The first real annual meeting of the Far East Consortium was held at the Guandong Hotel in Dalian on November 10, 1906. The meeting lasted for five days and discussed the development of China's textile industry and competition with Japan, agriculture and deep processing of grains in the three eastern provinces.

industry, infrastructure construction in the three northeastern provinces, strengthening industrial and mining exploration and development in the three northeastern provinces and parts of China, and five minor topics including the insurance industry, securities industry, metallurgical industry, secondary vocational education, and soybean export development.

The core topic of the meeting still revolved around China's textile industry. Finally, regarding the development of the textile industry, plans were made, including lobbying the Qing government and local governors to strengthen support for the textile industry, establishing a textile college in Shanghai, and opening six more textile middle schools across the country.

vocational schools, set up a special study abroad fund for the textile industry, organized employees to study in the major textile countries of Britain and France, established the Liaodong Bay Textile Industrial Zone, and promoted new cotton varieties and cotton planting techniques. Twenty-two countermeasures.

In addition, the Far East Consortium will also establish "China Far East Insurance Company" and China Far East Securities Trust Investment Company next year, and Far East Insurance Company and Far East Securities will jointly recruit capital in Shanghai to establish "China United Insurance Company".

After the annual meeting, Song Biao took the train back to Fengtianfu and returned to the headquarters of the Northeast New Army.

At this time, Xinhua Finance Company has been fully purchased. This company has 1 million original shares and a total asset valuation of 20 million Guandong silver dollars. The ownership belongs entirely to the Northeast New Army Military Headquarters, and the Military Headquarters has fully entrusted Far East Bank with custody.

50% of the shares are retained in the military department, and 50% of the shares are distributed according to quotas.

All shares are non-circulating accounting shares, with no physical documents. Only specific shares are recorded in internal accounting books. The shares can only be used for regular dividends. They have no operating rights and other shareholder rights and cannot be used for mortgage financing. The minimum guarantee per share is based on the annual

The dividend is 7%. After the soldiers retire, the company will repurchase them at market value. If the soldiers seriously violate military discipline and are expelled from the military, the company will forcibly take back the shares.

This time Song Biao returned to the Northeast New Army's military headquarters to formally allocate these shares.

The principle he adheres to in this matter is that the revolution can be unsuccessful, and a person must be kind. When he promised to "live and die together, and share wealth and honor", even if he really couldn't do it, he would at least make an appearance.

Song Biao benefited greatly from the Russo-Japanese War. Even if he acted according to the principles of bandits, he had to use most of the profits to distribute to the soldiers as trophies. Therefore, he only had two options. One was to spend millions

The two taels of silver will be paid directly, and the second is to allocate part of the additional assets and issue shares. The money is given to you, but it still has to be used for industrial construction in the three northeastern provinces.

The basic principle is that the Battle of Liaoyang is used as the dividing line. All officers and soldiers who participated in the Battle of Liaoyang have shares. As long as the files of the officers and soldiers who have died can be found, they will retain their share dividends for five years as additional pension compensation. This plan

Russian soldiers are basically excluded, except for 154 Russian officers of all levels, including Colonel Martos, who continues to serve in the New Northeast Army and the Far East Army Corps.

According to this plan, a total of 9,452 people participated in the final stock split plan, and the minimum guarantee was 20 shares per person. Those who participated in the Battle of Heigoutai, the Battle of Jiangjiayao, the Battle of Liaoyang and other battles will all receive an additional 30 shares according to the number of times they participated.

After passing the Dongling ambush battle, the number of shares increased by 200.

In addition, all lieutenants of the Northeast New Army are guaranteed a minimum of 100 shares, and school officers are guaranteed a minimum of 300 shares. Those who have been slightly injured will receive an additional 30 shares, and those who have been seriously injured will receive an additional 100 shares.

Except for Song Biao who was allocated 1,550 shares as planned, the largest number of shares held was Zhang Yahu's 1,350 shares, because he was not only the first to join the Northeast New Army, but also was "lucky" like Song Biao to participate in all major and small battles and was allocated shares.

It is equivalent to about 27,000 silver yuan, and the annual guaranteed dividend is 1,890 silver yuan, which is equivalent to 4 times Zhang Yahu's annual military salary.

Because they participated in the least battles and were at the same level, Yang Tiesheng, who joined the earliest, could only hold 580 shares. As for the non-commissioned officers such as Chen Qicai who joined later, the more senior ones had a minimum of 300 shares. The junior third-term students were all Lieutenants.

To start, there is only a minimum of 100 shares.

There are always special situations, and there are also weird second lieutenants like Li Dahan who can be allocated 750 shares, but no one will be dissatisfied, unless the person is psychologically twisted and abnormal, because these are all money exchanged for his life.

