Song Biao had no choice, the Far East consortium must have a new guideline when it reaches a certain stage of development, if Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren do not have this kind of awareness, then this decision can only be made by him personally.

As soon as he opened his mouth, there was no room for manoeuvre in this matter, and the annual meeting was forced to urgently add a major agenda item - a review of the management problems of the loss-making companies and a deadline for rectification.

Although the profitability of the consortium in the American market this year is astonishing, and it still maintains a very high profit scale in the domestic market, it is destined to implement the means of breaking the wrist of a strong man to reduce losses and enhance its ability to fight for a long time in major industries in the tragic situation of the Sino-economic and trade war.

In previous years, Song Biao usually only participated in half of the agenda, but this year's situation is obviously very special, he participated in almost every agenda item, especially on the issue of reviewing loss-making companies and rectification within a time limit, he took out all the directors and questioned them individually, which made this year's annual meeting particularly tense.

If Song Biao gets angry, the Northeast New Army will have to tremble, not to mention these people in the Far East Consortium?

Everyone can feel this unprecedented and amazing oppressive force, and everyone can hardly breathe.

It is impossible for Song Biao to do these things personally, and in the end, he gave Rong Xingqiao a hard indicator - sell half of the small enterprises within the scope of the non-main business, concentrate financial resources to support enterprises with good management level to survive the economic and trade war, and support the main business to expand as much as possible; At the same time, he gave Zhang Kangren another task - to convene the annual meeting of the financial industry of the three eastern provinces in advance, formulate a sound credit support plan for various industries, and support other national capital and foreign capital to tide over the difficulties even if the Far Eastern consortium withdrew from the small industry.

Song Biao's views on the Sino-economic and trade war are very simple: We must not take our minds lightly just because the overall economic situation is good, and we must absolutely not be soft-hearted; the three eastern provinces are in difficulty, and we must take advantage of this common crisis between the two sides to take advantage of our own advantages in the overall situation to deal a fatal blow to the other side.

The reason is very simple, the worse the industry, the better the industry of the three eastern provinces.

Whether it is the three eastern provinces, Kannai, North Korea and Southeast Asia, all markets cannot be relaxed.

Under Song Biao's high-pressure decision-making, the annual meeting of the Far Eastern Consortium in the first year of Xuantong was a bloody affair, but as long as the Far Eastern Consortium really persisted, the final victor in this Sino-economic and trade war would inevitably be the three eastern provinces.

The real development of the industry is actually after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, from 1901 to 1908 is the fastest stage of the development of the industry, the three eastern provinces are not much later than the industry, of course, the core of the industry is still the field of national investment, for example, the proportion of national capital in the industry, in 1875 was 81.7%, in 1880 was 57.5%, in 1885 it was 74.9%, in 1890 it was the lowest 29.8%, and then gradually increased year after year. By 1905 it had reached 44.1 per cent and in 1909 it was just over 50 per cent.

For example, the Nagasaki Shipyard built the 6,000-ton displacement "Hitachi Maru" in 1898 - it was sunk by the Russian army in the Russo-Russian War, and in 1907 it built the 30,000-ton "Tianyang Maru", and the two world's largest 20,000-ton dreadnought-class battleships, the Satsuma and Aki, are being built.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to rebuild the navy, Qing Zhengaxe also purchased 14 small ships from Yueben, although the total displacement of the 14 small ships was less than 5,700 tons, but after all, it was also the first time that Yueben exported warships to foreign countries.

It is still very difficult for the Far Eastern consortium to catch up with the shipbuilding industry in Yuben, and it will not be possible to achieve it within 15 years, but in other fields, the gap between China and China is not large, and the gap between the three eastern provinces and Yuben is even lower.

These large, medium, and small entrepreneurs in the three eastern provinces know very well that as long as the Far Eastern consortium is really willing to continue to fight to the end, it is basically nonsense to try to defeat the industries of the three eastern provinces in one breath with that little bit of family background, at least there is no opportunity for goods in the market of the three eastern provinces, and the Chinese mainland market will be defeated sooner or later.

As for the most powerful textile industry at this stage, if the eight major textile societies continue to work so hard for two years, it is basically self-defeating, China's textile industry is currently half of the country is the Far East consortium, across the tariffs, freight and the Far East consortium to fight for the bottom of the family, this is not looking for death?

