In late autumn, the area around Fudi Street is dazzling golden. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the branches and leaves of the previous verdant trees were blown yellow by a few autumn winds, but from a distance, it was a particularly conspicuous golden, and the most beautiful is probably the maple tree that moved from nowhere, its leaves were all red, and the red leaves were conspicuous in a piece of gold.

Tang Haoran, who was by the window, occasionally cast his eyes on this extraordinarily attractive street scene, and occasionally picked up a cigar between his fingers and took a puff, and after thinking silently for a while, he slowly paced up and walked in this spacious office.

The cork floor was covered with a thick carpet, so that the slightest sound of footsteps was silently absorbed by it. While Tang Haoran was pacing, the office still echoed with the somewhat stiff Chinese.

Speaking was Jiro Hashidate, an animal husbandry expert at the Animal Husbandry Laboratory, who has been conducting experiments at the test station around Gongzhuling for the past year, which is part of a long list of agricultural breeding experiments. Although on the surface, the Governor's Office attaches more importance to the development of industry, but it does not neglect the importance of agriculture, and even the Northeast attaches far more importance to the development of agriculture than the so-called "heavy agriculture" Guannai, after all, in the view of the authorities, the development of agriculture is directly related to the future of the Northeast and the future of industry and commerce.

Animal husbandry is a part of agriculture, especially for the northeast, a relatively developed area of animal husbandry, and compared with traditional farming, animal husbandry products are easier to industrialize, more needed for factory production, and naturally attach great importance to it. Following the establishment of the Industrial Survey Bureau of the Governor's Office last year, the policy of wool self-sufficiency was investigated as part of the livestock survey. Finally, it was concluded that sheep husbandry must be developed to ensure the supply of wool. The minimum target is also to achieve military supplies and police supplies. The service of the employees of the transportation relationship is self-sufficient.

In order to achieve this goal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce has set up a sheep department in charge of sheep affairs, and the government guides the importation and breeding of sheep, the establishment of pastures, and the entrustment and lending of sheep, with a view to achieving self-sufficiency in high-quality wool.

Hashitachi, an animal husbandry expert who immigrated to China from Japan, is the person in charge of sheep breeding and one of the first experts to propose self-sufficiency in high-quality wool. The test station has already achieved certain results.

“…… Last year, the laboratory introduced 32,000 Merino sheep from Australia, and then adopted a complex breeding hybrid method, with the Australian Merino ram as the paternal line, and the local fine wool sheep as the maternal line for breeding, although the breeding is still in the experiment, but according to the evaluation of the hybrid generation, its wool quality is far better than that of the wool produced by the local fine wool sheep, considering the carrying capacity of the experimental station, we believe that this year will begin. 100,000 miscellaneous sheep can be loaned to the immigration point, and another 100,000 sheep are expected to be added next year......"

Lending money to immigrants to herd sheep. Workshops and even incentives for sheep feeding and wool sales are part of the government's protective measures and are of course the basis for the development of the sheep industry to achieve self-sufficiency in high-quality wool. It is also necessary to develop the settlements, according to the planning of the Governor's Government, the prosperity of the settlements will depend on the sideline business, the so-called "sideline" includes the breeding industry, the aquaculture industry can provide sufficient fertilizer to ensure high grain yield, in this era without modern synthetic fertilizer industry, the breeding industry and agriculture are complementary to each other. It is for this reason that the government has been trying to promote the development of aquaculture in the resettlement areas, so as to achieve the goal of increasing people's income.

"So, starting this year, we'll be able to supply sheep to the settlements?"

Tang Haoran asked rhetorically, compared with the "old villages", as the governor, he undoubtedly attaches more importance to those resettlement points directly controlled by the government, which is of course based on the decision of practical interests, only as a demonstration of the people's lives in the settlements, get a fundamental change, those "old villages" in the villagers, will spontaneously accept the transformation of armor, accept the government's "guidance".

According to the calculations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, each immigrant family can raise 5-10 sheep, which means that the family can increase its income by tens of yuan every year. This can make a real difference in your life. But...... It doesn't seem to matter, at least not at the moment, after all, the work of the settlement has only just begun.