, for example, there are more than 4,600 fallen soldiers whose files cannot be found at all, and there are more than 1,400 dead soldiers whose lists can barely be set up. There is a question as to where the final additional pension will be distributed.

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Song Biao originally had 42 people when he raised his troops in Erlangdong, but only 23 people are still alive today after fighting all the way. When he left Niujiabao, he took more than 600 people with him, and today only 194 people are still alive. The most tragic

It was the Battle of Liaoyang and the raid on Liaoyang.

At that time, there were 12,000 people in the headquarters. Since then, more than 6,000 local militiamen have been added. At the time of withdrawal, there were less than 8,500 people. If the Russian troops were not used as cannon fodder along the way, how many people would have returned alive in the end?

, Song Biao himself didn’t even know.

Other people's lives are also lives.

Even if some people suspect that the troops and wealthy soldiers who have divided the money will have no combat effectiveness, Song Biao would rather divide the money to fulfill his original vow of "live and die together, and share wealth and honor" to a certain extent, and then gradually let these soldiers and generals return according to their age.

They were successfully retired or transferred to reserve service.

Song Biao thought this way. He felt that if a person wanted to achieve a career, he must first have credibility and be moral. He could not say that he was rich, while the soldiers worked hard to the end but were still poor.

You must be a conscientious person. During the entire Russo-Japanese War, he made a huge fortune of more than 70 million yen. Even if he was a bandit, half of it should be distributed to his brothers.

Of course, this does not mean that there will be such an opportunity to continue dividing shares in the future. Generally speaking, newly promoted school officials will be divided into some nominal shares to symbolically show that everyone is a team.

With the gradual formalization of the Northeastern New Army, and even the future national defense, soldiers have allowances for serving, non-commissioned officers and generals have military salaries, casualties have pensions, retirements have pensions, and battlefields have frontline allowances. These funds are provided by the government

If it is funded by the government and the state, it is no longer Song Biao’s personal contribution. Then there will no longer be these opportunities for splitting shares.

This thing is a special product of a special stage.

When all 9,452 people retired, the matter came to an end. Xinhua Company's shares were all recovered and transferred to the Ministry of National Defense, and finally became a state-owned enterprise.

Having said that, since you can be the king of the Northeast and have a fortune of hundreds of millions of taels of silver, why can't others? Is it as simple as finding an opportunity to kill you with one shot?

Do you really think that there is some kind of emotion and revolutionary will in this world that is stronger than 100 million taels of silver?

Maybe you can't ensure that everyone and the generals are loyal to you, but if the entire army only recognizes you as their common leader. If you oppose you, you will lose everything. Then you can continue to lead everything as the only warlord commander.

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Song Biao returned to the military headquarters on the afternoon of November 17, having been away from the New Northeast Army for such a long time. He really missed his days in the army, especially the past.

He actually missed the days of being a monitor very much.

Those days were so simple and joyful, with nothing to think about and nothing to worry about.

Although he is now the commander of an army, he is rarely happy for a few days.

On the train platform, all the military officers were present, leading more than two infantry battalions of soldiers to form a neat queue.

Song Biao put on a new dark brown military uniform, a French cylindrical military hat, white gloves, and shiny black deerskin military boots. He walked out of the carriage with a calm and indifferent expression.

When the officers at all levels saw him, under their leadership, all the officers and soldiers in the army immediately stood at attention and saluted. The moment everyone's arms were raised, a uniform roar suddenly broke out on the platform.

Song Biao glanced at them with a serious and silent expression, returned the salute and continued to look at the entire army.

He took another look at his troops and felt a little satisfied with them.

The people greeting Song Biao in front are Shu Fangde, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu and Colonel Martos. These are the four people elected by everyone. The first three are recognized as the subordinates who have the most confidence in Song Biao, and Colonel Martos represents

All Russian officers and soldiers of the New Army and the Far East Army.

Song Biao shook hands with the four of them, and then shook hands with more than a dozen school officials in the back row, thanking each one: "Thank you for your hard work!"

A few people happily answered "It's hard work in the military seat", and some people answered "It's even harder in the military seat". Others smiled, as if they didn't understand everything.

The last few school officers were Chen Qicai and Fu Liangzuo. Among those qualified to welcome Song Biao on behalf of the entire army, they were the last to join the army and could only stand at the back. Although Chen Qicai was the first senior of the Japanese army, they could

There is no way.

Song Biao guessed that Chen Qicai might still be a little unhappy, so he patted him and Fu Liangzuo on the back, almost held their shoulders and walked back together, saying: "Let's go back to our hometown."