As soon as this year's annual meeting was over, the business circles of the entire three eastern provinces were excited, and everyone felt that they had been saved, and the banking industry and foreign capital were also relieved, because the three eastern provinces will definitely maintain an accommodative policy in terms of currency next year.

One of the problems of foreign investment between China and China is the fundamental disparity, that is, foreign capital has the right to issue notes in the three eastern provinces, which is destined to the scale of foreign capital pouring into the three eastern provinces far greater than the capital.

As a tyrant of the three eastern provinces, Song Biao in view of the lack of talent in the three eastern provinces and China itself, as well as the lack of experience and understanding in modern industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and financial industry, coupled with his own lack of foreign exchange and silver reserves, he also did not exclude foreign capital and foreign-funded enterprises, which is the main reason for the rapid increase in the foreign population of the three eastern provinces in the past five years. The General Bureau of Military Reclamation and the Far Eastern Consortium are the largest employers of foreign experts in the three eastern provinces; every military reclamation bureau and military animal husbandry bureau has an advisory group composed of foreign agricultural and animal husbandry experts; 80 percent of the personnel of the scientific research institutes, engineering research institutes, and agricultural research institutes in the three eastern provinces come from foreign recruitment; at least half of the teachers in the universities and secondary colleges in the three eastern provinces are recruited from abroad, including the Far Eastern scholars.

Foreign capital, foreign enterprises, and foreign immigrants are also an important support for the economic development miracle of the three eastern provinces, and the huge role played by a total of about 1.85 million foreign immigrants in the economy of the three eastern provinces cannot be ignored.

Existence is reasonable, there are various factors behind every so-called miracle, the three eastern provinces just grasped the most favorable stage in history, this is an era of capital export, this is an era when coal is more important than oil, this is an era of soybeans is the most important, this is an era of large-scale publication of European population, this is an era of large-scale cultivation of modern agriculture is being rapidly promoted, this is an era of loosest restrictions on technology transfer, This was the ...... of the largest transfer of China's Kannai population to the three eastern provinces.

The three eastern provinces have just seized all the opportunities.

There is no reason why the three eastern provinces are not developing well, and there is no reason why the three eastern provinces should suffer defeat in the Sino-economic and trade war, because this is the most favorable era for China, and seizing it will change China's destiny.

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On the third day after the end of the annual meeting, after the industrial and commercial circles of the three eastern provinces gradually stabilized, Song Biao, accompanied by Jiang Fangzhen, chief of staff of the Second Staff Department of the New Army, Shu Fangde, director of the Defense Department of the Governor's Office, Song Wenhui, director of the General Administration of the Coast Guard, and Rockhill, US minister to China, went to Haizhou Mansion to meet with all the members of the US expert advisory group of the coast guard bureaus of the three eastern provinces, who were working there.

Haizhou.

Ming Hongwu nine years (1376) set Haizhou Wei, Qing Shunzhi ten years (1653), changed Haizhou Wei to Haicheng, the first year of Xuantong, the three eastern provinces of the governor's office re-delineated the jurisdiction of Haicheng Prefecture, renamed Haizhou, the government moved from Haicheng County to the east of Yingkou Yongan Town, under the jurisdiction of Haizhou County, Haicheng County, Panshan County, Yingkou County, Gai County, Xiuyan County, July.

After all these years of army investment, Song Biao finally began to consider the pace of building a navy, after all, the three eastern provinces are regional powers, it is impossible to have their own navy, he chose to learn the history of the Northeast Navy preparation methods, in the Governor's Office under the Defense Department of the coast guard, hired the United States Navy Lieutenant Commander Edward. Walter. Abel served as the Coast Guard's general counsel and hired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Ernest Murphy. Kim served as the principal of the Coast Guard School of the three eastern provinces, prepared for the establishment of the navy in the name of the Coast Guard Bureau, and selected cadets from the graduates of the Far Eastern Continental Guard to study at the Coast Guard School of the three eastern provinces.

Arriving in Haizhou New Town by train, Song Biao first inspected the headquarters of the Coast Guard General Administration in the West Fort Camp of Yingkou County, and met with 45 American expert consultants working in the Coast Guard General Headquarters.