"Yes, sheep ...... can be provided to at least part of the settlements"

It is necessary to provide sheep to the people, but can the role of these sheep be further developed?

The reason why Tang Haoran, who was pacing again, fell into this kind of thinking has a lot to do with this morning's "briefing." Although on the surface of China, the current China is a "Nine Governors", that is, the power is vested in the localities, and the so-called imperial court center is just an ornament, but the Manchu court still controls Mongolia and Tibet, and the two places that have not been established as provinces are bound by the ministers in Mongolia and Tibet.

In particular, Mongolia has established control over Mongolia in the early morning through marriages and alliances for more than 200 years. At this time, Mongolia had already decayed after more than 200 years of suppression. Historically, the "New Deal" was the last straw that crushed the Manchu rule under Mongol rule, and after the outbreak of the revolution, the centrifugal Mongols naturally sought to secede from China.

In the past year, the Manchu court in order to solve the "self-improvement move" training troops, set up factories, all need a lot of funds, so this year it turned its attention to Mongolia, not to mention the Mongolian reclamation, but also increased the extortion of the Mongolian alliance flags, like a new deal in another time and space.

The "Mongolian New Deal" with reclamation as the core mentioned in the briefing of the Intelligence Bureau made Tang Haoran see the crisis and the crisis of Mongolia's centrifugation of China in another time and space. If you are not careful, history in another time and space will be played out in this time and space.

For Tang Haoran, who was ambitious in trying to reproduce the glory of China, Mongolia's independence was certainly not something he could tolerate and accept, but if it was a centrifugal situation, then there was only one choice, that is, to use force to ensure that Mongolia would not become independent. But that's the next step!

Force can only be suppressed for a while, not for a lifetime, although in the future "immigration to the real side" is an inevitable choice. But until the goal of "immigration" is achieved. How can we solve the current crisis?

Crisis. Crisis!

There are also opportunities in the midst of danger.

In another time and space, the reason why the Mongolian princes chose to become independent was that in addition to the "squeeze of the New Deal", which completely destroyed the last trace of trust and hope of the princes in the Manchu court, the more important thing was the "hollow rice balls" promised by the Russians.

If the Russians can take advantage of the opportunity to get their hands on Mongolia, why can't they get through Mongolia themselves?

How to get through Mongolia?

Tang Haoran, who was by the window, contemplated again.

"You are not familiar with the Mongols, they are like children...... We took them by the arm and promised to lend them the goods. Of course, things bought in this way are naturally 30 to 40 percent more expensive. Isn't that reasonable? Interest accumulates. And we're going to make a profit. Every year we have to go all over the grassland to collect interest. The Mongol debts could never be repaid, because they had to be repaid by their descendants. They paid their debts with sheep, camels, horses, oxen, and so on. We buy these animals at a very cheap price and sell them at a high price in the market......"

Fifty years ago, when the French missionary E. P. Gogomu traveled to Mongolia, he met a businessman named Yao Qingtu in Ordos and recorded a vivid account of his conversation. According to the current debt policy in Mongolia, "the father repays the debts of the son, and the husband and wife repay the debts." After death, it will be returned by the flag duke", that is, not only princes and nobles. Even ordinary herdsmen, their debts must be "repaid" by the flag where they are located after their death. That is, everyone apportions, even if you don't have debts, you have to carry a heavy burden, so there is a situation where "the Jin merchants are calculating heavy profits, cattle, alpacas and horses are used to offset the debts, and the search is empty, and thousands of horses and thousands of herds are driven into the fortress, so that Mongolia's livelihood is quite difficult, and the poverty is getting worse".

Economy!

Economic control is the most critical control, the most fundamental reason why the Jin merchants were able to exploit and squeeze the Mongols to the fullest, is that the Manchu court gave them a franchise, and because of the monopoly of the officials and governors of the Jin merchants in Mongolia -- in this era, even if the Russians were trapped in transportation conditions, they could only watch the Jin merchants who were scheming and plundering by the Mongols with their geographical advantages to make huge profits.

