Song Biao had no choice. The Far East Consortium had to develop to a certain stage and must have a new guideline. If Rong Xingqiao and Zhang Kangren did not have this awareness, then this decision could only be issued by him personally.

As soon as he spoke, there was no room for maneuver in this matter, and the annual meeting was forced to urgently add a major agenda - reviewing the operating problems of each loss-making company and rectifying within a time limit.

Under such a policy, the annual meeting of the Far East Consortium this year can only seem extremely tragic. Although the consortium has amazing profitability in the American market this year and still maintains an extremely high profit scale in the local market, it is tragic in the Sino-Japanese economic and trade war.

In the situation, it is destined to implement the means of cutting off the arm of a hero to reduce the losses and enhance the ability to fight for a long time in major industries.

In the previous years, Song Biao usually only participated in half of the agenda. This year's situation is obviously very special. He participated in almost every agenda throughout the process, especially in the review of loss-making companies and rectification within a time limit. He will

All the directors took it out and questioned it separately, which made this year's annual meeting particularly tense.

If Song Biao gets angry, the new army in the Northeast will be trembling, let alone the people from the Far East Consortium?

Everyone can feel this unprecedentedly amazing pressure, which makes everyone unable to breathe.

Song Biao could not do these things personally. In the end, he gave Rong Xingqiao a hard indicator - to sell half of small businesses within the scope of the main business, concentrate financial resources to support enterprises with good management level to survive the economic and trade war, and as much as possible

Support the main business to take the opportunity to expand; at the same time, he gave Zhang Kangren another task - to hold an annual meeting of the financial industry in the three eastern provinces in advance. Formulate a complete credit support plan for various industries. Even if the Far East Consortium withdraws from small industries, it must support other national capitals.

Get through the difficulties with foreign capital.

Song Biao's opinion on the Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade War is very simple. He must not be careless just because the big economic situation is good. He must not be rude. The three northeastern provinces are in difficulties and Japan is not much better. He must take advantage of this common crisis between the two sides.

The overall advantage of this side will bring a fatal blow to the other side.

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

No matter the three northeastern provinces, the inner city, North Korea and Southeast Asia, all markets cannot be relaxed.

Under Song Biao's high-pressure decision, the annual meeting of the Far East Consortium in the first year of Xuantong was a bloody storm. But as long as the Far East Consortium really persisted, the final victory of this Sino-Japanese economic and trade war would inevitably be the three northeastern provinces.

The real great development of Japanese industry was actually after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. From 1901 to 1908, the fastest development of Japan's industrial sector was not much later than Japan. Of course, the core of Japan's industry is still national investment.

The proportion of national capital of Japanese industries was 81.7% in 1875, 57.5% in 1880, 74.9% in 1885. In 1890, the lowest was 29.8%. Since then, it has gradually increased over the years, reaching 44.1% in 1905.

In 1909, it just exceeded 50%.

The state-owned capital of Japanese industry was relatively chaotic before 1890, and since then it focused on investment in heavy industry, science and technology, and military industries. For example, the Nagasaki Shipyard built the "Takarimaru" with a displacement of 6,000 tons in 1898-

It was sunk by the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. In 1907, the 30,000-ton "Tianyang Maru" was built, and the two largest 20,000-ton former fearless battleships in the world are being built.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing government purchased 14 small ships from Japan in order to rebuild the navy. Although the total displacement of the 14 small ships was less than 5,700 tons, it was Japan's first export of warships to foreign countries.

The Far East Consortium wants to catch up with Japan's shipbuilding industry. It is still very difficult and it will not be possible within 15 years. However, in other fields, the gap between China and Japan is not big, and the gap between the three northeastern provinces and Japan is even lower.

These large, medium and small entrepreneurs in the three northeastern provinces are very clear that as long as the Far East consortium is really willing to continue to fight to the end, Japan's only need to defeat the industry of the three northeastern provinces with that little bit of money is basically nonsense, at least in the market of the three northeastern provinces.

The opportunity for Japanese goods will sooner or later be defeated in the inland Chinese market.

As for the most powerful textile industry at this stage, if the eight major textile clubs in Japan continue to fight like this for two years, they will basically seek death. Currently, half of China's textile industry is from the Far East Consortium, and through tariffs and freight, they will compete with the Far East Consortium.

Isn’t this asking for death?

In previous years, the Far East Consortium did not admit that there were any such meetings as annual meetings. As soon as this year's annual meeting was over, it deliberately released the news of the general direction. The business community in the three eastern provinces was inspiring, and everyone felt that it was saved. The banking industry and

Foreign investors also breathed a sigh of relief, because the three northeastern provinces will definitely maintain loose monetary policies next year.

There is a fundamental gap in foreign investment between China and Japan, that is, foreign capital has the right to issue money in the three northeastern provinces, which destined that the scale of foreign capital influx into the three northeastern provinces is far greater than that of Japan.