Sooner or later, Song Biao will have to make great progress in China's naval field, and although he can only start small in a low-key manner due to many restrictions, his starting standards are set at a very high level, considering long-term development, and balancing the needs of the Russian-French, and British-Japanese alliances, especially the needs of the US Navy Department to check and balance and contain the expansion of the Navy in the Pacific. President Roosevelt's personal dealings, he directly chose the US Navy Department as the object of cooperation, and hired a large group of American advisers to study the US Navy in an all-round way.

This is a 30-year grand plan for the Chinese Navy to comprehensively study the US Navy from the foundation to the system, from military education to warship manufacturing and management, and this grand plan was opened in a low-key manner in the first year of Xuantong in the West Fort Camp of Yingkou Port.

Yingkou is a commercial port with very good conditions, and it is also one of the two main river areas where the Liao River enters the Liaodong Bay, the freezing period is relatively short along the coast of the three eastern provinces, and it usually begins to freeze in a large area in mid-December every year, and the main port area along the river and the bay can accommodate 5,000 tons of ships to dock.

Such basic conditions are very unfavorable to long-term development, but for now, especially considering the actual domestic and foreign situations, Song Biao's choice of this place as the starting station of the Northeast Navy has also gone through a lot of trade-offs.

The Governor's Office of the Three Eastern Provinces has always been a local political axe with a plan first and then an action, and the coast guard patrol fleet of the three eastern provinces has only begun to prepare for the past few months, while the Coast Guard School of the three eastern provinces has been in operation for four years, and its predecessor was the Yingkou branch of the Northeast Ship School, which mainly trains all kinds of secondary specialized personnel needed for shipbuilding and shipping.

The General Administration of the Coast Guard of the Three Eastern Provinces is located in the West Fort Camp Area, and the site of the Coast Guard School of the Three Eastern Provinces is located on the north side of the West Fort Barracks, near the Neiwan Road at the mouth of the Liao River, which is the Yamen of the former Qing Dynasty Axe Yingkou Haiphong Tongzhifu.

After Song Biao went to the Coast Guard to meet with the members of the U.S. advisory group working there, he was appointed to the General Counsel Edward Bush. Lieutenant Commander Albert and Captain of the Coast Guard School, Ernest Aber. Accompanied by Major Kim, they visited the Coast Guard School of the three eastern provinces.

The entrance of the Liaohe River is very tortuous S-shaped in Yingkou, the school is on the edge of the inner bay of the Liaohe estuary, opposite Liaobin Township, just avoiding the impact of the waves, the wind and waves in this area are very calm, and a lot of the school's teaching work is carried out on the three teaching boats docked here.

It just so happened that the wind and waves in Liaodong Bay were relatively strong recently, and four patrol ships of the Coast Guard General Bureau were also docked here, and these seven military ships are currently all the assets of the Northeast Navy.

Song Biao stood in the harbor and stared at the seven military ships dozens of steps away, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart, and behind him were Jiang Fangzhen and Chen Qicai of the Northeast New Army, Shu Fangde, who had just been promoted to director of the Defense Agency, Song Wenhui, director of the General Administration of the Coast Guard, and Rockhill and Edward, the US minister to China. Lieutenant Commander Eber, Ernest. Lieutenant Commander Kim these people.

The total tonnage of the displacement of the seven warships is less than 7,000 tons, which is not as good as a cruiser in the book, and even such a pitiful tonnage is subject to many restrictions, Song Biao can only use one "decommissioned" cruiser and two patrol boats purchased by the Northeast New Army from the United States as teaching ships, and the four patrol ships are the Bainbridge-class (DD-2) destroyers of the US Navy, with a displacement of only 420 tons, all old ships built between 1900 and 1902, and have served in the US Asian Fleet in the Philippines for many years.

Due to the low waterline of the destroyers of this class, they have better ocean navigation capabilities among ships of the same class in this tonnage, as well as the ability to patrol rivers for a long time, and have a high speed of 28 knots. At the suggestion of Lieutenant Admiral Abbel, the General Coast Guard has signed an agreement with the Nafir-Levy Shipping Company to continue to purchase six vessels to maintain offshore patrols in the Liaodong Bay and Yalu River areas.

