In the past three months, 120,000 new foreign nationals have been registered with the foreign exchange bureaus of the three eastern provinces, bringing the number of foreign citizens in the three eastern provinces to 500,000. In recent years, the number of North Koreans who have been fleeing into the three eastern provinces has been increasing rapidly.

Because these people are basically not subject to normal management and are not registered with the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the Bureau can only roughly estimate that there are about 250,000 people, accounting for more than half of the foreign citizens of the three eastern provinces.

Song Biao welcomes foreign citizens to work in the three eastern provinces, provided that they comply with the "Statutes of the Three Eastern Provinces of the Great Qing Dynasty and the Russian, French, British, and German Five-Power Entente", which contains two provisions: first, foreign citizens are not allowed to directly hold or purchase agricultural land in the three eastern provinces, except for naturalized foreigners; Second, foreign citizens should have certain work experience and educational qualifications, and for non-investors, those with no technical expertise and no education, except for husband and wife and relatives, will not be granted long-term residence permits in principle, and can only hold short-term visas and temporary residence rights.

The large number of Koreans who poured into the three eastern provinces from the Korean border did not meet these two conditions at all, and when they came in, they wanted to occupy land resources, especially in the uncultivated areas of the three eastern provinces, and lived on a large scale in the uncultivated areas of the three eastern provinces.

Because the Korean kingdom was not within the scope of the "Five-State Entente of the Three Eastern Provinces", Song Biao did not have the energy to worry about this matter for most of the past six months, but only sent people to negotiate with Yuben and Korea, and in order not to affect the cooperation with the three eastern provinces and the Northeast New Army, he made a positive attitude on the surface, but in fact he still deliberately wanted to steal the jurisdiction of the Yanji region, but because his strength was not as good as before, he did not dare to act rashly, so he continued to support the Korean kingdom behind his back, and North Korea was more willing to continue to occupy these areas with the support of Yuben.

During the Daoguang period, the total number of Korean people in the three eastern provinces was less than 10,000, and most of them were in the mountainous areas of Changbai Mountain, except for the past 30 years.

Qing Zheng axe in the previous Guangxu 7 years (1881) set up a reclamation bureau in Jilin, allowing Koreans to enter Yanji reclamation, at first allowed to be a national, Guangxu 11 years, as North Korea began to determine that this area is the territory of the Korean Kingdom, Qing Zheng Axe immediately changed the conditions, requiring the Koreans who reclaimed the land on the border of Jilin must return after the autumn harvest, and the Koreans basically did not leave, the Korean kingdom also secretly supported this forcible occupation, and even set up officials.

This is the so-called territorial issue of the islands.

You have to admit that the DPRK is also an extremely shameless country.

After the establishment of the Reclamation Bureau in Jilin, about 50,000 North Koreans entered Jilin Province in a regular way, but many more of them fled the land irregularly.

Song Biao's government-run and commercial-run cruise ships in Zhili, Shandong, Jiangbei and other places regularly and continuously travel to and from the three eastern provinces and Guannai every week, and can import 40,000 people into the customs every month, and by the end of the year, he will gradually increase this scale to 200,000 people per month.

Since March, Song Biao has adopted a hard-line policy in Yanji, first prohibiting the influx of North Koreans into Yanji one after another, setting up a number of patrol detachments in the local area, constantly arresting North Korean refugees, and forcibly repatriating them.

Song Biao also killed two birds with one stone, on the one hand, he was tough against the DPRK and the Ronin, and on the other hand, he forcibly abolished the left patrol battalion of more than 10,000 people secretly recruited by Jilin Governor Zeng Yun, reorganized and trained, and after dismantling it, it was incorporated into the patrol detachments in various parts of the frontier.

Song Biao himself appointed Xue Changqing as the general office of the Yanji Military Reclamation Bureau, replacing the original Reclamation Bureau, and concurrently serving as the police bureau of the local Zhili Prefecture to carry out military reclamation in Yanji, preparing to gradually organize the scale of a patrol corps, and confront the North Korean and the Japanese army in the Yanji area in the form of armed police.

