The first year of Xuantong seemed so calm for China, even under this calm, a storm was brewing enough to tear the entire country apart.

After Song Biao, who ended his second trip to the Americas, returned to the three northeastern provinces, the new Northeastern army began to expand abnormally rapidly with the support of various forces. The economy of the three northeastern provinces also continued to export soybeans in the Northeast, as well as the coal industry, and other The investment of industrial and mining industries and domestic and foreign capital was stimulating rapidly. Similarly, the Qing government controlled by Prince Chun Zaifeng was also vigorously drawing taxes from various places to strengthen the construction of the Beiyang Army.

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

The Han Emperor, Manchu Emperor, Republican, constitutionalist, autonomous faction, local governor, and various forces supported by European, American, Japanese and Russian countries in China are accumulating the power of a volcanic eruption, which is enough to tear the entire China apart. Although the war is about to break out. On the surface, the Qing court and constitutionalists were still the mainstream direction of Chinese society, but this trend is constantly being reversed.

As a reconciler whom all parties can barely accept, Zhang Zhidong tried to make up for this increasingly large crack, but his efforts were regarded as a seizure of power by the Regent Zaifeng, which led to Zhang Zhidong being abolished in the last moment of his life. All rights reserved.

On October 4, 1909, after Zhang Zhidong's death, the inner palace seemed even more chaotic in the midst of the conflict between the Qing government and various forces. Outside the pass, it continued to develop steadily under the protection of Song Biao, and accumulated the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The power, especially the Chinese Revolutionary Association, which is based outside the pass, has accumulated a huge organization under the underworld with strong revolutionary funds.

Zaifeng still thought that the balance of victory was on his side. In fact, the balance had already fallen towards Song Biao, especially after Song Biao finished his second trip to the Americas, by gradually selling PetroChina and speculating on banana assets, Song Biao Holds huge military expenses of £43.5 million in the international capital market.

Song Biao kept buying arms throughout the first half of the first year of the Xuantong reign, in the open. He still bought a certain amount of ammunition reserves from France and the United States, but in the dark, he passed the Far East Railway. He had been bypassing. Customs secretly bought large amounts of arms from Russia and Germany.

The four major arsenals in the three eastern provinces, Chenyang, Liaoyang, Benxi and Fushun, are accelerating the production of firearms and ammunition day by day to expand the wartime inventory of the New Army in the Northeast.

The trend of the new army in Northeast China intensifying preparations for war must have made Regent Zaifeng feel abnormal oppressive force, and the Qing government was also levied at all costs. Not only did it continue to strengthen the construction of the Beiyang army, but it also expanded the new army in Shanxi, Henan and Wuchang, and will The scale of the new army nationwide has increased to twenty towns and sixteen mixed associations, and the Imperial Guards, which were entirely formed by Manchu flag soldiers, are also expanding towards the scale of a reorganized town.

Under the extremely terrifying and silent calm, the war was already about to break out.

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Time is fair to everyone.

After returning to the three northeastern provinces, Song Biao, who ended his second visit to the Americas, returned to the three northeastern provinces, like other office workers every day, started working at 7 a.m. and went home on time at 5 p.m., spending the evening in his family, just He is only needed to continue discussing business at home occasionally.

He prepared for the war in such an orderly manner.

When the light of dawn shone into the Governor's Office through the stained glass window at the end of the corridor, Song Biao, commander-in-chief of the Northeast New Army and Northeast Patrol Force, wore dark brown military uniforms and some black and mirror-like deer-skin boots in his hand.

The keys to the office and the brass-handled purple clay insulation tea cup brought from home, walked out of the stairs like a machine killer, and more than a dozen officials from the military headquarters and the Governor's Office hurriedly followed him.

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

His teacup was customized from Yixing and the price was not high because he liked to drink tea and had the 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 teacup.

A thick layer of cup wall is very practical and has a good insulation effect.

Song Biao likes such teacups. He always takes this teacup from home to the office, from the office to the conference room, and then from the conference room to the home.

He is already twenty-five years old and is about to become a father. In the past six months, he has always felt a little overwhelmed in such an excited and happy mood.

He is also the commander-in-chief with 500,000 strong army iron lions. This number is obviously a bit exaggerated, because the numbers on the militia are always chaotic. How many people are there in the patrol troops of the three eastern provinces? This is really high and low, and it is squeezed.