All this changed radically with the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which allowed the Russians to transport cheap industrial consumer goods to the heart of Siberia and import them to Mongolia, seizing the markets of the Jin merchants, and eventually many of them even became agents of Russian goods. This was a solid first step for Russia to take control of Mongolia.

It is obviously unrealistic to build a railway into Mongolia now, but it has made Tang Haoran see an object to emulate -- to achieve political control through economic control, so as to ensure that Mongolia will not become independent. Although the attention of the Russians is now entirely drawn to the "Viceroyalty of Nicholas, with a population of 40 million", it is not clear that when they will again turn their attention to China, to the contradictory Mongols.

Before Hashitachijiro's report, Tang Haoran only had a vague concept in his mind, and the reason why it was vague was because he couldn't determine how to control the primitive and backward Mongolian economy. Dwarf Mongolian horses are not suitable for modern horses, or their inferior wool. However, the sheep bred in the agricultural experiment station now gave Tang Haoran hope -- to control Mongolia's economy by developing Mongolia's sheep breeding industry.

Provide sheep to Mongolia, turn Mongolia into pastures in Northeast China, and provide sufficient wool for textile enterprises in Northeast China. is the only option to control the Mongolian economy.

Even Tang Haoran does not need to worry about them turning their backs on China, at least in this era, the only buyer of wool in China is the Northeast, and the monopoly of the wool trade can not only make enterprises profit, but more importantly, the Mongolian princes, nobles and poor people cannot get rid of their dependence on the Northeast, so they fall to the Northeast step by step.

While the Manchus were squeezing Mongolia to the fullest, the Northeast brought a steady stream of wealth to Mongolia, what choice would the Mongols make?

Is it to continue to choose the Manchus? Or choose Dalian?

There is hardly any suspense, and even the slightest suspense can be made by stopping the purchase, which can put them in financial distress, and when the time comes, the real benefits of money will naturally drive them to make a choice.

Thinking of the tried and tested economic control of the great powers in later generations, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips lifted slightly, now compared to increasing the income of the people in the settlements, it seems to be a more appropriate choice to invest sheep in Mongolia, of course, this does not mean that the interests of the people in the Northeast should be sacrificed. But at least for now, compared with increasing the income of tens of thousands of peasant households, using sheep to envelop the Mongolian princes and nobles is undoubtedly a more in the national interest.

Of course, this is only temporary, next year, the year after that, with the increase in the sheep breeding capacity of the experimental station, the people in the northeast region will be able to get more sheep in the future.

"Can you provide more breeding sheep next year?"

Turning around, Tang Haoran hurriedly explained while asking rhetorically.

"There is a lot of wool in the country now, and although the wool purchased from the grassland can produce low-quality wool, this does not meet our needs, so if possible, I hope to be able to further provide the production of breeding sheep......

Tang Haoran did not express his thoughts in front of him, after all, such as Hashitachijiro, these people are only agricultural technicians, and the strategy for Mongolia must be taken care of by the Intelligence Bureau, as for agricultural technicians, they only need to provide sufficient "ammunition" for this plan according to the will of Fuzhong.

After a slight pause, Tang Haoran thought of Guannai again, and thought of how to apply the same means to Guannai, and at the same time turn Guannai into an "economic colony", strengthen the economic control of Guannai, so as to gradually grasp its economic lifeline.

Economic colony!

If Western countries, and even historical Japan, could see China as a supplier of raw materials and a dumping place for goods, and thus an economic colony, why can't Tohoku do the same?

Even compared with Westerners, Northeast China has its own convenient conditions -- dozens or hundreds of trading companies scattered in various provinces can purchase industrial raw materials needed for production in Northeast China at the first time, and those traditional merchants are probably more willing to cooperate with Northeast merchants than Westerners.

Not only that, but there are also other ways to control the economy, just as the developed countries of later generations turned the Third World into their own plantations, and control their markets through control. If it comes, when it comes to reunification, the Northeast can completely use the two cards of military economy and start at the same time...... (To be continued.) )