In Dandong and Hunjiang, Song Biao continued to appoint Chang Wanchun and Sun Shiyong as the general offices of the Military Reclamation Bureau, set up the Western Liaoning Military Reclamation Bureau in the areas of Horqin and Tongliao and even across the jurisdiction of the three eastern provinces, and sent Hua Zhenji to serve as the general office of the Military Reclamation Bureau and the local police bureau to be promoted, and set up the Western Liaoning Patrol Corps to deal with the Mongolian bandits.

After Zhang Zuolin's troops were forcibly demolished by Song Biao, Zeng Yuncheng was terrified and said that he was uneasy, so he had to come to see Song Biao again.

This time it was not as easy to talk as last time, Song Biao was too lazy to see him, so he asked him to find a way to transfer out of the three eastern provinces, and under the compromise persuasion of Yin Chang and Tang Shaoyi, Song Biao arranged another afternoon to meet Zeng Yun.

Zeng Yun is a Mongol, before the Russian War, he also served as the prefect of Xinmin Mansion, and he was promoted to the position of governor of Jilin, this person can leave his name in history because of Zhang Zuolin's relationship, it is he who recruited and promoted Zhang Zuolin, and then there is Zhang Zuolin's scenery, and Zhang Zuolin also regards him as a teacher, and respectfully calls him a teacher.

Originally, among the three governors of the three eastern provinces, the only one who still had some troops in his hands was Zeng Yun, and only waited for Zhang Zuolin's troops to be forcibly demolished by Song Biao on the grounds of "reforming the military system and reorganizing civil defense".

In the afternoon of that day, Song Biao convened the first and second staff departments to discuss the matter of sending troops to clear out the bandits in Changbai Mountain, and met Zeng Yun alone in the conference room, and also gave Zeng Yun half an hour to reorganize the old affairs.

Zeng Yun is actually a little useful, this person is a Mongolian epiphytic background, the biggest feature of his life is that he is good at meeting celebrities, he promoted Zhang Zuolin as a prefect in the three eastern provinces, and he was the governor of Zhejiang and Lu Xun had conflicts, and then he was attacked by Jiang Zhongzheng, who had just returned from studying abroad.

Because he is Mongolian, there is always some eyeliner in Mongolia, as the governor of Jilin, there is a way to deal with the Mongolian bandits, originally he and Zhang Zuolin cooperated is a good match, Song Biao is also willing to achieve a good story of the two of them to exterminate the Mongolian bandits, the result is that the Qing Zheng axe is shameless, and Zeng Yun is a little undecided, and secretly still does the matter of increasing troops.

Even if you increase the number of troops by a few hundred, you can still increase the number of troops by more than 4,000 people?

Song Biao's side had just finished the meeting, and the officers of the two staff offices were gradually exiting, rushing all the way in the corridor and running into Zeng Yun who rushed over.

He was already in a cold sweat, and it was a surprise for him to be the governor of Jilin, but in fact, it was due to the fact that there was no one available in the imperial court, and other officials refused to come to the three eastern provinces to take office.

Loyalty is commendable.

Hurriedly entered the office, and saw that Song Biao was at the conference table and continued to look through the meeting minutes, Jilin Governor Zeng Yun hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects and said: "Xiaguan Jilin Governor Zeng Yun has seen the Governor. ”

Song Biao didn't even have the mind to look at him with his eyes, and asked indifferently: "Why, don't you have the courage to ask the court for a sick leave to go home and rest for a few years?" ”

Zeng Yun was speechless for a while, and his heart was sad, he only felt that the Great Qing Kingdom had actually reached this point now, and the patrol battalion that had been built was forcibly demolished in accordance with the arrangements of the Military Aircraft Department, and he didn't even dare to say a word.

The three eastern provinces have really changed.

Zeng Yun could only bow down again and said: "The lower official has already known his mistake, and I hope that the governor will give the lower official a chance to make meritorious contributions." ”

Song Biao turned his face to look at him and said, "Since you still want to be the governor of Jilin, then do it well, I still say the same thing, don't do something shameless for me." As for the military, government, civil defense, and banditry, you will be less careless and more cooperative, and if you stretch your hand across the line, I will chop off your hand, and if you stretch your head out of bounds, I will chop off your head. Did you hear me clearly? ”

Zeng Yun could only kowtow and beg for mercy, and said: "I understand, I hear clearly!" ”

Song Biao then said: "Sit down, if you want to make meritorious contributions, then let's start with the elimination of Mongolian bandits!" ”

Zeng Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and then got up and said, "Thank you, Lord Governor, for your incurable grace." ”

The staff adjutant who accompanied Song Biao stepped forward, pulled a chair for Zeng Yun, and invited Zeng Yun to sit down, but Zeng Yun could only sit down with anxiety, waiting for Song Biao to continue to give instructions and ask.