The "decommissioned" auxiliary cruiser "Harvard", which was previously conscripted in the Spanish-American War, was converted into an auxiliary cruiser with a displacement of 3,540 tons, four 5.5-inch rapid-fire guns and two 37mm guns.

This tonnage is indeed too large for the Coast Guard Bureau of the three eastern provinces, and Song Biao can only incorporate it into the teaching ship, but in fact it still has a certain combat strength, at least a very good troop carrier, and after buying it at a discount, it was renamed "Liaohe".

Standing on the side of the river harbor of the Coast Guard School, Song Biao looked at the seven military ships in front of him, thinking that the total tonnage of the Navy at this time had exceeded 200,000 tons, and he had just begun to catch up, and he was also a little anxious.

Shu Fangde, the newly appointed director of the Defense Department of the Governor's Office, accompanied Song Biao for a long time, and had previously studied at the University of the Mainland for a year, and then followed Song Biao's arrangement to spend a year in the United States and Germany to inspect the construction of the naval and land forces, military education, and military industry of the European and American powers for a long time.

He quietly stepped forward half a step forward, and Song Biao said with relief: "Boss, although our naval career is just starting, it is good to have such a foundation, as long as we persist, I think we will definitely be able to achieve a climate in a few years." Having said that, only a country with a strong industrial base can truly build a strong navy, and the industrial development of the three eastern provinces is so rapid, the navy will definitely not lag behind others for too long. ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, and sighed: "Fang De, I...... I don't think that the starting foundation of our navy is too low, nor am I worried about the future development, but I am just worried that the navy is too strong, and it will be very difficult for us to catch up, and the most important thing is that I, the commander-in-chief, do not understand the navy at all, and I can't find the way! ”

Shu Fangde immediately replied: "The general seat is modest! ”

Song Wenhui, director of the General Administration of the Coast Guard, who is responsible for building the Northeast Navy, also advised: "The general seat is really too humble. ”

Song Biao is not humble, he didn't understand artillery or cavalry before, and now he basically dares to say that he understands, he didn't understand economics and politics before, and now he dares to say that he understands a little, but for the navy, he really doesn't dare to say that he understands.

He said: "If you don't understand, there's nothing to be inferior, you don't have to comfort me, Brother Wen Hui is one of the few people in our Xinhua Association who understands the navy, you have to support the navy of the three eastern provinces for us land crabs." We are ambitious and blind, ambitious, and don't know anything about strategy, so you must have a long-term plan, ten, twenty, thirty years, you have to do a good job step by step. ”

Song Wenhui suddenly said: "Please rest assured, I will do my best." ”

Song Biao simply hummed, noncommittal.

He had been developing the navy before, but he used the strategy of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and actively developed members in the Qing Navy through the Chinese Revolutionary Association and the Guangfu Society, in order to try to directly intercept this naval force in the future, and set up a new branch organization for this purpose - Tongguang Society, Song Wenhui was one of the earliest members of the Tongguang Society, in addition to Wu Yingke, Yan Fu, Xu Zhenpeng, Lin Baoyi, Cai Yanping and a group of people, they continued to quietly and actively activities in the Qing Navy.

It was not until July last year that the Russian Admiralty proposed to co-establish the Northeast River Patrol Bureau with him, and in this name wanted to re-establish the navy in the three eastern provinces, and after careful consideration, Song Biao agreed to jointly set up the Heilongjiang River Patrol Bureau with Russia, and the patrol of the rest of the rivers and rivers, as well as the coastal defense of the coastal areas, was to be managed by the Governors' Offices of the three eastern provinces to set up their own coast guard bureaus to prevent Russia from reaching too far in.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Biao established the Coast Guard Bureaus of the three eastern provinces, and seconded Lin Baoyi, Chen Jinglan, Zheng Wenying, Guan Qingxiang, and other members of the Tongguang Society, and adopted the method of walking on two legs together.

In addition, Song Biao made full use of the Russian-French alliance, the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and the conflict between Germany to lobby the US political axe and the Admiralty Department, and secretly reached a series of cooperation plans with the US Navy Department on the pretext of containing the overly powerful navy on the entire western Pacific coast, hired a large number of serving and retired US Navy officers as consultants, and directly purchased a number of "decommissioned" warships from the US Navy for coast guard patrols.

