If you have seen movies like Harry Potter and Duke's Love History, you can roughly know what kind of place New Haven was in 1908. In short, it is similar to the scenes in the movie, retaining the style of the 19th century and most traditions, with narrow streets and spacious dark horse carriages. Because it is close to the Atlantic Ocean, there is always a cold sea breeze in this cold season, and even the darkness and doubts of the medieval period. It is definitely not the new look of cars running around as imagined. Even if a car passes by occasionally, it is definitely a black vehicle known as a road killer, like something with a steam engine tied in the middle of a four-wheeled bicycle.

After visiting Winchester Weapons Company, Song Biao returned to the hotel where they stayed with dozens of the latest guns from the American market. This is a hotel that Winchester Company helped book, located in the center of Jameson Street in downtown New Haven.

Song Biao and his party had more than 40 people. Except for Shu Fangde, who was accompanied by his entourage, Li Enfu of the Secretary-General, the others were guards from the guard camp, and they were slightly crowded in such a hotel.

Shu Fangde and his guards lit the fireplace in Song Biao's room, piled up dry firewood and anthracite blocks, baking the room very warmly, and then left the room respectfully. Song Biao quietly dismantled all the guns, used tools such as vernier calipers brought from Winchester Company to measure the parts of these guns, and studied the latest development trends of some of the latest guns.

It is regrettable that most of the so-called newly launched guns have no innovations. In this comparison, even those who have strict requirements like Song Biao must admit that the m1907 automatic reloading rifle is indeed a very novel thing, with at least three relatively innovative spirits.

This was the first day in New Haven. It was already late, and there were only Song Biao and Shu Xuan in the room. They lived quietly in the room. Outside the window was the cold wind blowing from the north bank of the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping across Jameson Street in New Haven. When it was blowing through the eaves, it seemed like red tiles were about to open up.

Shu Xuan continued her work as the guards, boiling water by the fireplace in a black crucible, sitting on the slightly old sofa opposite the fireplace in a daze. She is a beautiful woman who longs for freedom of thought but is bound by traditional morality, gentle and virtuous. She longs for love, and fell in love with the general around her in the early 20th century.

Before getting married, like most women in this century, she had never considered issues such as Song Biao's property, and was definitely not as realistic and cruel as later women. Even if Song Biao was very poor and could only live a simple life together, she felt that such a marriage was a happy one.

While Song Biao was concentrating on researching guns, Shu Xuan finally boiled the water and made a pot of black tea with milk powder for Song Biao and herself. She felt that the weather in Kangzhou was so cold along the Atlantic coast, and drinking a cup of milk tea would definitely make the body very warm.

She gently placed the teacup on Song Biao's table and looked at the various parts on the table. Although it was not like disturbing Song Biao, she couldn't help asking: "Is there any difference between these? Is the new army going to change guns, or buy new foreign guns?"

She seemed very interested in these things because she wanted to know her husband and couldn't help but care about him, do more things and say more for him. Even though she knew very well that she might not be able to help with anything.

At this time, Song Biao was disappointed. He casually pushed the pile of parts on the table aside, without intending to reassemble them at all. He complained to Shu Xuan: "I bought a bunch of garbage for hundreds of dollars. It's really hard to imagine that although these guns are said to be new, there is actually no new or progressive place at all. The guns are like this. New guns without progress are garbage. There are big and small, continuous and single shots, and various so-called differences. They are actually old things."

Shu Xuan asked, "What about the daytime, are you going to buy those new guns you see in Winchester? Oh, I don't want to know these things, I'm just a little curious... I think, if I have to buy a new rifle, it will probably cost a lot of money, right?"

Song Biao thought about it and answered her briefly: "I will probably buy a batch."

He then changed the topic and said to Shu Xuan: "We will stay here for a few days, and go to the street market tomorrow to see if there are any interesting things you want to buy back."

Shu Xuan thought for a while and said, "There should be nothing to buy. If possible, I want to buy a silver pocket watch for my younger brother who is about to study at Yale University. I hope it will be at a price of 30 US dollars, and it will not be too expensive or too shabby."

"Yes."

Song Biao agreed to her.

He is not a stingy guy, but he always thinks that something too luxurious is actually useless. The only exception is that he wants to buy Shu Xuan a platinum diamond ring, and for this, he is willing to pay a sky-high price of tens of thousands of pounds.

Before this, they just prepared a set of six kinds of gold jewelry for Shu Xuan according to traditional etiquette.