As the tyrant of the three northeastern provinces, Song Biao also considered the lack of talent in the three northeastern provinces and China itself, as well as the lack of experience and understanding in modern industry, agriculture and animal husbandry, and finance, as well as his lack of foreign exchange and silver reserves.

Foreign capital and foreign-invested enterprises are not excluded. This is the main reason why the foreign population in the three northeastern provinces has increased rapidly in the past five years. Now almost all schools have foreign teachers, all enterprises have foreign technicians and skilled technicians, foreign countries in the Governor's Office

The Expert Bureau, the General Administration of Military Reclamation and the Far East Consortium are the largest foreign expert recruitment units in the three northeastern provinces. In each military Reclamation Bureau, the Military and Animal Husbandry Bureau has an advisory group composed of foreign agricultural and animal husbandry experts, the scientific research institutes, engineering research institutes, and agriculture in the three northeastern provinces.

80% of the staff of the institute come from foreign recruitment. At least half of the teachers in each university and secondary school in the three northeastern provinces are recruited from abroad, including Far East Mainland.

Foreign capital, foreign enterprises, and foreign immigrants are actually an important support for the economic development miracle of the three northeastern provinces. In addition to the Koreans, the huge role played by a total of about 1.85 million foreign immigrants in the economy of the three northeastern provinces is absolutely not negligible.

Existence is reasonable. Behind every so-called miracle, there are various factors. The three northeastern provinces have just grasped the most favorable stage in history. This is an era of capital export, and this is a coal more important than oil.

The era, this is the most important era of soybeans, this is the era of large-scale publication of European population, this is an era of rapid promotion of large-scale modern agricultural planting, this is an era of the loosest restrictions on technology transfer.

It is an era when the population in China transfers to the three eastern provinces at the largest scale...

The three northeastern provinces just seized all the opportunities.

The three northeastern provinces have no reason to develop well, and the three northeastern provinces have no reason to fail in the Sino-Japanese economic and trade war, because this happens to be a great era that is most beneficial to China. Seizing it will change China's destiny.

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On the third day after the annual meeting, after the business community in the three eastern provinces became increasingly stable, Song Biao was in the Chief of Staff of the New Army's Second Staff Office, Shu Fangde, Director of the Defense Department of the Governor's Office, Song Wenhui, Director of the General Coast Guard, and the US Ambassador to China.

Accompanied by Rockhill and others, he went to Haizhou Prefecture to meet all members of the American expert advisory group of the General Coast Guard of the Three East Provinces who were working locally.

Haizhou.

In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376), Haizhou Wei was established. In the tenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1653), Haizhou Wei was changed to Haicheng. In the first year of Xuantong, the Governor's Office of the three eastern provinces redefines the jurisdiction of Haicheng Prefecture and is renamed Haizhou.

The government moved from Haicheng County to Yong'an Town on the east side of Yingkou, with Haizhou County, Haicheng County, Panshan County, Yingkou County, Gai County, Xiuyan County, July.

After years of great investment in the army, Song Biao finally began to consider the pace of building a navy. After all, the three eastern provinces are regional regimes and cannot have their own navy. He chose to learn the preparations for the Northeast Navy in history and defend the Governor's Office.

The Department has the General Administration of Coast Guard, and hired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Colonel Edward Walter Aberle as general counsel for the Coast Guard. U.S. Navy Major Ernest Kimen was appointed as principal of the Coast Guard School in the three eastern provinces, with the coast

The patrol department planned to build a navy in the name of the patrol department, and selected students from the Far East Mainland graduates to study at the Coast Guard School of the Three East Provinces.

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

Song Biao will sooner or later make great achievements in China's naval field, although now he can only start from a low profile due to many restrictions. However, his starting standards are set to a very high level, considering long-term development and balance.

The needs of the Russian-French and British-Japanese alliance, especially the U.S. Navy is eager to check and balance and restrain the Japanese Navy's expansion in the Pacific, including his private exchanges with President Theodore Roosevelt, and he directly chose to use the U.S. Navy as a partner.

, a large American advisory team was hired to study the U.S. Navy in full.

This is a comprehensive study of the US Navy's 30-year plan for the Chinese Navy from the foundation to the system, from military education to warship manufacturing, and management. This plan was launched in the first year of Xuantong, in this Yingkou Port West Fort Camp.

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Yingkou is a commercial port with very good conditions. It is also one of the two main river areas where the Liaohe River enters Liaodong Bay. Its ice age is short on the coast of the three eastern provinces, and it usually starts to freeze in mid-December every year.

The main port areas along the rivers and bays can accommodate 5,000 tons of ship docking.

Such basic conditions are very unfavorable for long-term development, but for now, especially considering the actual domestic and international 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 East Provinces has always been a local government with plans and then actions. The patrol fleets of the Three East Provinces have only started to be organized in the past few months, while the Coast Guard School of the Three East Provinces has been established for four years.