Song Biao laid a high foundation for the development of the navy in China and Northeast China from the very beginning, but he also knew very well in his heart that if he really wanted to catch up with the level of the navy, it would not be a matter of 20 years, and it would be more than worth the loss if he neglected the army in order to grasp the navy.

As far as China's current national conditions are concerned, it is best to build a strong army first, and it is not too late to slowly develop the navy later, as long as China's aircraft carrier fleet and industrial system can be developed before World War II, then it will basically not suffer a loss.

Navy, Navy.

The navy is an aristocratic service, and it cannot hold its foundation without 50 years of long-term construction.

After visiting Yingkou for a day, Song Biao was indeed a little embarrassed and disappointed at Yingkou, the naval base of the three eastern provinces, but he also had infinite beautiful longing and expectations.

After the discussion was over, Song Biao returned to his room and called Song Wenhui, Lin Baoyi, and Chen Jinglan, all the members of the Tongguang Society, and Shu Fangde, Jiang Fangzhen, and Chen Qicai, who were closest to him, were also present, and everyone held another symposium in Song Biao's room.

The U.S. Navy Department was very clear about Song Biao's plan to build a navy in the three eastern provinces, and they were also very supportive. Lieutenant Commander Eber, Ernest. Rear Admiral King later served as the Chief of the U.S. Navy's Command Department.

Especially Ernest. Lieutenant Commander Kim is a great man.

Song Wenhui had previously discussed a "Ten-Year Development Outline of the Navy of the Three Eastern Provinces" within the Tongguang Society. Navy Rear Admiral Kim Eun further elaborated and worked with Song Wenhui to compile the "Ten-Year Development Plan for the Navy of the Three Eastern Provinces" as the short-term development plan of the Navy of the Three Eastern Provinces.

Today's discussion is to further explore the specific tasks to be undertaken by the US advisers in the development plan of the navies of the three eastern provinces, as well as the duties and commitments that the US advisory group requires the governor-general and the coast guard headquarters of the three eastern provinces to perform, including the specific real powers that the US advisory group has.

After the entire discussion meeting, Song Biao did not say a few words, because he did not understand the navy, so he gave priority to trying not to interfere and entrusted the important task of building the navy to Song Wenhui, the Tongguang Society, and the American advisory group.

Back in the room, Song Biao just wanted to meet and talk to these people from the Tongguang Society alone, and didn't have any more ideas to put forward.

Song Biao shook hands with everyone again, invited them to sit down in the room, and asked them some of their thoughts on their previous inspection in Europe and the United States. Song Wenhui is also a young child in the United States, after returning to China in Fuzhou Ship Master School to continue study, after graduation became a naval officer, and Zheng Guiting is a fellow villager in Xiangshan, the relationship is very good, it is in Zheng Guiting's contact to join the Restoration Society, by Song Wenhui developed a group of people secretly formed a new Tongguang Society.

After Song Wenhui left the Qing naval system, the Tongguang Society was secretly in charge of Wu Yingke, Cai Tinggan, Cai Yanping, Xu Zhenpeng, Yan Fu and others, and headed by Wu Yingke, Cai Tinggan, and Yan Fu.

Song Biao and Qing Zhengaxe formally transferred Song Wenhui, Lin Baoyi, and Chen Jinglan to September last year, and before they officially took up their posts in the three eastern provinces, Song Biao sent Song Wenhui and others to the naval academies of the United States, Germany, Britain, and France respectively for further study through various connections, and Song Wenhui and Lin Baoyi studied at the United States Naval Academy and visited the United States Navy for three months to study Rear Admiral Alfred of the United States. Thayer. Mahan's Theory of Sea Power.

All of you here today are members of the Guangfu Party, all of whom are bent on overthrowing the Manchu rule and taking it as their mission to establish a constitutional monarchy of the Han Chinese royal family in modern China, and Song Biao is the leader of the party, Song Aurora.

Everyone knew in their hearts that it would not be very difficult for the Chinese Revolution to overthrow the rule of the Manchus, but how to build a strong new Chinese empire and how to build a powerful imperial navy.