Because they are handsome and beautiful, they are very satisfied with this marriage at least now. They are happy to get along with each other as husband and wife, and are immersed in the joy of the newlyweds. They also have enough time to look forward to a better future, and their relationship is simple, warm and simple.

Faced with a bunch of black gun parts that had no meaning at all, Song Biao was too lazy to waste his time. He simply sat with his wife on the old and comfortable thick sofa in front of the warm fireplace, and the two of them faced the burning flames together.

In this warm moment, Shu Xuan curled her legs and hugged a milky white porcelain cup full of milk tea. She looked at the thoughtful Song Biao and felt many mysterious feelings in her heart. She was a female poet, so sensitive to life and the world, and had a delicate heart. She was always thinking about what kind of person she would become in the future.

She asked Song Biao: "Do you envy the United States, they have such a good education, a vast territory, an increasingly powerful country, and a huge industry. I can always feel that you hope that the three northeastern provinces can be so prosperous and strong!"

Song Biao sat on the sofa with his legs raised, drinking tea, and sighed: "Yes, sometimes I am so envious, just as the Europeans in the Middle Ages envied China's porcelain, tea and stable Eastern civilization. Xiao Shu, this is how human history is, it has tens of thousands of years. In the past, tens of thousands of years, and in the future, we are just a short moment in this history. There are many things we can do. There may be very few, and great civilizations are like

The tide is sometimes high and sometimes low. Hundreds of years ago, there were tens of millions of Indians living in this land where we live. They owned it. The Indian civilization once had been destroyed. They must have been glorious. It is not easy for the ancient civilization with a long history like China to continue to this day. Maybe we envy Europe and the United States during this period, and maybe in a few hundred years, they will continue to envy us. This is the history of mankind, and it will always rise and fall."

Shu Xuan thought quietly about Song Biao's words. In the past time they spent together, she could always find some interesting inspiration from Song Biao, so she felt that living with such a person would be very interesting.

Thinking of this, she happily chuckled with Song Biao: "Think about it now. I think I should write fairy tales more and translate fairy tales than poetry, because my own life is like fairy tales."

Song Biao laughed out loud, but said, "Writing fairy tales and translating fairy tales is a good thing. Maybe we can try it out. Our children also need good stories like Andersen's fairy tales!"

"yes!"

Shu Xuan seemed to have suddenly thought of this, patted her forehead and said, "I am a fool, how much we need to do."

Song Biao nodded in agreement in agreement in agreement, saying, "Yes, as a translation writer, translating Andersen's fairy tales is a very important task, even more important than translating Shakespeare's works."

Shu Xuan sighed with longing and said, "Yes, I want to translate all the fairy tales in the world into Chinese. This is really meaningful. We Chinese children also need these beautiful reading materials. So what about you, General, besides the work of the Governor of the Three East Provinces, what else do you want to do?"

Song Biao thought for a while and replied: "Do what Peter the Great did in Russia and lead China to Western civilization."

"What a great career!"

Shu Xuan silently admired and envied, leaning her body lightly against Song Biao's arm. She was grateful that life gave her such a beautiful life. She would rather lose decades of life than cherish all of this better.

They were talking about their future ideas in front of the warm fireplace. They were chatting until they were sleepy, and Song Biao carried his newlywed wife to bed and turned off the lights.

During the two days in New Haven, Song Biao accompanied Shu Xuan to buy some fairy tale books and gifts to bring back to his family in a nearby market, including the negotiated silver pocket watch.

They also visited the United States military and shipbuilding industry in New Haven together, and took the time to visit Yale University to visit this world-class famous institution until John Moses Browning arrived in New Haven on an Atlantic cruise.

Song Biao wanted to meet Browning several times before, but there was no chance. This time he finally met. He tried to persuade Browning to join the Far East Weapons Company. Unfortunately, Browning and FN have a very generous long-term contract, and Browning has no sincerity to work in China, even though Song Biao offered a very good treatment and contract.

John Moses Browning came this time to recommend their weapons to Song Biao, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast New Army, on behalf of the FN company, but these weapons did not meet Song Biao's needs, and the meeting between the two sides failed to reach any cooperation.

It's a pity.

Song Biao felt regretful about this, so he could only settle for the second best and appointed his representative, Mr. Rong Kui, to continue to contact the Winchester family. If the other party really intends to transfer the company, he is willing to pay a better price.

Shu Xuan keenly realized Song Biao's envy of the American industrial foundation. Song Biao did not want to hide this from the people around him. When Rong Kui and George Grent were closely negotiating the transfer price, Song Biao also took his wife and accompanied by members of the Vanderbilt family to inspect the steel, machine tools and automobile industries in the United States, and his itinerary covered the major industrial cities in the eastern United States.

