of spindles in the country, in 1909 why there is such a strong market saturation, the key is that the Far East Textile Corporation is too ruthless, silently in Shanghai, Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou, Shenyang, Haizhou six places at the same time to expand production capacity, or to buy a new factory, colleagues from all walks of life in the textile industry is to hate the Far East, or hate the Eight Societies, everyone is really not sure.

hurriedly called Yu Qiaqing and the three of them over, but Song Biao didn't plan to talk to them for long, he gave a quarter of an hour according to the normal rules, and made a decision to leave two of them and Ouyang Xi first, and Zhang Bishi stayed alone to talk about another matter.

If in terms of business relations, the relationship between the Far Eastern consortium and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang merchant gang is good, and there are more than 60 large and small factories cooperated by the two sides, and the cooperation with the Nanyang merchant gang on Zhang Bishi's side is much less, but the personal relationship between Song Biao and Zhang Bishi is still good, especially the cooperation between the two in the rubber tide can be called seamless, and both of them have made a lot of money.

Therefore, Song Biao and Zhang Bishi basically did not pay much attention to the loss of the textile industry, and the two exchanged a lot of telephone and telegram during this time, but they never talked about the loss of the textile industry.

Today, the price of rubber in the international market has surged from two shillings per pound to 10.2 shillings, and the shares of various rubber companies have also risen several times.

The market value of Zhang Bishi's Dutch-Indonesian Colonial Rubber Company rose from 4.8 million pounds in June 1908 to 20.15 million pounds, and Song Biao originally spent 820,000 pounds to hold 40,000 shares in the company, which is now worth about 3.358 million pounds, and Zhang Bishi holds half of the shares.

These losses in the textile industry are basically a drizzle for Zhang and Song.

What people don't know is that Zhang Bishi belongs to a member of the Anglican Church, and as for what this organization does, only a few core members know it, and this is an important reason why Song Biao is willing to help Zhang Bishi.

Song Biao's Far East consortium is too special, and it is inconvenient to act directly in many things, so he needs Zhang Bishi to work behind his back.

The two discussed a lot of things in secret, and half an hour later, Zhang Bishi quietly left the governor's palace of the three eastern provinces, accompanied by comrades from the secret service bureau.

(To be continued)