Song Wenhui had just been in contact with Wu Yingke a few days ago, and received some new information, so he told Song Biao about the development of the Tongguang Society.

In 1896, the Qing Dynasty ordered three domazoned cruisers from Germany, Hairong, Haichou, and Haichen, and two cruisers from Britain, Haitian, and Haiqi, and continued to order four torpedo boats, Hailong, Haiqing, Haihua, and Haixi from Germany, and then ordered 14 small and medium-sized shallow-water warships suitable for cruising on the Yangtze River, restoring the naval displacement tonnage to 24,000 tons.

At this time, the Nanyang Fleet was renamed the Yangtze River Fleet with Shanghai as the center, the Beiyang Fleet continued to be centered on Tianjin, and the secret transmission of the Tongguang Society was mainly based on Shanghai, supplemented by Tianjin.

After Song Wenhui finished speaking, Song Biao bowed slightly, and seemed to be very satisfied and said: "This is not bad, being able to contain the south and ensure our control in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the most important thing, as for the Beiyang side, it is best to persuade them to be neutral." If not, it is also a good idea to avoid the navy. ”

Song Wenhui said: "General, the Northeast New Army must take the Beijing-Feng Railway when it goes south, and if the Beiyang Fleet opens fire in Jinzhou to deter the Beijing-Feng Railway, I am afraid the situation will not be good." ”

Song Biao hummed and didn't say any more.

He actually understands these truths in his heart, but he has no better way, the three eastern provinces are local governments after all, and it is impossible to buy warships from abroad with great fanfare, and he purchased the Liaohe auxiliary cruiser from the United States this time in the name of purchasing merchant ships and training ships, and the reason in this is different from buying guns and guns, because the Qing Zheng Axe, as the central imperial court, recognized the Northeast New Army as the official army of the Qing Zheng Axe, but did not recognize the naval status of the Coast Guard General Administration of the three eastern provinces.

Everyone here is well aware of this.

Song Wenhui raised a difficult problem by himself, but he could only solve it by himself: "Boss, our Tongguang Association will continue to strengthen propaganda in the north, and try our best to persuade Cheng Biguang, Sa Zhenbing and others to join, if they can join, or at least remain neutral, we will be able to succeed." ”

Song Biao thought about it for a while, and replied in his way: "The soldiers are noble and fast, if there is no rivalry with the warship, then try to weaken the value of the enemy fleet." Of course, if you can succeed, it will be the first contribution of our generation to regain the revolution! ”

After listening to Song Biao's words, everyone could only nod silently, knowing in their hearts that it was not easy to persuade Cheng Biguang and Sa Zhenbing, second-class military attachés who were heavily used by the Qing political axe, not to mention that the Minister of the Navy had a lot of co-optation of Cheng Sa and the two, and everyone knew it.

Song Wenhui decided to change the topic and said to Song Biao: "General, Lin Baoyi and I have been studying Colonel Mahan's theory of sea power recently, and I think he has a sentence that is very right, only a maritime shipping power can become a naval power, and China and the three eastern provinces are a weak shipping country and region, and it may not be easy to become a naval power with such manpower." Therefore, the Northeast Shipbuilding School should not only continue to open, but also intensify its efforts to open it, and the shipping industry and shipbuilding factories in the three eastern provinces should be set up even more quickly. ”

Song Biao snorted and said, "You don't have to worry too much about these things, I have already arranged for the right people to step up the handling." ”

Song Biao also spent a lot of time carefully studying the theory of sea power, and he deeply agreed with this point, and arranged for the Far East consortium to lay out the development of the shipping industry and the shipbuilding industry very early, which is naturally inseparable from borrowing from the United States, after all, the United States has the sharpest pioneering spirit in the field of shipping industry and shipbuilding industry, and its foundation is also quite strong.

As for Britain, falling from the throne of the king of shipping is destined to be far from the seat of the king of the world's navy, which is also a situation that Britain itself is difficult to reverse, and now it is only its last glorious period, and after this stage, it will really not be able to hold on.

The affairs of the navy should be considered as soon as possible and should be considered in the long run, but at this stage, it is indeed not the focus of Song Biao's special attention, so Song Biao's inspection of Haizhou this time was only arranged for three days, and the Yingkou naval base was only occupied for one day.