It's all about water when squeezed.

The number of the 237,400 new troops in the Northeast is absolutely true. In June, 44,000 new recruits were added. At the same time, 1,538 senior grassroots non-commissioned officers who have participated in the crash course of non-commissioned officers were assigned to the patrol troops in various places.

Every year, a group of senior non-commissioned officers are sent to the Patrol Army to supervise and train various patrol detachments, squads, and militias, and cultivate supplementary forces and second-line armed forces for the Northeast New Army.

All of this requires huge funding support, and Song Biao has no longer been troubled by this since the end of 1908. Over the past years, he has begun to truly realize how happy it is to not worry about military spending.

For an army commander who has been equipped with 6052 Maderson machine guns, 1355 Maxim machine guns, 149,000 horsepower and 1124 artillery pieces, the Qing government and the Regent, Ai Feng, were as small as an ant.

If he were Ai Feng, the first thing he had to do now was book a one-way ticket to Singapore, because reality is so fucking cruel.

Song Biao is just waiting for a chance to ravage his opponent. This is obviously a bit too cruel and terrible, but he doesn't mind taking all possible warlords from various provinces and giving the rampant republican a real idea.

Iron fist.

Being an emperor of the Chinese Empire requires capital. In the past five years, Song Biao has done his preparations cleverly and interestingly like building blocks. And his three main opponents, one of them is

The dream of Manchus rule over the spring and autumn, one was waiting at home to be re-activated, and the other just went to the United States to raise funds.

Song Biao obviously doesn't have to raise funds. He only needs to withdraw 1/10 of the military expenditure in his hand to help Mr. Sun fulfill his dream of the Republic of China, but he would not do this. If he did that, he would not be Song Biao.

Da da da da da.

The iron palm at the bottom of the deer-skin military boots hit the concrete floor, making a sonorous and powerful sound. If you don’t have the chance to wear this kind of military boots, those who occasionally wear rubber boots can also experience a similar feeling. In short, they are real soldiers.

Taste.

Song Biao walked through the corridor and stopped in front of his office to open the door. This was the highest confidential area of ​​the Governor's Office, which contained various prohibited secrets. Even the New Military Intelligence Department and the Governor's Office Secret Service had no right to check these secrets.

Song Biao has too many secrets.

He didn't like to share these secrets with people, especially during this year, his secrets began to become so numerous that there were seven secret leaders who were responsible for different intelligence and confidentiality work for him separately.

With sufficient funds, he began to do many absolutely secret things, even more secret than establishing the Chinese Empire.

He is so mysterious.

When he had enough power and money, the darkness hidden deep in his heart began to sprout, and he established a mysterious organization code-named "Episcopal Church". They secretly carried out their work around the world, but no one knew the organization to the end.

What are you doing?

Song Biao opened the office door with only one of the two keys. When he walked in and sat in the office chair, the entourage hurriedly handled all kinds of things he should do. He pulled the curtains open,

Deliver the flower pots in the room to the balcony and replace them with a pot of fresh bonsai.

Everyone in the entire Governor's Office began to be busy at this moment, or even busier. Only Song Biao could simply look at the "Northeast Daily" and the "Daily Information Minutes" submitted by the Secretariat today, and open it

Take a sip of tea in a purple clay tea cup.

When you have the most powerful real 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 their power.

Power is so tempting that a person should get it without hesitation of sin, especially the power held by Song Biao, which is simply the most good at seducing others in the world, corroding everyone who admires it.

Song Biao is the master of this demon.

He is above millions of people, and everyone must look up to him. Every word he says and every command he signs will completely change the fate of many people. Therefore, no one does not want to be him, and no one does not want to be him.

Don't want to play for him.

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

You must admit that even if everyone is deeply afraid of him, no one does not want to serve him, because this can be exchanged for rich rewards. People are obsessed with power, and are also obsessed with him for this, blindly willing to do it.

He has served for life so many people that he can't count them clearly, even if he hardly knows the names of those people, and has never even seen them.

In short, no matter what he wants to do, there is always someone willing to die for him.

Perhaps some people are for him, and more are for the power and wealth in his hands.

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In his office, Song Biao sat in a chair drinking tea and reading newspapers. The servants, adjutants and secretaries who had completed all work in two minutes hurriedly left the office silently and collectively in the corridor outside the door.

Wait for the first order this morning.

According to daily experience, this requires about twenty minutes to wait.