Its predecessor was Yingkou Branch of Northeast Ship School, which mainly cultivates various secondary professional talents required for ship manufacturing and shipping. From this school, it adds a part of the American consulting and teachers to become the new coast guard school in the three eastern provinces.

The General Administration of the Coast Guard of the Three East Provinces is located in the West Fort Camp area. The school site of the Coast Guard of the Three East Provinces is located on the north side of the West Fort Camp area, near the Neiwan Road at the mouth of the Liaohe River, which is the former Qing government’s Yingkou Haifang Tonggong Office.

After Song Biao arrived at the General Coast Guard and met with the members of the American advisory group working here, he went to the East together with General Counsel Edward Eberle and Chief Coast Guard School Major Ernest Jin En.

Visiting the Coast Guard School in the Three Provinces.

The entrance to the Liaohe River is in Yingkou. The school is on the edge of Neiwan, Liaohekou, and opposite is Liaobin Township, which just avoids the impact of the waves. The wind and waves in this area are very calm, and many of the school's teaching work stops.

With this three teaching ships.

It just so happened that the Liaodong Bay has been stormy recently, and four patrol ships from the General Coast Guard Bureau also docked here. These seven military ships are currently the entire assets of the Northeast Navy.

Song Biao stood at the port and stared at the seven military ships dozens of steps away, feeling a lot of emotion, and behind him were Jiang Fangzhen, Chen Qicai of the Northeast New Army, Shu Fangde, who had just been promoted to the director of the Defense Department, and the Coast Police.

Director of the General Administration, Song Wen-hyun, US Minister to China, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Aberle, and Navy Major Ernest Jinen.

The total displacement of the seven military ships is less than 7,000 tons. It is not as good as a Japanese cruiser. Even such a pitiful tonnage is subject to many restrictions. Song Biao can only "retire the service of a new Northeast army purchased from the United States.

"The cruiser and two patrol boats are teaching ships. The four patrol boats are Bainbridge-class (dd-2) destroyers of the US Navy, with a displacement of only 420 tons, both old ones built between 1900 and 1902.

Ship. served in the US Asian fleet in the Philippines for many years.

Due to the low waterline of this class of destroyers, they have good marine navigation capabilities among ships of the same class of this tonnage, as well as long-term patrols in rivers, and have a high speed of 28 knots, in the Edward Eberle Navy

At the suggestion of the Lieutenant Colonel, the General Coast Guard Bureau has signed an agreement with Nafel Levi Ship Company to continue to purchase six ships and maintain offshore patrol work in the Liaodong Bay and Yalu River areas.

The "retired" auxiliary cruiser "Harvard" purchased from the United States was previously the merchant ship "New York City" recruited in the Spanish-American War. After being modified to become an auxiliary cruiser with a displacement of 3,540 tons. It has 4 5.5-inch rapid-fire cannons and 2

Door 37mm machine cannon.

This tonnage is indeed too large for the General Administration of the Coast Guard of the Three East Provinces. Song Biao can only incorporate it into the teaching ship. In fact, it still has certain combat strength. At least it is a very good troop transport ship. After buying at a discount, it will be renamed.

"Liaohe".

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

Shu Fangde, the newly appointed Minister of Defense Department of the Governor's Office, was with Song Biao for a long time. He studied at the Japanese Mainland University for a year and followed Song Biao's arrangements in the United States. Germany spent a year in a long time to inspect the navy and army of the European and American powers.

Construction, military education and military industry. At this moment, I naturally know very well what Song Biao was thinking.

He quietly took a step forward and comforted Song Biao: "Master, although our naval career is just starting out, it is good to have such a foundation. As long as we persist, we will surely become a climate in a few years.

Only when countries with strong industrial foundations can truly establish a strong navy. The industry development of the three eastern provinces is so rapid, the navy will never lag behind others for too long."

Song Biao nodded slightly and sighed: "Fang De, I... I don't think our navy's starting foundation is too low, nor am I worried about future development. What I am worried about is that the Japanese navy is too strong, and it will be very difficult for us to catch up.

The worst thing is that I, the commander-in-chief, don’t understand the navy at all and can’t find a way!”

Shu Fangde immediately replied: "The chief is humble!"

Song Wenhui, director of the General Coast Guard, who is responsible for the construction of the Northeast Navy, also persuaded: "The chief officer is really too modest."

Song Biao is not self-righteous. He did not understand artillery or cavalry before. Now he basically dares to say that he understands it. He did not understand economy or politics before. Now he dares to say that he understands a little, but for the navy, he really

I dare not say I understand.

He said, "If you don't understand, there is nothing to be inferior to yourself. You don't need to comfort me. Brother Wen Hui is the only few who understand the navy in our Xinhua Society. You have to support the navy of the three northeastern provinces for us, the land crabs. We

It is ambition, ambitions and no strategy. You must have long-term plans. Ten, twenty, and thirty years, you must do it step by step.”

Song Wenhui paused and said, "Please rest assured, I should do my best."
To be continued...