In all plans, in addition to continuing to firmly invest in General Motors and Westinghouse Electric, Song Biao and Conns Vanderbilt also plan to invest on a large scale in Bethlehem Steel, as well as to establish the largest machine tool company in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, and continuously reorganize American machine tool manufacturers into a giant.

The prosperity of the US machine tool industry has always had a basis for universality and domestic demand. Even in the 1950s, when the US machine tool industry was most prosperous, the domestic demand of the US machine tool industry still accounted for 85% of the production capacity, and domestic demand in other periods accounted for a higher proportion of the total machine tool production capacity. Even by 1976, the domestic demand share of metal cutting machine tools in the United States was US$1477 million, while the external demand was only US$185 million.

The huge domestic demand usually determines that the US machine tool industry is generally dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. This situation is almost the tradition of the US machine tool industry.

Song and Vanderbilt's Pacific Alliance intend to change this tradition. They plan to establish a new company and continue to merge small and medium-sized machine tool companies with excellent technology. This has become the number one giant in the US machine tool industry.

The reason why Song Biao did this was not to make money, but to use the US machine tool industry to develop China's industry and introduce excellent American machine tools into China in large quantities. According to statistics, the use of high-speed steel in the machine tool industry alone has increased the production efficiency of the US industrial by 60%.

In the scientific management method advocated by Taylor, experiments conducted in a pile-up site alone can reduce the factory that originally required 500,600 people to 140, with an average operating volume of 59 tons per person increased from 16 tons, while workers' wages increased from only 1.15 US dollars by 1.88 US dollars. The high-speed steel experiment was conducted for 26 years in Bethlehem, and more than 30,000 experiments were conducted. Not only did high-speed steel be discovered, but it also accumulated a large amount of experimental data on various new alloy steels for Bethlehem. Although it also cost Bethlehem a heavy price and was forced to merge with another steel company controlled by Charles Schwab to save the precarious financial crisis.

Think about it, what a terrible thing it would be if the United States could be relocated to China of this era!

This is an era of rapid change. If you can't keep up with this rhythm, you will be squeezed out of the first industrial country by the United States and Germany like the British Empire. As for Japan, it is really that way. If you surpass Japan's economy and technology level in the 21st century, it will be 100 points. If you want to surpass Japan's economy in the first thirty years of the 20th century, it will be only 30 points.

As long as you run forward bravely for a hundred meters, you can see Japan crawling rapidly behind you like a turtle.

If we are a rabbit, as long as we don’t doze off, the Japanese turtle will never catch up. Once a turtle catches up with a rabbit, it will naively think that the rabbit will never catch up with the turtle.

Of course, Song Biao's target was not Japan, but the Soviet Union.

Beyond the Soviet Union, World War I and World War II, the Soviet Union's inability to find the North was the majestic goal that Song Biao wanted to make. He wanted to smash the torrent of the Soviet steel that could defeat Nazi Germany in the legend.

What can you make when fighting Japan? At most, it is Ryukyu. Fighting against the Soviet Union is a good business that can make a lot of money.

As a soldier, Song Biao has used such ambition to strive for his ultimate goal throughout his life. As for other industrial powers, technological powers, etc., they are just various steps on this road.

As a soldier, he certainly hopes that the country will be prosperous and strong, because it can provide their soldiers with the best and most weapons to defeat all enemies and defeat the strongest opponents in the world.

Song Biao went to Bethlehem, watched Bethlehem Steel Company here, and also met Charles Schwab, the former general manager of Carnegie Steel.

At this time, Bethlehem Steel Company also urgently needed funds to operate and expand production scale, introduce new equipment to establish more production lines, and convert a large amount of technology accumulated before it into profits, and they only need a few million US dollars to change the world.

Bethlehem Steel Company plays a decisive role in the development of the United States and the world's industrial development, but the current American capitalists have not yet realized this. The technology owned by this company will support the development of the entire industrial society in the next thirty years. On this basis, the alloy technology that continues to develop and extend will not only support the development of steel and material processes, but also support the development of the machine tool industry and other industries. Among the famous steels supplied by this company, the barrel of the m2 heavy machine gun. Until the 1970s, the Taiwanese military industry imitated m2 heavy machine gun was forced to adopt thicker and heavier design standards because of its unqualified materials.

In this era without restrictions on technology transfer, everything is about starting first.