Song Biao, who originally didn't want to influence Song Wenhui and others, still talked about some of his thoughts that night, and there were no other requirements other than the "Ten-Year Development Plan for the Navy of the Three Eastern Provinces".

According to this plan, ten years later, in 1920, the navy of the three eastern provinces should develop to have 140 warships, a total displacement of 75,000 tons, at least two battleships, four cruisers, and 20 cruisers, and at the same time have the ability to manufacture light cruisers with a displacement of 3,000 tons.

Song Biao can only say "how easy it is to talk about" about this plan, because it costs a lot of money.

The navy is an aristocratic service, and what is burned is money, and a country without money will never be able to build a world-class fleet.

Money, it's really important.

Now that he has arrived in Haizhou, Song Biao will definitely take the time to inspect other work in Haizhou, which is still very important for the overall economic planning of the three eastern provinces, and it has indeed given Song Biao a lot of surprises.

The new Haizhou City is a brand-new new city, from March 1906, the surrounding area of Yongan Town and Yingkou has been set up as a new industrial and commercial area to open to the outside world, and a large amount of land has been set aside for industrial investment.

With the prosperity of Yingkou, Yingkou was set up as a separate county, considering the long-term development of the entire Liaodong Bay area, Song Biao took Yong'an Town as the center to re-establish a new Haizhou County here, and transferred the government of Haizhou Prefecture from Haicheng County to the new Haizhou New District.

The first surprise is the local sea salt production, the second surprise is the local self-developed silk industry, the third surprise is the amazing magnesite reserves, the fourth surprise is the discovery of Haizhou cashmere goats, the fifth surprise is the discovery of Panjin Oilfield, and the sixth is the development of Haizhou gold mines, with an annual output of 100 kilograms.

The most special thing is the silkworm, because this incident is indeed a bit too overjoyed, and it can be called the biggest threat to the economy in history.

This is a strange surprise, Song Biao never knew that the three eastern provinces could also have such a powerful silk industry foundation, many things seem to be destined by heaven, Shandong and the three eastern provinces of the silk industry almost all rely on oak trees, and in the Liaodong Peninsula and the east of Haizhou, Xiuyan County in the endless primeval mountains and forests are full of oak trees.

Tussah silk is a very peculiar thing, because it mainly relies on wild forests, silkworm species are resistant to disease, the yield of a single silkworm is high, in spring and autumn a year, silk is relatively thick and hard, suitable for machine weaving, the most important point is that the cost of artificial breeding is very low, only equivalent to 40% of mulberry silk, or even lower - this is a killer feature.

Haizhou's silkworm breeding industry is brought by Shandong people, a large number of Shandong silkworm farmers gathered in Haizhou, so that Haizhou's silkworm industry expanded rapidly, in the past five years, the annual output has surged from 100 tons to more than 4,000 tons, not only for the development of the textile industry in the three eastern provinces has played a good auxiliary role, but also exported to the United States with a low price advantage.

According to current estimates, the possibility of an annual output of 10,000 tons of tussah silk in the three eastern provinces of the mainland, including Haizhou, is extremely high, because the oak trees are ready to go wild and do not need to be replanted, which is a key factor in low cost.

As long as 5,000 tons of them can be exported to the United States, the raw silk export industry will be severely damaged.

This is simply a pie falling from the sky, and Song Biao hadn't thought about it at all before.

If Song Biao knew that the tussah silk in Liaoning Province had a chance to defeat the export of Bensheng silk, he would definitely grasp this matter urgently very early, although it was not too late, but it always made Song Biao a little annoyed.

The export of raw silk is as important to the economy as the export of soybeans to the three eastern provinces, which are the foundation of economic development, and represent the general trend of silver and gold flowing into the country, and represent the source of national purchasing power.

The cutting off of the export of Bunsen silk happened in 1929 because of the impact of the world economic crisis and the Great Depression, and the final result was that Bunsen launched a war of aggression against China.

On the way back to Fengtianfu from Haizhou Mansion, Song Biao not only realized the possibility of defeating Yueben's economy, but also realized that the premise was that he had to make all preparations first, and not give Yueben a chance to take advantage of it.

(To be continued)