Song Biao also asked him: "Do you know much about Mongolian bandits?" ”

Zeng Yun hurriedly replied: "Back to the Governor, I know a little bit about my humble position. ”

A dignified governor wants to call himself a "lowly officer" in front of the governor, and this governor is too wronged to live.

Song Biao continued to look at the meeting minutes in front of him, thinking about the various details of using troops to suppress bandits in Hengren, Dandong and other places, and pondered for a moment before putting the meeting minutes aside, and said to Zeng Yun: "Then you can talk about it!" ”

Zeng Yun said: "Humble and courageous to say, the rebellion of the Mongolian bandits still started from the reclamation policy of this dynasty, the reclamation area set up by the Han people and the imperial court is mostly in the frontier, over the years it is the land where the Mongolian people graze, and now it is cultivated as a fertile land, and the Mongolian people have lost, so some people have gathered people to rebel." Reclamation is a national policy, and if it is implemented more skillfully and can protect the interests of the people, there will naturally be no talk of banditry. ”

Song Biao thought about it and felt that what Zeng Yun said had a certain truth, so he said: "The frontier still needs to be stable, the population of the three eastern provinces is too small, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, so it will be remembered by foreigners. ”

Zeng Yun said: "It is better to change the civil reclamation and official reclamation to military reclamation, and focus on horse herding instead of farming." The Han people entered Mongolia in large numbers to reclaim wasteland, and it was already a stubborn disease for the two people to fight for this, and it was not necessary to send all people to cultivate the land to maintain the frontier. ”

Song Biao nodded, but said: "It's a pity that it's not under our control, we can set up more military reclamation on our side to reclaim the frontier, although the people are strong, the deterrent power is great." I'll give you another period of time, and send cavalry and local military reclamation bureaus to cooperate with you to clear out the Mongolian bandits, and you can think of more ways to plant eyeliner among the other party and find out information. In addition to eliminating Mongolian bandits, you must also step up the handling of Jilin's new policy, and if you do not have such ability, then appoint and reuse those who can run the new policy. ”

Zeng Yun breathed a sigh of relief again, and immediately replied: "Thank you, Lord Governor, I will do my best to seek a new deal for the three provinces and pacify the bandits." ”

At this time, Zeng Yun had been knocked out of the military power, Song Biao was naturally lenient or tight with him, looked at his watch, and saw that the time was almost up, Song Biao said to Zeng Yun: "You live in the guest house for a few days first, and when you have time, you can talk to Tang Shaoyi and them about the new policy, and I will talk to you in a few days." If you have something else to do today, let's talk about it here! ”

After saying this, Song Biao handed over the minutes of the meeting to the staff adjutant beside him, got up and prepared to go to the secretariat, where he wanted to summarize the promotion of soybeans in the three eastern provinces.

Seeing that Song Biao was leaving, Zeng Yun couldn't wait to dust off his sleeves and said, "Humble and respectful to the governor." ”

waited until Song Biao left the conference room, Zeng Yun hurriedly got up and found a place to continue to sit down and take a breath, only to feel very regretful that he was in the position of the governor of Jilin, he would rather go to Guannai to be a prefect than be caught between the imperial court and the yamen of the governor of the three eastern provinces, normal people can't afford it.

Cheng Dequan's Heilongjiang is far away, and Yinchang's Fengtian Province is under the nose of the governor of the three eastern provinces, Yamen, both governors have reasons to shirk all kinds of secret orders of the imperial court, but he is not far away and difficult to shirk.

Suffer it.

After thinking about it, Zeng Yun still felt that what Tang Shaoyi said made sense - to be an official in the three eastern provinces, you must first listen to the governor, and then listen to the imperial court, because the imperial court can be provoked, but the governor cannot be provoked.

…… With the second phase of the training through the first half of the cycle, Song Biao in the three eastern provinces less and less to give the Qing government axe face, he even recently began to officially expand the governor's yamen, built a separate governor's palace in the military department, and invited Russian architects.