Relying on the influence of daily editorials, the Northeast Daily has become the newspaper with the largest daily circulation in China, with an average daily circulation of about 150,000 copies, far higher than the newspapers such as Shenbao. The Northeast Daily is mainly

It reports news from the three northeastern provinces, and also reports internal and foreign news. Because it has good cooperation with the US newspaper industry, it can always report major foreign news as soon as possible.

This is a must-read newspaper for Song Biao every day.

Today's editorial review of Northeast Daily is "Three On the Scientific Management of Industry and Agriculture" written by Ouyang Xi. This is the third article in this series of editorial reviews. It mainly promotes the experience of American industrial management and focuses on improving labor productivity, especially

It is promoted in the mining, metallurgy and textile industries in a more in-depth manner.

The Sino-Japanese economic and trade war gradually strengthened since the second half of 1908, especially this year. Since the three northeastern provinces and Japan's textile industry have made too good judgment on expectations, the scale of production has been concentrated in this year, and the two sides have fought in price wars.

The entire industry is in full loss.

If the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces wants to sustain, it is already an indispensable factor to improve production efficiency and production management.

The two major headlines today are that the aircraft of the Northeast Institute of Science and Technology successfully flew yesterday. Since 1907, the Northeast Institute of Science and Technology has sponsored Chinese-American engineer Feng Ru to develop the aircraft in Oakland, San Francisco, and since then, with Americans G.H. Kou

Tiss, Glenn Martin, Romanian engineer Henry Coanda reached cooperation agreements respectively. After Song Biao's second visit to the United States, Feng Ru led the team recruited from the United States to return to Shenyang New District to establish the Shenyang Aircraft Company, responsible for building the first domestically produced aircraft

The plane "Shenyuan".

Although it only took 12 minutes and 14 kilometers in the air, it is also a very important step for China.

The second big news is that the three northeastern provinces ushered in the largest bumper harvest year in history, and it is the autumn harvest season every year. The three northeastern provinces harvest 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, beets, wheat, potatoes and corn from the Northeast were continuously 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 combined can meet all the nutrients that humans need normally. Moreover, potatoes are the only grain crops that can be grown for two seasons a year in the three northeastern provinces. This is Song Biao in the three northeastern provinces.

The main reasons for vigorously promoting the cultivation of potatoes.

The three northeastern provinces have been in the construction of canals, the use of fertilizers, large-scale horse farming, and the promotion of agricultural machinery has been quite effective, and the agricultural population has increased very rapidly. These are one of the main reasons for the bumper grain harvest in the three northeastern provinces.

What the Northeast Daily likes to do is to report on the large-scale agricultural harvests of the three northeastern provinces on the same page, and also report on famine disasters and poor fortunes in various parts of the city. While reporting on how high the income and low taxes of farmers in the three northeastern provinces are, we also report on how high the income of farmers in the city and how low the taxes are.

Farmers' lives are difficult, and they are heavy in charity and taxes, especially in a comprehensive comparison of Sichuan. The average tax of a mu of land in some counties and prefectures in Sichuan is 14 taels of silver, and the people have no way to live. The average of acre of arable land in the three eastern provinces is

The tax revenue is around 1.5 taels of silver, which is slightly higher than in previous years, but compared with those in the pass, it is still as happy as heaven.

(Ouyang Xi actually corrected a problem with Song Biao, that is, it is not a good thing to be too low in agricultural taxes. The basic principle of government tax collection should be that as long as the people can accept it, they should collect as much as possible.)

The Northeast Daily now has eight pages of two sheets of paper, and there is one page that specializes in reporting agriculture. It is good news for the Kanto area, but bad news for the huge Guandong area.

This move is still very poisonous. The Northeast Daily does not publicly oppose Manchuria, but it specializes in reporting various taxes and absurd incidents in areas where Manchuria governors and governors governors. In addition, various happy reports in the three northeastern provinces, the comparison between the two sides is

Reverse full.

The subtext is that Manchus are incompetent and exploit the Han people. Only when Han people govern the Han people can the country be prosperous and the people can be prosperous.

After reading today's "Northeast Daily" and the Secretariat's "Daily Information Minutes", Song Biao called the Finance Department and asked the Foreign Trade Department to submit the comparison information of China-Japan and the internal economic and trade in the Custody Department, and the Deputy Director Ouyang Xi
To be continued...