In order to facilitate long-term investment in the United States, Song Biao invested in the establishment of a Far East Investment Bank in New York, hiring General Manager Morronette of Los Angeles Bank as general manager and senior partner, and then jointly invested 8.4 million US dollars to purchase 400,000 new shares issued by Bethlehem Steel, a nearly-controlled square, and operated the steel company with Charles Schwab.

The parent company of Far East Investment Bank is San Francisco Far East Trading Company, which owns the wholly owns the New Jersey Northeast Petroleum Company. At the same time, it holds a holding of Bank of America, San Francisco Bay Development Company, Vanderbilt Pacific Shipping Company, Bethlehem Steel Company, General Motors Company, Westinghouse Electric Company, and Ford Motor Company, and ambitious to jointly operate a US machine tool industry giant.

Song Biao is very rich now. In the New York and London stock markets, everyone is buying stocks of PetroChina, even the three giants J.P. Morgan, John.a. Rockefeller, Andrew.w. Mellon are no exception. They even bought more than others, and Song Biao's Far East Investment Banking Company earned a huge wealth of 17 million pounds by cashing out 20% of its shares.

In addition, the rubber futures purchased by Song Biao for the San Francisco Far East Trading Company will expire in May 1909, and the initial investment of 7 million pounds will rise by 3.5 times. The shares of the British-Dutch Colonial Rubber Company purchased by mortgage rubber futures borrowed 4 million pounds from Bank of America have also quickly doubled their market value in the past six months.

After these huge wealth squeezed into the Far East Investment Banking Company, part of it poured into Bank of America, converted into silver in the Chicago market and invested in the three eastern provinces, and the huge military expenses that turned into white in the Northeast Bank, and part of it poured into the US capital market. Together with the Vanderbilt family, they built the largest machine tool company, automobile company, and the second largest steel company, and power equipment company in the United States.

Song Biao's method is very simple. Even if China currently lacks talents and technology, it cannot be left behind by the times. It spends money to build a bridge in the United States and transfers technology and modern enterprise management experience from the United States. It is possible to catch up with the world's first-class level in the fastest way. Even if you can't learn the world's first-class level and learn the world's second-class level. With our huge population, land area and resources, it is too difficult to bully Britain. If you bully Japan, Russia will still be able to bully Japan.

Song Biao's itinerary in the United States was very long. He not only visited the US machine tool industry, Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, Winchester and other companies, but also traveled across industrial cities such as New Haven, Detroit, and Pittsburgh. He not only met John Moses Browning, but also Nikola Tesla. Although he did not reach an agreement with the former, he invited the latter back to work at Northeast Science Institute. As a condition, Song Biao solved all Nikola Tesla's debt problems and agreed to spend at least $200,000 per year to Mr. Tesla for personal projects.

After visiting the United States, Song Biao continued to travel to Mexico.

At this time, PetroChina was using the huge capital accumulated by selling oil to build oil pipelines and explore new oil wells, and invited Dr. C.W. Hayes, director of the Federal Geological Survey, to serve as the company's general exploration consultant, and formerly, E.L. DeGollier\M.K. Norton and others were still the most important exploration engineers.

E.L. DeGoril, perhaps the most famous oil exploration expert in American history, found a golden belt on the eastern coastline from Tampico to Cerro Asul, and suspected that this place was once a very large atoll area during the Tertiary period. The areas surrounding this circular atoll have very rich oil reserves, but in terms of mining, there is greater instability compared to American oil fields.

Based on this theoretical guess, e.l. DeGoril discovered a small oil area in Ethiegel, south of the Tampico Golden Belt, where he soon bought more than 700,000 acres of mining rights and intensive exploration of new oil wells.

If this theory is true, it is entirely possible for Petroleum Corporation to raise oil production and reserves to higher levels, not to mention that it is still a very stable stage. The low-tax foreign investment policy implemented by Mexico during the dictatorship of President Boferio Dias is also a special good news for Petroleum Corporation.

After Mexico and President Boferio Dias met, Song Biao promised to invest in Mexico on a large scale, and promised to build a huge oil industry in Mexico that could rival the United States.

Just a promise.

It will basically not be fulfilled. Anyway, President Boferio Dias will definitely not have the chance to see it, because all dictators will be overthrown and all authoritarian governments will be eliminated by history. This is an inevitable trend for human progress.

As long as you are dictatorial, you will always be nailed to shame by the people. No matter what you have done before, as long as you step down, your former opponents and politicians will not give up any opportunity to attack you.

The end of dictatorship is ultimately the same, and only time will give a final answer.
Chapter completed!