For example, Song Biao's governor's yamen gradually increased the number of experts from Russia, and in addition to the five permanent institutions of secretary, new policy, foreign exchange, defense, and research, a bureau of foreign experts was set up to recruit a large number of foreign experts, especially Russian experts, through official and various unofficial channels.

At present, there are 65 members in this foreign expert bureau, with Li Enfu as the director of the foreign expert bureau, and its subordinate departments involve agriculture, industry, water conservancy, plants, economics, finance, chemistry, bridges, railways, taxation, metallurgy, mining, and other fields.

Song Biao even recruited two Russian mathematicians, Andrey. Markov, Sergey. Bernstein went to Northeastern University to teach, and in the field of chemistry, there were relatively more Russian experts, and four Russian chemists with doctorates arrived at Northeastern University to teach, and served as directors of various laboratories at the Institute of Chemistry under the Northeast Institute of Science.

The lengthy reports in the Russian newspapers about the three eastern provinces made the Russians think that these were the frontiers where the empire was about to be stabilized, and that they were more secure and stable than at home, and this situation was very favorable for many Russian middle class and petty bourgeoisie to pour into the three eastern provinces to set up enterprises in the three eastern provinces, or to engage in education, scientific research, and other kinds of work.

This is good news.

At least until the October Revolution, Song Biao needed them to play various roles in the three eastern provinces.

Thanks to the world, there are no ronins in Russia, and most of the people who can come to the three eastern provinces belong to the category of people who originally had very good living conditions and education standards in Russia, they just can't stand the large-scale turmoil in Russia, as well as all kinds of economic embarrassment, for them, as long as they have a skill, it is still easy to mix in the upper class life in the three eastern provinces, or the middle class life.

In the Secretariat, Song Biao and Almoro. Dr. Nunerico met again, and at this time, the promotion of soybean planting in Northeast China seems to be going well, and Wang Yongjiang's approach is very pragmatic, promoting soybean planting in more than 800,000 hectares around the two railway lines, which means that the three eastern provinces can export at least 1.2 million tons of soybeans this year.

In order to prevent restrictions on export sales, in Changchun, Shenyang New Area, and Harbin, Song Biao invested in an oil mill in the name of the Far East Grain and Animal Husbandry Corporation under the Far East Commercial Bank to digest the part of the soybeans that could not be successfully exported, and jointly built a large grain processing plant in the Jinzhou port area with a joint venture with a German soybean fat company to specialize in the deep processing of the soybean industry. The Northeast Bank, which had just started its official operation, issued its first commercial loan to the Sino-German grain processing company.

As for the sugar beet industry, the three eastern provinces are still exploring, and the Far East Grain and Animal Husbandry Corporation introduced sugar beet seeds from Germany, and first promoted the trial varieties in Yanji, Gaizhou, Mudanjiang and Changchun.

Follow Almoro. According to Dr. Nunerico's plan, the three eastern provinces will focus on seven major crops in the future, namely corn, soybeans, sugar beets, potatoes, wheat, rice, and sorghum. Dr. Nunierico's research on climate and soil came to a conclusion.

One of the main factors of this conclusion is that the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and the development of a large number of cash crops is a very good general direction, especially corn, soybean, and sugar beet all have good feed value after deep processing, and can be combined with the grain processing industry to develop animal husbandry and breeding on a large scale.

The development space of forestry in Northeast China is also very broad, but the main factor restricting these developments is the transportation problem, and if the railway cannot be built to every area of the three eastern provinces, these development spaces will lose all meaning.

In and Almorlo. After Dr. Nunerico met again and read the new report submitted by the Mukden Agricultural Research Institute, Song Biao really made up his mind to grasp the construction of the railway in the entire three eastern provinces no matter what, and borrow money if there was no money.

The good news is that Far Eastern Railways has allocated most of its contracts to the railway agencies that are owned and controlled by the German-French government, and has selected some of the most suitable partners at the suggestion of the consulates of various countries, with rich experience and deep financial resources.

Even if only 50% of the railways are owned and more debts are assumed, the Far Eastern Railway Corporation can at least have the right to annul the contract when the other party fails to perform the contract, and can even force compensation from the other party according to the construction period.

(To be continued)