Jiang Yanxing, Cai E, Jiang Fangzhen, and Xu Baoying, as the international students selected this year, will once again go to Japan to study for one year and will not return until September next year. Otherwise, Jiang Yanxing should be the first in line to welcome Song Biao.

Song Biao thought these were trivial matters.

He waved his hand and asked everyone to follow him back to the military headquarters. He even skipped the carriage and took everyone back to the military headquarters on foot.

Shu Fangde followed quickly and asked Song Biao excitedly: "Military, have you encountered any good things in the United States and Mexico? I heard that you also met with the President of the United States?"

Song Biao hummed twice, but said: "I met with President Roosevelt, but it didn't do any good. Instead, the President of Mexico gave me a large oil field for me to mine. It's hard to say whether oil can be mined, but I have to smash it down first.

several hundred

Drilling for 10,000 U.S. dollars made me take a deep breath. To be honest, if we can produce oil and earn tens of millions of U.S. dollars, we will immediately replace them all with German and French cannons, and those 15

A large diameter of millimeter.”

Everyone laughed heartily when they heard this, and everyone seemed a little bit crazy. This was the capital of the Northeastern New Army and the "Army God of China", General Song.

The Northeastern New Army is still in its early stages of starting a business. The emotions between the comrades are very simple, and they have not reached the stage of rushing to be the warlord. Song Biao himself does not know what it will be like in the future. He just feels that it is still

Yes, then enjoy the simplicity of this period.

When he returned to the military headquarters, Song Biao didn't talk nonsense at all, nor did he go back to the office to see the pile of urgent military and political matters that needed to be dealt with. Instead, he directly held a meeting in the conference room with all the military officers attending.

In addition to Hua Zhenji, Wu Luzhen, Xiao Kaigui, and Zhang Zhongyuan who went to France to inspect the cavalry, Lu Jingyuan, Shan Qipeng, and Zhang Shaozeng who went to Germany to inspect the artillery, and Jiang Yanxing, Cai E, Jiang Fangzhen, and Xu Baoying who went to Japan for further studies, the rest of the captains

, all the school officials came to attend the meeting.

The Northeastern New Army currently has Song Biao as its commander, Brigadier General Brusilov as its general adviser, Colonel Martos as its chief of staff, and Colonel Pakilov as its chief artillery instructor. Although the Russian Far East Army has gradually withdrawn, the original No. 1

The officers and lieutenants at all levels of the Fifteenth Army continue to serve in the Northeast New Army. They are basically the same team that fought in the Liaoyang Battle.

The New Army currently consists of six infantry regiments including Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, Chen Wu, Jiang Yanxing, Yang Tiesheng, and Zhang Xiaohuai, as well as a direct command regiment, two artillery regiments, three cavalry regiments, two baggage regiments, and two engineering regiments, plus

The Russian Army's 1st Artillery Brigade, 1st Cavalry Brigade, and 1st Infantry Brigade of Seshandinsk. The total strength is close to 90,000.

Except for the six infantry regiments, the other regiments still have instructors who are Russian military academy officers responsible for daily training and work. The regiment commander, deputy regiment commander, deputy instructor and commander of each battalion. The instructors are taken turns by non-commissioned officers studying in Japan.

.It was through this process that Song Biao gradually confirmed the level of these military cadets studying in Japan.

With almost all the third batch of non-commissioned officers studying in Japan being recruited by the Northeastern New Army with high salaries, the mutual connections between the first and second batch of trainees, and their admiration, as well as the Liberation Association and other organizations, the Northeast New Army currently has non-commissioned officers studying in Japan.

The number of students has increased from the original 43 to 107. According to Song Biao's observation, overall they are still worth using because his requirements are not high.

If we really want to select those who are truly worthy of training and reusing among these 107 cadets, it seems that Song Biao currently only has twenty people.

More than fifty major officers of the Northeastern New Army were gathered in the conference room, half of whom had joined in a hurry during this special thirty-two years of Guangxu. The other half, the officers who had studied in Japan, were the ones who had truly gone through the test of war.

There are 27 of these people, 14 of whom are Zhao Tingzhu and Zhang Yahu who were trained in the war. Among these 14 people are

Some of them joined early, and some were recruited before the battle of Heigoutai. There were even two scholars who were born in Fengtian Mansion, and there were also Huzi and Bandit. They are currently studying in the Far East Lushi Training Class, and there is Zhang Yahu, who has a poor foundation.

, Chen Hu and others can only complete the short-term crash course first, and then prepare to take advanced courses while studying and literacy.

In addition to these people, the 15 Russian military officers are all real old troops such as Martos, Pakilov, von Eske, Turvanier, and Popnin. Russian military officers who are willing to continue serving in the Northeast New Army
To be continued...